I thought all elite professional athletes were friends and part of some sort of illuminati club where they go to sit around on piles of money and talk about how great life is for them.
Turns out I was, apparently, wrong. I mean, Dez Bryant hadn’t even been to an NHL game until this week despite living and playing in a town with a team for years.
And now I come to find out that LPGA star Lexi Thompson, who you may remember from this Golf Digest cover, didn’t even know who her playing partners are this week at the Diamond Resorts Tournament of Champions in Orlando.
You may have heard of them though. Their names are Greg Maddux and John Smoltz.
You know, the one guy who was first pitcher in MLB history to win the Cy Young Award four consecutive years and the only pitcher to record over 300 wins and over 3,000 strikeouts with less than 1,000 walks?
And that other guy who set the NL record with 55 saves, was only the second pitcher to ever have both a 20-win season and a 50-save season, and the only pitcher in MLB history to record both 200 wins and 150 saves?
Those guys. Those Hall of Fame guys.
— Don Jaworski (@DonJaworski) January 17, 2019
Yeah, well, LPGA star and Hall of Famer in-the-making, Lexi Thompson has no idea who they are. At least until she Googled them to see who she’d be playing with this week.
— Beth Ann Nichols (@GolfweekNichols) January 17, 2019
Nice Golden Knights hat, Maddux.
Okay, yes, Thompson is only 23-years-old, but how has she never heard of Smoltz at least? Dude considered going pro as a golfer after he retired from baseball. Oh, these sheltered millennials…
I guess she’ll just be getting schooled on that and much more this week.
— Beth Ann Nichols (@GolfweekNichols) January 17, 2019
— Beth Ann Nichols (@GolfweekNichols) January 17, 2019
26 LPGA champs & 49 celebs coming to you live on @GolfChannel today & tomorrow from 12-3pm & on network TV @NBCSports this weekend.@Lexi playing alongside @MLB Hall of Famers @gregmaddux & John Smoltz.#DiamondLPGA pic.twitter.com/EB6E0i789l
— brianne wigley (@briannewigley) January 17, 2019
In other MLB LPGA news, we have a rare Pudge Rodriguez sighting (look him up, millennials)…
— Diamond Resorts™ (@diamondresorts) January 16, 2019
In other, other MLB news, Greg Maddux is still a giant dork…
[Golfweek]
