WEBVTT - What's Wright - Reaction to Stephen A. FIRING BACK at LeBron James + Tiger Woods injury 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:03.159 Welcome in What's Dray with the great episode three hundred 0:00:03.160 --> 0:00:07.440 and ten potential finals preview in the NBA last night. 0:00:08.520 --> 0:00:11.720 We'll get to that. And you know, it's an odd 0:00:11.760 --> 0:00:17.040 spot because one half of this show is a big 0:00:17.079 --> 0:00:19.840 time Celtics fan. That was a game they wanted to win. 0:00:21.160 --> 0:00:25.240 The Thunder didn't have their second best player, so you know, 0:00:25.280 --> 0:00:27.720 I thought he might be a little down, a little 0:00:27.800 --> 0:00:31.920 nervous about his Celtics, who got beat by Oklahoma City 0:00:31.920 --> 0:00:34.400 when they played earlier this year, being held to twenty 0:00:34.520 --> 0:00:39.240 seven second half points. Then they lose again, and then 0:00:39.280 --> 0:00:45.720 I see Demonse and he's wearing an SGA jersey that 0:00:45.800 --> 0:00:49.680 he got by the way, like the year SGA was 0:00:49.760 --> 0:00:53.720 traded to the Thunder. So what is up with this 0:00:53.880 --> 0:00:56.360 front running nonsense that I'm looking at. 0:00:56.560 --> 0:00:59.040 I wouldn't call it from running nonsense. I'd just say 0:00:59.040 --> 0:01:02.120 that I'm not phased at all. I'm not worried about it. 0:01:03.120 --> 0:01:06.240 Oh, it's not that you're like now a Thunder guy. 0:01:06.319 --> 0:01:11.880 You're just so unbothered. You can even wrap your old SGAs. 0:01:11.360 --> 0:01:13.880 Seven game series where these aren't. You know, we're not 0:01:13.920 --> 0:01:16.039 just playing one games when it gets to the finals. 0:01:16.080 --> 0:01:17.360 We're not worried about it. 0:01:17.840 --> 0:01:21.320 Okay, all right, fair enough, I mean, I I believe 0:01:21.440 --> 0:01:26.520 you kind of. I will also say this, the jersey 0:01:26.720 --> 0:01:29.800 over the hooded sweatshirt is a bold look. 0:01:30.040 --> 0:01:32.360 Well, I figured since I was approaching thirty and I 0:01:32.360 --> 0:01:35.240 can't do this anymore, that I should probably get those out. 0:01:35.400 --> 0:01:41.000 You know, thirty is strong. I mean he's twenty six. 0:01:41.680 --> 0:01:47.600 I mean, I understand what you're saying that. Oh, by 0:01:47.640 --> 0:01:49.960 the way, I don't know why this made me think 0:01:50.000 --> 0:01:52.160 of it real quick before we get to the actual show. 0:01:53.000 --> 0:01:56.120 Producers saying jersey and hoodie is a great look. Okay, 0:01:56.160 --> 0:01:57.440 all right, Maybe I don't know. 0:01:58.160 --> 0:01:59.840 As opposed to what me just coming in here with 0:01:59.880 --> 0:02:00.720 the bear jersey on. 0:02:02.120 --> 0:02:04.240 I don't know. I don't know the right way to 0:02:04.280 --> 0:02:06.560 do it. You have the physique would allow you have 0:02:06.600 --> 0:02:08.639 a You have a good enough physique where you could 0:02:08.680 --> 0:02:12.560 wear just the jersey. I do remember when I was 0:02:12.600 --> 0:02:16.080 in middle school, my school didn't have a uniform, but 0:02:16.160 --> 0:02:18.800 had a dress code, and the dress code was you 0:02:19.000 --> 0:02:22.440 had to wear collared shirts. It had you had to 0:02:22.440 --> 0:02:25.640 wear collared shirts. And I was big on the like 0:02:26.320 --> 0:02:30.880 short sleeve polo with a jersey over it. Like that 0:02:31.000 --> 0:02:32.040 was my workaround. 0:02:32.160 --> 0:02:34.840 Okay, bad luck. 0:02:36.680 --> 0:02:40.799 I'm not like I'm not. I had liked the Charles 0:02:40.880 --> 0:02:45.919 Barkley Sons jersey and I would wear the school sometimes 0:02:46.639 --> 0:02:53.280 the full the Charles Barkley sneakers did, Charles Barkley Sons 0:02:53.360 --> 0:02:57.640 shorts did Charles Barkley Jersey over. 0:02:58.400 --> 0:03:01.680 H Polo and over here. 0:03:02.440 --> 0:03:06.720 I mean that old so that that all happened, By 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:11.120 the way, I was kind of hinting at on Tuesday's 0:03:11.160 --> 0:03:14.840 show something going on with our family that was super positive, 0:03:14.840 --> 0:03:17.960 but I didn't say what it was because it wasn't 0:03:17.960 --> 0:03:23.240 really my news to share. I then maybe, actually, well, here, 0:03:23.360 --> 0:03:28.840 here's what it is. My sister, Demanday's aunt just had 0:03:29.440 --> 0:03:33.400 her third baby on Tuesday, right after our show. So 0:03:33.520 --> 0:03:38.320 congrats to my sister Joanna and her husband Dan, and 0:03:38.840 --> 0:03:42.120 to my niece and nephew Mia and Max for adding 0:03:42.160 --> 0:03:48.320 Francesca to their family. After being so careful demanse about 0:03:48.520 --> 0:03:52.040 not saying what it was on the pod, I got 0:03:52.080 --> 0:03:57.560 a picture from Dan at two fifty four pm Eastern 0:03:58.120 --> 0:04:00.880 of my sister holding the baby. The baby had just 0:04:01.040 --> 0:04:05.760 been born, and I showed it to wilds It's two 0:04:05.760 --> 0:04:08.840 fifty four right before it went on the air. And 0:04:08.960 --> 0:04:14.040 Wild starts the show and says, welcome. The first things first, 0:04:14.080 --> 0:04:18.479 where we're congratulating Nick's sister Joanna on the new basis, 0:04:19.200 --> 0:04:22.160 And I just rolled with it and even said her name. 0:04:22.600 --> 0:04:27.200 And I don't know if Dan's parents or my parents 0:04:27.240 --> 0:04:30.960 had found out. I don't know America to the world right, 0:04:31.320 --> 0:04:34.440 but America found out. But congrats to Joe and Dan. 0:04:34.880 --> 0:04:38.160 All right, here's what missed the cut today. The Bills 0:04:38.200 --> 0:04:42.640 signed Joey Bosa. I get it high upside, it's only 0:04:42.680 --> 0:04:45.520 a one year deal, but man, oh man, that guy 0:04:45.600 --> 0:04:51.200 can't stay healthy and so but you know, so that's 0:04:51.240 --> 0:04:54.719 the concern with him. His brother has been the far better, 0:04:54.839 --> 0:04:58.160 far more productive player for quite some time. Russell Wilson 0:04:58.240 --> 0:05:01.440 is visiting Cleveland and the Giants, which to me is 0:05:01.600 --> 0:05:05.560 actually more of a Shadoor Sanders story than a Russell 0:05:05.600 --> 0:05:11.599 Wilson story, because I don't know where Shadoor Sanders is 0:05:11.600 --> 0:05:16.480 gonna get drafted. And here's what I mean when the 0:05:16.800 --> 0:05:18.920 whoops that I just tried to I'm trying to get 0:05:18.920 --> 0:05:21.960 the draft order up and I went to the twenty 0:05:22.120 --> 0:05:25.920 fifteen NFL draft, So it seems like the Titans are 0:05:25.960 --> 0:05:31.920 taking cam Ward one. Cleveland is evidently interested in Russell Wilson. 0:05:32.520 --> 0:05:35.560 They you know, so they I don't think you try 0:05:35.600 --> 0:05:37.800 to sign Russell Wilson, you're trying to draft Cam or 0:05:37.920 --> 0:05:40.760 should or Sanders. And so even if they don't get 0:05:40.839 --> 0:05:44.280 Russell Wilson, to me, that signals they're not that interested 0:05:44.279 --> 0:05:47.000 in should Or. The Giants are desperately trying to get 0:05:47.040 --> 0:05:50.600 Aaron Rodgers or Russell Wilson. So I don't know if 0:05:50.600 --> 0:05:53.440 they're interested in Shoud or. You don't think the Patriots 0:05:53.600 --> 0:05:54.360 go ahead. 0:05:54.200 --> 0:05:55.000 Is a situation. 0:05:55.200 --> 0:05:58.159 How they how they did with Cousins and Pinnix, Like 0:05:58.240 --> 0:06:00.279 it's like a safety blinket type of thing. 0:06:01.040 --> 0:06:03.760 I mean, it could be, but I don't think so. 0:06:04.440 --> 0:06:08.599 I don't think that Cleveland is ready to yet fully 0:06:08.680 --> 0:06:13.240 admit that Deshaun Watson will never play there again. So 0:06:13.320 --> 0:06:15.640 I think they're just kind of looking for a bridge. 0:06:16.000 --> 0:06:19.279 So the Giants, though, have signaled by going after Rogers 0:06:19.279 --> 0:06:21.880 as hard as they have that maybe they're not in 0:06:21.960 --> 0:06:24.920 on Sudore. The Patriots are at four, they have Drake May. 0:06:25.279 --> 0:06:27.640 The Jags are at five, they have the Prince. The 0:06:27.720 --> 0:06:31.039 Raiders are at six they have Geno. Now the Jets 0:06:31.080 --> 0:06:33.920 are at seven. They just signed Justin Fields. The Panthers 0:06:33.920 --> 0:06:39.239 are at eight, they have Bryce. The Saints are at nine. 0:06:39.600 --> 0:06:42.440 They just redid Derek Carr's deal. The Bears are at 0:06:42.480 --> 0:06:48.000 ten they have they have Caleb. The Niners are at eleven. 0:06:48.400 --> 0:06:53.560 They have Mac Jones now and brock party William's name. 0:06:53.600 --> 0:06:54.760 For a second, there was Kenn. 0:06:54.920 --> 0:06:57.240 I know, it's crazy. I was looking at the It's 0:06:57.240 --> 0:06:58.880 because I was trying to go through the order in 0:06:58.880 --> 0:07:02.440 my head. Your twelve they have Dak Dolphins are at thirteen. 0:07:03.040 --> 0:07:05.960 They have Tua. The Culture at fourteen they have Daniel 0:07:06.040 --> 0:07:12.480 Jones and Anthony Richardson Falcons fifteen, Pennix Cardinals sixteen, Kyler 0:07:12.840 --> 0:07:17.400 Bengals seventeen Joe Burrow. See, I have to forget another 0:07:17.440 --> 0:07:19.640 great quarterbacks name, or for tend two that way, it's 0:07:19.680 --> 0:07:24.240 not a shot at Kale. The Bengals are seventy. Seattle's 0:07:24.280 --> 0:07:28.600 at eighteen. They just signed Darnold Bucks nineteen. They have 0:07:28.680 --> 0:07:34.360 Baker Broncos twenty, they have Nicks Steelers twenty one. Maybe 0:07:36.160 --> 0:07:38.280 like you know, but they're in. They're but they're going 0:07:38.320 --> 0:07:42.680 after Aaron Rodgers harder than anybody. So, like I think 0:07:42.760 --> 0:07:48.920 the Shador Sanders drop is very, very real. I think 0:07:48.920 --> 0:07:54.320 he is more likely to go after pick fifteen than 0:07:54.360 --> 0:07:58.000 he is to go in the top five. So that 0:07:58.320 --> 0:08:00.000 was not supposed to be something we were talking about, 0:08:00.160 --> 0:08:04.080 but we just talked about it and Aaron Rodgers getting 0:08:04.240 --> 0:08:09.440 exactly what he craves and thirsts and needs, which is 0:08:09.480 --> 0:08:13.680 our attention, and so shout out to him for everyone 0:08:13.680 --> 0:08:17.880 else can make this decision by now. He on the 0:08:17.920 --> 0:08:23.920 other hand, man, oh man, I just it's just so complicated. 0:08:24.240 --> 0:08:27.920 I think Aaron Rodgers knows where he's going. Reminder everybody 0:08:28.080 --> 0:08:30.680 like rate, subscribe, review, check out the podcast. We've got 0:08:30.720 --> 0:08:32.800 to be the only podcast that spends a solid ten 0:08:32.840 --> 0:08:35.720 minutes on the things we're not talking about. To start 0:08:35.800 --> 0:08:40.720 the show, I don't, I promise. I wanted to be 0:08:40.960 --> 0:08:45.320 done talking about the stephen A. Lebron stuff, but his 0:08:45.520 --> 0:08:48.520 media tour will not end on it, and so we'll 0:08:48.559 --> 0:08:52.240 get to that in a moment. But first, some sad 0:08:52.320 --> 0:08:56.080 news for one of my favorite athletes ever. I do 0:08:56.240 --> 0:08:58.120 want to start there, and then we'll get to the 0:08:58.120 --> 0:08:58.559 other stuff. 0:08:58.600 --> 0:09:03.239 Go ahead, Yeah, Tiger was just unfortunately it underwent achilles 0:09:03.800 --> 0:09:06.920 erruptured achille surgery, so it's probably gonna be out for 0:09:06.920 --> 0:09:07.200 a while. 0:09:07.200 --> 0:09:09.160 And you said Tiger's your second favorite athlete ever. 0:09:09.880 --> 0:09:13.400 Yeah, I said second favorite because I had always called him. 0:09:13.720 --> 0:09:15.920 If you had asked me for the you know, most 0:09:15.960 --> 0:09:18.160 of the last twenty years my two favorite athletes, I 0:09:18.160 --> 0:09:20.920 would have said Lebron won, Tiger two. And after I 0:09:20.960 --> 0:09:22.560 said it, I was like, oh, I kind of forgot 0:09:22.559 --> 0:09:26.120 Mahomes has, you know, supplanted some people. So he's Tiger's 0:09:26.160 --> 0:09:32.600 one of my three favorite athletes ever. And my story 0:09:32.760 --> 0:09:40.160 with Tiger is not the same as my story with Lebron, 0:09:40.200 --> 0:09:42.960 where like I started watching him Lebron when I was 0:09:42.960 --> 0:09:45.640 in high school and he was in high school. Tiger 0:09:45.720 --> 0:09:52.800 goes back further. I remember my late grandfather, who was 0:09:52.840 --> 0:09:57.200 a huge golf fan when I was ten to eleven 0:09:57.280 --> 0:10:01.880 years old, and man, I wish you could have met him, Demonse. 0:10:02.200 --> 0:10:04.920 He died when I was in college, but he would 0:10:04.920 --> 0:10:07.680 have loved you, and you would have loved him. But 0:10:08.520 --> 0:10:12.400 he called me, and he wasn't a big phone call guy, 0:10:12.800 --> 0:10:15.559 but he called me and told me, he's like, you've 0:10:15.600 --> 0:10:19.960 got to turn on the TV. There's this kid who's 0:10:20.040 --> 0:10:26.240 going to remake the golf world, remake it and he's 0:10:26.320 --> 0:10:28.680 trying to do something no one's ever done, which is 0:10:28.720 --> 0:10:33.160 when I think it's third straight Amateur and I turned 0:10:33.160 --> 0:10:36.360 it on. And that's exactly what he did in kind 0:10:36.360 --> 0:10:40.600 of a stirring comeback victory to win his third straight 0:10:40.720 --> 0:10:46.920 amateur title, and then shortly thereafter in the ninety seven Masters, 0:10:47.280 --> 0:10:51.600 he beat the world by one hundred strokes and remade 0:10:51.640 --> 0:10:57.400 golf as we knew it. And I just think because 0:10:58.800 --> 0:11:04.319 of what the last fifteen years have been, people and 0:11:04.480 --> 0:11:12.720 young people in particular, don't quite understand what two thousand 0:11:12.960 --> 0:11:20.119 really From that ninety seven Masters until the car accident 0:11:20.160 --> 0:11:23.920 in his driveway the night before Thanksgiving in two thousand 0:11:23.960 --> 0:11:31.959 and nine, what and who Tiger Woods was, or I'm sorry, 0:11:32.400 --> 0:11:38.680 and what and who Tiger Woods was was the greatest 0:11:38.679 --> 0:11:42.680 golf forever by such a wide margin. I'm sorry to 0:11:42.760 --> 0:11:46.920 the Jack Nicholas fans out there, but it can't be 0:11:47.120 --> 0:11:52.559 overstated what this man, how he changed a sport the 0:11:52.720 --> 0:11:54.959 likes of which no one's I don't think, ever changed 0:11:54.960 --> 0:12:00.520 another sport. So I'm just going to remind people of 0:12:00.559 --> 0:12:03.040 what he did. So nineties seven Masters he wins by 0:12:03.080 --> 0:12:06.520 a dozen strokes. The golf world is so terrified, they 0:12:06.559 --> 0:12:09.600 remake the Masters course, they say they're going to tiger 0:12:09.679 --> 0:12:14.120 proof it. And then over the next couple years he 0:12:14.160 --> 0:12:17.959 doesn't win any majors, and in fact he only comes 0:12:18.000 --> 0:12:22.079 close only a couple top fives. And then from the 0:12:22.240 --> 0:12:27.079 ninety nine PGA Championship through the two thousand and two 0:12:27.240 --> 0:12:32.400 season he has what will go down in history as 0:12:32.440 --> 0:12:36.160 either the greatest or the second greatest stretch in the 0:12:36.200 --> 0:12:39.640 history of professional golf. Here's what he did at the majors, 0:12:39.640 --> 0:12:44.400 at the tournaments that count. Ninety nine PGA first, two thousand, 0:12:44.440 --> 0:12:50.640 Masters fifth, two thousand, US Open first, two thousand, British 0:12:50.640 --> 0:12:54.800 Open first, two thousand, PGA first, two thousand and one 0:12:54.880 --> 0:12:59.320 Masters first. In a five major stretch, I'm sorry, a 0:12:59.400 --> 0:13:04.800 six major stretch, he won five, including four in a row, 0:13:06.480 --> 0:13:08.440 and the one he didn't win he came in fifth. 0:13:08.920 --> 0:13:11.920 He then the rest of two thousand and one, twelve, 0:13:12.080 --> 0:13:14.840 twenty fifth, twenty ninth in the majors, and then in 0:13:14.880 --> 0:13:19.000 two thousand and two won the Masters, won the US Open, 0:13:19.440 --> 0:13:23.080 second in the PGA, and in that moment, right there, 0:13:23.600 --> 0:13:25.840 he became the second greatest golfer in the history of 0:13:25.840 --> 0:13:32.120 the world. He had eight majors. He was in his 0:13:32.280 --> 0:13:37.120 early twenties. He had won the Masters by twelve strokes, 0:13:38.040 --> 0:13:43.920 the US Open at Pebble by fifteen strokes, the British 0:13:43.960 --> 0:13:49.480 Opened by eight strokes. He had completed the Career Grand 0:13:49.600 --> 0:13:54.720 Slam and was one more British Open championship away from 0:13:54.800 --> 0:13:58.640 completing the career Grand Slam twice and then three to 0:13:58.720 --> 0:14:04.120 oh four remade his swing. So think about that demonse. 0:14:04.720 --> 0:14:07.840 He had just had up to that point the greatest 0:14:07.880 --> 0:14:10.640 stretch in the history of professional golf. And he was like, 0:14:10.679 --> 0:14:15.560 you know what, I think I can be better. And 0:14:15.640 --> 0:14:17.640 in two thousand and three and two thousand and four 0:14:19.440 --> 0:14:23.960 he didn't win any majors, only had one top five 0:14:24.040 --> 0:14:27.119 and one other top ten, and people were like, oh, 0:14:27.440 --> 0:14:30.320 did he make a mistake. Should he not have done that? 0:14:31.000 --> 0:14:35.440 Like he was on such a roll. And then from 0:14:35.520 --> 0:14:39.880 the Masters in two thousand and five until the US 0:14:40.000 --> 0:14:45.960 Opened in two thousand and eight, there were fourteen majors. 0:14:47.120 --> 0:14:56.600 Here is what he did in those fourteen majors in order, first, second, first, fourth, third, 0:14:56.920 --> 0:15:04.720 missed the cut first, first, second and second, twelfth first second, first, 0:15:06.040 --> 0:15:10.800 fourteen majors, six wins, four seconds, a third, a fourth, 0:15:10.920 --> 0:15:16.040 a twelfth and one bad tournament, and in that US 0:15:16.160 --> 0:15:20.640 Open in two thousand and eight, he broke his leg 0:15:21.720 --> 0:15:28.120 in the final round, played on that hairline fracture, made 0:15:28.200 --> 0:15:33.360 one of the most iconic putts in golf history on 0:15:33.440 --> 0:15:38.080 that broken leg on the seventy second hole, just to 0:15:38.280 --> 0:15:41.920 force a playoff and have to come back the next 0:15:42.000 --> 0:15:46.200 day on the broken leg and play eighteen more and 0:15:46.280 --> 0:15:55.760 won it. And then he had the personal trouble, and 0:15:55.800 --> 0:16:02.040 he went away and from two thousand and nine to 0:16:02.120 --> 0:16:09.840 twenty eighteen, zero firsts, just one second, almost ten times, 0:16:09.840 --> 0:16:13.160 he missed the cut, twelve times, he didn't even play 0:16:13.200 --> 0:16:15.920 because he was dealing with injuries, he was dealing with 0:16:16.000 --> 0:16:20.320 the embarrassment, he was dealing with all of it. And 0:16:20.360 --> 0:16:28.440 then that glorious early start because of weather Sunday afternoon 0:16:29.200 --> 0:16:33.240 in April twenty nineteen, when he put it all together 0:16:33.320 --> 0:16:37.720 one more time for one final great moment as all 0:16:37.760 --> 0:16:40.440 great athletes try to have, and he won the twenty 0:16:40.520 --> 0:16:46.520 nineteen Masters with Deanna at how old would Deanna have been? 0:16:46.760 --> 0:16:50.960 Five years old? Sitting on my lap watching all five 0:16:51.040 --> 0:17:00.800 hours of it, and and I just I feel, I know, 0:17:00.920 --> 0:17:08.040 this sounds like really really sappy and oddly emotional, but 0:17:08.160 --> 0:17:14.840 I love sports, I love him, and I feel so 0:17:15.560 --> 0:17:23.600 incredibly blessed to have watched what I believe in my 0:17:24.000 --> 0:17:29.960 bones is going to go down as the greatest decade 0:17:30.080 --> 0:17:36.520 run of any player in the history of that sport 0:17:36.800 --> 0:17:43.760 by a mile. And we every few years we hear 0:17:43.840 --> 0:17:52.119 about somebody who's going to who's gonna you know, Oh, 0:17:52.160 --> 0:17:55.320 could he be the next Tiger? What you know, could 0:17:55.359 --> 0:18:02.560 he challenge the records? And the answer is no, no 0:18:02.600 --> 0:18:06.880 one can, no one will. And I understand. Jack Nicholas 0:18:06.920 --> 0:18:11.160 won more, Jack one eighteen, Tiger won fifteen. I don't care. 0:18:13.359 --> 0:18:16.879 Golf was so much harder, with so much deeper fields, 0:18:17.520 --> 0:18:21.840 and Tiger's run of dominance was so compact and great. 0:18:22.800 --> 0:18:27.679 But it's the other guys who we hear about that 0:18:27.720 --> 0:18:30.960 are oh, like, I've had to listen to people tell 0:18:31.000 --> 0:18:35.680 me look out for Scotty Scheffler. And nothing against Scotty Scheffler, 0:18:36.359 --> 0:18:50.600 but here's Scotty Scheffler's glorious run. First, missed the cut, second, twenty, first, tenth, second, third, twenty, third, first, eighth, forty, first, seventh. 0:18:51.600 --> 0:18:55.080 That's great, man, it's really cool. You are a Hall 0:18:55.160 --> 0:19:01.760 of Fame golfer. You got two of them. I I thought, uh, 0:19:01.880 --> 0:19:06.400 you know, what, what's brooks Keepka gonna do? Because Kepka's 0:19:06.440 --> 0:19:13.080 run was special, but it was still first, sixth thirteenth, 0:19:13.119 --> 0:19:17.959 skip the tournament, first, thirty ninth, first, second, first, second, fourth. 0:19:18.119 --> 0:19:21.639 Uh oh, Since then, that was five years ago. He's 0:19:21.800 --> 0:19:29.320 won one. Rory was gonna take the golf world by storm. 0:19:30.840 --> 0:19:38.399 Rory when he blew up. This is what it looked like. First, 0:19:38.640 --> 0:19:42.040 then a year and a half of nothing, another first, 0:19:42.200 --> 0:19:46.280 then a year or nothing, then first first. That was 0:19:46.320 --> 0:19:51.560 in twenty fourteen. He is not one again. No one's 0:19:51.600 --> 0:19:55.960 gonna do it. And part of that is because Tiger 0:19:56.640 --> 0:20:02.000 made the sport so popular and so much bigger. The 0:20:02.119 --> 0:20:08.600 competition got so much harder. And now people's windows, their 0:20:08.640 --> 0:20:14.200 great windows are two years. And listen, I give Jack 0:20:14.280 --> 0:20:19.719 credit for having a legitimate twenty year run. If Tiger 0:20:19.760 --> 0:20:24.000 had twenty healthy years, he'd add twenty five majors. And 0:20:26.200 --> 0:20:30.640 I'm really bummed that he's not going to get. I mean, 0:20:30.720 --> 0:20:33.880 even without the Achilles, we probably knew it was over. 0:20:34.440 --> 0:20:37.119 It was over, but I still held on to hope. 0:20:38.720 --> 0:20:45.520 But five Masters, three US Opens, three British for PGA, 0:20:48.400 --> 0:20:50.679 the most intimidating player in the history of the sport 0:20:50.920 --> 0:20:57.200 and potential Mount Rushmore figure of sports of the last 0:20:57.200 --> 0:21:03.359 fifty years. Tiger woods Man, and he was doing it 0:21:03.400 --> 0:21:07.399 all while kind of living a double life. And I 0:21:07.400 --> 0:21:09.239 don't know if that, you know, I'm not sure that 0:21:09.320 --> 0:21:12.200 makes it more impressive or not. Why are you giving 0:21:12.200 --> 0:21:13.320 me that look, Demanse. 0:21:13.200 --> 0:21:15.000 I mean I just didn't know how to react. 0:21:16.160 --> 0:21:21.439 No, I mean it, he was so here's so here's 0:21:21.480 --> 0:21:28.240 my kind of maybe uncouth, but I believe in my 0:21:28.400 --> 0:21:37.560 bones Tiger take So, Tiger during his run felt like 0:21:37.680 --> 0:21:41.600 and the numbers almost backed this up. He never missed 0:21:43.080 --> 0:21:46.240 those six foot putts that guys miss all the time, 0:21:47.119 --> 0:21:51.600 and he did go years with literally never missing one 0:21:51.720 --> 0:21:59.240 inside of four feet. And I think him the double 0:21:59.320 --> 0:22:06.200 life thing was part of why he was so great 0:22:06.240 --> 0:22:10.359 at those And I know it sounds crazy, but follow 0:22:10.440 --> 0:22:15.479 me for a moment. That's all psychology, and it's all 0:22:16.480 --> 0:22:19.560 I'm not like, I'm not going to let the moment 0:22:19.600 --> 0:22:25.960 get to me. And I think Tiger felt invincible and 0:22:26.000 --> 0:22:29.399 he was like, man, the world thinks, I'm like, you know, 0:22:30.200 --> 0:22:35.800 the ultimate family man. I have this impeccable image meanwhile, 0:22:35.840 --> 0:22:41.280 I'm out here, you know, popping drugs and sleeping with 0:22:41.320 --> 0:22:44.399 the Tippings waitress and I, you know, flying on my 0:22:44.520 --> 0:22:47.720 plane and texting her and doing this and nobody knows. 0:22:47.760 --> 0:22:52.480 And I got all this and the moment that man 0:22:53.760 --> 0:23:00.720 and untouchable and that and that parlayed into I'm untouchable 0:23:00.760 --> 0:23:06.080 and untouchable everywhere. And then when that balloon popped, but 0:23:06.200 --> 0:23:10.320 not only popped, but he had to hold a press 0:23:10.359 --> 0:23:14.239 conference in front of his with his mother in the 0:23:14.280 --> 0:23:19.200 front row and the whole world watching, and him saying, 0:23:19.240 --> 0:23:23.000 I'm a sex addict and I'm you know, I feel 0:23:23.240 --> 0:23:29.760 terribly and really got got taken to the wood shed 0:23:30.280 --> 0:23:35.200 by his wife, which is they had a prenup. She said, 0:23:35.240 --> 0:23:42.199 I'm leaving you, but all consider staying if you do X, 0:23:42.359 --> 0:23:45.159 Y and Z. One of the one of those things 0:23:45.320 --> 0:23:49.040 was we rip up the prenup, go to the counsel 0:23:49.080 --> 0:23:51.720 and go to this, go to whatever. He said, yes, 0:23:51.800 --> 0:23:54.720 and then she left anyway, which again I don't blame 0:23:54.760 --> 0:23:58.239 her for that's her prerogative. But he really he he 0:23:58.280 --> 0:24:03.720 went from a guy who won everywhere to public humiliation, 0:24:04.000 --> 0:24:08.639 losing everywhere, and I think that invincibility went away and 0:24:08.760 --> 0:24:12.040 was never gonna come back, and so it was all that, 0:24:12.200 --> 0:24:16.960 plus all the injuries and so just a bummer, but 0:24:17.320 --> 0:24:22.879 doesn't change the fact that there's not three athletes that I, 0:24:23.000 --> 0:24:26.720 as a sports fan, have gotten more enjoyment from watching 0:24:28.400 --> 0:24:32.880 than I have with Tiger Woods. And so shout out 0:24:32.920 --> 0:24:36.040 to him. Hope the recovery goes well, and I hope 0:24:36.040 --> 0:24:40.360 that he can really enjoy watching Charlie try to chase 0:24:40.440 --> 0:24:43.960 his son up right, Yeah, and so you know, so 0:24:44.160 --> 0:24:49.440 rooting for Charlie, I think that would be really really cool. Okay, well, 0:24:49.480 --> 0:24:53.760 in that weird way, speaking of a different goat whose 0:24:53.880 --> 0:24:56.840 son is trying to follow somewhat in his footsteps, but 0:24:56.960 --> 0:25:02.360 in you know, much more controversial manners. Uh Lebron Bronni 0:25:03.080 --> 0:25:07.399 And now the third character in this movie, my buddy 0:25:07.440 --> 0:25:07.960 Stephen A. 0:25:08.040 --> 0:25:12.159 Smith. Go ahead, Yeah, So Steven A. 0:25:12.240 --> 0:25:15.720 Smith has been going around talking about his confrontation with 0:25:15.840 --> 0:25:18.840 Lebron James talked about on his show. I went and 0:25:18.880 --> 0:25:21.840 talked to talked about it with Gilbert Arenas and he said, 0:25:22.440 --> 0:25:26.760 I thought it was weak. I thought it was some bs. Yeah, 0:25:27.160 --> 0:25:28.800 what's your take on it? 0:25:29.359 --> 0:25:32.280 And then also he went on Sean Hannity's show last night, 0:25:32.400 --> 0:25:37.879 Yes and just and this got brought up in despite 0:25:37.960 --> 0:25:41.040 the all the awful things Hannity has said about Lebron. 0:25:40.720 --> 0:25:41.879 Over the years. 0:25:42.280 --> 0:25:45.960 So I have a lot of takes on this, and 0:25:46.040 --> 0:25:50.960 I was gonna leave this be, but the Gilbert Arenas 0:25:51.000 --> 0:26:01.000 show appearance was to me, it has to be responded to, 0:26:02.119 --> 0:26:06.320 and there's so many different tentacles to this, so I 0:26:06.440 --> 0:26:14.320 will first first, I want to make this point we 0:26:14.840 --> 0:26:22.040 in the media have to be willing to occasionally taken 0:26:22.080 --> 0:26:29.680 out everyone does, but particularly us, We in the media 0:26:30.320 --> 0:26:34.359 have to be willing to at times be like that 0:26:34.520 --> 0:26:40.800 was a miss. I was wrong. I didn't handle that perfectly. 0:26:42.440 --> 0:26:48.199 And we in the media also have to recognize and 0:26:48.400 --> 0:26:56.520 acknowledge that no matter how big or prominent, or wealthy 0:26:57.000 --> 0:27:02.879 or successful any of us ever get, we will never 0:27:03.119 --> 0:27:14.760 be from a fame or credibility to the audience standpoint, 0:27:15.800 --> 0:27:21.719 on par with the biggest athletes that we cover. It'll 0:27:21.800 --> 0:27:28.159 never Howard Cosell was not equal to Muhammad Ali. He 0:27:28.359 --> 0:27:33.280 was telling Ali's story. The audience was there for Ali. 0:27:34.119 --> 0:27:42.520 Bob Costas was not equal to Michael Jordan. He's He's 0:27:42.800 --> 0:27:46.640 telling Michael Jordan's story go ahead. 0:27:46.440 --> 0:27:47.199 To monsen with that. 0:27:47.280 --> 0:27:49.400 With that point, don't you think it like because Steve 0:27:49.480 --> 0:27:52.960 Natesmith's saying it's weak, Lebron James obviously has all the 0:27:53.040 --> 0:27:56.400 leverage on the court. Do you do you not think 0:27:56.440 --> 0:28:01.119 that it's a little Uh, I don't know, it's I 0:28:01.160 --> 0:28:03.320 don't want to say it's weak, but because he obviously 0:28:03.359 --> 0:28:06.120 does have leverage, like, nobody's gonna be on Steven asa 0:28:06.320 --> 0:28:06.760 beside it. 0:28:06.800 --> 0:28:09.720 But you also you that's the thing. So that's the 0:28:09.800 --> 0:28:15.359 thing you have to know in the media that you 0:28:17.000 --> 0:28:21.879 at some point the actual stars are the people we're 0:28:21.960 --> 0:28:27.480 talking about. Sometimes we can be good enough or successful enough, 0:28:27.560 --> 0:28:31.000 or prominent enough or whatever where we become kind of 0:28:31.560 --> 0:28:37.640 supporting actors, but it's their movie. People are here. They 0:28:37.760 --> 0:28:44.280 care so much about them that we become important people 0:28:44.800 --> 0:28:48.960 because we talk about them. And so there is there 0:28:48.960 --> 0:28:53.240 will never be a White House courus or White House 0:28:53.520 --> 0:29:00.400 correspondent that is more important to the political discourse than 0:29:00.520 --> 0:29:04.080 the president. There will there, and there will there will 0:29:04.120 --> 0:29:09.000 never be a Stephen a Is and he has earned it, 0:29:09.760 --> 0:29:16.200 earned it. He he is the most prominent sports media member, 0:29:16.840 --> 0:29:22.320 which does make him bigger than some athletes, but he 0:29:22.440 --> 0:29:27.400 will never be bigger than the biggest athletes. Like here's 0:29:27.440 --> 0:29:34.160 a good kind of you know, back in the Napkin Math, 0:29:35.160 --> 0:29:44.360 do you remember demanse Uh, when I went after Patrick Beverly. Yeah, 0:29:44.520 --> 0:29:52.000 that is I think two people on kind of equal footing. 0:29:52.880 --> 0:29:57.080 But think about why that is. You have me. I'm 0:29:57.080 --> 0:30:00.600 just saying we're about on equal footing. Me someone who's 0:30:00.640 --> 0:30:05.320 probably near the bottom of the top ten in my 0:30:05.480 --> 0:30:10.000 field and someone like him who's near the top of 0:30:10.040 --> 0:30:13.600 the bottom ten in his field. And that's where we meet. 0:30:13.920 --> 0:30:16.560 So you've got it, like so the and there was 0:30:16.600 --> 0:30:20.680 another jab at Patrick Beverley fit in there, but uh 0:30:21.360 --> 0:30:26.400