Tigers Are Home, NFL Draft and Blaise Zimmer’s Thoughts

Ryan Ranguette, Blaise Zimmer and John Thomsen

Marquette, MI – The Detroit being a three game home series welcoming in the Seattle Mariners. Detroit begins a ten game home-stand against opponents who are under .500 as a record. The Tigers will send 1-1 Jordan Zimmermann to the bump tonight to face former AL Cy Young Winner Felix Hernandez, who is 2-1 on the season. Game time is set for 7:05 pm at Comerica Park.

The NFL Draft is fast approaching, this week the draft will begin on Thursday with the First Round going underway at 8 pm. Friday will showcase the second and third rounds while Saturday will feature round four through seven. The Detroit Lions hold the 21st pick in the first round followed by their rival Green Bay with pick 29. We will have updates as the draft gets going as well as NFL Draft analysts.

Blaise Zimmer stopped in this morning to talk about Marquette Senior High School athletics as well as random sports topics. Blaise talked about the Tigers season so far and the NBA in the first half of the show and got into detail with his thoughts on the NFL Draft. We would like to thank Blaise for being apart of the show this morning.

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