WEBVTT - A Ryder Cup Draft with Shane Bacon 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:02.840 I miss a green, for example, I'm already upset. When 0:00:02.880 --> 0:00:04.960 I find my ball in the bunker, I'm really upset. 0:00:05.040 --> 0:00:05.920 And when I find my. 0:00:05.920 --> 0:00:09.000 Ball in a brid egg Friday Egg, the dreaded Frida egg, 0:00:09.080 --> 0:00:12.600 Frida Egg, Frida egg bride egg Lie, I'm about ready 0:00:12.680 --> 0:00:13.320 to run off of. 0:00:13.360 --> 0:00:37.000 The Welcome back to another edition of the Friday Egg 0:00:37.040 --> 0:00:41.640 Golf Podcast. I am Andy Johnson today. With the Ryder 0:00:41.680 --> 0:00:43.920 Cup just a couple of weeks away. I decided to 0:00:43.960 --> 0:00:47.680 do something kind of fun and different with Shane Bacon, 0:00:47.760 --> 0:00:51.200 who's obviously a regular guest here, host of the Getta 0:00:51.240 --> 0:00:55.760 Grip podcast, host of the Ping Podcast, some sometime contributor 0:00:55.840 --> 0:01:01.240 to The Friday Egg, sometime contributor to part time contributor 0:01:01.280 --> 0:01:05.679 to Friday Golf's newsletter, A man of many talents, many 0:01:05.720 --> 0:01:10.640 hats to come on and draft out the twenty four 0:01:10.959 --> 0:01:13.120 Ryder Cup players as if they had no team. We 0:01:13.120 --> 0:01:16.360 were just doing a draft like a pickup basketball. You know, 0:01:16.480 --> 0:01:20.320 I take this guy, you take this guy type draft. 0:01:20.520 --> 0:01:23.080 So I thought it was really illuminating. It kind of 0:01:23.520 --> 0:01:27.640 reframes the argument for against different players. I guess it 0:01:27.720 --> 0:01:29.720 removes a lot of that. But I found one of 0:01:29.760 --> 0:01:32.800 the things interesting was where JT fell on both of 0:01:32.840 --> 0:01:36.399 ours and for me, he fell a lot higher than 0:01:36.480 --> 0:01:39.840 the last pick, which would kind of say maybe he 0:01:39.840 --> 0:01:43.959 should be on the team. So anyways, that was really fun. 0:01:45.360 --> 0:01:48.840 It was a different podcast and excited for you guys 0:01:48.880 --> 0:01:52.520 to hear it. Before we get to Shane, let's take 0:01:52.600 --> 0:01:55.520 a quick second to talk about one of our partners, 0:01:55.640 --> 0:02:00.880 our new partner, Red Rooster. These guys make awesome gloves. 0:02:01.600 --> 0:02:05.160 It is direct to consumer glove brand. It is a 0:02:05.320 --> 0:02:09.960 new upstart. Their founders, Brad and Carrie have worked tirelessly 0:02:10.200 --> 0:02:15.079 on improving the glove experience. So Redrooster golf dot com 0:02:15.240 --> 0:02:19.440 is the the url. 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That was an exciting first day. 0:03:41.840 --> 0:03:43.560 Hey, can I throw something at you off the top 0:03:44.000 --> 0:03:47.720 here since we're talking about football. Yeah, I was texting 0:03:47.760 --> 0:03:51.119 with your with your Shotgun Start co host. I don't 0:03:51.120 --> 0:03:52.680 know if people listen to that podcast or not. It's 0:03:52.680 --> 0:03:54.560 a great podcast. You should listen to it. Congrats on 0:03:54.920 --> 0:03:57.000 five years by the way, Oh thank you. But I 0:03:57.720 --> 0:04:00.560 I was texted today. I was thinking about the Aaron thing, 0:04:01.560 --> 0:04:05.920 and I feel like the easy comp is Gordon Hayward. 0:04:06.280 --> 0:04:08.760 Gordon Hayward, right, I mean first like game of the 0:04:08.760 --> 0:04:11.640 season gets injured. But that's I mean, he's not Aaron Rodger. 0:04:12.800 --> 0:04:12.840 No. 0:04:13.600 --> 0:04:15.640 I think the best comp I could come up with 0:04:15.800 --> 0:04:18.880 is the one that hits your heart the hardest is 0:04:18.920 --> 0:04:20.920 the Derek Rose in the playoffs. 0:04:20.400 --> 0:04:23.360 Thing, Like, I mean, the Bulls are not the Jets. 0:04:23.360 --> 0:04:25.560 For goodness sakes, you guys have had plenty of success 0:04:25.600 --> 0:04:27.880 over the years, but going into the playoffs, you and 0:04:27.960 --> 0:04:30.400 I have talked about this, I think online and offline 0:04:30.800 --> 0:04:31.600 plenty of times. 0:04:31.640 --> 0:04:34.560 But you, you and the Bulls. 0:04:34.240 --> 0:04:37.080 Fan base were convinced you guys were going to make 0:04:37.120 --> 0:04:40.000 the finals of potentially win. The Rose injury happens and 0:04:40.040 --> 0:04:41.359 obviously things go could. 0:04:41.160 --> 0:04:45.560 Put Yeah, yeah, I mean it was crazy. I don't 0:04:45.720 --> 0:04:47.880 I don't know if that applies. I think this is 0:04:48.640 --> 0:04:51.440 the thing about the Rose thing that was so disheartening 0:04:51.480 --> 0:04:53.840 as a Bulls fan was it was like our guy, 0:04:54.240 --> 0:04:57.680 it was the Chicago guy. Okay, you know it was 0:04:58.240 --> 0:05:02.159 the Aaron Rodgers is the Jet sky right, and the 0:05:02.240 --> 0:05:02.919 US Open. 0:05:02.760 --> 0:05:04.640 A couple of times. We're a tennis channel hat. You know, 0:05:04.800 --> 0:05:05.640 maybe he's into it. 0:05:06.000 --> 0:05:07.359 How good was the US Open? 0:05:07.480 --> 0:05:10.279 Oh my god, I went, I went Cindy and I 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:12.560 went and watched Alcarez. 0:05:13.040 --> 0:05:15.080 Unbelievable to watch those guys in person. 0:05:15.760 --> 0:05:19.760 I it is like quickly, you know, it's funny, as 0:05:19.839 --> 0:05:23.120 like a kid, you have these sports streams of things 0:05:23.200 --> 0:05:25.800 you want to see. And as I've gotten into like 0:05:26.320 --> 0:05:30.800 very much of middle aged adult, the two events that 0:05:30.880 --> 0:05:33.479 are just ascending the list, getting to the top of 0:05:33.520 --> 0:05:36.400 the list are the or Wimbledon and the US Open 0:05:36.680 --> 0:05:40.919 of tennis that I really want to go see. And yeah, 0:05:41.040 --> 0:05:44.040 I have to say being on the West Coast for 0:05:44.080 --> 0:05:46.440 the for the US Open, it's like the greatest thing 0:05:46.480 --> 0:05:50.120 in the world. Those late matches. I like Bemoan. Everybody 0:05:50.200 --> 0:05:53.280 says West Coast is great for sports. It's not if 0:05:53.279 --> 0:05:55.920 you have a kid, like because like you have bedtime 0:05:55.960 --> 0:05:58.279 and dinner time, like right when all the sports are on. 0:05:59.480 --> 0:06:02.279 But like with with that US Open, you get the 0:06:02.040 --> 0:06:04.440 in in those quarter final rounds, you get those late 0:06:04.560 --> 0:06:07.520 matches that just hit right at the right time. I 0:06:07.960 --> 0:06:10.240 was I brought this up on the shotgun start, but 0:06:10.920 --> 0:06:13.279 I feel like one of the things that tennis does 0:06:13.320 --> 0:06:16.400 so well is that it has the you know and 0:06:16.400 --> 0:06:19.280 There are a lot of ills about tennis right now. 0:06:19.320 --> 0:06:22.760 It is not a sport in a great place. People 0:06:22.800 --> 0:06:25.479 tune in for one of them, tune in for four 0:06:25.520 --> 0:06:28.400 events of the year. But one of the things I 0:06:28.440 --> 0:06:33.160 love is the anticipation for matches, and like, you know 0:06:33.240 --> 0:06:37.000 when they like that you were at the Alcarez Zverev 0:06:37.040 --> 0:06:40.960 match right right like they were they were showing the 0:06:41.000 --> 0:06:45.400 next round the Alcarez Medvedev, like what Alcaaz was doing 0:06:45.880 --> 0:06:49.920 to Medvedev the previous couple matches, and you're like, get 0:06:49.920 --> 0:06:52.200 to see how they adjust and stuff. And golf, we 0:06:52.320 --> 0:06:56.359 just it's so rare we see showdowns in golf, and 0:06:56.400 --> 0:06:59.320 it's even more rare that we ever see a repeat 0:06:59.320 --> 0:06:59.919 of a showdown. 0:07:00.320 --> 0:07:02.039 Well, I mean, I mean I listened to the pod 0:07:02.040 --> 0:07:03.479 you guys were talking about this on and I was 0:07:03.520 --> 0:07:05.360 not in my head as you were discussing this, And 0:07:05.640 --> 0:07:08.559 I mean, I've been preaching the match play thing for years. 0:07:08.600 --> 0:07:10.920 I mean, not just with the Tour Championship, but just 0:07:11.720 --> 0:07:12.080 if you. 0:07:12.040 --> 0:07:14.160 Want to get all the best players together and make 0:07:14.200 --> 0:07:15.840 these things what I don't know what's the new term. 0:07:15.880 --> 0:07:17.640 It's not elevated anymore, are they calling it now? 0:07:17.960 --> 0:07:22.200 Signature signature. There you go just elev. 0:07:25.000 --> 0:07:27.480 I mean, you have these signature events, but unless it's 0:07:27.480 --> 0:07:30.640 match play, you're you're never gonna guarantee yourself. You know, 0:07:30.800 --> 0:07:33.120 these great matchups and the fact that there's not like 0:07:33.160 --> 0:07:36.960 a four part match play series throughout the year where 0:07:36.960 --> 0:07:39.480 you get like twenty guys that qualify for it, and 0:07:39.520 --> 0:07:42.000 maybe there's two floating spots that you could play your 0:07:42.000 --> 0:07:45.480 way into, but maybe eighteen spots are guaranteed considering how 0:07:45.480 --> 0:07:47.840 you played last year, like that would be such an 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:51.360 easy way to guarantee a little bit of rivalry. Think 0:07:51.400 --> 0:07:52.640 about Phil Tiger. 0:07:52.440 --> 0:07:55.440 Like, we never got it, never ever ever. 0:07:55.320 --> 0:07:58.880 Got a true Phil Tiger showdown in a major chapship, 0:07:58.880 --> 0:07:59.600 which is why you. 0:07:59.640 --> 0:08:01.480 Got Ernie Ernie Tiger. 0:08:01.560 --> 0:08:04.240 Shut I know you're well, did we though, did we 0:08:04.280 --> 0:08:05.920 really get Ernie Tiger showdowns? 0:08:05.960 --> 0:08:08.240 Felt like we got Tiger and Ernie was there. 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:12.440 Well, he was there, he was he wasn't uninvolved. 0:08:14.200 --> 0:08:17.120 I'm just saying, you know, it'd been nice if we'd 0:08:17.160 --> 0:08:18.520 had Phil Tiger a little bit. 0:08:18.800 --> 0:08:21.800 We get Phil Henrick and we got Tiger. 0:08:21.840 --> 0:08:24.440 Bob May Like, if you had match play and you 0:08:24.480 --> 0:08:27.160 had a really really small number of players, you would 0:08:27.160 --> 0:08:31.119 guarantee at least some of these finals would involve five 0:08:31.200 --> 0:08:33.480 floating names that you'd care to see play each other, right, 0:08:33.640 --> 0:08:36.240 and even in the matchups early into it, you'd get 0:08:36.240 --> 0:08:37.960 to see Rory play Jordan Speith. 0:08:38.679 --> 0:08:42.120 Think about too like these great match play moments. We've 0:08:42.160 --> 0:08:46.680 had great match play moments. Think about Sergio Kucher. They 0:08:46.720 --> 0:08:51.079 never played again, They never played each other again. Think 0:08:51.120 --> 0:08:55.360 about Sir Keegan Bradley and Miguel and hell Havenez. We 0:08:55.520 --> 0:08:56.720 never saw him play again. 0:08:57.000 --> 0:08:59.079 There's too many. The problem with the match play is 0:08:59.080 --> 0:09:01.600 there's too many people in. And I get why they 0:09:01.600 --> 0:09:04.080 have sixty four. I mean, I get it's early in 0:09:04.120 --> 0:09:06.520 the week interest that you have that many people, but 0:09:06.720 --> 0:09:09.079 just cut it to about a tenth of that, you know, 0:09:09.440 --> 0:09:13.440 and then let's have to top eight, top sixteen and 0:09:13.559 --> 0:09:15.959 go about your business. But having a match play series 0:09:16.000 --> 0:09:19.040 throughout the year where every you know, there's a there's 0:09:19.040 --> 0:09:21.400 a winter tournament, and there's a fall tournament, there's a 0:09:21.400 --> 0:09:24.040 spring tournament, and there's a summer tournament, and you win 0:09:24.520 --> 0:09:27.160 ten million dollars if you were the highest rated person 0:09:27.520 --> 0:09:30.359 throughout that because obviously money runs everything. 0:09:30.040 --> 0:09:33.520 But well, there seems to be plenty of money floating around, 0:09:33.559 --> 0:09:36.480 and there might be a giant influx of money in 0:09:36.559 --> 0:09:40.880 the sport if a certain public investment fund gets involved. 0:09:41.120 --> 0:09:43.160 I know, just yeah, there you go, there you go. 0:09:43.280 --> 0:09:47.200 But match play is is it needs to be more 0:09:47.240 --> 0:09:49.120 of a king of golf, and it's just not even 0:09:49.160 --> 0:09:50.760 in the conversation right now, which is a bummer. 0:09:51.080 --> 0:09:54.600 Yeah, and I talked about too like controversial matches, but 0:09:54.679 --> 0:09:57.880 then you have these great matches you had. You had 0:09:57.920 --> 0:10:02.080 Sergio and Phil at the right the same day as 0:10:02.559 --> 0:10:05.760 as Rory and Reid, and Rory and Reid obviously got 0:10:06.040 --> 0:10:09.400 huge headlines, right and it was an amazing start to 0:10:09.440 --> 0:10:12.120 the match. But that Sergio Phil match was out of 0:10:12.120 --> 0:10:14.440 this world and we just don't have a chance to 0:10:14.440 --> 0:10:17.640 ever see like how great would have been after the 0:10:17.720 --> 0:10:20.000 Sergio philm match if it was like in the spring. 0:10:20.040 --> 0:10:22.040 It's like, oh, yeah, these guys are playing a match 0:10:22.080 --> 0:10:24.840 in this match play circuit, like there should just be Yeah, 0:10:24.960 --> 0:10:28.480 as you said, some semblance of Inn's to the roots 0:10:28.480 --> 0:10:30.080 of the game. It's the history of the game. The 0:10:30.080 --> 0:10:33.360 game started as the match play sport, and it's just 0:10:33.520 --> 0:10:35.920 now at this point with the match play going away 0:10:36.000 --> 0:10:39.840 completely abandoned, at the professional level. It's so silly. I 0:10:39.920 --> 0:10:42.920 get that there's some limitations. I get their struggles, but 0:10:43.000 --> 0:10:46.880 if you made these as you suggested, like events, like 0:10:47.120 --> 0:10:50.719 you could have four to eight matches going on all 0:10:50.800 --> 0:10:54.200 the every day, it doesn't you know, just because you're 0:10:54.200 --> 0:10:56.640 playing out a champion doesn't mean you can't play out 0:10:56.679 --> 0:10:59.360 third place. You can't play out fifth place. You can't 0:10:59.360 --> 0:11:02.400 play out and pay out the spots. Like these guys 0:11:02.400 --> 0:11:06.120 play money matches for twenty grand. You know, they play 0:11:06.200 --> 0:11:09.760 these matches regularly. There's it's no different if you're playing 0:11:09.760 --> 0:11:13.120 an eighth place match for the difference of fifty grand. 0:11:13.640 --> 0:11:16.000 There's there's stuff on the line, and they're competitive. They 0:11:16.000 --> 0:11:18.520 don't want to lose. And I think that's something that 0:11:18.559 --> 0:11:22.880 I have in here about guys, this skuld parlay at Wow. 0:11:22.960 --> 0:11:28.320 So you know, hold on hold one second. 0:11:28.440 --> 0:11:31.720 Just I remember the early days of you podcasting and 0:11:32.080 --> 0:11:34.400 you didn't have that skill, and I mean watching you 0:11:34.520 --> 0:11:38.000 grow and just become this pro is just it's just 0:11:38.160 --> 0:11:39.600 it's made me so happy inside. 0:11:40.559 --> 0:11:43.480 I'm not pro. I'm still very very rougher our badges. 0:11:43.800 --> 0:11:47.080 But anyways, much like my writing, I still don't know 0:11:47.120 --> 0:11:50.479 where to put commas. I just guess commas. 0:11:50.120 --> 0:11:52.400 Are so lame. Get out of here, Commas. 0:11:52.960 --> 0:11:56.080 So we're doing a pod. We're doing a draft, and 0:11:56.080 --> 0:11:58.400 and I thought this, you know, I found this to 0:11:58.440 --> 0:12:03.679 be like a particularly like in the JT discourse, an 0:12:03.720 --> 0:12:07.880 illuminating thing. So I asked you and I were gonna 0:12:07.960 --> 0:12:10.600 draft teams. You've got the first pick, I've got the 0:12:10.640 --> 0:12:13.440 second pick. This is a tie back to the fantasy football. 0:12:13.840 --> 0:12:17.239 We're gonna draft out the teams. There's no country allegiances. 0:12:17.280 --> 0:12:21.040 There's no continent allegiance, you know, US or Europe, there's 0:12:21.040 --> 0:12:23.800 no allegiances there. It says you're gonna pick your team 0:12:23.840 --> 0:12:26.200 from the twenty four players that are playing in this 0:12:26.440 --> 0:12:29.280 year's Ryder Cup. I'm gonna pick my team. And the 0:12:29.280 --> 0:12:32.040 way I went about this process is I just kind 0:12:32.040 --> 0:12:35.240 of ranked players one through twenty four. I didn't do 0:12:35.960 --> 0:12:39.320 really like a deep analytics drive. I have reasons that 0:12:39.360 --> 0:12:43.360 I have players in certain spots. But one of the 0:12:43.400 --> 0:12:46.640 things is like you start to get to players and 0:12:46.679 --> 0:12:49.360 you're like, oh, they might hate to lose more than 0:12:49.400 --> 0:12:53.880 they want to win, and hating to lose is an incredible, 0:12:54.200 --> 0:12:56.840 incredible match play trade. 0:12:57.280 --> 0:12:59.439 I mean, it's it's what's made some of these guys 0:12:59.640 --> 0:13:01.480 who are in terms of match play, I mean, you 0:13:01.520 --> 0:13:04.880 think about like the column Montgomery's of the world and 0:13:04.920 --> 0:13:05.440 the Endpulter. 0:13:05.559 --> 0:13:07.360 Obviously in Sergio. 0:13:08.160 --> 0:13:10.040 I don't know if you if you went through this, 0:13:10.120 --> 0:13:13.160 and obviously we'll hear in a bit really heavy European 0:13:13.280 --> 0:13:16.040 side of mine on the top end. I just feel 0:13:16.120 --> 0:13:19.080 like I've got a lot of the European players. I 0:13:19.160 --> 0:13:21.199 just when I think of match play, for whatever reason, 0:13:21.200 --> 0:13:23.839 my brain tends to go that way before it goes 0:13:24.040 --> 0:13:25.800 to the American side of things. And I think that's 0:13:25.800 --> 0:13:28.040 because when you and I were in our formidable years, 0:13:28.120 --> 0:13:31.120 was when the American Ryder Cup teams were just dreadful, 0:13:31.440 --> 0:13:33.960 and the teams were dreadful, and the European guys were 0:13:33.960 --> 0:13:34.720 such studs. 0:13:34.760 --> 0:13:39.720 But I leaned euro heavy to start, I have to say. 0:13:39.760 --> 0:13:42.040 Then it was alarming in the middle and at the 0:13:42.040 --> 0:13:44.240 bottom for the European Yes. 0:13:44.520 --> 0:13:47.080 Yes, it's a tough spot. I will say. 0:13:47.120 --> 0:13:48.640 I don't know if you did this, but I went 0:13:49.120 --> 0:13:51.000 I when I did my list, I did like the 0:13:51.040 --> 0:13:53.960 top ten and then I did the bottom ten before 0:13:53.960 --> 0:13:54.680 I did the middle. 0:13:55.120 --> 0:13:57.800 My bottom is uh, hero heavy as well. 0:13:58.360 --> 0:14:03.800 He heavy, it's like extraordinary, it's it's kind of crazy, 0:14:03.960 --> 0:14:07.040 it's it's it's very and I think that's gonna be 0:14:07.160 --> 0:14:09.320 kind of how this like, I don't think the bottom 0:14:09.440 --> 0:14:12.880 matters as much, especially and I think the European team 0:14:13.400 --> 0:14:16.200 we'll get into more of a preview in the coming weeks, 0:14:16.240 --> 0:14:18.200 like a full preview. But one of the things I 0:14:18.200 --> 0:14:20.680 think with the European team is I think they're way 0:14:20.960 --> 0:14:26.280 more committed to the analytics, and the analytics would probably 0:14:26.360 --> 0:14:28.880 say if you have weak players, just don't play them 0:14:28.960 --> 0:14:32.600 until singles, you know. And I'm I'm I've heard that 0:14:32.680 --> 0:14:34.920 this is a tough place to walk, so it'll be 0:14:35.000 --> 0:14:38.640 interesting to see, like can guys do thirty six? Thirty six? 0:14:39.000 --> 0:14:43.560 But like I'm just gonna tell show my hand. McIntyre's 0:14:43.640 --> 0:14:44.320 my last guy. 0:14:44.600 --> 0:14:47.400 Wow, Okay, I got a euro last. He's not mine, 0:14:47.400 --> 0:14:49.280 but he's he's let me tell you, he's floating around 0:14:49.280 --> 0:14:49.960 that all right. 0:14:50.040 --> 0:14:52.800 So I'm not worried about you taking back and tire, 0:14:52.840 --> 0:14:55.720 but he's last. If I'm the if I'm the captain, 0:14:56.440 --> 0:15:00.640 I'm probably just gonna say I'm I'm not playing it 0:15:00.760 --> 0:15:03.880 until like until Sunday. And I think there's like a 0:15:03.960 --> 0:15:06.440 moral thing of like if you pick a guy, do 0:15:06.440 --> 0:15:09.760 you have to play before Sunday? But like, I'm not 0:15:09.880 --> 0:15:13.400 letting my weak links just just cost me points. And 0:15:13.440 --> 0:15:16.440 I think this was the fill discourse in France when 0:15:16.440 --> 0:15:20.160 he was completely not a course fit. He wasn't ready 0:15:20.160 --> 0:15:24.400 to play, and they've rolled them out there and it 0:15:24.520 --> 0:15:26.400 was just so clear that he was not going to 0:15:26.440 --> 0:15:29.320 win points. It's like, why are you just giving away points? 0:15:29.600 --> 0:15:29.840 You know? 0:15:30.000 --> 0:15:33.520 So it's an interesting I don't know which roster I'd 0:15:33.600 --> 0:15:35.680 rather have right now, and I think that's great for 0:15:35.720 --> 0:15:36.440 this Ryder Cup. 0:15:36.520 --> 0:15:37.640 Yeah, totally agree with you. 0:15:37.680 --> 0:15:42.520 It feels I think if you're an amateur golfer, I 0:15:42.520 --> 0:15:45.680 think you should be guaranteed two matches if you're playing 0:15:45.680 --> 0:15:48.040 in a Curtis Cup or you're playing in a Walker Cup. 0:15:48.040 --> 0:15:50.640 But when you get to professional golf, I think it's 0:15:50.920 --> 0:15:53.760 who's gonna give us the best chance to win this Cup? 0:15:53.760 --> 0:15:55.880 It only happens every two years and it's one of 0:15:55.880 --> 0:15:57.320 the most talked about events. 0:15:56.960 --> 0:15:57.640 In our sport. 0:15:58.000 --> 0:16:01.360 The issue being here, Andy is it's almost like the 0:16:01.440 --> 0:16:04.800 shoebomber syndrome. Right, one guy does the shoe bomb thing 0:16:05.000 --> 0:16:07.000 and now everybody's had to take the shoes off for 0:16:07.040 --> 0:16:10.400 twenty years. You go back to ninety nine and one captain, 0:16:11.040 --> 0:16:14.320 Mark James sits all of his bottom tiered guys till 0:16:14.360 --> 0:16:17.480 the end. They lose on Sunday, and every captain scared 0:16:17.520 --> 0:16:19.800 of doing what Mark James did. I don't think we 0:16:19.800 --> 0:16:22.760 should look at the outlier situation as the thing to 0:16:22.840 --> 0:16:27.400 lean into. I would like to see a modern captain go, hey, Bobby, 0:16:28.320 --> 0:16:30.200 no knock to you. You're a great player, You're one 0:16:30.240 --> 0:16:33.400 of the twelve best on the European side. You're playing 0:16:33.440 --> 0:16:34.440 on Sunday, and that's it. 0:16:34.480 --> 0:16:34.680 Man. 0:16:34.800 --> 0:16:37.360 Like, if you want to play more matches, play better golf, 0:16:37.400 --> 0:16:38.600 and then we'll get you out there more. 0:16:39.040 --> 0:16:42.480 Yeah, I think, I mean, this is this is what 0:16:42.720 --> 0:16:46.240 I would love an event on the speaking of like 0:16:46.360 --> 0:16:49.920 loving of would love event. Remember when the NBA All 0:16:49.960 --> 0:16:53.880 Star Game did the public drafting of players, Jokisch was 0:16:53.920 --> 0:16:57.160 the last pick. Now he's the best player in the world. 0:16:58.000 --> 0:17:01.400 I mean it's I mean, it's perfectly played better Like, 0:17:01.720 --> 0:17:03.480 it would be so fun if they did one of 0:17:03.520 --> 0:17:06.520 these events and then they had two captains pick the teams. 0:17:07.400 --> 0:17:09.440 That would be better than the President's Cup in its 0:17:09.480 --> 0:17:10.119 current form. 0:17:10.520 --> 0:17:12.520 Well, I mean everything would be better in the President's Cup. 0:17:12.680 --> 0:17:15.720 Oh so that's a shot. That's you know, that's a 0:17:15.760 --> 0:17:17.440 shot against the internationals. 0:17:17.720 --> 0:17:18.840 It's not an international thing. 0:17:18.840 --> 0:17:21.400 It's just the event is is a Lesser Ryder Cup, 0:17:21.440 --> 0:17:22.280 and it always has been. 0:17:22.320 --> 0:17:23.359 It always win it will be. 0:17:23.520 --> 0:17:25.200 What are your thoughts on one of my great Ryder 0:17:25.240 --> 0:17:27.719 Cup ideas that the captains should have to play in 0:17:27.800 --> 0:17:29.480 the last singles match against each other. 0:17:29.800 --> 0:17:30.720 It would be so great. 0:17:31.480 --> 0:17:36.280 See who would you favorite? I mean the film Phil Luke, 0:17:36.440 --> 0:17:41.000 the Luke Donald Zach would be would be? I think they. 0:17:41.240 --> 0:17:42.640 I think that would be a good matchup. 0:17:43.280 --> 0:17:44.840 That's what I'm saying is I feel like if you 0:17:44.920 --> 0:17:47.520 go through the captains over the years, it would it 0:17:47.520 --> 0:17:49.439 would be a pretty good matchup. Like I would be 0:17:49.440 --> 0:17:51.720 interested to see how it went. So I just think 0:17:51.760 --> 0:17:53.080 the last match should be the captains. 0:17:53.080 --> 0:17:53.879 That'd be so great. 0:17:53.920 --> 0:17:56.440 But then the captains are like grinding on their games. 0:17:58.240 --> 0:18:00.919 Zach was playing the other day. He's playing in Rome. Like, 0:18:00.920 --> 0:18:02.400 you don't think he's been grinding on this game. He's 0:18:02.400 --> 0:18:05.800 probably played twenty five PJ torvents this year, right, You. 0:18:05.720 --> 0:18:09.800 Think it's a big deal that Speith can't lay and 0:18:10.359 --> 0:18:13.920 Xander missed the little outing to real mean, I will. 0:18:13.760 --> 0:18:15.560 Say it would it would be nice to have seen 0:18:15.600 --> 0:18:18.639 the course before before getting there. I was texting with 0:18:18.680 --> 0:18:21.080 somebody on the team about the course and he's like, 0:18:21.160 --> 0:18:24.399 the rough is it's not us open, Thick, it's like 0:18:24.440 --> 0:18:28.320 your backyard, like letting your backyard get out of hand, Thick. 0:18:28.600 --> 0:18:30.120 I just think it'd be nice to see the golf 0:18:30.119 --> 0:18:33.280 course before you get there on Monday. The only caveat 0:18:33.320 --> 0:18:35.000 to that is they don't play till Friday, so plenty 0:18:35.040 --> 0:18:37.560 of time to obviously get practice in. But I mean, 0:18:37.640 --> 0:18:39.760 I don't think it hurts seeing the golf course once 0:18:39.840 --> 0:18:40.960 if you've never seen it before. 0:18:41.640 --> 0:18:45.880 Yeah, I think if you have other extern circumstances, it's 0:18:45.920 --> 0:18:49.679 okay to miss it. Like rumors of you know, of 0:18:49.720 --> 0:18:52.159 a bachelor party. I'm fine with that. But yeah, you know, 0:18:52.400 --> 0:18:55.200 it's just all right, let's go. You got the first pick. 0:18:55.520 --> 0:18:57.800 Who are you taking the first pick in the in 0:18:57.840 --> 0:19:00.720 the fake Ryder Cup draft? What's your team? What's your team? 0:19:01.000 --> 0:19:02.800 I guess you can be bake and I'll be egg. 0:19:02.920 --> 0:19:03.359 There you go. 0:19:03.400 --> 0:19:05.040 It makes a lot of sense. I'm going to make 0:19:05.080 --> 0:19:08.000 this really simple. I was battling between your two year 0:19:08.480 --> 0:19:10.960 tour players. I think you're going to take the other 0:19:11.000 --> 0:19:13.880 one here with the second pick, which is fine, I'm 0:19:13.920 --> 0:19:16.439 going Rory off the top. I think Rory is the 0:19:16.480 --> 0:19:20.200 alpha in golf. I also think the last Ryder Cup 0:19:20.720 --> 0:19:23.280 has probably been eating at him for two years. And 0:19:23.320 --> 0:19:25.399 I think Rory is a guy that is going to 0:19:25.400 --> 0:19:27.159 show up here with the mentality that I'm going to 0:19:27.200 --> 0:19:29.199 go five and oh, four and one, three to one 0:19:29.280 --> 0:19:32.920 and one because he played poorly last time, and obviously 0:19:32.920 --> 0:19:34.920 he's a guy that I think, when across the board, 0:19:35.000 --> 0:19:37.760 has probably played the most consistent golf in the world 0:19:37.840 --> 0:19:40.320 the last year year and a half or so. Also 0:19:40.400 --> 0:19:42.680 gets to go hatless, which I think Rory really likes. 0:19:43.640 --> 0:19:46.280 We're talking probably like a two thousand dollars haircut from 0:19:46.320 --> 0:19:49.160 Rory headed into Ryder Cup week. So I'm taking Rory 0:19:49.160 --> 0:19:49.680 off the top. 0:19:50.119 --> 0:19:53.320 That's I figured that was where you're going. And I'm 0:19:53.480 --> 0:19:56.640 I'm I'm so pleased because I got my number one 0:19:56.720 --> 0:19:59.520