Speaker 1: Well, come back to the Fire Drill, hey before I
Speaker 1: get into it. Uh. Tuesday morning, the fourth episode of
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Speaker 1: Fire Drill, we tried something new. We watched we I
Speaker 1: mean we all wanted to watch the Super Bowl, so
Speaker 1: uh we watched the last uh minutes of the Watt
Speaker 1: Management Open kind of live on TV. We talked about
Speaker 1: uh Tiger and whether we thought he'd make the cut.
Speaker 1: We talked about how Michael knows what year he was
Speaker 1: married and it's an amazing ending to the podcast, so
Speaker 1: stay tuned for that. Uh. We talked about a couple
Speaker 1: of awesome dudes that gave me some tickets to give
Speaker 1: away to families and uh. It was a lot of fun,
Speaker 1: as it always is. So thanks to golf Tech for
Speaker 1: supporting the grind thanks to Jake, our producer who's behind
Speaker 1: the screen. Uh, without further ado, here's the three of
Speaker 1: us talking golf. I got dots in my head. Can't
Speaker 1: get Jan nothing what I'm thinking about. Can't get him
Speaker 1: now think what I'm thinking about. Hello, this is Alan
Speaker 1: schip Knuck back for another Fire Drill podcast, joined as
Speaker 1: always by Michael Bamberger and Philly and Ryan French. In
Speaker 1: the heartlands of America, um So the Phoenix Open. There's
Speaker 1: a debate every year about is it good for golf?
Speaker 1: Has it gone too far? Is it too much? Um?
Speaker 1: It was another rousing week in the desert. Um Ryan,
Speaker 1: you appear to have some thoughts on this jump in.
Speaker 1: I think it's perfect once a year, and anyone who
Speaker 1: says differently, I just I just like they're probably like
Speaker 1: the anti hoodie crowd. Uh listen more than once a year.
Speaker 1: Totally agree. It would be way too much. Okay, it's ridiculous.
Speaker 1: It's like people running dressed up. There was a streaker,
Speaker 1: pretty good streaker. Good work by that guy, by the way.
Speaker 1: Uh made it all the way to sixteen, all the
Speaker 1: way to seventeen, jumped in the pond, got onto the
Speaker 1: letters of the waste management and they couldn't do anything
Speaker 1: about it. Um more than once a year ridiculous once
Speaker 1: a year perfect, good for golf. I think ninety eight
Speaker 1: percent of the players, maybe a little less. Maybe of
Speaker 1: the players love it once a year again, and uh,
Speaker 1: I think it's great for maybe ten eighty like it,
Speaker 1: ten tolerated and ten hate it. Is that is that fair?
Speaker 1: I think that's okay. Michael. You're the voice of the
Speaker 1: establishment at times, um, but also a cool guy, so
Speaker 1: I know you're you're probably conflicted here. Let's let's just
Speaker 1: give it to a straight no judgment once a year.
Speaker 1: I absolutely think it's great, and the only people who
Speaker 1: don't like it are the hoodie crowd. Well, someone who's
Speaker 1: already said that. I'm completely I know. I really am
Speaker 1: with Ryan here. I have to say it did take
Speaker 1: me years for it to grow on me, but now
Speaker 1: I'm sort of getting it. Just Super Bowl weak and
Speaker 1: all the rest, and it's different And as long as
Speaker 1: long as nobody's getting hurt and people are having a
Speaker 1: good time, I'm totally unfair to it. But as you
Speaker 1: if you really truly if another tournament tried to do it,
Speaker 1: I think it would be it wouldn't work for the
Speaker 1: other tournament, and it would and it would diminish the
Speaker 1: greatness of not the greatness but the fun of this one.
Speaker 1: So I think right now they've got it just where
Speaker 1: they want it. When you say nobody getting hurt, does
Speaker 1: that include alcohol, poisoning or other bad decisions? You know,
Speaker 1: hangover to hangover, but you know, falling off the top
Speaker 1: like you dropped yourself phone that you're at the Ryder Cup,
Speaker 1: oh man, from the top of a bleacher that you
Speaker 1: don't want, but you know, as long as I like it,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's great fun. I was on the
Speaker 1: grounds just for a quick cameo because, as some of
Speaker 1: our listeners know, we were out in in Phoenix for
Speaker 1: as guests of Golf Tech, and so I went out
Speaker 1: to the course on Tuesday, and I had actually been
Speaker 1: the Phoenix Open and probably a decade. I used to
Speaker 1: go a lot, and I sort of forgot even on
Speaker 1: a Tuesday practice around like the crowds they had on Tuesday,
Speaker 1: any other tournament on tour would have killed for those
Speaker 1: as Sunday crowds. It is just an unbelievable crush of
Speaker 1: humanity and also how efficiently the whole thing operates. I mean,
Speaker 1: they've got it down to a science. The the parking,
Speaker 1: I've never seen so many porta potties in my life.
Speaker 1: There's tons of people picking up trash. There's the infrastructure
Speaker 1: is so dialed like that. I don't think any other
Speaker 1: place could pull this off, including Augusta National. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's just the way the way they run the whole thing,
Speaker 1: the Thunderbirds and others is deeply impressive. And I don't
Speaker 1: know if this is true, but a couple of people
Speaker 1: responded on Twitter about it. Um is that they have
Speaker 1: never officially sold out. They usually just keep selling tickets,
Speaker 1: and it got so popular this year that they shut
Speaker 1: off ticket sales on Saturday and Sunday. It's like it,
Speaker 1: I mean, it is waste management has done it right
Speaker 1: and and honestly, the biggest conversation is like, I don't
Speaker 1: even know if they really needed it to be an
Speaker 1: elevated event, because I think the tournament is one of
Speaker 1: the few times of the tournament is the show, right,
Speaker 1: Like no one really cares who's on sixteen, Like everybody
Speaker 1: was going absolutely ape ship last year when Sam Ryder
Speaker 1: made a hole in one. It really doesn't have to be.
Speaker 1: It's not It's not about the players. The show is
Speaker 1: the show. The fans on the sixteenth hole don't even
Speaker 1: know who any of the players are anyway, so it
Speaker 1: doesn't really matter. That's a good point I will say
Speaker 1: before we move on from the question is it is
Speaker 1: it fun or not fun? Or good for golf or
Speaker 1: not good? I do I do? In this era of
Speaker 1: social media and everything else, there's a fatigue factor I
Speaker 1: think about like Thursday or Friday. I'm already a little
Speaker 1: over it because it's just from from Monday morning on,
Speaker 1: it's NonStop. Just to catch people up because we're talking
Speaker 1: about the sixteenth, we're watching, we're trying something new, we're
Speaker 1: kind of watching it live as this goes. And Scottie
Speaker 1: just pulled it left against the grand stand on sixteen,
Speaker 1: not in a good position. The pin is tucked left.
Speaker 1: This is dangerous to say since it will be Rooks later,
Speaker 1: but he's making four. Yeah, you don't want to miss
Speaker 1: left there. Um, So yeah, that's my only complaint is
Speaker 1: it's just too much Phoenix open by a certain point
Speaker 1: in the week. But that's all. I've got a rate.
Speaker 1: I've got a great cure for that four hole shotgun start.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, Field. Um, but you mentioned the elevated status, Ryan,
Speaker 1: I mean, you're right, but it has elevated the whole thing.
Speaker 1: I mean this leaderboard, Scheffler Rom, justin Thomas Jordan's speech, Um,
Speaker 1: you know he's gone backwards a little bit. But and
Speaker 1: how about Nick Taylor is gonna win this golf tournament
Speaker 1: over all of these people. He just hit it to
Speaker 1: the Oh got slowed down. Oh my god, it just
Speaker 1: went off. I apologize. I thought, well, yeah, you're right.
Speaker 1: This is the perils brodcasting live on a very firm
Speaker 1: golf course. The ball just keeps trickling. Yeah. I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: he's gonna win. But just to be clear, I mean
Speaker 1: I agree with you. I mean I'm looking at the
Speaker 1: at the leaderboard, Scheffler, Rom, j T, Jason Day, Ricky
Speaker 1: was up there for a while. And Nick Taylor of
Speaker 1: all people, I know he has two p G A
Speaker 1: Tour wins, but you know, very nondescript player for the
Speaker 1: most part. And well, you know, you make a really
Speaker 1: good Ryan. Like when you were saying that it doesn't
Speaker 1: even need to be a an elevated event, I was saying,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, it really doesn't need to be except you
Speaker 1: frequently forget nobody plays unless it is an elevated event.
Speaker 1: In other words, we could have a great show, but
Speaker 1: you're not gonna have these players. Uh, not one of them.
Speaker 1: Not one of these. You know, ricky Er plays every year,
Speaker 1: doesn't he? Yeah, because he's a home game. Although even
Speaker 1: even his nerves are are afraid. Like he got into
Speaker 1: kind of an altercation with the Fae ends of someone
Speaker 1: was shouting at him and dropped the F bomb. He
Speaker 1: stopped and glared for a long time. Um, yesterday, So
Speaker 1: everybody just hit it over the green on seventeen. Rom
Speaker 1: Scheffler and Nick Taylor. It's such a sucker pin you
Speaker 1: gotta hit about one sixties seven, not one seventy five.
Speaker 1: I mean, spoken like a true caddy right there. Look
Speaker 1: at him, still got it. If only you've been on
Speaker 1: Tom Watson's bag, I'm gonna say it was like an
Speaker 1: hold of Turnberry could have kept from going over that green. Michael,
Speaker 1: I don't know, As you know, Alan, my close personal
Speaker 1: friend Neil Oxman, and he really is a close personal friend.
Speaker 1: Mike David some Live the third who is I have
Speaker 1: a nice friendship with, but Neil tom Watson's goutt He
Speaker 1: is truly a close personal friend. First off, Neil wasn't involved.
Speaker 1: Second off, the chances of we're really going down the
Speaker 1: road here, but the chances of any caddy telling Tom
Speaker 1: Watson anything anywhere ever is zero one two. He had
Speaker 1: he had a perfect shot. It just took a hard bounce.
Speaker 1: Well he can't. He carried it too far. I will
Speaker 1: go to my grave. I was standing right there and
Speaker 1: I was watching a lot of shots come in and
Speaker 1: you just had to land at ten yards short of
Speaker 1: where he landed it Like you would think that the
Speaker 1: master of all links talking about Tom Watson, not you,
Speaker 1: Michael would know that. But anyway, you know who completely
Speaker 1: agree you know who completely agrees with you? Stewart sink
Speaker 1: absolutely yeah far, But now he doesn't say he says
Speaker 1: for but for you know, that's asking a lot on
Speaker 1: the Links course. You know, the guy was pumped full
Speaker 1: of adrenaline, like it's likely he's going to carry a
Speaker 1: little too far unless he accounts for that. But without
Speaker 1: going down the turn very rabbit hole, which wasn't would
Speaker 1: you write that? What'd you write that night? I um?
Speaker 1: I wrote all the guys who blew it. If I
Speaker 1: recall correctly, and I've told the story for but not
Speaker 1: a long time. Everyone always forgets Lee west which should
Speaker 1: have won that thing. He three putted the string second
Speaker 1: hole to miss the playoff by one stroke, and I
Speaker 1: followed him into the locker room and it was it
Speaker 1: was It was a cool seed. You know, the fabled
Speaker 1: locker room is not a thing like golf fans believe.
Speaker 1: You know, the guy's clear out a lot. There's very
Speaker 1: little hanging out and card playing and telling tales. He
Speaker 1: maybe in the old days, but not anymore. But this
Speaker 1: was an exception. I don't know why. There was just
Speaker 1: there was a bunch of players in there drinking and
Speaker 1: watching the finish, and Westwood came in and they were
Speaker 1: hooting and holler in, you know, because things were happening,
Speaker 1: and Westwood walked in and went dead silent. It was
Speaker 1: like they had actually seen a ghost. And you know,
Speaker 1: I was behind him, so I couldn't see his face,
Speaker 1: but um, he he just sneaked through this sort of
Speaker 1: byzantine locker room and wound up laying on this bench hyperventilating,
Speaker 1: and it was no one was there, and I wasn't
Speaker 1: gonna ask any questions. I just kind of observing. But
Speaker 1: some point it's like, do I need to go called
Speaker 1: medical personnel? Like it was serious, like it it tells
Speaker 1: you like these guys put on a brave face, but man,
Speaker 1: what's going on inside is different. I'll never forget that. Um.
Speaker 1: But so this is now the first full field elevatedd event.
Speaker 1: We had Cappalua, which always just feels like a little
Speaker 1: bit like an exhibition, and even though they added some
Speaker 1: non winners to buff out the field, this was the
Speaker 1: first time we had a lot of guys there and
Speaker 1: had like the Nick Taylor's of the world. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think as as Ryan is alluded to, and it's
Speaker 1: it's all the talk of the tour that the elevated
Speaker 1: events next year gonna go to seventy players, no cuts
Speaker 1: and just basically be w g cs. I think this
Speaker 1: this week is a great rebuttal I mean, you had
Speaker 1: a full field, you had a Monday qualifier, you had
Speaker 1: all kinds of long shots and dreamers. You have one
Speaker 1: guy who might actually pull it off. Um, So I
Speaker 1: would I would be I would wonder. I mean, obviously
Speaker 1: you have to see how they build the fields, but
Speaker 1: I would guess the last couple of seasons that's Nick
Speaker 1: Taylor has had, He's probably not even a part of
Speaker 1: this field. That's seventy uh and so very borderline. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: So it's like again, I just and this has nothing
Speaker 1: to do well it has something to do with lift.
Speaker 1: Is that we all say it's boring because there's no cuts,
Speaker 1: that w G c s didn't make it because it's
Speaker 1: boring and no cuts, and you know, just it never worked.
Speaker 1: So now we're going back to that just like it
Speaker 1: boggles my mind. Quick question, just for clarification, is it
Speaker 1: a done deal seventy I think that would be a growth.
Speaker 1: So where where is it? It's just in the stages
Speaker 1: of discussion erect did there's a vicious bad happening behind
Speaker 1: the scenes amongst the middle class and the ruling class
Speaker 1: the pg tour and well, if the ruling class were
Speaker 1: a little smarter, for one thing, they would definitely want
Speaker 1: full field with the gut because for one thing, they're
Speaker 1: rulers today, but when they're thirty six, they'll be looking
Speaker 1: to get in. That's number one. And number two is
Speaker 1: you're gonna kill the PGA tour. As we know if
Speaker 1: you go all these events seventy no cut, it would say.
Speaker 1: It's not even a conversation though. And I'm not even
Speaker 1: talking about Ryan's thing about protecting Mondays, which I think
Speaker 1: is great in the yargue to beautifully in the story
Speaker 1: the other day. I'm just talking about the life gloob
Speaker 1: with the PGA Tour. For the ordinary fan to show
Speaker 1: up there any time Thursday Friday and you know you're
Speaker 1: gonna watch golf, to have two waves, to be hanging
Speaker 1: on that board Friday night. Just see if you make
Speaker 1: the cut or nut. That's the PGA Tour. You're you're
Speaker 1: actually gonna kill. I hate this word your product if
Speaker 1: you do that. Well, I mean this tournament is the
Speaker 1: rebuttal to that, though, Michael, because what do we say,
Speaker 1: we're all we're all jolly because the leaderboard, Scottie Scheffler,
Speaker 1: John rom justin, those are the names were excited about.
Speaker 1: You had to make a thirty six so cut there
Speaker 1: to be there on on Friday. Every one of those
Speaker 1: guys had a moment on Thursday where they were going south.
Speaker 1: Not necessarily everyone, but some of them certainly did where
Speaker 1: they turned it around. Uh So I don't I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't agree. Let's about to Like Michael said, he's
Speaker 1: got a fifteen fter Yeah, yeah, interesting. I mean, I
Speaker 1: mean obviously very bias. I want Monday qualifiers. But even
Speaker 1: if if that doesn't happen, it just has to be
Speaker 1: in my opinion, it has to be full field, dred
Speaker 1: and thirty two. However you make it up, uh or
Speaker 1: D twenty or whatever, it just cannot it cannot be seventy.
Speaker 1: It just like, I just don't know how we say
Speaker 1: that Live is a mess because there's no cut and
Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff, and then we and w
Speaker 1: g C suck and then we come back and do it.
Speaker 1: I just don't get it. Now. I do understand that
Speaker 1: the top players in the world are looking at their
Speaker 1: people who have left cam Smith, Brooks, Bryson, I'll getting
Speaker 1: paid at no cut events. So I get their point
Speaker 1: of it. Uh, They're like, hey, we have negotiating power.
Speaker 1: Where the where the reason all this money comes in?
Speaker 1: We want to get paid. But I think they are
Speaker 1: in a lot of ways. So that's just my take.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying they're not entirely wrong, because it's the
Speaker 1: stars that make the events memorable, the big events, and um,
Speaker 1: I know it's an unpopular view, but I think that
Speaker 1: the casual fan is enjoying seeing these pack leader boards
Speaker 1: with a bunch of big names. You know, you had
Speaker 1: it at Cappelua, you have it here. We'll see how
Speaker 1: Rivera plays out. But on such as strong golf course,
Speaker 1: I would expect that you'll have a bunch of top ten,
Speaker 1: top twenty players fighting it out line. I think the
Speaker 1: fans may not share our purest instincts and they're enjoying
Speaker 1: the star power. So, um, it's going to be an
Speaker 1: interesting part of the debate. I mean, I ought to
Speaker 1: be curious if the if the PGA Tour commissions any
Speaker 1: focus groups with actual fans like I would. I would
Speaker 1: love to know. Maybe I'll put up on Twitter and
Speaker 1: we'll just get we'll get a little bit of an
Speaker 1: insight into it. But um, it's it's a fascinating question.
Speaker 1: Don't we have Don't we have a historic that the
Speaker 1: w g c s didn't work? I mean, we already
Speaker 1: have a historic revalence, Like I don't know. Uh, I
Speaker 1: hope I'm wrong. I hope I hope they switch. I
Speaker 1: don't want any part of seventy no cut fields and
Speaker 1: all these players, and it's going to be impossible to
Speaker 1: break into And how do you move up the money
Speaker 1: list when you're missing every event? If you're seventy first player,
Speaker 1: how do you move up by winning seven non elevated events?
Speaker 1: And I just don't get it. One problem with the
Speaker 1: w g C comparison is that there are tournaments that
Speaker 1: had no history or tradition and they just going to
Speaker 1: change the history of tournaments that have. But obviously, you
Speaker 1: know Caplua has that, Rivera has that, Phoenix has that,
Speaker 1: so you're you have more of an emotional attachment to
Speaker 1: these term nament when also they have the title world
Speaker 1: in it and they went up hanging out in Akron
Speaker 1: and Tucson in places like that, like they never fulfilled
Speaker 1: their mandate and they just went to boring course. Here's
Speaker 1: here it is like, listen, I know I'm in the minority,
Speaker 1: but we are looking at the number one player in
Speaker 1: the world if Scotty wins, and the two hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty second player in the world, Nick Taylor, and they're
Speaker 1: going blow for blow and it's entertaining. It's entertaining as hell,
Speaker 1: And uh again, I don't I don't know how they'll
Speaker 1: make it up or whatever. But Nick Taylor would definitely
Speaker 1: prior to this week assume if he wins would have
Speaker 1: been on the outside looking in at this event, I
Speaker 1: would I would guess. Here's Scheffler's part. Putt Oh, Michael,
Speaker 1: you're wrong. He did not make four. He made it
Speaker 1: three dead center, fifteen feet son of a business outstanding.
Speaker 1: That's all world three right there, especially with you know
Speaker 1: that if you miss that put, they're gonna just rain
Speaker 1: down booze on you man. And that makes Nick about twelve.
Speaker 1: He really didn't drop. He did not drop. Great. That
Speaker 1: is some That is some up and down there. Quick
Speaker 1: question for you guys there there's a we all know
Speaker 1: about paramutual betting, but I learned this morning there's another
Speaker 1: thing called in the world of internet betting called custom betting.
Speaker 1: What I wanted to do was bet chef look at
Speaker 1: this and it's going zero miles per hour when it
Speaker 1: falls in. He's waving like, oh yeah all day long.
Speaker 1: But that ball could have been short. Um, there's another
Speaker 1: thing on the internet called custom betting. You know what
Speaker 1: I wanted to do this morning, but they didn't want
Speaker 1: to give up all the personal information you've got to
Speaker 1: give up like where you are to some you know,
Speaker 1: offshore company. But anyway, what I wanted to do was
Speaker 1: bet shecheffler Wyn Phoenix and the Eagles I live in
Speaker 1: Philadelphia to win the Super That would have been easy
Speaker 1: in combination with each other. And that's called I would
Speaker 1: have thought that's called paramutual betting because you've got two
Speaker 1: things going on sort of, But it's actually called making
Speaker 1: a custom bet. Do you guys have any experience with us?
Speaker 1: Have you ever? Uh? I love when Michael discover something
Speaker 1: new about the Internet that you can actually there's actually
Speaker 1: online betting. Who knew it? He's like, I used to
Speaker 1: just call my bookie. Is that is that things people
Speaker 1: don't do? I got the line out of the Philadelphia
Speaker 1: Inquirer and I called my bookie. Yes, people people make fun,
Speaker 1: crazy custom bets. And Michael, you can do anything insane.
Speaker 1: You could do a three way bet with the coin
Speaker 1: flip is gonna be ahead and uh, there's gonna be
Speaker 1: a streaker on the sixteenth again and the Eagles are
Speaker 1: gonna win by seven. You can do whatever you want, right,
Speaker 1: And whether Sheppard, graph and Agassi's kids will make it
Speaker 1: to a Wimbledon final, lay it now, Charlie Woods. I'm
Speaker 1: sure there's odds whether he went to Masters. Here comes Taylor.
Speaker 1: But my custom is you have to screenshot the bet
Speaker 1: and put on social media so everyone can haze you
Speaker 1: or root along with you or whatever. Um. That is
Speaker 1: a great part of this podcast when Michael is like,
Speaker 1: did you know that you could and rent a car
Speaker 1: and it's not even it's not even a rental car place,
Speaker 1: it's a personal Do you know that? When and when Alan,
Speaker 1: even Alan younger than I by a lot, first jog
Speaker 1: in British opens, you didn't get a rental car, You've
Speaker 1: got a higher car. But now, wow, that's bad. Put
Speaker 1: the uh. But now when you go to the UK,
Speaker 1: even they say it's a rental car. Nobody uses the
Speaker 1: phrase higher car anymore. That's sad because I love I
Speaker 1: love all the old like that, like the UK guys
Speaker 1: that they'll say going to the referring to her person.
Speaker 1: It's not that his name is that he's called this
Speaker 1: guy called Mike who lives in Philadelphia. And just to
Speaker 1: make little things like that always making me smile. Um,
Speaker 1: Mike's Mike's Gonta hospital because his pinkies broke on the hospital.
Speaker 1: I learned a new one from Paul McGinley. I was
Speaker 1: just interviewing him and we were tunneling deep on old um.
Speaker 1: It was about when this is from my book about
Speaker 1: Live of course, when the Strategic Alliance was born and
Speaker 1: the PGL was trying to forge a a an alliance
Speaker 1: with the European Tour and then Monahan swooped in. It's
Speaker 1: actually really fascinating part of the whole thing that nobody
Speaker 1: I don't think has paid attention to. McGinley was a
Speaker 1: board member for the European Tour and he's talking about Monahan,
Speaker 1: you know, came in like guns blaze and then he's
Speaker 1: like he showed us the color of his eyes. Was like,
Speaker 1: that's a good one. I'm gonna keep that one fall.
Speaker 1: That's a good one. Yeah, especially his eyes. And he's
Speaker 1: I mean that is one of his defining characteristic Yeah,
Speaker 1: but that's that's an Irish ism for you know, when
Speaker 1: you're when you're really serious about something. And I loved it.
Speaker 1: But anyway, we digress. How about this for an irishism?
Speaker 1: I was. I was Michelle Smith, the Irish swimmer UH
Speaker 1: won a bunch of medals at an Olympics and she
Speaker 1: got way faster at a way older age than anybody
Speaker 1: ever did. And I'm at a bar and I'm like,
Speaker 1: how I'm going to report the story? You know what?
Speaker 1: The question was whether she was performance sensing drugs or not.
Speaker 1: And the guy at the buyer says to me, you'll
Speaker 1: get your stary man, and said, what do you say that?
Speaker 1: He said, oh, dear, now I've started this, I hope
Speaker 1: you're allowed to even use these terms. That magic and
Speaker 1: the black lady with the yellow beard, So what are
Speaker 1: you talking about? Get a stout, mad, I'm afraid of
Speaker 1: getting fired for the wrong thing. As I'm saying, there's
Speaker 1: really nothing Alan chake Way in on that is if
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get fired for telling that we xiz because
Speaker 1: I'd like to keep this job. Getting fired out this
Speaker 1: it's getting canceled by popular culture. And and you know,
Speaker 1: Matt not even in popularity. That's uprisings of the people.
Speaker 1: That's Michael. Michael will learn he's been canceled in the
Speaker 1: Philadelphia enquire in three days. Yeah, he'll be the last
Speaker 1: to know. Yeah, Yeah, that's funny. So it looks like
Speaker 1: sky Shuffler is now in going to win this tournament.
Speaker 1: He's going to go back to number one, and quite
Speaker 1: a performance because he sets a down earth, happy, go
Speaker 1: lucky guy, clearly great at golf, but never clear to
Speaker 1: me how hot the fire is burning inside. But I
Speaker 1: love that he came out. And you know, obviously John
Speaker 1: Rahm and Roy Mcarroe even playing insane golf for the
Speaker 1: last six months or longer, and there's been a debate
Speaker 1: are they number which is the real number one? There's
Speaker 1: camp Smith loyalist who put him in that conversation. No
Speaker 1: one has mentioned Scotty Scheffler a long time like he
Speaker 1: He started two thousand and twenty two on fire and
Speaker 1: he cooled off a little bit. But him saying I
Speaker 1: want to be number one and and then going out
Speaker 1: and doing it, that's pretty ballsy. I'm I'm count me
Speaker 1: in on Scotty Shuffler, Kay. Can I just in a
Speaker 1: quick comment on Scotty Shuffler where I really didn't know
Speaker 1: anything about him until the Master's Uh what really what
Speaker 1: won me over was when he talked about that Sunday
Speaker 1: morning crying in his wife's arms. I don't know if
Speaker 1: I'm ready to do this, and I mean it was
Speaker 1: one of the most honest to God one of the
Speaker 1: most revealing personal quotes I've ever heard from professional athlete anywhere.
Speaker 1: It was so unexpected from such a young guy. Um
Speaker 1: So I think I think things. He's he's young, an
Speaker 1: age only Michael. He's like an eighty year old twenty
Speaker 1: year old. Amazing is if you look at like college pictures,
Speaker 1: he looks like he was eighty back then. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's just he's he's timeless in a certain way. He's
Speaker 1: he's like he was born old and he's always gonna
Speaker 1: be old. But this is this is a random Monday
Speaker 1: que fact. Okay, you're on this podcast, Ryan, go ahead,
Speaker 1: and fair enough. Uh. The Utah Open in uh In,
Speaker 1: Utah is a corn ferry event and the Monday qualifiers
Speaker 1: played on a very wide open not short, but because
Speaker 1: it's at elevation short uh three five par fives and
Speaker 1: uh they take twelve players and it's often sixty three
Speaker 1: and better. There's usually like a sixty all the way
Speaker 1: down to sixty three. Two players tied in the two
Speaker 1: thousand eighteen Monday qualifier for T eighteen, missing by two
Speaker 1: strokes after shooting both bogey free. Sixty six is one
Speaker 1: Wills Alatorus too. Scotty Scheffler t eighteen corn Ferry Monday
Speaker 1: shot sixty six didn't get through. Now both top five
Speaker 1: players in the world. I mean, I don't know what
Speaker 1: Will is, but he would be if he wasn't injured. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I agree with that. Yeah. I really became a Scheffler
Speaker 1: fan at the Ryder Cup at Whistling Straits. I mean,
Speaker 1: he just played incredible and if you remember, John Rahm
Speaker 1: was just a machine like he was, he was stealing
Speaker 1: souls out there. Nobody wanted to play him on Sunday
Speaker 1: and Scheffler beat him and beat him soundly, and that
Speaker 1: that was. That was a big time moment. And all
Speaker 1: week long he was hitting great shots and just seemed
Speaker 1: to thrive in that environment. And there's a long history
Speaker 1: of players having that that bounced from the Ryder Cup
Speaker 1: going all the way back to Fred Couple's you know whomever.
Speaker 1: But uh, Scheffler went to a different level that week,
Speaker 1: and he's just never stopped getting better. Here's my serious
Speaker 1: take on this. As we talked often about how Live
Speaker 1: has taken all of the villains and where I don't
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know if we miss them,
Speaker 1: but how great would it be right now if it
Speaker 1: was instead of Nick Taylor, No offense, Nick Taylor. Good
Speaker 1: for him, he's having an amazing tournament. How great would
Speaker 1: it be for the golf world if it was Patrick
Speaker 1: Reid and Scottie Scheffler going, you know, shot first shot
Speaker 1: right now, one of the most or probably the most
Speaker 1: hated professional golfer in the world against a guy who's
Speaker 1: you know, super nice and well liked and all of
Speaker 1: those things. Like that is where live has too many villains,
Speaker 1: so it doesn't work because they don't have any good guys. Uh,
Speaker 1: and the and the PGA Tour has lost all their villains,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. You know where you might
Speaker 1: have you know where you might have that rynd during
Speaker 1: the dessert course Tuesday night and Augusta. But seriously, it
Speaker 1: would be great if it was like we miss the villains,
Speaker 1: like we might not miss him, but like right here,
Speaker 1: would be so awesome if it was Scottie and Patrick
Speaker 1: going head for head. You know, I guarantee you that
Speaker 1: before Keith Pelly closes his eyes every night, he's saying
Speaker 1: a little prayer to the golf gods, begging for the
Speaker 1: European Tour to lose the court case that was just
Speaker 1: heard in the UK um that would and that if
Speaker 1: if the European Tour loses, the live guys will get
Speaker 1: to play in Europe pretty much as much as they want.
Speaker 1: And that would be a tremendous turn of events for
Speaker 1: the European Tour, which has just been bleeding stars for
Speaker 1: two decades and can't keep its homegrown talent, and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden that would become a regular currents because um,
Speaker 1: you know, there's there's, there's there will just be more mixing.
Speaker 1: Otherwise it's just gonna be the majors, which will add
Speaker 1: of course, as we've discussed a lot of fristion to
Speaker 1: the majors. But you know, Augusta, you have to be
Speaker 1: sort of on your best behavior and you get to
Speaker 1: the PGA and and the and the US Open, and
Speaker 1: that it's the stakes are so high, the courses are
Speaker 1: so challenging. Like that stuff is can take a back
Speaker 1: to see a little bit. No one's gonna no one's
Speaker 1: gonna want to get sucked into that stuff. When when
Speaker 1: there's a major championship on the line, but a week
Speaker 1: a weekly tour event either in Europe on the p
Speaker 1: that would be epic, So I agree with your Almans.
Speaker 1: Others have suggestion, how about instead of a President's Cup,
Speaker 1: a live versus PGA Tour Cup. I asked a couple
Speaker 1: of guys about that um actually earlier this week and
Speaker 1: on the PGA Tour players, and they basically dismissed it,
Speaker 1: saying that the live guys would have all the motivation.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like it's like Golden State Warriors versus
Speaker 1: the Memphis Grizzlies. Like the Warriors don't consider the rivalry
Speaker 1: because the other teams not in their league, and you know,
Speaker 1: they're they're irritated that people even consider that to be
Speaker 1: a thing, and I think I think the tour guys
Speaker 1: feel that way as well, like they have everything to
Speaker 1: lose and nothing to gain. The live dudes would be,
Speaker 1: you know, fighting for their life out there and um,
Speaker 1: which of course is why we should have it, because
Speaker 1: that it would the energy would be spectacular. But even
Speaker 1: if you go all the way up to the Pondo
Speaker 1: Vetra Beach level, I don't think the tour wants to
Speaker 1: associate in any way, shape or formm but it is
Speaker 1: fun to talk about and it's fun to It would
Speaker 1: require such a massive sense of humor on the PGA
Speaker 1: tourist part to even entertain the idea. We know that
Speaker 1: funny is not really there. What's the level of shock
Speaker 1: about Tiger Eldrick Woods playing next week at the Revere
Speaker 1: Revera Tournament. Shock? True? Shock? Yeah? I mean, you know
Speaker 1: it's his tournament. He's the host. Um, it's it's he's
Speaker 1: doing a solid to the sponsors, you know, he's It's
Speaker 1: where he played his first event and he was sixteen.
Speaker 1: If there's any regular tour event he was going to
Speaker 1: try and soldier through, it's definitely gonna be that one.
Speaker 1: So is he going to take a sled down the
Speaker 1: first hole? Like? I mean, how is he going to
Speaker 1: manage that hill? That place? I caddied so last year
Speaker 1: Mark Ballin played, got paid to play in the the
Speaker 1: pro am. I caddy. That place sucks. I mean that
Speaker 1: walk up eighteen will kill you. Well, yeah, that's a
Speaker 1: big hill, but once you get to the first ferry,
Speaker 1: from the first fairway to the eighteenth ferry, it's not
Speaker 1: that bad. It's a relatively flat piece of land. I
Speaker 1: mean it's very flat, honestly, but yeah, that finishes. No,
Speaker 1: that is true. That's a really good point out. Once
Speaker 1: you get down there, it's really a valley until until
Speaker 1: about You know, when you talk about the great flat
Speaker 1: golf courses in the world, reveres in that conversation that's
Speaker 1: really I never thought in my mind at the Old's hilly,
Speaker 1: but it really isn't august National's hilly that that place
Speaker 1: that places. But also it's gonna be dry. I think
Speaker 1: had it been wet, I don't think you know, if
Speaker 1: you're coming on of course, coming off the course is
Speaker 1: you often are Riviera Los Angeles wonder weather being so unpredictable,
Speaker 1: I don't think you would have played. But when the
Speaker 1: weather showed, you know, it was straight week of sunshine,
Speaker 1: and you know, you know if you're gonna cheat up,
Speaker 1: you're gonna finish the round. I think that made it
Speaker 1: much more palatable. I'm totally guessing, but just knowing. Does
Speaker 1: Tiger Woods make the cut Allenship they have a cut? Um,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say no, but excuse me. I mean, like
Speaker 1: like everyone in this time of year, every professional golfer
Speaker 1: of a certain stature is is gearing towards Augusta like
Speaker 1: you hit Florida, which is the week after l A
Speaker 1: and it's all about the run up to the Masters.
Speaker 1: And so I think for Tiger, you know, the end
Speaker 1: of his of his of his season last summer was
Speaker 1: such a dud. Um. He's trying to figure out where
Speaker 1: he is and the hero world challenge, you know, is
Speaker 1: not it like he's gotta he's got to be forced
Speaker 1: to walk tough conditions, really challenging golf course. And oh
Speaker 1: my god, oh my god, Michael watched this lipout. Watch
Speaker 1: this lipout. I'm ahead of the things. That's what, uh,
Speaker 1: what makes the cut there? One forty ish? Yeah, let's
Speaker 1: look last year totally the way. When I say lip out,
Speaker 1: Nick Taylor, I mean did a full three sixty even
Speaker 1: par one forty two aid the cut last year at Revere,
Speaker 1: but nineteen under one. It incredible. If there was a
Speaker 1: way to, uh to make a proper bet on whether
Speaker 1: Dagger whis was gonna make that, I'm gonna be mix
Speaker 1: the cut because, for for one thing, he grinds out
Speaker 1: the last four holes on Friday better than probably anybody
Speaker 1: who's ever played. If the cuts on the line, he's
Speaker 1: done it numerous numerous times. Well, that's the that's the
Speaker 1: old Tiger. I mean, no one's ever gonna question his grit,
Speaker 1: But what will his body let him do with a
Speaker 1: few spine and one leg? Like it's not a question
Speaker 1: of his desire, but can he actually make his body
Speaker 1: move the way he wants to when it really matters,
Speaker 1: Like that's an open question. And um, you know, if
Speaker 1: if he gets if he has like a late early
Speaker 1: draw and he's got to get up at two in
Speaker 1: the morning to get ready for his second round and
Speaker 1: the winds whip in like it's just I don't know,
Speaker 1: it's it's a big gask. It's fun to even talk
Speaker 1: about because it's Tiger Woods. But um, you know, Alan,
Speaker 1: he's going to get a late late draw. He's gonna
Speaker 1: be the one guy with the late late draw. Just
Speaker 1: a quick side on watching this, Uh this, this is
Speaker 1: the live effect in a very weird way. Ricky Fowler
Speaker 1: showed up in a Cobra ad and Tiger Woods his
Speaker 1: own self showed up in Taylor made ad and and
Speaker 1: that's the liver of echoes. There's nobody around who can
Speaker 1: sell golf clubs except for those two. The uh side
Speaker 1: note to Scotty Scheffler, who's gonna win? Now, who's a
Speaker 1: head by he's had by three heading to the team.
Speaker 1: But Ted Scott has done well for himself. Wow, I
Speaker 1: mean did very well with Bubba and uh you know,
Speaker 1: and they separated and he picked up a pretty decent bagh.
Speaker 1: He he has done very well for himself, starting by
Speaker 1: the fact he survived well. Said he went from one
Speaker 1: of the he I mean, I never thought about that
Speaker 1: side of it. He went from like one of the
Speaker 1: probably the hardest on caddies to like Scottie Scheffler, who
Speaker 1: would like probably doesn't say a sideways were to him
Speaker 1: the whole time. Yeah, I mean it in this era
Speaker 1: of inflated purses. H I know for a fact that
Speaker 1: some players are no longer paying ten for a win.
Speaker 1: But even if you're making seven percent of two point seven,
Speaker 1: that's three point six two point six. Yeah, that's an it.
Speaker 1: I think. I think on't the winner get two points seven?
Speaker 1: I think it's three point six. Might could be wrong,
Speaker 1: but yeah, you're right right and three point six million
Speaker 1: to the winner. That's um, that's a good day. That's
Speaker 1: a good day for Ted Scott. That's a good day
Speaker 1: for Scottie. Oh and John just hit it right in
Speaker 1: the middle of the drink. I think no, in the bunker,
Speaker 1: only skips it out, skips it out of the bunker
Speaker 1: into the fairway. Oh man, that's gonna go in the water. No. Uh,
Speaker 1: I thought you said it was in the drink. Good.
Speaker 1: I thought it just something. I don't rely on Ryan
Speaker 1: for your play by play. The Uh. John Rom standing
Speaker 1: more upright to the ball than he used to be. Um,
Speaker 1: possibly a fraction, but okay, I mean he's Kenny standing up.
Speaker 1: He's a short fellow. He's thick though, man with two scenes.
Speaker 1: John Rom speaks English better than certainly anybody on this podcast,
Speaker 1: but really probably in the top point zero one percent
Speaker 1: of anybody in golf. He's a great interview. I just
Speaker 1: love listening to the guy. He's just he must be
Speaker 1: very bright. Yeah, he's so thoughtful, so precise. And do
Speaker 1: you know how he learned English? Michael, You may not
Speaker 1: know that listening to No, I don't. When he came
Speaker 1: to Arizona State from Spain to speakin English, he just
Speaker 1: listened to hip hop lyrics. That was how he learned.
Speaker 1: Like he can freestyle Kendrick three days. It's impressive. Um,
Speaker 1: but that's neat. He should have come with it. He
Speaker 1: should have come with us to the movies that night.
Speaker 1: Still done that story? Uh? Just one to the movies
Speaker 1: ran when you finally hear the story, there's some story
Speaker 1: we went to the movies. You've done that a lot.
Speaker 1: We'd go bowling if we could find a bowling alley.
Speaker 1: I mean whatever, Uh well, what else do we need
Speaker 1: to discuss before at least the listeners. This could be
Speaker 1: one of the rare fire drills. This could be a
Speaker 1: record uh short fire drill. Andy ogle Tree, we can
Speaker 1: discuss any of the Andy Ogletree. I tweeted about him today,
Speaker 1: like I mean, like lost as loss can be. I
Speaker 1: think I tried to I meant to look back. But
Speaker 1: I think that first live event he finished last bye,
Speaker 1: I think at least seven strokes. I mean, I think
Speaker 1: he fired eighty four and I don't think there was
Speaker 1: anything he was hurt. In his defense, he was he
Speaker 1: went over there. I agree, I know, but exactly I
Speaker 1: totally agree. But that event probably saved his career because
Speaker 1: I gave him some money and wins on Asian Tour
Speaker 1: last year and then has played great another top ten
Speaker 1: this this week, to back to backtop tens and the
Speaker 1: PGA Tour can't do anything about it. He's coming to
Speaker 1: the PGA tour, he's gonna get through Q school, and
Speaker 1: they're gonna hate everything about it. Uh unless well, you know,
Speaker 1: they try to hold up some band for anybody that
Speaker 1: played over there. Right. Well, in his case, he wasn't
Speaker 1: a tour member when he went over there. That's where
Speaker 1: he's different from Um, you know a lot of these
Speaker 1: other guys, and the tour is on a little bit
Speaker 1: of shaky footing and they know it. So they're just
Speaker 1: gonna They're gonna stand aside and let him resume his
Speaker 1: career because they have no chance of winning that lawsuit.
Speaker 1: So but yeah, and Andy, it's funny the players who
Speaker 1: have emerged as focal points in this in this new
Speaker 1: world order. The Andy Ogletree is the Taylor Gooch is
Speaker 1: um players who we didn't give a lot of thought too.
Speaker 1: But because they were in the right or the wrong
Speaker 1: place at the right or the wrong time, they take
Speaker 1: on this this deeper meaning. It's um. You know, they're
Speaker 1: both gonna they're both gonna factor in this live book
Speaker 1: I'm writing because their stories are very interesting. Well, we
Speaker 1: have to watch Scotty hit a second shot, so we
Speaker 1: have to come up with something because if he does
Speaker 1: something crazy like put it in the stands and we're
Speaker 1: not here, we we've done this show to like as
Speaker 1: a like, uh, we're gonna kind of do it live
Speaker 1: have reactions and what if like Scotty shanks it into
Speaker 1: the water or something and we're not here to Is
Speaker 1: there any uh who do we know from who's on site,
Speaker 1: player Caddy or otherwise at this uh Phoenix Open that's
Speaker 1: actually going to the super Bowl joint? Has that been
Speaker 1: discussed this week question? I don't know. I would assume
Speaker 1: a lot of guys, A lot of guys are going
Speaker 1: from what I heard. I don't I don't have a list.
Speaker 1: But the last time the super Bowl was was in
Speaker 1: Phoenix during the week of the tournament. I did both
Speaker 1: myself and it actually wasn't that bad. I mean, guys
Speaker 1: were trying to organize helicopters and stuff. It was a
Speaker 1: pretty easy drive because I think people get to Super
Speaker 1: Bowl so early to tailgate and soak it all in.
Speaker 1: Like I just roared up and um Keikan Bradley and
Speaker 1: a couple other guys I think web sites and they
Speaker 1: told me where they're sitting. I was trying to find
Speaker 1: them in the crowd, but it was it was a challenge,
Speaker 1: but yeah, it's definitely a thing. I'll be curious if,
Speaker 1: you know, if the cameras find them at all, that'll
Speaker 1: be interesting. It wasn't I can't remember what it was.
Speaker 1: I was like, I think it was Monday night football.
Speaker 1: Weren't Tiger and Jordan's speech in um like a luxury
Speaker 1: suite in the camera panned and they didn't recognize Speed.
Speaker 1: He was just sitting there with that a hat on
Speaker 1: and completely unremarked upon. Am I remembering that correctly? It
Speaker 1: was like early Speed but it was so funny. Wow,
Speaker 1: I just looked it up. I was wondering, when was
Speaker 1: the last time I went to Phoenix? Who? Who would
Speaker 1: make a guess what was Johnny? Johnny Miller's last broadcast
Speaker 1: was Phoenix. He played a lot of good golf in Phoenix,
Speaker 1: and uh, would anyone care to guess what was Johnny?
Speaker 1: What was the year that Johnny Miller did his last
Speaker 1: TV broadcast? Two thousand seventeen. I was gonna say sixty.
Speaker 1: It was only it feels like he's been taking a
Speaker 1: shout out, a shout out to uh. I just got
Speaker 1: a d M from one of the families that got
Speaker 1: to go. Tom Hogi and UH and Hayden Buckley both
Speaker 1: um gave tickets to me to give away to the
Speaker 1: Boys and Girls Club, And I mean I found the
Speaker 1: Boys and Girls Club, and I found another family that
Speaker 1: wanted to go, and Uh we paid the foundation paid
Speaker 1: for parking and everything. And just get a nice long
Speaker 1: message from the young girl and her family that went
Speaker 1: and how much it meant to them. Those two guys.
Speaker 1: UH didn't know Tom was a follower or whatever. But
Speaker 1: I had put out something about Hayden giving me tickets,
Speaker 1: and he sent me a message and said, hey, I
Speaker 1: have ten tickets left. You want to give him away?
Speaker 1: So super nice dude. They yeah, made made somebody's week
Speaker 1: or month or whatever. Cheffer placed this shot. That's terrific.
Speaker 1: Run Ryan, What is your insight into Aaron Rodgers situation
Speaker 1: at at Pebble You've you know his game. The darkness
Speaker 1: is actually Ryan's basement. He's going into Ryan's basement. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the darkness. He's coming out to Hubbard Lake, Michigan
Speaker 1: to to get away. I refused to disparage. I'm glad
Speaker 1: that they won at the Pebble beach program. Uh seemed
Speaker 1: to be as he had a good good week, shot
Speaker 1: a little less than his handicap, and good friend a
Speaker 1: lot less at less stuff. Now, in fairness, they signed
Speaker 1: the handicaps. You don't choose your own handicap. I've never
Speaker 1: known anyone anywhere who ever said upon getting too many shots, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you've given me too many shots. That's a factual statement.
Speaker 1: And I actually thought that on the U t I.
Speaker 1: At the U T I on the third day, I
Speaker 1: had a we had a seven stroke lead, and my
Speaker 1: because of the chipping hips, my handicap is legitimate. But
Speaker 1: also in a in a best ball situation ideal if
Speaker 1: you can ham an egg it and that I was
Speaker 1: going to say something that, no, this is this is right,
Speaker 1: it's accurate, And luckily I didn't say anything because we
Speaker 1: blew a seven shot lad in the foul day. Uh. Yeah, Well,
Speaker 1: a place like Bandon you can put from off the
Speaker 1: green so easily that it sort of negates your your weakness,
Speaker 1: right because you hit the like like a scratch golfer.
Speaker 1: It's over. Uh. This is the shortest fire pit fire
Speaker 1: drill ever forty two minutes. What are you talking about?
Speaker 1: This is well we could talk about Bryson de Shambo
Speaker 1: leaving UM, leaving UM Cobra, which is and then Cobra
Speaker 1: just ripping him apart. Like that was years of pent
Speaker 1: up from That's what what did like like, you're a
Speaker 1: monster and don't you on the way out? I'm paraphrasing,
Speaker 1: but that was pretty much it. Yeah, it I think
Speaker 1: the exact quote, and I could be wrong, So this
Speaker 1: is I think it was something like the guy doesn't
Speaker 1: live in a reality of like where you know, he
Speaker 1: wants distance and control when he doesn't hit it on
Speaker 1: the center of the face basically, you know, and they're
Speaker 1: like and the article went on to say, it's like,
Speaker 1: I mean, Cobra went all in. They had a whole
Speaker 1: research team just for Bryson, and I mean, the guy
Speaker 1: is he's he's not, he's not He's tough human to
Speaker 1: deal with from all I've heard, So, uh, what you're
Speaker 1: gonna do? What? What kind of clubs is he gonna
Speaker 1: play in the meantime? I mean I was gonna tweet
Speaker 1: this out, but I just didn't want to deal with
Speaker 1: it all. Like Bryson de Shambo, I mean, it wasn't
Speaker 1: long ago. He was one of the best players in
Speaker 1: the world. He has gone like gone gone, like he
Speaker 1: missed the cup by seven at the Asian Tour event.
Speaker 1: And we're not talking like a real deep field there,
Speaker 1: you know, like this guy is he can't and do
Speaker 1: it like he's It's it's astonishing. Yeah, I mean it
Speaker 1: happens when when players have physical injuries and they compensate
Speaker 1: in their swing and then they kind of they lose
Speaker 1: their swing. I mean, whether it's David Duval or whoever.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's not unheard of, but um throwing the
Speaker 1: change in his body and changing from the tour to live.
Speaker 1: There's been a lot of tumble in the guy's life,
Speaker 1: most of it of course self induced. But um, it's fascinating.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's a young guy and he's he was
Speaker 1: he was on very much of a Hall of Fame trajectory.
Speaker 1: You win the nt L A Championship, the US Amateur,
Speaker 1: the US Open at wingfoot. I'm you're two thirds of
Speaker 1: the way there at that point, and um, we'll see
Speaker 1: what happens. He had the respect to Tiger Woods. Tiger.
Speaker 1: I mean, I almost can't believe that I'm saying, but
Speaker 1: I saw it with my own eyes. Tiger actually standing.
Speaker 1: They were listening to Bryce and I saw it a memorial.
Speaker 1: I saw it at Rivera and they played together. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, I want to watch the super Bowl, all right, Johns,
Speaker 1: I have to do this. Michael, can you quickly tell
Speaker 1: us about the piece of art hanging above your head?
Speaker 1: You're nice to notice the artist ism named HeLa may Jose.
Speaker 1: Christine and I went to Haiti on our honeymoon. We
Speaker 1: fell in love with Haitian art and we probably have
Speaker 1: twenty or more pieces. Did you get married? Well? Here
Speaker 1: do we go there? We went there after Papa Doc
Speaker 1: was out of office. Well I should know this because
Speaker 1: I know what. You already got married to cover the phillies?
Speaker 1: Did you come with the phillies? And that's how you
Speaker 1: remember when you got married? Beat your on? Yeah, well
Speaker 1: we don't want to we wanna do. Let's make that
Speaker 1: the social Yeah what Beattie was on with? How you
Speaker 1: didn't think that? Michael? You can't say that out loud.
Speaker 1: That's that's dangerous. Okay, I love it. That's a great way.
Speaker 1: And everything I love about this I'll praise to Christine Barberger.
Speaker 1: She's just unflammable, that's true. Yeah, that's true. All right,
Speaker 1: thank you guys. All right, well, um go Eagles, and
Speaker 1: um thanks for listeners out there for sticking with us.
Speaker 1: This has been another fire Drill podcast. That was Ryan France.
Speaker 1: I'm Alan Schipnik. Michael Bamber is now in detention at home.
Speaker 1: But um, we'll do this again next Sunday, as we
Speaker 1: do every Sunday. For now, let's go watch some football.
Speaker 1: I bendig and a play to win. Made a fortune
Speaker 1: with my ship game. I ran the table and thought
Speaker 1: I could fall. Then the winter hit me like a
Speaker 1: cannon the ball and now can shake this losing the street.
Speaker 1: Every road I take is a dead hand street. I
Speaker 1: got thoughts in my head. Can't get him out, trying
Speaker 1: not to think what I'm thinking about. I gott thoughts
Speaker 1: in my head. I can't get him out, trying not
Speaker 1: to think what I'm thinking about,