Where are we at in society today? Come after me. I'm a man,
I'm forty. Go ahead, make my day every single week. I
put my freaking heart and soul into this. I don't go out there and
laugh. It's not funny. Nothing's funny to me. I don't wanna go
out there and get embarrassed on Monday night football. For everybody, I think
this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship. So I ain't nothing changed from
yesterday. Still the same person I was yesterday, and I got the same
thing for you that I had yesterday. You know why I'm here. You
play to win the day. You don't play to just play it. That's
a great thing about sports. You play to win, and I don't care
if you don't have any wins. You go play to win. When you
start telling me it doesn't matter, I can retire. Get out for the
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one thousand braves, trim the Tigers to one. Ozzie i'l be's with the
two out solo Obama the eighth off Shelby Miller was the difference, little salt
to the wound with Joe jan Menez coming in and picking up his first save,
working a clean ninth. Ugh. Not that you want Joe Jimenez back,
because you don't. But to see something like that at this time when
so many things are needed, it just ruins your night to a certain extent.
I mean, you know what, let me take that back. You
can't let it ruin your night. You have to understand what's expected, right,
the whole the whole line of you know what, they're playing good teams.
They're playing Houston, and they hung tough and they had a chance to
win the series. Oh okay, that's good. Love your moral victory.
Atlanta is a good team, man, and you know they're only a run
shy okay, why to spin that positive? Sometimes it's okay to say,
you know what, they're not good enough. Sometimes it's all right. To
be a little bit more emotional. It's okay to be upset because I was
having a discussion with a friend of mine the other day about this very topic
about how the Tigers do play hard, they hang in there. And I'm
guilty because I've said it in the past. You know, understanding how long
the season is, understanding there's going to be ups and downs at this point
of the season. When you're in this type of situation and you're as far
back as this team is from the division, eleven and a half back,
and you are this far under five hundred, four games under five hundred,
When you're one of two teams in the division to have a minus run differential,
Chicago being the other, it starts to turn to anger a little bit.
For me, it does. And not that I have anything against Atlanta,
not that I don't agree that Atlanta's a good team. They are.
They're really good. Okay, they're second in the NL East, and the
NL East is at least with Philadelphia, two of the better teams in baseball.
Really, but this is about, and we've talked about this before,
this is about expectations. Okay, our expectations are low, period. Your
expectations for everybody else, well maybe not the Pistons, but for Michigan and
Michigan State, for the Lions, for the Red Wings. For some reason,
we're able to use that high bar as the expectation. So when it
comes to this team, it's not existent. You are satisfied and willing to
accept effort, says in a high school team. It's not a little league
where it's okay to these guys get paid a lot of money. You pay
a lot of money, you sometimes playing your day around it, and this
is what you get, and you've got to recognize it's just not good enough.
Folks. They have played seventy two games this season so far, okay,
seventy two, not quite the halfway point getting there. Seventy two games,
twenty two of those games, or thirty and a half percent, they
have scored two runs or less. That's how bad the offense was, or
is ree Olsen's good enough? And maybe you, as a glass half full
person is looking at it and saying, you know what, I'll take that
guy, sure me too. Six innings, four hit ball, no runs
allowed, six strikeouts, didn't walk a batter, goes back home, Native
Georgian and was really impressive. Now, the one hundred pitches over six innings
is probably a little concerning. But you can't have everything, all right.
You ask for a quality start, you get a quality start. He's a
quality start guy who is helping your team stay in there. It's up to
your offense and others to make sure that you finished the job. Reese Olsen
too often has been hung out to dry. Let me give you a quick
statistic that might surprise you. Not everything's about stats, I get it,
but sometimes they do tell a story. The Detroit Tigers are fifth, don't
check that. I'm sorry. They're sixth in Major League Baseball and quality starts.
Reees Olsen gave them their forty second quality start last night. Let me
give you the teams that are ahead of them. Seattle they're number one in
baseball. They lead the West. Philadelphia they're number two in baseball. They
are the leaders in the NL East. Kansas City the Royals would be in
the playoffs if it started today. The Dodgers, who lead the NL West,
and Pittsburgh and Paul Skins was rock solid again last night. Their rookie
now four and oh, those are your teams above Detroit in quality starts.
You're going to preach, and so am I pitching in defense? Okay,
fair enough, Detroit's getting the pitching. Their defense isn't good, especially in
shortstop, and there's no hope on the horizon there either. But their pitching
is good enough. They stink offensively, so you can be as good as
the numbers I just gave you with the quality starts and how good Resolson was
yesterday. His run support is just a tick above two. It's like two
point three. It's two point three going into the game last night, and
he got one run, so that's gonna go down. And yet this team
can't do a damn thing about it. It's frustrating. You just shake your
head and you're like, I'm not sure they got a chance tonight. Pitching
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Bay City, Pataski, Charlavoy and Traverse City. Tiger's illusion last night,
As we mentioned to one, the frustration continues to boil over, at
least for me. It doesn't sound like it has for many Tigers fans out
there. And I don't suggest a solution, right. I'm not one of
those people who tells you, you know what, this team is going to
do what you wanted to do. Don't go to a game that's bull crap.
You want to go to a game, go enjoy it. It's still
an inexpensive way to take the family to an event and be together on a
beautiful summer night. Go do it. Absolutely. You can still be a
fan of a team. You can still go and support that team and still
be upset that the team hasn't done what you expect them to do. You
can hold them accountable. Absolutely. Who are we to sit there and tell
you what to do with your entertainment dollar? Who are we to sit there
and tell you who to vote for and who not to root for. You're
Tigers fans. Good for you, keep it up, Just understand and have
some realistic expectations of what you're going to get. That's all I'm suggesting.
There's a level of disappointment for me that continues to climb higher and higher each
time I watch his team play with feeble swings and bad decisions. And I'm
not one of those guys who says, Oh, it should be easy.
All you have to do is this. No, Holy this is so hard.
It is so very difficult. And there's nothing worse than a There's nothing
worse than a talk show host or a member of the media acting like what
this team does, or what a team does, I should say is pretty
easy or should be pretty easy, and that's not the way it works.
Man, It's really really hard. I understand that, and I think you
understand it as well. There's not many who get the opportunity to play Major
League baseball. You think that, you think that there are, You think
that it is one of those situations where you know, hey, I see
a lot of Major leaguers come and go. You know, you think that
there's an infinite number of opportunities out there, and it's really not the case.
Okay, it's we hear about the greats all the time, but if
you really do the research, for as long as baseball has been around,
there's only been not even twenty one thousand people who have played in Major League
baseball at least once. Think about that for a second. Not even twenty
one thousand. The number of people all time who have played Major League baseball
is less than the enrollment that Grand Valley State or Central Michigan or Western Michigan
or Eastern Michigan all time. So it's hard. I get it. That
is elite status for all the people who grow up you and I wanting to
play this great game for a living dream of being that hero wearing whatever uniform
was your favorite. For all of us, less than twenty one thousand in
the history of the sport have played at the major league level. So that's
not lost on me. It's not lost on just how challenging, how difficult,
and how rare you have to be to make it. So I respect,
and I mean this sincerely. I greatly respect those who have reached that
level. Now, you and I can talk all we want about the guys
who have played for the Tigers and have been awful. And you can't believe
that Dalwell Lugo has been a major league player. Okay, Kristen Stewart has
been a major league player. You may not believe it. You may not
like it. I don't necessarily like it either, But every franchise has those
players. The key is getting better players and for those better players to stay
with your team longer. Right now, as much as we may hear about
certain stories of a certain player, as much as it may be a feel
good moment to see one player succeed every once in a while, as often
as we may hear interviews with said players, Mom and Dad, I go
back to a pretty regular eye test study example, whatever word you want to
use on whether or not. I think this team is going in the right
direction. How many guys on this team do you believe the team they're playing
against? Once? Brian Snicker is a really good manager, all right,
he's the Atlanta bench boss. He's sitting there looking across the dugout, across
the diamond. How many Tigers does he say, wish I had that guy
on my team. That's what I want. I want to hear people who
are envious of your team or my team. Now, I'm not saying if
you're a Tigers fan, you'd much rather have Jared kellnickensenter than Riley Green.
Because Riley Green played center field last night, was on base three times.
I don't think it's easy to argue against Riley Green. I think he's been
your best player so far. Maybe you've got somebody else in mind. Maybe
there's an argument to be had there. I don't think right now you're taking
who played second last night? Gee or Schella? Did he play second last
night? No? Cole Keith played second last night. Chello was at third.
I don't think you're taking cold Keith over Ozzie Alby's right now, I
don't think you're taking Mark Canna over Marcello Zuna. I'll take Matt Olsen at
first base over Andy Banyez at first base. I'll take Austin Riley at third
over Go Orchella. Do I need to continue? I don't think I do.
I'll take Sean Murphy over Jake Rogers. And keep in mind Atlanta's not
the best team in baseball either. I'm measuring you against a team that sits
in second play and is you know, a modest eight games over five hundred.
Those are the things that I look at. I look at it.
I'm pretty much every single series, who is your everyday player at that position
compared to my team? And how many of those position battles am I winning?
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Yesterday we asked you did Bryson Deshambo win the PG eight or the US
opened or did Rory McElroy lose it? Ben put it up and sent it
out on social media. Plenty of responses and Ben, what was the overall
percentage? Yeah, it was McElroy lost sixty percent and de Shambo won was
forty percent. I wonder I kind of had a sense, and we've got
another poll question up out there right now that we'll get to here in a
moment, I had this sense that was going to be the overwhelming voting because
I think people look at things negatively more today than they ever have. I
don't know the reason for that, and I can't say that I have scientific
or numerical proof. This is just something that I have guessed or I have
kind of come to the conclusion of that. People just look at it and
think a guy doesn't win that event because of what Rory McElroy did down the
stretch. And I wonder when you're watching that event and you get look,
it's pretty obvious that when you boget three out of last four holes, okay,
because he bogeed fifteen, sixteen and eighteen, how many legit? I
don't know. I mean, the guy was four hundred and ninety six for
four hundred and ninety six until he missed a three footer. I think it
was on sixteen anyway, or maybe it was the eighteenth. Anyway, there
was a time there was a stretch where he birdied nine, birdied ten,
birdied twelve, birdy thirteen to take the lead. Now, to me,
that's a guy who is elevating his game, not choking. And basically that's
the question. Is the question the way we phrased it, you could you
could read into is that, Hey, people feel like Rory McElroy choked.
And I just when a guy goes on that type of run, like he
comes charging out of the gate and he gets a birdie and on the front
nine he shoots thirty four and this is this. This course is really hard.
All the pictures of the greens right, it looks like you took a
bowl and turned it upside down. The crowd of a hat trying to get
it on that course. I remember before or on those greens, before the
tournament started, there was a video making the rounds on social media where a
guy dropped the ball on one side of the green and it rolled all the
way off the other side of the green. That's how steep those curling undulations
of the greens were. There was a time, I think on Sunday where
when Bryson Deshamba had birdied thirteen but then bogeyed fifteen. People were thinking he's
the one who is choking because while he was boguing fifteen, well, I
guess McElroy had bogued fifteen as well, and it was almost as if,
well, who really wants this? Does anybody want this? Of course they
do. The conditions are really challenging. Remember Deshambo had all kinds of issues
getting off the tee. I mean he was a erratic off the tee.
He was scrambling. It was the ultimate scrambling round and he shot a one
over The funny thing is McElroy beat him on Sunday, just on Sunday,
but not for the tournament. Obviously, McElroy had a better score by two
over Deshambo on Sunday. So I kind of had an idea that people were
going to suggest, And I don't think people are taking anything away from Deshambo,
but I had an idea that, yeah, that's that's the way they
were going to look at it. They were going to look at it from
a negative standpoint. So it's sixty forty people thought Maceilroy lost it more than
Deshamble won it. Personally, when you make that shot, especially on eighteen,
because the drive was terrible, the punch out from the hanging tree overhead
and the ball nestled up against a root. Like my buddies and I were
playing around, We're like, you know what, I don't want to I'm
not going to ruin my club by having the ball there. Just just move
it just a little bit to give yourself a little bit more of a free
whack at it. So you're not ruining a club. We're not pros here.
Deshamba's got to play where it was. Punches out to the sand.
The sand is nasty, and I don't mean that it's not raked or it's
not a nice soft sand. I mean it's just a nasty place to be.
Nobody had gotten up and down for par or better from there. And
Deshambo did on Sunday on the biggest stage and what many would consider the shot
of his life and one of the better shots in major championship history. What
the others are is debatable, but that's in the conversation. When you make
that shot on eighteen, something that nobody else has done all week long,
I think you win that tournament. I'm not in the habit of taking things
away from people who have accomplished something at such a high level like that.
Today's pole question is this, and we'll get to this coming up. Today's
pole question is of the Lions offseason moves, which are the biggest or what
is the biggest? I should say? Is it signing A'mon Ross, Saint
Brown, Penney Sewell and Jared Goff to extensions? Is it signing Dan Campbell
Brad Holmes to extensions? Is it Ben Johnson choosing to say? Or is
it drafting Terry on Arnold. Ben's got it out on our social media channel
and social media. Exes and bros love you to vote. Vote as often
as you like. We'll give the results sometime tomorrow because we want to keep
it up there for about twenty four hours. Speaking of golf, Rory McElroy,
and look, we chastised him yesterday for this, and I think for
good reason. We said, hey, listen, you look like a baby.
You look like a poudy, whiny baby. Because he left as soon
as Deshambo won the championship. Deshambo actually wondered where McElroy was when the tournament
was over. I'm sure somebody whispered in his ear. Well. He jumped
into the rental car and headed for the airport. While Deshambo was doing press
conference interviews reenactments on eighteen out of the Sandtrap with Golf Channel signing hats,
shaking hands, taking pictures, McElroy was in the air on the way home.
It showed a class list is a pretty good word. We get mad
at guys who don't shake hands in basketball. Do you remember this? There
are certain players Lebron Jay James has done it. He leaves the court without
shaking hands. Dwight Howard did it while he was in Orlando, left the
court without shaking hands. Isaiah Thomas and the Pistons, except for Joe Dumars,
did it against the Bulls, left the court without shaking hands. It
was an uproar, classless bush league. This is the reason we don't like
them. Blah blah blah blah blah. I didn't agree with it. I
don't like the Bulls, but I didn't agree with it. I don't think
that's how you handle yourself. I understand why they were upset. I know
they didn't like the things that Michael Jordan said and how the media lapped it
up. Because everything Jordan says, or everything Tiger Woods says, or everything
Lebron James says is gospel. God forbid you disagree with any of them.
But I didn't think it showed a classy way to end a hard fought series.
The media ridiculed Isaiah Thomas in the Pistons. Then do you hear the
same type of vitriol for Rory McElroy Because I haven't read it. I haven't
seen it, and I think they should. McElroy finally spoke about it or
wrote about it in an extended statement. This is what he said on social
media, Like I get the purpose of social media. I do I understand
how people truly use it as their platform. I'm not saying it's a bad
thing, but it gets a little old when you fall back to it constantly.
I still think people want to hear from you, because there is a
difference between reading what you're writing and hearing the inflection in your voice, looking
at the sincerity in your eyes. This is what he wrote on social media.
Tough as day I've had in my nearly seventeen years as a professional golfer.
Sunday was a tough day, probably the toughest I've had nearly seventeen years
as a pro golfer. Firstly, I'd like to congratulate Bryson. He's a
worthy champion and exactly what professional golf needs right now. I think we can
all agree on that. Period, Okay, means a little more to Deshambo
the world of golf and sports when you're saying it to that person rather than
writing it about that that person. But let's say I want to give him
the benefit of the doubts. Okay, Let's say I just want to all
right, he understood a mistake. Fine, what happens when all these big
corporations and big athletes, And let's face it, Rory McElroy's got plenty of
people on his team social media team, public relations team, marketing team to
believe that most of the stuff that is being done is not being done by
him, that somebody has crafted it themselves. Part of their job is I
am your whatever speech writer, I am your marketing manager. I am your
social media manager. So as much as I'd like to give Rory McElroy the
benefit of the doubt and say that's a nice sentiment that he wrote there,
I'm not sure I believe he wrote it in the first place. Either way,
he continued. As I reflect on my week, I'll rule a few
things over the course of the tournament, mostly the two mist plots on sixteen
and eighteen on the final day. But as I always try to do,
I'll look at the positives of the week that far outweigh the negatives. As
I said at the start of the tournament, I feel closer to winning my
next major championship than I ever have. The one word that I would use
to describe my career is resilient. I've shown my resilience over and over again
the last seventeen years, and I will again. I'm going to take a
few weeks away from the game to process everything, build myself back up for
my defense of the Genesis Scottish Open and the Open at Royal Troon. Okay,
originally he was supposed to be on the Travelers, but he's backed out
of that at TPC River Highlands and a purse that has four million dollars.
It's not about the money. He's got plenty more than he'll ever need.
It's great that he'll focus on the positives. I love how it goes from
hey, how good is Bryson? Too? As I reflect on my week,
you also notice maybe you don't think he needs it. But there's no
apology there. Sorry. I let my emotions get the best of me,
and I wasn't around to answer any questions. I'm sorry that I took this
so hard. As I said, it's the toughest in the seventeen years I've
been on tour. I just did not want to talk. I should have
been there to SHAKEE Bryson's hands and congratulate him on a hard fought week of
golf, but it was just too much for me. I don't know.
I'm just spitbawling here. I'm making this stuff as we go. I think
it's ridiculous. We're going to accept this. I'm sure somebody will ask him
at his next tournament, but I would hope somebody would unless they're afraid of
him too. But how do we just say, Okay, yeah, this
is good enough. We've got people out there in high positions in the world
of sports talking to us about camaraderie, talking to us about sportsmanship, and
talking to us about what's good for the game in which they play. And
then he turns around and does something like this. Now, if his emotions
got the best of him and he had to take off, couldn't take it
any more. So be it. Don't agree with it. People make mistakes.
How do you handle the mistake? What do you do to file up?
How do you react once you've made the mistake? These actions don't gloss
over his mistakes. To me, there's no regret whatsoever. He's congratulating a
guy who won a championship. No kidding, it was a tough day.
No kidding, it was a tough day for a lot of guys. Scotti
Scheffler had a really tough week, quite Honestly, he was terrible. One
of the worst outings that you've seen the number one player in the world perform.
Oldberg fell apart on Saturday. They still met with the media, They
still did something right, They still performed their obligation. Don't tell me that
Scotti Scheffler, after shooting seventy one, seventy four, seventy one and seventy
two and finishing plus eight tied for forty first wanted to meet with the media,
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