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