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Get some facts and come back and
seebe. Get some facts and come back

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and Seebee. Don't throw out salaries
or other things. Get some facts and

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come back and Seebee. You can't
handle the true I told our players you

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need a bit more like a dog. We don't need a bunch of cats

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in here looking in the mirror.
But I look good. I got my

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extra bands on, I got my
other shoes. Be a doll. We

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don't need no meals, We don't
need no cats. We need more dolls.

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Why you're not a detain? Why
you're not At the time, we

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weren't good. There's no sense of
asking me things about the game. I'm

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telling you we laid an egg.
So I'm not gonna break it down for

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you. He sucks, He sucks. He laid an egg. That's all

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I have to say. Guys,
I'm sorry. I'm not gonna break it

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down for you. Nothing went well
for us. It's on us. We

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have to figure it out. Everywhdad
for final hour of Exers and Bros.

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We are live from the Blackfield Country
Club for the tantannual Meyer Classic. Rain

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interrupting early play here in round one. Hopefully it blows through quickly. It's

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already starting to die down, but
it did force players and caddies and members

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of crews and fans to quickly find
shelter again. Hope it, you know,

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runs out of here as quickly as
it came in, and then they

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can get that first round underway and
not delay it too long here. And

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that's why we're here. Bill Simonson
will be here a little bit later on

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today as well, if you missed
it yesterday, Tigers lose to the Washington

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Nationals, so that means Detroy's lost
five of their last six. Washington's starting

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to play better baseball. They've won
three straight series now. But it's not

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a team that looks great on your
resume. You know, you sit there

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and you're gonna look back at a
season, or let's say we hit the

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All Star Break and you're gonna hit
the All Star Breaking, you're gonna think

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to yourself, all right, give
me the good teams that they beat in

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a series, because that's what baseball
is about. Baseball's about winning series.

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You're not winning every game, so
one hundred and sixty two flipping games,

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you're not winning every game. It's
about winning series. You win series,

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you win your division, you win
your division, you make the postseason,

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and you got a shelf the chance, right. But this is not one

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of those situations where you look back
at the All Star Breaking you go,

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hey, we beat Washington. It's
one of those series that is your damned

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if you do, damned if you
don't. If you win the series you're

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supposed to. If you lose this
series, people will remember this and they'll

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say you couldn't beat Washington in a
series. So Detroit now is bordering on

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how much people are truly caring.
You're gonna read stuff, Oh, they're

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only X amount of games back in
the wild Card, and maybe we should

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be focused on that. I don't
know. I mean, they're three and

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a half back in the wild Card. What you then have to look at

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is, oh, you'd have to
leap frog Minnesota and Boston and Toronto and

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now Texas, and Tampa's just a
half game back of you, Houston's only

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one and a half back of you, and most people think those two teams

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are better than you anyway, including
yours truly. So that's what you have

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to worry about. Detroit is eleven
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Central. Has the AL Central been
better than you thought it would be.

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It has for me. Cleveland's better
than I thought they'd be, Kansas City's

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better than I thought they'd be.
The defending champion Minnesota Twins, defending champions

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of the division, have been about
where I expected them to be. But

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I do believe it's fair to say
the Tigers have been more disappointing than I

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thought they would be. I expected
this team, and I've said this time

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and time again, I expected this
team to win the division. Being eleven

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and a half games back. Think
about that for a minute. Think about

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how challenging that is. You're eleven
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How are you overcoming that? The
charge you would have to make on

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top of the teams that are ahead
of you would have to falter. The

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only team worse than you was Chicago. You're not finishing last in this division.

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That sure as hell is not the
bar. But you're what three and

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a half back of the third place
team in the division. And I was

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on with Bill Simonson yesterday, I
was on the huge show here from Blackfield

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Country Club and he says, you
know, hey, they competed. I

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don't care. Who cares if they
competed. You've got to elevate yourself.

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We want athletes to elevate their play
all the time. That's what we say.

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Step up, do more than what's
expected you. Why can't we ask

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that of teams in general? The
Tigers lose yesterday and they are now three

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games under five hundred, thirty two
up, thirty five down. Now is

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there a little bit of a silver
lining there? Yes? What is it?

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They've got a lot of games coming
up against their division. So that's

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great. You know, you got
a chance to catch the teams who are

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in front of you, and you're
the one who controls it. Beat Minnesota

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and you'll leap frog Minnesota. Beat
Cleveland in Kansas City on regular basis,

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and you'll have a chance to be
a little bit more competitive in the division.

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That sure as hell doesn't mean that
they're going to win the division.

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And that's my expectation. That has
been my expectation. So once you're done

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with Washington today at one o'clock,
Mice against Patrick Corbin Casey, Mice has

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struggled lately. Corbin's a good,
strong, left handed thrower. Then you

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go to Houston, then you go
to Atlanta, and I know you look

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at Houston, you go, you
know, they're under five hundred. They're

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not a great team, they're behind
you in the wild card standings. Houston

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still has better players, period.
And then you go to Atlanta. Atlanta

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has a better team, period.
I don't care what their record would indicate.

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Don't think that, Oh, finally
when we get home, we're gonna

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beat Chicago. It could be just
about over by then, because it's at

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Houston, at Atlanta, home to
Chicago and home to Philadelphia. And you

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watch what happens when Philly comes to
town. There are going to be a

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ton of people out there rooting for
the Phillies. Why because Philadelphia is exciting

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and because they're good and people are
tired. I hope they're tired of watching

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bad baseball. Don't get me wrong. I think they're tired of watching bad

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basketball too. But I think people
are starting to come around, like,

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you know what I'm not saying,
this is the series. You know you

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lose. You just beat a good
Milwaukee team in a series, and you

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try to gain something out of that
and you just couldn't find it. When

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you look at you know, winning
the series against Toronto, is that a

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feather in your cap getting swept by
Kansas City, should that bother you beating

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Arizona? I mean, what is
it you're looking for that you believe?

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Is the key to what whether or
not you believe in this team? After

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starting as strong as they did at
five to zero and winning six of their

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first seven, what is it about
this team that you looked at and you

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said, Okay, now I believe
or now I don't. What series is

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that for you? I don't know
if there is necessarily one pinpointed. It's

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just the way they've gone about their
business so far, and that's the heartbreaking

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stuff. So Tigers lose yesterday,
they'll try and salvage one today. Boston

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an incredible win last night over Dallas, incredible from this sense. They were

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up by twenty one. Dallas makes
a strong push, gets back to within

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a possession, and then Boston pushes
back the foul on Luka Doncic to get

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him out of the game where he
tried to take a charge, but they

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called it a block. It's debatable, but when you have five personal fouls,

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I don't know why you're trying to
put yourself in that situation in the

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first place. Here's a guy who
don't play defense anyway, and then you're

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trying to make that defensive play at
that crucial time with that many fouls disagreed

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with it. Boston's up three games
to none and they got a chance to

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close them out. Friday night in
Dallas, heartbreaking news from the world of

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basketball. Jerry West has died at
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biggest enfranchised history. Back in nineteen
seventy nine, before the game against Oakland,

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then Tiger's manager Les Moss was fired
after fifty three games into his first

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season. Moss had been hired the
previous offseason released for Ralph Hulk, and

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he was a game over five hundred
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reason Moss was let go the unexpected
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the Reds to four Pennants and two
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days after the loss news, and
it changed the Tigers for the next seventeen

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seasons. His nineteen eighty four team
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good news. Golfers are starting to head

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back out on the course here at
Blackfield Country Club for the first round of

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the tenth annual Meyer Classic. They
are headed to their tea boxes, probably

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practice a little bit more on the
tea or on the putting green just because

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some heavy rain keen, but it
quickly dissipated, So that's the good news.

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I hope it is gone for the
rest of the weekend and they're out

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there and they're able to get their
round in a full round here today and

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nothing is delayed too much. It's
not much of a delay. I would

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say it's about thirty minutes or so, thirty to forty minutes, So that's

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good stuff. Later on today,
the Pinehurst Country Club is right where the

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one hundred and twenty fourth playing of
the US Open takes place. Scotti Scheffler's

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one hundred and fifty six golfers there, one hundred and forty four here,

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but one hundred and fifty six golfers
there, and you know the favorite.

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The favorite is going to be Scotty
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He's simply spectacular. He really is
Colin morri cow Is in that discussion.

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I'm sure Rory McElroy. It's been
a long time for him since he's

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won a major, but he's in
that group of people many would be put

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money on. Xander Schoffley is one
of those guys who's the outside for you.

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I don't think this, I don't
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Shambos game. Ludwig Olberg watch out
for him. So a young, good,

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strong player who's been in the mix
quite a bit. I'll take him

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as my outside possibility with Scheffler being
the favorite, But of course everybody's going

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to take Scotti Scheffler, So maybe
Ludwig Olberg. Remember that name as you

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watch the one hundred and twenty fourth
playing of the US Open. Let's get

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to the text line. Ben,
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Real quick prediction here. The sun is

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breaking through. It's going to be
really warm today. Eventually it might be

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really warm. You can kind of
feel it after the rain heads out and

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the sun comes out that you can
almost feel the temperature rise as we're talking

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talking here on the air. All
right, Ben, what do we got

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here? What's the give me that? Give me that text? Yeah,

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they ask has Tigers fallen off?
They used to win games when they scored

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five run five runs. Yeah,
we had that stat earlier this year,

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what their record was when they score
five runs or more. And I think

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that's a fair question. I do, because I'm not going to say that

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the pitching has fallen off. But
I do believe that it's a concern that

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people have that because so much was
asked of them earlier in the season,

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and that they were relying so heavily
on their pitching because their offense is so

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bad. But they were relying so
heavily on their offense that perhaps were we

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taking it for granted? No,
I don't think so, But I think

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it's fair to ask how much can
you ask of a pitching staff to constantly

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be there and keep you in games. Now, every team needs that,

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that's pretty obvious. But Detroit was
over reliant on it. And now when

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that pitching has cracked just a little
bit. And this is going to happen

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because the more they see you,
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you, the more of a scouting
report, the more of a read they

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get on you. And they knew
obviously they knew, you know, Resuls

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in a year ago, and you
know they've known Casey Maize and so on

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and so forth. But it is
it should be a concern because you're asking

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your offense to bail out your pitching. When you're pitching has been bailing out

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your offense. The problem is the
pitching is more consistent with the offense.

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And I can understand why you would
feel that way. Detroit going into the

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game last night against Washington, when
scoring five or more, had an incredible

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record. This is a team that
most of their wins, I mean,

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when they hit home runs, they
are twenty five and thirteen. When they

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score first, they were twenty four
and twelve. These are all little superlatives,

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but they were twenty two and three
winning scoring five runs or more so

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It's just only their fourth loss while
scoring five runs, so let's not get

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too carried away. It's funny because
the other day I saw something on social

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media where Riley Green made that air. Remember he struggled to bend down and

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get the ball, and they gave
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And somebody had mentioned that he runs
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three kids and can't bend over anymore. And I immediately thought, well,

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look, you're frustrated at the air. I understand that you think he should

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have made the play. There's no
doubt about that. But the night before

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he did come in with a diving
grab in left field. Let's not have

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super short memories. Okay, it's
just the fourth loss for the Tigers this

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year when scoring five runs or more, so I totally get it. Play's

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going to resume here at eight thirty, which is about six minutes or so.

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But I totally understand where people are
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we all get frustrated, and eventually
that frustration boils over. It happens to

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me quite a bit. Happens to
me probably more than you. I try

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to keep it in perspective. I
try to understand know that these players are

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human, they're not robots, and
things are going to happen. I just

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think it's happening too often. And
I don't mean errors. I don't mean

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plays that should be made that aren't
credited as errors. I mean overall players

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and as a team, what this
team should be accomplishing, rather than why

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it's not phone number on the Meyer
hotline eight sixty six eight three eight forty

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eight forty three. It's a good
point, though it isn't. I just

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wouldn't phrase it like we used to
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Again, they've only lost four times
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be the magic number, doesn't it. That should be concerning for this team

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because this team doesn't score runs.
I'll be honest with you when you look

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at it, and you know,
after scoring five times yesterday, to have

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the fact that this team has scored
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year is surprising to me. I
would not have guessed that, and I

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doubt you would have either. But
that's a good text and we always appreciate

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it. The text line is always
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twenty one thousand, the NBA Draft
is quickly approaching, and I'm sure a

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lot of people wonder, all right, who are the Pistons taking, Who

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should they take? Who best fits
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the same guy, and I'd like
to know why I'm wrong. A lot

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of people see these mock drafts and
they see that Zachary Rissachet is considered,

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along with Alex Sars the best players. I've seen a lot of different names

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associated with Detroit. Yesterday, I
looked at a two round mock draft and

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they had Detroit taking Ron Holland with
the fifth overall pick. Now, Ron

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Holland is a guy out of the
G League, the G League Ignite.

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He is good size at six seven
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versatile player, which oftentimes, to
me, I mean, raises a red

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flag. When I hear that word
versatility starts to bother me a little bit.

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I can't help but think. And
I've never seen Mattis Bizellis play,

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but I can't help but think,
why not Dalton Connect That's the guy I

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really love. I mean, he's
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And I have to warn myself and
almost stop myself because I know it's such

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a need, but I think it's
a need and a fit, and I

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think whoever the Pistons draft, I'm
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Always a pleasure. Meyer Hotline is
always open forty eight, sixty six

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eighty three eight forty eight forty three, and the text line is sports Radio

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to twenty one thousand. Kathy Cooper, who is the senior director of Community

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Partnerships and Giving, is going to
join us here shortly. We are just

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off the putting green. I love
where we are right now, now yesterday,

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and later on this afternoon, Bill
Simonson and the Huge Show are going

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to be up near the clubhouse.
I love this vantage point, so I

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really appreciate what the folks have done
in the LPGA, and what they've done

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here at Blavefield, and what they've
done for from Meyer putting us out here,

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We've got a table and we're overlooking
the putting green and watching these elite

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golfers chip and putt towards certain spots
on the green, learning the contours of

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what's going on. And they just
restarted the first round because it was delayed

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by about forty minutes or so,
and the golfers are getting out there and

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getting ready to play, and I
think it's I love the atmosphere. I

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just and it's so it's a beautiful
course. The only thing that frustrates me

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is that I didn't play the course. Anytime I look at a golf course

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like this, I think, yeah, I belong out there, when really

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I don't. But I mean,
for me, I want to be out

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there. Right now. I'm looking
at one of the holes and I see

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the beautiful green and how I probably
wouldn't even come close to it on the

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approach shot. But and then the
fair way that is so perfectly designed,

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and the trees that are up and
down each stut, And I think to

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myself, if I got out of
there shooting what I usually shoot, low

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eighties, you know, I always
say this, I'm not a great golfer,

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but I don't embarrass myself. So
let's say I shot somewhere in the

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neighborhood of an eighty five and eighty
four or whatever. These people are throwing

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sixties numbers up there. You know, it's a par seventy two, really

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nice golf course. And my length
is decent. Okay, it's not super

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long, but it sixty five,
eighty one, whatever it is. It's

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long enough. It's long enough for
me. But they're gonna throw up sixty

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six is out there. They're gonna
throw up sixty fives up there. It's

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a par seventy two the leader after
this round, you watch, I mean,

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they're gonna be six under par,
five under par because historically, at

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this beautiful track, at this grade
a event, the winner is at twenty

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one hunderd par or better. You
could text us at sports radio to twenty

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one thousand before Kevy jumps in.
Let me take a phone call here on

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the Meyer hotline eight six eight three
eight forty eight forty three. Ben,

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who's with us? Yeah, we
got David Hutsville. Hey, Dave,

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I'll wire you today. Man.
Have you ever played Blackfield Country Club?

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Dave? By chance? I have? I don't work? Beautiful, beautiful

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and beautiful. How did you play
when you came out here and played?

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How'd you do? I'm not a
great golfer? Okay? Really? Are

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those open open and you have your
ability like to day about day about worring,

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worring, those girls will be able
to those women will be able to

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have the pins pins, yep,
and they score because it just gives an

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opportunity to drive. You know,
you know, professionals are so good,

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so good they really they're so much
better than I think we not you and

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me, but I mean people in
general give them credit for oftentimes, Dave,

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I think TV doesn't do sports justice. I think it's really hard to

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appreciate. I do like the coverage
of golf. I love that tracker.

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It gives you a better idea of
how they shape shots. I don't think

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TV he really does all the sports
justice, especially golf. I always want

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to know. Tell me if you
think I'm different than you. I want

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to know what golfers are using as
they hit into the green, or what

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shot they're hitting next. Obviously we
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but if they're one ninety seven,
I want to know what club they got

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in their hands. Yeah, I
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the thing too, is golfer they
love. Why do you think that?

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Yeah, I think the lab and
I think I think that, Yeah,

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that's the thing that what's the what
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the obvious you know the length,
I think it's the touch around the greens,

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and I think it's on the green
when they can lag putt it to

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three feet, they're knocking those in
for gimmes. You and I are getting

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them to six or seven feet and
it's a little testy. Well may laugh

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trap they prefer than any sort of
rough green green. I know I can't.

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I'm terrible out of the trap.
I don't know how good you are.

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I'm terrible out of the trap.
If I go on the trap.

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If I'm in a fairway bunker,
I got no problem. But if I

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go on a trap around the ground, I struggle. Hey, chef,

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I wanted, I wanted to make
one and I and I am catching up,

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but the whole king and car,
but she took some flag of foul

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foul. Yes, I want you
to think about you if that were or

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in a different differ order, if
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Man, Warren, Bill Lambard,
Nard Rodmandman uh and and he's Bobby Promer

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or Bakers or or Orlander would have
entered in company's your whole year whole which

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should have happened and a half the
problem one hundred percent. It's also a

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problem with the culture in the league, though. And I don't disagree with

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you. I think it's I think, I think I think it. Yeah,

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yeah, go ahead, email mail
mail, oh, without a doubt,

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without a doubt, have a great
weekend. Thanks for the phone call.

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Absolutely one hundred percent. However,
and I said this the other day.

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Look at the numbers, Look at
the revenue, Look at all the

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dave think about this. Attendance is
up one hundred and fifty six percent.

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All right, TV average is three
times what it was a year ago.

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Online merchandise is up seven hundred and
fifty six percent. Social channels, all

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right is up three hundred and eighty
percent. Subscription for league passes up three

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hundred and fifty five percent. We're
not talking just a core of a percent.

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We're talking triple digit percentages. You've
got to understand that. And once

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you understand that, you need to
respect the people who are part of it.

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And the primary person responsible for it
is her, and they need to

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understand that. And I don't know
why they can't. They seem to understand

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it on the LPGA tour, which
I give them a ton of credit for.

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Let's give credit where credit is due. This is a wonderful event here

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at the Blackfield Country Club, and
the person in charge of it is Kathy

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Cooper. She's a senior director of
Community Partnerships and giving. This does not

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take place without her vision, without
her guidance, and of course without the

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backing of Meyer and the LPGA.
It's one of the events. All these

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players, one hundred and forty four
are out here, some of the best

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in the world. The best in
the world are out here. And the

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reason they're out here is because of
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primary reason, from talking to a
lot of them is they just believe in

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the cause, Simply Give. It's
special, Kathy Special, she's with us.

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Hi, Kathy, how are you? Oh? I'm doing great.

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You look great as always. When
you see and hear that reaction from players

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and they're telling you about the importance
of that cause, how does it make

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you feel amazing? I mean,
you know, we did a media interview

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I think it was last week with
Lexi and Brooke and they talked about one

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of the big reasons they're here,
and it's because of what we're doing for

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simply Give and the cause, and
it really strengthens the reason that they want

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to play right here at Blackfield.
This is a labor of love for you.

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You've been doing it for ten years
obviously, but it's a vision that

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you had long before that. Tell
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takes to put something like this on. Well, first of all, it

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takes a lot of volunteers. So
you know, we have over thirteen hundred

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volunteers, and I look at you
and I say, there is no way

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this tournament would happen without them.
Agreed. We have a great team here

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that runs operations the LPGA. Of
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travel in, spend a couple of
weeks here, some of them, some

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are just here for the week.
But the support we receive and how everybody

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comes together is amazing and almost flawless. I think, you know, over

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ten years we've learned to move in
sync. There's there's actually a really fun

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feeling here as we do this.
How has it grown, It's almost doubled

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in attendance. So our field,
you know, we've had a strong field

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of LPGA pro players since we started
this tournament that has not fallen back at

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all. You look at Nellie,
she's here and winner, she's a past

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winner, Brooks here, Brooks one
twice, Lexi's won. You Kim was

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going to be here, but she
had to fall off this week due to

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an injury, and so yeah,
and you just retired or she would have

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been here. But really we've got
most of our past winners here. It

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says something about your tournament when you
have players circling that on their calendar knowing

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that they want to be here,
doesn't it It has become you know,

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I get why everybody focuses on major
tournaments, whether it be tennis or golf.

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But when you have a tournament like
this and you have the best in

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the world saying that's a tournament I
will sacrifice other appearances for because I want

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to be there. That tells you
that you've really arrived, don't you think

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it is? And I have to
tell you something really special that has taken

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place yesterday and will today is Julie
Angster flew in here, I know,

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to join us, and I spent
a lot of time with her yesterday,

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but and she's played here before.
But the fact that she took the time

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and wanted to be here with us
means an awful lot a lot about what's

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going on here this week. Well, it says an awful lot about you

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two. You are the senior director
of Community Partnerships and giving Kathy Cooper's with

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us here on X's and Bros.
It does speak volumes about meyer, about

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your character and about this area and
how much. People really love it here.

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How do you gauge the impact that
it has on this area? Well,

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you know what number one, we
do by attendance. Number two,

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we do it by talking to experienced
grand rapids and hearing about you know,

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how we feel rooms, how we
feel restaurants, what happens at Kent County

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Airport, what happens at the rental
car businesses. This year has been just

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exceptional. What have you learned about
the LPGA about putting on this type of

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massive event over your years involved in
it. What's been the largest learning experience

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for you? I think the largest
learning experience is really about the LPGA itself,

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and that is they are just truly
genuine people who really want to showcase

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the talent of these young women and
it brings a lot to West Michigan.

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We've got wonderful women out here who
actually, you know, they can be

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role models for younger women, and
the LPGA does a great job. If

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you spend any time with these women
at all, they are good, good

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people. They genuinely care and that's
the beauty of the LPGA. Yeah,

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we had a couple on yesterday,
very enjoyable. But this is more than

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just a tournament Thursday through Sunday.
You have a program on Wednesday. Players

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oftentimes arrive on Monday and then play
the course on Tuesday. That requires cooperation

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with this beautiful facility in Blackfield Country
Club. What's your relationship like with them

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and how did it come about?
Oh my gosh, you know what.

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Back in the first year when we
started the tournament, Blackfield came to us

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when they heard we were going to
bring an LPGA to Grand Rapids, and

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they said, we want to do
it here. The best part is they

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have been true arm and armed partners
with us. You know, they've expanded

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here, they've renovated here. We've
helped each other do what we need to

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do to benefit the tournament and benefit
the club members and benefit the community.

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We are probably what you would say
best friends. Makes sense, good person

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to be best friends with. Kathy
Cooper with us, Sarah Exies and Bros.

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Just a couple more. When did
you get the idea? When did

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this pop into your head? Because
I mean your borderline marketing genius when you

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when you think of something like this
and what you wanted to bring to this

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area. Why an LPGA golf tournament
and why for simply give. You know,

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number one, it's women's sports,
and back in the back ten years

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ago, women's sports was just starting
to grow. But the LPGA has always

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featured really wonderful women. And what
happened was talking about character wise too,

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right, Yeah, character wise just
talent, but character wise absolutely right.

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What happened was somebody from the LPGA
came to Myron said would you ever be

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interested? And bottom line is so
they said, hey, do you think

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we could do an LPGA in Grand
Rapids? And so I went back and

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had some market research done about the
community and said, yeah, I think

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if we build it, they're going
to come. And that's how it all

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came together. So we made it
a week number one for families, so

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we're not just a golf tournament,
and we made it a week about feeding

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families through simply give. So we
wanted to benefit the community, bringing them

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a great event, and that's why
we do what we do out here with

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Discovery Land and Jay Brewers and Frederickson
Junior Clinics and five k run and walk

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on Saturday. Yeah, people were
jumping at the chance to get involved in

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it, weren't they. They were, See, I give you credit because

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You've got to dip your toe into
the water first before you can learn how

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to swim. And that's not an
easy thing. It's a risk, it

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really is because look all these things
and you know better than I do,

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but they have a chance for success, but they also have a chance for

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failure. You took the chance to
have this event and it has skyrocketed since.

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What is the end goal? I
mean, what is the opportunity for

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the Meyer Classic to be? I
mean, is there Do you want it

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to be more than it is right
now? Because it's pretty damn good right

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now. You know what, Here's
what I will say. We sit back

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every year and we say, how
can we do it better without blowing it

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up? And there's a delicate combination
there, because you can make it better

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and blow it up, right,
we want to do it better. We

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constantly look at the tweaks and we
think that we think will be good for

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the community. But I think the
biggest thing is how do we I go

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back to community. It's how do
we really benefit community and how do we

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keep that going while making it fun? We don't get complacent. You know

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what I love most about it,
I think is the fact that you're letting

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military personnel in for free, You're
letting kids seventeen and under in for free.

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And if you want to come in
daily, it's affordable. You're not

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breaking the bank to come and see
some of the greatest athletes in their sport

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at a beautiful setting for a wonderful
cause. Kathy Cooper, keep up the

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great work. Thanks for your time. Thanks. Yeah, she's fantastic and

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it is a fantastic event when you
get an opportunity to come out here and

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you get a chance to see this
many good players, not good great players.

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Twenty nine countries are represented. You've
got each of the top three and

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thirteen of the top twenty five in
the world of golf. Five winners past

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winners here. She brought up Lexi
Thompson and Brooke Henderson and Nellie Cord and

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Jennifer Cupco and Leona McGuire, eighteen
winners on the LPGA Tour since twenty twenty

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three and twenty three major championships.
You want an impact of players at your

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tournament. You want to know that
your tournament is that good that everybody cares.

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When you have twenty three major champions
here, that tells you something.

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So our thanks to Kathy Cooper and
our thanks to all the folks here with

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Meyer, the LPGA and Blyfield Country
Club for making us feel so warm and

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welcomed. It's an enjoyable event.
It's a great event. And you know

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me, folks, I oftentimes say
the word great is overused. Not in

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this instance it's not. Thanks to
Ben, our producer, and thanks to

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you for your texts and your phone
calls. Our friend Dennis Fifthy and will

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be on with you tomorrow all morning. Have a great week, everybody.

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