April 14, 2025 • 39 mins
Dan and Kerry in for C & R as they discuss the wild Sunday of The Masters. Dan and Kerry chat about the NBA's player attendance this past season. Plus, something neat happened with Mike Trout this weekend.
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Speaker 3 (00:19):
Happy Monday. Is there such a thing Carrier Roads?
Speaker 4 (00:22):
It is a such thing, especially after the weekend we
had with all the stuff going on.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
It was oh nazy, turvy crazy, my goodness, Yes, a
roller coaster ride. That was the masters for me. I
didn't swing a golf club on Sunday, but I was
zapped after four and a half hours of that excitement.
We'll dive into that. The NBA Playoffs are here. I
know you're jacked up about that.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
Yes, and even my Mavericks were still in the play
in so we still got a little excitement there with
them as well.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
I'm sure somebody went to a wedding this weekend and
saw the bride and groom get greeted by everybody time
and time again, and long lines. We're going to dive
into all of that and when too much is too much?
Jason Stewart's our executive producer to turn it up, right,
turn it up, turn it up, turn it up. Hello, Hello,
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(01:10):
I'm Covino and Rich. The music keeps rolling. Ryan Smith
on the Ones in News, Hello, gotta let it ride,
Let let it ride. I'll let Ryano. Chris Purfetts at
the News desk. Hi, I saw Chris yesterday.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
So this is we just did we really just did this?
Talk about that Rory roller coaster? Yeah, talk about this extreme.
This is extreme makeover Cavino and Rich edition. Because the
guys were in for Colin Coward earlier today. So I'm
in Coveno seat, carries in richest seat. Hello, Jason is
in Danny G's seat, Chris is in my seat. Ryan's
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in a seat that Chris usually sits in, that Sam
usually sits in. But Sam sending an earlier today. It's
chaos on.
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so to discuss the Masters, and I will say this.
I saw on social media somebody post give me a
screenshot of your best group texts for what happened during
Rory's victory. I think it was Claire Rogers, who covers
the game very well. I think she's the one that
put it out there. And I thought to myself, well,
(02:35):
I'm on very few group texts, and the group text
that I'm on did get sent. Someone sent something and
it was Jason Stewart. Jason Stewart on our Doug Gottlieb
show group text sent something out. And then someone else
texted me and it was Carrie Rhodes. And the only
I've got golf buddies back home, people I played golf with.
(02:58):
Had no communication with them whatsoever. Even my wife at
one point texted me at noon. I didn't see the phone.
I called her back, talked to her, but after that
it was basically because she was with Brody over at
my father in laws place, so I had the place
to myself. It was all Masters for five hours yesterday,
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and the two people that I heard from were Jason
and Carrie, So I appreciate it in engaging in the conversation.
I don't know how you were able to do it,
But did you because you were on the air at
the time yesterday, did you get a sense of what
was happening? Are you able to get that sense? Because
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I was. I don't have any fingernails today. It's the
greatest event that I think when you look at what
happened with the Masters yesterday, how do you consume it
when you're doing a live broadcast? Did you take everything
in in what was a magical moment in sports? Well,
the thing is I couldn't take everything in, right. I'm
not an avid golf golf supporter.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
I do occasionally watch and take part in the festivities, right,
But actually having Chris Perfet here and you know, he
was kind of taking your spot for me, Dan. He
was giving me the updates of what was going on,
the historic nature of the things that were happening, and
that was all fine and Dany, it was just so
much going on with basketball that I was.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Engulfed in that.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
But the moment when he bogeyed he missed a shot
on eighteen, Well, didn't bog he just missed a shot
on eighteen to win it. I love that part of
it because as an athlete, as somebody that doesn't like
to consume the easy things or take the easy way out,
I like to have to fight for every victory that
I have. That's part of my makeup. So to see
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that he didn't get it done on eighteen and had
to go into the playoff with all the weight of
everything else that was happening with him and hats has
happened to him for a long time. To actually have
to come back and do it again in that next
round to win, it was just historic for me. I
felt all of it.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
I felt that, and I felt that it was the
moment that transcended many You know, Chris, You've got a
background in golf, your dad lover of the sport as well,
and you were you were a number one Rory fan yesterday.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
I think I think carry like learned a lot from
just watching my reactions every time Rory was on the green.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
It was and I feel that I feel that a
lot of people felt that way. Jason Stewart did not.
Jason Stewart, our executive producer, was on the other side
of things, which put him against Rory McElroy. Is that
fair to say, Jason?
Speaker 5 (05:33):
I kind of root for collapses in my job. The
most interesting part of sports, I think, is when you
see an athlete failing when it counts most. To me,
that's the most riveting part of sports, is seen when
the lights are brightest, how people react. And I was
rooting for the best content, which is he loses another
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Masters on the back nine. So I was the one
guy rooting.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
A go good. There are people who felt if Rory
would have lost yesterday, that he would never win another major.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
I had that inkling in my mind as well. I
actually asked Chris, is this is his best chance to
get it done? And blah blah blah, and and it's it.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
It could go that way well again again to steal
from Jason Tatum, who stole from? Who did he? Who
did he? Still? I always forget, but ke, I guess
we'll never know. We'll never know if Rory McElroy wouldn't
have went again, because he did win the Masters. It
was an amazing day. And I feel safe in saying
I know Chris loves the sport. It's not a ranking
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of whatever, but I do feel that this is this
is my deal that this is something that I look
forward to. In fact, today it's a sad day that
it's over. That now I have to wait, you know,
three hundred and fifty eight more days for the Masters
to come around again. For as great as yesterday is,
there's now this. And I love the other majors and
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love what happens in the game of golf, and football
season occupies so much of our time in the fall,
but there's something about the second week in April that
is just it's everything for me. And yesterday was everything
with all of the history that went down, and I
realized in looking at this that it transpired into a
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point of when we look back at the Masters, there
are certain events that you look back at and will
always stand the test of time. Could be championships from
certain years with certain teams, but I think in the
Masters nineteen eighty six with Jack Nicholas in my lifetime,
in nineteen ninety seven with Tiger Woods him winning his
first were the two Masters events. There've been other great Masters,
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but those are the ones that almost transcend everyone else
because of the meaning Jack capping off his career with
his eighteenth major, doing it in his forties and come
from behind fashion Tiger than winning in nineteen ninety seven,
doing it at Augusta with the history that they had,
and just becoming arguably the biggest star in all of
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all sports included Tiger Woods at one point, and to
do it in record setting fashion in his early twenties,
and then to set the stage for what golf is now.
Those are two ten poles. I don't think that this
will pass nineteen ninety seven. I think it will rival
Jack Nicholas is eighty six. But this generation and now
this era, for the first time in almost thirty years,
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has their masters that they can point to. And twenty
nineteen we thought was going to be the Tiger one
as well, which I think is still up there. But
I think for how it went through, what Rory McElroy did,
what Rory McElroy will mean to what is a younger generation,
I think you could put that up there in top three,
top four masters. Some people were saying yesterday was the
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greatest day in golf that they had ever seen. That's
how big yesterday was Augusta National.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
Yeah, I mean that's the part where again, you, as
a golf enthusiast, the purist someone like you said, this
is your moment, this was your segment. We were talking
about you yes day while it was going on, like
we know how important it is to you.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
What about it?
Speaker 4 (09:05):
I mean, what about the game or about that Masters,
that that tournament, that Grand Slam in general, when it
comes to the pinnacle of golf for.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
You, Why is it such a big deal for you?
Because it's this You go to the same spot every year.
It truly is. I watched mister Rogers when I was
a kid. Okay, I love mister Rogers. A lot of
people did. I did make believe was a place that
I wanted to go. Now. I didn't realize that it
was just on a set one spot over. I felt
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it was like this magical place and realizing that when
you get older, okay, that's that's it's not it, it's
just and I went out by the way. I saw
someone mister Rogers set in Pittsburgh at a museum, and
it brought me to tears because it brought me those
those memories when you're stepping on sight at Augusta National
it is a feeling like any other. I always say,
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when you go to Augusta, it's worth every penny because
if you love it as much as I think most
people do, there's just nothing else like it, and there isn't.
Everything is perfect in a way, and it's just a
it's it's an escape from reality in a way, not
in a vacation wise, but it's a it's a magical
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place that is keep it going. They have no neighbors
because they bought all the land for parking at the Masters.
That is true, but that's the feeling is it's it's
it's just so magical and all of the holes that
are played, history is behind it. The US Open goes
to different spots and this year it'll be at Oakmont
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in just outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. And when it goes
to Pebble Beach, you go to the seventeenth Toll and
you remember Tom Watson's chip in from the early eighties
and you remember those, but they don't go to the
You're the US Oman is not at Pebble Beach every year,
so it's not the same setup. And Augusta it is
so all of these monumental shots. And what I thought
was great was on fifteen Rory hit two majestic second
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shots on the par five and they looked exactly like
Tiger hitting twenty nineteen when he hit the same shot.
So you can connect with history, everything being perfect, everything
being out of place, and it's just there and it's
difficult and it's easy and it's fun, and it's it's
gut wrenching. All of it is just it's it's just
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so real. It's such an extreme stress on your senses
in a good way. I just love it, and it's
there's just something special about it because there's no place
like it. Rory even said before this masters that this
is the only tournament that he still gets nervous for
when he tees off, So imagine his nerves when he's
teeing off now for the final round, trying to career,
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you know, win the career Grand Slam, which shows why
you probably double why you double bogie the first toll
like it is a real, real thing and it's special
to so many it's crazy.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
It's hearing you say that, I see your eyes twinkle
a little bit, and that's always a sign of exactly
what you just spoke. But then you have the haters
out there, like Jay Stu who want to see this
guy fail. I really want to know why, why outside
of this being a big moment of him being able
to triumph and actually bring favor back even after failing,
(12:20):
why did you want to see that happen, Jay Stu.
Speaker 5 (12:23):
I wanted to see prolonged agony. I wanted him to
have to answer another year of questions. I like people
looking uncomfortable and being uncomfortable. It goes against the I think,
the athlete mentality. But when you've been doing what I've
been doing for the longest time, and I skew negative,
as Dan has said, Uh, I skew negative. And I
(12:45):
find these stories most intriguing to follow to plays soundbites
of and so at the end, I admit it. I
sound like a bad guy, but I admitted I was
hoping for him to Lutz.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
And I think that there's something interesting. I know Chris
wants to jump in. I do. I want to say
something on the heels of that. I don't think he
scus negative. I think he excus radio producer. And so
what's the better story? Yeah, but I'll say this, when
the Red Sox one in two thousand and four, that
story disappeared from our lives. It had consumed so many people,
and it consumed all of Boston. All of a sudden,
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you win, and you come back the next year and
that's disappeared. Like there's so Rory coming on the start
of his press conference saying I wonder what you guys
will talk about next year is a true thing. There
is a very likely going to be a letdown next
year because of what happened this year. So in Jason's
(13:39):
point about that, it's like of sorry, Chris, but not
wanting the lines to go to a Super bowler, not
having the Bills win a Super Bowl. There is something
about keeping those story lines going, yeah, because each year
you have hope and it brings it up. I didn't
mean to transition to you that way, Chris, because I
know you wanted to talk about something else. I think
those things are no want.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
To I do think that's interesting because I know for
me as a person I kind of root for I
really get kind of exhausted sometimes about always that the
old thing is always better than the new thing. And
I think for Rory, and I'm not going to say
he's Tiger Woods by a long shot, but I feel
like Rory always encapsulated this golfer of the millennial age
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who performed so well in his twenties, who captured three
three majors. I'm sorry, actually four majors in was it
like three years? And that was the buzz And for
eleven long years, it was always when's he going to
get the Masters? Not just the Masters, when's he going
to get another major? And for me that I think
a lot of people just found that very relatable, in
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the Sisyphian nature of it, where you keep pushing this
boulder up the hill again and again, failing again and again,
and look, Augusta is a cruel mistress it. You know,
you watched that one shot I think it was on
Whole leven where Dashambo also challenged, and that was where
Dashambo went in the water hazard and he, you know,
ends up losing this chance to chase Rory, and Rory's
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ball was six inches away from doing the same thing too.
It's just the risks of that course. But I really
do think I like seeing when a guy like that,
we're going I'm not saying he's going to be Tiger Woods,
but we're going to be talking about Rory as one
of the greats now because he has played that well.
It's just been these weird hiccups and mental failures and
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all these things. I think, you know, Carrie, we talked
about it about whether or not he had this reputation
as choking. Yeah, and I always just hate that because
you see the greatness there, but the final product doesn't
always come out the way you wanted to to see rewarded.
I had a lot of people who are watching golf
for the first time that day, or really watching golf
for the first time seriously, and they loved it. And
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everyone everyone I talked to immediately could buy into the
struggle Rory had gone through for eleven years to get
to this moment and to finally have a reward.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
I do think that choking is a real thing. I
think that that choking is not responding to what you did.
And what I think that Rory just what did is
every time he responded, and in a way it was
a it was a vicious cycle. I wrote this down
if you'll bear with me, because I spent about fifteen
(16:12):
minutes just trying to piece this all together last night,
and I hope I can make this concise. Rory mentioned
that he wanted to or this had been hanging over
him since twenty eleven, that's when he lost the Masters
with a four stroke lead entering the final round and
it all came undone on the tenth hole. So on ten,
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he hits a drive that's perfect and kind of exercises
that demon because the last time he was in that
similar position he put one left of left. It was
so far left it was I mean, there were cabins
that you had never seen on a broadcast before that
he's standing next to one of them where his golf
ball was. You had never seen that before. So he
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goes and he birdies ten, and I have to think
that in his mind, he's like, I made it through.
You have eight other holes to play, and the old
saying is the Masters doesn't start until the back nine
on Sunday, so I'm gonna make this quick. To Chris's point,
on eleven, he hits a second shot from kind of
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the trees to pitch out. Well, this pitch almost goes
into the water. It's probably about a foot from going
into the pond, which would have been devastating. He ends
up boging the hole, only drops a shot on twelve,
lends it safely on the green, misses the birdie putt,
and leaves with a par. Twelfth hole had been killer
for a lot of people. Jordan Speith put it in
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the water at twelve, Francesco Malinari put it in the
water in twelve and twenty nineteen. That's the place, is
the place where dreams have gone to die at Augusta.
So thirteen's the easy part, right, that's just lay up. Well,
he misses his chip on thirteen, puts it in the
water and then double bogies on a hole where at
worst you're thinking par, you're not even thinking bogie. At
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worst you're thinking par. You don't drop a shot. He
gives back two on fourteen, he hits it in the
woods and then ends up bogging the hole on fourteen.
And now he steps to the fifteenth tee and he's
in a three way tie for the lead, and he's
actually in second place for a moment because Justin Rose's
at eleven under par at that point. So then what
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does he do on fifteen? So now he's at his
low fifteen, hits the shot of his life again on
top of the hill and he has the eagle putt,
So what does he do with his ego? Putt is
completely tentative, has no chance of getting into the hole
because I don't want to mess this up. So he
makes Bertie. H's a great shot on sixteen, misses the putt,
goes to parr finds out I'm a shot back of
the lead because Justin Rose just ended up birding, or
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I'm tied for the lead because Justin Rose birdied eighteen,
ends up making a great shot on seventeen because he
needs it at that time, after the low point of
finding out, hey, I need to make Bertie. And then
on eighteen when he has a one shot lead, puts
him in the sand and needs to chip out and
misses the PU. But so all of that was in
conjunction high point low point. I need to respond to
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it with a high point. I'm comfortable, let's drop to
a low point. That was the entire afternoon. It was
a vicious cycle for four and a half hours with Rory,
and somehow, because of his game and how strong it was,
he came out on top and was able to birdie
the first playoff Hollle eighteen. Hecky started the day with
a double bogie, and he admitted that was probably the
best thing for him because I think it would have
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built up you would have had this false sense of confidence.
It was a wake up, but it was an entire
roller coaster. There was no point carry where it was flatlined.
Yesterday with Rory McRoy, there was I've gone through the
round in my head. At no point did you say
you put it on cruise control. You thought maybe I'm thirteen.
Then he hit that chip in the water and it
was chaos after that. Yeah, it's crazy. I want to know.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
So when the playoffs, when the playoff comes into play,
why do they only play eighteen and ten?
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Why is that? So? They used to start at ten
and go to eleven. Now they do it because it's
easier with the crowds. So and they're both fours, but
they're right next to each other. It used to be
you would start this is twenty years ago, and when
you look in the past, you would start the playoff
at ten. You'd go to eleven. Greg Norman had his
heartbroken on eleven. Larry Mace chipped in on eleven, you
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don't make the you don't usually make it that. You
wouldn't make it that far. Now they just go ten
and eighteen back and forth. I believe we haven't had
a three hole playoff at Augusta, but they go to
eighteen because you have thousands of spectators around that hole already,
so if you're gonna go play a playoff hole, then
it's easier to move people. If you saw on the broadcast,
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I don't know if you guys saw this, but they
alluded to it. When they went to a playoff, fans
started the line up at the tenth hole. Because there's
no bleachers around eighteen. You can only see as high
as the ground is. You're not putting anybody on your shoulders,
so you can't really see. So there were fans who
are like, well, I'm gonna line up at ten in
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case this is a second hole playoff, Yeah, and then
I'll have a perfect spot for it on the tenth hole.
Had other Masters. Adam Scott won his Masters on the
tenth hole in a playoff out of hell. Cabrero won
his on ten. Bubble Watching had that crazy wedge from
the woods that was on ten as well, So there
have been great moments there. But yeah, that's why they
started eighteen and then just go to ten because they're
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right next to each other and you have the crowd.
Crowd doesn't have to run everywhere. Everybody's kind of in place,
got it? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (21:20):
No, I mean beautifully encapsulated.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Dan.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
I think the like I said, just my takeaway from
it all was just just that because I think what
Jason just said was on on par right, since me
and our golf phase, I love it. As an athlete,
we like to see the triumph, right. We don't want
to see anybody fail. We fail, We know what that
feels like. And so, like you said, the up and
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downs of just that that day yesterday, right, not even
the eleven years that has been agonizing them for a
long time, but just yesterday, the ups and downs of
what it took, yes falling back into a three way,
two way tie when it's real game, pressure on again,
and then you get to that last hole. You have
a chance to exercise exercise the demon, so to speak,
and then you miss it. And then you have the
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gall through all these years and all this time and
all this hardship to actually come back and get it
done in the playoff.
Speaker 5 (22:13):
That's that's movie stuff, yes, Jason Stewart, Real fast, Carrie.
The crazy thing is is that in five or even
ten years, when you're hosting a show with Dan and
you talk about the twenty twenty five Masters. He's going
to be able to recite for you what he just
did that back nine on Sunday for Rory, shot for shot,
He's going to be able to look you in the eye,
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no notes, and tell you, play by play what happened.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
That's stan Byer Jason. I can do the same thing
with a Christmas story, so try me.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
He can't. That is true. I'll say this to your point,
there are ninety percent of players wouldn't have been able
to respond from what he did on thirteen. No, and
so if anybody is calling Rory mac because he ended
up shooting one over par but still wins, if anybody
still wants to give it the label of choker is
completely missing all of it. Yeah, it's over. That wasn't
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just one round. That was thirteen years, fourteen years of
carrying it around, and to try to shed that very
difficult to do. We're gonna take a time out. We'll
get to Chris Purpfett and an updating a little bit.
I know he wants to add a little bit more
with the Master stuff. We've gone a bit long here
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Yeah, well, like why am I blanking on his name?
The guy used to run that because like he's Jack
pat has Hey, Jacks, thanks you, because he would like
if he would just pronounce something wrong, he would not
give you the uh, the puzzle at all.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Yeah. I feel like that's legal. I think that's the
legal department of this, And maybe the league is like,
Kate Drew Carey, you can't give them these passes. I
think it's five hundred dollars for salt and pepper. Then
let them, you know, diye on that hill.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
I buy a lot of different types of pepper. I've
never had a five hundred dollars pepper. I'll let you
know if I encounter that.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
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leading rebounder per game, Demontes Sabonis of the Sacramento Kings.
And the stat that I really cared about, how many
(27:00):
players in the NBA played all eighty two games this
past season. How many dan how many played I thought
on the surface about thirty to forty. Originally I thought eighty,
and then I realized that it was way too high.
In all drum roller, please we got our drum roll
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in all eleven players. Screwed the drum roll. Eleven players
played all eighty two games this season.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
Only eleven, Only eleven, Dan, I mean, that's a far
cry from your mom and Dad's Detroit Pistons of the
old days, right when they were getting beat up and
steal fighting through the games and you know, bloody and
limping out there, not really covering and guarding anybody, just
playing a little zone and standing in the way and
tackling people.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
That those days are gone, Dan, I was shocked when
I saw the list, and actually I thought I saw
I think it was worldwide. Rob were wide wob had
had the sweet about it, and he made a graphic
for it, and I expected again to see thirty faces.
(28:11):
And then I do the counting. I'm like, there's only
seven players in that row. There's only four, only eleven players.
And then I got to think about it more and
I was never I was never a perfect attendance kid
in school. Oh were you a perfect attendance kid? Did
it mean something to you to get perfect attendance in school? No,
(28:35):
not a chance. Jason Stewart, were you perfect attendance kid?
You know some people love to show up every day
for school and at the end of the year it's
they achievement.
Speaker 5 (28:44):
Yes, it meant something to me showing up. I will
say this, I was tardy often, does that count or
is that a different conversation? I was tardy, but I
would show up.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
Well, you kind of the Michale Bridges in a way.
He played like six seconds yesterday. I don't talk about
that when that one hurt me. That that one is
kind of gaming the system. Ryan Smith, you a perfect
attendance kid. My father was former military, so yes. I
actually the three kids that get perfect attendants, Ryan Smith
is one of them. I was never prefet you perfect
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attendants or not thumbs.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
Up that they would usually have like one sick day
every two years.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
That's about it. That's the deal about it is. I
never wanted to be perfect attendance guy, because then you like,
I'm not missing just one. Listen, I'm not missing twenty,
but I'm gonna miss about three or four. So just
like if you miss one, then it's like, well, why
should I even miss that? I want perfect attendants. Yeah
you miss one, I'm missing two, three, and four. So
(29:45):
I understand that this is their job and for what
For what we have. It's a different day in basketball.
But when I see it playing all eighty two games
and have only eleven players do it, it reminded me
how there were usually only like four kids in your
class that made it every day in school because that
(30:07):
was their deal. That's how I feel this record is
for the NBA. Now it's back to backs with travel
guys just getting a night off here or there. I
don't think it's a big thing, just like I didn't
think it was a big deal to miss a day
of school every once in a while, so I, for
some reason I thought there would be more. But the
more I got to think about it, I'm like, yeah,
this is perfect attendance when you were in grade school,
(30:29):
but only eleven kids, only eleven players were able to
do it in the NBA.
Speaker 4 (30:32):
And their dads forced them to go and force them
to play for sure, undred percent.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
But no.
Speaker 4 (30:36):
The thing about this is why is it even an award?
Why are we recognizing people for doing their job for
eighty two games?
Speaker 3 (30:44):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (30:45):
That's my whole thing, and I don't I don't think
it's a I think it's an achievement for sure. I'm
not saying that at all, because there's luck involved, there's health,
that's taking care of your bodies, that's it's a lot
of things. So I don't want to discredit it. But
why are we putting it out there on the graphics
and these things play?
Speaker 3 (31:00):
This is the what do you want a cookie? Chris
rockbit exactly. You should do what you're supposed to do.
This is your job now with.
Speaker 4 (31:06):
School again, like you said, I might miss a couple
of those as well, and that's part of it, you know.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
Maybe family vacations just a little bit longer and you
got to miss a day, right, doctor pay then, right?
And it's only eleven. I thought one per team. I
thought there's got to be one player per team, and
instead there was one player for every three teams that
ended up having all eighty two games eighty two.
Speaker 4 (31:32):
Well, before we move on, Dan, I do want to
acknowledge though, one person that did do the eighty two,
which I was surprised about, and that was Chris Paul.
I mean, he's forty years old playing on the team.
That's not going to make the playoffs. Now you talk
about showing up and doing your job and showing people
that you care about your craft. Even if it is
a front of whatever, it doesn't matter what that is.
(31:53):
It still shows the younger generation how it could be done.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
There are all there are notable names everywhere on this
there's just no star. Well, you know, Chris Paul McHale Bridges,
Jalen Green. I think those are all names that we
obviously know. Buddy Healed, Malie Beasley, Nikhil, Alexander Walker, Jared Allen,
Harrison Barber, the all familiar names. But it's kind of
in that sweet spot of the not super duper star. Yeah,
(32:17):
that would need a night off that you'd want to rest,
and not somebody that was bad enough that wouldn't get
into a game. Yeah, that's what you get for playing
all eighty two. It's right in that sweet spot.
Speaker 4 (32:26):
A spot of mediocrity, is what Dan's saying these Carrier Roads.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
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Jason Stewart's our executive producer. Chris at the news desk,
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(34:31):
Saturday because you had a full slate to wrap up
the regular season on Sunday. But missed some baseball on Saturday.
Saw the Cubs, you know, really took it to the
Dodgers sixteen to nothing. But the one play that I
did see in Major League Baseball really resonated with me,
and it should resonate with the North side of Chicago.
(34:52):
This is what happened in Houston between the Angels and Astros.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
Oh, you've got a lot of your friends coming out
to the weekend celebration.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
This ball two zero pitch. Look at Trout. Trout's claiming interference,
but that is in the stand That is not his ball.
That's a fans ball. Yep. Well, he can argue all
he wants, but that is a fans right. Mike, you
can look at it again, but that is a fan's
right off. The ball's in the stands. So a foul
ball that ends up in Mike Trout's glove ultimately ends
(35:27):
up in a fan's hands. And guess what, no controversy
you heard it? There was that the Astros broadcast with
the with the highlight, because I know the Angels had
wanted to review it or felt that there would be
the possibility to review the play, but the Astros broadcast
was all over it. But the fan ended up grabbing
(35:51):
the ball out of Mike Trout's glove, but then realized
what he did. And that's the part when you go
back to Bartman and you go back to the Cubs
and Marlins and the NLCS and Game six and Moisis
Alu and Bartman just standing there frozen when eight other
(36:11):
people are also trying to get the baseball. This fan realizes, Oh,
my goodness, did I just become Bartman. Well, granted he
did it for the home team because it was the
Astros that were at the plate, but to see the
fan immediately try to give the ball back to Mike
Trout and have the look on his face like I'm
(36:32):
so sorry was amazing. And then what happened afterwards. We're
gonna play the audio. I don't know how great it's
gonna translate, but I do think that it's important to
tell the context of this because Mike Trout actually invited
this fan and his son down to the locker room
in the clubhouse after the game. After that exchange, this
(36:54):
was part of the exchange that was caught on social media.
Was the way you're reacting, that's what's all about.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
Yeah, I'm movie.
Speaker 3 (37:15):
So that's that's Mike Trout. If you can hear that,
and I think you could hear it. He said, how
you guys reacted, that's what it's all about. Right, And
so Mike Trout saw that the fans ended up being
escorted from their seats, and the fans said, hey, I
was just trying to, you know, protect my kid at first,
but I think he just thought it was somebody else's glove.
(37:36):
But good on Mike Trout for recognizing that's such a
feel good situation on what could have been something that
was stupid. Yeah, I loved what I saw in Houston
on Sunday. Yeah, I think.
Speaker 4 (37:48):
Yeah, the awareness of of both parties there was a
big deal, right, I mean, the awareness from the fan
that maybe I did something a little bit wrong or
out of character here in this situation, and was you know,
even in that moment, going to allow Trout to get
that ball right. Just the awareness of that was cool.
But also Trout, you know, being a competitor in the moment,
(38:13):
obviously being upset at first, but being able to get
back to balance and understand what was really going on here.
And to see that fan being escorted from their seats
to be possibly kicked out the game and not allowing
that to happen is what sports about, because now you
get to see where the superstar player and fans are
(38:34):
like are on the same playing field, even though they're not,
but in that moment, it gave them that that clarity,
which is pretty cool to say.
Speaker 3 (38:41):
Jared Whalen was the fan his son was at the game. Honestly,
he's grabbing for the baseball, which he would ultimately give
to his son. I can actually understand that portion of it,
Like it could have been in any glove. He would
have just rippled it out and could have been another
fan and maybe it would have been tough luck on
that fan for not getting the super ar. But yeah,
(39:01):
I just I loved how Mike Trout was just so
aware that the point of the situation. And if you
see the fan trying to give the baseball back to
Mike Trout knowing that he did wrong. Yeah, it was
something else.
Speaker 4 (39:13):
Well, you know, like if it was a fan, if
it was fan of fan, it could have been fan
of fan combat too.
Speaker 3 (39:17):
So he's glad that didn't happen. He's carry roads. I'm
dan Byern more on CNR next
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Speaker 3 (00:19):
Happy Monday. Is there such a thing Carrier Roads?
Speaker 4 (00:22):
It is a such thing, especially after the weekend we
had with all the stuff going on.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
It was oh nazy, turvy crazy, my goodness, Yes, a
roller coaster ride. That was the masters for me. I
didn't swing a golf club on Sunday, but I was
zapped after four and a half hours of that excitement.
We'll dive into that. The NBA Playoffs are here. I
know you're jacked up about that.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
Yes, and even my Mavericks were still in the play
in so we still got a little excitement there with
them as well.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
I'm sure somebody went to a wedding this weekend and
saw the bride and groom get greeted by everybody time
and time again, and long lines. We're going to dive
into all of that and when too much is too much?
Jason Stewart's our executive producer to turn it up, right,
turn it up, turn it up, turn it up. Hello, Hello,
turn it up. There we go hitting the post here,
(01:10):
I'm Covino and Rich. The music keeps rolling. Ryan Smith
on the Ones in News, Hello, gotta let it ride,
Let let it ride. I'll let Ryano. Chris Purfetts at
the News desk. Hi, I saw Chris yesterday.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
So this is we just did we really just did this?
Talk about that Rory roller coaster? Yeah, talk about this extreme.
This is extreme makeover Cavino and Rich edition. Because the
guys were in for Colin Coward earlier today. So I'm
in Coveno seat, carries in richest seat. Hello, Jason is
in Danny G's seat, Chris is in my seat. Ryan's
(01:46):
in a seat that Chris usually sits in, that Sam
usually sits in. But Sam sending an earlier today. It's
chaos on.
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so to discuss the Masters, and I will say this.
I saw on social media somebody post give me a
screenshot of your best group texts for what happened during
Rory's victory. I think it was Claire Rogers, who covers
the game very well. I think she's the one that
put it out there. And I thought to myself, well,
(02:35):
I'm on very few group texts, and the group text
that I'm on did get sent. Someone sent something and
it was Jason Stewart. Jason Stewart on our Doug Gottlieb
show group text sent something out. And then someone else
texted me and it was Carrie Rhodes. And the only
I've got golf buddies back home, people I played golf with.
(02:58):
Had no communication with them whatsoever. Even my wife at
one point texted me at noon. I didn't see the phone.
I called her back, talked to her, but after that
it was basically because she was with Brody over at
my father in laws place, so I had the place
to myself. It was all Masters for five hours yesterday,
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and the two people that I heard from were Jason
and Carrie, So I appreciate it in engaging in the conversation.
I don't know how you were able to do it,
But did you because you were on the air at
the time yesterday, did you get a sense of what
was happening? Are you able to get that sense? Because
(03:41):
I was. I don't have any fingernails today. It's the
greatest event that I think when you look at what
happened with the Masters yesterday, how do you consume it
when you're doing a live broadcast? Did you take everything
in in what was a magical moment in sports? Well,
the thing is I couldn't take everything in, right. I'm
not an avid golf golf supporter.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
I do occasionally watch and take part in the festivities, right,
But actually having Chris Perfet here and you know, he
was kind of taking your spot for me, Dan. He
was giving me the updates of what was going on,
the historic nature of the things that were happening, and
that was all fine and Dany, it was just so
much going on with basketball that I was.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Engulfed in that.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
But the moment when he bogeyed he missed a shot
on eighteen, Well, didn't bog he just missed a shot
on eighteen to win it. I love that part of
it because as an athlete, as somebody that doesn't like
to consume the easy things or take the easy way out,
I like to have to fight for every victory that
I have. That's part of my makeup. So to see
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that he didn't get it done on eighteen and had
to go into the playoff with all the weight of
everything else that was happening with him and hats has
happened to him for a long time. To actually have
to come back and do it again in that next
round to win, it was just historic for me. I
felt all of it.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
I felt that, and I felt that it was the
moment that transcended many You know, Chris, You've got a
background in golf, your dad lover of the sport as well,
and you were you were a number one Rory fan yesterday.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
I think I think carry like learned a lot from
just watching my reactions every time Rory was on the green.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
It was and I feel that I feel that a
lot of people felt that way. Jason Stewart did not.
Jason Stewart, our executive producer, was on the other side
of things, which put him against Rory McElroy. Is that
fair to say, Jason?
Speaker 5 (05:33):
I kind of root for collapses in my job. The
most interesting part of sports, I think, is when you
see an athlete failing when it counts most. To me,
that's the most riveting part of sports, is seen when
the lights are brightest, how people react. And I was
rooting for the best content, which is he loses another
(05:55):
Masters on the back nine. So I was the one
guy rooting.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
A go good. There are people who felt if Rory
would have lost yesterday, that he would never win another major.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
I had that inkling in my mind as well. I
actually asked Chris, is this is his best chance to
get it done? And blah blah blah, and and it's it.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
It could go that way well again again to steal
from Jason Tatum, who stole from? Who did he? Who
did he? Still? I always forget, but ke, I guess
we'll never know. We'll never know if Rory McElroy wouldn't
have went again, because he did win the Masters. It
was an amazing day. And I feel safe in saying
I know Chris loves the sport. It's not a ranking
(06:35):
of whatever, but I do feel that this is this
is my deal that this is something that I look
forward to. In fact, today it's a sad day that
it's over. That now I have to wait, you know,
three hundred and fifty eight more days for the Masters
to come around again. For as great as yesterday is,
there's now this. And I love the other majors and
(06:56):
love what happens in the game of golf, and football
season occupies so much of our time in the fall,
but there's something about the second week in April that
is just it's everything for me. And yesterday was everything
with all of the history that went down, and I
realized in looking at this that it transpired into a
(07:17):
point of when we look back at the Masters, there
are certain events that you look back at and will
always stand the test of time. Could be championships from
certain years with certain teams, but I think in the
Masters nineteen eighty six with Jack Nicholas in my lifetime,
in nineteen ninety seven with Tiger Woods him winning his
first were the two Masters events. There've been other great Masters,
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but those are the ones that almost transcend everyone else
because of the meaning Jack capping off his career with
his eighteenth major, doing it in his forties and come
from behind fashion Tiger than winning in nineteen ninety seven,
doing it at Augusta with the history that they had,
and just becoming arguably the biggest star in all of
(08:00):
all sports included Tiger Woods at one point, and to
do it in record setting fashion in his early twenties,
and then to set the stage for what golf is now.
Those are two ten poles. I don't think that this
will pass nineteen ninety seven. I think it will rival
Jack Nicholas is eighty six. But this generation and now
this era, for the first time in almost thirty years,
(08:23):
has their masters that they can point to. And twenty
nineteen we thought was going to be the Tiger one
as well, which I think is still up there. But
I think for how it went through, what Rory McElroy did,
what Rory McElroy will mean to what is a younger generation,
I think you could put that up there in top three,
top four masters. Some people were saying yesterday was the
(08:44):
greatest day in golf that they had ever seen. That's
how big yesterday was Augusta National.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
Yeah, I mean that's the part where again, you, as
a golf enthusiast, the purist someone like you said, this
is your moment, this was your segment. We were talking
about you yes day while it was going on, like
we know how important it is to you.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
What about it?
Speaker 4 (09:05):
I mean, what about the game or about that Masters,
that that tournament, that Grand Slam in general, when it
comes to the pinnacle of golf for.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
You, Why is it such a big deal for you?
Because it's this You go to the same spot every year.
It truly is. I watched mister Rogers when I was
a kid. Okay, I love mister Rogers. A lot of
people did. I did make believe was a place that
I wanted to go. Now. I didn't realize that it
was just on a set one spot over. I felt
(09:38):
it was like this magical place and realizing that when
you get older, okay, that's that's it's not it, it's
just and I went out by the way. I saw
someone mister Rogers set in Pittsburgh at a museum, and
it brought me to tears because it brought me those
those memories when you're stepping on sight at Augusta National
it is a feeling like any other. I always say,
(10:00):
when you go to Augusta, it's worth every penny because
if you love it as much as I think most
people do, there's just nothing else like it, and there isn't.
Everything is perfect in a way, and it's just a
it's it's an escape from reality in a way, not
in a vacation wise, but it's a it's a magical
(10:20):
place that is keep it going. They have no neighbors
because they bought all the land for parking at the Masters.
That is true, but that's the feeling is it's it's
it's just so magical and all of the holes that
are played, history is behind it. The US Open goes
to different spots and this year it'll be at Oakmont
(10:42):
in just outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. And when it goes
to Pebble Beach, you go to the seventeenth Toll and
you remember Tom Watson's chip in from the early eighties
and you remember those, but they don't go to the
You're the US Oman is not at Pebble Beach every year,
so it's not the same setup. And Augusta it is
so all of these monumental shots. And what I thought
was great was on fifteen Rory hit two majestic second
(11:04):
shots on the par five and they looked exactly like
Tiger hitting twenty nineteen when he hit the same shot.
So you can connect with history, everything being perfect, everything
being out of place, and it's just there and it's
difficult and it's easy and it's fun, and it's it's
gut wrenching. All of it is just it's it's just
(11:26):
so real. It's such an extreme stress on your senses
in a good way. I just love it, and it's
there's just something special about it because there's no place
like it. Rory even said before this masters that this
is the only tournament that he still gets nervous for
when he tees off, So imagine his nerves when he's
teeing off now for the final round, trying to career,
(11:49):
you know, win the career Grand Slam, which shows why
you probably double why you double bogie the first toll
like it is a real, real thing and it's special
to so many it's crazy.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
It's hearing you say that, I see your eyes twinkle
a little bit, and that's always a sign of exactly
what you just spoke. But then you have the haters
out there, like Jay Stu who want to see this
guy fail. I really want to know why, why outside
of this being a big moment of him being able
to triumph and actually bring favor back even after failing,
(12:20):
why did you want to see that happen, Jay Stu.
Speaker 5 (12:23):
I wanted to see prolonged agony. I wanted him to
have to answer another year of questions. I like people
looking uncomfortable and being uncomfortable. It goes against the I think,
the athlete mentality. But when you've been doing what I've
been doing for the longest time, and I skew negative,
as Dan has said, Uh, I skew negative. And I
(12:45):
find these stories most intriguing to follow to plays soundbites
of and so at the end, I admit it. I
sound like a bad guy, but I admitted I was
hoping for him to Lutz.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
And I think that there's something interesting. I know Chris
wants to jump in. I do. I want to say
something on the heels of that. I don't think he
scus negative. I think he excus radio producer. And so
what's the better story? Yeah, but I'll say this, when
the Red Sox one in two thousand and four, that
story disappeared from our lives. It had consumed so many people,
and it consumed all of Boston. All of a sudden,
(13:18):
you win, and you come back the next year and
that's disappeared. Like there's so Rory coming on the start
of his press conference saying I wonder what you guys
will talk about next year is a true thing. There
is a very likely going to be a letdown next
year because of what happened this year. So in Jason's
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point about that, it's like of sorry, Chris, but not
wanting the lines to go to a Super bowler, not
having the Bills win a Super Bowl. There is something
about keeping those story lines going, yeah, because each year
you have hope and it brings it up. I didn't
mean to transition to you that way, Chris, because I
know you wanted to talk about something else. I think
those things are no want.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
To I do think that's interesting because I know for
me as a person I kind of root for I
really get kind of exhausted sometimes about always that the
old thing is always better than the new thing. And
I think for Rory, and I'm not going to say
he's Tiger Woods by a long shot, but I feel
like Rory always encapsulated this golfer of the millennial age
(14:19):
who performed so well in his twenties, who captured three
three majors. I'm sorry, actually four majors in was it
like three years? And that was the buzz And for
eleven long years, it was always when's he going to
get the Masters? Not just the Masters, when's he going
to get another major? And for me that I think
a lot of people just found that very relatable, in
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the Sisyphian nature of it, where you keep pushing this
boulder up the hill again and again, failing again and again,
and look, Augusta is a cruel mistress it. You know,
you watched that one shot I think it was on
Whole leven where Dashambo also challenged, and that was where
Dashambo went in the water hazard and he, you know,
ends up losing this chance to chase Rory, and Rory's
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ball was six inches away from doing the same thing too.
It's just the risks of that course. But I really
do think I like seeing when a guy like that,
we're going I'm not saying he's going to be Tiger Woods,
but we're going to be talking about Rory as one
of the greats now because he has played that well.
It's just been these weird hiccups and mental failures and
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all these things. I think, you know, Carrie, we talked
about it about whether or not he had this reputation
as choking. Yeah, and I always just hate that because
you see the greatness there, but the final product doesn't
always come out the way you wanted to to see rewarded.
I had a lot of people who are watching golf
for the first time that day, or really watching golf
for the first time seriously, and they loved it. And
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everyone everyone I talked to immediately could buy into the
struggle Rory had gone through for eleven years to get
to this moment and to finally have a reward.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
I do think that choking is a real thing. I
think that that choking is not responding to what you did.
And what I think that Rory just what did is
every time he responded, and in a way it was
a it was a vicious cycle. I wrote this down
if you'll bear with me, because I spent about fifteen
(16:12):
minutes just trying to piece this all together last night,
and I hope I can make this concise. Rory mentioned
that he wanted to or this had been hanging over
him since twenty eleven, that's when he lost the Masters
with a four stroke lead entering the final round and
it all came undone on the tenth hole. So on ten,
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he hits a drive that's perfect and kind of exercises
that demon because the last time he was in that
similar position he put one left of left. It was
so far left it was I mean, there were cabins
that you had never seen on a broadcast before that
he's standing next to one of them where his golf
ball was. You had never seen that before. So he
(16:56):
goes and he birdies ten, and I have to think
that in his mind, he's like, I made it through.
You have eight other holes to play, and the old
saying is the Masters doesn't start until the back nine
on Sunday, so I'm gonna make this quick. To Chris's point,
on eleven, he hits a second shot from kind of
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the trees to pitch out. Well, this pitch almost goes
into the water. It's probably about a foot from going
into the pond, which would have been devastating. He ends
up boging the hole, only drops a shot on twelve,
lends it safely on the green, misses the birdie putt,
and leaves with a par. Twelfth hole had been killer
for a lot of people. Jordan Speith put it in
(17:37):
the water at twelve, Francesco Malinari put it in the
water in twelve and twenty nineteen. That's the place, is
the place where dreams have gone to die at Augusta.
So thirteen's the easy part, right, that's just lay up. Well,
he misses his chip on thirteen, puts it in the
water and then double bogies on a hole where at
worst you're thinking par, you're not even thinking bogie. At
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worst you're thinking par. You don't drop a shot. He
gives back two on fourteen, he hits it in the
woods and then ends up bogging the hole on fourteen.
And now he steps to the fifteenth tee and he's
in a three way tie for the lead, and he's
actually in second place for a moment because Justin Rose's
at eleven under par at that point. So then what
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does he do on fifteen? So now he's at his
low fifteen, hits the shot of his life again on
top of the hill and he has the eagle putt,
So what does he do with his ego? Putt is
completely tentative, has no chance of getting into the hole
because I don't want to mess this up. So he
makes Bertie. H's a great shot on sixteen, misses the putt,
goes to parr finds out I'm a shot back of
the lead because Justin Rose just ended up birding, or
(18:45):
I'm tied for the lead because Justin Rose birdied eighteen,
ends up making a great shot on seventeen because he
needs it at that time, after the low point of
finding out, hey, I need to make Bertie. And then
on eighteen when he has a one shot lead, puts
him in the sand and needs to chip out and
misses the PU. But so all of that was in
conjunction high point low point. I need to respond to
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it with a high point. I'm comfortable, let's drop to
a low point. That was the entire afternoon. It was
a vicious cycle for four and a half hours with Rory,
and somehow, because of his game and how strong it was,
he came out on top and was able to birdie
the first playoff Hollle eighteen. Hecky started the day with
a double bogie, and he admitted that was probably the
best thing for him because I think it would have
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built up you would have had this false sense of confidence.
It was a wake up, but it was an entire
roller coaster. There was no point carry where it was flatlined.
Yesterday with Rory McRoy, there was I've gone through the
round in my head. At no point did you say
you put it on cruise control. You thought maybe I'm thirteen.
Then he hit that chip in the water and it
was chaos after that. Yeah, it's crazy. I want to know.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
So when the playoffs, when the playoff comes into play,
why do they only play eighteen and ten?
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Why is that? So? They used to start at ten
and go to eleven. Now they do it because it's
easier with the crowds. So and they're both fours, but
they're right next to each other. It used to be
you would start this is twenty years ago, and when
you look in the past, you would start the playoff
at ten. You'd go to eleven. Greg Norman had his
heartbroken on eleven. Larry Mace chipped in on eleven, you
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don't make the you don't usually make it that. You
wouldn't make it that far. Now they just go ten
and eighteen back and forth. I believe we haven't had
a three hole playoff at Augusta, but they go to
eighteen because you have thousands of spectators around that hole already,
so if you're gonna go play a playoff hole, then
it's easier to move people. If you saw on the broadcast,
(20:33):
I don't know if you guys saw this, but they
alluded to it. When they went to a playoff, fans
started the line up at the tenth hole. Because there's
no bleachers around eighteen. You can only see as high
as the ground is. You're not putting anybody on your shoulders,
so you can't really see. So there were fans who
are like, well, I'm gonna line up at ten in
(20:53):
case this is a second hole playoff, Yeah, and then
I'll have a perfect spot for it on the tenth hole.
Had other Masters. Adam Scott won his Masters on the
tenth hole in a playoff out of hell. Cabrero won
his on ten. Bubble Watching had that crazy wedge from
the woods that was on ten as well, So there
have been great moments there. But yeah, that's why they
started eighteen and then just go to ten because they're
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right next to each other and you have the crowd.
Crowd doesn't have to run everywhere. Everybody's kind of in place,
got it? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (21:20):
No, I mean beautifully encapsulated.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
Dan.
Speaker 4 (21:23):
I think the like I said, just my takeaway from
it all was just just that because I think what
Jason just said was on on par right, since me
and our golf phase, I love it. As an athlete,
we like to see the triumph, right. We don't want
to see anybody fail. We fail, We know what that
feels like. And so, like you said, the up and
(21:43):
downs of just that that day yesterday, right, not even
the eleven years that has been agonizing them for a
long time, but just yesterday, the ups and downs of
what it took, yes falling back into a three way,
two way tie when it's real game, pressure on again,
and then you get to that last hole. You have
a chance to exercise exercise the demon, so to speak,
and then you miss it. And then you have the
(22:05):
gall through all these years and all this time and
all this hardship to actually come back and get it
done in the playoff.
Speaker 5 (22:13):
That's that's movie stuff, yes, Jason Stewart, Real fast, Carrie.
The crazy thing is is that in five or even
ten years, when you're hosting a show with Dan and
you talk about the twenty twenty five Masters. He's going
to be able to recite for you what he just
did that back nine on Sunday for Rory, shot for shot,
He's going to be able to look you in the eye,
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no notes, and tell you, play by play what happened.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
That's stan Byer Jason. I can do the same thing
with a Christmas story, so try me.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
He can't. That is true. I'll say this to your point,
there are ninety percent of players wouldn't have been able
to respond from what he did on thirteen. No, and
so if anybody is calling Rory mac because he ended
up shooting one over par but still wins, if anybody
still wants to give it the label of choker is
completely missing all of it. Yeah, it's over. That wasn't
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just one round. That was thirteen years, fourteen years of
carrying it around, and to try to shed that very
difficult to do. We're gonna take a time out. We'll
get to Chris Purpfett and an updating a little bit.
I know he wants to add a little bit more
with the Master stuff. We've gone a bit long here
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just completed that was shocking to me. I was so
far off you would have laughed at me if I
was on the prices right like the lady this morning
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(25:15):
hundred dollars like it was it was yes, wait it
was it was three ninety nine, like three dollars and
ninety nine cents. But the crowd's telling her like four
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that what you mean? And then finally she said fifteen.
(25:38):
She's like, all right, we have to move on with
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Speaker 2 (25:41):
That's like the that's like the polar opposite of why
am I blanking on wheel of fortune.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
With the getting of the puzzles wrong? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (25:50):
Yeah, well, like why am I blanking on his name?
The guy used to run that because like he's Jack
pat has Hey, Jacks, thanks you, because he would like
if he would just pronounce something wrong, he would not
give you the uh, the puzzle at all.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
Yeah. I feel like that's legal. I think that's the
legal department of this, And maybe the league is like,
Kate Drew Carey, you can't give them these passes. I
think it's five hundred dollars for salt and pepper. Then
let them, you know, diye on that hill.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
I buy a lot of different types of pepper. I've
never had a five hundred dollars pepper. I'll let you
know if I encounter that.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
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in SGA wins, the scoring crown in the NBA, leading
assist guys Trey Young more than eleven assists per game,
leading rebounder per game, Demontes Sabonis of the Sacramento Kings.
And the stat that I really cared about, how many
(27:00):
players in the NBA played all eighty two games this
past season. How many dan how many played I thought
on the surface about thirty to forty. Originally I thought eighty,
and then I realized that it was way too high.
In all drum roller, please we got our drum roll
(27:21):
in all eleven players. Screwed the drum roll. Eleven players
played all eighty two games this season.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
Only eleven, Only eleven, Dan, I mean, that's a far
cry from your mom and Dad's Detroit Pistons of the
old days, right when they were getting beat up and
steal fighting through the games and you know, bloody and
limping out there, not really covering and guarding anybody, just
playing a little zone and standing in the way and
tackling people.
Speaker 3 (27:50):
That those days are gone, Dan, I was shocked when
I saw the list, and actually I thought I saw
I think it was worldwide. Rob were wide wob had
had the sweet about it, and he made a graphic
for it, and I expected again to see thirty faces.
(28:11):
And then I do the counting. I'm like, there's only
seven players in that row. There's only four, only eleven players.
And then I got to think about it more and
I was never I was never a perfect attendance kid
in school. Oh were you a perfect attendance kid? Did
it mean something to you to get perfect attendance in school? No,
(28:35):
not a chance. Jason Stewart, were you perfect attendance kid?
You know some people love to show up every day
for school and at the end of the year it's
they achievement.
Speaker 5 (28:44):
Yes, it meant something to me showing up. I will
say this, I was tardy often, does that count or
is that a different conversation? I was tardy, but I
would show up.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
Well, you kind of the Michale Bridges in a way.
He played like six seconds yesterday. I don't talk about
that when that one hurt me. That that one is
kind of gaming the system. Ryan Smith, you a perfect
attendance kid. My father was former military, so yes. I
actually the three kids that get perfect attendants, Ryan Smith
is one of them. I was never prefet you perfect
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attendants or not thumbs.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
Up that they would usually have like one sick day
every two years.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
That's about it. That's the deal about it is. I
never wanted to be perfect attendance guy, because then you like,
I'm not missing just one. Listen, I'm not missing twenty,
but I'm gonna miss about three or four. So just
like if you miss one, then it's like, well, why
should I even miss that? I want perfect attendants. Yeah
you miss one, I'm missing two, three, and four. So
(29:45):
I understand that this is their job and for what
For what we have. It's a different day in basketball.
But when I see it playing all eighty two games
and have only eleven players do it, it reminded me
how there were usually only like four kids in your
class that made it every day in school because that
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was their deal. That's how I feel this record is
for the NBA. Now it's back to backs with travel
guys just getting a night off here or there. I
don't think it's a big thing, just like I didn't
think it was a big deal to miss a day
of school every once in a while, so I, for
some reason I thought there would be more. But the
more I got to think about it, I'm like, yeah,
this is perfect attendance when you were in grade school,
(30:29):
but only eleven kids, only eleven players were able to
do it in the NBA.
Speaker 4 (30:32):
And their dads forced them to go and force them
to play for sure, undred percent.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
But no.
Speaker 4 (30:36):
The thing about this is why is it even an award?
Why are we recognizing people for doing their job for
eighty two games?
Speaker 3 (30:44):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (30:45):
That's my whole thing, and I don't I don't think
it's a I think it's an achievement for sure. I'm
not saying that at all, because there's luck involved, there's health,
that's taking care of your bodies, that's it's a lot
of things. So I don't want to discredit it. But
why are we putting it out there on the graphics
and these things play?
Speaker 3 (31:00):
This is the what do you want a cookie? Chris
rockbit exactly. You should do what you're supposed to do.
This is your job now with.
Speaker 4 (31:06):
School again, like you said, I might miss a couple
of those as well, and that's part of it, you know.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
Maybe family vacations just a little bit longer and you
got to miss a day, right, doctor pay then, right?
And it's only eleven. I thought one per team. I
thought there's got to be one player per team, and
instead there was one player for every three teams that
ended up having all eighty two games eighty two.
Speaker 4 (31:32):
Well, before we move on, Dan, I do want to
acknowledge though, one person that did do the eighty two,
which I was surprised about, and that was Chris Paul.
I mean, he's forty years old playing on the team.
That's not going to make the playoffs. Now you talk
about showing up and doing your job and showing people
that you care about your craft. Even if it is
a front of whatever, it doesn't matter what that is.
(31:53):
It still shows the younger generation how it could be done.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
There are all there are notable names everywhere on this
there's just no star. Well, you know, Chris Paul McHale Bridges,
Jalen Green. I think those are all names that we
obviously know. Buddy Healed, Malie Beasley, Nikhil, Alexander Walker, Jared Allen,
Harrison Barber, the all familiar names. But it's kind of
in that sweet spot of the not super duper star. Yeah,
(32:17):
that would need a night off that you'd want to rest,
and not somebody that was bad enough that wouldn't get
into a game. Yeah, that's what you get for playing
all eighty two. It's right in that sweet spot.
Speaker 4 (32:26):
A spot of mediocrity, is what Dan's saying these Carrier Roads.
Speaker 3 (32:30):
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Saturday because you had a full slate to wrap up
the regular season on Sunday. But missed some baseball on Saturday.
Saw the Cubs, you know, really took it to the
Dodgers sixteen to nothing. But the one play that I
did see in Major League Baseball really resonated with me,
and it should resonate with the North side of Chicago.
(34:52):
This is what happened in Houston between the Angels and Astros.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
Oh, you've got a lot of your friends coming out
to the weekend celebration.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
This ball two zero pitch. Look at Trout. Trout's claiming interference,
but that is in the stand That is not his ball.
That's a fans ball. Yep. Well, he can argue all
he wants, but that is a fans right. Mike, you
can look at it again, but that is a fan's
right off. The ball's in the stands. So a foul
ball that ends up in Mike Trout's glove ultimately ends
(35:27):
up in a fan's hands. And guess what, no controversy
you heard it? There was that the Astros broadcast with
the with the highlight, because I know the Angels had
wanted to review it or felt that there would be
the possibility to review the play, but the Astros broadcast
was all over it. But the fan ended up grabbing
(35:51):
the ball out of Mike Trout's glove, but then realized
what he did. And that's the part when you go
back to Bartman and you go back to the Cubs
and Marlins and the NLCS and Game six and Moisis
Alu and Bartman just standing there frozen when eight other
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people are also trying to get the baseball. This fan realizes, Oh,
my goodness, did I just become Bartman. Well, granted he
did it for the home team because it was the
Astros that were at the plate, but to see the
fan immediately try to give the ball back to Mike
Trout and have the look on his face like I'm
(36:32):
so sorry was amazing. And then what happened afterwards. We're
gonna play the audio. I don't know how great it's
gonna translate, but I do think that it's important to
tell the context of this because Mike Trout actually invited
this fan and his son down to the locker room
in the clubhouse after the game. After that exchange, this
(36:54):
was part of the exchange that was caught on social media.
Was the way you're reacting, that's what's all about.
Speaker 2 (37:06):
Yeah, I'm movie.
Speaker 3 (37:15):
So that's that's Mike Trout. If you can hear that,
and I think you could hear it. He said, how
you guys reacted, that's what it's all about. Right, And
so Mike Trout saw that the fans ended up being
escorted from their seats, and the fans said, hey, I
was just trying to, you know, protect my kid at first,
but I think he just thought it was somebody else's glove.
(37:36):
But good on Mike Trout for recognizing that's such a
feel good situation on what could have been something that
was stupid. Yeah, I loved what I saw in Houston
on Sunday. Yeah, I think.
Speaker 4 (37:48):
Yeah, the awareness of of both parties there was a
big deal, right, I mean, the awareness from the fan
that maybe I did something a little bit wrong or
out of character here in this situation, and was you know,
even in that moment, going to allow Trout to get
that ball right. Just the awareness of that was cool.
But also Trout, you know, being a competitor in the moment,
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obviously being upset at first, but being able to get
back to balance and understand what was really going on here.
And to see that fan being escorted from their seats
to be possibly kicked out the game and not allowing
that to happen is what sports about, because now you
get to see where the superstar player and fans are
(38:34):
like are on the same playing field, even though they're not,
but in that moment, it gave them that that clarity,
which is pretty cool to say.
Speaker 3 (38:41):
Jared Whalen was the fan his son was at the game. Honestly,
he's grabbing for the baseball, which he would ultimately give
to his son. I can actually understand that portion of it,
Like it could have been in any glove. He would
have just rippled it out and could have been another
fan and maybe it would have been tough luck on
that fan for not getting the super ar. But yeah,
(39:01):
I just I loved how Mike Trout was just so
aware that the point of the situation. And if you
see the fan trying to give the baseball back to
Mike Trout knowing that he did wrong. Yeah, it was
something else.
Speaker 4 (39:13):
Well, you know, like if it was a fan, if
it was fan of fan, it could have been fan
of fan combat too.
Speaker 3 (39:17):
So he's glad that didn't happen. He's carry roads. I'm
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