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Voice of the Tigers - Dan Dickerson
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Good to be talking with you guys Well, and Dan both former white caps and now young stars for the Tigers both getting their first nods of their career Making it to the all-star game coming up Terricks Google and Riley green and let's start with Terricks Google because I mean this guy is making a legitimate case And maybe the odds on favorite to be the Al Syung award winner right now Yeah, it really is and This talk started early for good reason because of the way he picked him a half a season last to coming back from the injury And I'm just going for us and he said what maybe one does maybe two Doug starts, but There's sixteen others that have been good to great Including the other day. I'm just so impressed with how he he just dedicated to his crap I don't know how else to put it means he just studies he understands But when he's on the mound he starts to competitive here understand that he's doing a strike zone he's going to start it try to attack him charge him early in the count and Try to attack maybe one of the two pitches that he chose a lot the fastball to change up and then he makes you just It's phenomenal to watch him work a big roger than I talked to a stall yesterday So I know for a long time to watch them the other day, but that might be the best start by left there ever Well, and that's just it I mean being a lefty and being a starter for the Tigers I mean, it's been a while when you start going through names and great to see his dominance And then you know with us with Riley Greene and his time here with the white caps a little bit longer You just knew where he was drafted that the talent was there But I think it really was impressive for him. Don't you I don't know if he had a chance to talk to him afterwards That you know it was not the fans, but it was the players his his own peers who voted him in Yeah, it's exactly what he said to it. We thought out Sunday morning. It was very hard not to talk about it during the But he found out so I had a chance of talking to him that morning and he joked about how you know All the family and friends have been trying to stuff the ballot box You know you get five votes today. They've been voting early and often and Just hadn't moved the needle at all and then he just kind of smiled and said but it's kind of cool to go in this way And I almost preferred this way because of what you just said is you're being voted in by your peers and He said it's fun when you get to know some of these guys I think that's what he's really looking forward to talk about you know getting those Stephen Kwan and all stars last couple of years and he said it's fun when The great players the good players are good people too and I'd like yeah, and that's you're very much in that category Because he is voice of the Tigers on Radio Dan Dickerson you hear him every night or afternoon here on Wood radio or 96 one the game in Grand Rapids proud to be the affiliate of the Tigers and Dan I got to ask you this because it seems like when I come into work Depending if they're riding a four-game winning streak like the hour now or they're losing Everyone's got an opinion about what the Tigers should do now this year Where do you think they sit at because there is the trade deadline at the end of the month and what I'm hearing right now Is they're gonna be sellers? Yeah, I think I mean we had got here on our podcast just a few weeks ago and I asked him a very question how do you balance that You know yet at some point you have to start building and I keep trading away like every year at this time He said it's six weeks away finally recorded it It's like that's too far away to be talking about whether you're a buyer of celery So you literally every year prepared to be one or the other think of it You didn't think about the Texas Rangers depending world champions They have to go into this season that way because look where they are the six seven games another 500 mark So they had to prepare to be buyers or sellers. That's what the good ones do So it can literally be a you know last week decision And he's balancing a lot Because you can't just keep trading people away every year and keep keeping the cane down the road at some point You have to build something so that you can build around that and to me you've built around a rotation of Open scuba my going to come back. He's I think he's going to regain that kind of it's not a status certainly top three starter status. I don't know what to do it 30 That's a great question You know if you try to extend him is 28 to healthy and built like a linebacker and Good odds that he's going to stay healthy as much as they're our good odds with the pitcher And he's pitching great. You might be on the all-star team. I think it's really tough I don't think I mean put it this way. They're not gonna trade fair screwball Right. Yeah, and if you do hear that, but you know You know I do think that's those are these these are the things that you're weighing be trading away something sure for something that you don't know You're gonna get prospects. You will not get a major league ready player I'm guessing if you watch or listen, you'll probably hear a little more of Dan tonight than baseball Because I think you kind of have the same forecast that we do for the next couple of nights anyway But it's I think I didn't look tonight. I think it comes in late. Tell me it comes in late I haven't looked at the rain all day tomorrow. I think Might well wipe that game out early and then The good thing is a plane cleave on every other day now for the next three weeks So we can make it up there as a later date in Detroit at the end of the month Dan Dickerson radio voice of the Detroit Tigers always great stuff. Thank you. Hey, good talk with you guys