Get some facts and come back and Seebee. Get some facts and come back
and Seebee. Don't throw out salaries or other things. Get some facts and
come back and Seebee. You can't handle the true now told our players you
need a bit more like a dog. We don't need a bunch of cats
in here. Looking in the mirror. I look good. I got my
extra bands on, I got my other shoes. Be a doll. We
don't need no mouns. We don't need no cats. We need more dolls.
How you got a detain? Are you not at the day we weren't
good. There's no sense of asking me things about the game. I'm telling
you we laid an egg. So I'm not gonna break it down for you.
He sucks. He sucked. He laid an egg. That's all I
have to say. Guys, I'm sorry. I'm not gonna break it down
for you. Nothing went well for us. It's on us. We have
to figure it out everyway. Joe Dad showtime in downtown Detroit as well.
Love for the third and final hour of Exs and Bros. Across the Great
State of Michigan. Wherever it is you may be listening in Flint and Cadillac,
Grand Rapids and Grayling and Gaylord and Midland and Sagana on Base City,
Potoski, Charlavoi, Traverse City. We're with you Monday through Friday sixty nine.
I'm Matt Shepard, Trent and Ben are our producers, and we welcome
in a friend of the program, Jason Langwow, who is the executive producer
of The Rocket Mortgage Classic. Because his event is taking flight yet again today.
It is a phenomenal event. Can't wait to watch it. And I
know you're getting bigger names out there, top guys in the field Fowler and
Xalatorus and Kim and there's plenty out there. What else can people look forward
to, Jason, besides those types of names on your playlist here today in
Round one, Well, Matt, hey, good morning. Yeah, We're
excited, gaz open this morning, fans are rolling out the Rocket Mortgage Classic.
We're celebrating both tie day today honoring Nick Gilbert, the son of Dan
Jennifer Gilbert, who passed last year. Fans, the fans can come out
and enjoy the action today. We're also I also got an unbelievable fan experience
on site today as well. Area three and three Grove Area three and three
Village has all kinds of great fan experiences that are on site today, and
as you mentioned, an unbelievable field of not just a great top talent today,
but future stars are starting here today with Miles Russell, our fifteen year
old going off at two eleven today and a bunch of great young players.
Jackson Coyven, the most decorated freshman in MT two A history, is going
to be playing out here today, and so we've got great players, a
great fan experience, and ticket is still available at Rocket Mortgage Classic dot com
for fans will go on and be able to come out witness the action.
Yeah, Neil Shipley will be there too, Low amateur at the Masters and
the US Open. How excited were you when you get guys like that committed
to your event? Oh? Really excited. Neil not only came in and
is out playing golf today. He threw the first pitch out of the Tigers
game the other day through a little seventy five mile an hour high in tight
one in there. I guess he was a pitcher in high school. But
Neil's excited to be here for all those Buckeye fans. In the area.
He'll be out today and he's it was paired opposite Luke Clanton, who finished
second in the NC two, a really great player out of FSU that's out
here and so really great. Great to have Neil in the field. He's
having a great time. I expect him to not just compete and making the
cut, but to be in the mix come Sunday. Hey, let me
ask you this, Jason. When you look at your event and you see
how it's grown, what's impressed you and what do you think the reason it's
grown so quickly? Well, you know, the community Detroit has embraced this
event. Dan Gilbert's vision was to find a way to shine a spotlight in
the city and to get the community engaged and impact the outcome. I think
are changing the course initiative and the fact that everything we do goes to help
end the digital divide in Detroit, and we're doing that that brings in a
broader audience beyond the core golf and and engages the entire Detroit community. And
so we have Detroit fans out here, not just golf fans. And when
you can kind of expand your base that way and get corporations to come in
and support this, not just Rocket Mortgage, but others, you know,
trans Solutions, many of other companies have leaned in heavily to this event the
entire We got fourteen hundred volunteers that give their time, our most precious commodity
to come out here and help us along the rope lines and with galleries and
lean into this event. Just it takes the village and it takes the community
to really step up and get behind this, and that's the reason we've been
successful. I think we'll continue to be. Yeah, I don't disagree with
any of that. I would say that just about any championship golf event needs
those volunteers, and we did it. We were broadcasting live from Grand Rapids
and the Temph Daniel Meyer Classic, and there were a similar number of volunteers.
So that's a given. But more and more you're getting bigger names coming
to your event, and let's face it, when people want to go out
and watch golf, they want to watch some of those big names. So
I mentioned Follower and Xela Taurus and Kim. We mentioned Miles Russell who is
in a big name. But it's it's cool to see a fifteen year old
in a little history and Neil Shipley. But you've got some past major champions
in the field too, Why do you think, Yeah, no, we
do. I mean Cam Youngish got fifty nine last week. Is out here
today, Web Simpson, you know, is I here? Francesco Molinari's here
making his maiden voice Detroit. Matt Kocher a fan favorite, Merroll loves,
Kevin Kisner, Gary Woodland who's been through so much and won the US Open
a few years ago. Here, Stewart Sink. Stewart Sink probably one of
the oldest players in our field. You know. Willie Mack a fan favorite
locally. You know, we talked about the flynt area. Willie, he
out won the John Shipping event. He's going to have massive galleries out here
following him around. Fired a nine under sixty three in the opening round of
the John Shipping and of earning an exemption into the event. And you mentioned
some of the other younger players just over time. A lot of these guys
have a place they can call any place their home throughout the summer. They
choose Detroit because they've come here. We got our fireworks celebration on Monday.
Brendan Todd, for example, comes here. He brings this family because as
they get out of school, it's his first time to reunite with them,
and they want to have a fun summer start, and so we've got so
much to offer in downtown Detroit. He's put that on his schedule for him,
his wife's kids. Is a place to come, go to some Tigers
games, watch some fireworks, and then during the day go out and make
some birdies beautiful. Jason Langwell, the executive producer All the Rock and Mortgage
Classic, joining us here on ex'es and Bros. Day one of this four
day special event in downtown Detroit. Usually you got to go low right at
your event, and that can be a really good thing. It was such
a contrast two weeks ago, you're at the US Open and the winter is
six hundred. Last week at the Travelers, Scottie Scheffler wins it a playoff.
It's twenty two under. Why do you think players enjoy playing your trap
in this event? Well, this is one of the very few opportunities that
players have a chance to play a classic down a ross golf course. There's
only one other opportunity on a PGA tour to do that, and you know,
he's got such great designs. Talked to so many players this week to
say, hey, I grew up playing a golf course like this. This
feels like home to me. And so they love the golf course and look,
and it's in fantastic shape right now, wonderful shape. San moy Han's
an unbelievable job on here. But they just enjoyed it. Come out here
and they make some birdies and they're going to get after it, no question.
But the greens are in fantastic shape. The rough is up around a
little bit and challenging, but there's a lot of great action out here already.
Nate Lashley are defending champ in twenty nineteen, just made a hole in
one on eleven on his second hole of the day. So nice little start
for Nate there. But yeah, I mean, the guys just love.
It's just a really and look, the clubhouse is beautiful. It's a real
classic old school style golf course and a really nice walk for not only players
but for fans being it's a little bit on the flatter side. Yeah see,
I'm glad you said that, because that's what I was just going to
bring up as a fan, you get an opportunity to watch. It's very
convenient for fans to be able to go out and watch different groups on that
course at Detroit Golf Club. One more thinks, I know you get a
busy morning. We appreciate the time Jason very much. He's the executive producer
of the Rocket Mortgage Classic. You're not a guy who patched yourself on the
back, even though you deserve it. Tell me a little bit about your
crew. This is a NonStop this is once a year, but you're working
year round. When are you beginning to plan for next year and how you
view things on how you can get better from season to season. Well,
no, we have an unbelievable team. We're blessed with an incredible squad Rocket
Mortgage Leans in the entire tournament team that we have is incredible. We started
selling twenty twenty five Matt actually last week, so and you know, so,
there's no better time to renew a partnership with someone that's coming out and
having a great time at this Rocket Mortgage Classic and to get them to sign
up for the next one. So plans are already underway. We've already built
out some additional experiences. You know, things we've been trying to do is
offer an even better experience for fans. So this year we added additional fan
decks for public viewing. We have seven of them, seven public open to
the public fan decks, more than any other event in the PGA Tour.
And that's what we want to be able to do. Is because fans a
great view of golf our Area three and three growing village, we're trying to
put more non golf oriented interactives in there, so it's more of a fair
festival tight feel when you're coming out, getting away from the rope lines.
You get up on the rope lines. People are there to watch golf,
but we like the ability for fans when they're away from the rope line to
feel like they're just enjoying a good, fun summer festival in downtown Detroit.
And so that's our focus. We're in the experience business, trying to create
a great experience for fans that impacts the outcome in Detroit. That's our mission
and our vision and that's what we spend our time thinking about each and every
day. Do a great job of the Jason, thanks continued success. We'll
talk soon Okay, thanks a lot, appreciate the sport you bet. Jason
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has been inconsistent all season, but we've witnessed it way too often in June.
In twelve of their twenty three games this month, Detroit has been held
to two runs or less, and it's the primary reason they've lost four of
their last five series. In this last three game set against Philly, the
Tigers scored just seven runs. Against Atlanta, the offense posted just two runs
in three games, and in the Trio games against Houston, Detroit played fourteen
runs, but thirteen of those came in one game. The Tigers embarked on
their longest road trip of the season darts in La against the Angels, a
team that has fewer wins, but his offense puts up better on base and
slugging numbers than the Tigers. Could be a longer road trip than expected.
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that here coming up and try'll give us the final results in case you missed
it. Tigers lose yesterday six to two to Philly. I don't know if
you had a chance to listen intently to my end the den, but if
you didn't, let me just remind you of what has taken place recently.
All right, we have seen it far too often in June. The offense
is non existent. They've played twenty three games in the month of June twelve
games, more than half they have scored two runs or less. It's the
primary reason they've lost for their last five series against Philadelphia. The three game
series at home against Philly, they scored seven runs against Atlanta. Earlier this
month, the offense played it two runs in three games, and in the
three games against Houston they scored fourteen times, but thirteen of those came in
one game. So now they go up against La. They're ready for the
Angels right now. I would remind you this is what happens in baseball yesterday.
You play day game. You then go to the airport, you get
on a flight, and this is a new plane for Detroit, which is
great. It's very helpful. You're probably shaking your head right now, but
it really is. It's very helpful because in the past, what we would
have to do is you would have to stop off somewhere and refuel wherever it
may be. Okay, you'd have to refuel the Pistons or the Tigers,
they should say in the revenues. They didn't have a plane that could go
cross country in one big full tank of gas, if you will. So
the new one allows you to do that, which is great, no stop
it. But you get there right and you jump on a bus and you
get to your hotel, you're beat. I mean, it's a tiring experience.
So I'm not even though Jack Flaherty's pitching tonight, I don't expect a
ton from the Tigers tonight. This is where it's a challenging road trip anytime
you go out west, but especially when you get ten games. All right,
And I know how people feel about the Angels. They are thirty three
and forty six right now, but they've won three in a row. But
still, they've won three in a row and they're still thirteen games underwater.
They're a minus seventy two in run differential. The only teams worse in the
American League are the Chicago White Sox, which are an unbelievable minus one seventy
two. That is worse in baseball. That is hard to do. Think
of that for a minute. So let's not get carried away with Hey,
we just won a series against Chicago. Okay, again, it's a team
that's got twenty one wins, they've only won six road games or eight road
games, and they've got a minus one seventy two run scoring differential. You
know, the other team worse than the Angels would be the A's. The
A's are they are who they are? I mean, it's it's just bad
baseball. I don't know who follows. I don't know IFO follows the Oakland
A's. And they've lost five in a row, seven to ten. They're
just I mean, eventually, you know, I mean, I remember one
time they were in second place in the West. I'd said to people,
eventually water is going to find level. And that's what you're seeing right now
now. Am I surprised that Toronto's and last in the East, Yes,
I am. I don't know what they're going to do. I'm stunned because
of their talent, their base out of it. They're fourteen and a half
games back now they play in the toughest division, but still so they're in
last place in four to fourteen and a half games back. Detroit's second to
last, fifteen games back. So they're going to take on an Angels team
that, even though they've won three in a row, you'd consider not great.
Right, They're not a really good baseball team. Here's the thing you
need to understand, though. This is a team that is better numbers wise,
Maybe you think it's too much numbers wise better than Detroit in terms of
the key categories that many teams look at. So the run the average run
runs per game, all right, because it's about scoring runs. I know
you're a big believer in pitching and defense, so am I, But look
at runs per game. What's the average in baseball? Four point three to
six. That's the average. Detroit is below the average and slightly below the
Angels. I know we're looking at wins and losses, but if you're looking
at offense, that's important too. I think it's important. I hope you
do too. The league average and on base percentage right now is at three
to eleven. The Tigers are fourth last, fourth to the bottom in that
category. Can't get on base. Angels much better. Detroit's at two ninety
seven. The average is three eleven. They're at two ninety seven, third
to last or fourth to last. Slugging wise, the average in Major League
baseball is three three, the Tigers three seventy four and worse than the Angels.
And lastly, the one number that everybody in these front offices, these
younger front office folks, and no knock on their youth. They know what
they're doing. You hope you know where the ops plus on base plus slugging,
and it doesn't matter where you're playing, all right, So one hundred
is the average. It's always going to be the average. You know where
the Tigers are eighty nine? Only Pittsburgh, Chicago and Miami are worse.
Angels, not much better, but better. So the Angels are better in
all those offensive categories than the Tigers. And we look at wins and losses,
and we think Detroit should definitely be la be careful when you look at
just one category, you got to go a little bit deeper than that.
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Bros. Monday through Friday from six until nine. Our thanks to Jason Langwell
from The Rock and Mortgage Classic for joining us talking about day one of this
four day tournament in downtown Detroit. I'm not sure who's gonna win this thing.
I don't know who you got, Tom Kim, Cameron, Young min
Wo Loo ball striking and creativity will help him. Ox Sha Batilla really like
him. He's got to be one of the favorites Alex Norrin Taylor, Pendrith,
Keith Mitchell, on top of of course Ricky Fowler. So when you
get a second check that out. It's a wonderful tournament and guys will be
throwing darts at the flags. Trent. Let's go to the text line,
shall we? What do we got? Someone says the Pistons and Tigers need
to buy players. The Lions are the only ones in the city who know
how to draft correctly and build a young team. The Pistons have enough young
players. They need some veterans and they need to buy them. Amen,
who would have thought five years ago? Just five years ago, you and
I would have heard somebody text the Lions are the only team who know how
to draft. You know what that tells me. It tells me that people
truly believe the Lions know how to draft and develop. It's one thing drafting
them. You've seen the Seinfeld episode right where anybody can take the reservation.
It's really about holding the reservation. It's the same thing in football and sports
in general. Anybody can draft somebody, you got to develop them. None
of these guys are proven products just yet. You have to develop who's developing
them. That's really important, So drafting and developing. But this team,
you're to the point that Texter is dead on. Man, go get some
players who are already developed to help ease the transition from terrible team to palpable
team. Nobody's asking you to be world champions as the Pistons or even the
Tigers. For the Pistons, obviously it's going to be a tougher and longer
process. But for the Tigers, it's is it so bad? Is it's
so hard and so wrong for me to ask? Can you be competitive?
I gave you the numbers just before the break. I gave you the numbers
of where they are offensively in some key categories. Those are not my categories.
These are categories that supposedly I've been told that matter to the front office.
Runs per game, on base percentageps plus, it's not cutting it.
Why is it so wrong for me to have higher expectations? Does that make
me impatient? Hell no, not in my book? Does it make you
impatient? If for ten years, ten years they've said we're rebuilding, that's
what we've been told. How long has it been for the Red Wings guys?
Eight years? Right? People are getting impatient with Steve Eisman. They
feel like there's got to be a move eight years for a team that's won
eleven Stanley Cups four and eleven year span. At one point was the model
franchise in the National Hockey League. Everybody wanted to be the Red Wings.
Players wanted to come here and play for the Red Wings. Eight years,
there's an impatient feeling like next year you better make the playoffs. That's the
feeling all right outside the organization. I'm sure Steve Eisman feels something very similar.
He's tired of it too. He told us it would be a process.
What he inherited. How does that compare to what the Tigers are right
now or what they've been doing for ten years. It's been a failure of
drafting and developing, no doubt, absolutely no question about it. But are
you developing some of the players. Look, you could say what you want
about Alavila's drafts. Seriously, I mean you could talk about Riley Green,
and you can talk about Parker Meadows and Spencer Torkelsen and Casey Miz and all
that thing. Fine, go ahead criticize him, but you cannot deny that
all those men were worthy of at least first or second round draft picks.
You can be upset at Torkelsen and the draft pick, but what you cannot
deny with what he did at a high level at Arizona State. The numbers
he put up were worthy of first round consideration. Can you at least give
me that? Yes or no? Yes? Thank you? Okay, I'm
talking about first round here, not first overall, even though I would have
taken him first overall. I'm talking about first round. So at some point
you feel like he has talent and the ability to be a major league player,
Otherwise you don't take him in the first round, right is the logic
fare so far? Then why aren't you developing him into one? Because I
think everybody would agree, Yes, he's a first round talent. Now the
question is whether or not you can help him become a major league consistent player.
Where is it? Where is it with Casey Miies? Yes, there's
been an injury. Players go through injuries. Derek Scubo got injured. How
come you can't do that? Where's the development? It's not like they're giving
up on somebody. It's not like they haven't paid attention. Where's the development?
Say the same thing about the Pistons, right it certain players that come
in are they developing? Did Oscar Thompson get better last year? Do you
believe he got better? Do you believe Jalen Duran is getting better? Do
you believe Jayden Ivy is getting better? If you believe that, it's not
that you be okay with the pick, it's you're okay with the player.
You're okay with him being on this team. Did you see the development?
Have we truly witnessed it? We see it with the Lions. So this
Texter's point, they're one hundred percent right. You see the development with the
Lions, don't you? Holy crap? Absolutely, there is no doubt that
the Lions know what they're doing, not just by drafting Sam Laporta or Jamiir
Gibbs or Jack Campbell or even Jamison Williams. You understand why they drafted him
at least I hope you do. Now. I know you didn't agree with
Jimmy or Gibbs at the time. Many of you didn't believe in Sam Laporta
either, But it's okay to say I was wrong. You saw the development,
you saw them getting better. Look, every player, every athlete has
a ceiling, right, But are you witnessing the game quote unquote slowing down
their adjustments? These guys are good players, man, I mean really good.
How do you deny how good Penny School is? How do you deny
how good Frank Ragnow is? How do you deny how good I'm on Rossin
Brown is? The development of these players. It's not that I fully loved
every draft pick. It's I love how they develop them. That's an underrated
part of sports. And the Tigers and Pistons, they're young players are not
getting better. Now you can say Riley Green is, and there are guys,
I'll admit there are guys in the minor league farm system. We don't
know if they're getting better. So I don't want to be totally unfair.
I want to be willing to say, you know what, let's wait.
But when you use a first round pick and a third overall on a young
kid out of high school, Max Clark, who's nineteen, he's a little
bit older than Ron Holland the second, and he's still in a ball,
I worry about the development. Now. He's doing fine in a ball.
He's got twenty stolen bags. He's betting about two seventy. He's got a
little extra based power pop to him. Okay, the on base is good,
but I worry about that, and I think it's a fair concern.
I'm not trying to rush the kid. I'm just saying this team needs players,
they need everyday players. Where's the development? Why is Spencer Torkolsen going
somewhat backwards at Toledo right now? Some of it's on the player, absolutely,
some of it's on the people who are trying to develop that player too,
right, in all fairness, I think that's how you got to look
at it. I really appreciate that text. Who would have thought five years
ago, I mean, Trench has told me this in the break. Who
would have thought that the Fords are considered the best owners in the city.
Nobody, nobody in the sports world would have guessed that. Think how quickly
it's changed. Mike Ilich seen as one of the greatest owners in sports,
what he is willing to do to bring a winner to this city in hockey
and baseball, the Fords were seen as cheap and not knowing how to run
a franchise. Not long thereafter, it's completely reversed. The Fords hire the
right people. Let them do their jobs, and those people are the right
people to do those jobs. Illach won't spend money on his baseball team.
Now you know me? What if I said time and time and time again?
What have I said? Money doesn't cure everything? Otherwise the Potterys would
have won a World Series by now. Otherwise the Mets would be the best
team in baseball right now. It's not the be all. Otherwise the Blue
Jays would not be in last place. It's how you spend your money.
About one hundred and six million dollars. Come on, that'll lets you know
everything you need to know. There's no question this team could afford and should
have a payroll of at least one hundred and forty million. That's not asking
too much, I've said, Detroit, everyone wants to talk about markets.
I get so tired of that. But I'll play the game. This market's
about a one to fifty it's not two hundred. That's not folks. That
is not being unrealistic. That is not spending other people's money. That's not
being irresponsible. It should be about one hundred and fifty million. If you
told me this is what my budget is on a yearly basis, that's gonna
be one hundred and fifty million. I would say you can compete. Whether
or not you can win, I don't know, but you can compete in
this division and in this league, no doubt in my mind. But at
one o six and I know you're gonna give me the example of Cleveland,
and I know you're gonna give me the example of Baltimore. Baltimore is very
different. The difference for Baltimore is that all their young players are up at
the same time. The late nineteen seventies, early eighties Tigers. That's what
it is. Philadelphia, who we just saw leave here, it's your twenty
twelve Tigers. This team, this Tigers team right now, you don't recognize
you're just plugging. It's a damn that's about ready to break, and you're
just trying to put you know, a finger in this hole and a finger
in that hole. That's what you're doing. So it's a really good text.
I really appreciate it. Hey, let's get to the final results of
the pole question real quick, Trent. The pole question asked, should paveldat
Suk have the number thirteen retired by the Red Wings at Little Caesars Arena.
What is the number associated with it? A resounding seventy three percent of you
think thirteen should be in the rafters. Only twenty seven percent say no.
I guess my question would be, what's the logic from the twenty seven percent
who say no, that's that's odd. Of course, remember this in life,
some things just don't make sense. I mean, somebody, actually,
somebody actually believe that Willie Mays wasn't a Hall of Famer at one point.
Somebody voted against Ty Cobb and Paper Ruth. Somebody voted against Mike Schmidt.
Moronic, But that's the way it works. Good stuff. Our poll question
today, I think is a good two thumbs up or thumbs down on the
Pistons draft pick of Ron Hollum. The second, before we get out of
here, I want to tell you this. It's I've gone through this before
with my kids. Really important on who you trust to have your child's back.
At the collegiate level, they're gonna play sports, They're gonna play college
sports. This is the time where they become a young woman or become a
young man, So that impression is very important. Would never have my kid
play for Jim Schlapsnagel. He just led Texas A and M to the College
World Series, lost in three games against Tennessee. His team was really good.
I love the way they played, quite honestly, but they lost six
to five in Game three of the World Series. Afterwards, a reporter asked
him about the possibility of moving on. His quote was, I took the
job at Texas A and M to never take another job again, and that
hasn't changed in my mind. That's unfair to talk to me about something like
that. It gave up a big part of my life to come take this
job, and I've poured every ounce of my soul into the job. I've
given this job, every single ounce I could possibly give. So write that.
Twenty four hours later, he takes another job at Texas. He said,
I wish I could have answered it better, but in the moment,
all thirty minutes after the last pitch, I couldn't think of anything but my
players, And at the time I really believed what I was saying. No,
you didn't. You already had the job done, You already accepted the
job at Texas. You were recruiting kids to Texas. Texas A and M.
Thought you were out on a recruiting trip bringing him to the Aggies.
Instead, you were taking him to Austin. What a slimeball, What a
piece of garbage. And you want commitments from kids, You're gonna come into
my family room and recruit my kid as a liar, as a deceitful scumbag.
It's all about money, fine, then be honest about it. Thanks
to Trent and Ben for Ben for a producing our Thanks of course to Jason
Langwell for joining us to talk about the Detroit the Rocket Mortgage Classic that's taken
place this week. Dennis Fifthium, my good friend, is going to be
in for me tomorrow. I want to thank you for your texts and all
your thoughts. Have a great rest of your Thursday. We're back with you
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