00:02we got texts on college football open lines you want to talk michigan michigan state
00:06excitement level it's back put the business aside and all the bs aside our question michigan makes
00:13the playoff if michigan state makes a bowl game if the other thing we want to talk about today
00:18is justin verlander i don't know if he's going to pitch again but they are going to celebrate
00:24him at the end of this season as they should he deserves a farewell yeah do you want to see
00:29him
00:29pitch i go back and forth yes my heart says yes but my brain says no because he's not going
00:41to be
00:42the jv that remember we remember and most people believed 99 of people believe when they signed him
00:51and it was a late signing it was an emergency break glass signing because of reese olson
00:59they brought in justin verlander and everybody with the brain said okay we like the signing
01:08is he going to be in the rotation as as the sixth arm is he going to be there as
01:12the fifth arm is it
01:13going to be you know like every other start like what are we going to get out of him i
01:15think everybody
01:16had that realistic version of what jv is now what we also know now is that whether it's hamstring it's
01:23hip it's thankfully it's never been an arm issue this year we just haven't seen him we only time we
01:29had a chance to see him was on the road and seen him in in comerica one time and i
01:34think we all want
01:35that moment but i don't want that moment in comerica if he gets rocked like he did down in triple
01:44a
01:44six innings and it was bomb city
01:50i get it it would be uncomfortable if he's serving up batting practice and has to be pulled from the
01:55game in the second inning right that would be very anticlimactic and i don't want the respect from the
02:00batters of saying oh well i'm not gonna i'm not gonna do this off of jv hey we got this
02:05handshake
02:06behind the scenes that says he's coming out after the first inning that cheapens it it does and and
02:11but if he goes out there and just gets rocked there is the chance that he goes out there and
02:15three up three down the way i look at like if he was going to pitch 20 times and get
02:19lit up every time
02:21yeah that would stay in your mind if it's one start he gets to come out to m&m big
02:28crowd emotions
02:29cheer give him his due and then whenever he leaves the game he knows he left it all on the
02:34field it
02:34becomes more of a for a love of the game presentation even if he gets rocked he goes i got
02:39nothing left he
02:40puts his cap up in the air i think he's already left it all on the field i think he's
02:46i think i
02:46do i think he's left it all on the field and i don't i don't want to uh do you
02:50remember jv's last
02:51start but is it really going to taint how you remember verlander if one start goes out that's
02:56my point no but and it's irrelevant to where the tigers are right now and for those that are saying
03:01well they just signed him to sell tickets and then see like they're not going to sell enough
03:06tickets or merchandise in two games for them to make up what they're paying him they signed him
03:12because they thought he could do a just service for them it hasn't played out that way yeah i i
03:18want to
03:18see him pitch that's the camp i'm in i want to see him pitch even if it's ugly it's not
03:22going to taint
03:23the way i remember justin verlander and i think the emotional outpour of when he takes the mound and
03:28no matter how ugly it gets when he puts a cap up in the air is worth it to me
03:31you know what if he gets
03:32shelled so selfishly yeah i want to see him on the mound i don't want it for him i don't
03:38want him
03:39i wouldn't want to go out there for you know one more quarter or one more series and give up
03:44three
03:44sacks and then for the rest of my life it eats at me of how i should have set and
03:49i did this when i was
03:50you know seven years younger and and i just couldn't do it like i it would absolutely eat at me
03:58i didn't think about it that way from like the person i'd have nightmares about it i've got
04:03nightmares about things i things that happened to me when i was in my prime let alone but that's
04:09the difference this is father time it's understood no one expects him to dial up 100 miles an hour in
04:15the eighth inning of the game that he starts everybody knows that he's graying in the beard
04:20everybody knows he's not in his prime anymore but if i knew i had a fast pitch
04:24and i just couldn't do it anymore and now i'm i'm going out there and i get rocked like it
04:30just
04:31it would give me nightmares and and i don't know maybe he's got
04:37the mental makeup that it's not going to bother him he's like hey i'm just going to go out there
04:41i'm
04:41going to throw see what happens whatever happens happens free and loose as a competitor i don't
04:47believe that he can do that i don't know man i if he pitches at comeric i i think he's
04:54going to go
04:54out there and absolutely empty the tank he has nothing i i think he will try absolutely he has
05:00nothing to lose and he'll never play again right and that's the reason why i think he'll do it yeah
05:06because you could still get the moment with him coming out for a game without him playing and the fans
05:12could cheer him but i want to see him pitch yeah i do want to see jv pitch one more
05:17time in the old
05:17english d for better or worse and if it's worse so be it i'm at peace with it i would
05:23hope he could
05:24be i didn't consider that that's that's the concern that i have it's it's yeah there's a lot of people
05:29that will certainly cheer him as they should and and i just hope that at that time it's the last
05:35series
05:37i hope everybody shows up
