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Today is Monday, April 15th, Tax Day, and Scotty Shuffler's got a.

I wouldn't want to win it. No, because what he's got to, he could probably get clear as $2 million after taxes. Yeah, the rest is going to Ukraine. Congrats, Scotty.

You're a true ally. Scotty Shuffler is very happy today. Max Homa is very hungover today because Max, he hasn't drank in a long time, he said. Afterwards. They asked him, Max, how are you going to 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 going to feel great. Yeah, so congrats to Scotty. Scotty was dominant, he kicked everyone's ass.

He 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 hitting the shot at nine, I think, is really when it was over.

When he hit that approach shot to three inches, at no point did it feel close. Oberg looked like he Oberg will win. I'm calling my shot. Oberg's going to win multiple major championships in his.

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 Scotty Scheffler might might not be able to do this.

And, uh, 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.

But then he started thinking about it. He's like, Ah, if 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 to Stingray situation.

Scottie 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, valor of him being like, Oh, I would leave at any minute.

Right now, it's 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.

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.

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 got to send him another funny video. It just devolved. The weekend devolved 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 parade with the Sixers, It was Max just completely duffing a tee shot, so that was. I was hoping he was trying to focus for a Sunday at the Masters.

He was thinking of thinking about Matt. Well, no. I sent it to him on Saturday night and then he was superstitious. That I was like, I sent you a video. He's like, Yes, you got to send another one, that's crazy.

So it would be like I sent one on Friday at like 7 00 p.m. on Saturday at like 6 30, like he was done. I'm just saying, no one should be thinking about Max. Well, listen, until today, it was working.

He was literally like, I'm going to be Max Homa, I'm not going to be fat Max. We had a thing, it felt like it was working.

And then he shot his.

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 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 than it felt.

Yeah, that 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, uh, you freaking out, uh, the Phillies, saying you look ridiculous. So I thought I thought these were just topical ones.

You were just going into the bank, Yeah, I was going to 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 in, I went deep in the bank. I was sending them all your like low lights, being like, Did we got two maxes in this world? we got this max and you, you're going to win the Masters.

That's kind of cool, yeah, right, it would have been cool 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 superbowls from the bathroom, so you can't say a superstitious loop doesn't happen.

Well, cause.

John Rom also that guy, he just wanted to get out of there. So, so bad. How?

Right, because.

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, we did that.

We did the mini golf thing this week. And you realize, you know, when you're 10 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? You just start fucking around.

Brooks had to do.

You can't write notes. It was his eighth grade. I assume Tiger just pass him a note, being like, I'm so fucking.

If you're sitting in the butler cabin next to these guys, it's gotta be a little intimidating. But we got to figure out what no gate like. If he had said, Hey, hit this shot instead of this shot, that would be illegal. He's also not a Uh like 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.

It rocked. So the the note that was allegedly sent Neil Neil Shipley could have taken down Tiger Woods. Yeah, he could have just ratted him out. It'd been like, Hey, he told me to hit six there.

So I guess you have to penalize him. Oh, I guess I beat Tiger today.

Can you give me a ride home? But yeah, the the the Verne Lundquist Tiger moment was great, Tiger looking like he was shaking the hands of a tree.

Just just with that big smile on his face. Vern I didn't.

No, so here's the story. this is from, uh, Holly Anderson reported on it. Uh, this is from a story a couple of years ago, uh. Talking about Vern Lundquist and his third wife, who he's still married to. We met in a bar, and I have 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 he, 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 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.

Yeah, he actually could be. It's his middle name, is it? it is? what's his first name?

Merton Laverne Oh, his name is.

He does.

Oh, he's a junior. There's another Merton Laverne. Damn please, Merton's is my father.

Yeah, I'm Vern, but Vern is the best. What if he just calls himself Merton when he's like, when he's out on the prowl, on the?

The golden Throat isn't that? Nancy Reagan It is. Yeah, I don't know.

Also very funny.

That's tough, tough break for Rory. Yeah, Rory, I feel like I didn't even see Rory. So Tiger, before the tournament started, Tiger was doing his press conference or whatever, 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 ahead of time being like, Yeah, Rory, he's great.

He's good. 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 a decade.

You can't just say I will win a Masters because you get that vibe from me. Yeah, although I just did that to Oberg, Oberg's got a lot of years, Oberg, I said, multiple.

Oberg's a robot.

And then I always get the red zone feel of why you wouldn't show it to us unless it's going in, like, when Scott Hanson's like, and we go to Tennessee, like, here comes a pick six that drives me nuts. Just let us just think everything's live.

Yeah, like nine shots of Tom Watson and Jack Nick, I saw Jack Nicholas tee off like four times. Yeah, yeah.

That that does happen every.

Like, I got this, you know, I can shoot minus seven tomorrow, and then he missed the cut, I think he shot.

Also, there's there's so many cams now, there's a lot of cameras, there's three camerons. We had three cameras that finished 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.

They're all Jacksons, yeah, or some form of Jackson, I don't. I was hoping that first name or last name.

Uh, first and last, No, I think there's a last. Two Jacks, Oh yeah, Jackson Churio, Jackson Moreau and Jackson Holly, so all.

First, I was hoping that it was, uh, linked up perfectly with outcasts. Sorry, Miss Jackson, but it was a few years off that would have been sick if that one song made just.

It feels like the age of Mats is going past. There was a time when there were like nine starting quarterbacks in the N.FL, all named Matt. Yeah, we're losing them, we're.

Championship Yep.

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 10 toes down afterwards, be like, I stand on it. He was like, I can't even hear them, yeah.

That's.

And then he said about, Uh, 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. Yeah.

Cause you don't usually hear guys like they come off and they're like, 15th, what an.

Yeah, probably hates most holes, yeah, a lot of them.

I almost bought the pants, by the way, from that, uh, his new advertiser, Melvin, after everyone told me that I was a loser.

Yeah, oh also Bryson, Bryson.

I don't.

He was just like, I need it 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 Stan.

Hank loves him, he's a Stan of Bryson. 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 on the live tour, not anymore.

Why? Cause I had a round Robin, Uh, I needed a bunch of guys to finish top 20, and Brooks and Rom screwed everything. That's neither here nor there.

BRYSON I like, I just want, I like, I like his YouTube videos, I watch his YouTube videos, I've come around, that's fair.

You love his content online? I 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.

And 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 3D printed clubs, yeah.

He will win one. His logos are pretty cool, the I just read rap for, Uh, just wrote this. He blogged some master's. 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, you know, 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. I'll be able to use all my science, Bryson's.

I have an advantage. He'll like close one eye and it'll be like the.

And Hank will.

Not.

QR 10.

Let's just press a button, you press it, you stand next to the ball. That sounds like perfect golf for me.

It goes straight, Yeah, you should. You should be allowed to cheat at golf with the clubs that you 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.

He's got a face of a 40 year old, but he's 27.

He's going to, let's, let's do the fun, debate how over under.

And what's what's a tiger at 16?

I want to 17. Jack Nicklaus is at 18, Tires at 15 15. Okay.

And he is at four, four, five, no, two, two. He hasn't won anything besides the Masters. Yeah, he has to get 10 majors.

His career is already a disappointment 10 majors at 27. Yeah, that's crazy that he hasn't, he's just finished second.

How many?

So he turned 27, and oh, two, he had three Masters, two PGAS, two U. S Opens and an Open, so it's at eight, seven, okay, so yeah, eight, eight, yeah.

So Scotty, Scotty's a boss. Scotty sucks. I was a boss. Yeah, no. I think he's got to win at least four over under three and a half. Green jackets.

So when? when you win green jackets?

Like, who presents it? Yeah, I think he has to.

I mean, it's probably.

He probably is rooting for that so that he can put on the jacket. Yeah, so 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.

Oh, one time to that guy's house, put on the green jacket and only the green jacket. I think that Augusta would have a.

Hmm, you won't guess. I will guess. let me, let me, let me look, okay?

I will guess, Um, ooh, maybe Nick Faldo? No, why not? it wasn't Nick Faldo.

FaLDO All right, I bet you.

How old do you think Patrick Reed's daughter would be? DJ No, not Marco Mira, not Marco Mira's daughter.

Oh, okay, I got it, I didn't say no, I know.

Uh, all right, should we talk some? Uh, UFC 300 that fucking rocked.

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. I 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 good. The fans, what they want, it was just Justin Gaethje. For. I mean, he was getting his ass kicked and then he's like, all right, fine.

I was getting knocked.

Just like five feet in diameter. Just stand in there and punch each other until somebody wins.

Yeah, like, no, it's all right, I got this and just fucking.

Uh, wang No.

I'll find it, I'll find it. Anyone want to help? Wang Lee Wow.

Weili Zhang. She choked out, she choked out, uh, her opponent in the first round. But she got like, saved by the uh. Bell, where I've never seen someone get choked out. And then they just they the bell rung. She was completely out, she basically got helped up, was loopy and then fought another.

I'll get punched in the face some more but that.

That was a moment that made it feel like worth it to purchase this fight, and it was just.

Let's just toss right now. Yeah, it was very cool. Yeah, um, and then?

I will, I will definitely watch it out of doubt. But he's been out of the game for so long that it might just be like, sad watching him if he might just get his ass kicked.

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 is different.

He makes the way and into a circus. That's going to be good for Conor McGregor. It doesn't really matter what happens. And good for us and good for us.

It's always like, what could have been?

Any ATS fight is an awesome guy. Uh, okay, like that didn't hurt his legacy. No, no, no, that was Warriors.

Yeah, uh, all right. Anything else for her to do? Who's back?

So I got a scramble, but I have to read these ads so you you find a different one, okay, is that fair, sure.

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Coors Brewing Company, Golden Colorado Hank You're who's back of the week. Who's back of the week is the Nestor Cortez pitch? Oh yeah.

Good one, it's an all time. How'd you find that? So one of the craziest pitches of all time? He's a fee.

That's Bush League, Yeah, Bush League. Did you watch it? yeah.

What did he do? It was Bush League, has Pit explain. Describe to us what he did. He's a pitcher, so he wound up.

Okay, and he threw the ball and it was bullshit. He wound up showing up and show us he got called for a balk. It was a.

Show us what he did, he, he's a pitcher. I don't think it was called stand up and talk Hank. 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.

I'm a lefty, I don't know if I can do this. Fine Hank, what team does he pitch for? He pitches for the Reds.

Wait, he's a Yankee, he's a lefty for the Reds.

He's a lefty for the wound up, yup, 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. Okay, all right, so Big Cat is a.

Oh, oh, he got a fake one and throws again, he did a pump, fake he was, he was, he acted like.

Yeah, they were calling it bush, yeah, so what? Exactly? Are they mad at the fact that it was disrespectful to the game?

Uh, this is hilarious. Yeah, great balance, too, like that's so hard to do. incredible balance.

I mean, it's Bush League, but I 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 Cortez's side. This type of stuff belongs in the S in Savannah, in parentheses. Bananas. Not in the major league, all right, I'm now. I now think it's an awesome pitch. An unethical advantage?

So there's no way this is actually like a strategy that could, like, yeah, like, he has no. But it was like, 70, it's actually impressive that it was still 76. Yeah. So what are the rules?

You can't.

So I'm on Nestor 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 that I was going to look, I was going to look to see what happens.

He texted me, whatever? Um, he just said Nestor Cortez and I was going to look for it, and 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, cause we we had the same. Who's back? That was actually a very good job.

Thank you given the circumstance I catch up on sleep this weekend. Hank, I did. I'm well rested, good.

Sober as a goat.

Sober as a judge, sober as a nun.

Goats work goat. I don't know goats would drink any liquor, yeah.

And I think.

Yeah.

He is sober, uh, he went on. I don't know if it's a podcast or a show, I think it's 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 NF.L. and he said that he would be down for it. Oh.

And then he mentioned specifically, cause I forget what team the barber brought up. But then Tom Brady was like, maybe the Patriots, maybe the Raiders. So Hank, your goat, Tom Brady might come back and play for the Patriots. that would be fantastic, Hank.

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, well, they're going to give you two weeks of buildup.

Yeah, you're.

Who would you pick? I would pick not Caleb Williams, cause he's not yours, he's mine. I'm still down for Marvin Harrison Jr.

Oh, who's throwing the ball? No one, Bailey's at Kobe. Yeah, there's plenty of fine quarterbacks.

You're so fucked. There's not three, there's not 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 franchise quarterback? Or you have a franchise wide receiver who's a stud and can actually make things happen with a perfectly fine Jacoby preset? I mean, if there's Pedro's Wintels, you're going to have, like, we need five wins, you have to get a quarterback at some point. Wait.

So Hank Hank is doing the Joe Burrow meme. But instead of Where's Joe Burrow? and Pinay Sewell? Blocking form, throw it to literally anyone, Joe Burrow, anyone blocking form. 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 like that.

You need to draw that meme.

That would be in a good spot, that would be one of the best combinations instantly in the N.FL. 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 you wait until left and Tom Brady, I mean, it's been made pretty clear.

I understand, 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.

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, you need. we need your big board, you need to be ready for Drake May. Cause it's going to happen and then you're going to have to talk about it.

It's guaranteed to happen, I would say it's more likely than not.

Do you know who?

Yeah, throwing to Marvin Harrison, wouldn't that be a little bit difficult? I mean, yeah, we'll see. I'll, I'll do, I'll. I'll lock in this week and and do some draft research, yeah.

Cause we used to have.

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, yeah, so three through 13..

So assume that, uh, Caleb Williams or Jaden Daniels, or Drake May maybe has been taken at that point. Yeah, and then give us your.

It might not even happen. Is Friday going to work? how much? we tape that? on Thursdays? what time?

We can do 11.

Okay.

Watch a highlight. Yep, uh, but yeah, Brandon Iuke, that was, yeah. It was like the 49ers are on that, like they're going to have to make some hard decisions.

And also, T. Higgins said that he wanted to trade, too. Now I think T. Higgins is like a psych. I'm going to stick around and play. I 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 Bengal.

So you can ask for a trade all you want NFL, but they don't actually have to trade you. Shout out to kids, How about that kid?

I guess kids don't really lie like that, they don't really understand how to, yeah, what if a kid?

If it's on the fly, right, yeah, and they probably wouldn't kick out a kid.

Uh, my, who's back is?

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 NATO, she thought you were gonna get Danny Hurley, thought you're gonna get Billy Donovan, 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.

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.

Yeah, cause he's Mark Pope's coach, that's crazy and they're going to do a.

And, you know, if he needs help, I'll help him. That's insane. If I was a St. John's fan, I would not be happy about it. 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, cause he hates Cal, yeah.

Which this is what college sports are about, rivalries and deep seated hate. He hates Cal, Yeah, cause Cal, you know, made everyone forget about Rick Pitino.

So yeah, Rick Pitino's ready to, ready to chip in, it's ready to go. Uh, all right, Jake, my, who's back to the weakest people being mad online? So I think we talked about this with, Uh with the other day. But they do the media lottery every year.

This is, 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 3000..

I'd be like, you taking your son out for his first time golf at Augusta, and it'd be. You'd be like, but it was your first time playing too. And the whole time he'd be like, how do you hit the ball?

I hope she just skips like seven holes and she's like, Ah, I don't really feel like playing this one. I got a nine on the.

You won the lottery, you won the lottery, you gotta play she, she won and by the rule, like Hank are going to sit there and just be so. I hope she posts her score.

And it's it's like the lottery around of golf. If you've never wanted to play a round of golf in your life, it's Augusta covering it. Yeah, imagine being able to be like, Yeah, I played one round of golf in my life, it was at Augusta.

Why would you cover golf? And never any point in your life? You're like, maybe I should go and hit a couple of balls covering golf? She won. Fair and square he is.

I guess, so mad. Yeah, I'm not mad, it's just so mad.

But why are you mad? But why enter? Because it's Augusta, how do you not enter? yeah.

You have to enter because you've never, you've never had, at any point in your life, been like, I want to go.

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.

What if you are like you? 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.

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, yeah.

We would never. We're never going to play, that's what it is. Hank thinks he's going to play Augusta. I'll never play Augusta. No, you think you think if we cover it and we have credentials, 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, they were like, A-g-n-C. It's just called Augusta. Oh yeah, yeah, I don't like that.

Or a-g-n-g-C. You're not a member there. It's the same characters, though, yeah, but just come on, just say Augusta, it's the masters.

All right, let's get to Scott Van Pelt, let's talk a little masters. We'll get an answer to some of these questions.

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We now welcome on one of our very, very good friends, 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?

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. We're a year removed.

We're almost back and we're good. Masters week was awesome. Nothing but blue skies ahead, I hope.

We all are familiar with the text with the dot dot dot, which is like the late night dot dot dot. Maybe something great's about to happen in that dot dot dot. Well, I'm just waiting to see what he says and then nothing. I'm like, Oh shit, he's trying to figure out how to tell me this. I finally get the answer back.

It's bad, but it could have been worse.

You have a best friend that was telling you this. I'm thinking that means if you got into a fight with a man with a machete, he cut off your arm, but you're not dead. That was the way I was rationalizing it. Then I got home that night and it was 1.30 in the morning. You walk in and you're like, Whoa, this is bad.

Because in my head, by the time we took off last year, I was like, Well, it's out, they got it contained. I'm like, it's no big deal. We're good, we'll get a broom and we'll sweep some stuff up.

We'll live in the other half of the house. You get home and you're like, Oh, no, it's going to be a year and change anyway. It was not great, man.

It was a little more serious. Yeah, yeah, but you are, you are, you are the best for coming on with us. So let's talk about this.

Masters Scotty Schaeffler Uh, absolute domination. I I when we when we started the show and we were 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.

That's that's hashtag big cat.

If he could just start making some putts, he hit the ball so beautifully. More Cow has won a couple of majors. Oh, Berg is going to be a monster forever, like somebody is going to go shoot something low. Uh, 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, cause it was into the wind. Today he hit driver four ironings on the green. Uh, 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 relentless, and it did create maybe a sense that it was going to be, um, you know, somebody could catch him, but he's, he's got a different gear at the moment.

And he's, um, he's just an awesome guy. Has he been on with you? No, we actually, we don't know that much.

That family is getting ready to to to have an addition. And like 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, they try. Like Tiger did it forever, he was like, I gotta keep getting better.

And so, and 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 Scotty 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, I'm. 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 that's rare, like it's really rare. To be as good as he is at what he does and not have it impact who he is at all.

And I really don't.

Probably not.

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.

You know, it was great to see everybody.

Yeah, yeah. So instead of eating mushrooms, you were.

Look.

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.

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. And I mean, 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.

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 it we. We take it for granted.

Uh, but it seems like, 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.

Exactly what you?

And if you were up early with us Friday morning, we came on like seven, 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're thinking, Oh, this is going to be a hard, this is gonna 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 her. He just stares at whatever that pain or that adversity is, and he's like, Hey, fuck you, cause 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. And 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 is 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'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.

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 the gust and 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, like, how are we doing? Like, he's like, we're getting there talking about his own game.

Like, you can just, you know, I mean, you can imagine you 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.

Yeah, Charlie.

If you got the if, if, if, uh, if Scotty got the phone call. And I honest to God, I think he would have left like a knock 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 it's just he just needed to make, uh, he needed to make some putts yesterday.

If he made putts Saturday, I think he could have won today. At some point. You just have to you start applying pressure because you just know that you're running out of holes. You know, like, I've got to, and he just. It had to be incredibly frustrating, just to be so close so often, and um, and just not be able to get the butts to drop. But it's still for him and for more cow. Both neither had had great years so far. And so, um, you know, for both of them to play, uh, 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, I got it. This is so this is the truth. I got a text and I looked at him like, please don't be really scared there for.

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're 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 the last thing I would do right at seven, oh, five, 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 mean, well, they're being sincere, but like to me, it's it's like a 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, 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, like, Hey, not today, you know not.

Right now, I'm really not in the.

Yeah, for professional athletes, cause I'm just like professional athletes are like, like, when Josh Allen has had some heartbreaking loss. I'll be like, let's give it a little bit of time. Because, like, they don't, they don't, you know, they want to go through the whole course. I feel like he'll be back to normal in a couple of weeks.

I was yelling at.

Sure, but the the the number of things that go right if you try to hit it out of there versus the number of things. It's like, life's a risk reward thing. Yeah, the risk is 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.

Yeah, it was good job. 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, uh, I love this. This is just very masters of God. So there's rules and they follow the rules.

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?

Um, 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 was probably a really good moment. Yeah, not supposed to do that in golf.

I, I, I me, honestly.

If it said, like, last time I took a tampon out of my bag and then threw it on the ground, I got in trouble. So this note is me pretending like, I'm taking a tampon out. Yeah, same thing. Masters probably were not going that route.

Don't execute you for doing that. Yeah, what about, uh, another one I was curious about?

He's in great shape. I think that there he he sat in the UH 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, right?

But he came back, it felt like he there was a humility to the guy. I enjoyed the time that I that he spent. He came in a couple of days in the public 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.

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.

I don't know, I just said, no one gives a shit about this live stuff. At this point. It feels like golf just needs to get back together, but it's kind of complicated, cause, like the PGA Tour said, Hey, you can't take the money.