All right, I'm going to get right to the people. David, you can co-late and get some of the text together.

I just, we haven't spent much time on the Tigers because I haven't been worth it, but I have to be real with the audience.

It's in a weird spot between I'm not calm and I'm not panicked, but I am concerned.

And it is slipping away.

You know, once you get yourself nine, ten games out of first, you get ten games

under 500, you know, you have to start doing some serious math.

And no, I don't think Scoobel's going to ride in with a Dennis Jenkins cape and save us.

Like, I understand Glaver Torres will come back.

Okay.

And I wonder about the wisdom of calling up some of the kids.

Because the lineups that AJ is either choosing to put out or forced to put out, they're

not MLB caliber.

You have several players that are simply below replacement level. And if you're a

guy like Jemai Jones who doesn't play the field and you're a negative quotient, do you understand

how atrocious you have to be to be a negative war player? Wensiel Perez has been an abject

disaster both in the field and at the plate.

Yet here he is again. Why was Zach Short ever brought back? Why? Things like that. I go,

you know what? Maybe Max Anderson's not ready or not the answer. Let's give it some run. Maybe

Max Clark isn't ready. I know he's left-handed.

The point is we got to try something specifically defensively.

Even going to a guy who's probably going to be a career farmer in the farm system, so to speak.

But bring up Eduardo Valencia, who the guy led the organization in home runs and RBIs last year, right-handed

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