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How about the Tigers winning their fourth straight this time of the five to three win over the New York Yankees last night?
Six and a half games out of first place.
The American League's best record in the month of June at 12 and six.
Still five games out of a wild card, but a heck of a lot better than a week ago when they were about eight, again, eight and a half games out of a wild card.
I know it sounds like a stretch, but when you're 10 games under 500 and you've got a shot, that's because you're in such a petered American League.
that's where they stand right now about the brew crew they won again yesterday on a joey or t-shirt fly in the top of the tent over the Cincinnati red the brew crew enjoying a five-game lead on those pesky st louis cardinals in the national league central now we mentioned it with the tigers trailing in the american league central fire six games behind the white socks and the guardians the Yankees are up big on tampa as well as seattle
they're one game over five hundred they're leading american league west that's all that's all rough it is and in the national league at lana six-and-a-half up on philadelphia it up on washington and the dodgers best team money can buy they're up nine-and-a-half games on the san diego pod raise in the national league west all right how about what's going on in the world of sports down here where i'm at down in new lansing i know the folks in east lansing are happy to see that
taking the spotlight away from them for a while dusty may not know where it came yesterday morning he's announced as the new head coach of the dallas mavericks leaving the university of michigan right after winning a national championship with the wolverines man oh man i didn't see that one coming where is this going to leave the michigan wolverines it looks like mike like boyton is going to be named interim head coach so
what does that mean for michigan well if you don't know that means what a coach leaves players now get a portal window open up for fifteen days the wonderful world of college sports right so now michigan's players have that they have a decision to make do they want to stay with mike point and michigan will bring his wife going to be the coach are they going to go after a big name are they going to try to make a big splash
But some of the crazy talk down here, anyways, is that they're going to go after Billy Donovan.
I don't see him going there.
There's so much uncertainty at Michigan and at Michigan State with all this stuff with the Board of Regents.
We don't even know if Ward Manual's going to be the athletic director.
That guy's got more lives than a cat, it seems like.
I'll tell you what, he's supposed to meet with the Board of Regents any day now.
with his job status up in the air so anyway getting back to the basketball team looks like my point is going to be the athletic or the interim basketball coach at the university of michigan busting me is leaving for dallas and i also heard one of the reasons why he was leaving because he was a little frustrated with the uncertainty of college basketball or college sports in general isn't that uh... the park on the kettle black little bit of a property coming out of his mouth there
that indeed is the reason now everybody knows me knows i'm a michigan guy michigan fan i have been practically my whole life dusty may use that system he bought himself a full transfer portal board the players to get themselves at national championship didn't break the rules maybe came close but he didn't break the rules he took advantage of them and that's the way it is in college sports but for him to say he's frustrated with it to me is a little bit hypocritical as he now is going to have to go
greener pastures greenback that is going to the Dallas Mavericks they get the night pick the draft tonight see if the axle gets picked by the Mavericks we've got a chance to coach Cooper flag so who knows right so we'll keep an eye on that situation and everything going on at Michigan and Michigan State of course everything up everything is up in the air there but Michigan now get the taste of it with Dusty May taking off now to be the head coach of the Dallas Mavericks
All right, speaking of which, we'll stick with basketball real quick before we get to hockey.
Big news last night, into the wee hours of the morning and then this morning, of course, for you Milwaukee Bucks fans, Yannis and the Catupole.
I think I pronounced it right.
He's not a buck anymore.
He's taking his towels to South Beach.
He got traded to Miami with Bobby Portis for a boatload of players and draft picks.
A king's ransom, if you will.
Miami looking to try to win now, teaming him up with Bama and Abayo, that being Yannis and the Catupole.
He's going to take his 30 points a game, and he's going to head down to South Beach.
They get Tyler Hero, Kaleil Ware, Jamie Yakwes Jr.
I'm not even going to try to pronounce this last while I'll give it a try.
Kasper Yakiyanis, three first round draft picks, including this year's 13th pick, that the Bucks desperately needed after all the trades they made in the last few years, trying to get themselves back in the championship picture.
One of them will pick swap again later on out of 2030 or 2033 down the road, whatever.
Anyways, the Yanisera is over in Milwaukee as he was traded this morning to the Miami Heat.
It was a long rumor he was going to be traded.
All kinds of rumors, Boston might have been involved, Detroit might have been involved in a three or four team swap, who knows.
The one to keep an eye on in this deal too is Tyler Herald.
don't be surprised if he's traded yet before the draft starts tonight who knows he tried still could be in the mix to make it a three-team trade and although the pistons are looking to try to upgrade get a little more scoring punch to go along with the defense as they made their run into the second round of the nba playoff this year but as of right now the box they're starting over basically as uh... they get all kinds of uh... draft picks and players back getting rid of the big guy you know that that is thirty points a game over the last eight years
Remember, even though he got that, the Bucs are the only team to make the playoffs and not make it out of the first round in the last four years.
So a change definitely was needed down in Milwaukee.
So we'll keep an eye on that as well.
As the NBA draft is tonight, I don't know how many of you are really interested in it, but that NBA draft is tonight.
This might add a little bit of spice along with Dusty May going to Detour, going to Dallas as the head coach.
Now we'll keep an eye on when the Axel gets drafted.
So that's it for the NBA draft.
I'll go over to the NHL.
First of all, the big trade.
Speaking of trade, Brady Kachuk and his fist and whatever else got traded to the Florida Panthers on Sunday, he got traded for three first round draft picks, including two this year's draft, which by the way is Friday night, the ninth and the 25th pick in this year's draft.
And then also another future first round draft pick and a second round pick.
Wow.
I mean, I love...
i personally love the mentality of uh... of uh... you know that you know manager of the florida panthers i love the winnow mentality they're going for it you know jimmy and i talk a little bit off care about this over the weekend that uh... you know it did it you want to win now this is going to be a redemption tour for the florida panthers they were pretty banged up last year obviously that's why they didn't make the playoffs but again
When you get to two-ster, three straight Stanley Cup finals, and you win two of them, that's going to take its toll on anybody.
I mean, just us, the Red Wings, back about 20 years ago when they made that run in 97, and oh gosh, that's been 30 years ago already.
I guess it is.
When they made the run to three straight finals, three out of the last four, then getting knocked out in the conference finals after they went their five straight years, it does take its toll on you.
but now i think it's going to be a different team for the florida panthers they're going to get healed up and now they get the product that they get the enforcer if you will break it up to get the play with his brother uh... matthew chuck as uh... if it's going to be a trade that gets you to get the florida panthers back over the home to the family cop i don't think it's going to be it's going to take more than brady kichuk to get there daddy he's a political president but you know what he did you know in the opening round of the playoffs
uh... against jordan style the carolina panthers i mean it's just that that's good hockey now as far as the whole that uh... auto got back for florida uh... it's a lot of draft picks auto is kind of one of those franchises that they really haven't done anything you know they've gotten to play off the doctor this past year but they got swept against the event will stand the cup champions but uh... uh...
i don't know, i mean, yeah, they're gonna fortify their team with a couple of young players, but when are they gonna come to the parent club?
when are they gonna make a difference for the Ottawa Senators?
i go back again, i love what Florida, i love their mentality, i've said it more than once, i like it when a team will take a chance, win now, they'll pay for it later, the Red Wings are still recovering for their deep playoff run when they made it 25 straight years, they haven't recovered, they haven't gotten the pieces to gel, to get them over the humpback to the playoffs, look at the Chicago Blackhawks.
It's taken them a while as well after their big run in the last decade.
They've got Conor Bedard, but obviously they haven't made the playoff.
He's wanting more money.
So this is crazy.
And the other thing that I worry about with this trade, you're seeing all these guys that played on the USA hockey team, they're all wanting out of their teams.
You know, Detroit, obviously, with Dylan Larkin.
i don't know if this is a coincidence or not but he and ready to check both listed as their first three teams they wanted to go to florida vegas or minnesota of florida and vegas i could see because there's no state tax and why not go where it's warm but i i the other thing that troubles me a little bit about this trend with the players wanting out a lot of these players they don't want to play in canada anymore in the u s a players don't want to play there obviously you don't get the same bang for your buck
In Canada, as you do in the United States, and again, they want to go to these states with no state tax.
They also want to go to franchises that are willing to win now.
So we'll keep an eye on that.
Now, the big question, of course, is does this raise the price of poker for Dylan Larkin?
I think Larkin's a little better than Brady Kachak.
So who knows what he's going to be getting in return.
Steve Iserman sees that.
And like we said last week, Steve Iserman's not going to be bullied.
So we'll keep an eye on that as well.
or Dylan Larkin, who knows if he gets traded before the Friday draft or whatever, so interesting times in the NHL.
Finally this morning on the Great Bind, speaking of the NHL, yesterday in the class of 2026, NHL Hall of Fame was announced.
Pekka Rene, Patrice Bergeron, Kerry Price, Keith Kachuk, Cindy Curley, and Brian Burke.
Is this the Hall of Fame or is this the Hall of Very Good?
I'm sorry, Pekka Rene is probably a nice guy.
We had a good career.
borderline great career with the national predators three hundred and seventy-some wins i get it on the stand the cops that he went for your hand i'm waiting very price nice guy great career with montreal borderline great career how many family cuts that he went not uh... the one that stands out to me that this this to me uh... is the herald bain
a hall of fame picks and that's key to check what did he ever do that he's a bully just like his kids i get it yet but here's that when a peg how is he in and feel flurry feel flurry isn't it and rick zettaberg i mean come on it's a popularity contest just like every other hall of fame and it did get kind of sick of me a little bit now i'm trying not to be a homer here and rick zettaberg had a zettaberg had a very good career got a cons might got a family cop uh... you know he's got just shy of a thousand point he's been to the playoffs
and the one i know i'm gonna catch a lot of blackboard i've already have why isn't chris odd good in the hall of fame if you're gonna put peccarini in here and don't give me that the lame argument that he played on a superstar team well that's the case that i would say thirty to forty percent of the new york Yankees that are elected into the hall of fame shouldn't be in there because they played on dominant dynasty teams all right i'm gonna give you one right off the chute all filbert do you know he shouldn't be in the hall of fame to sixty batting average
i could spend a whole show on guys that shouldn't be in the hall of fame this to me isn't a good look for the hockey hall of fame i'm sorry keep kitchock does not deserve to be in there if you're going to put them in there why didn't feel flurry in there and rick zettelberg and again i go back to the gold tennis pecker rena nice guy decent career only family cups to be went not because i was good to have four hundred and one win four hundred when she gets in the hall of fame i don't care who you play for
Yeah, he was on a superstar loaded team with Detroit, probably in 2002, they had 13 Hall of Famers.
You could say the same thing about Dominic Hoshik.
Hoshik's a better goaltender than Osgood.
Excuse me, he should be in there.
Osgood played on some mediocre St.
Louis teams and horrible New York Islanders teams, and he still got 401 wins.
If that's not Hall of Fame worthy, I'm sorry, I can't take it serious anymore.
again the hall of fame are not all very good it's a popularity contest if that a bird were on the boston brewing or the new york rangers or the edmonton oilers along with chris off good it had been in the hall of fame and so what if the old flurry so whatever i think that's going to do it for this edition of peaking in the great by jimmy i hope you're feeling better soon look forward to being back with you here on thursday until then i want to thank everybody for taking time out
To peak in the grapevine with yours truly Captain Lew until Thursday.
Captain Lew saying keep your heads up, keep your sticks down, keep your feet moving, and as always keep your minds open.
Alright, let's send it back to Sam in the studio.
