WEBVTT - Process over Results: Preparing for a weekend at the Masters

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<v Speaker 1>Now, the Shotgun Starting Golf is full of mathematics. There's

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<v Speaker 2>November eleventh. All right, so this is an essay I wrote.

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<v Speaker 2>Obviously this is a unique Masters maybe a Master's we

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<v Speaker 2>didn't expect and certainly we didn't anticipate at the start

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<v Speaker 2>of this year. We figured we bring it to you

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<v Speaker 2>as really a micro addition to the full week of

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<v Speaker 2>Masters podcasts. The title on the Fridagg dot com is

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<v Speaker 2>process over Results, Appreciating a Master's unlike any other. Cleveland

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<v Speaker 2>Indians tweeted happy birthday wishes to Raje Davis a few

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<v Speaker 2>weeks ago. In the tweet, the tribe referred to a

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<v Speaker 2>player who hit just thirteen career home runs for the

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<v Speaker 2>team as the man, the myth, the Cleveland Legend. The

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<v Speaker 2>incongruity of an outpouring of birthday love for a thirteen

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<v Speaker 2>career home run legend made me pause and smile. He

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<v Speaker 2>played less than two years with the team a few

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<v Speaker 2>years back, but he has adored there now and forever,

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<v Speaker 2>and he did not need a decade long relationship with

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<v Speaker 2>the team putting up all star numbers. Raj Davis is,

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<v Speaker 2>of course, the player who choked up on the bat

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<v Speaker 2>for a two to two pitch from the Evil one

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<v Speaker 2>hundred mile per hour throwing a roll as Chapman and

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<v Speaker 2>took him deep to tie Game seven of the World

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<v Speaker 2>Series when Hope was just about lost. The Tribe then

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<v Speaker 2>lost the game and the series to take ownership from

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<v Speaker 2>the Cubs of the longest title drought professional baseball. It

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<v Speaker 2>was a crushing end too, a crushing series, but that

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<v Speaker 2>home run and the feelings that followed it will be

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<v Speaker 2>remembered and celebrated for us. If you just look at

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<v Speaker 2>the leader boarder Wikipedia page for the twenty eighteen Masters,

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<v Speaker 2>you'll read that Jordan Speed finished a respectable third place.

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<v Speaker 2>He did not win, and he did not set any

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<v Speaker 2>notable records. The number sixty four next to his final

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<v Speaker 2>round is a low one, but it tells us so

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<v Speaker 2>little about the day and why I remember it. Speth,

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<v Speaker 2>who feels like he has twenty five years of history

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<v Speaker 2>with the tournament he's played just six times, started nine

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<v Speaker 2>shots back then he went out in thirty one, and

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<v Speaker 2>the crowd started peeling off the final pairing of Pat

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<v Speaker 2>Reed and Rory McElroy With that Augustus Speed walk toward history.

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<v Speaker 2>Each birdy was a loud conversion ritual for the belief

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<v Speaker 2>that something historic was happening. The nine shot deficit was

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<v Speaker 2>then fully erased at the sixteenth pole. Even alcohol cannot

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<v Speaker 2>make khaki clad dads lose their inhibitions the way he

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<v Speaker 2>speeds thirty three foot putt to tie the Masters? Did

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<v Speaker 2>I know? I'll never forget that scene where there I

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<v Speaker 2>watched from what I heard who I watched, with the

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<v Speaker 2>laughter with a couple of golf media types from jokes

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<v Speaker 2>I am not yet allowed to retell, was interrupted by

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<v Speaker 2>the ball going in the hole and all of us

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<v Speaker 2>incredulously shouting curse words into a wall of louder noise.

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<v Speaker 2>The sixty four on the Wikipedia page doesn't tell the

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<v Speaker 2>story of that putt, the story of that scene, speed

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<v Speaker 2>mouthing are you kidding me to his caddy after it

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<v Speaker 2>went in, the belief that he might shoot sixty two

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<v Speaker 2>or maybe sixty one for the greatest major round ever,

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<v Speaker 2>and then the heartrending moment his ball clipped the tree

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<v Speaker 2>off the eighteenth tee to seal just a sixty four

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<v Speaker 2>for just a third place finish, in a moment rife

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<v Speaker 2>with the bait shows and tweets, where wind loss results

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<v Speaker 2>must be contextualized in the terms of what it all

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<v Speaker 2>means for legacies or who should be fired. It's easy

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<v Speaker 2>to forget why we spend so much time watching sports.

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<v Speaker 2>Will be much more efficient and beneficial to our health

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<v Speaker 2>to just check the box score leaderboards on Saturday and

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<v Speaker 2>Sunday nights. The primary value we derived from hours watching

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<v Speaker 2>sports was the manichean result. There's pain, amusement, anxiety, tension, heartbreak, joy,

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<v Speaker 2>and memories from the smaller moments of competition. There's Raj's

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<v Speaker 2>homer before a loss, and speeds putt before a third

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<v Speaker 2>place finished, and there's the minutes we lived immediately following them.

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<v Speaker 2>The Masters thrives from these smaller moments in the larger competition.

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<v Speaker 2>More than any golf tournament. The Masters is bigger than

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<v Speaker 2>the players in the field and bigger than the result.

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<v Speaker 2>Certain editions are amplified by the results, such as Jack

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<v Speaker 2>in nineteen eighty six or Tiger in Was that just

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<v Speaker 2>last year? But the tournament has become this powerhouse sports event,

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<v Speaker 2>enjoyed simply for what it is year over year and

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<v Speaker 2>tradition after tradition, and less for the specifics of who

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<v Speaker 2>is involved in how they finish. This ranges from the

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<v Speaker 2>little familiar details and annual sits to the unexpected you

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<v Speaker 2>may have never seen before on a course and at

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<v Speaker 2>a tournament you know so well. Tiger won the Masters

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<v Speaker 2>last year, but Zach Johnson accidentally bunted his driver off

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<v Speaker 2>the tea marker on maybe the most famous par five

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<v Speaker 2>tea box in golf. Both were celebrated as part of

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<v Speaker 2>the twenty nineteen Masters Experience. And now we're going to

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<v Speaker 2>have those opportunities again in a year when that once

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<v Speaker 2>seemed unlikely. The Masters is still the Masters, whether it's

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<v Speaker 2>won by Tiger Woods and the greatest comeback of all

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<v Speaker 2>time or by zj over cold and dreary four days.

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<v Speaker 2>The Masters is still the Masters, whether it's April or November.

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<v Speaker 2>This is why I find myself making a commitment to

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<v Speaker 2>enjoy the hell out of every second of it. This year,

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<v Speaker 2>I will focus on in delight in every bryceon histrionic recoil,

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<v Speaker 2>the Rory run you know it's coming, and speed run

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<v Speaker 2>it might be shorter, but you know it's coming too,

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<v Speaker 2>and every pace of the strut of a raigning champ

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<v Speaker 2>we never thought we'd see again. I'll find pleasure in

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<v Speaker 2>the eccentricities of this November exercise, finding the opportunity to

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<v Speaker 2>appreciate the rarity of Augusta National in the fall, and

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<v Speaker 2>the camera shots we could get with no patrons in

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<v Speaker 2>the way. A coping mechanism of mine in this no

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<v Speaker 2>good year has been trying to find the unexpected opportunities

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<v Speaker 2>born out of awful circumstances. That does not mean it's

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<v Speaker 2>better this way, or that it's not been an awful year.

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<v Speaker 2>A Master's in April with fans and roars would have

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<v Speaker 2>been better, and I'm ready to get back to that

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<v Speaker 2>in twenty twenty one. But I'm grateful we're having a

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<v Speaker 2>Master's at all. I'm grateful I get to watch the

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<v Speaker 2>shots and the recoils and the competition, regardless of whether

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<v Speaker 2>the winner is not some miracle story or the finish

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<v Speaker 2>is not especially dramatic. I'm committing to the experience of

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<v Speaker 2>the masters and not the hope for a result that

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<v Speaker 2>might make the best documentary someday. What makes the televised

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<v Speaker 2>pro golf tournament so great is that you can come

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<v Speaker 2>and go, put it on his background, and then lock

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<v Speaker 2>in for hours, leap off the couch or nap on

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<v Speaker 2>the couch. It's four days, dozens of broadcasts now and

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<v Speaker 2>hundreds of shots. It's versatile and reliable, and it will

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<v Speaker 2>be there for you to hopefully make this four day

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<v Speaker 2>stretch better. This does not mean I will watch a

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<v Speaker 2>golf tournament unburdened from what's happening in the real world.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm thankful we get this Masters off in what appears

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<v Speaker 2>to be a safe and responsible fashion in a year

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<v Speaker 2>when that seemed tenuous and maybe still does the pandemic

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<v Speaker 2>still rages. I will think about what we've lost and

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<v Speaker 2>who we've lost in the months since March and Easter,

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<v Speaker 2>when we all sat on our couch and watched Tiger

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<v Speaker 2>on a zoom call at jim Nantz instead of the

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<v Speaker 2>originally scheduled Master Sunday. That feels like years and not

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<v Speaker 2>months ago. But now the zoom may come between you

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<v Speaker 2>and family you can't be with while you watch from

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<v Speaker 2>distant couches. Consider this an opportunity for a dry run

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<v Speaker 2>or an entire stand in for the impending holiday you

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<v Speaker 2>might not be able to celebrate with everyone you want

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<v Speaker 2>to this year. A zoom gathering with friends and families

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<v Speaker 2>is better for panning Nick Faldough and hollering about golf

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<v Speaker 2>shots good and bad than it is for some virtual

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<v Speaker 2>Thanksgiving dinner. So throw on the Masters, dial into FaceTime

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<v Speaker 2>or zoom with friends and family coming in out of

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<v Speaker 2>your master's nap with them, Devour your embarrassing attempt at

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<v Speaker 2>a biscuit sandwich judgment, free mute the uncle who starts

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<v Speaker 2>to talk politics. Uniquely, celebrate the uniqueness of this Masters.

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<v Speaker 2>Find the opportunity you can out of these terrible circumstances.

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<v Speaker 2>For me, it will be getting to watch with my

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<v Speaker 2>kids at an age where they can follow what's happening

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<v Speaker 2>for the first time. We'll be having the time and

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<v Speaker 2>a phone not held captive in the media center to

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<v Speaker 2>call my parents, who got me into the game for

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<v Speaker 2>the first time in years. During a Master's Sunday, maybe

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<v Speaker 2>I'll buy some Monster if Tiger gets involved. I might

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<v Speaker 2>try to Makemento cheese sandwiches, even though A I don't

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<v Speaker 2>think they're all that good and B I've never made

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<v Speaker 2>one and probably will fail spectacularly. That doesn't matter. No

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<v Speaker 2>one will ever know if it's terrible, and I will

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<v Speaker 2>be happier than a pig and shit in the process

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<v Speaker 2>of just trying to make it. To celebrate this Masters

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<v Speaker 2>from home, it's the experience over the result. The result

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<v Speaker 2>has never mattered less than the simple fact that The

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<v Speaker 2>Masters is being played and we get to watch it.

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<v Speaker 2>It's the Masters, and we'll deliver those moments over the

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<v Speaker 2>next four days that we're so far from your mind

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<v Speaker 2>back in April. You'll be rewarded with the minutes that follow,

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<v Speaker 2>something like a raje homer or speedth birdie charge along

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<v Speaker 2>the way, or maybe it's just CJ doinking one off

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<v Speaker 2>the team marker. You'll remember it though, and be grateful

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<v Speaker 2>we had it. Thanks again for listening. I know that's

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<v Speaker 2>a little different, but figured we'd experiment in this week

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<v Speaker 2>unlike any other, and we'll be back with our usual

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<v Speaker 2>episodes recapping the action every day. Appreciate your guys listening

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<v Speaker 2>your patronage as to use a word for the week,

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<v Speaker 2>and look forward to taking in this Masters with you all.