Pardon My Take - Scott Van Pelt From Augusta, Scottie Scheffler Wins Again, UFC 300 And NBA Playoffs Are Set
Episode Date: April 15, 2024Scottie Scheffler wins his second green jacket and we were robbed of an all time back 9 on Sunday. Max Homa played his balls off and will be back and what was the note Tiger passed to the amateur Neil... Ripley. We talk about the legend Verne Lundquist and more from Masters (00:00:00-00:29:44). UFC 300 was awesome (00:29:44-00:35:47). Who's back of the week including Nestor Cortes and Mark Pope may have Kentucky back. Scott Van Pelt joins us live from Augusta to talk about Scottie Scheffler, Masters traditions, whats in the vending machine at the airport and more (00:35:47-00:53:42). We finish with our NBA playoff predictions that we will definitely change halfway through the month (00:53:42-01:33:27).You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/PardonMyTake
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On today's pardon my take, we're going to talk the Masters.
We have our good friend Scott Van Pelt.
He was live at Augusta all week long and a tradition unlike any other.
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Monday after
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Today is Monday, April 15th, tax day, and Scotty Shaffler's got a lot of taxes to pay now, PFT.
Next year.
Next year.
Next year he will.
Scottie Shaffler is-
I wouldn't want to win it.
No, because what he's got is he probably
clears $2 million after taxes.
Yeah.
The rest is going to Ukraine.
Congrats, Scottie.
You're a true ally.
Scottie Shaffler is very happy today.
Max Homa is very hungover today.
Because Max, he hasn't drank a long time
Yeah, he said afterwards they asked him max
How are you gonna feel tomorrow when you wake up and you think about this?
He says I haven't drank in a really really long time, but I've been planning it for Sunday after the Masters
So I'm probably not gonna feel great. Yeah, so
Congrats to Scotty Scotty was dominant. He was it was never really close. He kicked the course's ass. He kicked everyone's ass
He wasn't playing particularly well at times, but he was making crazy chip ends
He was he was hitting this shot at nine
I think is really when it was over when he hit that approach shot
Yeah
Three inches at no point did it feel close Oberg looked like he Oberg will win
I'm calling my shot Oberg's gonna win multiple major championships in his lifetime, but Scottie was just too good
Oberg might have won this one if the guy didn't hit the the power bar out of his hand because he was rolling and then
The guy hit the power bar out of his hands and he double bogeyed. But yeah, Scottie Scheffler. I think we were fooled
This weekend because going into the Masters it was like Scottie Scheffler Lois odds for anyone to win since Tiger
He's playing the best golf out of anyone.
It's not even close.
We were fooled with the wind basically bringing everyone back into a pack on Friday and Saturday.
And we got into Sunday and we're like, look at this.
And there's four guys that are all within a couple strokes and Scottie Scheffler might
not be able to do this. And turns out he can play his like B minus game
and still win by four strokes.
And he's the best golfer in the world and it's not close.
He's still dominant, yeah.
And we haven't seen, there was all that talk about his wife
going to labor.
He said before the final round that he
would go to the hospital if she went to labor
before he teed off.
It sounded earlier this week like he would have just
left on Sunday in the middle of the round, but then he started
thinking about he's like, if I tee off, by the time I get to
the course, I start warming up. If she hasn't gone to labor at
that point, then I'm going to stay on the course hasn't gone
to labor yet. Some people are asking if this is a Charlotte
the stingray situation. Is she really pregnant?
Griffin, the third I just listen, I want the baby to be happy, healthy.
It's a very beautiful time to have a baby.
It's also a scary time.
I just want to say that if the baby doesn't, if the baby's born in May, I'm going to, we
got to retroactively take away some of these.
Scotty, what a great guy.
Yeah.
He is a great guy, but I'm going to retroactively have to take back a little bit of this stolen
valor of him being like, oh I would leave it any minute
Yeah
But then all that means that baby out all that means is he's gonna have the kid and then he's definitely gonna win the US open
100% with a new baby. Are you kidding? That's gonna be the picture
That's holding his new baby on the tee or on the green of the 18th hole the US open wherever it oh, it's a pine
Oh straight. Yep. It is pine. He's played that we basically played a US open
but yeah, this was I I feel like everyone in this room was and It's a pinehurst, right? Yep. It is pinehurst. We played that. We basically played a US Open.
But yeah, this was, I feel like everyone in this room was, and probably everyone listening
right now, so amped up for a Sunday at Augusta that we're like, this is going to be great.
It's going to be so close.
You know, big, big shots.
And by the turn, it was, you know, Morikawa had a mistake. Oberg went into the water, Max went into the bushes, and it was you know Morikawa had a mistake.
Oberg went into the water. Max went into the bushes and it was Scotty. Yeah the bush really
fucked Max on. Was that 12? I'm proud of that Rose Bush there. I'm very proud of Max. Max
was one of the best golfers in the world this weekend on a very very hard weekend at Augusta.
He played well. There was just no stopping Scotty on Sunday. There was no stopping Scottie. I uh, I was
Texting with Max trying to pump him up. So I did I got caught into a superstitious loop
So Wednesday after he came on on Tuesday, I just texted him
Thank you
And I sent him some funny video and he was like that's great and I was like positive vibes and then he shot great on Thursday
So I was like, well, I gotta send him another funny video video It just devolved the weekend evolved into me sending Max Homa
Fat Max videos saying don't be fat max be max Homa over and over and so it was like it was like
Max doing the the parade with the Sixers. It was max just completely duffing a t-shot
So that was I was hoping he was trying to focus for a
Sunday at the masters. He was thinking of thinking about Mac. Well, no, I sent it to him on Saturday
night and then he superstitious that I was like, I sent you a video. He's like, yes,
you got to send another one. That's crazy. What he's thinking about Max. And then he
after and then he happens that he happens sleep visualizing. He told me that it was
good superstition that I made him laugh with a max video
He's like you got to keep sending him
I was like I'm gonna keep sending him then I said I'm on after so it would be like I sent one on Friday at
Like 7 p.m. On Saturday at like 630 like he was done. I'm just saying no one should be thinking about max
Well, I'll listen until today. It was working true. He was literally like I'm gonna be max Homa
I'm not gonna be Fat Max.
We had a thing, it felt like it was working.
And then he shot his tee shot on 12
into the sole patch of Augusta.
Yeah.
And it was all over.
And it was all over.
I got caught in a superstitious loop.
You don't get caught in a superstitious loop.
No, that's fair, that's fair.
It was, it did feel like Max had like,
the positive vibes going, and he shot great on Thursday,
and with the wind on Friday and Saturday,
like everyone's like, oh, he just keeps getting parsed. Like, everyone's getting parsed. Yeah, par was great. Par shot great on Thursday and with the wind on Friday and Saturday,
like everyone's like, Oh, he just keeps getting parts like everyone's getting. Yeah. Par was
great. It's great on Saturday. And we were so frustrated because we were watching. We
just want him to make one single birdie, just like get a birdie, start climbing up. But
all the pars were good. He was stacking pars. I think I said it was a par fest when party
was right there in front of me, but that's all he was doing. Antonio Brown. Yeah. Clown
Antonio Brown myself. That's all he's always just part, but that's all he was doing. Antonio Brown. Yeah, Antonio Brown myself.
That's all he was doing, just par.
He was steady, he was steady.
And then he was steady on Sunday too,
but he needed to be a little bit better.
It felt like the whole world was rooting for him too.
Homosexuals were trending for, I think, all weekend long.
Yeah, on Saturday you could see the fear
in some of those players' eyes when Max was up there.
They were homophobic.
Yeah, they were.
But Batgirl, were you, are you, I mean, if, think about it this way,
if Max might end up winning the Masters, you would have been mentioned like maybe like
a hundredth in the thank yous.
No, yeah, that would have been great. But I do think it's probably not great that the
last one that you sent him was me whiffing a golf ball.
It was actually, no, that wasn't the last one. The last one I sent him was you freaking out the Phillies saying you look ridiculous.
Wait, so I thought these were just topical ones.
No, no, no.
You were just going into the bank.
Yeah, I was going into the bank.
I was saying like, this is Fat Max.
Don't be Fat Max.
It was a good, it was good motivation for a while there.
Yeah, no, I went deep in the bank.
I was sending them all your low lights,
being like, we got two maxes in this world.
We got this max and you.
You're gonna win the Masters.
That's kinda cool.
Yeah, right?
It would've been a little cooler.
And he appreciated it.
It was, again, a superstitious loop.
People do stupid things.
I've watched games from weird positions
for the entirety of the game.
Hank watched all the Super Bowls from the bathroom.
Bats.
So you can't say a superstitious loop doesn't happen.
No, I get it.
Yeah.
How weird was it seeing Tiger play today with such like a high, high score and not wearing
the Nike shirt?
Yeah.
It looked weird with him wearing the Tiger logo, right?
We really needed him to score well today too because Charlie Woods was a swing coach.
Yeah, I saw that.
And I was like, he's going to go low. go low and then we also will talk to Scott Van Pelt
About this but note gate has been has been going around the internet a reporter asked Neil Shipley
Mm-hmm. Jamie Jamie who Neil Shipley very funny looking why are they giving Ohio State all the credit?
Well, cuz he's a grad transfer to Ohio State, but he graduated already. Oh, yeah. He's jammy Jamie guy
Yeah, I'm just PFT says that everything I see of Neil Shipley. It's like Neil Shipley. There's a lot of state has a lot more fans.
I mean, it's just a lot of people that go to Ohio State. A lot of front runners. Yeah.
So but Neil Shipley. Yeah, he he couldn't have looked more uncomfortable in the Butler
Cabin was very funny. John Rom also that guy he just wanted to get out of there so so bad.
How messed up is it? I mean, I like the tradition because everything at Augusta is about tradition.
It's about appearing as things were like 40 years ago and they have the past winner put
the green jacket on the current champion and John Rahm's out there just like, fuck this.
Right because sometimes it will be, you know, someone will finally win it and they're just
happy they won.
Like when Phil won it, it's like he finally won one or bubble won a couple
John Rom and Scotty Schaeffler are you would think for the next decade gonna go head to
head in everything and he just won his second one and John Rom also had the comments about
live how he's probably not the happiest and he's got to sit there like looking at his
watch being like I could have been on my private jet three hours ago. Yeah, the great finished
way way long what we did that we did the mini golf thing this week and you realize we know when
You're ten strokes back, but you have to play a whole round. You're like this sucks. I don't even want
What's the point of playing this right? Yeah, you just start fucking around and then Brooks had to do that all day
Yeah, so it's for a returning champion at Augusta
I think it's been like only two of the last 20 have even finished in the top 10 Wow
So next year minus not the bet on Scottie Scheffler.
Which I still will.
But notegate, back to notegate.
So Neil Shipley was asked afterwards, he's like, some reporter saw Tiger Woods pass him
a note around the 14th to 16th hole, which I guess would be illegal.
I don't know.
You can't write notes?
Was this eighth grade?
I assume Tiger just passed him a note being being like I'm so fucking horny right now
Yeah, I haven't fucked in solo. It looked like you wanted to fuck that tree that Vern was behind
Yeah, but but but Neil Shipley's like no there was no note passed and was kind of awkward about I think Neil Shipley
Just was he was thrust into this and he was maybe looking a little awkward
Which I understand if you're sitting in the Butler cabin next to these guys
It's got to be a little intimidating, but we gotta figure out what notate.
Like if he had said, hey, hit this shot instead of this shot,
that would be illegal.
He's also not a prospect that's guaranteed
to go to the PGA Tour.
Right.
He might never even play.
But he had that moment.
No, I know.
And his caddy was like his friend, right?
Yeah, his caddy was like 20 years old.
So awesome.
Yeah, rocked.
So the note that was allegedly sent,
Neil Shipley
could have taken down Tiger Woods. Yeah, he could have just ratted him out. They've been
like he told me to hit six there. He hit six. So I guess you have to penalize him. Oh, I
guess I beat Tiger today. Yeah. It's probably just like drinks after. Yeah. Seemed like
a cool guy. Let's party. Can you give me a ride home? But yeah, the the the Vern Lundquist
Tiger moment was great. Tiger looking like he was shaking the hands of a tree
Yeah, seeing verne just like sitting next to a tree watching tiger putt with this big smile on his face
I'm gonna miss verne
I really am verne needs to do like a manning cast thing next year at the Masters where it's just verne
Sitting in his living room. Maybe up in a tree stand somewhere
Yeah in the middle of nowhere just just with that big smile on his face. Vern, I didn't realize this.
Maybe one of those things that you hear,
and then you just completely memory hole and forget.
But Vern Lundquist is Mr. Steal Your Girl.
Did you know this story?
He fucks?
No.
So here's the story.
This is from Holly Anderson reported on it.
This is from a story a couple of years ago talking
about Vern Lundquist and his
third wife who he's still married to. We met in a bar and I hasten to add it was an upscale
bar in Dallas. It was at a place called Arthur's. I walked in after I did the 10 o'clock news
in Dallas and I just didn't want to go home. Nancy and her date were at the bar and her
date recognized me from local television and invited me over to have a drink.
He introduced me to his date and her name was Nancy Miller.
It was their first date, a blind date, so we sat and chatted and her date Raymond Willie
said to me, listen, I know you're single.
I'm going to fix you up with a friend of mine and we can all go to dinner.
He looked at Nancy and let me see, they cut it weird.
He looked at Nancy and asked her, what They cut it weird. He looked at Nancy and
asked her, what are you doing Thursday night? She said nothing. He said, good, you'll be
my date and we'll fix Vern up with this school teacher friend of mine and we'll go to dinner.
Meanwhile, I'm looking at Nancy thinking she's the prettiest thing I've ever seen in my life.
So Raymond finally left to take care of his business and I asked Nancy, so how involved
are you with Raymond? She said, oh, this is our first date and it's a blind date. So I said, well, forget what he is talking
about on Thursday night. What are you doing on Saturday night? She said, I think I'm doing
whatever you're doing. That's awesome. And that's it. Good for Vern. He also needs a
high. Yeah, you can't even know. You can't say no to that big smile. The big like the
chipmunk cheeks. Mr. steal your girl. Also, I found out because I was looking, I was like,
I hope they're still married.
Vern was married to a woman before that
whose last name was Vernon.
And I really wish he had taken her name.
Taken her name Vern.
Vern.
So I was thinking about the name Vern.
We might be running out of Verns.
He might be the last major Vern.
Yeah, he actually could be.
It's his middle name.
Is it?
It is?
What's his first name?
Merton Laverne.
Merton?
Oh, his name's Merton?
Good call, Vern.
Yeah. Merton Laverne. Oh, yeah, we probably have some Lavernes. He does look like name Merton Laverne Merton. Oh, this is Merton good good call Vern. Yeah, although it Laverne
Oh, yeah, we probably have some Laverne. He does look like a Merton to Merton Laverne Merton Laverne junior
Yeah, he's the best. Oh, he's junior. There's another Merton Laverne
Damn, please Merton's is my father. Yeah, I'm Vern. But Vern is what if he just calls himself Merton when he's like when he's out
On the prowl on the town. He's mr. Stealer girl. I'm Merton Wikipedia says his nicknames the golden throat
That's that Nancy Reagan it is yeah
Also very funny the golden throat the guy
Wouldn't put a hurting on that thing tears one on Twitter who said apology accepted
It was just a picture of tigers escalate crashing into the tree.
Yeah.
And then Tiger shaking hands with the tree, which was Vern behind the tree.
Yeah, it's pretty good.
I mean, Vern's arm does look like a tree's arm.
Yeah, the giving tree.
It's just powerful.
One of the great stats that I saw online today was that Scottie Scheffler's caddy has outearned
Rory McElroy this year.
So.
That's tough.
Tough break for Rory. Yeah, Rory. I feel like I didn't even see Rory McElroy this year. So that's tough. Tough break. Yeah, Rory.
I feel like I didn't even see Rory.
So Tiger before the tournament started, Tiger was he was doing like his press
conference or whatever.
And he said, you know, Rory's going to win this thing.
It's just a matter of time.
He's good enough.
He's talented enough.
Kind of fucked up for him to say that.
Yeah.
I had a time like being like, yeah, Rory, he's great.
He's good.
If I was one, if I was Rory, I'd be like, you shouldn't say that. I haven't
won a Masters yet. I haven't won a green jacket.
I haven't won a major in like a decade.
You can't just say like, I will win a Masters because you get that vibe from me.
Yeah.
I just did that to Oberg. But Oberg's got a lot of years.
Oberg, I said multiple.
Oberg's a robot ready to play golf.
He's ready to go.
We didn't even see Rory at all.
I also, the early coverage when they do,
I liken to Red Zone, but when they are like,
let's check in on 16 and whoever,
it wasn't 16, cause that was Vern,
but they check it into 14.
Whatever announcer it was, having to be like,
and this just happened a few minutes or a few seconds ago,
just being like, I know what's gonna happen before you you. Yeah. And then I always get the red zone
feel of why you wouldn't show it to us unless it's going in. Yeah. Like when Scott Hanson's
like, and we go to Tennessee, like here comes a pick six. That drives me nuts. Yeah. Just
let us just think everything's live. And also every year I fall for the same trick, which
is I tune into the wrong app at the start of it. Yeah. And then I watch all the like pre-produced segments that they have.
Jack Nicklaus. And I keep wondering like, when are they
going to go out to the course? And it never goes out to the course. It's just the piano
music, the guitar, you get, yeah, like nine shots of Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus. I saw
Jack Nicklaus tee off like four times. Yeah. Yeah. That does happen every single
year. We also, I'm trying to think, oh, Wyndham Clark, whoo. That was tough.
He on Thursday made a live joke being like, oh yeah, well,
54 holes, I got this, I can shoot minus seven tomorrow
and then he missed the cut.
I think he shot seven over par.
Yeah, that was tough.
That was tough for Wyndham Clark.
Also, there's so many cams now.
There's a lot of cams.
There's three cameras, we have three cameras
that finish towards the top, two of which are
Australian. So that's confusing. It was it was relatively easy for me if I had
the American cam and then I had the Australian cam. Now we've got two
Australian cams and one American cam. Now I have no idea who's who. Yeah it's
it's weird when we get them in bunches. Did you see that we have we have a bunch
of I think it's like three of the top ten prospects in MLB or Jackson
Yeah, they're all Jackson's. Yeah, there's some form of Jackson
I know I was hoping the first day were lasting first and last. No, I think there's a last two Jacks
Oh, yeah, Jackson Churio Jackson Morrill and Jackson Holly. So all first. I was hoping that it was
Linked up perfectly without cast. Sorry miss Jackson, but it was a few years off
That would have been sad
I'd be awesome if that one song made just three incredible baseball players. Yeah, so it's tough. Listen, we're getting old
There are no more mats
It feels like the age of mats is going past there was a time when there were like nine starting quarterbacks in the NFL
All named Matt. Yeah, we're losing now. We're losing them now. It's now we're on to Jayden's
Yeah, Jayden's and camps a lot of camps. What are you going? Matt Fitzpatrick? Oh Matt Fitzpatrick
Yeah, yeah, Matt Fitzpatrick championship. Yeah, we also had some great quotes from Terrell Hatton
Who is just like he can't he's just so mad at Augusta and you don't really get this very often because it feels like
everyone's so
prim and proper except for
Zach Johnson who? that guy sucks.
Yeah.
He's, he-
Okay, so I actually, I don't have a problem with what he did.
No.
Because they cheered when he made it a bogey, right?
Which is funny.
And then he triple bogey.
Triple bogey.
And because he was going to miss the cut.
And then he turned around and he was like, oh, fuck off after he finally made his putt.
I got no problem with that.
Like, tell him to fuck off all you want.
Don't lie about it. But then go ten toes down afterwards. Be like
I stand on it. He's like I can't even hear them. Yeah. That's crazy. And he's also just
he's spiraling from the Ryder Cup debacle. Yeah. Which I get it. And I also saw there
was a like a whole green jacket. One of the things that you watch when you're on the wrong
app like the green jacket what this means for everything
Zach Johnson admitted that he got yelled at for wearing the green jacket on Regis and Kelly with jeans
You're not so old by Augusta Augusta reached out to you're not supposed to wear with jeans And you always have to have a collared shirt underneath. I love a guy. Isn't that great? They're so funny
They police that shit hard hard. So Terrell Hatton. He he had some good quotes
He said I don't know what I have to do to shoot
under par around here. I'm putting on a brave face for what I want to talk about or say. He said he's
devastated and it's brutal. And then he said about 15th hole, that hole lives rent free in my head.
I hate it. I absolutely hate it. And I think it hates me with the scores that I end up producing
on it. Cause you don't usually hear guys like they come off and they're like 15th
What an incredible hole man verse hole. Yeah. Yeah. No, listen, he's developing quite a rivalry with the course
He's kind of a grumpy guy too. Yeah, we hate most holes. Yeah a lot of them. What else from the Masters?
Augusta asked Jason's day to change. Oh, yeah, because they said it was too busy. His drip was awesome. I almost
bought the pants by the way from that, uh, his new advertiser.
Melbourne. After everyone told me that I was a loser. They've got a sick Newport shirt
too. They have sick gear. Yeah. Uh, but I can understand like that's not Augusta. That
outfit doesn't say Augusta to me. Yeah. Oh, also Bryson. Bryson was for a moment all the
way in it. I also in the most Bryson thing ever, for a moment all the way in it
I also in the most Bryson thing ever we didn't talk about this on Thursday. He
3d printed his clubs and got them approved a week ago. Yeah, which I would imagine they just looked at it like, okay
We don't know there's there's nothing in the USGA. Is that who it was?
Nothing in the rule book about price and to Shambo making 3d printed clubs
$10,000 3d printed gloves or clubs. I love that story. I want to like could you 3d print some
Clubs that make it so just always go straight. Yeah, probably. I don't know how they check out really really huge
Just overhead so did Bryson just he he created these himself
He like downloaded the software himself?
And they were supposed to-
But it worked with a team.
But it was supposed to fix so like the misses are not as bad, was what I read.
Yeah, but that's, there's, basically you can do that with regular clubs.
He was just like I needed to be specific, specific to specific.
I think he just wanted to be able to say like I'm the first golfer with 3D printed clubs.
Just so everyone knows, we've squashed our beef with Bryson because Brooks did
Hank has gone all the way to being a stand Hank loves him. He's a stan of Bryson
Oh, it's a nice price. I brought this up in the gambling cave and Hank immediately was like well
Yeah, you can 3d print your your clubs. You love everybody in the live tour not anymore
Why?
Cuz I had a round robin I needed a bunch of guys finished top 20 and Brooks and Rom screwed everything that's neither here nor there
Bryson I like I just what I like I like his YouTube videos. I watch his YouTube videos. I've come around
That's fair. You love his content online
Literally. Yeah. Thank you for everything you do online Bryson. I would say that to him if I saw him
We need to get that he said today. He was like I have a snapchat people come up to me and say you know
Thanks for what you do on snapchat. I love that
Good for Bryson. He also looks like he did the genius thing of gaining all that weight muscle and then getting skinny again
He looks good. He's like good-looking. He will win a major this year. He looks oh
He looks like a regular golfer now with the the 3D printed clubs? Yeah. He will
win one. His logos are pretty cool too. I just read Rappaport, I just wrote this, he blogged
some master's thoughts, but apparently Augusta doesn't, in a practice round you can bring
green reading technology that shows you kind of like the wavelength of the greens and slope and
stuff. Okay. And he's obviously a super nerd scientist. So he uses that and
does calculations and like uses a ruler to figure out how far back he has to go with
putts. Augusta doesn't allow that. They just have normal like old school green reading
technology or whatever that you can't you can't use all the extra stuff. And Bryson,
he didn't say it was an excuse, but he was like, yeah, I got to figure out how to play
a round of golf. That's you able to use all my science price is gonna get Neuralink
Yeah, he's gonna get a plant. Yeah, yeah, and yeah, he's gonna be like now. I have an advantage
He'll like close one eye and it'll be like the Terminator. Yeah, he's gonna be T 1000. Mm-hmm. You're absolutely right
It probably won't work and Hank would be like that's not a leak
He'll be the first person to get it done and he'll be like look at me
I'm on the bleeding edge of technology then on like the 16th hole his eyes are just gonna start to bleed
Well, or it will he'll get all this technology installed into his brain and then he'll get to Augusta where they probably have like a Wi-Fi
Firewall, they have a solve jamming technology
His brain will just just gonna freeze like Mitch McConnell. Yeah, not be able to move
He's like fuck what's going on Bryson?
And Hank will be like, well, they screwed him.
Bryson's just too far ahead of the game.
Yeah.
I mean, if they're illegal, they wouldn't have got approved.
Honestly, I think they probably just didn't know what to do.
Because they were looking at him and like, OK.
My take is that you should be allowed to use whatever club you want.
Yeah.
Ever. All the time. Doesn't matter how big it is, get the whatever club you want. Yeah. Like all the time.
Doesn't matter how big it is,
gets blown the whole. Listen,
I'll say this about Bryson,
I immediately looked,
cause it did say specifically that it was like
so that his misses were not as big of misses.
I started looking up to see if there's a driver
that just doesn't, that always hits it straight.
And I will buy it if I can find one.
There are some that have like a giant, giant head.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah
Yeah, just a fucking huge huge head
Qr 10. All right, so Taylor made I need one that just everything goes straight
I don't care if it goes far just want to play in the middle of the fairway
They make they make these clubs that automatically go back and forward like there's a hinge on it that you press a button
Oh and the club bends backward and then goes through the ball. Oh, you don't even have to swing. Oh, okay
Yeah, this is press a button you press it you stand next to ball. That sounds like perfect call for me
It goes straight. Yeah, you should you should be allowed to cheat at golf with the clubs that use you you obviously have to take your
Own shots, but if they're your clubs, they're in your bag. Just get the ball in the hole
Yeah, put the ball in the hole. Okay, anything else from the master? We're gonna talk more with Scott Van Pelt,
who is there, answer some of our questions.
Scott, he's just, he's only 27 years old.
He's got a face of a 40-year-old.
Yeah.
But he's 27.
He's gonna, let's do the fun debate.
Over, under.
What would be a disappointment in terms of total majors?
If he doesn't win five green jackets,
I think his career was a bust. Yeah, I'd say. He's got two right now at 27. I think he has to get to total majors. If he doesn't win five green jackets, I think his career was a bust.
Yeah, I'd say.
He got two right now at 27.
I think he has to get to 10 majors.
How many does he have?
And what's Tiger at?
16?
I want to say 17.
Jack McClouse is at 18.
Tiger's at 15.
15.
OK, and he is at?
Four.
Four.
Five.
No, two.
No, two.
Two.
He hasn't won anything besides the Masters. Yeah, he has to get 10 me
Oh, this is Chris already disappointment 10 majors at 27. Yeah, that's crazy that he has it
He just finished second how many how many majors did tiger have by the time he was 27 a lot
Probably like all of them nine
Tiger Woods cuz he won that that stretch that he had had in slam where he went from like a tiger slam
So he turned 27 and oh two he had three Masters two PGA's two US opens and an open
So it's at eight seven. Okay. So yeah eight eight
Yes, it's got a size a bus. Scotty sucks. I was a bust
Yeah
No, I think he's got to win at least four over under three and a half green jacket.
So when, when you win green jackets as you get older,
do they resize you every year or do they give you the same size?
I think they give you the same size. Yeah. Yeah.
That'd be funny if you got like real fat and the jackets didn't fit them at the
end. Yeah. Also Tiger one back to back masters. Oh, one oh two.
If Scotty wins next year, who puts on the jacket himself? Like who presents it?
Yeah, I think he has to present himself with a green jacket.
That's sick.
Yeah.
Yeah, I don't know.
It's probably just what's the name?
Ridley, right?
Oh, the owner?
Yeah.
The chairman?
He probably is rooting for that so that he can put on the jacket.
Yeah, another day for him.
Isn't it kind of bullshit that the other guys get jackets?
The members?
Yeah, I think if you're just a member there, right?
Condoleezza Rice, I saw her wearing a green jacket.
She shouldn't have a green jacket.
Yeah.
It should be, or maybe a different shade of green.
I don't wanna say which golfer it was,
but I had a friend that went home with the daughter
of a master's champion one time to that guy's house,
put on the green jacket and only the green jacket.
I think that Augusta would
have a problem with that.
You won't guess.
I will guess. Let me let me let me look. Okay. I will guess.
Maybe Nick Faldo? No. Why not? It wasn't Nick Faldo. Faldo. All right. I bet you Nick Faldo
just wears was that guy Scott Stradler?
Nope.
Maybe Scotty Stradler?
Craig Stadler?
Craig Stadler?
Scotty Stradler?
Poor Wilford Brimley slash Craig Stadler.
I think we would be really good at just making up golfer's names.
Scotty Stradler definitely won a green jacket.
Yeah.
Patrick Reed.
No.
Patrick, how old do you think Patrick Reed's daughter would be?
DJ no not Marco Mirra not Marco Mirra's daughter Freddie now Crenshaw. Oh
Okay, I got it I didn't say no I know
Alright, should we talk some UFC 300 that fucking rocked I
The my favorite part was when that dude punched that guy in the stands as he was walking out. That was awesome as well. That was awesome. He threw hands at a guy that was just leaning
over to try to tap him up. But we had two moments that were just absolutely insane. This is when I
actually thought Max Homo was going to win the Masters because it was the weekend of Max's. We
had R. Max doing the Philadelphia Pride Night Parade, which was great to the Sixers game.
And then Max Holloway versus Justin Gaethje.
One of the coolest moments, he was, Max Holloway was like dominating the fight.
He was going to win the fight.
And in the last 10 seconds, he literally just pointed to the middle of the octagon.
He was like, meet me here.
Let's throw some fists.
And he knocked out Justin Gaethje with two seconds left.
And it was so fucking cool.
Give the fans what they want. It was, and credit to Justin Gaethje for, seconds left and it was so fucking cool. Give the fans what they want.
It was, and credit to Justin Gaethje for, I mean he was getting his ass kicked and then
he's like, all right, fine, I'll just get knocked out too.
That should be overtime in all the UFCs.
Just standing, they shrink the octagon.
Yeah.
Just like five feet in diameter, just stand in there and punch each other until somebody
wins.
Yeah.
And then, and then Pereira versus Jamal Hill was awesome as well because Pereira got, got
kicked in the cup
and Herb Dean tried to stop the fight
and he literally held him off with a hand
and then two seconds later knocked him out with a left.
It was so badass.
Like no, it's all right, I got this
and just fucking crumpled him.
Who's your goat referee?
Is it Herb Dean or is it Big John McCarthy?
I like Herb Dean, I do.
And then we also had in in the in the female fight the
Fuck what's her name now people are gonna get mad
way, no
Find it I'll find it
Anyone want to help?
Wang Li
Wow, Way Lee's on Zang. She showed me out. She choked out had it
her opponent in the first round, but she got like saved by the bell where
I've never seen someone get choked out and then they just, the bell rung, she was completely out, she basically got helped up, was loopy, and then fought another four rounds.
That's insane. It's insane what they just bounced back from. They were just like, yeah, I'm good to go out there. I'll get punched in the face some more.
But that Justin Gagey, Max Holloway moment was...
Dana must have been so pumped.
That was very cool.
Because you had to have something like that at UFC 300.
You had to have a seminal moment that people would be like, oh yeah, I remember this is
what happened at 300.
Because people were upset with the card before the actual fights happened.
They wanted more of a splash.
That was a moment that made it feel like worth it to purchase this fight and it was just it was
everything you want like meet me in the middle let's fucking throw some
haymakers with ten seconds left a lot of times when you get to the end of a fight
guys will be like all right I'm just trying to not get knocked out here and
Max Holloway was I mean he was gonna win and he was like fuck it let's just toss
right now yeah it was very cool
Yeah, and then Connor McGregor's back announced McGregor's back
Confirmed good. Is he still good?
I don't think so so he might be reaching that level where it's like people will tune in to watch a Connor McGregor
100% I will I will definitely watch out a doubt but he's been out of the game for so long that it might just be like
Sad watching him if he might win ass kicked if he wins
Ha he met Holloway said he'd be down to fight him too. That would be a good fight
I feels like or it'd be exciting
It'd be exciting. Yeah, it feels like he's risking a lot fighting because if he just gets
If he if he loses in the first round, let's say
Now it's okay. He hasn't won a big fight in
a long time and like all the memories now. I think his different, I think his legacy
is cemented. I think he's always going to be known as the guy that defined his era.
What the real upside for him is not just the fight, it's for like the two months leading up
to the fight where he does all the shit talking and he throws water bottles of people. It's good for
us. He makes the way in into a circus.
That's gonna be good for Conor McGregor.
Doesn't really matter what happens.
And good for us.
And good for us.
It's always like what could have been if he just didn't box
and spent his prime continuing to fight.
Because after the boxing it was that.
Well he lost an ATS before the boxing.
Yeah but that was a great fight.
That was an awesome fight.
Any ATS fight is an awesome fight. Okay. Like that didn't hurt his legacy. No, no, that was warriors. Yeah. All right. Anything else for do who's back the week?
I think I'm a believer in Mark Pope now. Oh, that was my who's back. Okay, I will save it. We'll save it
Yeah, that was my who's back. Okay, so that was yours as well. Mm-hmm
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Hank, your Who's Back of the Week.
Who's Back of the Week is the Nestor Cortez pitch. Oh yeah.
Good one.
How'd you find that so fast?
One of the craziest pitchers of all time.
He's a f... that's Bush League.
Yeah, Bush League.
Did you watch it?
Yeah.
What did he do?
It was Bush League ass pitch.
Explain... describe to us what he did.
He's a pitcher.
So he wound up.
And he threw the ball. And it was bullshit So he wound up. Okay. And he threw the ball and it was bullshit. He
wound up. Show us. Call up and show us. Show us. Call for a block. It was a show us what
he did. He's a pitcher. I don't think it was staying up in the bank. I haven't seen this
story yet. Can you tell me what it is? Yeah, I know that we know that. Don't look at your
phone. Stand up on the lefty. I don't know if I can get fine Well, Hank, what team does he pitch for he pitches for the Reds? Wait, he's a
For the red he's a lefty for the Reds Yankees
Alright, so this is Hank doing Nester Cortez. He wound up
Yep, and then he no no no
So he wound up here. I'll show you what he did. You tell me you you
narrate it and tell me if it's Bush League. OK. All right. So big cat is a righty. All
right. He's winding up. He steps back. Full motion transfers small leg kick back. Oh fake
throw and throws again. He did a pump fake. He was he was he acted like he was. How's
that bullshit. He was throwing a ball to his fucking Labrador retriever at the park. He did a pump fake. He was, he was, he acted like he was throwing a ball
to his fucking Labrador retriever at the park. He did a fake and he like swung his foot and
never brought it down. It was just weird. And bullshit. Old baseball writers are very,
very mad. The real who's back of the week should have been old baseball writers getting
mad at. Yeah, they were calling it Bush Lee
Yeah, so what exactly are they mad at the fact that it was disrespectful to the game? Uh
Yeah
Great balance to like incredible about hard to do incredible balance. I mean, it's Bush League, but if he keeps doing it
I'm fine with it. If he just makes it a thing
I think he just got caught kind of in the air and was like, I don't know what to do
here, but he's been doing weird stuff.
This one tweet is so good.
Dan Clark, this so-called move by Nestor Cortez should be illegal.
A very mediocre pitcher trying to find an unethical advantage.
Okay, I'm now on Nestor Cortez's side.
This type of stuff belongs in Savannah, in parentheses, bananas, not in the major leagues.
All right, I now think it's an awesome pitch.
An unethical advantage.
I didn't know it made people that mad.
So there's no way this is actually like a strategy that could work.
Yeah, like he has no, it was like 70, it's actually impressive that it was still 76 plus
an hour.
So what are the rules?
You can't, if you I've just
Late fake then you have to let go of the ball. Yeah, nothing seems illegal here
It's just a it doesn't seem like a strategy that would work. It was crazy cuz you have no momentum
But yeah, alright, so I'm on Nester Cortez's side now if it makes people mad, that's that rules. Yeah crazy
Not bullshit. I knew it wasn't bull. How did you find that without seeing the video?
Max just tweeted me and I was gonna look I was gonna look for and then I was like let's just see what happens
I wait they texted me whatever
He just said Nestor Cortez bitch. I was gonna look for it. I said, you know what?
Let's just go for it. Let's just go for it. I
Didn't okay. I mean you you were the odds were stacked against you because we we had the same who's back
Give Hank that was actually a very good job. Thank you. You can't given that circumstance Okay, I mean you you were the odds were stacked against you because we we had the same who's back give Hank
That was actually a very good job. Thank you. You can't given that circumstance. I catch up on sleep this week in Hank
I did I'm well rested good sober as a goat sober as a goat
Goats are sober that we're saying is that a saying okay?
Sober as a judge
Sober as a nun
Those work goat goat. I don't know goats would drink any liquor. Yeah, and I think they probably would eat grapes
Yeah, well not Tom Brady
That's true the antioxidants. Yeah, that is bad inflammation. There's also my who's back of the week is Tom Brady
Oh, I thought goats no goat. Well a goat a goat Tom Brady. He is sober
He went on I don't know if it's a podcast or a show.
His?
He was getting his haircut, which my understanding was
that was trademarked by LeBron James.
Yeah.
Having a conversation at a barber shop.
That's true.
But he was getting his haircut, and they
asked him about coming back to the NFL,
and he said that he would be down for it.
And then he mentioned specifically,
because I forget what team the barber brought up,
but then Tom Brady was like, maybe the Patri what team the barber brought up. But then Tom Brady
was like, maybe the Patriots, maybe the Raiders. So Hank, your go Tom Brady might come back
and play for the Patriots. That would be fantastic.
Hank, where are you at right now with Drake May? We I know we have draft talk coming up
in a week because it's going to be draft week, which I think they should move the draft up. I think the draft should happen. I guess you can't do it March Madness to Masters.
We really need it the week after the Masters. Yeah, because it just feels like I'm just
ready for the draft to happen. We know what the picks are. They're going to give you two
weeks of build up. Yeah. You're going to eat it up. I'm going to be so sick of draft talk
by the time the actual draft happens. Brandon, you want to trade it up. I'm gonna be Friday night I'm gonna be so sick of draft talk by the time the actual drafts out. Yeah, Brandon. I you want to trade. Yep
So where are you with Drake May or Tom Brady or Jane Daniels?
Or Tom Brady or Tom Brady or Caleb Williams. Who would you pick? I would pick
Not Caleb Williams. She's not yours. He's mine. I'm still down for Marvin Harrison, Jr. Oh
Who's gonna throw in the ball? No one Bailey's at?
Yeah
There's plenty of fine quarterback
There's not three
Three franchise quarterbacks probably in the top, you know what I mean? Like what are the odds of that?
What are the odds that the third? Well, I agree back that franchise quarterback or you have a franchise wide receiver who's a stud and can actually make things happen with a
perfectly fine jacoby per cent I
Mean if there's pictures windows, you're gonna half like the thing is we need five wins
You have to get a quarterback at some point wait, so right Hank. Hank is doing the Joe burrow meme
But instead of where's Joe burrow and Pene Sewell blocking
for him throw it to literally anyone. Joe Burrow, anyone blocking for him and he incompletes
it to Jamar Chase. Hank's doing literally anyone blocked by literally anyone completion
to Marvin Harrison.
Yeah.
I mean, he was Ohio.
I like that. You need to draw that meme.
And then the other one is like a first round left tackle
Tom Brady
incomplete to not Marvin Harris
Well, if we get Marvin Harrison to get Tom Brady then we're cooking with gas
Yeah, sure you get Tom Brady that would be the good stuff would be one of the best combinations instantly in the NFL wait
so but if Tom Brady went to the Patriots, like they can't pretend that
Belichick and Brady can't pretend that they liked each other ever again. I think if he
waited till Belichick left and Tom Brady, I mean, it's been made pretty clear. I understand.
It's not like, I understand, but it's like that would be for it to get a 47 year old Tom Brady
out of retirement to a rebuilding team. Yeah. It was made, it was made clear when he left to
begin with.
But and then and then him putting it out there even makes it even more clear that now now
I would be willing to go back. Oh, Belichick's not coaching anywhere in the NFL.
What changed in this offseason, Tom? Oh, you know, I'm just I realize I love the game again.
Yeah. I wonder if Belichick got like a job right now. If you'd be like, no, I don't want
to. Yeah, they rehire bill Brady get the game back together
alright, so so you're
You don't want a quarterback. I
Think you need to these next two weeks. You have to get yourself prepped for Drake
May unit we need your big board you need to and I'm ready for Drake may
Is it's gonna happen and then you're gonna have to talk about it. It's guaranteed to happen
I would say it's more likely than not could be JJ. Oh
Could be JJ might get JJ could be JJ
National champion, you know JJ is yeah, okay, what schools you play for?
Michigan yeah throwing to Marvin Harrison wouldn't that be a little bit difficult. I
Mean, yeah, we'll see I'll do oh, I'll lock in this week and do some draft research.
Yeah. Cause we used to have, have Billy's quarterback bracket, which was a great part
of the show. Billy's no longer around. Um, he's running for Congress. He has a news conference
tonight at six 30. I think he's taking on the mob anyways. He's doing something smart.
Um, so we need Hank. I think you have to step up your top 10 fill Billy's shoes, but your
top 10 starting at number three.
Yes or three through 13. So assume that Caleb Williams or Jaden Daniels or Drake may maybe
has been taken at that point. Yeah. And then give us your and then I want like a little
blurb about every player too. Okay. Was this a once an episode thing? No, no, no, no, no This week this week. We'll do a Friday. It might not even have a day
Is Friday gonna work?
How much tape that on Thursday's at Thursday's what time?
We knew 11. Okay
Just a blurb hey, we're honestly asking you to write 10 blurbs
Okay, yeah, and you can you most likely, and what you will do
is just take them from someone else.
No, I'll do it myself.
I would like you to watch a little bit.
I'll watch YouTube videos.
Yeah.
Do a blurb.
Watch a highlight.
Yep.
But yeah, Brandon Iuk, that was,
it was like the 49ers are on that,
like they're gonna have to make some hard decisions soon.
They can't keep everybody together.
If they're gonna sign Brock Purdy.
Yeah, they can't keep everyone around.
And also T Higgins said that he wanted to trade too. Now I think T Higgins
is like, psych, I'm going to stick around and play. He did a football camp and the kids,
I guess one of the kids asked him a question about it. He was like, no, I think I'm going
to be a bangle. So you can ask for a trade all you want and it fell, but they don't actually
have to trade you. Shout out to kids. How about that kid? We didn't even mention it.
The kid, when Scotty touched his ball, he's like that kid? We didn't even mention it. The kid
when Scotty touched his ball, he's like, no, it didn't move. Yeah. It was like a seven
year old that we just took the like, okay, he said it. I guess kids don't really lie
like that. They don't really understand how to. Yeah. What if a kid just like kicked his
ball into the middle of the fairway? That would be hilarious. Yeah. On the fly. You
can do it if it's on the fly, right? Yeah, and they probably wouldn't kick out a kid. No
Okay, so your who's back is Tom Brady. Tom Brady. Tom Brady's back. Yeah, my who's back is Kentucky basketball and Mark Pope Yeah, I'm with you. I think I'm I'm a believer in Mark Pope now
So Mark Pope they had the 96 Wildcats who Mark Pope was the captain of that team
They drove a bus into Rupp Ruppupp was, by the way, packed to the gills.
And all of the players came out. Mark Pope came out with the trophy. I was saying this
on Thursday, I think is when they hired Mark Pope. If you're a Kentucky fan and you don't
like this hire, I understand you thought you were going to get Nate Oates. You thought
you were going to get Danny Hurley. You thought you were going to get Billy Diamond and all
these things. Nostalgia is a very powerful drug. Like I would just if I were a Kentucky fan right now,
I'd just be looking at pictures of Mark Pope and Rick Pitino and
be like, this is this is we're going back. Sometimes you got to
go back.
Yeah, getting the alumni back on campus. I think they had like
15,000 people. Yeah, up today. So I mean, you wanted to splash
you hire you wanted a coach that was going to come in. And
everybody be like, okay, this guy is worthy of the Kentucky job,
but there's no guarantee that a guy like that is going to work out longterm.
Right. Who knows if Pope works out, it's going to be the best thing ever.
If he doesn't work out, it's not, yeah,
you'd rather have made a better hire at the time,
but an old guy that won a championship there, you're right. The nostalgia,
having all the players around, it feels like it could be fun.
We also had, Max had a great point last week where he said that all the boosters, all the
money that would have gone to Danny Hurley's 15, $20 million contract can now go to NIL
deals, including Rick Pitino said that he'd pitch in.
I'd never heard, I'd never seen that before.
Rick Pitino is going to pitch in for Kentucky's NIL.
Yeah. For what reason? Because pitch in for Kentucky's NIL. Yeah.
He's Mark Pope, cause he's Mark Pope's coach.
That's crazy.
And they're gonna do a home and home, I think,
with St. John's, which rocks.
That's crazy to me, that Pitino just wants
to coach Kentucky.
Yeah, he was just like, I'll get on,
he did a video being like, Mark Pope is the man,
and you know, if he needs help, I'll help him.
That's insane.
Yeah.
If I was a St. John's fan, I would not be happy about that.
Remember, it's Rick Pitino not as much
as he wants to go back to Kentucky.
He wants the guy who came after Cal to succeed.
Yeah.
Because he hates Cal.
Yeah.
Which this is what college sports are about,
rivalries and deep-seated hate.
He hates Cal.
Yeah.
Because Cal made everyone forget about Rick Pitino.
So yeah, Rick Pitino is ready to chip in.
He's ready to go.
All right, Jake.
My Who's Back with the Weakest People, Being Mad Online.
So I think we talked about this with the other day, but they do the media lottery every year.
This is crazy.
This is, yeah.
And one of the winners is a reporter from a local news station named Julia
Julia won the lottery. This will be her first round of golf ever that rocks and people are
Like that mad right there Henry Lockwood keeper of golf
That's awesome. I hope she shoots
3,000
Son out for his first time golf at Augusta and be you'd be like it but it was your first time playing too in the whole
Time you'd be like, how do you hit the ball? Yeah. Yeah, it's gonna be awesome. It is funny. That's so I hope she just skips like seven holes
And she's like, ah, I don't really feel like playing this one. That's nine on the last
How can you not find the humor in that?
There's more in it, but it's oh, it's great people are saying the respectful thing to do would be just be to decline no
Do you what you won the lottery?
Play she she won and by the way Hank are gonna sit there and just be so I hope she posts her score
And it's it's like the lottery or honey around of golf
You've never wanted to play around of golf in your life. It's Augusta. Do you're covering it?
Yeah, imagine being able to like yeah, I played one round of golf in my life. It was at Augusta
Why would you cover golf and never had any?
Maybe I should go and hit a couple balls. Yes covering goal. She won fair and square. He is I guess
Oh, man, I guess oh man. What yeah?
I'm not it's so mad. She's gonna take massive divots in the middle of the fairway
Why would you be mad at all people like the only people that could I'm not mad
I just think it's someone else's in the lottery. It does it doesn't affect our lives at all
it doesn't like my life at all either, but
Why you're mad, but why enter because it's Augusto. How do you not enter? Yeah, you have to enter
Cuz you never you've never had at any point in your life been like I want to go play golf
So why now I think you don't even have to play golf to enjoy a nice round of golf
I hope they make this yeah, I hope they make this new tradition. Just finding one person doesn't even like golf
Yeah, and like kidnapping them. Yeah, I'm forcing them to go to Augusta. I hope your scorecard. Oh, it would be oh
We got it. We got at least
We got a fake a scorecard and post it and be like look
Here's the person who won it and have it be legitimately like 375
Every every hole is a is a 22 and I hope she gets a hole in one by mistake
That's what I would put on my card. Yeah, she gets a hole in one, shoots a 300.
Oh man, how mad would people be if we played Augusta and I did a fake scorecard?
Oh, what if you're behind her?
What if you are like, you get an opportunity to play Augusta and then you can't play, you
don't finish your round because she's in front of you, she doesn't know how to play.
I like how mad this made Hank.
He's so pissed about this.
I wasn't mad.
Oh yeah, you're mad, dude.
You're so mad that she's getting to play Augustus.
Your name wasn't even in the lottery.
Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
If your name was in the lottery,
I could understand being like, fuck this,
I really wish I could play.
We would never, we're never gonna play Augustus.
That's what it is.
Hank thinks he's gonna play Augustus.
I'll never play Augustus.
No, you think, you think he can't. Well, if we cover it and we have credentials, we'll be in the lottery.
I'll never cover it. Yeah, I'll never cover it either. I'll cover it. So Jake,
will you be more mad about this woman playing it or Jake playing it? I would be thrilled for Jake if he played it.
By the way, big nerd move. I saw a few people doing, they were
making it a,
they were like AG NC they just call oh
yeah yeah I don't like that or AG NG see you're not a member there yeah
characters though yeah but just come on just say Augusta it's the Masters all
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A tradition unlike any other, it is Scott Van Pelt calling us from the airport in Georgia. Scott, before we talk about the Masters, just want to say thank you as always for joining
us.
Last year, people who were listening when Scott was getting a phone call from his neighbor
and it turned out that his house was on fire, I'm happy we're a year removed from that and
everything is good, right? On track. We're good. turned out that his house was on fire. I'm happy we're a year removed from that and everything
is good, right?
On track. We're good. I will say this week is always my favorite week of the year, as
you boys know. This is a big part of it. I always enjoy visiting. It's wild to be sitting
in this airport a year later. And remember when I was getting a call from a neighbor and your house was on fire.
Not great.
That was a shitty night.
But we're a year removed, we're almost back.
And we're good and Master's week was awesome.
So nothing but blue skies ahead, I hope.
All right, good.
I can't imagine what that flight was like
after you get the call that your house is on fire
and then you have to go up in a plane
and lose cell service for a few hours.
And when you land, you just hope that everything's okay.
Well, you know what's wild about that, honestly, PFT,
is that my best friend went to my house, all right?
And think about whoever that person is for you
that would go to your house if your house is on fire.
And once we got to a high enough place where you got cell service, I sent a note and I'm
like, how bad are we talking?
And I see dot dot dot.
Now there are, we all are familiar with the text with the dot dot dot with, which is like,
you know, the late night dot dot dot, like maybe something great's about to happen in
that dot dot dot, right?
Well, I'm just waiting to see what he says and then nothing.
And I'm like, oh shit, he's trying to figure out how to tell me this.
And it's, I finally get the answer back and it's like, it's bad, but it could have been
worse.
Okay.
And so, okay, so right.
So like you have a best friend that was telling you this and I'm thinking like, that means like if you got into a fight with a man with a machete, like he cut off your arm,
but you're not dead.
Like that was, that was the way I was rationalizing it.
Then, you know, I got home that night and was like, you know, one 30 in the morning and you walk in
and you're like, whoa, this is bad.
Like, is in my head, like by the time we took off last year, I was like, well, it's out.
They got it contained. And I'm like, yeah, it's no big deal. We're good. We'll, we'll, we'll get a broom and we'll sweep some stuff up. We'll live in the other half of the house. And you get home and you're like, oh no, it's going to be a year and change. So anyway, it was, it was not great, man.
It was,
Oh, it was, it was, it was also like, I just think about it because you are the consummate pro and like I said, thank you so much. We love having you on this show every year. And
I remember you getting the beep like through your phone and you ignored it. And then you
texted me after you're like, that was a interesting tech call that I was getting. It was a little
more serious. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But you are, you are, you are the best for coming on with us. So let's talk about this masters, Scotty Sheffler, uh, absolute domination.
I, I w w when we started the show and we're talking about it, I threw out there and I
want to hear what your take is on this, that, uh, the wind on Friday and Saturday kind of
fooled us to be like, Oh, someone else could win this Masters because everyone was kind of on the same spot where it's like
It's hard to get birdies and even for Scotty and then when the wind died down you saw today
It was just like no, I'm the best golfer in the world and it's not close
Yes, that's hashtag big cat golf insider. I feel like you're you're on you're on it
It's that's pretty accurate. The thing I'd say about this is when the day started,
a lot of us at the course were entertaining the thought
that somebody could go out and shoot something low
because the people, Max, a lot of us rooting for Max,
if he could just start making some putts,
he hit the ball so beautifully.
Maura Cow was on a couple of majors.
Oberg is going to be a monster forever.
Somebody's going to go shoot something low because it felt like it
typically is out there on a Sunday, but it was really, it was a challenging week.
And ultimately the guy that went low was, was Scotty.
You're, you're, you're right.
That the wind, the wind was insane.
Like Scotty afterwards, just try to explain it.
Um, like he said on 15 on Friday, he hit driver three iron and he had a layup to like 70 yards in because it was into the wind today
He hit driver four iron. He was on the green right or the bunker
But like it was the wind was is I've never seen it like that and I've been coming here for a long long time
like it was just so steady and
And relentless and it did create maybe a sense that it was gonna be
You know somebody could
catch him, but he's, he's got a different gear at the moment. And he's, he's just an
awesome guy. Has he been on with you? No, he hasn't. We actually, we don't know that
much about him because he doesn't do a whole lot of press. So we don't know that much about
his per he seems like a very nice person and a very private person. Is that fair? Yes.
But I think more than that, like he, I that, I think he has the best sort of sense of what he cares
about and he's not a social media person. He's a simple guy in that he loves, he's got
a huge guy, he's got great faith, he's a huge family guy, that family's getting ready to
have an addition. And a lot of people in sports,
not just golf, but in sports, like they reach a certain point and then they think they have to
keep getting better. And they like, they try like Tiger did it forever. He was like, I gotta keep
getting better. And so I would always say to him, no, you don't, you just have to wake up and keep
being who you are. I think the genius of Scotie is he's like, I'm real good with whatever
this is and I'm not trying to change any of it. And when he says stuff like, look, my identity is
secure and it doesn't change with this, I really believe it. He won like 12 million in a month and
I don't think it matters to him at all. So that's rare. it's really rare to be as good as he is at what he does and
not have an impact who he is at all. And I really don't think it does. Yeah. And it's lip service
when someone says that. Yeah. And usually, yeah, the personality of somebody 12 million. Yeah.
Promise you I'd be different. I would just do horrible. I don't know what I do, but even as
an old man, like I do crazy shit if I want all that money.
I just blow it, go to Vegas, meet PFT and then hit that spot, get a bag, whatever that
was.
Oh yeah.
Mushrooms.
I was, I was, I didn't want to bring it up, but since you brought it up, I wanted to,
to apologize to you, Scott, uh, because I do recall running into you in the casino and
there was some other friends around.
I was halfway to the moon on some mushrooms and
I had a bag and I just like took him out in the open with everybody around us and
handed it to somebody else and then I was like, oh yeah, Scott's right in front of us as we're doing this
Probably not the place that he wants to be seen
If I could add one little caveat to the story
PFT looks right up at me and goes,
that wasn't really very subtle, was it?
Not really?
I mean, this has been a banner week for stories.
We have that, I got to tell the Chris Long story
of how he stayed on a soft 16,
which you don't see that a lot.
It was great to see everybody.
I had a blast. We were on a real tight operation over here because he, they were my mushrooms.
I left early to try to be like a great dad and get home early. I was like, PFD take my
mushrooms because I would have eaten them with you. I would have been a bad friend if
I didn't take them for big guys. Yeah. Yeah. So instead of eating mushrooms you were home in time to eat doughnuts
Yes, exactly exactly, but I but when PFT started sending the pictures I was like I should have stayed neat in the mushrooms
Yeah, look, here's me with Big Dom. Yeah, and my pupils are the size of Big Dom's head
We got to make up for it. We went to the Final Four and ate a bunch of mushrooms there. That's very true
We're not drug guys though,. We don't do drugs.
But to your point about Scottie, it's
weird to have such great perspective
and to be that dominant at your sport.
Because you think of all the other greats,
like Tiger Woods, Tom Brady.
They have zero perspective on real life, right?
They're just focused on being the best at their sport.
And that's what drives them to just dominate people. But Scott is just like, yeah, you
know who I am as a golfer doesn't define me, but he just happens to be the best fucking
golfer in the world by a large margin.
By a lot. And I think, you know, you hear from the very beginning, people talk about
like, oh, this dude, he's like an old soul. And he really is. I was asking myself this
today and I thought it seemed like it had to be longer
ago, but it was the November Masters. It was the one in 2020. I'd never met him and I knew he was this, you know, one
of the next big things in the sport. So there's no one here. And I just wandered over when he was finishing up a
practice round to introduce myself. And that was 2020. Like he's played in five of these and he's won two
already. The thing about this sport, and we're not great at this in golf or in any sport really,
when somebody shows up and they become something like this, you just say, well, this is how it's
going to be forever. Well, mostly that's not how life works. But if anybody has the ability to stay in this lane, I bet
on him because again, I don't want to be redundant, which is what I'm doing, but like he just
doesn't seem to have vices or things that could get in the way of any of it. Presuming
he stays healthy. I think he'll just keep just obliterating people.
Yeah. Yeah. It's, it's a crazy story a crazy story, and he's a very likable guy.
All right, so Scott, put this into perspective for us.
Tiger obviously didn't do great today, or the weekend,
but 24 consecutive cuts at Augusta.
We take it for granted, but it seems like, looking back,
it's like, holy shit, that's an insane stat to have.
Not having one
time where you had a Thursday and Friday one off round can ruin that streak.
Yeah, it's, it's yes. The exact what you said is exactly right. But I think for so long,
big cat, he, and he did it this week. Like I'm here to win and like, all right, listen,
you've earned the right, you're allowed to say that because you're you. But I also think if he's being honest, the guy had played like 24 holes of
golf all year. And he had to play 23 holes of golf on Friday. And if you were up early with us Friday
morning, we came out at like 7.45. And you could see like it was cold out. He's moving like an old
guy that has a fused back and a busted up leg. He's stiff, he can't move. And you could see like it was cold out. He's moving like an old guy that has a fused back and a busted up leg.
He's stiff.
He can't move.
And you're thinking, oh, this is going to be a hard, this is going to be a hard day,
man.
And he just stayed like he, it looked miserable.
Like every moment looked miserable, but he has this gear, this thing inside of him where
he just stares at whatever that pain or that adversity is.
And he's like, Hey, fuck you, because I'm me
and I'm going to win. And him making the cut at one over was winning. And that's the win for this
week for him because he didn't have the ability to play 72 holes right now. And it was really
cool when Max came into the Butler cabin to be able to ask Max, obviously about what he was doing, which was incredible,
but you guys know how much he reveres Tiger.
And he got to play alongside the guy for two days
and just sort of give us the context of what it's like
to see the greatest of this generation
battle his ass off just to play the weekend.
And you could hear it in Max's, you know,
his answers about how I just had the best seat
to watch the guy do it.
It was, it was awesome that he made the cut and then, you know, then the hard
thing is now you got to play 36 more and he goes 82 77 he's never finished last
in the master he's finished first five times, never finished last after making
the cut he did this week, but you know, it's not patronizing.
I don't think to say that making the cut is
the win for him for this week because of the record you just mentioned. Yeah. Yeah. Is
the big winner in all that Charlie woods being the swing coach that, that got his dad to
make the cut at the masters. He's, he's so awesome. Like I was asking Justin Thomas about
him and he's like, he's just the best cause he's got all this game and he talks all this
crap and you could just imagine it, right? Like imagine you're Tiger's
kid and you're really good and you can hit it farther than your dad and you can be on
the range of Augustin. Just be like, this is not what we talked about. Let's go. Let's
tighten it up, old man. And I mean, I don't know him. I just gave him knuckles the other
day and like, how are we doing? Like, Like, he's like, we're getting there talking about his own game. But like, you can just, you know,
I mean, you can imagine you could go one of two ways. If you're the, you know, if you're the son
of tiger, like you could just be like this obnoxious kid that sucks, or you could be the coolest kid in
the room. And he's the coolest kid in the room. Just so you know, not in creepy way, we have dibs
on him. So I know that you, you think he's cool But he did have a pardon my take club
Cover that we saw a couple years ago. So he's probably listen to this right now. We have dibs
You can have him. I got I got to have the relationship with dad that are that helped me have my life
That's right guys. You guys are certainly obviously big bigger stars in me for the future
So by all means Charlie Woods is is all all part of my take.
Charlie Woods is basically like our future investment.
Yeah. He's our meal ticket to staying relevant. Yeah. Yeah. When people are like this show
sucks you guys are so old, right? But Charlie Woods comes on once a month and yeah. Yeah.
Yeah.
AWL. All the stuff I got on Twitter was like just to or to AWLs in the man in the Butler Catholic. I was like kind of a cool thing. Yeah,
you and Matt, I hope for you guys to. Oh, yeah. It's very cool. And we were
rooting so hard for Max and he played. I think he played really well. He there
was no way he was going to be able to compete with Scotty on Sunday, but it did.
It did make me think like, yeah, Max could actually win this as long as maybe Scottie's
wife goes into labor like 72 hours earlier and then he's got a chance to win on Sunday.
Yeah.
You know what?
Yes, that would have been helpful if Scottie got the phone call.
And I honestly, God, think he would have left.
Like I not twice.
Like whatever, I got a green jacket.
I don't have a kid.
I got to go home.
But Max was so good and he needed to make some putts yesterday. If he made putts Saturday,
I think he could have won today. At some point, you start applying pressure because you just know
that you're running out of holes. It had to be incredibly frustrating just to be so close so often and
just not be able to get the putts to drop. But it's still, for him and for Morikawa both,
neither had had great years so far. And so, you know, for both of them to play, for both
of them to play well this week is a big springboard moving forward.
You're not getting a call right now, are you?
No, no, no.
Oh, that made me scared. I got it. This guess this is so this is the truth. I got a text
and I looked at him like, please don't be scared there for a second. You look at what
it's like. Oh no, it was I wasn't for Max. So I, I, I love the journey that he's, he's
going through because you, I, everyone knows, you know, he grinded for a long time, corn
fairy, PJ back to corn fairy. And for the last few years,
it's been like not being able to perform at his highest level in the majors. Last year,
he finished his top 10. This year he's in he's he's there. Like he can do it. So it's
like it's a climb. It sucks. But we were able to talk to him after like how is he how is
he doing? Our max back girl wanted to have him on this week and we're like, fuck no,
dude. We can't have him on after this. Like he needs some time, but we were able to talk to him.
I didn't see him when it ended because we go right up to our set to get ready to do
our thing. And like, honestly, there's to me and I'm sure you guys are similar, right?
Like we're really blessed to know these people and they're just people. And if it were you, I'd be psyched
that you were in the mix and I'd be pulling for you. But the last thing I would do at
7.05 is fire off. All right, big cat, this was awesome. And here's why. Because you don't
care. You don't want to hear it. And you're just one of a million other texts from people
that meanwhile they're being sincere. But like to me, it's like, it's like a 24 hour rule kind of thing.
And at some point you just, you know, I shot him a note last night, just like
you're, Whoa, sorry.
Like you're playing, you're playing awesome.
You just have to believe the putts are going to go in.
Well, not enough did, but so what?
Like he still played awesome, but I'll, I'll wait and you know, you just give
it time before you bug them because the
last thing you want that to be is like, not today, not right now. I'm really not in the
mood for your atta boy.
Yeah. It's like a two week thing. Two weeks is usually for professional sports.
For professional-
You got that much discipline?
Yeah, for professional athletes, because I'm just like professional athletes are like when
Josh Allen has had some heartbreaking loss, I'll be like, let's give it a little bit of
time because like, you know, they want to go through the whole course. I feel like he'll
be back to normal in a couple of weeks.
Well, do you think Max is listening to the show right now? I don't think I would listen
to the podcast after the Masters if I was.
Okay. If Max is listening to this show, let's just all say we're so proud of him and he's
going to win one. Max, I'm really proud of you say we're so proud of him and he's gonna win one.
Max, I'm really proud of you.
You're right there.
Yeah.
And that rose bush was fucked up.
They should not have put that rose bush there.
Yeah.
And also you probably should have hit it out of there.
But that's, listen, I'm not your caddy.
I'm not Joe.
Also, I saw where it went in on TV.
I was yelling at Joe.
I was like, no, it's right there.
You're looking in the wrong place.
Could he have hit it out of there?
He could have, right? If
he wanted to.
I mean, sure. Sure. But the number of things that go right,
if you try to hit it out of there versus the number of
things is like life's a risk reward thing. Yeah, I risk is
Yeah, the risk rather lengthy, the reward is really small
there. So I mean, he did what he had to do. He just had to, he
had to avoid double. And once you make double there, now you're like,
all right, I have to make, I have to make Eagle on 13 and probably something else.
So yeah, he did end up, uh, yeah, it was,
he ended up making like a million dollars at the end of the tournament.
If he had done our idea that probably would have dropped him down to like 700,000.
Yeah, it was good job. Um, what do you make of note gate?
Where are we at with note gate? Cause I saw, uh,
there was the buzz that tiger might've passed a note to Neil Shipley and
I love this. This is just very Masters Augusta
There's rules and they follow the rules, but what what was there a note passed man? I have no idea
I just I like I have I don't know I will get to the bottom of this
Yeah, but we'll get we will get to the bottom of this. We'll get, we'll get to the
bottom of this, but like, well, let's have like, let's, let's just go through this. Like
it's like, it's CSI P a part of my take, like what would have been on it? What, what would
have been bad about it? What, what, who's in trouble?
Yeah. Well, we had, we had a guess on what would be on it. We're going to spare you our
guesses cause you your friends with tiger
It could have been what if he had said like use, you know use a seven here instead of an eight
I guess that would be but it also is probably a really nice moment
Yeah, not supposed to do that and golf but like why wouldn't you just say it or you have a caddy?
Hold up like hold up five like you think there's ways that we like the information shared but like I mean is it what did we write down like
a silly joke I don't know who knows I care I on me honestly I don't yeah yeah I don't
really care it'd be funny though if it said like last time I took a tampon out of my bag
and then threw it on the ground I got in So this note is me pretending like I'm taking a tampon out.
Yeah. Same thing.
Masters probably were not going that route.
Yeah. Right.
Yeah. Don't execute you for doing that.
Yeah. What about another one I was curious about, Bryson, his 3D printed clubs. How does
that get approved? And were they just like, we've never seen this before, so I guess,
yeah, you're approved.
I think he's like, uh, he's like straight from NASA, the whole thing, like the clubs,
the law, the whole shebang, like he, but I gotta say something about that guy. Like he
went through that thing where he was like, Hey, I drink lots of milkshakes and I, I,
I look like if you pop me with a pin, I would fly around like a balloon cause I'm super swole and I'm doing all these curls videos
in my garage with dudes.
And like that reached a point where I think everyone was
like, Hey, I'm all set with this.
And he's now, he looks phenomenal.
He's in great shape.
I think that there, he sat in the media center years ago
and said, you know, par for me around here 67 and the masters folks were like, really?
You don't say.
And then he didn't play well.
And I don't think anybody around here was particularly sad that that's the case.
But he came back.
It felt like there was a humility to the guy.
I enjoyed the time that he spent.
He came in a couple of days in the Butler cabin.
He grabbed at his butt off, played really well. But if you're asking me like what the numbers are for the putting
and what goes on with his clubs and the loft and the three, I don't have a fucking clue.
And I don't think anybody else does either. And I think that's part of it. Like everyone
would just look around and be like, like, are these conforming? I have no idea. Yeah.
I just don't know. We've, we've, we who knows. We've, since Brooks squashed his beef,
we've squashed our beef.
Like Bryson is, he's good for golf.
He's an interesting guy.
Like there's enough people out there
that don't want to be interesting people
when they're playing sports.
Like the people who are interesting
and do things differently, we should embrace.
And he looked like he was actually having fun today.
Yeah.
And I mean, when he holed out like Saturday, it's like, awesome, go get him.
He was in the mix and look, he's an awesome player.
His ceiling's really high.
I think this week, I was on Pardon Interruption and they asked me about Liv or maybe it was
Lebatard.
I don't know.
I just said, no one gives a shit about this Liv stuff at this point.
It feels like golf just needs to get back together, but it's kind of complicated because the PGA Tour said, hey, you can't take the money.
A bunch of dudes did. And then they're like, yeah, well, let's get back together. What's
easy for you to say? You got 100 million. I think everyone kind of just understands
that it's better when everyone plays. It's fun to see Rob and Brooks and Bryson and Cam
Smith and Neiman and all the other dudes.
Like it's you want to see them all play together because that means the best in
the world are together and Bryson's one of those people.
So I mean, this week, I think the ratings were high for the Masters.
That's the reason.
But it's also just a reminder that people like to Shambo, a personality guy and a
talent, they helped make the game more interesting.
Like I don't I don't imagine you all have talked any golf at all this year to this point
or or if you did it wasn't much. Yeah. Well Hank makes us talk about golf a lot. Yeah.
Plays a ton of it. Hank's mad because the reporter from Wisconsin who's never played
around a golf won the lottery. So she's going to play Augusta tomorrow. Thank you. Want
me to get you out here. You want me to see if I can get so it's something. How many times have you played here? Yeah. Some, you know,
I don't know. It's, it's actually not a lot. I, you know, the funny thing I told someone
this story today, I, there was a member that asked me and I couldn't because of work and
then asked me again and I couldn't because of work. And he's like, you know, I've never
had to ask anybody more than once. I host a show and it's just me.
And if I'm not there, then I mean,
it's not like I can get someone to cover my shift.
You know, I'm sorry.
It sucks so bad having to say I can't, I couldn't do it.
I'm just, I'm hoping to get back again at some point,
but yeah, I mean, you know,
I know a couple of people that won the lottery.
I don't know, I didn't hear the story about the Wisconsin person that's never played, but yeah, I mean, I know a couple of people that won the lottery. I didn't hear
the story about the Wisconsin person that's never played, but this is not the place you want to
play for the first time. Yeah.
What did you shoot? What's your low round at Augusta?
I broke 100, but it started with a nine. I was very sad about that because I putted well,
but I hit it awful. And I was a complete tourist. I was like, all I did was walk around
and take pictures the whole time.
If I did it again now, I would have a way different approach.
But I was super touristy the whole time.
I look back on it now and I mean, whatever.
I think I probably had like quadruple pleated pants
and like a bad part in my hair.
So it was a lot about that day I'd like to redo.
Hopefully I'll get another crack at it here yeah yeah let us know Hank will definitely play with
you by the way yeah he would actually it's the opposite of you he would quit
yeah he would quit Barstool as a whole for one round for one round yeah so very
easy but um there was another throw it all away Hank yeah you got a good thing
cooking man another big reason people tuned in to see Vern for the last time
yeah it's not gonna feel the same without Vern
I assume that you've gotten to know him over the years. Can you just tell us what he's like behind the scenes?
He's like there's certain people I think that you
Whatever you think
Imagine Vern Lundquist would be like like I think we all can be cynical, right?
I mean all of us.
And we can kind of roll our eyes and stuff.
And then there's certain people you meet
and you're like, that's Vern Lundquist.
And there's a reverence because he's been
this soundtrack of so many incredible moments.
And he's really great.
And he's been incredibly nice to me.
And so the other day on our broadcast,
the producer from CBS, his name is Seller Shy, he's like,
you want to say something to Vern?
You want to do something here on Vern?
I'm like, man, that'd be awesome.
I didn't have anything written down, but I just said that the moments here don't need
anything.
The moments at the Masters stand on their own, but an iconic call can make these moments
forever moments. And Vern has made like made moments
completely elevated to a different level. Like yes, sir, with Jack and in your life,
if you ever seen anything like that with Tiger, you don't just remember what they look like. You
remember what they sounded like because of Vern. And I went on and on about how great it was for us
at ESPN to be able to share part of the weekend and show
our respect and appreciation because we're just, you know, we're talking for all the
people out there.
And he came up to me the other day and it was like, he was choked up about how he could
never thank me adequately for what I said.
And I'm thinking to myself, there's surreal moments in your life.
And here's Verne Lundquist thanking me for thanking him. And it was like, all I could do not to like, I wanted to pick him up and hug him.
Yeah, I didn't want it to get weird for Verne. So I just told him how sincere I meant what I said. And it's been a treat to get to know him because he's such a gentleman. And he's a legend in broadcasting. And like, look, we've all gotten to know each other, right? And I think you guys understand that
I appreciate all this, but there's certain times that you just can't even believe that it's what
you get to do. Like you cross paths with that guy at this event. And on Thursday and Friday,
you're calling the golf and he's on the call with you. And you're like, how did any of this happen? So it was really,
really something I'll never forget when he was so appreciative of me just saying thanks,
which is what everyone would do if they had that chance. You know what I mean?
It's so, it's such a great point too, when it comes to sports and like the announcers
that just live in your head. Like I always just think of college football and Keith Jackson.
Like it's always, it will just forever be ingrained in my brain and you know, Brent
and all these guys. But yeah, Vern, those moments, especially the tiger moment, like
that's, yeah, that's the first thing you think of is just repeating what he says as tiger's
ball rolls in. Uh, I got one more master's question. Then I got another question. Then
we'll let you go. Cause I know you, you, uh, you got a flight to catch. We were talking about this. The green jacket ceremony. Awesome. Very unique to sports in the fact that you
have the champion from last year putting on the jacket for the champion this year. Like
could you ever imagine Tom Brady handing over a Super Bowl trophy to you know patch from
homes he wins it the next year. Uh, have you ever talked
to anyone about that and being like, is that fuel? Cause like I, John Rom does it, you
can't look comfortable in that moment to be like, I'm here, I'm competing and now I've
got to put the green jacket on you. And I wanted to win this thing this year.
I actually was really lucky to be able to talk to Arnold Palmer about it like a long
time ago, because there was this series of time when,
and I mean, it predates me mostly, but I mean, it was Palmer and Player and Nicklaus, the big three,
and there was like this, there's a stretch and I'll get it wrong, but it was like, Gary put it on
Jack, Jack put it on Arnold, Arnold put it on Gary, like it just, it traded hands among that trio.
And I mean, I mean, in so many words, Arnold was like, well, of course, there's just enormous respect, but there's just nothing that would make you your, your competitive fire burn brighter than the idea that I got to put this thing on this guy.
Right. That I wanted to beat like, and then, and he, and he beat my ass and now I have to give him this. I still have mine, but like, you're the one that gets this now. I think that there is something that is, uh, it's, it's, it's like a sacred part
of the week and it just shows the reverence and the respect that the
champions have for each other.
But hell yeah.
If you got it, like you think Ron wants to put it on Scotty?
Like those guys were going back and forth all year last year.
Right.
And, and now, you know, look, Ron got all the dough and he didn't have his best.
I saw him on Saturday and he's, I said, you know, you battled your ass off
yesterday, he said it was not a good day to not have your best stuff, but I
gave him credit as a champ.
He wanted to be here playing the weekend.
He didn't want to have to stick around and not be able to go home and have to
wait till Sunday, right, to put the jacket on, but you're absolutely right.
That there's that it's, it's a revered part of the traditions and there's a long list of them, but it absolutely is the kind of thing that, that stokes the fire among
these most competitive guys. And wouldn't surprise anybody if Rom wanted again next year, but
yeah, there's so many things I love about, uh, about this week. And, um, I think one
of them we probably
have to do here. Yeah, that was right. That was my light. Wait, if if Scotty, because
I don't even remember when tiger went back to back, what happens if Scotty wins next
year? Does he just put it on himself? No, he gets, he gets to go streaking. That's
the rule. He went to a run around, but no, I like the chairman. The chairman is the one that would put the jacket on him. And
to me it's more fun when it's, especially when it's great champions like it was today,
which is pretty much every year. If you're a master's champion, it's obviously great.
But when you're talking about really high ranked players, like those moments are more
memorable I think.. I agree.
What is the next year? He's out of his mind. Yeah. All right. So row back question. R H
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So Scott, what are we working with this year?
All right.
That was a real lengthy read.
The vending machine.
That was a very lengthy read.
All right, hold on.
I got to turn my camera around.
Wait.
Can the old guy figure it out?
No, nobody knows.
How do I turn it around?
Oh, no
You're gonna have to just do it the manual way. I am that's here. Hold on. Let me turn around sideways
And then let's just turn it around this way
We have the big Texan
We got cheese. It's Fritos. Those look like Oh chili cheese Fritos or one one. Oh, no cool rancher You know. We got cheese fix munchies. Okay. We
got the, Ooh, there's the Mrs. Freshly's again. Guys. I have terrible news. No big Texas.
I think that are you going to be able to survive the flight back? Oh no. Pull out to reveal
guys. Can we see everything? Yeah, we can see everything. I think you got to go chili
cheese Fritos and uh, I would go, I would go chili cheese Fritos, maybe cool ranch
Doritos and then the miss fresh lease.
I'm just wandering around the FBO here now. Now I'm just going to sit on this leather
couch in this bright light and just say, what a sad thing it is that there's no big Texas.
This is a, we're going to speak. We're going to have to speak to the folks here. There's,
I did run into my, the youngster that gave me the gross of Big Texas last year at the PGA.
Literally I think he's like a Big Texas drug dealer.
I think he just has them because I swear to God, he was going to meet me with a case of
him.
I was like, I'll be honest with you.
I'm all good.
I'm good. It's more of a once a year thing. Yeah. I was like, I'll be honest with you. I'm all good.
More of a once a year. He was ready to, to, to deliver the goods. I think, um, I think I'm going to get the
chili cheese Fritos. Although big Texas, that would be a great nickname for Scotty.
Yeah. He's big taxes. He's a big Texas. Yeah. That's it. How poetic is that?
I know, I know, I know his guy. I know his guy Blake.
I'll get on the I'll get a shoot a note directly to him and say,
we've got PFT says the let's get the big Texas thing sorted out.
And, um, we'd be a great, great opportunity to make some dough there.
Yeah. Scotty's guy is Blake. Scotty's guy is Blake.
Lake of the year.
Damn. That's he's got it all. He's got a Blake.
Yeah.
That's crazy.
Is that couch the casting couch?
You don't even know that.
Say it again.
Is that couch the casting couch couch?
Whoa.
No.
I think this is where like the pilots come in here and hang out.
They're probably going to kick me out of here.
Well, last question, Scott, as someone who loves to take the points, March Madness,
not so great.
I mean, I needed to do, I needed to do, how about Portnoy?
Yeah, he's pretty good.
He's a sharp now. The fact that he also gets to say he was, he had a tweet when, uh, more cows was on 18 and he was like big
battle for third place money, AKA Portnoy money. Cause that he won more, I think than
the third place guy at the masters this week.
Well, let me just tell you as a guy that likes to take points, like you got Yukon is one
12 straight five by they've covered them all and they've been laying points and all of them for a guy who's like take the plus sign you end up with a big minus sign. I've
been on the struggle bus pretty mightily. I just I'm just going to tell you important
or because you you guys are apparently printing dough. Yeah. I mean we had our Scott Face
times me like two minutes before the tip off of the first game every year in March madnessness Like there's nothing better than this and then I think it was a record this year
I think it was three hours that you texted me back here. Like there's nothing worse than this. This is terrible
Literally, well, I facetimed it was like 1153
And that was like like am I lying big cat?
I mean there was but the joy and yes of our, like it was sincere joy.
And there was by the, like by the two 50 window, I'm like, it's all, it was all alive. It was
all alive. And then, but you want, what are you talking about? You can't future. I know
the Yukon, Yukon tournament. I know. I know. Well, Yukon winning it all made it a bad tournament
for me. So you know, I, I, I had
a total, I've had a total 180 on Hurley. I thought he was a complete, I thought he was
a lunatic and he kind of is, but I love, I love him. He's the best. He's the best. Cause
you know what it is? College basketball needs those type of guys. Like that's what college
basketball was for so long. The pay highs, K, like these guys that are crazy and yelling at people,
Hurley is the new, he's old school. Like we need someone to, to, to carry the torch.
But if you think about it, honestly, like his dad was a legend, his brother's Bobby
Hurley and he's like this guy that's kind of a hot head at the Stephen Hall or whatever.
And you're like, yeah, yeah, that other guy. Well, I mean, that's a lot to fight uphill
on right. And now like, and he was honest, he came on the show and talked about imposter syndrome and all this stuff. And
now it's like, now, I mean, I don't know, we've totally, we've lost the plot here. I'm sorry,
I've talked about that. Right. You're right. I really, I don't know, it's been a fun few weeks
in sports and I'm hope I'm happy my house isn't on fire this year. And I'll come on again.
You only ask once a year, but if you need-
Yeah, no, you come on again.
Yeah, we'll do it this summer.
And by the way, your boy Steve,
he had a great show on at Wing Night.
We do it every Final Four,
so you can rest assured that he-
He showed up.
He showed up.
He showed up big time.
He put down a bunch of wings.
Titus did not have a great show on Wing Night.
Titus got beat by the Wing.
Titus got put on the three-day DL. Did his three day DL. His tummy hurt? His tummy hurt real bad. He said on Friday night,
he was like, I beat the wings because we all went out. And then on Saturday, he looked like a ghost.
He was sitting on the toilet all day. Wait, can I ask one question on the way out? I need
PFT to weigh in on something. If you have a
dinner and you have a credit card roulette but one person leaves before, what should happen for that?
Like what should be, how should that be handled among the group? That's a good question. I think
their name should go in the hat. What if the person, and then somebody there covers it and
then they have to Venmo you back. Yeah.
What if also you forgot to mention
that the credit card roulette was not said
before that person-
That's true.
Is this a personal thing?
Yeah.
No, no, no.
They didn't bail on the credit card roulette.
They didn't know it was gonna be credit card roulette.
So that's fair.
You didn't, but I just, in general, I think-
I love credit card roulette.
I mean, me, of all people, you know that I love credit card roulette. I mean, me of all people, like,
you know that I love that like, you know, all or nothing after a dinner, there's nothing
better than that. So I, I, I would love that.
But you missed out on, you missed out on credit card roulette and you missed out on PFC handing
out. Handing out back to the bugs.
Made mistakes.
Right under the eye in the sky.
And guess what? My kids won't remember any of this shit. They won't remember made... I made mistakes. I made...
I made...
I made...
I made...
I made...
I made...
I made...
I made...
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I made... I made... I made... I made... I made... The catch all is always, it's fine. Everything's fine. Everything's fine. You're fine.
Also, it's not like I have an image to uphold
that involves not using drugs.
No, I think we just assume that's part and parcel
of the whole thing here.
If anything, it would have been good for my brand
to get arrested.
It's the beauty of working for Barstool.
I always tell this story when people are like, oh, what's
it like?
It's like, well, maybe it was like 11 years ago.
Trent, who's a good friend of ours, golfer for play pod,
he got a public intoxication ticket, so he just didn't show up for work on a Friday.
Dave was just mad that he didn't blog his mugshot right when he got out of jail.
That was why he got in trouble.
He's like, why the fuck didn't you blog it?
Right. If any if any place is going to is going to like benefit from the book, why the fuck didn't you block it? Right. If any, if any place is going
to, is that is going to like benefit from the book, from the mug shot. I think doesn't
still have his mug shot as his, as his, uh, I think he changed it. It was a good mug shot.
Yeah. Listen, st. Louis, yeah. St. Louis ticks came on. It wasn't his fault. He's just
like, yeah, Rumpelmann, St. Louis. Yeah. All right. Well, Scott, thank you as
always. We got to get you out of Chicago too. You got to come to do this. Yeah. Later. We've
been talking. Yeah. For a Cubs game and we'll do the whole thing. I'd love that. And I'm
psyched. You boys are out there and it's always great to be all with you. Yeah. Thank you.
You're the best man. Get home safe. Love you, boys.
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Okay, let's wrap up the show with little NBA talk. We'll
Have our guy Rossella on I think we're having JJ Reddick on soon too, talking more detail NBA playoffs. But we have it set. The Celtics are the one
seed. They've been the one seed for like a month. The Thunder are the one seed in the
West. The upstart young Thunder, who are very, very good. And then we have some play-in action
with the LeBron's got to play in. Steph's a play in the Bulls got a play in the Sixers got a play in against the Heat
So I don't know where you guys want to go. Do we want to say predictions that are probably stupid and will look dumb?
Yeah, I got one. Okay. I like the magic in the first round. Oh
Little small upset there over the calves the calves are better at home. So it's good. They got their home court
Yeah, but uh yeah, and also we had home court
We had we had seeding drama on Sunday the Knicks and Tibbs got clinched a second seed the Bucks
maybe we're just trying not to get the second seed because the second seed in the East feels like
Dangerous having to play maybe this or you'll have to play the Sixers or the Heat,
which is a pretty good team in both of them.
But also Tibbs will never not play all his starters
and play game 82, like it's game seven of the NBA Finals.
That's what Tibbs does.
I like the Sixers to beat the Heat.
I also like the Sixers to beat the Knicks.
Ooh.
And then I like the Sixers to beat the Bucks.
I do actually like that the Knicks tried,
because I think that you should have some pride and be like,
we're not ducking anyone.
We're going to try to, you know, we've had a great season.
Let's get home court if we can win this round.
We get home court second round, which does matter for the Knicks.
It would be cool, though, if teams could pick who they play.
Yeah, because you would not want to play against the Sixers.
Right, and if you did a draft, like the NBA loves ratings and doing new things.
Two new things the NBA should do, they should do a draft of the top four seeds get to pick
who they get to play in the first round, and also there should just be an automatic, Wemby
makes the playoffs clause.
Yeah, he gets added to his. What team would Wemby?
I want to see him so bad in the playoffs.
He's so he's such a fucking freak and it's insane.
Did you see that game on Friday night when he was just splashing threes and just.
He's an alien and his logo is awesome.
And he should have been he should be in the playoffs.
We should just make a Wemby gets to be in the playoffs clause in the NBA bylaws.
I agree. So in the East, I think it's the Celtics. Congrats, Hank.
Hank, how are you feeling?
I'm excited. I'm very excited. Very, very excited. Championship or bust.
Yeah. Championship or bust. And the East, you're going to walk through because Yannis has hurt.
The Knicks are great season, but I think the Celtics are a better team.
Sixers, you never have to worry about them.
The Heat?
No.
No!
I mean, I would like to beat the Heat just for the storyline's sake, but I'm not concerned about him.
I think we would roll.
So there's no one that worries you?
I don't even want to waste time with the fucking Bulls or 76ers.
I hope that the play-ins work out where we don't have to play when guys just cuz like it's Just gonna be a pointless wait you hold on back up
The 76ers and Bulls are not exactly on the same in this in terms of not
Oh, no, the Celtics, but the Bulls are not good neither
Sixers 76ers are 76 the six are good the Sixers are in this spot because Joe and bead missed two months
The Bulls are in this spot because they're not a very good team
Better winning percentage than the Celtics when and bead and max you both play. Whoa. Oh, is that true?
What's that like five games?
Is it now it's like 32 games. Oh, that's yeah. No the six
I mean, it's a eighty six game actually guys fucking so you just lumped the Bulls in the sixers in the same spot
I'm gonna say no. That's not true. I'm just saying
in terms of the show and you guys doing the whole like oh what if the bulls are not going
to lose the Sixers. The Bulls aren't going to win anything. They either will. I like
I'd be if the Bulls win the plan. Great. But I also hate Jerry Reins or so much. I don't
want him to pretend that they made the playoffs.
The Sixers are a problem. I'm just going to say it. I agree with Max.
For Max?
No, the Sixers are a problem for you.
Got it.
I think-
Would that not be the worst?
I think the Sixers could beat the Knicks and I think they could beat the Bucs because Doc
Rivers is pulling a major Doc Rivers right now. We might not have ever seen a Doc Rivers
perform at such a high Doc Rivers level as he's done this year. The Bucs are not a good team right now. The Sixers are in Yonis really good
Yeah, and Yonis how how late would you sleep in if the Sixers beat the Celtics this the entire summer?
Eight one two, so you don't want this
I think you see what I'm saying when you said but we don't want to do the with the Bulls and Sixers. I think one's a little different than the other.
I guess but it would just be a you would not pass. Give me the finals. This is this is
this is championship contending teams. First round just second round dominate. Get to Eastern
Conference finals finals as the one seed. You do not want to see the Sixers as the eight. Like at all.
I guess. I don't think it really matters.
But the Sixers are for sure better than the Bulls.
You would win in four against the Bulls without even having to play your guys.
I think we'd win in four against you guys?
No way.
Sounds like a sweet bet to me.
Wow.
Sixers need to beat the heat explain it explain it again to me because I forget every single year how the 7 8 9 10
So laying system works
So how would the Sixers end up being able to be the eights if they lose to the heat?
Yeah on Wednesday night, and then they beat the Hawks of the Bulls, okay
So the the Bulls and the Haw, and then on the other side,
the kings and the warriors
cannot get higher than the eighth seat.
Right.
The bulls can't get to the seventh seat,
the warriors can't get to the seventh seat.
It's the winner of the six or seven,
eight becomes the seventh seat,
and then they have to play the winner of the nine, ten,
and that's to decide the eighth seat.
Right.
So, okay. So we're rooting for the heat. So we're rooting for the heat to beat the sixers to decide the 8th seed. Right. So, okay.
So we're rooting for the Heat to beat the Sixers.
And then the Sixers to beat the Hawks or the Bulls.
Correct.
And then they get to 8th.
Although I'll be rooting for the Bulls if they play the Sixers.
I will.
Sorry Max.
Because that would also be very funny if the Sixers just didn't even make the playoffs.
I honestly wouldn't hate that.
Like that would just be like, alright fine I don't have to. I thought no one wants to see this. Yeah, we know what
it was. The Sixers don't even want to see this. That just flipped. No, I know that that
won't happen. You're basically right in the back. You're essentially right back into the
Big East tournament. Kinda. No, but the Sixers are like the six or no, it's totally nobody
is that when you just get hurt like two nights ago. Yeah. But he played he finished that game.
Um, okay. The way he dropped like 34 in like 20 minutes. Okay. The West, the West is more
the West is basically you could be like the thunder are really, really good, but they're
too young. So I was thinking about this. They are young, but everyone's saying they're too
young. They're, they might be too young to know how young they are. But the NBA is kind of the one league where it does, it's, it, it, it does feel like you
got to take your lumps. You know, all the, all the championship teams had their lumps.
They took their lumps. Then they climbed back up, got over the mountain. Uh, I'm not saying
that. No, I agree though. It is just the two young, like they're really good.
I'm not saying they get to the finals. And SGA's awesome. They can win a couple series, and we're
going to have this conversation, I predict,
in like three weeks where it's like nobody told the thunder
they weren't supposed to win the series.
Yeah.
You know?
They're not too young now.
Yeah, exactly.
So you're too young until you prove that you're not.
I think I like the Nuggets a lot.
I think it's theirs to lose.
It seems like we're on a crash. There's just hell Celtics nuggets
There's no you can't defend against the nuggets when they're playing like you can't when when yokich is even having like a B game
You're like a C plus game
All it takes is one of the other guys to step up a little bit and he's just such a problem to solve
Especially if you're trying to fend him and when they get going on the pick and roll like there's no there's no real way to stop them
Yeah, so I feel like the nuggets and the Celt There's no real way to stop them. I feel like the Nuggets and
the Celtics are just kind of both inevitable.
Yeah. It feels like the entire West is just basically health because the Nuggets have
dealt with injuries. It's health and the two young Thunder. Nuggets have dealt with injuries.
Carl Anthony Towns is coming back. The Clippers are always injured. I like the Mavs. The Mavs
have been playing great. The Suns are are always injured it's just who can stay healthy
and then LeBron and then LeBron we I would like to see LeBron in the
playoffs of course I would also like to see LeBron not make the playoffs that
also either way yeah both ways would be funny so what do we have for the finals
the Nuggets versus Celtics Nuggets Celt. Nuggets over Celtics in five. I'm
gonna go Celtics over sons. Oh, because you don't want the nuggets. Yeah, you're scared.
In five. You're like Embiid. You're Freddie Yokich. What are we gonna do about this bet?
I listened to the show. No, I parlayed Scottie Scheffler in the nuggets to win the title.
I now have the nuggets to win the title at 21 to one.
We are gonna table this conversation until May 20th,
which is the start of the conference finals.
Then we can have a discussion.
I'll cash out right now because I love you so much.
I think that would be dumb to cash out right now
because it might not matter.
Okay, all right.
May 20th, so you have reminder.
You have Nuggets over, or you have Celtics over sons and how many games five?
You're in fantasy land. I have nuggets. Yeah, I have nuggets Mavericks Western Conference final
Max Homa, did you hear his quote? What do you say when things are going bad? I try not to think about what's going bad
I try and dream about what could happen. Oh, you do a lot of dreaming recently.
I am dreaming.
And then his yoke is Scotty Scheffler?
I'm just dreaming about not having to play the Nuggets and just dominating the Suns in
five.
That's what I'm dreaming about.
Okay.
Yeah, I mean, with injuries, could happen.
Anything could happen to play on.
Anything could happen.
That's the beauty of the play on.
All right, so you have Nuggets over Celtics in five. Okay, I have nuggets over Celtics in seven max
Sixers over Clippers in six. Okay. Nice. We will do a full NBA
Preview when we when we get the full playing games. I'm excited for the playing game
I mean what I think is gonna happen in the West we're gonna see Lakers warriors in the playing game. I mean, what I think is gonna happen in the West, we're gonna see Lakers-Warriors in a playing game.
Oh, so the Lakers would lose and the Warriors would win.
Yeah, for the ratings.
For the ratings.
Yeah, the Kings have been sliding back and they're not.
We're not lighting the beam this year.
No, we're not.
They also have this like, they have like a couple guys
and then everyone else is like, ooh, who's that?
Yeah. Not so great. Yeah, okay. We're ready for else is like, oh, who's that? Yeah, not so great
Yeah, okay. We're ready for the NBA playoffs hank championship or bust
This is hanks mood for the rest of the summer is going to be reliant on it. Would the mood
I feel like the mood would be really bad if you guys lost to the sixers or you lost in the eastern conference final Would the mood be bad if you went to the finals and yes, okay
Bad let's just move we move we're just on mood watch that's why I need to cash out that's why I need to cash out I don't want a mad Hank all summer is not worth
it but here's the thing it's like if Hank if the Celtics do win the
championship Hank I will be so Hank's mood is gonna be equally bad just in the
opposite direction.
You know, he's going to walk around like he's better.
He's going to think he's better than Hank.
Hank tried to claim today that no one has had as many losses, tortured losses as him.
And Max just rattled off like these losses in the last 12 months that Hank just stopped
and was like, okay, maybe you.
Yeah.
He did that.
Like being a Boston sports fan is so hard
Yeah, no max is a way bigger loser
It is so funny how this this podcast has really worked out that it's just like
Pftn are such losers that like doesn't faze it doesn't even sniff
Like I don't get such big losers that we don't we're not even losers anymore. It's like non-fact.
I don't even get mad.
You were like, big guy kept saying you would make this bet in a heartbeat.
I said you would never have a team that has this much of a favorite to win a championship.
Yeah.
Kale, talk to me in two weeks when I get Kale Williams.
Talk to me in two weeks then.
Oh, dude, Hank, you're going to hate us so much when we have two elite quarterbacks and
we win for the next 15 years.
Statistically speaking, we're both going to have elite quarter. Really good. Yeah. It's going to be first to pick,
going to change this entire, the entire course of the podcast is going to change.
Yeah. This is title town. This desk right now, how many NFC championships you think
we'll match up in between the two of us? Like five or six, I'd say five of the next six
could be incredible. Yeah. It's going to be like Seahawks, uh, 49ers. Yeah. Going back
and forth. We'll buy our tickets for it at the start of every season. Oh, man. I hope it happens
No, don't they don't I do you just want you just want to win and watch us lose
Just not even be a nut you don't even want us to be good enough to have heartbreaking loss
No, just give me give me give me basketball. You guys can have football give Hank basketball and Marvin and hockey. I'll take hockey
Give Hank basketball and Marvin Harrison Jr. And hockey. I'll take hockey too.
Yeah.
Alright, well yeah, we're gonna have Whitney or Biz on.
The thing about Marvin Harrison Jr. also, he's going to
want to get the fuck out of New England
so fast if he doesn't have a quarterback.
Well, he's gonna ask for a second contract, like, the first day.
You ready to give it to him?
You gotta watch the state.
You know, you have to wait until your working deal's up.
I do, I will back Hank up on this.
Hank is doing something that I do all the time in sports.
I think we all do it.
You see one guy one time live.
Yeah, from the field.
And he's just the greatest player of,
he saw Marvin Harrison against Wisconsin in Camp Randall,
and he ran across the entire field
and caught like a four yard pass,
then took it to the house for a touchdown.
And at that moment, Hank was like,
this is the greatest wide receiver ever.
And I completely back you up,
because if I see someone do something live,
it's like, I've said it before,
but I thought Luke Kennard was gonna be
the greatest NBA player ever,
because he dribbled behind his back as a lefty,
and I was like, this guy's fucking insane.
I mean, Marvin Harrison is awesome.
Yeah, he's always.
And Jacoby Brissette can make that throw.
But if he had gone to an LSU game this year,
he would be like, neighbors.
Yeah.
Well, yeah.
Anthony Edwards.
I mean, not Anthony Edwards, Anthony Richardson.
Yeah, that was another one.
You were kind of right on that.
All right.
So?
So you are a scout.
Give me Marvin Harrison.
I'm backing you up. All right, numbers. you you're you are a scout. Give me Marvin. That's you up. All right numbers 40 28
3 56 18
99 pug are we never gonna address the 72?
73 oh, we should probably talk about that real quick. Oh, yeah Brooks. Oh he zoned out
Didn't get 72 and and then shot 73-73
the first two days.
And what number did he get?
73 for his score.
So he's just got to focus on, he's got to focus.
It's actually our fault, though, because we should have had
the lottery ball pick like 68.
And then he would have been great.
Yeah.
And he would have won the Masters.
Yeah.
All right, what were the numbers again?
Say them again.
40.
20.
30.
18.
I just wanna hear Pug say it again.
99 Pug.
Pug, how was your farmer's day dinner?
21.
Delicious Pug.
We were ordering dinner and you just texted back
We're like I got my own food cuz your stomach ailments and I was like, yeah, he's just he eats farmers dog every day
Special food from the vet
99. 99. 99. Two time winner. Get in here. Get in there. That's not 66 right. Get inug. I don't think the people have seen all the podcasts.
You can see them from the booth.
Oh, true, true.
Put the cello blue jacket on him.
The green jacket.
Got you there, memes just snapped it, Hank.
One of the greatest rivalries in part of my life
is memes versus Hank that we need to do like a documentary.
Maybe when we have a slow PMTV week.
Best day of memes of life was Thursday.
We should do a Hank memes telling of the rivalry.
What's the 24-7 Hank first memes?
Yeah.
Pug, how do you feel?
Two-time winner?
Nope, your mic's not on.
Oh, there we go.
It's on.
No, it's unbelievable.
I'm just happy to be here, lucky to be here.
You and Scottie Shepard.
Who said that?
Oh.
Who did say that? Yeah, lucky to be here. You and Scottie Scheffler. Who said that? Who said that? Oh, who did say that?
He, yeah.
Pug.
Okay.
So two time winner like Scottie Scheffler,
what are you gonna do with winning second time?
I don't know, maybe just go to the vet again.
Yeah.
So some people are saying you're a system dog,
that you can only win on 99.
Are you gonna switch from 99
or are you gonna stick with the system?
Good question.
I actually, I thought about it after the first one and a lot of people were saying it would be phony to switch from
99 so also the merch. Yeah, true. I mean I don't really affect things. I sure never go by shirt
They're great shirts. I don't think we ever put those out. We should put them out
personally
They're like the best design shirts we've ever made I don't think we ever put him out. Yeah, now we're gonna have to what
Now we have to drop him pug yeah
Well, you didn't say pug after the last one. Okay. Well, so a pug last question robot question
Are you a little worried because I think this is the week we're getting mr. Payer. So now we're gonna have a pug in a pair
Yeah, um, Sounds like a podcast.
We should just have Pug just talking interviewing Mr. Pear once a week. No, I mean, I'm fine
with it. I'm excited to meet him. And, you know, I think I think it'll be good for the
show. Yeah. Don't don't try to show that. Yeah. Yeah. Don't swallow no guarantee. Oh, is there anybody that you'd like to thank?
All the pugs out there
All my dogs
All my fellow putties who putt?
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