All right. If you're just joining, you're in for a treat. If you've been listening, I've said I was going to wait until now. We started the show with a question. Tigers have the best record in baseball. Half game, a little tiebreaker, but they have the best record in baseball. But are they really the best team? And ESPN had some things to say, and Odyssey.com rewind if you want it. But what I wanted to do

is this. There has been an obsession in this town with the trade deadline, which kind of flies in the

face of you're the best team ever. Then why are people so hopped up with the deadline? And mind you,

it's not one thing. Bullpen, right-hand

at bat, pitching. I want to make a case for something that is a hat-trick type of deal.

It's a deal that makes you, in my mind, the top team in baseball,

a team that would be a nightmare for anyone,

including the Dodgers or Mets to face.

It is a player you'd be acquiring that enhances,

and I would argue, maximizes your Terek scuba window.

The player I'm speaking of is signed through next year.

Maximizing your scuba window.

And,

and most importantly,

would allow you to go into a three-game series and be unbeatable.

A five-game series, nearly unbeatable.

And a seven-game series, I don't know that anyone would be favored over you.

But here's the kicker.

And this is what you do when you're a really good team who's actually serious about your business.

By you acquiring this player, you would hurt the New York Yankees,

who are really the only, quote, real team anyone fears or cares about the a you would take from them and be

better here because they're going to go after this guy and you go but oh my god mike what's the

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