00:00Doug Karsh, Scott Anderson, 97.1, outside 5-3, and taking your phone calls, talking a little bit about Justin
00:09Verlander, what you hope to see this weekend, did you get tickets, what's your favorite memory, we got some time
00:14here on this Wednesday to do it, and football dominating the landscape as we get later in the week, feels
00:19like a good time to talk about Justin Verlander here a little bit,
00:22and JV was a topic of conversation this morning with Tiger manager A.J. Hinch discussing what he hopes to
00:31get out of him and how JV doesn't want this to be ceremonial, he wants to empty the tank, which
00:36is kind of cool actually, 248-539-9797, Gator, I'm going to hold on to my favorite memory, you hold
00:42on to yours, and we'll see if any fan has the same one, let's get to your phone calls, Dwayne
00:48is on a cell at on 97.1, hello Dwayne.
00:51Hey, good morning guys, what's up, fifth third, fifth third is they actually do use the 5-3 in their
00:59logo on their, yes we can see it directly to our left, yeah, that's cool, I like the way you've
01:05already nicknamed it 5-3 Doug, it's old 5-3, that's great, the old 5-3, whatever, yeah, so my,
01:12my hope for Justin is, that movie that Kevin Costner was in, I can't remember the name of it,
01:19where he pitched a no-hitter in his last game, Billy Chappell, for the love of the game, yeah, yeah,
01:25for the love of the game, I'm hoping that we'd get a movie like that Saturday, would be absolutely amazing,
01:32and it would be fun to be inside JV's head, listening to him talk, like, what I need to throw
01:41here, why do I, you know what I mean, you've got one more in you, you know, that would be
01:45awesome, my favorite memory, I mean a million to one shot, right, this is a million to one shot,
01:53It would be, but it would be cool, wouldn't it, the other, the other thing is, my favorite memory was
01:59when he threw his no-hitter in Toronto, and the reason for that was, I think it was a Sunday
02:04afternoon,
02:06a good friend of mine had taken his son to the game in Toronto, just as a father-son weekend,
02:12so I kind of tuned in, not really, you know, paying attention that much,
02:18but all of a sudden I'm going, well, holy smokes, I think this could happen, and so, when he did
02:24get the no-hitter, I was texting back with my friend, and his kid was losing his mind, and it
02:30just, it just, it was fun to, it's fun to watch that,
02:33and he's got so many great memories, but that's probably one of my favorites, all right?
02:38No, that's a cool story, Dwayne, thank you for sharing, 2485-3997-97, let's go to Dan on a cell
02:45next on 97.1, hello, Dan.
02:48Hey guys, how are you?
02:49You know, man, that last guy, I don't think I can, I mean, I can't beat what I would expect
02:54from that guy, after what that guy did,
02:56but I would, I would, I would like to see, I would like to see Verlander go out there and
03:01do whatever JV wants,
03:02if he wants to go out there and throw nine innings, throw 150 pitches, and give up 20 runs, let
03:09him do it.
03:10I don't think he should be pulled off the field for anything.
03:13This game means nothing, the only reason that place is going to be full is to watch, is to watch
03:19him pitch,
03:19and it's not going to tarnish or have any effect on his legacy in this city.
03:25So just let him go out there and have fun.
03:28Well, it's not, you also want to avoid embarrassing him.
03:33True.
03:33He would, he would know if he's embarrassed.
03:37I mean, you know, he doesn't want to get embarrassed either, but if he wants to go out there and
03:42throw 150 pitches in nine innings, let him do it.
03:47Well, if he's, if he's pitching into the ninth inning, I would guess the sky's the limit.
03:54Does he want him to start kicking the ball to the plate?
03:57He's not throwing 150 pitches in nine innings.
04:00It's taking him six months to get to this point.
04:04If he throws more than 50, I'll be surprised, but, you know, we'll let it, let it play out however
04:10it plays out.
04:11I, I hope it's on a high note, but, you know, he's, he hasn't thrown in a game since April.
04:19So I don't think expectations are really high.
04:22It's just people want to, you know, be here for the last start that he'll make in his major league
04:26career and started a tiger,
04:28played a lot of really great years as a tiger, had some amazing moments as a tiger.
04:33Went away and came back.
04:35So it's, it's a nice close to the, to the final chapter of his baseball career.
04:41Ron is on a cell and next on 97.1.
04:44Hello, Ron.
04:46Hello.
04:47Hey.
04:47I'll tell you what I would look, what I would like to see tonight or on, on the, the night
04:52is,
04:53I'd like to see the Tigers sign Miggie to a one day coaching contract.
04:59And when the time, time comes to take him off the mound, Miggie goes and gets him.
05:05I mean, that's, that's an awesome little subtlety.
05:08Yeah.
05:09I, it would be, it would be fun.
05:12The plate, the house would come down.
05:14Yes, it would.
05:15What's next?
05:16Tram's going to go out in a short.
05:18I'll try and never play with him.
05:19Well, maybe we replace, uh, replace Verlander with Alex Cobb.
05:22How he gets a throw out there too while we're at it.
05:26Never got to see him.
05:27Um, that'd be funny.
05:30That'd definitely be funny.
05:31Uh, and, and people would go crazy.
05:33Ron, thank you.
05:33Matt in Waterford is next on 97.1.
05:36Hello, Matt.
05:38Hi guys.
05:39How are you?
05:39Good morning.
05:40Good morning.
05:41Yeah.
05:42I'm, I'm going to the game on Saturday.
05:44My son really wanted to go.
05:46He went out and bought the tickets.
05:47My favorite memory, um, was the night he lost the no, no.
05:53Um, we had tickets right behind the plate.
05:55My boss and I with Nissan, I ended up getting on a conference call with China in Japan, trying
06:02to solve a quality issue, missed the entire game, finally got off the, the, the conference
06:08call in the ninth.
06:10He had one out and I'm in the elevator.
06:14I'm rushing to get down there and he lost it.
06:18I was like, what happened?
06:20Wait, Matt, you were inside the park and spent nine innings on a conference call?
06:26It was terrible.
06:28And he's thrown a no, no.
06:29And I'm like going, I got to get off this call.
06:31I'm missing the whole game.
06:33I get down there and he lost the no, no.
06:35It was terrible.
06:37Unbelievable.
06:38Do you take, uh, do you take responsibility for ruining the no, no by actually getting down
06:42to see him do up the hit?
06:43Yeah.
06:44I should have stayed in the tiger cigar lounge.
06:47I must have ruined it.
06:48It was terrible.
06:49So, but I'm hoping he has just, you know, God bless Justin Verlander.
06:54He's, he's a Detroit ambassador.
06:56We all love him.
06:57I hope he just goes out there and does this thing and it would be really great to see him
07:01just shine.
07:02So we're really rooting for him.
07:04Hey, thank you for the phone call.
07:052-4-8-5-3-9-97-97.
07:07My favorite memory, uh, we will get to in a minute.
07:11I know you, I don't know.
07:12Nobody's mentioned yours.
07:13Your favorite JV memory?
07:15No.
07:15Okay.
07:16Uh, we'll get to ours today at 1131, but did you buy tickets?
07:20What do you hope to see?
07:21What was your favorite Justin Verlander memory?
07:24Wanted to carve out time on this Wednesday, knowing that Thursdays and Fridays get super
07:28football heavy.
07:29So, um, there's definitely something we want to give Detroit fans a chance to do here.
07:36Uh, AJ said today that, you know, he's going to be whatever JV wants.
07:39This is not going to be ceremonial.
07:41He wants to go out there and he wants to win a baseball game and he wants to go as
07:47long
07:47as he can go because essentially, why the hell not?
07:53It's Carson Anderson here on 97.1.
