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Speaker 1 On today's Pardon My Take, we're going to talk the Masters. We have our good friend Scott Van Pelt.
He was live at Augusta. all week long and a tradition unlike any other.

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Speaker 3 He said afterwards, they asked him, Max, how are you going to feel tomorrow when you wake up and you think about this?

Speaker 3 He says, I haven't drank in a really, really long time, but I've been planning it for Sunday after the masters, so I'm probably not going to feel great.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 3 So congrats to Scotty. Scotty was dominant.

Speaker 1 He kicked everyone's ass.

Speaker 3 He was never really close. He kicked the course's ass.
He kicked everyone's ass. He wasn't playing particularly well at times, but he was making crazy chip ends.

Speaker 3 He was hitting the shot at nine, I think, is really when it was over. When he hit that approach shot to three inches, at no point did it feel close.
Oberg looked like he Oberg will win.

Speaker 3 I'm calling my shot. Oberg's going to win multiple major championships in his lifetime, but Scotty was just too good.

Speaker 1 Oberg might have won this one if the guy didn't hit the power bar out of his hand because he was rolling. And then the guy hit the power bar out of his hands and he double bogey.

Speaker 1 But yeah, Scotty Scheffler, I think we were fooled this weekend because going into the Masters, it was like Scotty Scheffler, lowest odds for anyone to win since Tiger.

Speaker 1 He's playing the best golf out of anyone. It's not even close.
We were fooled with the wind basically bringing everyone back into a pack on Friday and Saturday.

Speaker 1 And we got into Sunday and we're like, look at this. And there's four guys that are all within a couple strokes.
And Scotty Scheffler might not be able to do this.

Speaker 1 And turns out he can play his like B-minus game and still win by four strokes. And he's the best golfer in the world, and it's not close.

Speaker 3 He's still dominant, yeah.

Speaker 3 And we haven't seen, there was all that talk about his wife going to labor. Yeah.
He said before the final round that he would go to the hospital if she went to labor before he teed off.

Speaker 3 He didn't, it sounded earlier this week like he would have just left on Sunday.

Speaker 1 In the middle of the round.

Speaker 3 But then he started thinking about it. He's like,

Speaker 3 if I tee off, by the time I get to the course, I start warming up. If she hasn't gone to labor at that point, then I'm going to stay on the course.

Speaker 3 Hasn't gone to labor yet. Some people are asking if this is a Charlotte de Stingray situation.
Is she really pregnant?

Speaker 1 Griffin III, I just, listen, I want the baby to be happy, healthy. It's a very beautiful time to have a baby.
It's also a scary time.

Speaker 1 I just want to say that if the baby doesn't, if the baby's born in May, I'm going to, we've got to retroactively take away some of these. Scotty, what a great guy.
Yeah. He is a great guy.

Speaker 1 But I'm going to retroactively have to take back a little bit of this stolen

Speaker 1 valor of him being like, oh, I would leave at any minute.

Speaker 3 Yeah. But then all that means.

Speaker 1 Get that baby out.

Speaker 3 All that means is he's going to have the kid, and then he's definitely going to win the U.S. Open.
100%.

Speaker 1 With a new baby. Are you kidding? That's going to be the picture.
Him holding his new baby on the T or on the green of the 18th hole of the U.S. Open, wherever it is.
Oh, it's Pinehurst, right? Yep.

Speaker 1 It is Pinehurst. We played that.
We basically played a U.S. Open.
But yeah, this was,

Speaker 1 I feel like everyone in this room was, and probably everyone listening right now is so amped up for a Sunday at Augusta that we're like, this is going to be great. It's going to be so close.

Speaker 1 You know, big, big shots. And by the turn, it was, you know, Morikawa had a mistake.
Oberg went into the water. Max went into the bushes, and it was Scotty.

Speaker 3 Yeah, the Bush really fucked Max on, was that 12?

Speaker 1 I'm proud of Max. Look at that Rose Bush there.

Speaker 3 I'm very proud of Max. Max was one of the best golfers in the world this weekend on a very, very hard weekend at Augusta.
He played well. There was just no stopping Scotty on Sunday.

Speaker 1 There was no stopping Scotty.

Speaker 1 I was texting with Max, trying to pump him up. So I did, I got caught into a superstitious loop.
So Wednesday, after he came on on Tuesday, I just texted him, thank you.

Speaker 1 And I sent him some funny video, and he was like, that's great. And I was like, positive vibes.
And then he shot great on Thursday. So I was like, well, I got to send him another funny video.

Speaker 1 It just evolved. The weekend evolved into me sending Max Homa Fat Max videos saying, don't be Fat Max, be Max Homa over and over.
And so it was like, it was like Max doing the parade with the Sixers.

Speaker 1 It was Max just completely duffing a T-shot. So that was, I was hoping.
So when he was trying to focus for a Sunday at the Maisters, he was thinking about him thinking about Max.

Speaker 1 Well, no, I sent it to him on Saturday night. And then he was superstitious that I was like, I sent you a video.
He's like, yes, you got to send another one. That's crazy.
Thursday. What?

Speaker 3 He's thinking about Max and then he after his rounds. And then he happens, then he's going to sleep, visualizing.

Speaker 1 He told me that it was good superstition that I made him laugh with a Max video. He's like, you got to keep sending him.
I was like, I'm going to keep sending him. I sent him on after.

Speaker 1 So it would be like, I sent one on Friday at like 7 p.m. On Saturday at like 6:30.
Like, he was done. I'm just saying, no one should be thinking about Max.
Well, I was big.

Speaker 1 Listen, until today, it was working. He was literally like, I'm going to be Max Homa.
I'm not going to be Fat Max. We had a thing.
It felt like it was working.

Speaker 3 And then he shot his T-shot on 12 into the soul patch of Augusta. Yeah.
And it was all over.

Speaker 1 And it was all over. I got caught in a superstitious loop.
You don't get caught in a superstitious loop this time.

Speaker 1 It did feel like Max had like the positive vibes going. And he shot great on Thursday.
And it with the wind on Friday and Saturday. Like, everyone's like, oh, he just keeps getting parsed.

Speaker 3 Like, everyone's getting parsed. Yeah, Par was great.
Parr was great on Saturday. And we were so frustrated because we were watching, we just wanted him to make one single birdie.

Speaker 3 Just like, get a birdie, start climbing up. But all the pars were good.
He was stacking pars. I think I said it was a par fest when party was right there in front of me, but that's all he was doing.

Speaker 1 Clantonio Brown.

Speaker 3 Yeah, Clantonio Brown, myself. That's all he was doing.
Just par. He was steady.
He was steady. And then he was steady on Sunday, too, but he needed to be a little bit better than Saturday.

Speaker 1 It felt like the whole world was rooting for him, too. Homosexuals were trending for, I think, all weekend long.

Speaker 3 Yeah. On Saturday, you could see the fear in some of those players' eyes when Max was up there.
They were homophobic.

Speaker 1 Yeah, they were. But

Speaker 1 Batgirl,

Speaker 1 are you? I mean, if, think about it this way, if Max Holman ended up winning the Masters, you would have been

Speaker 1 mentioned like maybe like a hundredth in the thank yous. No, yeah, that would have been great.
But

Speaker 1 I do think it's probably not great that the last one that you sent him was me whiffing a golf ball. It was actually, no, that wasn't wasn't the last one.

Speaker 1 The last one I sent him was you freaking out the Phillies saying you look ridiculous. Wait, so that's

Speaker 1 I thought these were just topical ones.

Speaker 1 You were just going into the bank. Yeah, I was going in the bank.
I was saying like, this is Fat Max. Don't be Fat Max.
It was a good, it was good motivation for a while there.

Speaker 1 Yeah, no, I went deep in the bank. I was sending him all your low lights, being like, we got two maxes in this world.
We got this max and you. You're going to win the Masters.

Speaker 1 That's kind of cool. Yeah, right? It would have been cooler.
And he appreciated it. It was, again, a superstitious loop.
People do stupid things.

Speaker 1 I've watched games from weird positions for the entirety of the game. Hank watched all the Super Bowls from the bathroom.
Max. So you can't say a superstitious loop doesn't happen.
No, I get it. Yeah.

Speaker 3 How weird was it seeing Tiger play today with such a high, high score and not wearing the Nike shirt? Yeah. It looked weird with him wearing the Tiger logo, right?

Speaker 1 We really needed him to score well today, too, because Charlie Woods was a swing coach.

Speaker 3 Yeah, I saw it.

Speaker 1 And I was like, he's going to go low. And then we also, also will talk to Scott Van Pelt about this, but NoteGate

Speaker 1 has been going around the internet.

Speaker 1 A reporter asked Neil Shipley.

Speaker 3 JMU.

Speaker 1 JMU. Neil Shipley, very funny-looking guy.
Why are they giving Ohio State all the credit?

Speaker 3 Well, because he's a grad transfer to Ohio State, but he graduated already.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah, he's JMU. JMU guy.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 PFT says that in everything I see of Neil Shipley. It's like Neil Shipley.
Ohio State has a lot more fans. I mean, there's just a lot of people that go to Ohio State.

Speaker 3 A lot of frontrunners.

Speaker 1 Yeah. So, but Neil Shipley, yeah, he couldn't have looked more uncomfortable in the Butler cabin.
It was very funny. John Rahm also, that guy, he just wanted to get out of there so, so bad.

Speaker 3 How messed up is it? I mean, I like the tradition because everything at Augusta is about tradition. It's about appearing as things were like 40 years ago.

Speaker 3 And they have the past winner put the green jacket on the current champion. And John Rahm's out there just like, fuck this.

Speaker 1 Right, because sometimes it will be, you know, someone will finally win it and they're just happy they won. Like when Phil won it, it's like he finally won one.
Or Bubba won won a couple.

Speaker 1 John Rahm and Scotty Scheffler are, you would think, for the next decade, going to go head-to-head in everything. And he just won his second one.

Speaker 1 And John Rahm also had the comments about Liv, how he's probably not the happiest. And he's got to sit there like looking at his watch being like, I could have been on my private jet three hours ago.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Because he finished way, way longer.
Well, we did the mini golf thing this week, and you realize, you know, when you're 10 strokes back, but you have to play a whole round.

Speaker 1 You're like, this sucks. I don't even want, what's the point of playing this?

Speaker 3 Right. You just start fucking around.

Speaker 1 And Brooks had to do that all day. Yeah.

Speaker 3 Yeah. So it's for a returning champion at Augusta.
I think it's been like only two of the last 20 have even finished in the top 10. Wow.
So next year, remind us not to bet on Scotty Scheffler.

Speaker 1 Which I still will. But Notegate, back to Notegate.

Speaker 1 So Neil Shipley was asked afterwards, he's like, some reporter saw Tiger Woods pass him a note around the 14th to 16th hole, which I guess would be illegal. I don't know.

Speaker 3 You can't write notes. Was this eighth grade?

Speaker 1 I assume Tiger just passed him a note note being like, I'm so fucking horny right now. Yeah.
I haven't fucked in so long.

Speaker 3 Dude, it looked like he wanted to fuck that tree that Vern was behind.

Speaker 1 Yeah, but Neil Shipley's like, no, there was no note passed and was kind of awkward about it. I think Neil Shipley just was

Speaker 1 thrust into this and he was maybe looking a little awkward, which I understand. If you're sitting in the butler cabin next to these guys, it's got to be a little intimidating.

Speaker 1 But we've got to figure out what note gate. Like, if he had said, hey, hit this shot instead of this shot,

Speaker 1 that would be illegal. He's also not a prospect that's guaranteed to go to the PGA tour.
He might never even play. But he had that moment.
No, I know. And his caddy was like his friend, right?

Speaker 3 Yeah, his caddie was like 20 years old. That's so awesome.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it rocked.

Speaker 3 So the note that was allegedly sent,

Speaker 3 Neil Shipley could have taken down Tiger Woods. Yeah.
He could have just ratted him out. He'd have been like, hey, he told me to hit six there.
Told me he hit six, so I guess you have to penalize him.

Speaker 3 Oh, I guess I beat Tiger today. Yeah.

Speaker 1 It was probably just he had like drinks after. Yeah.
You seem like a cool guy, Neil Shipley.

Speaker 3 This party. Can you give me a ride home?

Speaker 1 But yeah, the Vern Lundquist Tiger moment was great. Tiger looking like he was shaking the hands of a tree.

Speaker 3 Yeah, seeing Vern just like sitting next to a tree, watching Tiger putt with this big smile on his face. I'm going to miss Vern.

Speaker 1 I really am.

Speaker 3 Vern needs to do like a manning cast thing next year at the Masters, where it's just Vern sitting in his living room, maybe up in a tree stand somewhere in the middle of nowhere, just with that big smile on his face.

Speaker 1 Vern, I didn't realize this. Maybe one of those things that you hear and then you just completely memory hole and forget.
But Vern Lundquist is Mr. Steel, your girl.
Did you know this story? Fucks.

Speaker 1 No, so here's the story. This is from Holly Anderson reported on it.
This is from a story a couple years ago

Speaker 1 talking about Vern Lundquist and his third wife, who he's still married to. We met in a bar, and I hastened to add it was an upscale bar in Dallas.
It was at a place called Arthur's.

Speaker 1 I walked in after I did the 10 o'clock news in Dallas, and I just didn't want to go home.

Speaker 1 Nancy and her date were at the bar, and her date recognized me from local television and invited me over to have a drink. He introduced me to his date, and her name was Nancy Miller.

Speaker 1 It was their first date, a blind date, so we sat and chatted, and her date, Raymond Willie, said to me, listen, I know you're single.

Speaker 1 I'm going to fix you up with a friend of mine, and we can all go to dinner. He looked at Nancy.
And let me see, they cut it weird. He looked at Nancy and asked her, what are you doing Thursday night?

Speaker 1 She said, nothing. He said, good.
You'll be my date and we'll fix Vern up with this school teacher friend of mine and we'll go to dinner.

Speaker 1 Meanwhile, I'm looking at Nancy thinking she is the prettiest thing I've ever seen in my life.

Speaker 1 So, Raymond finally left to take care of his business, and I asked Nancy, so how involved are you with Raymond? She said, Oh, this is our first date, and it's a blind date.

Speaker 1 So, I said, Well, forget what he is talking about on Thursday night. What are you doing on Saturday night? She said, I think I'm doing whatever you're doing.
That's awesome. And that's it.

Speaker 1 Good for Vern. He also

Speaker 1 says hi. Yeah, you can't.
Raymond, really.

Speaker 3 You can't say no to that big smile, the big, like, the chipmunk cheeks. Mr.

Speaker 1 Steel, your girl. Also, I found out because I was looking, I was like, I hope they're they're still married.

Speaker 1 Vern was married to a woman before that whose last name was Vernon, and I really wish he had taken her name. Taken her name?

Speaker 3 Vern Vernon. So I was thinking about the name Vern.
We might be running out of Verns. He might be the last major Vern.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he actually could be. It's his middle name.

Speaker 3 Is it? It is? What's his first name? Merton Laverne.

Speaker 1 Merton Laverne. Oh, his name's Merton.
Good call, Vern. Yeah.
Merton Laverne. Although, yeah, we probably have some Laverne's.

Speaker 3 He does look like a Merton, too.

Speaker 1 Merton Laverne. Merton Laverne.
He's junior. Yeah.
He's the best. Oh, he's he's a junior.
There's another Merton Laverne.

Speaker 3 Damn. Please, Merton's is my father.

Speaker 1 Yeah. I'm Vern.
But Vern is the best.

Speaker 3 What if he just calls himself Merton when he's like, when he's out on the prowl on the town? He's Mr.

Speaker 1 Steel, your girl.

Speaker 4 I'm Merton. Wikipedia says his nickname is the golden throat.

Speaker 1 The golden throat. Isn't that Nancy Reagan? It is, yeah.
I don't know.

Speaker 1 Also, very funny.

Speaker 3 The golden throat. The guy.
Merton put a Hurton on that thing.

Speaker 1 Dear's one on Twitter who said apology accepted. It was just a picture of Tiger's Escalade crashing into the tree.
Yeah. And then Tiger shaking hands with the tree, which was Vern behind the tree.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's pretty. I mean, Vern's arm does look like a tree's arm.

Speaker 3 Yeah, the giving tree.

Speaker 1 It's just powerful.

Speaker 3 One of the great stats that I saw online today was that Scotty Scheffler's Caddy has out-earned Rory McElroy this year.

Speaker 1 Ooh.

Speaker 1 That's tough. Tough break for him.
Yeah, Rory. I feel like I didn't even see Rory.

Speaker 3 So Tiger...

Speaker 3 Before the tournament started, Tiger was, he was doing like his press conference or whatever, and he said, you know, Rory's going to win this thing. It's just a a matter of time.
He's good enough.

Speaker 3 He's talented enough. Kind of fucked up for him to say that

Speaker 3 ahead of time. Like, being like, yeah, Rory, he's great.
He's good. If I was Rory.

Speaker 3 If I was Rory, I'd be like,

Speaker 3 you shouldn't say that. I haven't won a Masters yet.
I haven't won a green jacket. I haven't won a major in like a decade.
You can't just say, I will win a Masters because you get that vibe from me.

Speaker 3 Yeah. Yeah.
No, I just did that to Oberg.

Speaker 1 But Obert's got

Speaker 3 Oberg. I said, multiple.

Speaker 1 Oberg told me. Oberg's a robot ready to play golf.
He's ready to go. We didn't even see

Speaker 1 Rory at all.

Speaker 1 I also, the early coverage when they do, I likened to red zone, but when they are like, let's check in on 16 and whoever, it wasn't 16 because that was Vern, but they check it into 14, whatever announcer it was, having to be like, and this just happened a few minutes or a few seconds ago, just being like, I know what's going to happen before you.

Speaker 1 And then I always get the red zone feel of why you wouldn't show it to us unless it's going in.

Speaker 1 Like when Scott Hansen's like, and we go to Tennessee, like, here comes a pick six. That drives me nuts.
Yeah. Just let us just think everything's live.

Speaker 3 And also, every year I fall for the same trick, which is I tune into the wrong app at the start of it. Yeah.
And then I watch all the like pre-produced segments that they have.

Speaker 1 Jack Nicholas.

Speaker 3 And I keep wondering, like, when are they going to go out to the Course? And it never goes out to the Course. Yeah.
It's just the piano music, the guitar.

Speaker 3 You get, yeah, like nine shots of Tom Watson and Jack Nicholas. I saw Jack Nicholas tee off like four times.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah, that does happen every single year.
We also,

Speaker 1 I'm trying to think, oh, Wyndham Clark, whew. Yeah, that was tough.

Speaker 1 He on Thursday made a live joke being like, oh, yeah, well, you know, 54 holes, like, I got this, you know, I could shoot minus seven tomorrow, and then he missed the cut.

Speaker 1 I think he shot seven over par.

Speaker 3 Yeah, that was tough.

Speaker 1 That was tough for Clark.

Speaker 3 Also, there's so many cams now. There's a lot of cams.
There's three Camerons. We had three Camerons that finished towards the top, two of which are Australian.
So that's confusing.

Speaker 3 It was relatively easy for me if I had the American Cam and then I had the Australian Cam. Now we've got two Australian cams and one American cam.
Now I have no idea who's who.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's weird when we get them in bunches. Did you see that we have

Speaker 1 a bunch of,

Speaker 1 I think it's like three of the top 10 prospects in MLB or Jackson.

Speaker 3 Yeah, they're all Jacksons.

Speaker 1 There's some form of Jackson.

Speaker 1 I was hoping that. First name or last name? First and last.
No, I think there's a last two. Oh, yeah.
Jackson Churio, Jackson Moreau, and Jackson Holly. So all first.
I was hoping that it was

Speaker 1 linked up perfectly with Outcast. Sorry, Miss Jackson, but it was a few years off.

Speaker 3 That would have been sick. Yeah, that'd be awesome.

Speaker 1 If that one song made just three incredible baseball players, yeah, it's tough.

Speaker 3 Listen, we're getting old. There are no more Matts, it feels like the age of Matts is going past.
There was a time when there were like nine starting quarterbacks in the NFL, all named Matt.

Speaker 3 Yeah, we're losing them. Now we're losing them.

Speaker 3 Now we're on to Jadens.

Speaker 1 Yeah, Jadens and Cams. A lot of Cams.
Where you're playing at?

Speaker 3 Matt Fitzpatrick. Oh, Matt Fitzpatrick, yeah.

Speaker 1 We had Matt Fitzpatrick Championship. We also had some great quotes from Terrell Hatton,

Speaker 1 who is just like he can't he's just so mad at Augusta and you don't really get this very often because it feels like everyone's so prim and proper except for Zach Johnson who

Speaker 1 that guy sucks yeah he's

Speaker 3 he

Speaker 3 okay so I actually I don't have a problem with what he did no because they cheered when he made it a bogey right which is funny and then he triple bogey triple bogey triple bogey and because he was going to miss the cut and then he turned around he was like oh fuck off after he finally made his putt i got no problem with that like tell him to fuck off all you want don't lie about but then go ten toes down yeah right afterwards be like i stand on it he's like i can't even hear them yeah that's crazy and he's also just he's spiraling from the ryder cup debacle yeah which i get it and i also saw um

Speaker 1 uh there was a like a whole green jacket one of the things that you watch when you're on the wrong app like the green jacket what this means for everything Zach Johnson admitted that he got yelled at for wearing the green jacket on Regis and Kelly with jeans.

Speaker 3 You're not supposed to wear it. Oh, by Augusta? Augusta reached out to him.

Speaker 1 You're not supposed to to wear it with jeans, and you always have to have a collared shirt underneath.

Speaker 3 I love Augusta. Isn't that great? They're so funny.
They police that shit hard. Hard.

Speaker 1 So, Terrell Hatton,

Speaker 1 he had some good quotes. He said, I don't know what I have to do to shoot under par around here.
I'm putting on a brave face for what I want to talk about or say.

Speaker 1 He said he's devastated and it's brutal. And then he said about 15th hole.
That hole lives rent-free in my head. I hate it.
I absolutely hate it.

Speaker 1 And I think it hates me with the scores that I end up producing on it.

Speaker 1 Because you don't usually hear guys. They come off and they're like, 15th, what an incredible hole.

Speaker 3 Man versus hole. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 Listen, he's developing quite a rivalry with, of course, he's kind of a grumpy guy, too. Yeah.
He probably hates most holes.

Speaker 1 Yeah, a lot of them.

Speaker 1 What else from the Masters?

Speaker 4 Augusta asked Jason Day to change.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 4 Because they said it was too busy.

Speaker 1 His drip was awesome. I almost bought the pants, by the way, from that.

Speaker 1 His new advertiser.

Speaker 1 After everyone told me that I was a loser.

Speaker 3 They've got a sick Newport shirt, too.

Speaker 1 They have sick gear.

Speaker 3 Yeah. But I can understand, like, that's not Augusta.
That outfit doesn't say Augusta to me.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Also, Bryson. Bryson was for a moment all the way in it.
I also, in the most Bryson thing ever, we didn't talk about this on Thursday. He 3D printed his clubs and got them approved a week ago.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Which I would imagine they just looked at it and they're like, okay, we don't know.

Speaker 3 There's nothing in the USGA. Is that who it was that had

Speaker 3 nothing in the rule book about Bryson DeCambeau making 3D printed clubs out there?

Speaker 1 $10,000 3D printed gloves or clubs. I love that story.
I want to, like, could you 3D print some clubs that make it so it just always goes straight?

Speaker 3 Yeah, probably. I don't know how they checked.

Speaker 1 Like a really, really huge

Speaker 1 job head.

Speaker 3 So did Bryson just, he created these himself? He downloaded the software himself.

Speaker 1 And they were supposed to work with a team. But it was supposed to fix so like the misses are not as bad was what I read.

Speaker 1 Yeah, but that's, there's basically, you can do that with regular clubs. He was just like, I needed to be specific, specific to specific clubs.

Speaker 3 I think he just wanted to be able to say, like, I'm the first golfer with 3D printed clubs.

Speaker 1 Just so everyone knows, we've squashed our beef with Bryson because Brooks did. Hank has gone all the way to being a stan.
Hank loves him. He's a stan of Bryson.
Oh, insane.

Speaker 1 Because when I brought this up, I brought this up in the gambling cave, and Hank immediately was like, well, yeah, you can 3D print your clubs.

Speaker 3 You love everybody on the live tour.

Speaker 1 Not anymore. Why? Because I had a round robin.
I needed a bunch of guys to finish top 20, and Brooks and Rom screwed everything. That's neither here nor there.
Bryson, I like, I just watch.

Speaker 1 I like his YouTube videos. I watch his YouTube videos.
I've come around on him. That's fair.
You love his content online. I literally.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Thank you for everything you do online, Bryson. I would say that to him if I saw him.

Speaker 1 We need to get that. He said today, he was like, I have a Snapchat.
People come up to me and say, you know, thanks for what you do on Snapchat. I love that.

Speaker 1 Good for Bryson. He also looks like he did the genius thing of gaining all that weight, muscle, and then getting skinny again.
He looks good. He's like good looking.
He will win a major this year.

Speaker 3 He looks like a regular golfer now.

Speaker 1 With the 3D printed clubs,

Speaker 1 he will win one.

Speaker 1 His logos are pretty cool.

Speaker 1 I just read Rappaport. I just wrote this.
He blogged some master's thoughts, but apparently Augusta doesn't.

Speaker 1 In a practice round, you can bring green reading technology that shows you kind of like the wavelength of the greens and slope and stuff.

Speaker 1 And he's obviously a super nerd scientist, so he uses that and does calculations and like uses a ruler to figure out how far back he has to go with putts. Augusta doesn't allow that.

Speaker 1 They just have normal like old-school green reading technology or whatever that you can't, you can't use all the extra stuff.

Speaker 1 And Bryson, you know, he didn't say it was an excuse, but he was like, yeah, I got to figure out how to play a round of golf

Speaker 1 being able to use all my stuff.

Speaker 3 I bet you Bryson's going to get Neuralink. Yeah, he's

Speaker 3 up and planted in the brain. And yeah, he's going to be like, now I have an advantage.
He'll close one eye and he'll be like the the terminator.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he's going to be T-1000. You're absolutely right.

Speaker 1 It probably won't work. And Hank will be like, that's not illegal.

Speaker 3 He'll be the first person to get it done. And he'll be like, look at me.
I'm on the bleeding edge of technology. Then on the 16th hole, his eyes are just going to start to bleed.

Speaker 1 Well, or he'll get all this technology installed into his brain, and then he'll get to Augusta where they probably have like a Wi-Fi firewall. They have a

Speaker 1 lot of jamming technology. And it will just all

Speaker 1 his brain will just

Speaker 3 freeze like Mitch McConnell. Yeah.
Not be able to move.

Speaker 1 He'd be like, fuck, what's going on, Bryson? And Hank will be like, well, they screwed him.

Speaker 3 Bryce is just too far ahead of the game.

Speaker 1 Yeah. I mean, if they're illegal, they wouldn't have got approved.

Speaker 1 Honestly,

Speaker 1 I think they probably just didn't know what to do.

Speaker 1 They were looking at him and like, okay.

Speaker 3 My take is that you should be allowed to use whatever club you want.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Whatever.
Like, all the time.

Speaker 3 Doesn't matter how big it is.

Speaker 1 Get the ball in the hole. I'll say this about Bryson.

Speaker 1 I immediately looked because it did say specifically that it was like so that his misses were not as big of misses I started looking up to see if there's a driver that just doesn't that always hits it straight and I will buy it if I can find one there are some that have like a giant giant yeah yeah yeah just a fucking huge huge head QR 10.

Speaker 1 All right, so Taylor made I need one that just everything goes straight. I don't care if it goes far.
I just want to play in the middle of the fairway.

Speaker 3 They make these clubs that automatically go back and forward. Like there's a hinge on it that you press, a button.
Oh. And the club bends backward and then goes through the ball.
Oh.

Speaker 3 So you don't even have to swing. Oh, okay.

Speaker 1 Yeah, just press a button.

Speaker 3 You press it, you stand next to the ball.

Speaker 1 That sounds like pressing golf for me.

Speaker 3 It goes straight. Yeah.

Speaker 3 You should be allowed to cheat at golf with the clubs that you use. You obviously have to take your own shots, but if they're your clubs, they're in your bag.
Just get the ball in the hole. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Put the ball in the hole.

Speaker 1 Okay, anything else from the Masters? We're going to talk more with Scott Van Pelt, who is there, answer some of our questions.

Speaker 1 Scotty,

Speaker 1 he's only 27 years old.

Speaker 1 He's got a face of a 40-year-old. Yeah.
But he's 27. He's going to...

Speaker 1 Let's do the fun debate. Over-under.

Speaker 3 What would be a disappointment in terms of total majors?

Speaker 1 If he doesn't win five green jackets, I think his career was a bust. Yeah, I'd say.
He's got two right now at 27.

Speaker 3 I think he has to get to 10 majors.

Speaker 1 How many does he have? And what's Tiger at? 16?

Speaker 4 I want to say. 16.
Jack Nclaus is at 18. Tiger's at 15.

Speaker 3 15. Okay.

Speaker 1 And he is at

Speaker 1 4. Four.
Five.

Speaker 1 No, two. No, two.
two. He hasn't won anything besides the masters.

Speaker 3 Yeah, he has to get 10 majors. No, his career is already a disappointment.
10 majors.

Speaker 1 At 27? Yeah.

Speaker 1 That's crazy that he hasn't. He's just finished second.

Speaker 3 How many majors did Tiger have by the time he was 27?

Speaker 1 A lot. Probably like.
All of them? Nine.

Speaker 1 Tiger Woods, because he won that stretch that he had. The Grand Slam.
Where he went from like a Tiger Slam.

Speaker 1 So he turned 27 in 02.

Speaker 4 He had three masters, two PGAs, two U.S. opens, and an open.

Speaker 1 So what's that? Eight? Seven. Okay, so yeah.
Eight. Scotty sucks.
Eight.

Speaker 1 Yeah, so Scotty sucks.

Speaker 3 Scott's a bust. Scotty sucks.
Scott's a bust.

Speaker 1 Yeah. No, I think he's got to win at least four.
Over under three and a half green jackets.

Speaker 3 So when you win green jackets as you get older, do they resize you every year or do they give you the same size?

Speaker 1 I think they give you the same size, yeah.

Speaker 3 Yeah, that'd be funny if you got it like real fat and the jackets didn't fit him at the end. Yeah.

Speaker 4 Also, Tiger won back-to-back masters 01-02. If Scotty wins next year, who puts on the jacket?

Speaker 1 Himself?

Speaker 4 Like, who presents it?

Speaker 3 Yeah, I think he has to present himself with a green jacket.

Speaker 1 That's sick. Yeah.
Yeah, I don't know. It's probably just what's his name, Ridley, right?

Speaker 1 Oh, the owner? Yeah. The chairman? He probably is rooting for that so that he can put on the jacket.

Speaker 3 Yeah, so another day for him.

Speaker 1 Isn't it kind of bullshit that the other guys get jackets, the members?

Speaker 3 Yeah, I think if you're just a member there, right? Condoleezza Rice, I saw her wearing a green jacket.

Speaker 1 She shouldn't have a green jacket. Yeah.
It should be, or maybe a different shade of green.

Speaker 3 I don't want to say which golfer it was, but I had a friend that went home with the daughter of a masters champion

Speaker 3 one time to that guy's house, put on the green jacket, and only the green jacket.

Speaker 3 I think that Augusta would have a problem with that. Who could it have been?

Speaker 3 Hmm. You won't guess.

Speaker 1 I will guess.

Speaker 1 Let me look at it.

Speaker 1 I will guess.

Speaker 1 Ooh, maybe Nick Faldo? No.

Speaker 3 Why not? It wasn't Nick Faldo. Nick Faldo.

Speaker 1 All right.

Speaker 3 I bet you Nick Faldo just just wears.

Speaker 1 Was that guy, Scott Stradler? Nope.

Speaker 3 Scotty Stradler? Or Craig Stadler?

Speaker 1 Craig Stadler. Scotty Stradler.

Speaker 1 Oh,

Speaker 1 poor Wilford Brimley slash Craig Stadler.

Speaker 3 I think we would be really good at just making up golfers' names.

Speaker 1 Scotty Stradler definitely won a green jacket. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Patrick Reed. No, Patrick.

Speaker 3 How old do you think Patrick Reed's daughter would be?

Speaker 1 PJ. No, not Paddy.
Marco Mira.

Speaker 3 Not Marco Mira's daughter.

Speaker 1 Freddie. Not Crenshaw.

Speaker 1 Oh, okay. I got it.

Speaker 3 I didn't say no.

Speaker 1 No.

Speaker 1 All right. Should we talk some UFC 300? That fucking rocked.

Speaker 3 My favorite part was when that dude punched that guy in the stands as he was walking out.

Speaker 1 That was awesome as well. That was awesome.

Speaker 3 He threw hands at a guy that was just leaning over to try to dap him up.

Speaker 1 But we had two moments that were just absolutely insane. This is when I actually thought Max Homo was going to win the Masters because it was the weekend of Max's.
We had R.

Speaker 1 Max doing the Philadelphia Pride Night parade,

Speaker 1 which was was great to the Sixers game. And then Max Holloway versus Justin Gaitchie, one of the coolest moments.

Speaker 1 Max Holloway was like dominating the fight. He was going to win the fight.
And in the last 10 seconds, he literally just pointed to the middle of the octagon. He was like, meet me here.

Speaker 1 Let's throw some fists. And he knocked out Justin Gaitchie with two seconds left.
And it was so fucking cool.

Speaker 3 Give the fans what they want.

Speaker 1 It was, and credit to Justin Gaitchie for, I mean, he was getting his ass kicked, and then he's like, all right, finals get knocked out, too.

Speaker 3 That should be overtime in all the UFCs. Just standing.
they shrink the octagon to just like five feet in diameter, just stand in there and punch each other until somebody wins.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and then and then Pereira versus Jamal Hill was awesome as well because Pereira got kicked in the cup, and Herb Dean tried to stop the fight.

Speaker 1 He literally held him off with a hand, and then two seconds later, knocked him out with a left. He was so badass.
Yeah. Like, no, it's all right, I got this, and just fucking crumpled him.

Speaker 3 Who's your GOAT referee? Is it Herb Dean or is it Big John McCarthy? I like Herb Dean, I do.

Speaker 1 And then we also had

Speaker 1 in the female fight, the

Speaker 1 fuck, what's her name? Now people are going to get mad.

Speaker 1 Wang.

Speaker 1 No.

Speaker 1 I'll find it. I'll find it.

Speaker 1 Anyone want to help? Wang Lee?

Speaker 1 Wei Li Zhang. She choked out.

Speaker 1 She choked out

Speaker 1 her opponent in the first round, but she got saved by the bell where

Speaker 1 I've never seen someone get choked out, and then they just, the bell rung. she was completely out.
She basically got helped up, was loopy, and then fought another four rounds. That's insane.

Speaker 1 Fucking crazy.

Speaker 3 It's insane what they just bounced back from. And they were just like, Yeah, I'm good to go out there.
I'll get punched in the face some more.

Speaker 1 But that Justin Gacey Max Holloway moment was Dana must have been so pumped.

Speaker 3 That was very cool because you had to have something like that at UFC 300. You had to have like a seminal moment that people would be like, oh, yeah, I remember this is what happened at 300.

Speaker 3 And because people were upset with the card before the actual fights happened. They wanted more of a splash.
That was a moment that made it feel like worth it to purchase this fight.

Speaker 1 And it was just, it was everything you want. Like, meet me in the middle.
Let's fucking throw some haymakers with 10 seconds left.

Speaker 1 A lot of times when you get to the end of a fight, guys will be like, all right, I'm just trying to not get knocked out here.

Speaker 1 And Max Holloway was, I mean, he was going to win. And he was like, fuck it.
Let's just toss right now. Yeah, it was very cool.
Yeah. And then Connor McGregor's back, announced.

Speaker 3 McGregor's back, confirmed. Good.

Speaker 1 Is he still good? I don't think so.

Speaker 3 So he might be reaching that level where it's like people will tune in to watch a Conor McGregor 100%.

Speaker 3 I will definitely watch it. Without a doubt.
But he's been out of the game for so long that it might just be like sad watching him.

Speaker 1 If he might win his ass kicked. If he wins,

Speaker 1 Holloway said he'd be down to fight him, too. That would be a good fight.
I feel like

Speaker 1 it'd be exciting. Yeah, it feels like he's risking a lot fighting because if he just gets

Speaker 1 loses in the first round, let's say,

Speaker 1 now it's okay, he hasn't won a big fight in a long time, and like all the memories now

Speaker 3 I think his legacy is cemented. I think he's always going to be known as the guy that defined his era.

Speaker 3 The real upside for him is not just the fight, it's for like the two months leading up to the fight where he does all the shit talking and he throws water bottles at people. It's good for us.

Speaker 3 He makes the way in into a circus. That's going to be good for Con McGregor.
It doesn't really matter what happens.

Speaker 1 And good for us. It's always like what could have been if he just didn't box and spent his prime continuing to fight? Because after the boxing, it was that.
Well, he lost an ATS before the boxing.

Speaker 1 Yeah, but that was a great fight. That was an awesome fight.

Speaker 3 Any ATS fight is an awesome fight.

Speaker 1 Okay. Like, that didn't hurt his legacy.
No, no, no. That was Warriors.
Yeah. All right.
Anything else before we do Who's Back of the Week?

Speaker 3 I think I'm a believer in Mark Pope now. Fuck.

Speaker 1 Oh, that was my Who's Back of the Way. Okay, we'll save it.
We'll save it. Yeah, yeah.
That was my Who's Back of the Work. Okay, so that was yours as well.
So I got to scramble.

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Speaker 1 Who's Back of the Week? Is the Nestor Cortez pitch? Oh, yeah. Good one.
It's an all-time pitch. How'd you find that?

Speaker 1 One of the craziest pitches of all time. He's a feed.
That's Bush League. Yeah.
Bush League. Did you watch it? Yeah.
What did he do? It was Bush League ass pitch. Explain.
Describe to us what he did.

Speaker 1 He's a pitcher.

Speaker 1 So he wound up. Okay.
And he threw the ball.

Speaker 1 And it was bullshit.

Speaker 1 He wound up. Show us.

Speaker 1 Stand up and show us. He got called for a block.

Speaker 1 Show us what he did.

Speaker 1 He's a pitcher.

Speaker 1 I don't think he would stand up and

Speaker 3 Hank, I haven't seen this story yet. Can you tell me what I'm talking about? Can you please stand up?

Speaker 1 Nestor.

Speaker 3 Yeah, I know that.

Speaker 1 We know that. Don't look at your phone.
Stand up and show him. Oh, my lefty.
I don't know if I can. That's fine.

Speaker 3 Hank, what team does he pitch for?

Speaker 1 He pitches for the Reds. Wait, he's a Yankees.
He's too lefty, by the way. He's a lefty.

Speaker 3 He's a lefty for the Reds.

Speaker 1 He's a lefty for the Reds. The Yankees.

Speaker 1 All right, so this is Hank doing Nestor Cortez. He wound up.

Speaker 1 Yep. And then

Speaker 1 he...

Speaker 1 No, no, no.

Speaker 1 So he wound up. Here, I'll show you what he did.
You tell me. You narrate it and tell me if it's Bush League.
Okay. Okay.

Speaker 3 So I'm a righty. All right, so Big Cat is a righty.
Alright,

Speaker 1 winding up.

Speaker 3 He steps back. Full motion.
Transfers. Small leg kick.

Speaker 1 Back. Oh, he gets the fake face.
Oh, and then throws again?

Speaker 3 He did a pump fake.

Speaker 1 Dude,

Speaker 1 he acted like he was was throwing a ball. How is that bullshit? He was throwing a ball to his fucking Labrador retriever at the park.
He did a fake, and he swung his foot and never brought it down.

Speaker 1 It was just weird. And bullshit.
Old baseball writers are very, very mad at that.

Speaker 1 The real who's back of the week should have been old baseball writers getting mad at. Yeah.
They were calling it Bushley. Yeah.

Speaker 3 So what exactly are they mad at the fact that it was disrespectful to the game?

Speaker 1 This is hilarious. Yeah, it is hilarious.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Great balance, too.

Speaker 1 Incredible balance. Hard to do.
Incredible balance. I mean, it's Bush League, but if he keeps doing it, I'm fine with it.

Speaker 1 If he just makes it a thing, I think he just got caught kind of in the air and was like, I don't know what to do here. But he's been doing weird stuff.
This one tweet is so good.

Speaker 1 Dan Clark,

Speaker 1 this so-called move by Nestor Cortez should be illegal. A very mediocre pitcher trying to find an unethical advantage.
Okay, I'm now on Nestor Cortez's side. This type of stuff belongs in

Speaker 1 Savannah, in parentheses, bananas, not in the major league.

Speaker 1 All right, I now think it's an awesome pitch. An unethical advantage.
I didn't know it made people that mad.

Speaker 1 I mean, there's no way this is actually like a strategy that could work.

Speaker 1 Yeah, like he has no, but it was like 70. It's actually impressive that it was still 76 miles an hour.

Speaker 3 So, what are the rules?

Speaker 1 You can't, you, if you

Speaker 1 can't die

Speaker 1 late,

Speaker 3 then you have to let go of the ball. Yeah, nothing seems illegal here.

Speaker 1 It's just a, it doesn't seem like a strategy that would work. It was crazy.
Because you have no momentum, but. Yeah, all right, so I'm on Nestor Cortez's side now.
If it makes people mad, that rules.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Crazy pitch.
Not bullshit. I knew it wasn't bullshit.
How did you find that without seeing the video? Max just tweeted me.

Speaker 1 I was going to look for it, and then I was like, let's just see what happens. He texted me, whatever.

Speaker 1 He just said Nestor Cortez pitch. And I was going to look for it, and I said, you know what?

Speaker 1 Let's just go for it. Let's just go for it.

Speaker 1 I didn't. Okay.
I mean, you were, the odds were stacked against you because we had the same who's backs.

Speaker 1 That was actually a very good job. Thank you.
Given the circumstance, Hank.

Speaker 3 Did you catch up on sleep this weekend, Hank?

Speaker 1 I did. I'm well-rested.
Good. Sober as a goat.
Sober as a goat.

Speaker 1 Goats are sober. Is that what we're saying? Is that a saying? Okay.
Sober as a judge.

Speaker 3 Sober as a nun?

Speaker 1 Those work.

Speaker 3 Goats. A goat? I don't know.
No, goats would drink any liquor.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and I think they probably would eat grapes. Yeah.

Speaker 3 Well, not Tom Brady.

Speaker 1 That's true. The antioxidants.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Very bad inflammation.

Speaker 3 That is also my who's back of the week is Tom Brady. Oh, I thought Goats.
No, GOAT. Well, a GOAT.
A GOAT, Tom Brady, he is sober.

Speaker 3 He went on, I don't know if it's a podcast or a show.

Speaker 1 His?

Speaker 3 He was getting his haircut, which my understanding was that was trademarked by LeBron James. Yeah.
Having a conversation in a barbershop. That's true.

Speaker 3 But he was getting his haircut, and they asked him about coming back to the NFL, and he said that he would be down for it. Oh.

Speaker 3 And then he mentioned specifically, because I forget what team the barber brought up, but then Tom Brady was like, maybe the Patriots, maybe the Raiders.

Speaker 3 So, Hank, your GOAT Tom Brady might come back and play for the Patriots.

Speaker 1 That would be fantastic. Hank, where are you at right now with Drake May?

Speaker 1 I know we have draft talk coming up in a week because it's going to be draft week, which I think they should move the draft up. I think the draft should happen.

Speaker 1 I guess you can't do it March Madness to

Speaker 3 Masters. We really need it the week after the Masters.

Speaker 1 Yeah, because it just feels like I'm just ready for the draft to happen. We know what the picks are.
Well, they can eat it. But they're going to give you two weeks of buildup.
Yeah,

Speaker 1 you're going to eat it up. I'm going to be Thursday and Friday night.

Speaker 3 I'm going to be so sick of draft talk by the time the actual draft happens.

Speaker 1 Brandon Ayuk wants a trade. Yep.

Speaker 1 So where are you with Drake May? Or Tom Brady? Or Jane Daniels.

Speaker 3 Or Tom Brady. Or Tom Brady.

Speaker 1 Or Caleb Williams. Who would you pick? I would pick.

Speaker 1 Not Caleb Williams because he's not yours. He's mine.
I'm still down for Marvin Harrison Jr. Oh.
Who's going to throw him the ball? No one. Bailey Zachary.
Joke Prisset.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 There's plenty of fine quarterbacks out there.

Speaker 1 You're so fucked. There's not three.

Speaker 1 There's not three franchise quarterbacks probably in the top. You know what I mean? Like, what are the odds of that? What are the odds that the third

Speaker 1 best quarterback is a franchise quarterback? Or you have a franchise wide receiver who's a stud and can actually make things happen with a perfectly fine Jacoby Prissette. I mean, if there's.

Speaker 3 Pedro's wintold is four and a half. The thing is, we need five wins.
You have to get a quarterback at some point.

Speaker 1 Wait, so

Speaker 1 Hank is doing the Joe Burrow meme, but instead of where's Joe Burrow and Panay Sewell blocking for him, throw it to literally anyone, Joe Burrow, anyone blocking for him, and he incompletes it to Jamar Chase.

Speaker 1 Hank's doing

Speaker 1 literally anyone blocked by literally anyone, completion to Marvin Harrison. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I mean, who was all that? I like that. You need to draw that meme.

Speaker 3 And then the other one is like first round left tackle, Tom Brady, incomplete to not Marvin Harrison.

Speaker 1 Exactly.

Speaker 1 Well, if we get Marvin Harrison and get Tom Brady, then we're cooking with gas. Yeah, that's true.
If you get Tom Brady, that would be in a good state.

Speaker 3 That would be one of the best combinations instantly in the NFL.

Speaker 1 Wait, so, but if Tom Brady went to the Patriots, like, they can't pretend that Belichick and Brady can't pretend that they liked each other ever again. I think he'd be.

Speaker 1 If he waited until Belichick left and Tom Brady...

Speaker 1 but it's like that would be for it to get a 47-year-old Tom Brady out of retirement to a rebuilding team.

Speaker 3 Yeah, it was made clear when he left to begin with.

Speaker 3 And then him putting it out there even makes it even more clear that now I would be willing to go back.

Speaker 1 Yeah, oh, Belichick's not coaching anywhere in the NFL?

Speaker 3 What changed in this offseason, Tom? Oh, you know, I'm just, I realize I love the game again.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I wonder if Belichick got like a job right now. If he'd be like, nah, I don't want to.

Speaker 3 Yeah, they rehire Bill ready to get the gang back together.

Speaker 1 All right, so

Speaker 1 you don't want a quarterback.

Speaker 1 I think you need to, these next two weeks, you have to get yourself prepped for Drake May.

Speaker 3 We need your big board.

Speaker 1 You need to be ready for Drake May

Speaker 1 because it's going to happen, and then you're going to have to talk about it. It's guaranteed to happen.
No, it could be. I would say it's more likely than not.

Speaker 3 It could be JJ.

Speaker 3 Oh, it could be JJ. You might get JJ.

Speaker 1 Could be JJ.

Speaker 3 National champions. You know who J.J.

Speaker 1 is? Yeah. Okay.

Speaker 3 Which school does he play for?

Speaker 1 Michigan. Yeah.
Throwing to Marvin Harrison? Wouldn't that be a little bit difficult?

Speaker 1 I mean, yeah, we'll see.

Speaker 1 I'll lock in this week and do some draft research.

Speaker 3 Yeah, because we used to have Billy's quarterback bracket, which was a great part of the show. Billy's no longer around.

Speaker 3 He's running for Congress. He has a news conference tonight at 6.30.
I think he's taking on the mob. Anyways, he's doing something.
Smart.

Speaker 3 So we need Hank. I think you have to step up.

Speaker 1 Your top 10.

Speaker 3 Fill Billy's shoes, but your top 10 starting at number three.

Speaker 1 Yeah, so three through 13.

Speaker 3 So assume that Caleb Williams or Jaden Daniels or Drake May maybe has been taken at that point. You're going to

Speaker 1 give us your, and then I want like a little blurb about every player, too.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 Is this a once-an-episode thing? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, this week we'll do a Friday. It might not even be Friday.

Speaker 1 Is Friday going to work?

Speaker 1 We tape that on Thursdays. And Thursdays.
What time?

Speaker 1 We do 11. Okay.

Speaker 3 Just a blurb. Hank, we're honestly asking you to write 10 blurbs.

Speaker 1 Okay. Yeah.
Done. And you can most likely, and what you will do, is just take them from someone else.

Speaker 1 No, I'll do it myself. I would like you to watch a little bit.
I'll watch YouTube videos. Yeah.
Do a blurb. Watch a highlight.
Yep. But yeah, Brandon Ayuk, that was.

Speaker 1 It feels like the 49ers are on that. Like, they're going to have to make some hard decisions soon.
They can't keep everyone around. And they're going to sign Brock Purdy.

Speaker 3 Yeah, they can't keep everyone around. And also T.
Higgins said that he wanted to trade too. Yeah, he got the franchise.
Now I think T. Higgins is like, psych, I'm gonna stick around and play.

Speaker 3 He did a football camp and the kids, I guess one of the kids asked him a question about it. He was like, no, I think I'm gonna be Bengal.

Speaker 3 So you can ask for a trade all you want in the NFL, but they don't actually have to trade you.

Speaker 1 Shout out to kids.

Speaker 1 How about that kid? We didn't even mention it. The kid when Scotty touched his ball, he's like, no, it didn't move.
Yeah. It was like a seven-year-old that we just took the

Speaker 1 like, okay.

Speaker 1 He said it. I guess kids don't really lie like that.
They don't don't really understand how to.

Speaker 3 Yeah. What if a kid just like kicked his ball into the middle of the fairway?

Speaker 1 That would be hilarious. Yeah.

Speaker 3 On the fly. You can do it if it's on the fly, right?

Speaker 1 Yeah, and they probably wouldn't kick out a kid. No.

Speaker 1 Okay, so your who's back is Tom Brady.

Speaker 3 Tom Brady. Tom Brady's back.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 My who's back is Kentucky basketball and Mark Pope.

Speaker 3 Yeah, I'm with you. I think I'm a believer in Mark Pope now.

Speaker 1 So Mark Pope, they had the 96 Wildcats who Mark Pope was the captain of that team. They drove a bus into Rupp.
Rupp was, by the way, packed to the gills. And all of the players came out.

Speaker 1 Mark Pope came out with the trophy.

Speaker 1 I was saying this on Thursday, I think, is when they hired Mark Pope.

Speaker 1 If you're a Kentucky fan and you don't like this hire, I understand you thought you were going to get Nate Oates, you thought you were going to get Danny Hurley, you thought you were going to get Billy Donovan, all these things.

Speaker 1 Nostalgia is a very powerful drug. Like, I would just, if I were a Kentucky fan right now, I'd just be looking at pictures of Mark Pope and Rick Petino and be like, this is, this is, we're going back.

Speaker 1 Sometimes you've got to go back.

Speaker 3 Yeah, getting the alumni back on campus. I think they had like 15,000 people interrupt today.
So, I mean, you wanted a splashy hire.

Speaker 3 You wanted a coach that was going to come in and everybody would be like, okay, this guy is worthy of the Kentucky job. But there's no guarantee that a guy like that is going to work out long term.

Speaker 3 Right. Who knows? If Pope works out, it's going to be the best thing ever.
If he doesn't work out, it's not, yeah, you'd rather have made a better hire at the time.

Speaker 3 But an old guy that won a championship there, you're right, the nostalgia, having all the players around, it feels like it could be fun.

Speaker 1 We also had, Max had a great point last week where he said that all the boosters, all the money that would have gone to Danny Hurley's $15, $20 million contract can now go to NIL deals, including Rick Patino said that he'd pitch in.

Speaker 1 I'd never seen that before.

Speaker 3 Rick Petino is going to pitch in for Kentucky's NIL. Yeah.

Speaker 1 For what?

Speaker 1 Because he's Mark Pope's coach. That's crazy.
And they're going to do a home and home, I think, with St. John's, which rocks.

Speaker 1 That's crazy to me that patino just wants to coach kentucky yeah he was just like i'll get on he did a video being like mark pope is the man and you know if he needs help i'll help him that's insane i would yeah if i was a st.

Speaker 1 john's fan well i would not be happy about that remember it's rick patino not as much as he wants to go back to kentucky he wants the guy who came after cal to succeed yeah because he hates cal yeah which this is what college sports are about rivalries and deep-seated hate he hates cal because cal you know made everyone forget about rick Rick Petino.

Speaker 1 So, yeah, Rick Petino's ready to, ready to chip in. It's ready to go.

Speaker 1 All right, Jake.

Speaker 3 My who's back of the week is people being mad online.

Speaker 4 So I think we talked about this with

Speaker 3 Wit the other day, but they do the media lottery every year.

Speaker 1 This is crazy.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 4 And one of the winners is a reporter from a local news station named Julia.

Speaker 1 Julia won the lottery.

Speaker 4 This will be her first round of golf ever.

Speaker 1 That rocks. And people are.
That rocks.

Speaker 1 Guys, like that mad right there. Henry Lockwood, gatekeeper of golf.

Speaker 1 That's awesome. I hope she shoots 3,000.

Speaker 1 People are shooting. Yeah, person.

Speaker 1 She should like. That'd be like you taking your son out for his first time golf at Augusta.
And you'd be like, but it was your first time playing two in the whole time.

Speaker 1 You'd be like, how do you hit the ball? Yeah. Yeah.
It's going to be awesome. That's awesome.
It is funny. That's so funny.

Speaker 3 I hope she just skips like seven holes.

Speaker 1 And she's like, ah, I don't really feel like playing this one.

Speaker 3 I got nine on the last one.

Speaker 1 How can can you not find the humor in that?

Speaker 1 People are hurting it, but it's oh, it's great.

Speaker 4 People are saying the respectful thing to do would just be to decline a lot of people.

Speaker 1 No, no, no.

Speaker 3 Dude, you won the lottery.

Speaker 1 She won the lottery. You got to play.

Speaker 1 And people like Hank are going to sit there and just be so. I hope she posts her score.
And it's literally a little bit more. Why would they enter the lottery?

Speaker 1 Or play a round of golf if you've never wanted to play a round of golf in your life. It's Augusta, dude.
Covering it? Yeah. Imagine being able to be like, yeah, I played one round of golf in my life.

Speaker 1 It was at Augusta. Why would you cover golf and never at any point in your life be like, maybe I should go and hit a couple balls

Speaker 1 covering golf. I think she won Fair and Square.
He is. I get you.
I'm not sure if she's a Fair and Square, but why? Yeah. She's going to be mad.
It's just so mad.

Speaker 3 She's going to take massive divots in the middle of the fairway.

Speaker 1 Why would you be mad? If all the people, like, the only people that could really

Speaker 1 be mad is thinking someone else is in the lottery.

Speaker 1 It doesn't affect our lives at all. It doesn't affect my life at all either.
But

Speaker 1 why you're mad? But why enter? Because it's Augusta. How do do you not enter? Yeah, you have to enter

Speaker 1 because you've never, you've never had at any point in your life been like, I want to go play golf. So why now?

Speaker 3 I think you don't even have to play golf to enjoy a nice round of golf.

Speaker 1 I hope they make Augusta. Yeah, I hope they make this a new tradition.
Just finding one person who doesn't even like golf. Yeah.

Speaker 3 And like kidnapping them and forcing them to go to Augusta. I hope she posts their scorecard.

Speaker 1 Oh, it would be.

Speaker 1 Oh,

Speaker 1 we gotta, we gotta at least

Speaker 1 we gotta fake a scorecard and post it and be like, look, here's the person who won it it and have it be legitimate like 375.

Speaker 1 Every hole is a 22.

Speaker 3 And I hope she gets a hole in one by mistake.

Speaker 1 That's what I would put on my card.

Speaker 3 Yeah, she gets a hole in one, shoots a 300.

Speaker 1 Oh, man. How mad would people be if we played Augusta and I did a fake scorecard? Oh,

Speaker 3 what if you're behind her? What if you are like

Speaker 3 you get an opportunity to play Augusta and then you can't play? You don't finish your round because she's in front of you. She doesn't know how to play.

Speaker 1 I like how mad this made Hank. He's so pissed about this.
I wasn't mad.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah, you're mad, dude. You're so mad that she's getting to play Augusta.

Speaker 3 Your name wasn't even in the lottery.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's what I'm saying. If your name was in the lottery, I could understand being like, fuck this.
I really wish I could play. Yeah.

Speaker 1 We're never going to play.

Speaker 1 That's what it is. Hank thinks he's going to play Augustus.
I'll never play Augusta. No,

Speaker 1 you think he costs it. I'll never cover it and we have credentials.
We'll be in the lottery. I'll never cover it.
Yeah, I'll never cover it either. I'll cover it.
So, Jake, oh,

Speaker 1 will you be more mad about this woman playing it or Jake playing it?

Speaker 1 I would be thrilled for Jake if he played it. By the way, big nerd move.
I saw a few people doing, they were making it

Speaker 1 like A-G-N-C.

Speaker 1 They just call it Addiction. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 3 Yeah, I don't like that.

Speaker 1 Or A-G-N-G-C?

Speaker 3 You're not a member there. Yeah.
It's characters, though.

Speaker 1 Yeah, but just, come on, just say Augusta. It's the Masters.

Speaker 1 All right.

Speaker 1 Let's get to Scott Van Pelt. Let's talk a little Masters.
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Speaker 1 Okay, we now welcome on one of our very, very good friends, a tradition unlike any other. It is Scott Van Pelt calling us from the airport in Georgia.
Scott, before we talk about the Masters,

Speaker 1 just want to say thank you as always for joining us. Last year,

Speaker 1 people who were listening, when Scott was getting a phone call from his neighbor and it turned out that his house was on fire, I'm happy we're a year removed from that and everything is good, right?

Speaker 5 On track. We're good.

Speaker 5 I will say this week is always my favorite week of the year, as you boys know. This is a big part of it.
I always enjoy visiting.

Speaker 5 It's wild to be sitting in this airport a year later and remember when I was getting a call from a neighbor and it's your house was on fire. Not great.

Speaker 5 That was a shitty night. But, you know, we're a year removed.
We're almost back

Speaker 5 and we're good. And Master's Week was awesome.
So, you know,

Speaker 5 nothing but blue skies ahead, I hope.

Speaker 1 All right.

Speaker 3 I can't imagine what that flight was like after you get the call that your house is on fire. And then you have to go up in a plane and lose cell service for a few hours.

Speaker 3 And when you land, you just hope that everything's okay.

Speaker 5 Well, you know what's wild about that, honestly, PFT, is that like my best friend went to my house. All right.

Speaker 5 And like, think about whoever that person is for you that would go to your house if your house was on fire.

Speaker 5 And once we got to a high enough place where you got cell service, I sent a note and I'm like, how bad are we talking? And I see dot, dot, dot.

Speaker 5 Now, there are, we all are familiar with the text with the dot dot dot,

Speaker 5 with which is like, you know, the late night dot dot dot. Like, maybe something great's about to happen in that dot, dot, dot, right? Well, I'm just waiting to see what he says, and then nothing.

Speaker 5 And I'm like, oh shit, he's trying to figure out how to tell me this. And it's, I finally get the answer back, And it's like, it's bad, but it could have been worse.
Okay. And so, okay, so, right.

Speaker 5 So, like, you have a best friend that was telling you this. And I'm thinking, like,

Speaker 5 that means like if you got into a fight with a man with a machete, like he cut off your arm, but you're not dead. Like, that was, that was the way I was rationalizing it.

Speaker 5 Then, you know, I got home that night and was like, you know, 1.30 in the morning. And you walk in and you're like, whoa, this is bad.

Speaker 5 Like, cause in my head, like, by the time we took off last year, I was like, well, it's out.

Speaker 5 And they got it contained. And I'm like,

Speaker 5 no big deal. We're good.
We'll, we'll, we'll get a broom and we'll sweep some stuff up. We'll live in the other half of the house.

Speaker 5 And you get home and you're like, oh, no, it's going to be a year and change. So anyway,

Speaker 5 it was, it was not great, man.

Speaker 1 It was a.

Speaker 1 It was, it was also like, I, I just think about it because you are the consummate prone. Like I said, thank you so much.
We love having you on this show every year.

Speaker 1 And I remember you getting the beep like through your phone and you ignored it, and then you texted me after, and you're like, that was an interesting call that I was getting.

Speaker 1 It was a little more serious.

Speaker 1 Yeah, but

Speaker 1 you are the best for coming on with us. So, let's talk about this Masters.
Scotty Scheffler,

Speaker 1 absolute domination.

Speaker 1 When we started the show and we were talking about it, I threw out there, and I want to hear what your take is on this, that the wind on Friday and Saturday kind of fooled us to be like, oh, someone else could win this Masters because everyone was kind of on the same spot where it's like, it's hard to get birdies and even for Scotty.

Speaker 1 And then when the wind died down, you saw today, it was just like, no, I'm the best golfer in the world, and it's not close.

Speaker 5 That's that's hashtag Big Cat Golf Insider. I feel like you're on, you're on it.
It's that's pretty accurate.

Speaker 5 The thing I'd say is about this is when the day started, we were a lot of us at the course were entertaining the thought that somebody could go out and shoot something low because the people, Max, I, we were a lot of us rooting for Max.

Speaker 5 If he could just start making some putts, he hit the ball so beautifully. Moracau has won a couple of majors.
Oberg is going to be a monster forever.

Speaker 5 Like somebody's going to go shoot something low because it felt like it typically is out there on a Sunday. But it was really, it was a challenging week.

Speaker 5 And ultimately, the guy that went low was Scotty.

Speaker 5 You're right that the wind was insane. Like Scotty afterwards just tried to explain it.

Speaker 5 Like he said on 15, on Friday, he hit driver three iron and he had a layup to like 70 yards because it was into the wind. Today he hit driver four iron.
He was on the green

Speaker 5 or the bunker. But like it was the wind was is I've never seen it like that.
And I've been coming here for a long, long time. Like it was just so steady and relentless.

Speaker 5 And it did create maybe a sense that it was going to be,

Speaker 5 you know, somebody could catch him. But he's, he's got a different gear at the moment.
And he's, he's just an awesome guy. Has he been on with you?

Speaker 1 No.

Speaker 3 We don't know that much about him because he doesn't do a whole lot of pressing. So we don't know that much about his person.
He seems like a very nice person and a very private person. Is that fair?

Speaker 5 Yes, but I think more than that,

Speaker 5 I think he just

Speaker 5 has the best sort of sense of what he cares about. And he's not a social media person.
He's a simple guy in that he loves, he's got a huge guy. He's got great faith.

Speaker 5 He's a huge family guy. That family's getting ready to have an addition.

Speaker 5 And like a lot of people in sports, not just golf, but in sports, like they reach a certain point and then they think they have to keep getting better.

Speaker 5 And they like, they try, like Tiger did it forever. He was like, I got, I got to keep getting better.
And so, and I would always say to him, no, you don't.

Speaker 5 You just have to wake up and keep being who you are. I think the genius of Scotty is he's like, I'm real good with whatever this is and I'm not trying to change any of it.

Speaker 5 And when he says stuff like, look, my identity is secure and it doesn't change with this i really believe it he won like 12 million in a month and i don't think it matters to him at all so that's that's rare like it's really rare to be as good as he is at what he does and not have it impact who he is at all and i really don't think it does yes it's lip service when someone says that yeah and usually yeah the personality of

Speaker 5 12 million yeah i promise you i'd be different i'd be like i would just do horrible i don't know what i do but even as an old man like i'd do crazy if i won all that money.

Speaker 1 I just blow it, go to Vegas, meet PFT at that spot, get a bag, whatever that was.

Speaker 3 Oh, yeah, mushrooms.

Speaker 3 I was, I was, I didn't want to bring it up, but since you brought it up, I wanted to apologize to you, Scott, because I do recall running into you in the casino, and there were some other friends around.

Speaker 3 I was halfway to the moon on some mushrooms, and I had a bag, and I just like took them out in the open with everybody around us and handed it to somebody else.

Speaker 3 And then I was like, oh, yeah, Scott's right in front of us as we're doing this. Probably not the place that he wants to be seen.

Speaker 5 If I could add one little caveat to the story, because the PMT looks right up at me and goes,

Speaker 5 that wasn't really very subtle, was it?

Speaker 1 Not really.

Speaker 5 I mean, this has been a banner week for stories. We have that.
I got to tell the Chris Long story of how he stayed on a soft 16, which

Speaker 5 you don't see that a lot. No.

Speaker 1 You know, it's great to see everybody.

Speaker 1 I had a blast. Yeah,

Speaker 1 we run a real tight operation over here because they were my mushrooms. I left early to try to be like a great dad and get home early.

Speaker 1 I was like, PFT, take my mushrooms because I would have eaten them with you.

Speaker 3 I would have been a bad friend if I didn't take them for Big Cat.

Speaker 1 Someone's going to eat these? Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 5 So instead of eating mushrooms, you were home in time to eat donuts.

Speaker 1 Donuts.

Speaker 1 Yes, exactly. Exactly.
But when PFT started sending the pictures, I was like, I should have stayed and eaten the mushrooms.

Speaker 3 Yeah, look, here's me with Big Dom. Yeah.
And my pupils are the size of Big Dom's head.

Speaker 1 We got to make up for it. We went to the Final Four and ate a bunch of mushrooms there.

Speaker 3 That's very true. You're right.

Speaker 5 It all works out.

Speaker 3 We're not drug guys, though.

Speaker 1 We don't do drugs.

Speaker 3 But to your point about Scotty, it's weird to have such great perspective and to be that dominant at your sport because you think of like all the other greats, like Tiger Woods, Tom Brady.

Speaker 3 They have zero perspective on real life, right? They're just focused on being the best at their sport. And that's what drives them to just dominate people.

Speaker 3 But Scotty's just like, yeah, you know, who I am as a golfer doesn't define me, but he just happens to be the best fucking golfer in the world by a large margin.

Speaker 5 By a lot. And I think, you know, you hear from the very beginning, people talk about like, oh, this dude, he's like an old soul.
And he really is.

Speaker 5 I was asking myself this today. And I thought it seemed like it had to be longer ago.
But

Speaker 5 it was the November Masters. It was the one in 2020.
I'd never met him. And I knew he was this, you know, one of the next big things in the sport.
So there's no one here.

Speaker 5 And I just wandered over when he was finishing up a practice round to introduce myself. And that was 2020.
Like he's played in five of these and he's won two already. And I mean,

Speaker 5 the thing about this sport, and we're not great at this in golf or in any sport, really, when somebody shows up and they become something like this,

Speaker 5 you just say, well, this is how it's going to be forever. Well, it mostly that's not how life works.
But if anybody has has the ability to stay in this lane,

Speaker 5 I bet on him because, again, I don't want to be redundant, which is what I'm doing. But like, he just doesn't seem to have vices or things that could get in the way of any of it.

Speaker 5 Presuming he stays healthy, I think he'll just keep just obliterating people.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah, it's a crazy story, and he does, he's a very likable guy.

Speaker 1 All right, so Scott, put this into perspective for us. Tiger obviously didn't do great today or the weekend, but 24 consecutive cuts at Augusta.

Speaker 1 We take it for granted,

Speaker 1 but it seems like looking back, it's like, holy shit, that's an insane stat to have. Not having one time where you had a Thursday and Friday, one off-round can ruin that streak.

Speaker 5 Yeah, it's it's

Speaker 5 yes, exactly. What you said is exactly right, but I think for so long, Big Cat.

Speaker 5 And he did it this week. Like, I'm here to win.
And like, all right, listen, you've earned the right. You're allowed to say that because you're you.

Speaker 5 But I also think, if he's being honest, the guy had played like 24 holes of golf all year.

Speaker 5 And he had to play 23 holes of golf on Friday. And if you were up early with us Friday morning, we came on at like 7.45 and you could see like it was cold out.

Speaker 5 He's moving like an old guy that has a fused back and a busted up leg. He's stiff.
He can't move. And you're thinking, oh, this is going to be a hard, this is going to be a hard day, man.

Speaker 5 And he just stayed like it looked miserable, like every moment looked miserable but he has this gear this thing inside him where he just stares at whatever that pain or that adversity is and he's like hey fuck you because i'm me and i'm going to win and him making the cut at one over was winning and that's the win for this week for him because he didn't have the ability to play 72 holes right now and it was really cool when max came into the butler cabin to be able to ask max obviously about what he was doing, which was incredible.

Speaker 5 But you guys know how much he reveres Tiger.

Speaker 5 And he got to play alongside the guy for two days and just sort of give us the context of what it's like to see the greatest of this generation battle his ass off just to play the weekend.

Speaker 5 And you could hear it in Max's, you know, his answers about how I just had the best seat to watch the guy do it. It was, it was.
awesome that he made the cut.

Speaker 5 And then, you know, then the hard thing is now you got to play 36 more. And he goes 82, 77.
He's never finished last in the Masters.

Speaker 5 He's finished first five times, never finished last after making the cut. He did this week.

Speaker 5 But, you know, it's not patronizing, I don't think, to say that making the cut is the win for him for this week because of the record you just mentioned.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 3 Is the big winner in all that Charlie Woods being the swing coach that

Speaker 3 got his dad to make the cut at the Masters?

Speaker 5 He's so awesome. Like I was asking Justin Thomas about him and he's like, he's just the best because he's got all this game and he talks all all this crap.
And you could just imagine it, right?

Speaker 5 Like, imagine you're Tigers kid and you're really good and you can hit it farther than your dad. And you can be on the range at August and just be like, this is not what we talked about.
Let's go.

Speaker 1 Let's tighten. Let's tighten it up, old man.

Speaker 5 And I mean, I don't know him. I just gave him knuckles the other day.
I'm like, how are we doing? Like, yeah, he's like, we're getting there talking about his own game.

Speaker 5 Like, you could just, you know, I mean, you can imagine, you could go one of two ways if you're the, you know, if you're the son of Tiger, like you could just be like this obnoxious kid that sucks, or you could be the coolest kid in the room, and he's the coolest kid in the room.

Speaker 1 Just so you know, not in a creepy way, we have dibs on him. So I know that you understand.
You think he's cool, but he did have a pardon my take club cover that we saw a couple years ago.

Speaker 1 So he's probably listening to this right now. We have dibs.

Speaker 5 You can have him.

Speaker 5 I got to have the relationship with dad that

Speaker 5 helped me have my life.

Speaker 5 And you guys are certainly obviously bigger stars than me for the future. So by all means, Charlie Woods is all part of my take.

Speaker 1 Charlie Woods is basically like our future investment.

Speaker 3 Yeah, he's our real ticket to staying relevant to the outer 50s.

Speaker 1 Yeah, when people are like, this show sucks, you guys are so old. We're like, but Charlie Woods comes on once a month and he's fucking awesome.
Yeah, Charlie Woods.

Speaker 5 AWL.

Speaker 1 How old is that one?

Speaker 5 All the stuff I got on Twitter was like just

Speaker 5 two AWLs and the Butler Cabinet. That was like kind of a cool thing.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you and Max.

Speaker 5 I hope for you guys, too.

Speaker 1 Oh, very cool. It's very cool.

Speaker 3 And we were rooting so hard for Max, too. And he played, I think he played really well.

Speaker 3 There was no way he was going to be able to compete with Scotty on Sunday. But it did make me think like, yeah,

Speaker 3 Max could actually win this as long as maybe Scotty's wife goes into labor like 72 hours earlier and then he's got a chance to win on Sunday.

Speaker 5 Yeah. You know what? Yes, that would have been helpful if he got the, if, if Max, if, uh, if Scotty got the phone call, and I honest to God, think he would have left like and knocked out twice.

Speaker 5 Like, whatever, I got a green jacket. I don't have a kid.
I got to go home.

Speaker 5 but max was so good and it's just he just needed to make uh he needed to make some putts yesterday if he made putts saturday i think he could have won today at some point you just have to you start applying pressure because you just know that you're running out of holes you know like i've got to and he just it had to be incredibly frustrating just to be so close so often and um and just not be able to get the putts to drop but it's still for him and for moricawa both neither had had great years so far and so um you know, for both of them to play, uh,

Speaker 5 for both of them to play well this week is, is a big springboard moving forward.

Speaker 1 You're not getting a call right now, are you? No, no, no, no, that made me scared.

Speaker 5 I got it.

Speaker 5 This is so, this is the truth. I got a text and I looked at him like, please don't be.

Speaker 1 Oh, you got really scared there for a second. You looked up, and I was like, oh, no.

Speaker 1 It wasn't. For Max, though,

Speaker 1 I love the journey that he's going through because everyone knows, you know, he grinded for a long time, Corn Ferry, PJ, back to Corn Ferry.

Speaker 1 And for the the last few years it's been like not being able to perform at his highest level in the majors last year he finished his top 10 this year he's in he's he's there like he can do it so it's like it's a climb it sucks but were you able to talk to him after like how is he how is he doing our max back girl wanted to have him on this week and we're like fuck no dude we can't have him on after this like he needs some time but were you able to talk to him I didn't see him when it ended because we go right up to our set to get ready to do our thing.

Speaker 5 And like, honestly, there's to me,

Speaker 5 and I'm sure you guys are similar, right? Like we're really blessed to know these people and they're just people.

Speaker 5 And if it were you, I'd be psyched that you were in the mix and I'd be pulling for you. But the last thing I would do at 7.05 is fire off.

Speaker 5 All right, big cat, this was awesome. And here's why.
Because you don't care. You don't want to hear it.
And you're just one of a million other texts from people that meanwhile, they're being sincere.

Speaker 5 But like, to me, it's, it's like a, it's like a 24-hour rule kind of thing. And at some point, you just, you know, I shot him a note last night, just like, you're, whoa, sorry.

Speaker 5 Like you're playing, you're playing awesome. You just have to believe the putts are going to go in.
Well, not enough did, but so what? Like he still played awesome. Right.
But I'll, I'll wait.

Speaker 5 And, you know, you just give it time before you bug him because the last thing you want that to be is like, like, hey, not today, you know, not right now, Danfield.

Speaker 5 I'm really not in the mood for your attaboy.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's like a two-week thing. Two weeks is usually for these professional sports.

Speaker 1 For professional sports.

Speaker 1 Yeah, for professional athletes, because I'm just like, professional athletes are like, like when Josh Allen has had some heartbreaking loss, I would be like, let's give it a little bit of time because, like,

Speaker 1 they don't, you know, they want to go through the whole course. I feel like he'll be back to normal in a couple of weeks.

Speaker 3 Well, do you think Max is listening to the show right now?

Speaker 1 He is.

Speaker 3 I don't think I would listen to the podcast after the Masters if I was.

Speaker 1 Okay, if Max is listening to this show, let's just all say we're so proud of him and he's going to win one.

Speaker 3 Max, I'm really proud of you.

Speaker 1 You're right there. Yeah.
And it's

Speaker 3 that rosebush was fucked up. They should not have put that rosebush there.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 And also, you probably should have hit it out of there. But that's, listen, I'm not your caddy.
I'm not Joe. Also, I would have hit it out of there.

Speaker 3 I saw where it went in on TV. I was yelling at Joe.
I was like, no, it's right there. You're looking in the wrong place.

Speaker 1 Could he have hit it out of there? He could have, right?

Speaker 1 If he wanted to.

Speaker 5 Sure,

Speaker 5 sure, but the number of things that go right if you try to hit it out of there versus the number of things. It's like life's life's a risk reward thing yeah

Speaker 5 the risk rather lengthy the reward is really small there so i mean he did what he had to do you just had to you had to avoid double and once you make double there now you're like all right i have to make i have to make eagle on 13 and probably something else so yeah he did end up uh yeah it was he ended up making like a million dollars at the end of the tournament so if he had done our idea that probably would have dropped him down to like 700 000 yeah it was good job um what do you make of note gate where are we at with note gate because i saw saw there was the buzz that Tiger might have passed a note to Neil Shipley.

Speaker 1 And I love this. This is just very masters, Augusta.
There's rules and they follow the rules. But

Speaker 1 was there a note passed?

Speaker 5 Man, I have no idea. I just,

Speaker 5 like, I have, I don't know.

Speaker 5 We'll get to the bottom of this. Yeah.

Speaker 5 We'll get to the bottom of this. But like, well, let's have, like, let's let's just go through this.
Like, it's, like, it's CSIP, pardon my take. Like, what would have been on it?

Speaker 1 what

Speaker 1 what would have been bad about it what what who's in trouble yeah well we had we had a guess of what would be on it we're gonna spare you our guesses because you're friends of tiger um

Speaker 1 it could have been what if he had said like use you know use a seven here instead of an eight I guess that would be, but it also is probably a really cool moment.

Speaker 5 You're not supposed to do that and golf, but like, why wouldn't you just say it? Or you have the catty hold up, like, hold up five.

Speaker 5 Like, there's there's ways that we like the information shared but like i mean is it what did we write down like a silly joke i don't know who knows who cares i i

Speaker 3 honest me honestly i don't yeah yeah i i don't really care it'd be funny though if it said like last time i took a tampon out of my bag and then threw it on the ground i got in trouble so this note is me pretending like i'm taking a tampon out yeah same thing

Speaker 5 Masters probably were not going that route.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I think they would execute you for doing that. Yeah.

Speaker 5 What about another one I was was curious about bryson his 3d printed uh clubs how how does that get approved and it were they just like we've never seen this before so i guess yeah you're approved i think he's like uh he's like straight from nasa the whole thing like the clubs the the loft the whole shebang like he but i got to say something about that guy like he went through that thing where he was like hey i drink lots of milkshakes and I'm I look like if you pop me with a pin, I would fly around like a balloon because I'm super swole and I'm doing all these curls videos in my garage with dudes and like it that reached a point where I think everyone was like hey I'm all set with this and he's now he looks phenomenal he's in great shape I think that there he he sat in the uh in the media center years ago and said you know par for me around here 67

Speaker 5 and the master spokes were like really

Speaker 5 you don't say and then he didn't play well and i don't think anybody around here was particularly sad that that's the case. Right.
But he came back. It felt like there was a humility to the guy.

Speaker 5 I enjoyed the time that he spent. He came in a couple of days in the butler cabin.
He grinded his butt off, played really well.

Speaker 5 But if you're asking me, like, what the numbers are for the putting and what goes on with his clubs and the loft and the three, I don't have a fucking clue. And I don't think anybody else does either.

Speaker 5 And I think that's part of it. Like everyone would just look around and be like, are these conforming? I have no idea.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 5 No one knows.

Speaker 1 Since Brooks squashed his beef, we've squashed our beef. Like Bryson is, he's good for golf.
He's an interesting guy.

Speaker 1 Like, there's enough people out there that don't want to be interesting people when they're playing sports. Like, the people who are interesting and do things differently, we should improve.

Speaker 1 And he looked like he was actually having fun today.

Speaker 5 Yeah. And when he hold out like Saturday, it's like, awesome.
Go get them. And I mean, he was, he was in the mix.
And he's a, look, he's an awesome player. His ceiling's really high.

Speaker 5 And I think this week I was on Pardon interruption and it was they asked me about live or maybe it was lebatard i don't know i just said no one gives a about this live stuff at this point it feels like golf just needs to get back together but it's kind of complicated because like the pga tour said hey you can't take the money a bunch of dudes did and then they're like yeah well let's get back together like what's easy for you to say you got a hundred million right

Speaker 5 i think everyone kind of just understands that it's better when everyone plays it's fun to see rom and brooks and bryson and cam smith and Neiman and all the other dudes.

Speaker 5 Like, it's, you want to see them all play together because that means the best in the world are together. And Bryson's one of those people.
So, I mean,

Speaker 5 this week, I think the ratings were high for, well, it's the Masters. That's the reason.
But it's also just a reminder that people like to Shambo, a personality guy and a talent.

Speaker 5 They help make the game more interesting. Like, I don't imagine you all have talked any golf at all this year to this point, or if you did, it wasn't much.

Speaker 3 Yeah, well, Hank makes us talk about golf a lot. Yeah, plays a ton of it.

Speaker 1 Hank's mad because the reporter from Wisconsin, who's never played a round of golf, won the lottery. So she's going to play Augusta tomorrow.

Speaker 5 Hank, you want me to get you out here? You want me to see if I can get to something else?

Speaker 1 How many times have you played? Here? Yeah.

Speaker 5 Some, you know, I don't know.

Speaker 5 It's actually not a lot.

Speaker 5 You know, the funny thing? I told someone this story today. There was a member that asked me and I couldn't because of work and then asked me again and I couldn't because of work.

Speaker 5 And he's like, you know, I've never had to ask anybody more than once. And I I was like, I host a show and it's just me.

Speaker 5 And if I'm not there, then, I mean, it's not like I can get someone to cover my shift. You know, I'm sorry.
It sucks so bad having to say, I can't, I couldn't do it.

Speaker 5 I'm just, I'm hoping to get back again at some point. But yeah, I mean, you know, I know a couple of people that won the lottery.
I don't know.

Speaker 5 I don't, I didn't hear the story about the Wisconsin person that's never played, but this ain't the person. This is not the place you want to, you know, play for the first time.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 What did you shoot? What's your low round at Augusta?

Speaker 5 i broke a hundred but i it was like it started with a nine i was very sad about that because i putted well but i hit it awful and i was a complete tourist i was like all i did was walk around and take pictures the whole time if i did it again now i would be i would have a way different approach um but it was it was i was super touristy the whole time i look back on it now and i mean whatever i think i probably had like quadruple pleated pants and like a bad part in my hair so there's a lot about that day i'd like to redo hopefully i'll get another crack at it here.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 Let us know. Hank will definitely play with you, by the way.

Speaker 1 Yeah, we'll see if I can get that done.

Speaker 3 He would actually, it's the opposite of you.

Speaker 1 He would quit.

Speaker 3 Yeah, he would quit Barstall as a whole for one round of it.

Speaker 1 For one round, yeah.

Speaker 3 So, very easy. But, um, there was another one.

Speaker 1 Throw it all away, Hank.

Speaker 5 You got a good thing cooking, man.

Speaker 3 Another big reason people tuned in to see Vern for the last time. Yeah.

Speaker 3 It's not going to feel the same without Vern.

Speaker 3 I assume that you've gotten to know him over the years. Can you just tell us what he's like behind the scenes?

Speaker 5 He's like, there's certain people i think that you

Speaker 5 whatever you think imagine burn lundquist would be like like i think we all can be cynical right i mean all of us and we can kind of roll our eyes and stuff and then there's certain people you meet and you're like that's burn lundquist and there's a reverence because he's been uh this this soundtrack of so many incredible moments and he's really great and he's been incredibly nice to me.

Speaker 5 And so the other day on our broadcast,

Speaker 5 the producer from CBS, his name's Seller Shai. He's like, do you want to say something to Vern? Like, you want to do something here on Vern? I'm like, man, that'd be awesome.

Speaker 5 And so I didn't have anything written down, but I just said that, you know, the moments here don't need anything, you know, the moments at the master stand on their own, but an iconic

Speaker 5 call can make these moments forever moments. And Vern has made, like, made moments

Speaker 5 completely elevated to a different level. Like, yes, sir, with Jack and in your life, have you ever seen anything like that with Tiger?

Speaker 5 You don't just remember what they looked like, you remember what they sounded like because of Vern.

Speaker 5 And I went on and on about how great it was for us at ESPN to be able to share part of the weekend and show our respect and appreciation because we're just, you know, we're talking for all the people out there.

Speaker 5 And he came up to me the other day and it was like he was choked up about how he could never thank me.

Speaker 5 adequately for what I said. And I'm thinking to myself, this is, there's surreal moments in your life.

Speaker 5 And here's Vern Lundquist thanking me for thanking him and it was like all i could do not to like i wanted to pick him up and hug him yeah

Speaker 5 i didn't want it to get weird for vern so i just told him how sincere i meant what i said and it's been a treat to get to know him because he's such a gentleman and he's a legend in broadcasting and like look

Speaker 5 we we've all gotten to know each other right and i think you you guys understand that

Speaker 5 I appreciate all this, but there's certain times that you just can't even believe that it's what you get to do. Like you cross paths with that guy at this event.

Speaker 5 And on Thursday and Friday, like you're calling the golf and he's on the call with you. And you're like, how did any of this happen?

Speaker 5 So it was really, really something I'll never forget when he was so appreciative of me just saying thanks, which is what everyone would do if they had that chance. You know what I mean?

Speaker 1 It's so, it's such a great point, too, when it comes to sports and like the announcers that just live in your head. Like I always just think of college football and Keith Jackson.

Speaker 1 Like it's always, it will just forever be ingrained in my brain. And, you know, Brent and all these guys.

Speaker 1 But yeah, Vern, those moments, especially the Tiger moment, like, that's, yeah, that's the first thing you think of is just repeating what he says as Tigers' ball rolls in.

Speaker 1 I got one more master's question, then I got another question, then we'll let you go because I know you got a flight to catch. We were talking about this.
The green jacket ceremony, awesome.

Speaker 1 Very unique to sports in the fact that you have the champion from last year putting on the jacket for the champion this year.

Speaker 1 Like, could you ever imagine Tom Brady handing over a Super Bowl trophy to, you know, Patrick Mahomes. He wins it the next year.

Speaker 1 Have you ever talked to anyone about that and being like, is that fuel?

Speaker 1 Because like John Rahm does, you can't look comfortable in that moment to be like, I'm here, I'm competing, and now I got to put the green jacket on you, and I wanted to win this thing this year.

Speaker 5 I actually was really lucky to be able to talk to Arnold Palmer about it like a long time ago because there was this series of time when, and I mean, it predates me mostly, but I mean, it was Palmer and Player and Nicholas, the big three.

Speaker 5 And there was like this, there's a stretch, and I'll get it wrong, but it was like Gary put it on Jack, Jack put it on Arnold, Arnold put it on Gary. Like it just, it traded hands among that trio.

Speaker 5 And I mean,

Speaker 5 I mean, in so many words, Arnold was like, well, of course, there's just enormous respect, but there's just nothing that would make you, your, your competitive fire burn brighter than the idea that I got to put this thing on this guy right that i wanted to beat like i and then and he and he beat my ass and now i have to give him this i still have mine but like you're the one that gets this now i i think that there is something that is uh like it's it's it's like a sacred part of the week and it just shows the reverence and the respect that the champions have for each other but hell yeah if you got it like you think rom wants to put it on scotty like those guys were going back and forth all year last year right and and now you know look, Ron got all the dough and he didn't have his best.

Speaker 5 I saw him on Saturday and I said, you know, you battled your ass off yesterday. He said it was not a good day to not have your best stuff.
But I give him credit as a champ.

Speaker 5 He wanted to be here playing the weekend. He didn't want to have to stick around and not be able to go home and have to wait till Sunday, right, to put the jacket on.

Speaker 5 But you're absolutely right that there's that it's it's a revered part of the traditions and there's a long list of them, but it absolutely is the kind of thing that that stokes the fire among these most competitive guys.

Speaker 5 And wouldn't surprise anybody if Ron won it again next year. But

Speaker 5 there's so many things I love about

Speaker 5 this week. And

Speaker 5 I think one of them we probably have to do here.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 1 that was my like, wait, if, if Scotty, because I don't even remember when Tiger won back to back, what happens if Scotty wins next year? Does he just put it on himself?

Speaker 5 No, he gets to go streaking.

Speaker 1 That's the rule. He went to her.
He just went around bucking the playoffs.

Speaker 5 No, like the chairman.

Speaker 1 The chairman was the one that

Speaker 5 would

Speaker 5 put the jacket on him. And

Speaker 5 to me, it's more fun when it's when, especially when it's great champions like it was today, which is pretty much every year.

Speaker 5 If you're a master's champion, it's obviously great. But when you're talking about really high-ranked players, like those moments are

Speaker 5 more memorable, I think. So I agree.
We're surprised to know if it's Sheffler next year. He's out of his mind.

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Speaker 1 So, Scott, what are we working with this year?

Speaker 1 All right. That was

Speaker 1 a very lengthy read. All right, hold on.
I got to turn.

Speaker 5 Got to turn my camera around. Wait.

Speaker 1 Can the old guy figure it out?

Speaker 5 No, nobody knows. How do I turn it it around?

Speaker 1 Oh, no.

Speaker 1 You're going to have to just do it the manual way.

Speaker 5 I am.

Speaker 5 Oh, here, hold on. Let me turn it around sideways.

Speaker 5 And then let's just turn it around this way. So let's see.

Speaker 3 Do we have the big Texan?

Speaker 3 We got Cheeses, Fritos. Those look like chili.

Speaker 1 Oh, chili cheese Fritos are 1-1. Oh, no, Cool Ranch Ferritos.

Speaker 5 We got Cheese Fix Munchies.

Speaker 1 Okay. We got the...

Speaker 5 Ooh, there's the Mrs. Freshleys again.
Guys, I had terrible news.

Speaker 1 No big Texas. I think that...

Speaker 1 Are you going to be able to survive the flight back without the cinnamon cinnamon roll a lot to reveal guys can we see everything yeah we can see everything i think you got to go chili cheese fritos

Speaker 3 and uh i would go i would go chili cheese fritos maybe cool ranch doritos and then the miss freshleys

Speaker 5 i'm just wandering around the uh the uh fbo here now i'm just going to sit on this leather couch in this bright light and just say what a sad thing it is that there's no big texas this is uh we're going to speak we're going to have to speak to the folks here there's i i did run into my

Speaker 5 the youngster that gave me the gross of Big Texas last year at the PGA. And he's like, literally, I think he's like a Big Texas drug dealer.

Speaker 5 I think he just has them.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 5 Because I swear to God, he was going to meet me with like a case of them. And I was like, I'll be honest with you.
I'm all

Speaker 1 good.

Speaker 1 He's more of a once-a-year man.

Speaker 5 He was ready to deliver the goods.

Speaker 5 I think I'm going to get the chili cheese for etos though.

Speaker 3 Although, big Texas, that would be a great nickname for Scotty.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 3 He's Big Texas. He's a Big Texas.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 That's it. How poetic is that?

Speaker 5 I know, I know, I know his guy. I know his guy, Blake.
I'll get on the, I'll get, I'll shoot a note directly to him and say, we've got PFT says the, let's get the big Texas thing sorted out. And

Speaker 5 it's probably a great, great opportunity to make some dough there.

Speaker 1 Scotty's guy is Blake. Scotty's guy is Blake?

Speaker 5 Blake of the year.

Speaker 1 Damn.

Speaker 1 He's he's got it all. He's got a Blake.
Yeah. He's got it.

Speaker 3 He's got it figured out. Is that couch the casting couch?

Speaker 1 I didn't even know that. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 Say it again.

Speaker 3 Is that couch the casting couch couch?

Speaker 5 Whoa.

Speaker 1 No.

Speaker 1 I think this is where he stuck to.

Speaker 5 I think the pilots come in here and hang out.

Speaker 1 That's probably going to kick me out of here. Well, last question, Scott.

Speaker 1 As someone who loves to take the points,

Speaker 1 March Madness, not so great.

Speaker 5 I mean, I needed to do. I needed to do, how about Portnoy?

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 He's pretty good. He's a sharp now.

Speaker 1 The fact that he also gets to say he was, he had a tweet when Morakao was on 18, and he was like, big battle for third-place money, aka Portnoy money, because he won more, I think, than the third place guy at the Masters this week.

Speaker 5 Well, let me just tell you, as a guy that likes to take points, like you got Yukon has won 12 straight by,

Speaker 5 they've covered them all, and they've been laying points in all of them. For a guy who's like, take the plus sign, you end up with a big minus sign.

Speaker 5 I've been on the struggle bus pretty mightily. I just, I'm just going to tail you and Fortnoy because you guys are apparently printing dough.

Speaker 1 Yeah. I mean, we had our Scott FaceTimes me like two minutes before the tip off of the first game every year in March Madness.
Like, there's nothing better than this.

Speaker 1 And then I think it was a record this year. I think it was three hours that you texted me back.
You're like, there's nothing worse than this. This is terrible.

Speaker 5 literally i facetimed it was like 11 53 it was the most and that was like like am i lying big cat i mean there was but the joy in both of our like it was sincere joy and it was by the like by the 250 window i'm like it's all it was all a lie

Speaker 5 it was all a lie and then but you won what are you talking about

Speaker 1 the ucon future i know the ucon the ucon saved my tournament i know i know well you can winning it all made it a bad tournament for me wow So, you know,

Speaker 5 I've had a total 180 on Hurley. I thought he was a complete, I thought he was a lunatic.
And he kind of is. He is.
But

Speaker 5 I love him. He's the best.

Speaker 1 He's the best. Because you know what it is? College basketball needs those type of guys.
Like, that's what college basketball was for so long.

Speaker 1 The Bayheims, the Kay, like these guys that are crazy and yelling at people. Hurley is the new, he's old school.
Like, we need someone to carry the torch.

Speaker 5 But if you think about it, honestly, like, his dad was a legend, his brother's Bobby Hurley, and he's like this guy that's kind of a hothead and Stephen Hall or whatever.

Speaker 5 And you're like, yeah, you're that other guy. Well, I mean, that's a lot to fight uphill on, right?

Speaker 1 And now, like, and he was honest.

Speaker 5 He came on the show and talked about imposter syndrome and all this stuff. And now it's like, now,

Speaker 5 I mean, I don't know. We've totally, we've lost the plot here.
I'm sorry. I've told you.

Speaker 1 No, that's right. You're right.

Speaker 5 But I really, I don't know. It's been a fun few weeks in sports.
And

Speaker 5 I'm happy my house isn't on fire this year. And I'm, I'll come on again.
You only ask once a year.

Speaker 1 Yeah, no, you come on again. Yeah, we'll do it this summer.
And by the way, your boy Steve, he had a great showing at Wing Night. We do it every Final Four.
So you can rest assured that

Speaker 1 big time. He put down a bunch of wings.

Speaker 3 Titus did not have a great show anyway.

Speaker 1 Titus got beat by the wings.

Speaker 3 Titus got put on the three-day DL.

Speaker 1 His tummy hurt? His tummy hurt. Real bad.

Speaker 1 Real bad. He said on Friday night, he was like, I beat the wings because we all went went out.
And then on Saturday, he looked like a ghost. He was sitting on the toilet all day.

Speaker 5 Wait, can I ask one

Speaker 5 question on the way out? I need PFT to weigh in on something.

Speaker 5 If you have a dinner and you have a credit card roulette, but one person leaves before,

Speaker 5 what should happen for that?

Speaker 5 How should that be handled among the group?

Speaker 3 That's a good question.

Speaker 3 I think their name should go in the hat.

Speaker 1 What if the person

Speaker 1 and then somebody there covers it and then they have to Venmo you back yeah what if also you forgot to mention that the credit card roulette was not said before that person left

Speaker 1 is this a personal thing yeah i would

Speaker 5 that they didn't bail on the credit card roulette they didn't know it was going to be credit card roulette so that's fair you didn't you but i just in general

Speaker 1 i love credit card roulette i i mean me of all people like you know that i love that like you know all or nothing after a dinner there's nothing better than that so i i

Speaker 5 i would have have loved that. But

Speaker 5 you missed out on Credit Car Roulette and you missed out on PFT handing handing out.

Speaker 1 I made mistakes

Speaker 5 right under the eye in the sky.

Speaker 1 And guess what? My kids won't remember any of this shit. They won't remember the time I took a red eye back from Vegas to get there early.
That's a good point, though, Sky.

Speaker 3 That's probably the most surveilled place in America. Oh, yeah, where I did that.

Speaker 5 You know, I think you're probably not the only dude that did. And I think you know what?

Speaker 5 The catch-all is always, it's fine. Everything's fine.
Everything's fine.

Speaker 5 Fine.

Speaker 3 Yeah. Also, it's not like I have an image to uphold that involves not using drugs.

Speaker 5 No, I think that's, we just assume that's part and parcel of the whole thing here.

Speaker 3 Yeah, if anything, it would have been good for my brand to get arrested.

Speaker 1 It's the beauty of working for a barstool. I always tell this story when people are like, oh, what's like, it's like, well,

Speaker 1 maybe it was like 11 years ago, Trent, who's a good friend of ours, golfer for PlayPod, he got a public intoxication ticket, so he just didn't show up for work on a Friday.

Speaker 1 Dave was just mad that he didn't blog his mug shot right when he got out of jail. That was why he got in trouble.
He's like, why the fuck didn't you blog it?

Speaker 5 Right.

Speaker 5 If any place is going to

Speaker 5 benefit from the mug shot, I think, doesn't he still have his mug shot as his?

Speaker 5 He might.

Speaker 1 Oh, no. I think he changed it.
It was a great mug shot.

Speaker 1 Listen, St. Lunatics came on.

Speaker 1 Yeah, St. Lunatics came on.
It wasn't his fault.

Speaker 3 Rumplements.

Speaker 1 Rumplements.

Speaker 3 Yeah, Rumplement St. Lunatics.

Speaker 1 Yeah. All right.
Well, Scott, thank you as always. Wait, we got to get you out to Chicago, too.
You got to come to do the simulator. We've been talking

Speaker 1 about it. Yeah.
For a Cubs game, and we'll do the whole thing.

Speaker 5 I love that. And I'm psyched you boys are out there.
And it's always great to be all with you. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Thank you, Scott. You're the best, man.

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Speaker 1 Okay, let's wrap up the show with a little NBA talk. We'll have our guy Rasil on.
I think we're having J.J. Reddick on soon, too, talking more detail NBA playoffs.
But we have it set.

Speaker 1 The Celtics are the one seed. They've been the one seed for like a month.
The Thunder are the one seed in the West, the upstart Young Thunder, who are very, very good.

Speaker 1 And then we have some play-in action with the LeBron's got to play in. Steph's got to play in.
The Bulls got to play in. The Sixers got to play in against the Heat.

Speaker 1 So I don't know where you guys want to go. Do we want to say predictions that are probably stupid and will look dumb? Yeah, I got one.
Okay.

Speaker 3 I like the magic in the first round.

Speaker 1 Ooh.

Speaker 3 A little small upset there over the Cavs.

Speaker 1 The Cavs are better at home, so it's good that they got their home court. Yep.
But yeah, and also we had home court.

Speaker 1 We had seeding drama on Sunday. The Knicks and Tibbs got clinched the second seed.

Speaker 1 The Bucs, maybe we're just trying not to get the second seed because the second seed in the East feels like dangerous having to play maybe the or you'll have to play the Sixers or the Heat, which is a pretty good team in both of them.

Speaker 1 But also, Tibbs will never not play all his starters and play game 82 like it's game seven of the NBA finals.

Speaker 3 That's what Tibbs does. I like the Sixers to beat the Heat.
I also like the Sixers to beat the Knicks.

Speaker 3 And then I like the Sixers to beat the Bucs.

Speaker 1 I do actually like that the Knicks tried because I think that

Speaker 1 you should have some pride and be like, we're not ducking anyone. We're going to try to, you know, we've had a great season.
Let's get home court.

Speaker 1 If we can win this round, we get home court second round, which does matter for the Knicks.

Speaker 1 It would be cool, though, if teams could pick who they play.

Speaker 3 Yeah, because you would not want to play against the Sixers.

Speaker 1 Right. And if you did a draft, like the NBA loves ratings and doing new things.
Two new things the NBA should do.

Speaker 1 They should do a draft of the top four seeds get to pick who they get to play in the first round. And also, there should just be an automatic Wemby makes the playoffs clause.
Yeah, he gets added to

Speaker 1 the bus.

Speaker 3 What team would Wemby be?

Speaker 1 I want to see him so bad in the playoffs.

Speaker 1 He's such a fucking freak, and it's insane. Did you see that game on Friday night when he was just splashing threes?

Speaker 1 He's an alien, and his logo is awesome. And he should have been, he should be in the playoffs.
We should just make a Wemby gets to be in the playoffs clause in the NBA bylaws.

Speaker 3 I agree. So in the East, I think it's the Celtics.
Congrats, Hank.

Speaker 1 Hank, how are you feeling? I'm excited. I'm very excited.
Very, very excited. Championship or bust.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Championship or bust. And the Easts, you're going to walk through.
Because Giannis is hurt. The Knicks are great season, but I think the Celts are a better team.

Speaker 1 Sixers, you never have to worry about them. The Heat?

Speaker 1 No. No.
I mean,

Speaker 1 I would like to beat the Heat just for the storyline's sake, but I'm not concerned about them. I think we would roll.
So there's no one that worries you.

Speaker 1 I don't even want to waste time with the fucking Bulls or 76ers.

Speaker 1 I hope that the play-ins work out where we don't have to play when you guys, guys, just because, like, it's just going to be a pointless. Wait, you.

Speaker 1 Hold on. Back up.

Speaker 1 The 76ers and Bulls are not exactly on the same level. In this, in terms of

Speaker 1 opponents of the Celtics. But the Bulls are not good.
Neither

Speaker 1 Sixers. The 76ers or 76ers.

Speaker 1 The Sixers are in this spot because Joe and Biade missed two months. The Bulls are in this spot because they're not a very good team.

Speaker 1 Better winning percentage than the Celtics when Embiid and Maxie both play. Whoa.
Oh, is that true?

Speaker 1 Was that that like five games? Yep.

Speaker 1 Is it? No, it's like 32 games. Oh, that's some.
Yeah, no, the Sixers made it to 86 games. They were actually guys fucking.
So you just lumped the Bulls and the Sixers in the same spot.

Speaker 1 I'm going to say, no, that's not true. I'm just saying in terms of the show and you guys doing the whole like, oh, what if this is the first one? Well, no, the Bulls are not going to lose.

Speaker 1 The Bulls aren't going to win anything.

Speaker 1 Neither will the Sixers.

Speaker 1 If the Bulls win the play-in, great, but I also hate Jerry Reinsorf so much I don't want him to pretend that they made the playoffs.

Speaker 3 The Sixers are a problem. I'm just going to say it.
I agree with Max. For Max? No, the Sixers are a problem for you.

Speaker 1 Would that not be the worst?

Speaker 3 I think the Sixers could beat the Knicks, and I think they could beat the Bucs because Doc Rivers is pulling a major Doc Rivers right now.

Speaker 3 We might not have ever seen a Doc Rivers perform at such a high Doc Rivers level as he's done this year. The Bucs are not a good team right now.
The Sixers are

Speaker 3 really good. Yeah, and Giannis.

Speaker 1 How late would you sleep in if the Sixers beat the Celtics? The entire summer.

Speaker 1 8-1-2. So you don't want this? I think you...

Speaker 1 See what I'm saying when you said

Speaker 1 we don't want to do the thing with the Bulls and Sixers. I think one's a little different than the other.

Speaker 1 I guess, but it would just be a... You would not want to get me to the finals.

Speaker 1 This is championship contending teams. First round, just second round, dominate, get to the Eastern Conference Finals, finals.

Speaker 1 That is the one seed. You do not want to see the Sixers as the eight.
Like, at all.

Speaker 1 I guess.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I don't think it really matters. But

Speaker 1 the Sixers are

Speaker 1 for sure better than the Bulls. Like, you would win in four

Speaker 1 against the Bulls without even having to play your guys.

Speaker 1 I think we'd win in four against you guys. No way.

Speaker 3 Sounds like a sweet bet to me.

Speaker 1 Wow.

Speaker 3 So the Sixers need to beat the Heat in the field.

Speaker 3 Explain it again to me because I forget every single year how the 7, 8, 9, 10 playing system works. So how would the Sixers end up being able to be the eighth seed?

Speaker 1 If they lose to the Heat on Wednesday night and then they beat the Hawks or the Bulls. Okay.

Speaker 1 So the Bulls and the Hawks and then on the other side the Kings and the Warriors cannot get higher than the eighth seed. Right.
So the Bulls can't get to the seventh seed.

Speaker 1 The Warriors can't get to the seventh seed. It's the winner of

Speaker 1 the sixth, or seven, eight becomes a seven seed, and then they have to play the winner of the 9-10, and that's to decide the eighth seed. Right.

Speaker 1 Okay. So we're rooting for the

Speaker 3 Heat to beat the Sixers.

Speaker 3 And then the Sixers to beat the Hawks or the Bulls.

Speaker 1 Correct. And then they get to eighth seed.
Although, I'll be rooting for the Bulls if they play the Sixers. I will.
Sorry, Max.

Speaker 1 Because that would also be very funny if the Sixers just didn't even make the playoffs. I honestly wouldn't hate that.

Speaker 1 I would just be like, all right, fine. I don't have to.
I thought no one wants to see the Sixers.

Speaker 3 And the Sixers don't even want to see the Sixers. That just flipped.

Speaker 1 No,

Speaker 1 that won't happen. You're basically right in the back.

Speaker 1 You're essentially right back into the Big East tournament.

Speaker 1 Kind of.

Speaker 1 No, but the Sixers are good.

Speaker 1 No, it's totally over.

Speaker 1 Did you just get hurt like two nights ago? Yeah, but he finished that game.

Speaker 1 Okay, the West. He dropped like 34 in like 20 minutes.
Okay, the West. The West is

Speaker 1 more. The West is basically, you could be like, the Thunder are really, really good, but they're too young.

Speaker 3 So I was thinking about this. They are young, but everyone's saying they're too young.
They might be too young to know how young they are.

Speaker 1 But the NBA is is kind of the one league where

Speaker 1 it does feel like you got to take your lumps. You know, all the championship teams had their lumps.
They took their lumps, then they climbed back up, got over the mountain.

Speaker 1 I'm not saying that. Yeah, no, I agree.

Speaker 1 It is just the too young. They're really good.

Speaker 3 I'm not saying they get to the finals.

Speaker 1 And SGA is awesome.

Speaker 3 They can win a couple series, and we're going to have this conversation, I predict, in like three weeks where it's like, nobody told the Thunder they weren't supposed to win this series.

Speaker 1 Yeah. You know? They're not too young now, yeah, exactly.

Speaker 3 So, you're too young until you prove that you're not. I think I like the Nuggets a lot.
Um, I think it's theirs to lose. It seems like we're on a crash

Speaker 3 Celtics, Nuggets.

Speaker 3 There's no, you can't defend against the Nuggets when they're playing, like you can't, when Jokic is even having like a B game or like a C plus game, all it takes is one of the other guys to step up a little bit, and he's just such a problem to solve, especially if you're trying to defend him.

Speaker 3 And when they get going on the pick and roll, like there's no, there's no real way to stop them. Yeah, so I feel like the Nuggets and the Celtics are just kind of both inevitable.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it feels like the entire

Speaker 1 West is just basically health because the Nuggets have dealt with injuries.

Speaker 1 It's health and the two young thunder. Nuggets have dealt with injuries.
Carl Anthony Towns is coming back. The Clippers are always injured.
I like the Mavs. The Mavs have been playing great.

Speaker 1 The Suns are always injured. It's just who can stay healthy.

Speaker 3 And then LeBron.

Speaker 1 And then LeBron.

Speaker 1 I would like to see LeBron in the playoffs.

Speaker 3 Of course. I would also like to see LeBron not make the playoffs.

Speaker 1 That also would be fun. Either way.
Yeah, both ways would be funny. So what do we have for the finals? The Nuggets versus Celtics?

Speaker 3 Nuggets, Celtics. Nuggets over Celtics in

Speaker 3 five.

Speaker 1 I'm going to go Celtics over Sons.

Speaker 3 Oh, because you don't want the Nuggets in the Sunsets. Yeah, you're scared.
In five. You're like Embiid.
You're afraid of Jokic.

Speaker 1 What are we going to do about this bet?

Speaker 1 Listeners of the show know I parlayed Scotty Scheffler in the Nuggets to win the title. I now have the Nuggets to win the title at 21-1.

Speaker 1 We are going to table this conversation until May 20th, which is a starting point. I'll cash out right now.

Speaker 1 We'll just start the conference finals. Then

Speaker 1 we can have a discussion.

Speaker 1 I'll cash out right now because I love you so much.

Speaker 1 I think that would be dumb to cash out right now because it might not matter. Okay.
All right. May 20th.
So you have. Reminder.
You have Nuggets over, or you have Celtics over Suns.

Speaker 3 In how many games?

Speaker 1 Five.

Speaker 1 You're in fantasy land. I have Nuggets.
Yeah. I have Nuggets Mavericks Western Conference final.

Speaker 1 Max Homo, did you hear his quote? What did he say? When things are going bad, I try not to think about what's going bad. I try and dream about what could happen.
You did a lot of dreaming recently.

Speaker 1 I am dreaming. Yokish is Scotty Scheffler.

Speaker 1 I'm just dreaming about

Speaker 1 not having to play the Nuggets and just dominating the Suns in five. That's what I'm dreaming about.
Okay. Yeah, I mean, with injuries, could happen.

Speaker 1 Anything could happen in the player. Anything could happen.
That's the beauty of the play. All right, so you have Celtics over or Nuggets?

Speaker 3 Nuggets over Celtics in five.

Speaker 1 Okay. I have Nuggets over Celtics in seven.
Max?

Speaker 1 Sixers over Clippers in six. Okay, nice.
We will do a full NBA preview when we get the full play-in games. I'm excited for the play-in game.

Speaker 3 I mean, what I think is going to happen in the West, we're going to see Lakers, Warriors, in a play-in game.

Speaker 1 Oh, so the Lakers would lose and the Warriors would win.

Speaker 3 Yeah, for the ratings. For the ratings.

Speaker 1 Yeah, the Kings have been sliding back and they're not.

Speaker 3 We're not lighting the beam this year.

Speaker 1 No, we're not. They also have this, like,

Speaker 1 they have, like, a couple guys, and then everyone else is like, ooh, who's that? Yeah. Not so great.
Yeah, okay. Ready for the NBA playoffs.
Hank, championship or bust?

Speaker 1 This is Hank's mood for the rest of the summer is going to be reliant on...

Speaker 1 Would the mood...

Speaker 1 I feel like the mood would be really bad if you guys lost to the Sixers or you lost in the Eastern Conference Final. Would the mood be bad if you went to the finals and was like, okay.

Speaker 1 Bad mood.

Speaker 1 We're just on mood watch.

Speaker 1 That's why I need to cash out. That's why I need to cash out.

Speaker 1 I don't want

Speaker 1 a mad Hank all summer is not worth it.

Speaker 3 But here's the thing. It's like,

Speaker 3 if the Celtics do win the championship, Hank's.

Speaker 1 I will be so happy.

Speaker 3 Hank's mood is going to be equally bad, just in the opposite direction. You know, he's going to walk around like he's better than me.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 He's going to think he's better than me.

Speaker 1 Hank tried to claim today that no one has had as many losses, tortured losses, as him. And Max just rattled off these losses in the last 12 months that Hank just stopped and was like, okay, maybe you.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 3 He did like being a Boston sports fan is so hard.

Speaker 1 Yeah, no, Max is a way bigger loser. I forgot.
It is so funny how this podcast has really worked out that it's just like PFTNR are such losers that like

Speaker 1 sniff it. No, no.

Speaker 1 Like, I don't get it. We're such big losers that we're not even losers anymore.
It's like non-fact. I don't even get a lot of people.
Pick I kept saying you would make this bet in a heartbeat.

Speaker 1 I said you would never have a team that says like this much of a favorite to win a champion.

Speaker 1 Talk to me in two weeks when I get Caleb Williams. Talk to me in two weeks then.

Speaker 3 Oh, dude, Hank, you're going to hate us so much when we have two elite quarterbacks

Speaker 3 in the next 15 years.

Speaker 1 Statistically speaking, we're both going to have elite quarterbacks.

Speaker 3 Really good. Yeah.

Speaker 1 It's going to be

Speaker 1 the entire course of the podcast is going to change.

Speaker 3 Yeah, this is Title Town. This desk right now.

Speaker 1 How many NFC championships do you think we'll match up in?

Speaker 3 Between the two of us? Probably like five or six. I'd say five of the next six.

Speaker 1 It's going to be incredible. Yeah.
It's going to be like Seahawks 49ers. Yeah.
Going back and forth.

Speaker 3 We'll buy our tickets for it at the start of every season.

Speaker 1 Oh, man. I hope it happens.

Speaker 1 They don't. They don't.
Yeah, I do. You just won't.
You just want to win and watch us lose. Just not even be enough.

Speaker 1 You don't even want us to be good enough to have heartbreaking losses. No, just give me basketball.
You guys can have football.

Speaker 3 Give Hank basketball and Marvin Harrison. And hockey.

Speaker 1 I'll take hockey.

Speaker 1 Yeah. All right.
Yeah, we're going to have Whitney Obiz on.

Speaker 3 The thing about Marvin Harrison Jr. also, he's going to want to get the fuck out of New England so fast if he doesn't have a quarterback.

Speaker 1 Oh, he's going to ask for a second contract the first day.

Speaker 1 You ready to give it to him?

Speaker 1 You got to watch the state.

Speaker 1 You have to wait till your feels up.

Speaker 1 I will back Hank up on this.

Speaker 1 Hank is doing something that I do all the time in sports. I think we all do it.
You see one guy one time live and he was the greatest player.

Speaker 1 He saw Marvin Harrison against Wisconsin and Camp Randall, and he ran across the entire field

Speaker 1 and caught like a four-yard pass, then took it to the house for a touchdown. And at that moment, Hank was like, this is the greatest wide receiver ever.

Speaker 1 And I completely back you up because if I see someone do something live, it's like I've said it before, but I thought Luke Kennard was going to be the greatest NBA player ever because he dribbled behind his back as a lefty.

Speaker 1 And I was like, this guy's fucking insane.

Speaker 3 I mean, Marvin Harrison is awesome.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he's and Jacob Brzette can make that throw. But if he had gone to an LSU game this year, he would be like neighbors.
Yeah. Well, yeah,

Speaker 1 Anthony Edwards. I mean, not Anthony Edwards.
Anthony Richardson. Richardson.
Yeah, that was the other one. You were kind of right on that.
Yeah. All right.
So?

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 1 you are a scout. Give me Marvin Harrison.
I'm backing you up. All right.
Numbers. 40.
20. 8.

Speaker 1 3. 56.
18.

Speaker 4 99. Pug.

Speaker 1 Are we never going to address the 72, 73? Oh, we should probably talk about that real quick.

Speaker 3 Oh, yeah, Brooks.

Speaker 1 Oh, he zoned out, didn't get 72, and then shot 73-73 the first two days. And what number did he get? 73

Speaker 3 for a score.

Speaker 1 So he's got to focus on

Speaker 1 focus. It's actually our fault, though, because we should have had the lottery ball pick like 68, and then he would have been great.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 1 and he would have been, he would have won the masters. Yeah, all right.
What were the numbers again? Say them again: 40,

Speaker 1 20, 3,

Speaker 1 18. I just want to hear Pug say again: 99 Pug.
Pug, how was your farmer's dog dinner?

Speaker 1 Delicious, Pug.

Speaker 1 We were ordering dinner, and you just texted back and you're like, I got my own food because your stomach ailments. And I was like, Yeah, he's just eats farmer's dog every day.

Speaker 3 Special food from the vet, Pug.

Speaker 1 All right, 56.

Speaker 1 99! 99 Pug! 99 Pug! Let's go, Pug! A two-time winner! Get Pug in here!

Speaker 1 Get Pugo!

Speaker 1 Pug, get in there!

Speaker 3 Yes, that's 99. That's not 66, right?

Speaker 5 It's 99. Took me a second.

Speaker 1 I was like, get in there, dude.

Speaker 1 Get in here, Pug.

Speaker 1 I don't think the people have seen. Well, no,

Speaker 1 you can see him from the booth. Oh, true, sure.
Literally,

Speaker 3 put the solo blue jacket on him.

Speaker 1 I got you there. Memes just snapped at Hank.

Speaker 1 One of the greatest rivalries in part of Mike's episode is memes vs. Hank that we need to do like a documentary.
Maybe when we have a slow PM TV week. Best day of memes alike.

Speaker 1 Thursday. We should do

Speaker 1 Hank

Speaker 1 memes telling of the rivalry.

Speaker 3 What's the 24-7? Hank versus memes. Pug, how do you feel?

Speaker 1 Two-time winner?

Speaker 1 Nope, your mic's not on.

Speaker 1 Oh, there we go. It's on.
No, it's unbelievable.

Speaker 4 I'm just happy to be here. Lucky to be here.

Speaker 1 You and Scottie Scheffler? Who said that? Who said that?

Speaker 1 You usually did say that. Yeah.
Pug. Okay.

Speaker 1 So, two-time winner like Scotty Scheffler.

Speaker 1 What are you going to do with winning second time?

Speaker 1 I don't know.

Speaker 3 Just go to the vet again.

Speaker 3 Some people are saying you're a system dog, that you can only win on 99. Are you going to switch from 99 or are you going to stick with the system? Good question.

Speaker 3 Actually, I thought about it after the first one, and a lot of people were saying it would be phony to switch from 99.

Speaker 1 So, also the merch.

Speaker 3 Yeah, true. 99.

Speaker 1 That would really affect things. Buy a shirt.
I'm going to go buy a shirt.

Speaker 3 They're great shirts.

Speaker 1 I don't think we ever put those out. We should put them out.
Yeah, we got to put them out. Personally, just we never put those out.
I don't think we ever put them out.

Speaker 1 They're like the best design shirts we've ever made. I don't think we ever put them out.

Speaker 1 Now we're going to have to.

Speaker 4 Now we have to drop them, Pug.

Speaker 1 Yeah, there we go. Okay.
Well, you didn't say Pug after the last one. Okay, well,

Speaker 1 so Pug, last question, Robot question.

Speaker 1 Are you a little worried? Because I think this is the week we're getting Mr. Pear.
So now we're going to have a Pug and a Pear?

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Sounds like a podcast.

Speaker 1 We should just have Pug just talking, interviewing Mr. Pear once a week.

Speaker 3 No, I mean, I'm fine with it. I'm excited to meet him.

Speaker 1 And, you know,

Speaker 3 I think it'll be good for the show.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Don't try to eat him.

Speaker 3 Yeah. Yeah.
Don't swallow him.

Speaker 1 No guarantee.

Speaker 1 Pug.

Speaker 3 Is there anybody that you'd you'd like to thank?

Speaker 1 Pug.

Speaker 1 Just

Speaker 1 all the pugs out there.

Speaker 1 All my dogs.

Speaker 1 All my fellow pugs.

Speaker 1 Pug.

Speaker 1 All right. We'll see everyone on Wednesday.
Love you guys.

Speaker 1 Needless to say.

Speaker 1 I'm all sitting here, it's about me, it's done a little late.

Speaker 1 Slowly learn my mind is okay.

Speaker 1 Say of me,

Speaker 1 I used to play to the safe and tell me. Say of me,

Speaker 1 I used to play to the safe and tell me.

Speaker 1 Take on me. I'll be

Speaker 1 all

Speaker 1 Things that you say,

Speaker 1 but just to play my worries away.

Speaker 1 You are things I've got to remember. You shine away.

Speaker 1 I'm coming for you, many light. You shine away.

Speaker 1 Well, I'm coming for you, many light.

Speaker 1 Take on me, take

Speaker 1 on me. I'll be

Speaker 1 yours.