After Hours with Amy Lawrence PODCAST: Hour 3

You know what that reminds me.

Well my mind having a bright orange glow on the side of my rental house inside of my rental house, but also producer Dave he put that together.

I have no idea how producer David is I wish I did. But he and his family moved to Connecticut to take a new job and once or twice. I think we texted after he left, but we've not kept in touch and I miss producer Dave, I hope that he is doing well. Gosh there been so so many producers who come through here means I can remember them all. Tom Tom two different Tom's Tom Tom Anthony Pete Tom Chris Dave J you number eight. How does it feel to be number eight on the letters of Tom AmeriCorps Noto is so Tom DiBenedetto started with me on the weekends when the show was first christened after hours and Tom D Celestino was our visit we had two people behind the double pane glass. He was our technical director.

Then when Tom DiBenedetto left for a different job D Celestino took over as it sounds like a real estate D Celestino took over our art attorney as the producer. But then we went to five nights a week DiBenedetto came back as my producer and so we worked together for the most he's with Jerome now that we've worked together for the bows. Most number of shows in most number of years. Gosh we were together for almost 6 years total so I made up that's a pretty long-lasting relationship in this business you only got one year in urine. There's one you're in a couple days. There's no way you laugh till six.

There's absolutely no freaking way. I'm trying to say that I just I am sure that you'll have something else that you want to do and he will move often or both move on. I will know we not I can imagine me still doing this in six years, either. That's nearly unheard of in our business as well so I kids I can't foresee the future I can't jump the gun. I'm just I'm here until I'm not but I do know that I have dreams and aspirations. Like most people do and this is not actually I'd never intended to be a talkshow host. This was never the dream it was never the goal.

I just happened to be really good at it and it worked really hard at it, but I don't I don't actually know when or how much longer wear or anything like that, only that I'm confident my road in radio doesn't end in this spot, but don't you worry you'll be the first to know that after hours with Amy Lawrence on CBS sports radio. Also, producer J I've not cry when any other producer left but I'll definitely cry when you put your logo and also your to cry because will be no more dessert severely before me.

Yet really me know I would give you two need to come with me but equal. That would be cool.

You dismiss the desserts that will be the thing though, I will. I would miss them but not much more than desserts, but I would be up there in miss the desserts and the fact that I may can put together. I asked him to catch with a pretty extensive audio list yet two nights in a row that we haven't mentioned it last night you were stressed and my globe out of sorts.

You never mentioned it was. And tonight that's me. Although only one of us gets to actually be stressed without retreat off now announce this case but in different to see me and you is that when you're stressed, you can be stressed behind the double pane glass and its not likely to affect the show.

It affects me, but it's not going to affect the show when I'm stressed I have to figure out a way to stuff it because the show has to go on knowing I learned early in my career.

No one really wants to hear about your stress and your bad day and you have to learn how to check your emotions at the door. I never thought I could do this because I'm a really emotional girl I'm I'm one of those people generally a pretty extreme emotional person and so I never thought that I'd be able to walk in the studio and just boom like that put everything aside, but after 20+ years.

I actually am way better at it than I ever would've anticipated even to the point where I could work when I knew my granny was only a couple of days and passing away was able to have still been able to work in the six weeks since she did pass away, even though I feel like a completely different person. I one person at work in about another person at home up. I'll know when I got to be so good at it but I certainly I have mastered the art.

So, yes, even though all hell breaking loose behind-the-scenes is not my favorite diet generally doesn't affect what's happening on the air, which is good. It's after hours with Amy Lawrence on CBS sports radio. We are live from the rocket mortgage Studios when you need an expert to help navigate the home loan process. Rockets can. We will get the football coming up this hour.

We've got pretty much news from every single team.

Okay, that's a high standard. We we don't have news from every single team.

But we are going to dabble around the NFL, which will be fun but I thought we would take a quick detour off the information superhighway off the NFL superhighway and give you the latest with the PGA Tour, mostly because I love the response of the live tour, but in order to set it up. I've got to give you the PGA Tour so as to things going on here.

You may have heard about the virtual excursion the virtual extravaganza that Rory McElroy and Tiger Woods are launching together. So that's cool will dear Rory, talk about that a second if you're into that stuff. I'm not but I know that things like the NBA 2K are really popular. I begged, I get it. There is that entire market out there for competitive gaming, it just doesn't happen to be something that I'm into, but I know a lot of people are so Tiger and Rory are actually teaming up together to launch this virtual PGA Tour, but at the same time, the PGA Tour itself is still fighting off overtures to its golfers from the limb tour trying to make their tour more attractive to the top golfers on the planet and there are certain ways that they are trying to keep the PGA the best option. I want to say much more, except that could change is definitely something that they're pouring a lot of effort into the purses. If you wanted to know honestly how much of a threat. The PGA believes the live tour is all I gotta do is look at the extra money they're pouring into their event so PGA and Commissioner Jay Monahan can tell you that it's just a start up there's no competition. There's no comparison and then denigrate the live tour and where the money comes from. But you also have to look at the actions of the PGA is taking actions to make its tour a little more attractive with a few extra enticements and those calm in the form of increased purses, increased prize money. You remember last week, Tiger Woods flew in to cohost a players only meeting at the BMW championship. One of the stops on the FedEx cup playoffs circuit Tigers. According to reports Tigers big push was his big pitch was loyalty to the PGA. The ability to participate in majors and most of the top players in the world were in this players only meeting and according to Rory McElroy who was just in awe of Tiger.

He says that the top players in the world are making commitments to get together more often and figure out a way to make their golf, their brand of golf more attractive, more compelling and elite throughout a lot of ideas you may have seen some of the ideas that were reported out there on twitter and on the web, another in other places, and so to that end, the PGA Tour scum encouraged Jay Monahan who is the Commissioner was part of a meeting the next day and now a week later after they've done their brainstorming and put their heads together.

The PGA Tour is announcing for more events with $20 million purses for each one of them. These are called elevated tournaments that feature the best players in the world and now with the addition they got a dog and of these on the tour schedule next year against with the top players in the PGA Tour they call these elevated events, and the person is the total purse so the winter doesn't make 20 million, but all the golfers who get a piece of the pie.

Generally it's the golfers who make the cut. Not sure how there to divvy up the money here, but it's everybody together there to win $20 million in these elevated tournaments and the idea is that you make the tour and the tour stops more attractive to the best players on the planet. It's after hours here on CBS sports radio may be eligible, which of course makes her better competition of it. The best players in the world but what came out of this players only meeting is that the best in the world the best of the best are committing to some of these elevated events together post be more high-stakes with the best competition plus the majors and a few other of the high profile events that are on the tour.

The tour schedule already like Bayhill which is Arnold Palmer's tournament until the they're trying to make it so that there is a greater concentration of the top players in the world at their marquee events. There is a little choice. These top 20 players or whatever it is they can pick and choose a few tournaments to round out their schedule. But they also have to commit to the ones that are on this list. The Commissioner Jay Monahan was speaking on Wednesday and he says our top players are firmly behind the tour helping us deliver an unmatched product to our fans who will be all but guaranteed to see the best players competing against each other in 20 events or more throughout the season. So get what they're trying to do is to guarantee the fans enter TV partners that the best players in the world will all be present at the marquee events on tour and that they'll all compete in at least 20 tournaments or more throughout the season, but 20 would be the baseline thinking of course that that not only appeases the sponsors after some of these big-name golfers have departed for the live tour, but also would be more attractive to fans if you knew that the top golfers were to be at this event or that event. And so after all of this players only meeting a meeting with the Commissioner. The brainstorming, the designing of essentially almost a revamped PGA Tour schedule a revamped PGA Tour system live golf official released a statement can I read to. I promise it won't take long.

I'm pretty sure this is Bryce addition and bow who wrote the statement but I would be surprised if he and Greg Norman are collaborating it short and sweet ready live golf is clearly the best thing that's ever happened to help the careers of professional golfers super awesome benefit statement live golf is clearly the best thing that's ever happened to help the careers of professional golfers. And let's be honest, they've got a point. Well they meeting Bryce and Greg Norman. I'm I'm confident it might be Bryson Brooks and Greg Norman that dry humor that sarcasm although there. It deftly is an element of truth to it. That sounds like Greg Norman to me. Maybe it's above him to write statements but I bet you've got some input. It could be Bryson as well live golf is clearly clearly live golf is clearly the best thing that ever happened to help the careers of professional golfers because why the guys who actually leave for the live tour while they're getting signing bonuses. In some cases nine figures 99.

That's right 36 yeah not all of them obviously but in some cases the reports have been nine figures at the very least, were talking about hundreds of thousands of dollars simply in signing bonuses, not to mention how massive the purses are for the live events and in addition to that, not only are they making money for their own golfers who made the job and the reports are. After the tour championship in Atlanta with Eastlake, Georgia, but after the tour championship comes up this weekend there is going to be another seven golfers who make the jump to live and I don't know if the reports are true about Cameron Smith. The open championship winner, but he's Australian and Greg Normans is vital. So Greg Norman comes calling it says hey can we really want you on the tour will pay you X amount of money it's hard to resist but regardless lives not done that I don't recruiting they're not done lowering golfers away from the PGA. So the statement that live golf makes is true not only for the guys who made the job, but for the doors remaining with the PGA Tour.

Why because the purses are growing because the system itself is now being redesigned in part by the bars that would Phil Mickelson was complaining about partly. Phil Mickelson was complaining that was more of a dictatorship and that the PGA itself.

The Commissioner was not listening to the concerns. The input of the golfers and so live golf has a point. This statement is accurate in many ways live golf is clearly the best thing that's ever happened to help the careers of professional golfers.

Not only does that statement referred to those who are now on the live circuit, which by the way, though being Boston is it. I think it's next week and will be in Boston but it's also boosting the careers and the purses. The money available. The freedom available for those who chose an array on the PGA tour Bryson to shamble has a point or Greg Norman has a point.

The stars are committing to 20 events to be sure to attract the fans to their marquee stops the money the person is.

All of a sudden there bloated and so yeah, none of that happens without the live tour live golf is clearly the best thing the cover letter to go to. I felt gathered to be in Boston, not this weekend but next weekend with in any here's the thing.

The timing this is and I don't know the names of the other six. The only name I've heard out there is Cameron Smith.

But there are reportedly seven other golfers. Seven if you include cams that who are going to leave the jewel. The tour championship in Atlanta and go right to Boston to play the next live event. As soon as they would tea often Boston, they that are suspended by the PGA tour so I don't know who those names are. I will even know the report is accurate. It's mostly coming from the telegraph which is based in London and so will see that could be the next big bombshell right. The PGA is trying to head off the path they're trying to keep their best people but it took the threat of the live tour for them to get it for them to listen to the players and that's not even the virtual part on Twitter a low radio I'm pretty sure it's Bryson on our Facebook page after hours with Amy Lawrence 855-212-4227 got some QB news coming up. Of course that's always fun and there's a lot of it and also the NFL world the football world remembers a Hall of Famer and a photo that you wouldn't ever ever see from inside a locker room today and after hours with Amy Lawrence on CBS sports radio you are listening to the after-hours podcast.

He's been here we've all looked up to these his voice carries further than anyone else's in the chemical you as rollers navigating us to a place where we all think we should think. Use these after-hours Lawrence Rory McElroy and Tiger Woods teaming up to try to rally the troops in the PGA players only meeting last week and was followed by yet more changes to try to keep the world's best golfers as PGA Tour members and keep them satisfied, so they're not looking around at what the live has to offer and that includes Richard purses and a renewed commitment strength in numbers. If you will to the top events by the top 20. The idea that there are about to be another half dozen maybe more golfers bolting at the end of the tour championship. No doubt has rattled the PGA they've seen the reports. Maybe they even know who the next round of golfers to to bolt will be. I haven't seen a list of only seen Cameron Smith and maybe not true, but man, a little competition has clearly for some change for the PGA, and I will say this to things I've been saying all along the live tour couldn't have pain for publicity like it's gotten over the last seven months, but also the PGA Commissioner can say whatever he wants about this little startup to, or not being concerned the PGA is clearly superior, but all of these changes tell a different story. Maybe, just maybe, the PGA Tour was asleep at the wheel. Maybe, just maybe, the PGA Tour got too big and too bloated and thought that there could never be competition that would shake their foundation or rattler core. All these changes that we've seen in the last couple months tell you that the PGA was not prepared for competition and had to step into the 21st century, so to speak. 855-212-4227. Steve is listening in Cleveland, see welcome to after-hours good one.

I will hear from what report to come out all golf all my life I love a gold household.

It reminds me so much of when Pepsi started to make that surge in the 80s to take on Coca-Cola where Coke is like Coke had an opportunity to buy out Pepsi wife and refused because they're like, no terrible business model. We don't want the company but then that's because you know it works to go right out of FA work better than the nuts with the live as don't think were better for the players they've gone for the players we try to go to the PGA. But now they go for the players using the players they were better now and that the appeal and that's what I've kind of noticed is it's going to turn into a Pepsi versus Coca-Cola, and I'm not her that analogy but you make great points felt that orts could return to a terrible pyramid scheme and then players get hurt thought no warmer, but I don't always the former, but I would thank you for having me on the great work and have a good night.

Thanks Steve. I appreciate that analogy. Mike is listening in Marietta, Georgia.

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You know you sound when you want more and better product go toward getting to the PGA moving forward right is there trying to figure out ways to make their product more attractive not only to their corporate sponsors and to fans but also internally and that would not have happened. They would just be resting on their laurels and being all fat and happy, had it not been for the live tour.

What will you tell or regenerate whatever and you all and why your product on what went on.

Ladle over welfare area. I know you and walk away from the center clearly in the strike zone and roll all the wrong you right we have the technology for the automated strike no. Here's the product of modern they're working on that they're working on trying to make it more attractive but I might get her talking. I about why can't these golfers pick and choose the person comes to mind is our unit open marriage.

Do you want your wife to pick and choose just like whenever I'm there and said, no, I got you, but that still no gross means there is something to be said for commitment and the PGA tour the peak golfers are PGA Tour members. I don't necessarily agree with the indefinite suspension but I do think that you can't always have your cake and eat it. To me there's something to be said for attempting your product. Product you brought originally not like new Lane a little better and you will, the PGA sports either to pick sides, is my point because your there watering down their own product and hurting their own products of their allow these guys to go back and forth speed to its it's not altruistic. It is something to do with where the live money is coming from.

Now it has to do with if you can get the same level and the same competitive golf with the live tour and then it the PGA is not as attractive or exclusive anymore. So I understand why they're making guys pick or choose. I certainly get that it's all based in competition know it's not as altruistic as they would like to to make us think that there may not be not what you will realize like Mike.

Mike okay keep on it down please.

I said this before, I haven't said this week. I'll say it again, that same Saudi investment fund has a massive stake in Huber. So, are there those of you out there who are never taking over again because the money is backed by this, the Saudi Arabian government fund probably not what it it makes me smile when people pick and choose how to be more about the money we use Saudi Arabia and oil in this country so I don't. It's not that I am telling you that it's that there isn't anything to be upset about, only that if you're going to draw a hard line in the sand. Well then how about draw a hard line in the sand with all of the other sports and American companies where this Saudi money is also invested. I appreciate your phone call might think it let you go because were running a little bit later. 855-212-4227 on Twitter, a law radio also on our Facebook pages after hours with Amy Lawrence. You are listening to the after-hours podcast after-hours like what you like us and with phone calls tonight.

Welcome to after the morning will work for you on over probably will never. Now we go greatly. The collaboration is to get the QB knew that was the entire hour on go, but I appreciate that you all are engaged in this that's really the idea now for the PGA Tour.

How do we keep the top golfers in the world engaged and committed and how we keep them from looking elsewhere. How do we keep them from discovering or believing that the grass is greener on the other side and so you can laugh at that succinct statement from the live tour, but it's accurate. Is it not insure the hack is live golf may very well be the best thing that's ever happened to the careers of professional golfers. If you measure it, measure it, excuse me via the almighty dollar that that's obvious.

Everyone is going to get richer in the golf world because of the money that been infused into the sport by the live tour may get there other ways to debate it, but I'm not sure any these guys are to tell you they want to make less money and if they can make more money and be on the PGA Tour that were talking about the top 20 the best in the world. I don't know what this means for the rank and file. I don't know what this means for the majority of golfers who are not making millions of dollars per year.

Some of that may still choose to depart and I'm very intrigued to see if there is actually going to be I would call a mass exodus, but another Exodus of golfers. Once the tour championship is done this weekend and after hours with Amy Lawrence on CBS sports radio to find me on Twitter, a law radio also on her Facebook page.

Talk to Joe who is in Cleveland.

Welcome to the show. I don't think you. I like your lawyer about your dog will also how I love you your rocker into thinking Moto did you learn know you've always golfers will live for all good grades from the greater I would like this. Here clean up on the PGA good job in the world to go to the live because then they'll be more money and more opportunities for the rest of us will win every do you think that's the case, do you think there a lot of the rank-and-file golfers the lesser-known golfers rooting for the top guys to leave.

I will go there. That's all I probably. Sure I never thought about it that way but that is a very unique perspective. Thank you Joe, you never thought about that way we know it's extremely competitive, though we know just getting your PGA Tour card is a major feat. If you're not one of those who is extremely gifted or wins right away on the PGA Tour.

And so I can imagine some of these other golfers I would call them no names because that's not fair. Someone knows their name, their names, but to call them more nondescript or the guys who are just there fighting for the scraps. They're not the top 20 in the top 25. Back to working just to get into qualify for some of the major tournaments and then keep their PGA Tour cards. I can imagine their sight to see some of these top names depart. That leaves more money and more opportunity for for them for the rest of the after-hours here on CBS sports radio. If you miss any of the show including my conversation with former NFL executive of the year. Longtime GM now a general manager in the XXL. Boy does he have some fun stories about the rock or as he calls and DJ Randy Mueller was with us last hour here on the show and that we would love for you to catch that honor podcast on demand after hours Amy Lawrence.com Joe is in Massachusetts you're welcome to after-hours morning, I believe, and about my all players are going on her 100,000 minimum.

Write an extra stipend for those who are not making right the big bucks and finishing on the leaderboard so to speak: Jerry, I tried many many years ago to make your goal down there a minute… What my car to get all dormant all out so I'm glad that they stepped up and done this for younger players. However, I would say if you compare that to what what live golf is offering guys who are maybe not right to the top 20 or even the top 50. There are some who've departed for that reason because there is guaranteed money there a signing bonus that maybe is more than then what they've made kicking around on the tour.

Also with the web for the contracts of the binding of connoisseurs. How long of a contract, it is that is all a very interesting question.

I don't know. I suppose we will find out today.

Get this type of money. One time did I get this kind of money every time. If a contract runs out in your contract, you, we haven't heard that right that's true, and I suspect that more details will come out when you live tours, expanding or adding more events on the PGAs obviously been no awaken from its long slumber. It is recognizing that there is a danger here that the good elusive mother Marty lost some of their top names a danger that they need to protect against it almost seems like if you think about some of the comments that Phil Mickelson made that the PGAs actually proving him correct here because he was talking about how wishes this behemoth and the PGA Commissioner wasn't listening to the players and wasn't kind of updating or considering their needs are some of their ideas and now here the PGA has no choice but to respond or there to continue to lose people continue to lose big names making money golf term. It's no big insurance companies or whatever limited to a ton of money.

People blow up.

While I appreciate that point, Joe. Thanks much for listening so Jill refers to this earnings assistance program that is being launched by the PGA Tour for exempt members. Those who actually earned their tour card and it guarantees a minimum salary of $500,000 per player. Now if you receive that money are committed to a certain number of events. The money is paid at the start of the season. You know what that is that the live model, the money is paid up front without you having to do a damn thing.

It's a signing bonus for your name for your skills you want to talk about nearly unheard of in fact completely unheard of in the PGA of the golfers that don't make the cut.

Don't get paid. That's how the model has operated for years and years and years. But now you've got guys who are making cuts will receive stipends oversee money up front. That's a huge shift it's after hours with Amy Lawrence CBS sports radio