All right. Let's get to business. Welcome aboard and this is one of the shows you dread doing as a radio host. You hate doing shows like this.

Because if you play it one way, I think you're a delusional

shill and I think if you play it the other way, rightfully people are going

to go, why youep in on my shoes. So I think there's one way for us to play this

So today the Tigers won another meaningless baseball game because their season is over

Hobby they're buried, I'm ignoring you.

They're buried at five games under 500.

They're eight games out in the wild card.

And the sweep of the mariners could have and should have meant something.

But they lost the right to that because their season got off the rails.

So Rico and I talked about this.

The way to play this today is the following.

What is the biggest what if with this team?

What is the thing that if it were different,

we'd be able to take the air today

while you guys are driving home from the

ballpark and talk about how meaningful a sweep of the Mariners was or maybe they

had moved into the wild card or further to wild card lead.

What is the biggest what if that would have turned this all around?

And I know all smarm aside, there's not one.

This isn't gonna be a yell fest about, well duh, they should have signed a bat. No, I think it's more nuanced. I think there are other options. But I struggle. I've said this to Rico. The guys know it, and I think you guys have listened to this show long enough in every iteration of it

I struggle with once team is bad and out of it you can kindly from a professional level not humanity I'm saying

...