I know why you did that.

Yes, he's back tonight with Miami.

Oh yeah!

What are you clapping for?

Oh, I think it's funny.

Okay.

He cracks me up.

So listen. Okay. So,

So listen, I'm going to present something, except it is the words of someone else.

And I think this is especially fun because you don't get to yell at me.

No, no, no, see, I don't get cookies is going to be real disappointed when he can't use this show to give all the

content for his show again. So this is the words of Dan Dickerson, voice of

the Detroit Tigers, voice of Tiger Baseball on 97 won the ticket.

And you people don't get mad at Dan Dickers.

It's almost biblical at this point.

So these are Dan's words not mine. Now what I

present beyond them. Oh those are my own. Okay. So what Dan Dickerson said in

the broadcast yesterday since his team's not on television. I thought it was

especially poignant. For years we've heard about 40 games and old Sparky and 40

games. Okay, but Dan Dickerson took it a step further because Dan does a very good job with data. Dan is a very learned baseball man.

Dan back in 2004 four was a baseball pre prospectus guy. He's up in the booth talking

vorp trends. So here's the deal. He said yesterday the 40 game mark is actually very accurate that what you are at the 40 game mark metrically, statistically, is more accurate than not for what you will be the rest of the year.

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