Speaker 1: I miss the green.
Speaker 2: For example, I'm already upset.
Speaker 1: When I find my ball in the bunker, I'm really upset.
Speaker 1: And when I find my ball in a fried egg,
Speaker 1: Friday Egg, the.
Speaker 2: Dreaded Friday Egg, Frida Egg, Frida Egg.
Speaker 1: Bride egg Lie, I'm about ready to run off of
Speaker 1: the course.
Speaker 2: All Right, ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to another edition
Speaker 2: of the Friday Egg Podcast, and we have our three
Speaker 2: man weave back. Unfortunately, Tron Carter is out. The Spicy
Speaker 2: curmudgeon Ate some bad meat or something tonight had to
Speaker 2: bow out late. So we've got a, you know, a
Speaker 2: much better replacement. We have sp Nations Brendan Poor Wrath
Speaker 2: and then also uh scratches, DJ Paiowski.
Speaker 3: Welcome on, Hey man, it's up. I wouldn't uh wouldn't.
Speaker 3: It's an honor to be here. I wouldn't claim that
Speaker 3: I can fill in the take shoes of one Tron Carter.
Speaker 4: Though it's not a lot of people in the corners
Speaker 4: of the Internet saying Tron might be suffering low tea
Speaker 4: right now.
Speaker 1: Low Takes had to do a big week.
Speaker 4: It's it's kind of upsetting to hear needed to issue
Speaker 4: a statement to see what's going on?
Speaker 2: You know, since since the flip flopping, the fatoa lifting,
Speaker 2: and then the flat fatah placing on coucher, he just
Speaker 2: seems to be a lost man.
Speaker 4: He just he needs to start seeing some putts good.
Speaker 4: I think, just kind of get his get his feedback
Speaker 4: under him.
Speaker 3: He uh, he was telling me he's kind of been
Speaker 3: bogged down with real world stuff. But uh, he did
Speaker 3: find time to parachute in and give his take on
Speaker 3: the Niked Blade collar lineup for the week, which I appreciated.
Speaker 3: Like I just couldn't go, couldn't go untaped, you know.
Speaker 1: Andy can I can?
Speaker 4: I just say I'm excited and a little nervous to
Speaker 4: eventually find out what kind of hackers are listening to
Speaker 4: this podcast as we record it, to see who's gonna
Speaker 4: who's gonna infiltrate me next?
Speaker 2: You know, it's it's been a bad, bad week for
Speaker 2: the pod, bad ten days. I apologize to all the listeners. Uh,
Speaker 2: you know, we're having a little internal issue here. I
Speaker 2: use squarespace and they have no clue what's going on,
Speaker 2: but I keep getting infiltrated by other squarespace customers.
Speaker 1: The leakers are the real story here.
Speaker 3: Internal issue.
Speaker 2: So after today, you know, I know how to fix
Speaker 2: it now, but today's I mean, I I rarely get
Speaker 2: got very upset with people, but I was quite. I
Speaker 2: sent a strongly worded email to squares Space, who doesn't
Speaker 2: have a helpline. Otherwise I would have been on that
Speaker 2: line with giving some choice words to the to the
Speaker 2: support people over there. But yeah, sorry, Well hopefully we'll
Speaker 2: have it all strained out here. I think I think
Speaker 2: they're they're working on it. They've escalated the situation.
Speaker 1: But.
Speaker 3: Infiltrating my golf takes, you know, on the.
Speaker 2: Better things, you know, as a Bulls fan, I sit
Speaker 2: here and you know, I just wonder how how cavstans
Speaker 2: are doing. What's up with Caves foro ref all.
Speaker 3: We're doing fine. I mean, it's a crooked Warriors team atting,
Speaker 3: you know, tipping the balance in just kind of a
Speaker 3: dishonest way, and it is what it is.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: We we have our championship after fifty two years. I
Speaker 3: can't complain we ruined their attempt at sixteen and now
Speaker 3: and I saw Sean Martin just tweeted something about it.
Speaker 3: The Warriors, add in Durant is like Rory Payne money
Speaker 3: to play from the white teas from the forward teas,
Speaker 3: which is a take I didn't know Martin had in it,
Speaker 3: but I think Rory is like, you know, too much
Speaker 3: credit because we would have wiped the Warriors out and
Speaker 3: without KD. It's more like, you know, Troy Merritt or
Speaker 3: somebody paying to play the forward tees upgrading.
Speaker 2: It's, uh, it'll be an interesting offseason, see what happens,
Speaker 2: I think, and then it's going to be a bad
Speaker 2: thing for the NBA. It's gonna I listened to a
Speaker 2: really interesting Howard Back Zach Low podcast about how yeah,
Speaker 2: you know it's gonna hurt at the local ratings, and
Speaker 2: I know, I'm like, I'm a huge Bulls fan. I'm
Speaker 2: less interested because we have absolutely no chance of competing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it wasn't It wasn't fun. I mean, I mean,
Speaker 3: I think that's like a legit not hot take. You
Speaker 3: know that there is that's a legitimate concern.
Speaker 2: So all right, So DJ listening in Jack's you know,
Speaker 2: not much, not much.
Speaker 1: I've been kind of bouncing around a lot.
Speaker 4: We've been shooting a series, a travel series for AVIS.
Speaker 4: So I was out in Denver with Shane Bacon and
Speaker 4: hashtag Chad, a couple of friends of the pod shooting
Speaker 4: some golf travel stuff, and then was in New Orleans
Speaker 4: last week with Bacon and the take Smith Sean Martin.
Speaker 4: So I actually haven't seen I haven't seen much of
Speaker 4: Jack's recently, but back, glad to be back.
Speaker 1: It's steamy. Play a little golf today.
Speaker 4: It was it's nice and sweaty out there, and yeah,
Speaker 4: it's significantly warmed up since you guys were here.
Speaker 2: It's just beautiful in Chicago. My my depressing low energy
Speaker 2: vibes are gone. You know, it's but you know, speaking
Speaker 2: of Midwest, you know weather good segue south. Then Aaron Hills,
Speaker 2: just just a couple of hours north of me. Got
Speaker 2: a little rain yesterday and I think a little bit
Speaker 2: more rain on the way tomorrow. But here in the
Speaker 2: course is handling the rain really well. What are you
Speaker 2: guys most excited about for the week?
Speaker 3: Pretty goodhead, Yeah, I mean I think just seeing seeing
Speaker 3: a new venue. Like you said, all the natural land movement,
Speaker 3: I think is the term you used, and I've heard
Speaker 3: quite often watching all the coverage. I think it's always
Speaker 3: interesting to see a new venue and the drama that
Speaker 3: surrounds the US Open. I think sometimes it can get
Speaker 3: a little tedious to watch it, which I thought, you know,
Speaker 3: and follow it because it is like, you know, just
Speaker 3: par golf or hanging on. So I like the drama
Speaker 3: that surrounds it, whether it's rules drama or players screaming
Speaker 3: about the course and the USGA trying to justify the course.
Speaker 3: And I think kind of there's always that uneasiness going
Speaker 3: into a new venue like this, especially after Chambers Bay.
Speaker 3: It doesn't seem like we're going to approach anything like that.
Speaker 3: But I'm always interested to see players complaining and screaming
Speaker 3: and yelling, and that's that's always an intrigue to whe
Speaker 3: who thrives off of that kind of stuff. Yeah, I
Speaker 3: think I'm in the same I'm in the same boat.
Speaker 3: I'm most excited about the venue, I think, just because
Speaker 3: you know, I have liked a lot of what we've
Speaker 3: seen at the US Open in the last five years
Speaker 3: or so. I've we can talk about this later, but
Speaker 3: I really like Chambers Bay. I thought was awesome, and
Speaker 3: I think that this year kind of just feels like
Speaker 3: the best of kind of like.
Speaker 4: They finally hit like the right formula and kind of
Speaker 4: the best of a lot of these different things.
Speaker 1: I think it's like a you know, a unique golf course.
Speaker 4: It's not necessarily like they're playing it on a you know,
Speaker 4: real lynksy place, but it's it's got a lot of
Speaker 4: those kinds of vibes, but with a lot of kind
Speaker 4: of this softish American kind of style of golf. I
Speaker 4: don't know, it just feels really like, it feels like
Speaker 4: there's a lot of kind of converging trends that really,
Speaker 4: like you know, have all kind of met up into
Speaker 4: this same place this week, which which I'm into.
Speaker 2: Since both of you guys like yelling and I mean,
Speaker 2: I think we got to dive right into fescue Gate
Speaker 2: twenty seventeen. I mean, I have never seen Grass talks
Speaker 2: so much about then.
Speaker 4: I think it's one of those I think it's one
Speaker 4: of those things where it's just a really easy like
Speaker 4: argument to understand, Like the rough was there and then
Speaker 4: they cut it down, and so it's like easy for
Speaker 4: people to talk about and like get really worked up about.
Speaker 4: But you know, I know, Andy, we were talking earlier today,
Speaker 4: like they only cut it on what four holes.
Speaker 2: I mean, I just devoted a whole reporter to it,
Speaker 2: just following around the mowers and then saying, rip to
Speaker 2: the fescue. It's like, are they cut? Like they cut
Speaker 2: like probably two percent of the total fescue on the
Speaker 2: golf course or maybe even less, maybe one percent.
Speaker 3: I love it. That's what the US US Opens for.
Speaker 3: It's just like getting worked up. I wrote something today.
Speaker 3: I was like the USGA, the USJA mowed the lawn
Speaker 3: and everyone lost their minds. Basically. You know, it's like
Speaker 3: we talked about grass and like you know, at Pioneers
Speaker 3: are talking about wire grass and native sandy areas, like
Speaker 3: all these terms of art that you just never hear
Speaker 3: the other fifty one weeks of the year. You hear
Speaker 3: a million times during the US Open week and people
Speaker 3: just start screaming about fescio. It's it's fantastic, oh man.
Speaker 2: I mean, the the overspray drama with Shackleford and like
Speaker 2: every super intendent way and I mean, it's just been unbelievable.
Speaker 2: I will say, you know, I did hear some some
Speaker 2: different uh some players on Sunday. I was walking around
Speaker 2: up there and they were complaining about how thick it
Speaker 2: was in certain spots.
Speaker 3: But I mean, what do you so let's get to
Speaker 3: it then, like, what is it too thick if the
Speaker 3: fairways are sixty yards like Rory is saying, what's.
Speaker 2: Here's my issue with it is that, like in championship golf,
Speaker 2: I believe that the further you miss, the more you
Speaker 2: should be penalized. And in this situation, the thickest rough
Speaker 2: is the rough right off like the primary cut roff,
Speaker 2: So five yards off the fair away is the thickest
Speaker 2: rough and then it gets thinner ten yards in fifteen
Speaker 2: yards in So that to me is an issue where
Speaker 2: if I just barely miss my target, especially if you
Speaker 2: know you're trying to hit it down the left side
Speaker 2: of the fair away, you missed by ten yards, you
Speaker 2: know you are severely more penalized than somebody that misses
Speaker 2: by twenty yards.
Speaker 4: That makes sense, and I think that, you know, from
Speaker 4: everything I've read, I mean, that kind of sounds like
Speaker 4: it was a mistake if that was the case, right,
Speaker 4: like like that they didn't really want that to be
Speaker 4: that way anyways, kind of the way that that turned out.
Speaker 1: If that's why they.
Speaker 4: Were kind of knocking it down, I think then that's
Speaker 4: a good move for for what they're doing. I mean,
Speaker 4: I think that makes sense, but I don't think that
Speaker 4: they would. I don't think they've changed it because people
Speaker 4: were complaining or anything like that. I mean, I was
Speaker 4: pretty checked out of Twitter today, but I'm guessing that
Speaker 4: some people had that take.
Speaker 3: Oh everyone, everyone had that take. Brandal Brandell was on
Speaker 3: like the coverage tonight saying like, nah, basically.
Speaker 1: Cause this, you know, saying it was.
Speaker 3: All you know, Kevin Naz like deserves a byline for
Speaker 3: this championship from here on out. It's like I couldn't
Speaker 3: believe it. I mean, I think it was only four holes,
Speaker 3: but it is like dramatic to see them just wholesale
Speaker 3: changing the course and hauling away these like truckloads of grass.
Speaker 1: Well, so, Andy, what do you so? What do you think?
Speaker 4: So go into your favorite two words with an angles.
Speaker 4: You know, when they're moving these pins around and like
Speaker 4: you're making you know, you're making one side of the
Speaker 4: fairway so much more of a premium than the other,
Speaker 4: you know, how to how does that make you feel? Like?
Speaker 4: I kind of feel like if you're if you're really
Speaker 4: trying to hit the left side of the fairway to
Speaker 4: get a good birdie chance, bringing that gnarly ass fescue
Speaker 4: into play is like kind of awesome.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it's totally odd. I think, like you can
Speaker 2: need to be, but there's enough width at this course.
Speaker 2: And then the other thing is the natural land movement.
Speaker 2: I mean, so like there will be sides of fairways
Speaker 2: that have like severe undulation and other sides that are
Speaker 2: you know, flatter, so you'll have this risk where one
Speaker 2: side of the fairway isn't necessarily right and the greens
Speaker 2: are really big. So you've got these massive greens where
Speaker 2: a back left pin. And then and you couple that
Speaker 2: with the five different t's that can play the holes
Speaker 2: from and the flexibility is unbelievable here in terms of
Speaker 2: the ways they can play holes, and I mean Speed
Speaker 2: hit on it today in his press conference talking about
Speaker 2: how it's almost hardly because there's so many different ways
Speaker 2: that the holes can be played. So I think that's
Speaker 2: one of the cool things. And I think there, I mean,
Speaker 2: from what I saw when I was out there, there
Speaker 2: could be as many as three driveable par fours. And
Speaker 2: if they set it up a certain way the second hole,
Speaker 2: the if they play way up on the fourth hole,
Speaker 2: which the fourth hole could be just the ejector hole
Speaker 2: of all the ejector holes. When they put the pin
Speaker 2: on the right side the green, it is so nasty
Speaker 2: and anybody that shoots that pin is you know, if
Speaker 2: they don't have a perfect shot, they could be playing
Speaker 2: like ping pong back and forth. I mean one of
Speaker 2: the caddies I was talking to that that's from Aaron Hills,
Speaker 2: was like, when the pin's right, you need to aim
Speaker 2: at the very far left edge of the green and
Speaker 2: just let it funnel in to the middle. So it's
Speaker 2: interesting that'll be that'll be an interesting hole to watch.
Speaker 4: And then the flexibility you're talking about kind of reminds
Speaker 4: me of another Midwest of course, rich Harvis Farms.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, there are many T boxes there. There's someone
Speaker 2: I found, you know, one thing I held back on,
Speaker 2: you know, I made a truce at then, I mean
Speaker 2: at the end to stop on that golf course. I
Speaker 2: found an abandoned T shot a T box and I
Speaker 2: couldn't figure out where it went, and I took a
Speaker 2: picture that I haven't ever hosted it. So on the
Speaker 2: you know, of course, with some wan strategy and options.
Speaker 3: So do you think do you think those options get
Speaker 3: you know, sometimes the us GA tries to get like
Speaker 3: a little too cute out thanks themselves. Do you think
Speaker 3: there's too many options to get in trouble?
Speaker 2: Well, I mean I think this is what you what
Speaker 2: you described at the beginning of the the podcast as
Speaker 2: the beauty of the US open like watching the u
Speaker 2: U s G a like fumble like different things and
Speaker 2: everybody overreact to everything I do. So this course should
Speaker 2: set up quite well for that.
Speaker 3: I mean, but by and large, you know this rescue
Speaker 3: Gate aside, like I don't think we've seen this is
Speaker 3: an annual thing, like whether it was I don't know.
Speaker 3: I was looking to day at his like some of
Speaker 3: the past posts I've done, like Lee McCoy, like dribbling
Speaker 3: his ball down the fairway at Chambers Bay.
Speaker 2: Remember it was like.
Speaker 3: And like h Graan mcdal finding like fake clumps of
Speaker 3: grass and the like native areas that Native areas that
Speaker 3: Pinehurst and fourteen. It's like fake news, fake grass. It's
Speaker 3: these big, like huge clumps like and just picked it
Speaker 3: up like it was like a hairball. There's just like
Speaker 3: always this social media outroar and if like the worst
Speaker 3: we get is like Kevin nah yelling into his phone,
Speaker 3: like that's not that bad because this video is better
Speaker 3: Nah or.
Speaker 1: Westwoods, They're both good. I thought not I'm team Nah.
Speaker 2: I just loved how you the last thing you expected
Speaker 2: was somebody to crawl out of thee.
Speaker 4: Maybe the best the best way I heard this put,
Speaker 4: I think was your boy Michael Clayton was talking about it,
Speaker 4: and like it kind of reminds me of the par
Speaker 4: argument and the fact that par Is kind of just
Speaker 4: a number that people.
Speaker 1: Freak out about.
Speaker 4: But if if this fescue was a water hazard, like
Speaker 4: literally nobody would even think twice about it.
Speaker 1: Or mention it, And just the fact that it's not is, like,
Speaker 1: you know, just makes everybody lose your mind. Yeah, Rory
Speaker 1: said that today.
Speaker 3: It's like if they put you know, red steaks and
Speaker 3: red lines up the side of it, like they wouldn't,
Speaker 3: we wouldn't be getting Instagram videos about it, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Hey, you know, if golfers like they're gonna complain about something,
Speaker 2: because most of them have so much confidence that like
Speaker 2: nothing is ever their fault that goes wrong on the
Speaker 2: golf course. So you know, that's part of why they're
Speaker 2: the best in the world is that they never hit
Speaker 2: a bad shots. You know, the USGA stand fault that
Speaker 2: the rescue was there.
Speaker 1: Doesn't that mess you up? Like the whole week though,
Speaker 1: Like that's what you're focusing on going into the week.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, that couldn't have helped Kevin Na's preparation that, like,
Speaker 4: all of a sudden, he's in these headlines.
Speaker 2: I also think that that was mostly a joke, you know,
Speaker 2: and it probably just got completely best construed, as things
Speaker 2: often do in society today.
Speaker 3: So Kevin Nah as like analogy for all that's wrong
Speaker 3: with society.
Speaker 1: I like it, you know. Yeah, So where do where
Speaker 1: do you think?
Speaker 3: Like I was watching some of like The Flyovers and
Speaker 3: Noblo and stuff like that, and I heard like Baba
Speaker 3: drove number two. That sounds like a cool hole. Just
Speaker 3: seems like there are a lot of options going on.
Speaker 3: Where do you think it could get away from him?
Speaker 3: Seems like nine. I'm intrigued by that, Like weg shot,
Speaker 3: if it could get a little crazy.
Speaker 2: Nine nine could be like a double or a six.
Speaker 2: You know, somebody can make big numbers there. The par
Speaker 2: five fourteenth and then the par four fifteenth could be
Speaker 2: big swings. Like I think the fourteenth is like a
Speaker 2: longer par five. If for the long hitters. It's a
Speaker 2: really tough driving hole if you want hit driver, because
Speaker 2: there's some bunkers that shrink the fairway and there's a
Speaker 2: center line bunker which I love, and it makes you
Speaker 2: know two small fairways, and then you know there's like
Speaker 2: you know, they basically give you this layup. It's like,
Speaker 2: you know, a longer hitter, it will be like a
Speaker 2: seven iron, Like you can hit the seven iron here
Speaker 2: and you have a wedge in but it's semi blind,
Speaker 2: you know. Or you can go for this crazy shot
Speaker 2: in two and if you don't hit in the exact
Speaker 2: right slope, everything just funnels like way down to the
Speaker 2: right and you're left with like the short sighted pitch
Speaker 2: shot up a fifty foot mountain. So that hole is
Speaker 2: really cool. And there's some there's some very long fescue
Speaker 2: that kind of cuts up the kind of the middle,
Speaker 2: so some more thick rescue that you could lose the
Speaker 2: ball in. So that one's really cool. And then fifteen
Speaker 2: to that short part four that everybody that they've they've
Speaker 2: shown a lot of flyovers of where you've got a
Speaker 2: lot of bunkers. I think I'm guessing most players are
Speaker 2: going to hit a four iron. I was thinking about
Speaker 2: writing up the whole feature about a guess thing. They'll
Speaker 2: hit a four iron right and then just take the
Speaker 2: free wedge. But you might see some guys, you know,
Speaker 2: try and drive it depending on where they put the tee.
Speaker 2: But if I were playing it, I'd just hit four
Speaker 2: iron wedge every day.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it sounds like I was watching some highlights of
Speaker 3: the AM like can't lay I guess blew it, Like
Speaker 3: you hit an eight iron off the one with tea
Speaker 3: into like a well. I think that's central one of
Speaker 3: the bunkers in the middle of the faraway Like it's
Speaker 3: sometimes laying up or you know, taking being safe off
Speaker 3: the tee can get you in trouble, like he hit
Speaker 3: an eight iron some ridiculous distance that carried into this
Speaker 3: faraway longer.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that hole that whole like fairway runs really hard
Speaker 2: to the right right end to fest too, so like
Speaker 2: you can hit a good shot like I was talking
Speaker 2: to a player who said, oh, you can hit a
Speaker 2: really good shot here and it could still go in
Speaker 2: the fescue.
Speaker 1: I think, uh you should.
Speaker 4: I think you were talking about it in uh maybe
Speaker 4: your preview thing. But I think one of the things
Speaker 4: I'm most excited about too. It just is all the
Speaker 4: bunkering and the fact that like there's basically no flat
Speaker 4: lies out there, and a lot of these bunkers how
Speaker 4: there's so much slow inside the bunker, which is awesome.
Speaker 1: I love that.
Speaker 4: I love watching guys hit like weird crouching kind of
Speaker 4: like uncomfortable shots above their feet, shots below their feet,
Speaker 4: like that's that's the best, and then just seeing how
Speaker 4: close they put it most of the time, Like that's awesome.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's like like a bunker, you know, like I've
Speaker 2: never seen where like you could visibly see like a
Speaker 2: like almost like when you see like a big hump
Speaker 2: or a roll in a green, you could see that
Speaker 2: he's in bunkers. So like in the middle of a
Speaker 2: bunker there's sometimes like a uphill and downhill undulation right
Speaker 2: in the middle of it, so so that that's kind
Speaker 2: of interesting. I think a lot of the bunkers also,
Speaker 2: like especially with the fairy ones, that are less penal
Speaker 2: the closer you are to the fair away, So the
Speaker 2: further you miss into them to the right, the more
Speaker 2: penal they get, which is really cool. I think that's
Speaker 2: a interesting, unique little design twist for championship golf where
Speaker 2: they get a little bit tougher the further you get
Speaker 2: into the bunker. So I'm I'm excited. I think the
Speaker 2: the courses gonna stay pretty firm and fast. From what
Speaker 2: I've gathered, it's drained really well. The greens still have
Speaker 2: a lot of bite after a good amount of rain,
Speaker 2: and uh, you know, I think that's the only concern
Speaker 2: I would have is if it if it rains too much,
Speaker 2: that that that it softens up, because then it will
Speaker 2: really kind of reduce I think it's unbelievable design because
Speaker 2: short hitter short straight hitters legitimately have a chance. Everybody
Speaker 2: just looks at the yardage. But it plays so short,
Speaker 2: not like so short, but it does not play long.
Speaker 2: It's a loss of downalty shots.
Speaker 1: Can I ask you would you rather? Would you rather
Speaker 1: get a ton of rain? Uh and not have it
Speaker 1: played firm and fast or have Phil play.
Speaker 2: Either? Or I'd rather have philm play.
Speaker 1: I mean that's you love furm and fast though?
Speaker 2: Oh no, no, I'd rather have firm and fast. I
Speaker 2: thought the question was, like I could Oh I misunderstood
Speaker 2: the question. I thought it was it was it was
Speaker 2: going to rain or Phil was going to play, and
Speaker 2: it was one or the other.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, it's the same thing.
Speaker 2: I'm just an idiot. See, it was a very complex question,
Speaker 2: far too much for my brain to understand. I'd rather
Speaker 2: have it be firm and fast than Phil play. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean, I get lit up about this, but it
Speaker 2: just gives Ernie, my boy Ernie, another chance to catch
Speaker 2: Phil on the Career Majors List.
Speaker 3: No, but what you were saying is I found it
Speaker 3: interesting reading your like primer of the course. Basically it
Speaker 3: seemed like a voice in the wilderness all alone, talking
Speaker 3: about how you didn't necessarily think, you know, like everyone
Speaker 3: keeps saying Bomber's Paradise, long hitter, long, hitter long, You
Speaker 3: were more of like, hey, like the uneven lies might
Speaker 3: make this more like. It might be more of like
Speaker 3: the best approach game is that people who went in
Speaker 3: the short and stray guys can still hang.
Speaker 2: I think I think, like any US Open, you have
Speaker 2: to hit the ball really well to win. Like almost
Speaker 2: any golf tournament, you have to hit the ball well
Speaker 2: to win. I think what you'll see is like I
Speaker 2: would look at guys that are high on strokes gained
Speaker 2: that aren't necessarily long, you know, like Bubba's always in
Speaker 2: the top five because he just hits it so far.
Speaker 2: But find guys that drive it really well, who are
Speaker 2: also really good iron players, because you see it at
Speaker 2: at at Augusta, you know, like Speed plays so well
Speaker 2: there because he's so good at hitting off uneven lives. Yeah,
Speaker 2: And I like that about Speed this week. Is that
Speaker 2: because it's a little wider, it lets more drivers into it,
Speaker 2: you know, like that that's another aspect of it I
Speaker 2: think is going overlooked because it's a little wider it.
Speaker 2: You know, like when the fairway's twenty yards wide, everybody's
Speaker 2: gonna miss fairways. And that's what kills the short hitters
Speaker 2: is when they're hitting out rough, you know, and they're
Speaker 2: not hitting it out of the fairway is and that's
Speaker 2: why US opens typically, don't, you know, short hitters don't
Speaker 2: win them because everybody misses five fairaways, like you know,
Speaker 2: like a short but really good driver of the golf
Speaker 2: ball could hit fourteen to fourteen fairways here like and
Speaker 2: that that's legitimately in play for anybody that drives the
Speaker 2: ball well. So from there you can attack and you
Speaker 2: can play well, like I mean, I think the wind
Speaker 2: is really going to be the big question. Like if
Speaker 2: the wind blows, that's when scores.
Speaker 1: Will go up.
Speaker 2: But if it doesn't blow, you know, like early morning
Speaker 2: rounds are gonna you know, the draw. It's going to
Speaker 2: play more like a a British Open where you know,
Speaker 2: a or an Open championship where the draw could be
Speaker 2: a legitimate factor.
Speaker 4: That's what I think I was saying at first, is
Speaker 4: like it's kind of this like confluence of all these
Speaker 4: factors that are like the best parts of all the
Speaker 4: other majors almost, and it seems like we're going to
Speaker 4: get like a lot of them this week all in one,
Speaker 4: which is really cool.
Speaker 3: Yes, Speed said that exact thing. That is Kapalua, the
Speaker 3: home of ralph Press conference. At the top of the year.
Speaker 3: He's like, I succeed that Augusta. I succeed at the
Speaker 3: Plantation Course, I think, because you know, I think a
Speaker 3: lot of the modern players, the guys coming up don't
Speaker 3: really hit it as well off different eyes and on
Speaker 3: even terrain as well as I did, which is weird
Speaker 3: for a Texas player to say, you think, But yeah,
Speaker 3: he said that at the top of the year, so
Speaker 3: maybe maybe he's the guy to go for this week.
Speaker 1: I'm going to slide in and take the speed pick first,
Speaker 1: says it.
Speaker 2: I put it in that course, thoughts. I just I
Speaker 2: put a gift of speech just so the uh the
Speaker 2: I think that that's like the one of the best
Speaker 2: design tricks of how to really create difficulty for the
Speaker 2: great player without you know, stretching out the average player.
Speaker 1: What other courses are like that? Besides those? Those two
Speaker 1: come to mind, But.
Speaker 2: I'm just William Flynn did a lot on his courses,
Speaker 2: So Cherry Hills, there's a course I played of his
Speaker 2: rolling Green that like, you're never hitting off an even
Speaker 2: lie and it always seems to be like a fade
Speaker 2: lie hit into a draw green and it just drives you,
Speaker 2: drives you nuts. But what it does is it really
Speaker 2: separates the great ball strikers. So I'm you know, sitting
Speaker 2: there hitting high fans into draw pins and grind him
Speaker 2: for pars. But like somebody that's really good is just
Speaker 2: hitting him right at the pen still, So I think,
Speaker 2: you know, you got Kapalua. You have to have some
Speaker 2: land movement to do it. It's hard to do it
Speaker 2: with a dead flat site, and this place has just
Speaker 2: I guess the story of it being like some sort
Speaker 2: of glacier. I'm sure somebody's gonna do, you know, one
Speaker 2: of these telecast glaciers. Yeah, the glacial movement in blockage
Speaker 2: or whatever happened here. You know, it's an interesting study.
Speaker 2: You know, we've we've now talked it touched a little
Speaker 2: bit on speed. But you know, I think something that's
Speaker 2: an interesting narrative that's going on is that McElroy has
Speaker 2: been kind of stuck at five majors and you've got
Speaker 2: this whole and he's got the you know, the stranglehold
Speaker 2: on generation's best player of this post Tiger generation, but
Speaker 2: you've got all these other guys that are lurking that
Speaker 2: could go on a run and get to him because
Speaker 2: of this you know, almost three year stall he's had now.
Speaker 2: So you know, I'd love to hear what you guys
Speaker 2: think about, you know, some some of the other big guns,
Speaker 2: and you know, who could be the guy that could
Speaker 2: could get close to his major count.
Speaker 4: I mean I think that, like I think Speef is
Speaker 4: the guy in my head. But of course that I'm
Speaker 4: saying that, as you know, Dustin Johnson's the number one
Speaker 4: player in the world, who looks pretty much unbeatable every
Speaker 4: time he is teed it up over the past year
Speaker 4: or so here. But I mean, I think speF is
Speaker 4: the guy that, like, in my mind, I think when
Speaker 4: I was watching him in twenty fifteen or even before that,
Speaker 4: probably like kind of when he was a rookie.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's easy to get sucked into.
Speaker 4: The narrative of kind of like, oh, he's just he
Speaker 4: makes every putt and blah blah blah. And like I
Speaker 4: think when you get sucked into that, you kind of
Speaker 4: start to think, like, Okay, well that's gonna that's going
Speaker 4: to dry up eventually, and like he's gonna he's gonna
Speaker 4: kind of drop off. And I think what we've seen
Speaker 4: just over the past few years, as people have gotten
Speaker 4: deeper into his game and just watched him more closely
Speaker 4: and watch him when he struggles more importantly, and watch
Speaker 4: him when he plays, well, it's that like that's not
Speaker 4: the case, and that he is like an all world
Speaker 4: ball striker too, And like I think what I I
Speaker 4: see from him, I mean, I don't know, he just
Speaker 4: makes me excited about the fact that he contends at
Speaker 4: like he contends at every venue. He kind of like
Speaker 4: just has all these different ways to get it done,
Speaker 4: and like that is I think that's what impresses me
Speaker 4: the most.
Speaker 1: But you know, I don't know. I think just the
Speaker 1: fact that he's got what.
Speaker 4: Ten years on Dustin Johnson nine years something like that
Speaker 4: is the fact that makes me lean towards him. But
Speaker 4: I think I'm just like freakish, you know, talent of
Speaker 4: like being able to just kind of take over for
Speaker 4: a decade, like Dustin's the guy that has the tools
Speaker 4: to do that. But I don't know, it's kind of
Speaker 4: a rambling answer.
Speaker 1: I think.
Speaker 3: I mean he's got he's got or Bryson, the i A,
Speaker 3: the Changelo, He's definitely it's the most airtime about it.
Speaker 3: I think, you know, he's at zero right now, but
Speaker 3: doesn't rom got to be thrown into this from what
Speaker 3: we've seen so far with like you know, like DJ
Speaker 3: was just talking about different styles. He handled himself fine
Speaker 3: a colonial or whether it's you know, Austin or Toy.
Speaker 3: It kind of doesn't matter where he plays, putting, driving,
Speaker 3: you know, iron game. It seems to be pretty solid
Speaker 3: through the bag.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: I just it's kind of I think like he's someone
Speaker 3: if you're Rory. He might be, you know, thinking like
Speaker 3: that's the guy for the next era. It's hard to
Speaker 3: argue with DJ Dustin Johnson that is being I think
Speaker 3: the most immediate threat. But there's that age thing, like
Speaker 3: he just seems DJ seems like the guy who could win,
Speaker 3: you know, a Major every year for four straight years,
Speaker 3: you know, elite get one a year, and but I
Speaker 3: think like rom is the kind of the biggest threat
Speaker 3: right now.
Speaker 1: He would he would he would scare.
Speaker 3: Me if I was looking for a guy thrown Rory
Speaker 3: so to speak, Mm.
Speaker 2: Hmm, yeah. I mean, now that you've touched into ram,
Speaker 2: so do you do you put him as you know,
Speaker 2: the next first time major. I mean, even though I
Speaker 2: asked this really because a Japanese reporter set in that
Speaker 2: press room all day and asked the same question to
Speaker 2: every player, you know, asking if the deck he could
Speaker 2: win this week, all of them said yes. I love that.
Speaker 1: I love that.
Speaker 3: The question was always do you think the number four
Speaker 3: player in the world could win this week? It's not
Speaker 3: like newanced thing, It's just like can he win? Is
Speaker 3: he okay at golf?
Speaker 1: He's not.
Speaker 4: I wish I wish that golf would get some sort
Speaker 4: of like performance artist up there that would just like
Speaker 4: basically lean into all this stuff and kind of have
Speaker 4: like a handshake agreement with every other player that like
Speaker 4: just so you know, like I'm just messing with you guys.
Speaker 4: I'm just kind of spewing this off. But like when
Speaker 4: somebody asked that question, do you think he can win?
Speaker 1: Just say, you know, no, I don't. I don't think
Speaker 1: he has what it takes. I think he's destined for
Speaker 1: just a life of just miserable shortcoming next question. But
Speaker 1: until that day comes, I.
Speaker 4: Guess we'll have to keep suffering the same, the same
Speaker 4: pointless hypotheticals.
Speaker 2: The monotony. It's the whole SIS conference thing needs a
Speaker 2: major shakeup. I'm so loud. It was.
Speaker 3: Like I parked on the cosh today and just watched
Speaker 3: the whole cycle. I was having a field day with it.
Speaker 3: I'm very kind of like deep in the game, just
Speaker 3: know who's asking the questions and kind of having fun
Speaker 3: with the the bias and fake news angles of some
Speaker 3: of these guys are thrown out there.
Speaker 1: It's pretty pretty interesting.
Speaker 2: You had the Japanese woman asking about if Deki could win,
Speaker 2: and then you had another guy asking about Wisconsin culture
Speaker 2: every single time, like, tell me about what you think
Speaker 2: about Wisconsin people, you know, and it's just you're all
Speaker 2: just writing a story and getting these quotes for this story.
Speaker 4: It's like that's that's the bad part, is having the
Speaker 4: story ninety percent written and just saying like, Okay, cool,
Speaker 4: I just need some quotes I can plug into these holes.
Speaker 1: It's like, I mean that's I don't know.
Speaker 4: I guess that's how you get to do it on
Speaker 4: the deadline. I know a lot of times, but like
Speaker 4: it's just that's how you wind up with these like
Speaker 4: milk toasts kind of, you know.
Speaker 3: Asking Rory about Wisconsin, he's like, I don't know. It's
Speaker 3: a state and I've been here a couple of times
Speaker 3: to play golf, Like I can't what insight can you?
Speaker 1: Actually?
Speaker 2: People are nice? Yeah, it's like you know, I think
Speaker 2: you know with the NDA, how they have like a
Speaker 2: ref score, you know, and and people get graded on there,
Speaker 2: Like I think that should be the same way for media. Yeah,
Speaker 2: dumb question out.
Speaker 1: My favorite. I was watching Adam's God.
Speaker 3: I think somebody from the Australian Press, I don't know who,
Speaker 3: like asked him, like, you know, said he was almost
Speaker 3: he'd be almost unbeatable, right, He's let's just let him
Speaker 3: right into it, because like if you make a couple
Speaker 3: of putts, you're almost unbeatable, right, So what Scott's supposed
Speaker 3: to say, like, yes, I am unbeatable. I don't know,
Speaker 3: you know, it's just you know, pretty leading question.
Speaker 2: It's uh, well, before we got sidetracked.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're talking. We're talking about Ron Yo.
Speaker 2: Let's say, next guy, who do you guys think next
Speaker 2: guy to win a major of this of this young crap.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna leave my boy Westy, who's going to get
Speaker 2: it done this week out of it. But everybody out
Speaker 2: at the you know, the younger guys who's going to
Speaker 2: get it done first? You know, jt Ricky Rahm Hadki.
Speaker 4: Stricker said, you said short straight hitters this week. It's
Speaker 4: good short games.
Speaker 2: That's true.
Speaker 3: I'm sticking with the ram just I know that's like
Speaker 3: we just went over it. But he seems like the
Speaker 3: most unburdened by things. I don't know, if it's like
Speaker 3: just you know, culture change, he doesn't you know, it
Speaker 3: seems he seems pretty embedded in American culture. I should say,
Speaker 3: but like I don't know it just this is kind
Speaker 3: of just looking at intangibles and you know, trying to
Speaker 3: discern something that may not be there. But he just
Speaker 3: doesn't seem burdened by the same kind of like hype
Speaker 3: and pressure, and it just doesn't seem to affect him
Speaker 3: in a way that some of the other young major
Speaker 3: list guys look like they start clenching up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I agree.
Speaker 4: I think my power rankings I think would be like
Speaker 4: rom Ricky Matsuyama, I think, and Matsuyama last, just because
Speaker 4: I don't know, I don't know, Maybe maybe I keep
Speaker 4: I keep riding my I uh uh. J T and
Speaker 4: Jimmy Walker have the same game narrative, which you think
Speaker 4: is a bad take.
Speaker 2: So horrible they couldn't like Jimmy Walker is the guy
Speaker 2: that like grind his way to PGA tour at age
Speaker 2: thirty two, and.
Speaker 1: They have the same art, they have the same twenty one.
Speaker 4: This is what happens when all my takes get bastardized
Speaker 4: because you're not listening to what Web's saying. Uh so,
Speaker 4: but massa young I think the knock on him is
Speaker 4: always his putting, and like you know, if he puts,
Speaker 4: he's one of those guys that like can finish first
Speaker 4: or second with kind of negative stroke skin putting has
Speaker 4: happened a couple of times, and like, I don't know,
Speaker 4: I mean, I think these majors just like completely exposed
Speaker 4: that in every way.
Speaker 1: So I think him winning you know, Phoenix is a
Speaker 1: lot different than him winning at Aaron Hills feels.
Speaker 2: Like that's that's a good point.
Speaker 1: Uh, how's at first? Okay, take who's your guy? Andy,
Speaker 1: I'm just checking from the cheap seats.
Speaker 2: I'm all in on the I'm all in on the
Speaker 2: thumb long term. That's John Rahm for those of you.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, the initiated, But.
Speaker 2: I'd say i'd say rom for like the long term arc.
Speaker 2: I think I kinda I kind of like Ricky even
Speaker 2: I'm not I'm not a huge Ricky fanboy, but I
Speaker 2: just love the way he's playing this year. Like the
Speaker 2: thing that he's done so well this year is putt.
Speaker 2: And I know everybody says putting doesn't matter, but he's
Speaker 2: having like the best year of his career, and he's
Speaker 2: like top five or ten in strokes game putting after
Speaker 2: being fortieth or something like that the year before. And
Speaker 2: you know, if you chart it out. That's the one
Speaker 2: thing that's really taking a big jump, and he's been
Speaker 2: I feel like he's been in the hunt at every
Speaker 2: big golf tournament that he's played in. So I think
Speaker 2: I think Ricky is most likely. I wouldn't be surprised
Speaker 2: if round one though, you know.
Speaker 1: Like he's you can't like people are like, yeah, by
Speaker 1: any of these guys.
Speaker 2: I had somebody chirping at me about not having rom
Speaker 2: in my sleepers article.
Speaker 3: And I'm like, I like, the number nine player in
Speaker 3: the world, Can we talk about another sleeper?
Speaker 1: Real quick? Rory, No, No, just real quick, So.
Speaker 3: Like you're talking about how he's been stuck or whatever.
Speaker 3: On five, Chambly was also saying before I came over
Speaker 3: here to this pod that like, this is his best
Speaker 3: opportunity to win since like the fifteen Open at St. Andrews,
Speaker 3: which you know he didn't play because of that kick
Speaker 3: About what what do you do you think, like obviously
Speaker 3: Quil Hall is going to be a big opportunity, Like
Speaker 3: do you think he's like gotta do this this week
Speaker 3: and or August? It seems like I don't know, the
Speaker 3: farther you get out, does that just kind of amplify.
Speaker 2: What do you think, DJ, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean I think it's his.
Speaker 4: I don't know expectations. I mean, like the cliche is
Speaker 4: going to be the expectation is to win every week.
Speaker 4: But like at the same time, he hasn't played what
Speaker 4: in like six weeks because he's been hurt. I mean,
Speaker 4: I don't I don't think he's going to be like
Speaker 4: win or die this week. I don't think by any stretch.
Speaker 4: But I mean I think that I see what you're
Speaker 4: saying that, Like, if you know, he keeps going to
Speaker 4: he keeps going to all these these venues where everybody's saying, like,
Speaker 4: you should win, right, you should win, you should win,
Speaker 4: And he goes to the Masters, and like, why don't
Speaker 4: you win here?
Speaker 1: This is crazy?
Speaker 4: But like eventually that has to it has to kind
Speaker 4: of feel like you've never done it before, after after
Speaker 4: so long. I mean, if he gets to you know,
Speaker 4: if he gets to the twenty nineteen US Open or
Speaker 4: whatever and he hasn't won a you know, he hasn't
Speaker 4: real I guess it'd be the PGA at twenty nineteen
Speaker 4: PGA and he hasn't won in five years.
Speaker 1: I'm just a long time so yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 4: I mean, I think I do think he'll he'll get
Speaker 4: one of these before then, but I think he doesn't. Like, Yeah,
Speaker 4: I think what you're saying is is got to be
Speaker 4: a factor that like it's got to kind of start
Speaker 4: to creep in.
Speaker 2: I think I think the other thing that goes unnoticed,
Speaker 2: it doesn't get talked about that much, is like how
Speaker 2: much better the depth of talent is now than when
Speaker 2: it was like even three years ago. Jordan Speth was,
Speaker 2: you know, just getting started, Like Dustin Johnson wasn't this
Speaker 2: Dustin Johnson, Jason Day wasn't this Jason Daydecu Massuyama wasn't here.
Speaker 2: And you still have Adam Scott, Sergio, all these guys
Speaker 2: playing at a high level Westwood. All right, that's the
Speaker 2: last one. I want to do that again. But you
Speaker 2: have all these guys that are still still playing at
Speaker 2: like a high level that are that generates justin Rose,
Speaker 2: and we're in this era where like it's really really
Speaker 2: really hard to win.
Speaker 4: Well, we'll go back to like I mean, who was
Speaker 4: the last kind of like quote unquote dud major winner.
Speaker 1: It's just like it just doesn't happen, Like it's.
Speaker 2: Not like Danni willis just playing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but I mean he was still like number fifteen
Speaker 4: in the world or something like that when he won.
Speaker 4: I mean he's he's super good. Yeah, Like like I
Speaker 4: get what you're saying, but like, you know, when was
Speaker 4: the last Like I'm trying to think, you know, Darren
Speaker 4: Clark is not like swooping in and winning another major
Speaker 4: right now, or anybody or like you know who who
Speaker 4: else kind of before that.
Speaker 1: I mean even.
Speaker 4: I don't know, I'm just trying to think. I mean,
Speaker 4: I know, we went through a stretch where it was
Speaker 4: kind of like it was Kegan and it was Web
Speaker 4: and it was some of these guys that like kind
Speaker 4: of looked like they would be around forever, and you know,
Speaker 4: it just pans out that like Daupher was in there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's got a good shot this week actually though, Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think so too.
Speaker 4: But the point being, like for any of those guys
Speaker 4: to win outside the top ten, now, I mean this
Speaker 4: is like the most obvious statement.
Speaker 1: Ever, but like for any of those guys to win,
Speaker 1: I mean, you've got.
Speaker 4: To be This goes into a whole other thing that
Speaker 4: like you can kind of extrapolate out on the whole
Speaker 4: Tiger thing as.
Speaker 1: Well, es, but she didn't think we're gonna bring him up, but.
Speaker 4: You can you can bring out with Tiger Too's like
Speaker 4: in order for like anybody who says like, oh, I
Speaker 4: think he can get it back and he can win
Speaker 4: a major, It's like, Okay, cool, that sounds great, but
Speaker 4: just FYI like he's got to be Ricky and Dustin
Speaker 4: and Jason Day and Rom and Rory and Spieth and Adam.
Speaker 1: Scott and Justin Rose like all of these guys like
Speaker 1: on the same week. Like it's just so crazy to
Speaker 1: think about it like that.
Speaker 2: I think. I think that this brings up, you know,
Speaker 2: so you have your young guys that are trying to
Speaker 2: get there first, and then you've got this this kind
Speaker 2: of class class as superstar that are kind of you
Speaker 2: know that somewhat have separated themselves just because of this
Speaker 2: one major, you know, where you have you know, In
Speaker 2: Speith has two, but all these other guys have one
Speaker 2: but have shown, like I think DJ, Spith, Day and Rory,
Speaker 2: those four have shown that they can dominate golf for
Speaker 2: like an eighteen month stretch, which nobody else has been
Speaker 2: able to do. And then then on the other side
Speaker 2: of the spectrum, you have these guys that played in
Speaker 2: the shadow of Tiger, where you have Sergio, Justin Rose,
Speaker 2: Henrik Stenson, you know, Jim Furick to a certain extent,
Speaker 2: all who have one major and like, you know, the
Speaker 2: the when you think about remembering players, you have, you know,
Speaker 2: one major guys to two major guys and that's that's
Speaker 2: a big difference, or three major guys. So like, you
Speaker 2: know who of that group could you see getting one
Speaker 2: more major? And maybe one this week?
Speaker 1: I mean, Adam Scott's like the main one that sticks out.
Speaker 3: I feel like, I mean, Sergio is probably a pretty
Speaker 3: easy answer there. I mean, I just I think he's still.
Speaker 1: Like on you know, doesn't feel like that was like
Speaker 1: five years ago that he won the Masters. Yeah I
Speaker 1: wrote that.
Speaker 3: I actually wrote that today. I was like, it feels like, yeah,
Speaker 3: five years ago.
Speaker 2: I don't know if I've ever seen like a Masters
Speaker 2: champion seemingly fly under the radar.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, right, especially like a better fitting golf course.
Speaker 2: Right Uneven lies like it's like is made, Like that's
Speaker 2: a guy that if you look at strokes game driving,
Speaker 2: you know he can rip it far. But for the
Speaker 2: most part he's such a great driver that he has
Speaker 2: the ball on the string. You know, he might not
Speaker 2: miss a fair away for you know, he could probably
Speaker 2: go twenty seven holes without missing a fair away out here,
Speaker 2: which is interesting. But you know it's because Steve Stricker
Speaker 2: is eating up all the headlines.
Speaker 1: I'll he plays well this week. It would be so fun.
Speaker 2: I'm kind of on team knee Burgie this week.
Speaker 1: I wanted to I wanted to ask you that.
Speaker 3: Just kind of there's like a pretty strong am crop
Speaker 3: here this week between whatever Dalkey and Big Hag and
Speaker 3: slender McNeely and I don't know, I heard this knee
Speaker 3: burg He is like, you know, knows the course better
Speaker 3: than everybody anybody else. It sounds like it want to
Speaker 3: play there. So it seems like you think Ams could
Speaker 3: I don't know, not win it. But he seems like
Speaker 3: there's a lot of firepower.
Speaker 1: He was like the last group at the end. Yeah,
Speaker 1: is a pro. Yeah right, he's on McKenzie Tour.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he won and the McKenzie Tour two weeks ago
Speaker 2: and then uh or no, he came a second to
Speaker 2: McCoy when he won. But yeah, he came in six
Speaker 2: and he could I mean, he could play well, you know,
Speaker 2: you never know, but I mean he was a two
Speaker 2: time Walker cover. But the the ams are incredible. Joaque Neeman,
Speaker 2: this kid from Chilly, he's the new number one in
Speaker 2: the world amateur. You know, he overtook McNeely, who you know,
Speaker 2: you know, if you look, if I rated out the amateurs,
Speaker 2: like I think McNeely would probably be like four or
Speaker 2: five on the list, which is crazy because he's like,
Speaker 2: you know, the the Golden Boy. But like you know,
Speaker 2: the a couple that will won't get a lot of
Speaker 2: headlines are John Oda from U n l V, who's
Speaker 2: gonna definitely be on the Walker Cup team. And Cameron Champ,
Speaker 2: who I guess I don't know if this is a fit.
Speaker 2: He's transferring from Texas A and M to Texas.
Speaker 1: News.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not sure if it's been reported, but give.
Speaker 3: A message board war. Yeah, textagg or Bloods.
Speaker 2: Podcast is gonna get tons of hits at minute forty
Speaker 2: or whatever it is. But he all of a.
Speaker 4: Sudden, all of a sudden, your account's going to be
Speaker 4: hacked by Big Aggie.
Speaker 3: To take a break from the Tom Herban recruiting trail
Speaker 3: to got many.
Speaker 2: Kyle Porter might be you know, diving in from Oklahoma state.
Speaker 2: You know there might be some golf fans on there
Speaker 2: and Sooner Nation, just they're not in Calvoy Nation coming
Speaker 2: at me. But he uh the thing about Champ he
Speaker 2: murders the ball like he hits it forever. So that's
Speaker 2: a that's a guy that you know, one day somebody
Speaker 2: will see how far he hits it and it'll go
Speaker 2: viral on on Twitter. You know, sure he hit it
Speaker 2: three hundred and eighty yards.
Speaker 4: Speaking of which, just slip in and mentioned that I'm
Speaker 4: going to get your reaction to your boy Tom Peters
Speaker 4: this week, heard his name bandied about a little bit.
Speaker 2: You know, he didn't. He just didn't come. I don't
Speaker 2: know why. I just didn't didn't get on him this week.
Speaker 2: Pauli's been giving me a lot of ship about not
Speaker 2: being being banging the Thomas Peters drum, and I don't
Speaker 2: know why I'm not. He's a great, great driver, hits
Speaker 2: it forever and awesome with iron.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean, but who's who's gonna be lower
Speaker 1: running this week?
Speaker 3: Corrupted by the Blake collar mafia.
Speaker 2: Though fortunately that could be you know, he might have
Speaker 2: gotten too mainstream for me, That's true, lower LINI it's
Speaker 2: going to be Peters. I think there's only two right,
Speaker 2: Stricker and him probably. I think you know what bugs
Speaker 2: me about Stricker? I like the guy. I love him.
Speaker 2: He went to Times.
Speaker 1: Somebody goes off on this guy. He went to do
Speaker 1: it well.
Speaker 2: He went to Illinois. But every time you see him
Speaker 2: in pictures he's wearing like Wisconsin gear. It's like, what
Speaker 2: the hell, man, you didn't go to Wisconsin. You went
Speaker 2: to Illinois. The regular.
Speaker 1: It's very Zach Johnson move. He ain't good, didn't good
Speaker 1: to Iowa. I h side note.
Speaker 3: I did a radio interview with a with an Iowa
Speaker 3: radio station today like just we're hitting the usual, you know,
Speaker 3: DJ Speed, you know all this stuff, Rory, how's everybody
Speaker 3: gonna do? And they sign off and they asked me,
Speaker 3: like about Zack Johnson, how he how he's been like struggling.
Speaker 3: Why we think he's struggling it? And with this new equipment.
Speaker 3: I was like, man, I don't have notes on Zach Johnson.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, Like I just threw some cliches. I just
Speaker 3: got I usually handle these radio things fine, but oh
Speaker 3: threw me for a loop.
Speaker 1: All right, back to your strict beat.
Speaker 2: But no, that's it, that's it. But yeah, then Illinois
Speaker 2: will be playing Wisconsin and he's wearing like Wisconsin stuff
Speaker 2: and you're like, what.
Speaker 1: The hell, dude, Yeah, let's crooked something that wait to
Speaker 1: take a stay and take a stand stand up to strigger.
Speaker 2: All right, let's get into some Twitter questions here. We
Speaker 2: got a ton of good ones. You know, we'll we'll
Speaker 2: stick away from stay away from the ones that are
Speaker 2: directed at the spicy crimudgeon unless you just want poor
Speaker 2: have to sit in and answer them as if he
Speaker 2: was Tron.
Speaker 3: I don't think it's possible for anyone to be a
Speaker 3: proxy for Tron heavy lies to crowd.
Speaker 2: Uh so uh, Geronimo Jackson wants to know, is the
Speaker 2: U s G A woke? Uh?
Speaker 1: I feel like I don't. I don't know. We haven't
Speaker 1: talked about this one.
Speaker 4: I don't know where you are going to fall on this,
Speaker 4: but I'll kick it off and say that I think
Speaker 4: they are woke. Some of this, of course, probably depends
Speaker 4: on your definition of the word, but in my definition,
Speaker 4: I think it's it's uh. I think you look at
Speaker 4: kind of their body of work. I think what they
Speaker 4: did with Chambers Bay recently, I think what they did,
Speaker 4: what they kind of you know, what they pulled off
Speaker 4: with Pinehurst. I think what they're doing with Aaron Hills,
Speaker 4: I think from a from a just different kind of venue.
Speaker 4: I think they're way woker than the public is ready for.
Speaker 4: And so I think you saw a lot of backlash,
Speaker 4: which I loved all the like this golf course is brown.
Speaker 4: Some of that coming from the current president of the
Speaker 4: United States. People not understanding like the motives behind something
Speaker 4: that's like the wokest thing there is. When like somebody
Speaker 4: doesn't understand your art, I think is great. I think
Speaker 4: sometimes they're woke and not woke at the same time.
Speaker 4: I think you look at their handling with the birds situation.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 4: WHI on one, on one hand, you know, belittling uh
Speaker 4: the four station, you know, forestation of the rainforest is
Speaker 4: very unwoke. But at the same time, Mike Davis actually
Speaker 4: being the guy who yanked him off camera.
Speaker 1: When I think when you're when your head honcho is
Speaker 1: also strong arming people, I think that's very woke. Literally yeah,
Speaker 1: just super woke. I think that, uh man, what else
Speaker 1: I mean?
Speaker 4: I think the anchored anchored Putter decision was pretty unwoke,
Speaker 4: uh that wasn't.
Speaker 2: The con that the ball in distance has an increase
Speaker 2: was extremely Now, yeah, but.
Speaker 1: Some of it's so not woke that it might be woke,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: That's like when you said if nobody stinks, does everybody stink?
Speaker 1: I think the busy curbudget said that, So all right.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to back that up. Do you do
Speaker 2: you have anything behind?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 2: I feel like DJ really wow, undid Yeah, I think
Speaker 2: I think I think I think they're woke. I got
Speaker 2: a great question from Joe Mayberry for for Poor rap
Speaker 2: Here Early Bets on how many awful versions of red,
Speaker 2: white and blue apparel we see this week?
Speaker 1: Oh, it's already out. You know.
Speaker 3: It's just these it's so heinous, it's so wrong. It's
Speaker 3: like just kind of like, you know, they're trying to
Speaker 3: appeal this you know, this low hanging fruit, and it's
Speaker 3: just really this I don't know, it's this bass and
Speaker 3: kind of I don't know, really discouraging, you know, false
Speaker 3: sense of patriotism.
Speaker 1: It's just like an easy sell for commercial reasons. You know.
Speaker 3: It's just everybody's got to release the bag, everybody's got
Speaker 3: to release the shoes, the outfits. You know, why why
Speaker 3: does Sergio have to be in red, white and blue.
Speaker 3: He's from Spain. I mean, I know he's you know,
Speaker 3: big Texas now he's like big tax or whatever. But
Speaker 3: you know, I don't understand why we got a drape
Speaker 3: Sergio in red, white and blue. It's just just like
Speaker 3: commercial kind of you know, hollow commercial attempt at you know,
Speaker 3: trying to capture on people's patriotism.
Speaker 4: I don't like the brands getting involved in my issues,
Speaker 4: right yact keep your keep your brands off my issues.
Speaker 4: Let it be an organic, organic decision to represent yourself patriot.
Speaker 2: I wish players still picked what they wore, you know,
Speaker 2: like who would be wearing the blade color voluntarily?
Speaker 1: I got a buddy. I got a buddy, Jason.
Speaker 3: Jason Day would do that. Your buddy loves it.
Speaker 1: He loves it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we make fun of him constantly. He played golf
Speaker 4: with Tron the other day, and Tron just mercilessly was like, dude,
Speaker 4: Blake callers got to go.
Speaker 1: He's like, no, it's good. He's kept popping Tron right
Speaker 1: back in the face about it. It was admirable.
Speaker 3: Actually, the Blake collar is good.
Speaker 2: All right, here's another question from Will Knights, What is
Speaker 2: more likely Coocher snakes his way to a top ten
Speaker 2: in a major that doesn't suit his game or an
Speaker 2: actual snake attacks Kevin.
Speaker 1: Nah, A lot of moving parts on that one.
Speaker 2: I will say this, I'm surprised that snake didn't attack
Speaker 2: Kevin when he spent like an hour making a nineteen
Speaker 2: in San Antonio. That one?
Speaker 1: Yeah, sixteen? What was that? What? What about the colf
Speaker 1: course doesn't fit Coacher's game?
Speaker 2: I think it's in a major, Like I actually like
Speaker 2: when when I think you're just going heavy on the
Speaker 2: snake pet there, I think.
Speaker 3: Which I respect trying to fit trying to shoe hardest
Speaker 3: narrative into question.
Speaker 2: I actually think Coacher is a guy that that could
Speaker 2: play well yea like a shorter hitter that hits it
Speaker 2: really straight and is a really good iron player. Like
Speaker 2: that is him. Cooch might be might be h somebody
Speaker 2: that's really flying under the radar. Let's see what else
Speaker 2: we got here? Whose career Steve Stricker or Jim Furick.
Speaker 1: Oh Man? Who did this question come from?
Speaker 2: Ken Ryan from Milwaukee?
Speaker 4: Well, that's what That's what I was gonna get at,
Speaker 4: because I was like, I don't think that this is
Speaker 4: this doesn't just feels like a very biased question.
Speaker 1: I don't even think it's close, right, like seven and
Speaker 1: six at least.
Speaker 2: Alight. Alright, here's a good one, and I promise.
Speaker 1: I will letting the biases show through.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't bring this up, I promised earlier, but this
Speaker 2: question is so good from the tour saucy air. How
Speaker 2: many putts inside three feet little LESSI mess, Oh.
Speaker 1: Well, that's the thing. If they get some rain, maybe
Speaker 1: that maybe some of that spice will be taken out
Speaker 1: of the greens. I don't know.
Speaker 4: I mean, I I'll whatever it is, I'll take the over, whatever,
Speaker 4: whatever the number is. You said it that I'm gonna
Speaker 4: take the over.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say he's gonna have he's gonna have a
Speaker 2: great week. He's gonna have less than four messages, less
Speaker 2: than one around.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I just watching him last last year with DJ,
Speaker 1: who was just like a fan.
Speaker 3: Him and like Billy Foster were just there to like
Speaker 3: run interference with the USGA, Like I mean, he was
Speaker 3: ejected by like the seventh pole, so they literally served
Speaker 3: no purpose out there. He's like a marker, just running
Speaker 3: interference on the USGA felt bad for him.
Speaker 4: You know, I's a very incriminating text from Andy that
Speaker 4: I'm going to roll out with the times appropriate. Feels
Speaker 4: kind of like the like Koby to the alleged Koby tapes.
Speaker 4: I'm going to roll out there right at the right time.
Speaker 4: So you guys follow me on Twitter at dj PI.
Speaker 1: If you want to see some of this stuff come out.
Speaker 1: He's not always cracked, and he's not always cracked up
Speaker 1: to be.
Speaker 2: You know, I was. I was rolling through last year's
Speaker 2: open on Wikipedia and it had like, you know, all
Speaker 2: the leader's cards and at the bottom it was west
Speaker 2: Woods and it was just it was ugly to look at.
Speaker 2: But I really think Westwood could play well here.
Speaker 1: You know. Actually I think he will too. Actually I'm
Speaker 1: a little nervous about it.
Speaker 4: Again, the point still stands at like, I don't do
Speaker 4: not see a universe in which he wins, but I
Speaker 4: do think he'll play well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, so we got our we'll kick off overrated, underrated,
Speaker 2: we got our first write end and back to Westwood.
Speaker 2: I was already onto this. But maybe a thirty six
Speaker 2: hole leader bet would be good for Watswood.
Speaker 4: Yeah, totally, But again that's not the point. That's not
Speaker 4: what started this whole thing. Like I think he could
Speaker 4: take the thirty six hold lead at every tournament he plays.
Speaker 1: That's not the issue. You keep ducking the real issue.
Speaker 2: We'll see what happens on Sunday.
Speaker 1: We will.
Speaker 2: All right, overrated it underrated and Barry w coming in
Speaker 2: hot with a write and overrated underrated. I love that.
Speaker 1: You know the NLU mergans are yeah, yeah, he.
Speaker 2: He wants to know the USGA overrated, underrated.
Speaker 4: Oh well, I'm gonna go back to my original point
Speaker 4: and say underrated. I think they I think there's a
Speaker 4: lot of Look, they in a tournament that should be
Speaker 4: like one of the least exciting, you know, just based
Speaker 4: on kind of like fireworks and and uh, you know,
Speaker 4: fun stuff happening on the golf course. It should kind
Speaker 4: of be the least exciting thing, and it's always like
Speaker 4: the most exciting week. And I think that's because of them.
Speaker 3: I think, yeah, I think they know what they're doing.
Speaker 3: As as someone who bathes himself in content every day,
Speaker 3: it's good for good for content, you know, they just
Speaker 3: one week a year, can't take this every week. But
Speaker 3: I think they know what they're doing.
Speaker 2: Underrated all right, and then he wrote he gave us
Speaker 2: a bunch of them here.
Speaker 1: Okay, great, all right.
Speaker 2: The Thumb's nickname, I'm very underrated, underrated, the Thumb's chance.
Speaker 1: Shout out to Big Randy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and the Thumb is John Rahm. For anybody that's
Speaker 2: made it this far that doesn't know who the Thumb is.
Speaker 3: That's the stroke of genius by Big Randy.
Speaker 2: The Thumb's chances this week?
Speaker 1: Can John Ram win? It was a joke. Yes, he
Speaker 1: could definitely win. Underrated, I'm gonna say slightly overrated.
Speaker 4: And I'm gonna say that because, like I know, he's
Speaker 4: won at Tory Pines, and I mean it's it's not
Speaker 4: like he's, you know, not gonna win. But the last
Speaker 4: couple of times I think he's gotten in contention, he's
Speaker 4: gotten a little he's been running a little too hot,
Speaker 4: I think, and he just like it's been kind of
Speaker 4: a bad luck.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, light up dot com ye thoughts the Central
Speaker 3: Ohio Fitness Regimen.
Speaker 1: Not a fan.
Speaker 4: And that was even on like Thursday, I mean, like
Speaker 4: at even at the match play where like he looks
Speaker 4: like he couldn't lose. He came out in that match
Speaker 4: against DJ and just like pressed way too hard or
Speaker 4: something and just was making these mistakes he wasn't making
Speaker 4: all week. I think that stuff just like takes time
Speaker 4: to get comfortable with.
Speaker 2: I'm sure, yeah, I agree some somewhat. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I think he's he hits it so good and drives
Speaker 2: it so well and touched pretty well and the irons
Speaker 2: so well. It's you know, he's it's gonna be a
Speaker 2: very rare week when he's not in contention, you know, yeah,
Speaker 2: let's see.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: I think the big thing with rom is starting to
Speaker 2: cash in more, you know, yeah, but he's so young.
Speaker 2: And then uh, you know, I came up with some
Speaker 2: overrated and underrated moving on from from big part.
Speaker 1: The freelance.
Speaker 4: Brass, oh just brought worst Yeah, underrated, overrated?
Speaker 1: You think overrated? Yeah, I think.
Speaker 3: I think like the ratio of finding a good bra,
Speaker 3: Like when you find a good one that's been cooked
Speaker 3: properly for a long, low and slow, it's like, you know,
Speaker 3: it exceeds anything else that you know I could do
Speaker 3: on it.
Speaker 1: Grow, but like you's so rare to find them.
Speaker 3: I think it's just a lot of riff raff too
Speaker 3: often overrated.
Speaker 4: Okay, so yeah, that's a that's a fair take. I'm
Speaker 4: still gonna say underrated. I think that a lot of
Speaker 4: people uh poo poo them a little bit too much
Speaker 4: without really giving them the due course.
Speaker 1: But uh yeah, I mean I'm a huge fan.
Speaker 2: We'll go with uh I would say with Bratt. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna go with my uncle. If he was listening to this,
Speaker 2: he would hate it. But I'm gonna say they're overrated.
Speaker 2: You know, it could be my proximity to the Wisconsin border,
Speaker 2: but you know, like, you know, I was at Aaron
Speaker 2: Hills on Sunday and you know, this is very very
Speaker 2: nice Wisconsin volunteer like rolled up on me and was like,
Speaker 2: you gotta try one of these brats. They're the best
Speaker 2: things ever.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: It's you know, I noticed that with a lot of things.
Speaker 2: If you ever noticed how people like will just be
Speaker 2: like this is the best burger ever, or this is
Speaker 2: the best red wine ever. It's like, what does that
Speaker 2: even mean?
Speaker 4: People have no capacity for context? Yeah, yeah, so what's
Speaker 4: the best what's the what's the best Wisconsin thing?
Speaker 1: See? In general, I love Wisconsin, by the way, I'm like,
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm in there more than anywhere.
Speaker 3: Else way in Wisconsin, like a little micro brew up there,
Speaker 3: a little light. Yeah, totally, it's just totally totally underrated.
Speaker 2: It's you know, Ribbon Blue Ribbon Award winner that comes
Speaker 2: out of there that I really like to let me tell,
Speaker 2: drinking in Milwaukee, like going to Milwaukee for a night out.
Speaker 2: If like you're looking for somewhere that you can just
Speaker 2: go have a great time Milwaukee, that's awesome.
Speaker 1: My brother went to Marquette, don't man plenty of times.
Speaker 1: That's great, great things.
Speaker 2: Yeah, to go out, That's might be one of the
Speaker 2: best things about Wisconsin. But their their golf is really
Speaker 2: good too, very very underrated. The thing is is that
Speaker 2: everybody looks at you know, Aaron Hills and now sand
Speaker 2: Valley and Cohler, but Lasonia. Uh, it's like that hidden
Speaker 2: gem of the of the golf world. It's like this
Speaker 2: fantastic Golden Age golf course that is just so good
Speaker 2: and for some reason, it's probably because they don't pay
Speaker 2: any magazine to cover them, but they just go unnoticed,
Speaker 2: like and they get overlooked time. Everything is so good.
Speaker 2: You know, I'd rather I'd rather play there than Whistling Straights. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so that's my that's my Wisconsin delight. Lasonia is the
Speaker 2: most underrated thing about Wisconsin.
Speaker 1: Great, you guys got any over underrated?
Speaker 3: The straight list got thrown out there because this is like,
Speaker 3: you know, the week of a pro Tracer. Pro Tracer
Speaker 3: overrated or underad Actually sorry, it's not top Tracer. I
Speaker 3: don't know if you knew that they're there, or just
Speaker 3: the technology in bed with big parlor games, Top golf,
Speaker 3: Pop Tracer.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 2: That just might have swayed my answer.
Speaker 1: I am yeah, that's right.
Speaker 4: Or no Torons, the one that hates top Golf. I've
Speaker 4: so this is one of those things that like I think,
Speaker 4: you know, everybody has a tendency to like freak out about,
Speaker 4: you know, to kind of latch onto this one thing
Speaker 4: and just adopt it.
Speaker 1: As like their their rallying cry, you know.
Speaker 4: And I feel like pro Tracer kind of seems like that,
Speaker 4: where everybody like it's something that you know, people start
Speaker 4: talking about and then everybody just loses their shit about like.
Speaker 1: Oh, we need it more, we need it more, we
Speaker 1: need it more. Yeah, and it like seems like it
Speaker 1: loses its punch.
Speaker 4: But I totally disagree, and I think we do need
Speaker 4: it more and I literally can't get enough, like it
Speaker 4: just Bacon was talking about it last week, and I
Speaker 4: mean it's like watching I mean, it'd be like watching football,
Speaker 4: like without the first down line when you could have it,
Speaker 4: Like yeah, it's like totally changes everything, Like it changes
Speaker 4: everything for the announcers. It changes everything for like, you know,
Speaker 4: rather than just like kind of watching the ball like
Speaker 4: shoot out to the right of the player because the
Speaker 4: cameraman's kind of slightly.
Speaker 1: To the right, like you know, it just gives the
Speaker 1: whole thing just so much more depth and context.
Speaker 4: Like the perfect example was Dustin last year on eighteen,
Speaker 4: his second shot that he hit, like as soon as
Speaker 4: it left the club face, like you knew it was
Speaker 4: right at the flag, and then you're just like there's
Speaker 4: just that much more anticipation building because you know it's
Speaker 4: going right at it, rather than like you know, just
Speaker 4: kind of waiting to guess and going to the wide
Speaker 4: shot and just kind of seeing where it lands. Like
Speaker 4: I don't know again rambling answered, but like I'm all
Speaker 4: in underrated somehow.
Speaker 2: It's under until they start putting on chips.
Speaker 1: That's fair. That's fair, you know, it's underrated.
Speaker 4: Speaking of putting it on chips was Golf Channel would
Speaker 4: do the I think it was like it was sponsored
Speaker 4: by one of the financial advisory firms like whoever has
Speaker 4: the green line, like TD and Meritrade or something, and
Speaker 4: they were doing for like a long time. They were
Speaker 4: doing like the Putt projection line like before they putted
Speaker 4: that was the coolest. That's like the coolest aspect of
Speaker 4: the broadcast. It never gets used anymore. And just like
Speaker 4: watching the ball, like actually follow that line and like
Speaker 4: as soon as it waivers from it, it misses, like
Speaker 4: that was awesome.
Speaker 2: I love that.
Speaker 1: I'm with you. It's underrated.
Speaker 3: It's just like a ubiquitous and obvious take that you know,
Speaker 3: you kind of you know, ruins it for everybody. But yes,
Speaker 3: you can never have enough of it.
Speaker 4: I think without with all the without all the content
Speaker 4: about it, it would be you write so much more
Speaker 4: underrated about it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is my first Fox broadcast I watched. I'm
Speaker 3: pretty pumped to see it. I'm really pumped.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Bacon was was telling us about all the tricks
Speaker 4: they got out their sleeve. It's gonna be gonna be
Speaker 4: really cool.
Speaker 2: What a what a company? Man just just pumping pumping
Speaker 2: influencers like DJ.
Speaker 1: Paia exactly you. I'm like one of his surrogates, just sitting.
Speaker 2: Here spewing the fox.
Speaker 1: No, it's gonna be great, man. That was like one
Speaker 1: of those.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was kind of the thing everybody lost their
Speaker 4: mind about the first The first year was like, you know,
Speaker 4: the small everything that they got wrong was like such
Speaker 4: a small thing that was like such an easy fix,
Speaker 4: and like if you just looked at like the bones
Speaker 4: of what they had, it was clear that like they
Speaker 4: were gonna they were gonna get so much better so quickly,
Speaker 4: and like last year's badcast was awesome.
Speaker 2: Like getting Greg Norman out of the booth.
Speaker 1: Just it wasn't great. Immediate op rated, underrated.
Speaker 2: Oh this is a tough one. I almost say he's
Speaker 2: underrated because of how much people hate him.
Speaker 1: I don't get him. I love I'm all in on it,
Speaker 1: I love it. I like him.
Speaker 3: I think he's underrated because of like Andy said, although
Speaker 3: like everyone thinks he hates their team.
Speaker 1: It's just ridiculous.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I go back and forth because sometimes
Speaker 2: he just annoys the crap crap out. I mean, I mean,
Speaker 2: I am a Cubs and Bears fan, and he is
Speaker 2: a Cardinals and Packers fan, like those are known things,
Speaker 2: so like literally when he does games, he's rooting against
Speaker 2: my team.
Speaker 3: But that being said, well, I'm an Indians fan, and
Speaker 3: everyone in Cleveland thought, like, you know, he and Kyle
Speaker 3: Schwarber had inappropriate relationship and just had to weed through
Speaker 3: all that stuff.
Speaker 2: It's funny because stop everybody, he hates our team. Everybody
Speaker 2: in Chicago said the same thing about the Indians.
Speaker 1: Yeah right, it's I.
Speaker 4: Think people always people always say he's he's smug or whatever,
Speaker 4: and I think what really resonates with me is just
Speaker 4: kind of his like he's almost got this like kind
Speaker 4: of nihilism about the fact that like sports don't really
Speaker 4: matter all that much, which just speaks like directly to
Speaker 4: my soul.
Speaker 1: And I love watching it.
Speaker 4: Just everything he says is just kind of like, oh
Speaker 4: my gosh, what an possibly huge moment this is.
Speaker 1: And it's like it's just all dripping with sarcasm. It
Speaker 1: feels like I love it.
Speaker 2: I'm all in on that, all right, well out on
Speaker 2: Joe Bach. I think we'll rap it here.
Speaker 1: Do we want to make predictions or no? Yeah, sure,
Speaker 1: make your prediction. I already said Speed. I'm in on speed.
Speaker 1: I just want to hear who you be like when
Speaker 1: you distill it down one name, I was gonna say speed,
Speaker 1: let me let me you can take Speed, go for it,
Speaker 1: drink the numbers, crunch the numbers. How about Rosie? Second? Yo?
Speaker 2: So I love that I'm sitting, you know, telling you
Speaker 2: how much I like Speace all week DJ and then
Speaker 2: you just take my pick right from me?
Speaker 1: Yeah? And now what am I?
Speaker 2: What am I supposed to do?
Speaker 1: So I'll go, I mean I'll take I'll take who
Speaker 1: would you take? Dustin or Speed? Straight up?
Speaker 2: I take Speed, but I uh, I'll take Dustin. That's
Speaker 2: who I'm gonna pick for my one and done because
Speaker 2: I already burned speed, So I'll take Dusty.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, there you have it.
Speaker 2: Hey, what are we betting on this? On this Westy Leashman?
Speaker 2: I kind of really like a Polishman this week too.
Speaker 1: I like Leachman this week too. I think it would
Speaker 1: be good bet. I think just let it roll the
Speaker 1: standard bet.
Speaker 2: All right, just just be expecting a venmo yeah exactly
Speaker 2: from me. Yeah? Alright, alright, guys, hey enjoyed it. Thanks
Speaker 2: for coming on. You were you were an admirable, if
Speaker 2: not superior, replacement to the all right.
Speaker 1: I could never be, could never fill that void, but
Speaker 1: appreciate you have me on