00:02okay so the detroit tigers just announced
00:07justin verlander career celebration days a two-day celebration honoring jv his legendary career and
00:15the lasting impact excuse me is made on the detroit community excuse me uh friday september 25th and
00:22saturday september 26th oh i won't be there where are you gonna be my 50th high school reunion oh god
00:34that's a whole nother topic i can't wait to talk about that with you yes um look it the jv
00:41signing
00:42we've taken a surprising number of calls with people complaining about that um and and well
00:50here's what gets me is like that was an emergency break glass signing they didn't they it was late
00:56in the game they find out they i think it was right after it was reese olsen was going to
00:59be shelved was
01:00that who it was and him and what val does was like the same day if i'm not mistaken and
01:04so right around
01:05that they took a flyer on a guy that you know some people were excited about hey jv's coming back
01:12and
01:12others rolled their eyes going they're only doing it to sell tickets this is the first example of them
01:18trying to sell tickets right and and and that's okay that's fine um what i'm fearful of is that
01:26it'll be an empty stadium that people i hope people go i think it's sad when you're honoring a legend
01:36but
01:36the team isn't good and it doesn't michigan will be playing iowa on the 26th yeah start time hasn't
01:44been set for that so it's the 25th and the 26th yep who's who's michigan state playing do you know
01:49i think they're i don't know notre dame's the week before yeah i'm not sure i'll look it up the
01:55lions
01:55play home that sunday against the jets yep so that's why they're probably not doing it on sunday
02:02it's probably but friday and saturday right yeah michigan state is hosting nebraska
02:08so one of those games is going to be a noon game most likely yeah one of them be
02:12330 or night um here's the thing about this
02:19he's got a pitch right you would hope so
02:23it would you do this and do you pick these dates because that's when they expect them to return
02:32i mean if you're doing a jv night it would be nice for him to get the one last applause
02:38off the
02:38oh absolutely and let me make something clear here too we understand that people are supremely
02:46disappointed in this season and you should be damn right we are disappointed in this season
02:51um but this is you know now that they're basically out of it um why what would make you want
02:59to go
03:00jv had a great career here yes he did and um he's still you know it's not like stafford thing
03:07when
03:07he well stafford everybody not everybody a lot of people liked everybody loved jv yeah and jv loved
03:15it here because he had to make up his mind with like 30 seconds left before the day he didn't
03:20want
03:20to go he didn't want to go um but the you know the tigers did at that time in a
03:24purge move trying to
03:25and we just went through this with scoobal right um but yeah this is a this is interesting because
03:33scoobal comes back and the debate is will he get booed jv gets a night he gets two nights right
03:38um
03:40i will continue to contend his agent did him no favors scoobal oh i just but but with that said
03:48i you know if you're a big jv fan i i don't know which day he's gonna pitch i would
03:54wait to buy your
03:55tickets yeah because and there's no guarantee like it's not that they announced he will pitch
04:00one of those days you would just do you think they waited to see if they now look obviously
04:04mathematically they can still do it but if you've been watching this team the last three weeks you
04:08know they won't you think they waited till they were pretty much you know that they're done before
04:13doing this well i think that they would probably by the way tickets started just 15 bucks yeah um i
04:19think
04:20they probably would plan on doing this if they were still in the hunt i think this gets announced
04:25now because all right right we have faded um you know i'm sure i'm not sure of this but one
04:33would
04:33think that a timetable for his return is aligning with this so um maybe i'm wrong maybe he won't
04:41return it would be cool to see him on the mound one more time yes and just you know people
04:47are
04:47sentimental fans love their guys and there's nothing wrong with that they gave him a tribute
04:51video in minnesota who did the twins to jv on this road trip yeah that's cool yeah really did you
05:02see
05:02it no i just heard about it very interesting hopefully it's true hopefully it's not something
05:06that i was dreaming about but yeah always a possibility oh yes always definitely if you're
05:12verlander do you force yourself to go out there and pitch one inning just shoot me up with anything
05:17like you know how we have the pitching chaos the opener like yeah all you have to do is at
05:21least go
05:21out there and pitch the opening the first half of the inning right yeah strike out the first guy and
05:26walk off the mound just this is i cannot believe like i wasn't i'm gonna be honest i wasn't a
05:31huge fan
05:31of the signing beginning because he's just so old yep and then he got hurt right away and i'm like
05:35okay
05:36what did they do this guy can't even you know tie his shoes without getting hurt because because age
05:40but with that being said i cannot believe that he didn't pitch one game of comerica park this year
05:45i know i didn't predict that he only pitched one game totally on the road yeah it was on the
05:49road
05:49and the tiger fans never got to see him in a tires uniform on the mound this season and that
05:55sucks
05:56and so that at that point i'm like i mean if he already announced he's retiring do you just say
06:01hey
06:02just shoot me up with whatever i'm going out there at least one time absolutely yep and he's still
06:08rehabbing from what you understand when we get these medical reports every week so it wasn't an
06:12arm injury right no it was a hamstring or i think the last one was a hamstring yeah well i
06:18mean even
06:19if you get even if you throw one pitch yeah like have drew anderson ready to go he's got to
06:25be on
06:25that mound he's got to be on the mound they've got to put him on the mound and if it's
06:29one pitch and
06:30they pull him yeah i mean you know what'd be cool is like send some legend out to take him
06:37out
06:38can you do that can you put miggy in a uniform and have miggy go take him out wow right
06:44that would
06:44be sweet uh jason and romulus here on 97 one hi jason how are you guys today what's up so
06:51this was
06:52my thought now that you guys mentioned this whole jv thing like you know you're looking at game times
06:56for saturday for michigan michigan state yeah there's no games on friday they say they're going
07:01to do a saturday or a friday saturday uh you know to honor him my thought he's gonna pitch on
07:08friday
07:09friday night they pack downtown the final home stay of the season he pitches friday whether it's one
07:15inning and however long he goes he comes out then saturday before the game they're going to do the
07:20honor him thing you know to honor him and that's it he's done i think you're i think you probably
07:26if
07:26you're if you're predicting a scenario that sounds quite probable or he pitches one inning friday
07:32night and one inning saturday uh jeremy is next on 97 one hi jeremy oh my bad uh yep sorry
07:40there you
07:41go uh what's up um i just want to say i saw verlander pitch in toledo for the mudhens his
07:48last start
07:48and he got rocked i mean he went six innings they were hitting home runs off of them left and
07:55right
07:55his top fastball was like 94 but most were around 90 so i i think it's time for him to
08:02hang it up i
08:02mean you know even if he would have would have come up yeah i don't think he would have been
08:07successful
08:07well he is he is retiring this is more the fact that this is out of it the ceremonial start
08:14if he gets
08:14one right right i mean i don't think he would have helped this season had he been healthy
08:20it's my my uh opinion it's quite possible given he finished last year so strong which was that's
08:27the reason i think they signed it yeah i think that's what made it a gamble that they were willing
08:31to take but no yeah he's he's uh i don't know if the caller had heard he he's already now
08:37yeah hey uh
08:39it's a thursday nfl season starts next wednesday we got the wide nine elmaha four down around the
08:46league blitz thingy straight ahead here on carson anderson on 97.1
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