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Where are we at in society today? Come after me. I'm a man,

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I'm forty. Go ahead, make
my day every single week. I

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put my freaking heart and soul into
this. I don't go out there and

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laugh. It's not funny. Nothing's
funny to me. I don't wanna go

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out there and get embarrassed on Monday
night football. For everybody, I think

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this is the beginning of a beautiful
friendship. So I ain't nothing changed from

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yesterday. Still the same person I
was yesterday, and I got the same

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thing for you that I had yesterday. You know why I'm here. You

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play to win the day. You
don't play to just play it. That's

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a great thing about sports. You
play to win, and I don't care

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if you don't have any wins.
You go play to win. When you

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start telling me it doesn't matter,
I can retire. Get out for the

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matters. Thanks for being back with
us on a Tuesday. This is Exes

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and Bros. And we are with
you Monday through Friday, six until nine.

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I'm Matt Shepherd. Ben is our
producer. Give mc call on the

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Meyer Hotline eight sixty six eight three, eight forty eight forty three. Anything

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that might be on your mind.
In the world of sports, we welcome

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it. Love the discussion. You
could text the program sports radio to twenty

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one thousand braves, trim the Tigers
to one. Ozzie i'l be's with the

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two out solo Obama the eighth off
Shelby Miller was the difference, little salt

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to the wound with Joe jan Menez
coming in and picking up his first save,

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working a clean ninth. Ugh.
Not that you want Joe Jimenez back,

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because you don't. But to see
something like that at this time when

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so many things are needed, it
just ruins your night to a certain extent.

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I mean, you know what,
let me take that back. You

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can't let it ruin your night.
You have to understand what's expected, right,

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the whole the whole line of you
know what, they're playing good teams.

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They're playing Houston, and they hung
tough and they had a chance to

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win the series. Oh okay,
that's good. Love your moral victory.

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Atlanta is a good team, man, and you know they're only a run

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shy okay, why to spin that
positive? Sometimes it's okay to say,

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you know what, they're not good
enough. Sometimes it's all right. To

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be a little bit more emotional.
It's okay to be upset because I was

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having a discussion with a friend of
mine the other day about this very topic

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about how the Tigers do play hard, they hang in there. And I'm

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guilty because I've said it in the
past. You know, understanding how long

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the season is, understanding there's going
to be ups and downs at this point

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of the season. When you're in
this type of situation and you're as far

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back as this team is from the
division, eleven and a half back,

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and you are this far under five
hundred, four games under five hundred,

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When you're one of two teams in
the division to have a minus run differential,

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Chicago being the other, it starts
to turn to anger a little bit.

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For me, it does. And
not that I have anything against Atlanta,

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not that I don't agree that Atlanta's
a good team. They are.

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They're really good. Okay, they're
second in the NL East, and the

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NL East is at least with Philadelphia, two of the better teams in baseball.

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Really, but this is about,
and we've talked about this before,

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this is about expectations. Okay,
our expectations are low, period. Your

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expectations for everybody else, well maybe
not the Pistons, but for Michigan and

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Michigan State, for the Lions,
for the Red Wings. For some reason,

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we're able to use that high bar
as the expectation. So when it

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comes to this team, it's not
existent. You are satisfied and willing to

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accept effort, says in a high
school team. It's not a little league

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where it's okay to these guys get
paid a lot of money. You pay

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a lot of money, you sometimes
playing your day around it, and this

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is what you get, and you've
got to recognize it's just not good enough.

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Folks. They have played seventy two
games this season so far, okay,

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seventy two, not quite the halfway
point getting there. Seventy two games,

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twenty two of those games, or
thirty and a half percent, they

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have scored two runs or less.
That's how bad the offense was, or

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is ree Olsen's good enough? And
maybe you, as a glass half full

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person is looking at it and saying, you know what, I'll take that

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guy, sure me too. Six
innings, four hit ball, no runs

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allowed, six strikeouts, didn't walk
a batter, goes back home, Native

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Georgian and was really impressive. Now, the one hundred pitches over six innings

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is probably a little concerning. But
you can't have everything, all right.

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You ask for a quality start,
you get a quality start. He's a

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quality start guy who is helping your
team stay in there. It's up to

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your offense and others to make sure
that you finished the job. Reese Olsen

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too often has been hung out to
dry. Let me give you a quick

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statistic that might surprise you. Not
everything's about stats, I get it,

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but sometimes they do tell a story. The Detroit Tigers are fifth, don't

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check that. I'm sorry. They're
sixth in Major League Baseball and quality starts.

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Reees Olsen gave them their forty second
quality start last night. Let me

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give you the teams that are ahead
of them. Seattle they're number one in

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baseball. They lead the West.
Philadelphia they're number two in baseball. They

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are the leaders in the NL East. Kansas City the Royals would be in

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the playoffs if it started today.
The Dodgers, who lead the NL West,

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and Pittsburgh and Paul Skins was rock
solid again last night. Their rookie

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now four and oh, those are
your teams above Detroit in quality starts.

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You're going to preach, and so
am I pitching in defense? Okay,

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fair enough, Detroit's getting the pitching. Their defense isn't good, especially in

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shortstop, and there's no hope on
the horizon there either. But their pitching

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is good enough. They stink offensively, so you can be as good as

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the numbers I just gave you with
the quality starts and how good Resolson was

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yesterday. His run support is just
a tick above two. It's like two

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point three. It's two point three
going into the game last night, and

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he got one run, so that's
gonna go down. And yet this team

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can't do a damn thing about it. It's frustrating. You just shake your

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head and you're like, I'm not
sure they got a chance tonight. Pitching

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gives them a chance, offense takes
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getting rolling on a Tuesday morning.
Exes and Bros with you throughout the great

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As we mentioned to one, the
frustration continues to boil over, at

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least for me. It doesn't sound
like it has for many Tigers fans out

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there. And I don't suggest a
solution, right. I'm not one of

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those people who tells you, you
know what, this team is going to

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do what you wanted to do.
Don't go to a game that's bull crap.

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You want to go to a game, go enjoy it. It's still

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an inexpensive way to take the family
to an event and be together on a

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beautiful summer night. Go do it. Absolutely. You can still be a

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fan of a team. You can
still go and support that team and still

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be upset that the team hasn't done
what you expect them to do. You

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can hold them accountable. Absolutely.
Who are we to sit there and tell

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you what to do with your entertainment
dollar? Who are we to sit there

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and tell you who to vote for
and who not to root for. You're

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Tigers fans. Good for you,
keep it up, Just understand and have

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some realistic expectations of what you're going
to get. That's all I'm suggesting.

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There's a level of disappointment for me
that continues to climb higher and higher each

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time I watch his team play with
feeble swings and bad decisions. And I'm

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not one of those guys who says, Oh, it should be easy.

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All you have to do is this. No, Holy this is so hard.

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It is so very difficult. And
there's nothing worse than a There's nothing

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worse than a talk show host or
a member of the media acting like what

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this team does, or what a
team does, I should say is pretty

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easy or should be pretty easy,
and that's not the way it works.

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Man, It's really really hard.
I understand that, and I think you

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understand it as well. There's not
many who get the opportunity to play Major

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League baseball. You think that,
you think that there are, You think

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that it is one of those situations
where you know, hey, I see

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a lot of Major leaguers come and
go. You know, you think that

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there's an infinite number of opportunities out
there, and it's really not the case.

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Okay, it's we hear about the
greats all the time, but if

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you really do the research, for
as long as baseball has been around,

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there's only been not even twenty one
thousand people who have played in Major League

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baseball at least once. Think about
that for a second. Not even twenty

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one thousand. The number of people
all time who have played Major League baseball

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is less than the enrollment that Grand
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or Eastern Michigan all time. So
it's hard. I get it. That

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is elite status for all the people
who grow up you and I wanting to

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play this great game for a living
dream of being that hero wearing whatever uniform

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was your favorite. For all of
us, less than twenty one thousand in

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the history of the sport have played
at the major league level. So that's

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not lost on me. It's not
lost on just how challenging, how difficult,

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and how rare you have to be
to make it. So I respect,

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and I mean this sincerely. I
greatly respect those who have reached that

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level. Now, you and I
can talk all we want about the guys

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who have played for the Tigers and
have been awful. And you can't believe

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that Dalwell Lugo has been a major
league player. Okay, Kristen Stewart has

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been a major league player. You
may not believe it. You may not

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like it. I don't necessarily like
it either, But every franchise has those

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players. The key is getting better
players and for those better players to stay

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with your team longer. Right now, as much as we may hear about

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certain stories of a certain player,
as much as it may be a feel

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good moment to see one player succeed
every once in a while, as often

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as we may hear interviews with said
players, Mom and Dad, I go

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back to a pretty regular eye test
study example, whatever word you want to

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use on whether or not. I
think this team is going in the right

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direction. How many guys on this
team do you believe the team they're playing

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against? Once? Brian Snicker is
a really good manager, all right,

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he's the Atlanta bench boss. He's
sitting there looking across the dugout, across

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the diamond. How many Tigers does
he say, wish I had that guy

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on my team. That's what I
want. I want to hear people who

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are envious of your team or my
team. Now, I'm not saying if

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you're a Tigers fan, you'd much
rather have Jared kellnickensenter than Riley Green.

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Because Riley Green played center field last
night, was on base three times.

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I don't think it's easy to argue
against Riley Green. I think he's been

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your best player so far. Maybe
you've got somebody else in mind. Maybe

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there's an argument to be had there. I don't think right now you're taking

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who played second last night? Gee
or Schella? Did he play second last

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night? No? Cole Keith played
second last night. Chello was at third.

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I don't think you're taking cold Keith
over Ozzie Alby's right now, I

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don't think you're taking Mark Canna over
Marcello Zuna. I'll take Matt Olsen at

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first base over Andy Banyez at first
base. I'll take Austin Riley at third

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over Go Orchella. Do I need
to continue? I don't think I do.

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I'll take Sean Murphy over Jake Rogers. And keep in mind Atlanta's not

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the best team in baseball either.
I'm measuring you against a team that sits

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in second play and is you know, a modest eight games over five hundred.

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Those are the things that I look
at. I look at it.

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I'm pretty much every single series,
who is your everyday player at that position

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compared to my team? And how
many of those position battles am I winning?

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flag back with you on EXUS and
Bros. We've been putting out poll questions.

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Yesterday we asked you did Bryson Deshambo
win the PG eight or the US

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opened or did Rory McElroy lose it? Ben put it up and sent it

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out on social media. Plenty of
responses and Ben, what was the overall

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percentage? Yeah, it was McElroy
lost sixty percent and de Shambo won was

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forty percent. I wonder I kind
of had a sense, and we've got

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another poll question up out there right
now that we'll get to here in a

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moment, I had this sense that
was going to be the overwhelming voting because

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I think people look at things negatively
more today than they ever have. I

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don't know the reason for that,
and I can't say that I have scientific

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or numerical proof. This is just
something that I have guessed or I have

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kind of come to the conclusion of
that. People just look at it and

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think a guy doesn't win that event
because of what Rory McElroy did down the

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stretch. And I wonder when you're
watching that event and you get look,

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it's pretty obvious that when you boget
three out of last four holes, okay,

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because he bogeed fifteen, sixteen and
eighteen, how many legit? I

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don't know. I mean, the
guy was four hundred and ninety six for

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four hundred and ninety six until he
missed a three footer. I think it

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was on sixteen anyway, or maybe
it was the eighteenth. Anyway, there

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was a time there was a stretch
where he birdied nine, birdied ten,

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birdied twelve, birdy thirteen to take
the lead. Now, to me,

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that's a guy who is elevating his
game, not choking. And basically that's

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the question. Is the question the
way we phrased it, you could you

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could read into is that, Hey, people feel like Rory McElroy choked.

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And I just when a guy goes
on that type of run, like he

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comes charging out of the gate and
he gets a birdie and on the front

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nine he shoots thirty four and this
is this. This course is really hard.

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All the pictures of the greens right, it looks like you took a

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bowl and turned it upside down.
The crowd of a hat trying to get

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it on that course. I remember
before or on those greens, before the

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tournament started, there was a video
making the rounds on social media where a

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guy dropped the ball on one side
of the green and it rolled all the

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way off the other side of the
green. That's how steep those curling undulations

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of the greens were. There was
a time, I think on Sunday where

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when Bryson Deshamba had birdied thirteen but
then bogeyed fifteen. People were thinking he's

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the one who is choking because while
he was boguing fifteen, well, I

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guess McElroy had bogued fifteen as well, and it was almost as if,

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well, who really wants this?
Does anybody want this? Of course they

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do. The conditions are really challenging. Remember Deshambo had all kinds of issues

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getting off the tee. I mean
he was a erratic off the tee.

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He was scrambling. It was the
ultimate scrambling round and he shot a one

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over The funny thing is McElroy beat
him on Sunday, just on Sunday,

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but not for the tournament. Obviously, McElroy had a better score by two

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over Deshambo on Sunday. So I
kind of had an idea that people were

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going to suggest, And I don't
think people are taking anything away from Deshambo,

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but I had an idea that,
yeah, that's that's the way they

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were going to look at it.
They were going to look at it from

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a negative standpoint. So it's sixty
forty people thought Maceilroy lost it more than

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Deshamble won it. Personally, when
you make that shot, especially on eighteen,

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because the drive was terrible, the
punch out from the hanging tree overhead

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and the ball nestled up against a
root. Like my buddies and I were

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playing around, We're like, you
know what, I don't want to I'm

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not going to ruin my club by
having the ball there. Just just move

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it just a little bit to give
yourself a little bit more of a free

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whack at it. So you're not
ruining a club. We're not pros here.

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Deshamba's got to play where it was. Punches out to the sand.

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The sand is nasty, and I
don't mean that it's not raked or it's

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not a nice soft sand. I
mean it's just a nasty place to be.

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Nobody had gotten up and down for
par or better from there. And

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Deshambo did on Sunday on the biggest
stage and what many would consider the shot

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of his life and one of the
better shots in major championship history. What

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the others are is debatable, but
that's in the conversation. When you make

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that shot on eighteen, something that
nobody else has done all week long,

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I think you win that tournament.
I'm not in the habit of taking things

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away from people who have accomplished something
at such a high level like that.

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Today's pole question is this, and
we'll get to this coming up. Today's

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pole question is of the Lions offseason
moves, which are the biggest or what

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is the biggest? I should say? Is it signing A'mon Ross, Saint

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Brown, Penney Sewell and Jared Goff
to extensions? Is it signing Dan Campbell

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Brad Holmes to extensions? Is it
Ben Johnson choosing to say? Or is

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it drafting Terry on Arnold. Ben's
got it out on our social media channel

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and social media. Exes and bros
love you to vote. Vote as often

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as you like. We'll give the
results sometime tomorrow because we want to keep

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it up there for about twenty four
hours. Speaking of golf, Rory McElroy,

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and look, we chastised him yesterday
for this, and I think for

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good reason. We said, hey, listen, you look like a baby.

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You look like a poudy, whiny
baby. Because he left as soon

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as Deshambo won the championship. Deshambo
actually wondered where McElroy was when the tournament

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was over. I'm sure somebody whispered
in his ear. Well. He jumped

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into the rental car and headed for
the airport. While Deshambo was doing press

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conference interviews reenactments on eighteen out of
the Sandtrap with Golf Channel signing hats,

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shaking hands, taking pictures, McElroy
was in the air on the way home.

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It showed a class list is a
pretty good word. We get mad

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at guys who don't shake hands in
basketball. Do you remember this? There

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are certain players Lebron Jay James has
done it. He leaves the court without

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shaking hands. Dwight Howard did it
while he was in Orlando, left the

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court without shaking hands. Isaiah Thomas
and the Pistons, except for Joe Dumars,

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did it against the Bulls, left
the court without shaking hands. It

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was an uproar, classless bush league. This is the reason we don't like

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them. Blah blah blah blah blah. I didn't agree with it. I

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don't like the Bulls, but I
didn't agree with it. I don't think

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that's how you handle yourself. I
understand why they were upset. I know

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they didn't like the things that Michael
Jordan said and how the media lapped it

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up. Because everything Jordan says,
or everything Tiger Woods says, or everything

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Lebron James says is gospel. God
forbid you disagree with any of them.

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But I didn't think it showed a
classy way to end a hard fought series.

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The media ridiculed Isaiah Thomas in the
Pistons. Then do you hear the

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same type of vitriol for Rory McElroy
Because I haven't read it. I haven't

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seen it, and I think they
should. McElroy finally spoke about it or

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wrote about it in an extended statement. This is what he said on social

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media, Like I get the purpose
of social media. I do I understand

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how people truly use it as their
platform. I'm not saying it's a bad

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thing, but it gets a little
old when you fall back to it constantly.

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I still think people want to hear
from you, because there is a

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difference between reading what you're writing and
hearing the inflection in your voice, looking

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at the sincerity in your eyes.
This is what he wrote on social media.

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Tough as day I've had in my
nearly seventeen years as a professional golfer.

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Sunday was a tough day, probably
the toughest I've had nearly seventeen years

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as a pro golfer. Firstly,
I'd like to congratulate Bryson. He's a

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worthy champion and exactly what professional golf
needs right now. I think we can

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all agree on that. Period,
Okay, means a little more to Deshambo

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the world of golf and sports when
you're saying it to that person rather than

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writing it about that that person.
But let's say I want to give him

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the benefit of the doubts. Okay, Let's say I just want to all

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right, he understood a mistake.
Fine, what happens when all these big

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corporations and big athletes, And let's
face it, Rory McElroy's got plenty of

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people on his team social media team, public relations team, marketing team to

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believe that most of the stuff that
is being done is not being done by

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him, that somebody has crafted it
themselves. Part of their job is I

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am your whatever speech writer, I
am your marketing manager. I am your

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social media manager. So as much
as I'd like to give Rory McElroy the

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benefit of the doubt and say that's
a nice sentiment that he wrote there,

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I'm not sure I believe he wrote
it in the first place. Either way,

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he continued. As I reflect on
my week, I'll rule a few

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things over the course of the tournament, mostly the two mist plots on sixteen

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and eighteen on the final day.
But as I always try to do,

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I'll look at the positives of the
week that far outweigh the negatives. As

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I said at the start of the
tournament, I feel closer to winning my

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next major championship than I ever have. The one word that I would use

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to describe my career is resilient.
I've shown my resilience over and over again

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the last seventeen years, and I
will again. I'm going to take a

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few weeks away from the game to
process everything, build myself back up for

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my defense of the Genesis Scottish Open
and the Open at Royal Troon. Okay,

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originally he was supposed to be on
the Travelers, but he's backed out

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of that at TPC River Highlands and
a purse that has four million dollars.

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It's not about the money. He's
got plenty more than he'll ever need.

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It's great that he'll focus on the
positives. I love how it goes from

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hey, how good is Bryson?
Too? As I reflect on my week,

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you also notice maybe you don't think
he needs it. But there's no

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apology there. Sorry. I let
my emotions get the best of me,

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and I wasn't around to answer any
questions. I'm sorry that I took this

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so hard. As I said,
it's the toughest in the seventeen years I've

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been on tour. I just did
not want to talk. I should have

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been there to SHAKEE Bryson's hands and
congratulate him on a hard fought week of

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golf, but it was just too
much for me. I don't know.

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I'm just spitbawling here. I'm making
this stuff as we go. I think

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it's ridiculous. We're going to accept
this. I'm sure somebody will ask him

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at his next tournament, but I
would hope somebody would unless they're afraid of

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him too. But how do we
just say, Okay, yeah, this

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is good enough. We've got people
out there in high positions in the world

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of sports talking to us about camaraderie, talking to us about sportsmanship, and

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talking to us about what's good for
the game in which they play. And

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then he turns around and does something
like this. Now, if his emotions

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got the best of him and he
had to take off, couldn't take it

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any more. So be it.
Don't agree with it. People make mistakes.

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How do you handle the mistake?
What do you do to file up?

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How do you react once you've made
the mistake? These actions don't gloss

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over his mistakes. To me,
there's no regret whatsoever. He's congratulating a

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guy who won a championship. No
kidding, it was a tough day.

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No kidding, it was a tough
day for a lot of guys. Scotti

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Scheffler had a really tough week,
quite Honestly, he was terrible. One

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of the worst outings that you've seen
the number one player in the world perform.

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Oldberg fell apart on Saturday. They
still met with the media, They

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still did something right, They still
performed their obligation. Don't tell me that

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Scotti Scheffler, after shooting seventy one, seventy four, seventy one and seventy

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two and finishing plus eight tied for
forty first wanted to meet with the media,

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