Get some facts and come back and seebe. 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 I 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. But I look good. I got my
extra bands on, I got my other shoes. Be a doll. We
don't need no meals, We don't need no cats. We need more dolls.
Why you're not a detain? Why you're not At the time, 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 sucks. 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. Everywhdad for final hour of Exers and Bros.
We are live from the Blackfield Country Club for the tantannual Meyer Classic. Rain
interrupting early play here in round one. Hopefully it blows through quickly. It's
already starting to die down, but it did force players and caddies and members
of crews and fans to quickly find shelter again. Hope it, you know,
runs out of here as quickly as it came in, and then they
can get that first round underway and not delay it too long here. And
that's why we're here. Bill Simonson will be here a little bit later on
today as well, if you missed it yesterday, Tigers lose to the Washington
Nationals, so that means Detroy's lost five of their last six. Washington's starting
to play better baseball. They've won three straight series now. But it's not
a team that looks great on your resume. You know, you sit there
and you're gonna look back at a season, or let's say we hit the
All Star Break and you're gonna hit the All Star Breaking, you're gonna think
to yourself, all right, give me the good teams that they beat in
a series, because that's what baseball is about. Baseball's about winning series.
You're not winning every game, so one hundred and sixty two flipping games,
you're not winning every game. It's about winning series. You win series,
you win your division, you win your division, you make the postseason,
and you got a shelf the chance, right. But this is not one
of those situations where you look back at the All Star Breaking you go,
hey, we beat Washington. It's one of those series that is your damned
if you do, damned if you don't. If you win the series you're
supposed to. If you lose this series, people will remember this and they'll
say you couldn't beat Washington in a series. So Detroit now is bordering on
how much people are truly caring. You're gonna read stuff, Oh, they're
only X amount of games back in the wild Card, and maybe we should
be focused on that. I don't know. I mean, they're three and
a half back in the wild Card. What you then have to look at
is, oh, you'd have to leap frog Minnesota and Boston and Toronto and
now Texas, and Tampa's just a half game back of you, Houston's only
one and a half back of you, and most people think those two teams
are better than you anyway, including yours truly. So that's what you have
to worry about. Detroit is eleven and a half games back in the AL
Central. Has the AL Central been better than you thought it would be.
It has for me. Cleveland's better than I thought they'd be, Kansas City's
better than I thought they'd be. The defending champion Minnesota Twins, defending champions
of the division, have been about where I expected them to be. But
I do believe it's fair to say the Tigers have been more disappointing than I
thought they would be. I expected this team, and I've said this time
and time again, I expected this team to win the division. Being eleven
and a half games back. Think about that for a minute. Think about
how challenging that is. You're eleven and a half games out in the division.
How are you overcoming that? The charge you would have to make on
top of the teams that are ahead of you would have to falter. The
only team worse than you was Chicago. You're not finishing last in this division.
That sure as hell is not the bar. But you're what three and
a half back of the third place team in the division. And I was
on with Bill Simonson yesterday, I was on the huge show here from Blackfield
Country Club and he says, you know, hey, they competed. I
don't care. Who cares if they competed. You've got to elevate yourself.
We want athletes to elevate their play all the time. That's what we say.
Step up, do more than what's expected you. Why can't we ask
that of teams in general? The Tigers lose yesterday and they are now three
games under five hundred, thirty two up, thirty five down. Now is
there a little bit of a silver lining there? Yes? What is it?
They've got a lot of games coming up against their division. So that's
great. You know, you got a chance to catch the teams who are
in front of you, and you're the one who controls it. Beat Minnesota
and you'll leap frog Minnesota. Beat Cleveland in Kansas City on regular basis,
and you'll have a chance to be a little bit more competitive in the division.
That sure as hell doesn't mean that they're going to win the division.
And that's my expectation. That has been my expectation. So once you're done
with Washington today at one o'clock, Mice against Patrick Corbin Casey, Mice has
struggled lately. Corbin's a good, strong, left handed thrower. Then you
go to Houston, then you go to Atlanta, and I know you look
at Houston, you go, you know, they're under five hundred. They're
not a great team, they're behind you in the wild card standings. Houston
still has better players, period. And then you go to Atlanta. Atlanta
has a better team, period. I don't care what their record would indicate.
Don't think that, Oh, finally when we get home, we're gonna
beat Chicago. It could be just about over by then, because it's at
Houston, at Atlanta, home to Chicago and home to Philadelphia. And you
watch what happens when Philly comes to town. There are going to be a
ton of people out there rooting for the Phillies. Why because Philadelphia is exciting
and because they're good and people are tired. I hope they're tired of watching
bad baseball. Don't get me wrong. I think they're tired of watching bad
basketball too. But I think people are starting to come around, like,
you know what I'm not saying, this is the series. You know you
lose. You just beat a good Milwaukee team in a series, and you
try to gain something out of that and you just couldn't find it. When
you look at you know, winning the series against Toronto, is that a
feather in your cap getting swept by Kansas City, should that bother you beating
Arizona? I mean, what is it you're looking for that you believe?
Is the key to what whether or not you believe in this team? After
starting as strong as they did at five to zero and winning six of their
first seven, what is it about this team that you looked at and you
said, Okay, now I believe or now I don't. What series is
that for you? I don't know if there is necessarily one pinpointed. It's
just the way they've gone about their business so far, and that's the heartbreaking
stuff. So Tigers lose yesterday, they'll try and salvage one today. Boston
an incredible win last night over Dallas, incredible from this sense. They were
up by twenty one. Dallas makes a strong push, gets back to within
a possession, and then Boston pushes back the foul on Luka Doncic to get
him out of the game where he tried to take a charge, but they
called it a block. It's debatable, but when you have five personal fouls,
I don't know why you're trying to put yourself in that situation in the
first place. Here's a guy who don't play defense anyway, and then you're
trying to make that defensive play at that crucial time with that many fouls disagreed
with it. Boston's up three games to none and they got a chance to
close them out. Friday night in Dallas, heartbreaking news from the world of
basketball. Jerry West has died at the age of eighty six. His accomplishments
are second to none. And then the one hundred and twenty fourth playing of
the US Open team off today at Pinehurst, while the same with the tenth
Anniel Meyer Classic, which is where we are here at the Blackfield Country Club.
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biggest enfranchised history. Back in nineteen seventy nine, before the game against Oakland,
then Tiger's manager Les Moss was fired after fifty three games into his first
season. Moss had been hired the previous offseason released for Ralph Hulk, and
he was a game over five hundred at the time of his termination. The
reason Moss was let go the unexpected availability of Sparky Anderson, who had led
the Reds to four Pennants and two World Championships. Anderson would take over two
days after the loss news, and it changed the Tigers for the next seventeen
seasons. His nineteen eighty four team won the World Championship and remains the last
team the Tigers have ever had to win a title. We're teaming off our
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Classic dot com. All right, good news. Golfers are starting to head
back out on the course here at Blackfield Country Club for the first round of
the tenth annual Meyer Classic. They are headed to their tea boxes, probably
practice a little bit more on the tea or on the putting green just because
some heavy rain keen, but it quickly dissipated, So that's the good news.
I hope it is gone for the rest of the weekend and they're out
there and they're able to get their round in a full round here today and
nothing is delayed too much. It's not much of a delay. I would
say it's about thirty minutes or so, thirty to forty minutes, So that's
good stuff. Later on today, the Pinehurst Country Club is right where the
one hundred and twenty fourth playing of the US Open takes place. Scotti Scheffler's
one hundred and fifty six golfers there, one hundred and forty four here,
but one hundred and fifty six golfers there, and you know the favorite.
The favorite is going to be Scotty Shuffler. He's the best in the world.
He's simply spectacular. He really is Colin morri cow Is in that discussion.
I'm sure Rory McElroy. It's been a long time for him since he's
won a major, but he's in that group of people many would be put
money on. Xander Schoffley is one of those guys who's the outside for you.
I don't think this, I don't think that course necessarily fits Bryson de
Shambos game. Ludwig Olberg watch out for him. So a young, good,
strong player who's been in the mix quite a bit. I'll take him
as my outside possibility with Scheffler being the favorite, But of course everybody's going
to take Scotti Scheffler, So maybe Ludwig Olberg. Remember that name as you
watch the one hundred and twenty fourth playing of the US Open. Let's get
to the text line. Ben, our producer has been chomping at the bid
to get this text in. You can text a sports radio to twenty one
thousand, or you can call us on the Meyer hotline eight six six eight
three eight forty eight forty three. Real quick prediction here. The sun is
breaking through. It's going to be really warm today. Eventually it might be
really warm. You can kind of feel it after the rain heads out and
the sun comes out that you can almost feel the temperature rise as we're talking
talking here on the air. All right, Ben, what do we got
here? What's the give me that? Give me that text? Yeah,
they ask has Tigers fallen off? They used to win games when they scored
five run five runs. Yeah, we had that stat earlier this year,
what their record was when they score five runs or more. And I think
that's a fair question. I do, because I'm not going to say that
the pitching has fallen off. But I do believe that it's a concern that
people have that because so much was asked of them earlier in the season,
and that they were relying so heavily on their pitching because their offense is so
bad. But they were relying so heavily on their offense that perhaps were we
taking it for granted? No, I don't think so, But I think
it's fair to ask how much can you ask of a pitching staff to constantly
be there and keep you in games. Now, every team needs that,
that's pretty obvious. But Detroit was over reliant on it. And now when
that pitching has cracked just a little bit. And this is going to happen
because the more they see you, You know this, the more they see
you, the more of a scouting report, the more of a read they
get on you. And they knew obviously they knew, you know, Resuls
in a year ago, and you know they've known Casey Maize and so on
and so forth. But it is it should be a concern because you're asking
your offense to bail out your pitching. When you're pitching has been bailing out
your offense. The problem is the pitching is more consistent with the offense.
And I can understand why you would feel that way. Detroit going into the
game last night against Washington, when scoring five or more, had an incredible
record. This is a team that most of their wins, I mean,
when they hit home runs, they are twenty five and thirteen. When they
score first, they were twenty four and twelve. These are all little superlatives,
but they were twenty two and three winning scoring five runs or more so
It's just only their fourth loss while scoring five runs, so let's not get
too carried away. It's funny because the other day I saw something on social
media where Riley Green made that air. Remember he struggled to bend down and
get the ball, and they gave him an air, and rightfully so.
And somebody had mentioned that he runs like a forty six year old man with
three kids and can't bend over anymore. And I immediately thought, well,
look, you're frustrated at the air. I understand that you think he should
have made the play. There's no doubt about that. But the night before
he did come in with a diving grab in left field. Let's not have
super short memories. Okay, it's just the fourth loss for the Tigers this
year when scoring five runs or more, so I totally get it. Play's
going to resume here at eight thirty, which is about six minutes or so.
But I totally understand where people are coming from, because, look,
we all get frustrated, and eventually that frustration boils over. It happens to
me quite a bit. Happens to me probably more than you. I try
to keep it in perspective. I try to understand know that these players are
human, they're not robots, and things are going to happen. I just
think it's happening too often. And I don't mean errors. I don't mean
plays that should be made that aren't credited as errors. I mean overall players
and as a team, what this team should be accomplishing, rather than why
it's not phone number on the Meyer hotline eight sixty six eight three eight forty
eight forty three. It's a good point, though it isn't. I just
wouldn't phrase it like we used to win games when we scored five runs.
Again, they've only lost four times when scoring five runs. It seems to
be the magic number, doesn't it. That should be concerning for this team
because this team doesn't score runs. I'll be honest with you when you look
at it, and you know, after scoring five times yesterday, to have
the fact that this team has scored five runs or more twenty six times this
year is surprising to me. I would not have guessed that, and I
doubt you would have either. But that's a good text and we always appreciate
it. The text line is always open for you. Tech Sports Radio to
twenty one thousand, the NBA Draft is quickly approaching, and I'm sure a
lot of people wonder, all right, who are the Pistons taking, Who
should they take? Who best fits their need? I keep going back to
the same guy, and I'd like to know why I'm wrong. A lot
of people see these mock drafts and they see that Zachary Rissachet is considered,
along with Alex Sars the best players. I've seen a lot of different names
associated with Detroit. Yesterday, I looked at a two round mock draft and
they had Detroit taking Ron Holland with the fifth overall pick. Now, Ron
Holland is a guy out of the G League, the G League Ignite.
He is good size at six seven almost two hundred pounds, and is a
versatile player, which oftentimes, to me, I mean, raises a red
flag. When I hear that word versatility starts to bother me a little bit.
I can't help but think. And I've never seen Mattis Bizellis play,
but I can't help but think, why not Dalton Connect That's the guy I
really love. I mean, he's a really good shooter out of Tennessee.
And I have to warn myself and almost stop myself because I know it's such
a need, but I think it's a need and a fit, and I
think whoever the Pistons draft, I'm going to bee comparing them to Dalton Connect
for the rest of their careers, coming up at the bottom of the hour
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Always a pleasure. Meyer Hotline is always open forty eight, sixty six
eighty three eight forty eight forty three, and the text line is sports Radio
to twenty one thousand. Kathy Cooper, who is the senior director of Community
Partnerships and Giving, is going to join us here shortly. We are just
off the putting green. I love where we are right now, now yesterday,
and later on this afternoon, Bill Simonson and the Huge Show are going
to be up near the clubhouse. I love this vantage point, so I
really appreciate what the folks have done in the LPGA, and what they've done
here at Blavefield, and what they've done for from Meyer putting us out here,
We've got a table and we're overlooking the putting green and watching these elite
golfers chip and putt towards certain spots on the green, learning the contours of
what's going on. And they just restarted the first round because it was delayed
by about forty minutes or so, and the golfers are getting out there and
getting ready to play, and I think it's I love the atmosphere. I
just and it's so it's a beautiful course. The only thing that frustrates me
is that I didn't play the course. Anytime I look at a golf course
like this, I think, yeah, I belong out there, when really
I don't. But I mean, for me, I want to be out
there. Right now. I'm looking at one of the holes and I see
the beautiful green and how I probably wouldn't even come close to it on the
approach shot. But and then the fair way that is so perfectly designed,
and the trees that are up and down each stut, And I think to
myself, if I got out of there shooting what I usually shoot, low
eighties, you know, I always say this, I'm not a great golfer,
but I don't embarrass myself. So let's say I shot somewhere in the
neighborhood of an eighty five and eighty four or whatever. These people are throwing
sixties numbers up there. You know, it's a par seventy two, really
nice golf course. And my length is decent. Okay, it's not super
long, but it sixty five, eighty one, whatever it is. It's
long enough. It's long enough for me. But they're gonna throw up sixty
six is out there. They're gonna throw up sixty fives up there. It's
a par seventy two the leader after this round, you watch, I mean,
they're gonna be six under par, five under par because historically, at
this beautiful track, at this grade a event, the winner is at twenty
one hunderd par or better. You could text us at sports radio to twenty
one thousand before Kevy jumps in. Let me take a phone call here on
the Meyer hotline eight six eight three eight forty eight forty three. Ben,
who's with us? Yeah, we got David Hutsville. Hey, Dave,
I'll wire you today. Man. Have you ever played Blackfield Country Club?
Dave? By chance? I have? I don't work? Beautiful, beautiful
and beautiful. How did you play when you came out here and played?
How'd you do? I'm not a great golfer? Okay? Really? Are
those open open and you have your ability like to day about day about worring,
worring, those girls will be able to those women will be able to
have the pins pins, yep, and they score because it just gives an
opportunity to drive. You know, you know, professionals are so good,
so good they really they're so much better than I think we not you and
me, but I mean people in general give them credit for oftentimes, Dave,
I think TV doesn't do sports justice. I think it's really hard to
appreciate. I do like the coverage of golf. I love that tracker.
It gives you a better idea of how they shape shots. I don't think
TV he really does all the sports justice, especially golf. I always want
to know. Tell me if you think I'm different than you. I want
to know what golfers are using as they hit into the green, or what
shot they're hitting next. Obviously we can tell when they're hitting a driver,
but if they're one ninety seven, I want to know what club they got
in their hands. Yeah, I think I agree with you. And and
the thing too, is golfer they love. Why do you think that?
Yeah, I think the lab and I think I think that, Yeah,
that's the thing that what's the what separates them from you and I. Besides
the obvious you know the length, I think it's the touch around the greens,
and I think it's on the green when they can lag putt it to
three feet, they're knocking those in for gimmes. You and I are getting
them to six or seven feet and it's a little testy. Well may laugh
trap they prefer than any sort of rough green green. I know I can't.
I'm terrible out of the trap. I don't know how good you are.
I'm terrible out of the trap. If I go on the trap.
If I'm in a fairway bunker, I got no problem. But if I
go on a trap around the ground, I struggle. Hey, chef,
I wanted, I wanted to make one and I and I am catching up,
but the whole king and car, but she took some flag of foul
foul. Yes, I want you to think about you if that were or
in a different differ order, if that were in Detroit, right, Rick
Man, Warren, Bill Lambard, Nard Rodmandman uh and and he's Bobby Promer
or Bakers or or Orlander would have entered in company's your whole year whole which
should have happened and a half the problem one hundred percent. It's also a
problem with the culture in the league, though. And I don't disagree with
you. I think it's I think, I think I think it. Yeah,
yeah, go ahead, email mail mail, oh, without a doubt,
without a doubt, have a great weekend. Thanks for the phone call.
Absolutely one hundred percent. However, and I said this the other day.
Look at the numbers, Look at the revenue, Look at all the
dave think about this. Attendance is up one hundred and fifty six percent.
All right, TV average is three times what it was a year ago.
Online merchandise is up seven hundred and fifty six percent. Social channels, all
right is up three hundred and eighty percent. Subscription for league passes up three
hundred and fifty five percent. We're not talking just a core of a percent.
We're talking triple digit percentages. You've got to understand that. And once
you understand that, you need to respect the people who are part of it.
And the primary person responsible for it is her, and they need to
understand that. And I don't know why they can't. They seem to understand
it on the LPGA tour, which I give them a ton of credit for.
Let's give credit where credit is due. This is a wonderful event here
at the Blackfield Country Club, and the person in charge of it is Kathy
Cooper. She's a senior director of Community Partnerships and giving. This does not
take place without her vision, without her guidance, and of course without the
backing of Meyer and the LPGA. It's one of the events. All these
players, one hundred and forty four are out here, some of the best
in the world. The best in the world are out here. And the
reason they're out here is because of a number of different reasons, but the
primary reason, from talking to a lot of them is they just believe in
the cause, Simply Give. It's special, Kathy Special, she's with us.
Hi, Kathy, how are you? Oh? I'm doing great.
You look great as always. When you see and hear that reaction from players
and they're telling you about the importance of that cause, how does it make
you feel amazing? I mean, you know, we did a media interview
I think it was last week with Lexi and Brooke and they talked about one
of the big reasons they're here, and it's because of what we're doing for
simply Give and the cause, and it really strengthens the reason that they want
to play right here at Blackfield. This is a labor of love for you.
You've been doing it for ten years obviously, but it's a vision that
you had long before that. Tell us give us an idea of what it
takes to put something like this on. Well, first of all, it
takes a lot of volunteers. So you know, we have over thirteen hundred
volunteers, and I look at you and I say, there is no way
this tournament would happen without them. Agreed. We have a great team here
that runs operations the LPGA. Of course, they're amazing partners. They all
travel in, spend a couple of weeks here, some of them, some
are just here for the week. But the support we receive and how everybody
comes together is amazing and almost flawless. I think, you know, over
ten years we've learned to move in sync. There's there's actually a really fun
feeling here as we do this. How has it grown, It's almost doubled
in attendance. So our field, you know, we've had a strong field
of LPGA pro players since we started this tournament that has not fallen back at
all. You look at Nellie, she's here and winner, she's a past
winner, Brooks here, Brooks one twice, Lexi's won. You Kim was
going to be here, but she had to fall off this week due to
an injury, and so yeah, and you just retired or she would have
been here. But really we've got most of our past winners here. It
says something about your tournament when you have players circling that on their calendar knowing
that they want to be here, doesn't it It has become you know,
I get why everybody focuses on major tournaments, whether it be tennis or golf.
But when you have a tournament like this and you have the best in
the world saying that's a tournament I will sacrifice other appearances for because I want
to be there. That tells you that you've really arrived, don't you think
it is? And I have to tell you something really special that has taken
place yesterday and will today is Julie Angster flew in here, I know,
to join us, and I spent a lot of time with her yesterday,
but and she's played here before. But the fact that she took the time
and wanted to be here with us means an awful lot a lot about what's
going on here this week. Well, it says an awful lot about you
two. You are the senior director of Community Partnerships and giving Kathy Cooper's with
us here on X's and Bros. It does speak volumes about meyer, about
your character and about this area and how much. People really love it here.
How do you gauge the impact that it has on this area? Well,
you know what number one, we do by attendance. Number two,
we do it by talking to experienced grand rapids and hearing about you know,
how we feel rooms, how we feel restaurants, what happens at Kent County
Airport, what happens at the rental car businesses. This year has been just
exceptional. What have you learned about the LPGA about putting on this type of
massive event over your years involved in it. What's been the largest learning experience
for you? I think the largest learning experience is really about the LPGA itself,
and that is they are just truly genuine people who really want to showcase
the talent of these young women and it brings a lot to West Michigan.
We've got wonderful women out here who actually, you know, they can be
role models for younger women, and the LPGA does a great job. If
you spend any time with these women at all, they are good, good
people. They genuinely care and that's the beauty of the LPGA. Yeah,
we had a couple on yesterday, very enjoyable. But this is more than
just a tournament Thursday through Sunday. You have a program on Wednesday. Players
oftentimes arrive on Monday and then play the course on Tuesday. That requires cooperation
with this beautiful facility in Blackfield Country Club. What's your relationship like with them
and how did it come about? Oh my gosh, you know what.
Back in the first year when we started the tournament, Blackfield came to us
when they heard we were going to bring an LPGA to Grand Rapids, and
they said, we want to do it here. The best part is they
have been true arm and armed partners with us. You know, they've expanded
here, they've renovated here. We've helped each other do what we need to
do to benefit the tournament and benefit the club members and benefit the community.
We are probably what you would say best friends. Makes sense, good person
to be best friends with. Kathy Cooper with us, Sarah Exies and Bros.
Just a couple more. When did you get the idea? When did
this pop into your head? Because I mean your borderline marketing genius when you
when you think of something like this and what you wanted to bring to this
area. Why an LPGA golf tournament and why for simply give. You know,
number one, it's women's sports, and back in the back ten years
ago, women's sports was just starting to grow. But the LPGA has always
featured really wonderful women. And what happened was talking about character wise too,
right, Yeah, character wise just talent, but character wise absolutely right.
What happened was somebody from the LPGA came to Myron said would you ever be
interested? And bottom line is so they said, hey, do you think
we could do an LPGA in Grand Rapids? And so I went back and
had some market research done about the community and said, yeah, I think
if we build it, they're going to come. And that's how it all
came together. So we made it a week number one for families, so
we're not just a golf tournament, and we made it a week about feeding
families through simply give. So we wanted to benefit the community, bringing them
a great event, and that's why we do what we do out here with
Discovery Land and Jay Brewers and Frederickson Junior Clinics and five k run and walk
on Saturday. Yeah, people were jumping at the chance to get involved in
it, weren't they. They were, See, I give you credit because
You've got to dip your toe into the water first before you can learn how
to swim. And that's not an easy thing. It's a risk, it
really is because look all these things and you know better than I do,
but they have a chance for success, but they also have a chance for
failure. You took the chance to have this event and it has skyrocketed since.
What is the end goal? I mean, what is the opportunity for
the Meyer Classic to be? I mean, is there Do you want it
to be more than it is right now? Because it's pretty damn good right
now. You know what, Here's what I will say. We sit back
every year and we say, how can we do it better without blowing it
up? And there's a delicate combination there, because you can make it better
and blow it up, right, we want to do it better. We
constantly look at the tweaks and we think that we think will be good for
the community. But I think the biggest thing is how do we I go
back to community. It's how do we really benefit community and how do we
keep that going while making it fun? We don't get complacent. You know
what I love most about it, I think is the fact that you're letting
military personnel in for free, You're letting kids seventeen and under in for free.
And if you want to come in daily, it's affordable. You're not
breaking the bank to come and see some of the greatest athletes in their sport
at a beautiful setting for a wonderful cause. Kathy Cooper, keep up the
great work. Thanks for your time. Thanks. Yeah, she's fantastic and
it is a fantastic event when you get an opportunity to come out here and
you get a chance to see this many good players, not good great players.
Twenty nine countries are represented. You've got each of the top three and
thirteen of the top twenty five in the world of golf. Five winners past
winners here. She brought up Lexi Thompson and Brooke Henderson and Nellie Cord and
Jennifer Cupco and Leona McGuire, eighteen winners on the LPGA Tour since twenty twenty
three and twenty three major championships. You want an impact of players at your
tournament. You want to know that your tournament is that good that everybody cares.
When you have twenty three major champions here, that tells you something.
So our thanks to Kathy Cooper and our thanks to all the folks here with
Meyer, the LPGA and Blyfield Country Club for making us feel so warm and
welcomed. It's an enjoyable event. It's a great event. And you know
me, folks, I oftentimes say the word great is overused. Not in
this instance it's not. Thanks to Ben, our producer, and thanks to
you for your texts and your phone calls. Our friend Dennis Fifthy and will
be on with you tomorrow all morning. Have a great week, everybody.
Thanks for listening to X's and bros. Here on the Michigan Sports Network.
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