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Dan Beyer and Monse Bolanos, in for Covino and Rich, explain how the Play-In Games were a huge success for the NBA on Tuesday night. Dan breaks down what the end of LIV Golf means for the PGA and its biggest stars. Plus, Monse spent her weekend watching The Masters, and Dan is here to answer all her questions!

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
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Speaker 4 (00:16):
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Speaker 5 (00:21):
Two down and two more months to go. That's what
we've got for postseason basketball in the NBA. This isn't
the playoffs, Manzi, but it is the postseason. If that
makes any sense.

Speaker 6 (00:32):
It's kicking off the postseason. That's what it's doing.

Speaker 5 (00:35):
Chipping off there you go. Yeah, there's a buzz in
the air. Trails are being blazed. We could have used
that for playing tournament.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
Yeah, is off.

Speaker 5 (00:48):
The sun has at least a little bit. Phoenix at
least has a chance to get into the postseason. We'll
dive into that and so much more as we are
in for Cavino n Rich here on a Wednesday. We're
not the only ones here, Monty. You know else is here.
Ryan Berschinger, our executive producer, Ryan, our technical producer is

(01:09):
Chris Purfett. Oh, that was a new one. And Isaac
Longcron has already left the show.

Speaker 7 (01:17):
He's already over it.

Speaker 5 (01:19):
Ninety seconds. He has had enough. See you later, Isaac,
He'll be back to give us the latest. I did
not see Tyler Heroes outfit from this postgame press conference
last night still doesn't top what Nick Chubb war or
excuse me, Damian Lillard wore, because he looked like Nick
Chubb last night in Phoenix Crazy. But Tyler Heroes wearing.

Speaker 7 (01:40):
This might be slightly worse.

Speaker 5 (01:41):
Nike Grazer blade sunglasses. Yes, Timothy shallow May, that's.

Speaker 7 (01:46):
Timothy's shallow May. That's so good, Ryan, That's exactly who
that looked like.

Speaker 5 (01:50):
Actually, Tyler hero got bailed out because of the free
throws that allowed them to take the lead. He had
a great three to pull the heat within two in overtime,
and then they got this deal. Then he had a
bad three, but LaMelo ball was called, a follow was
called on ball. Hero makes three free throws. The Hornets
come down score on the LaMelo ball basket, which you have.

Speaker 8 (02:12):
A problem with.

Speaker 6 (02:13):
I mean, I know we don't call travel, but guys,
we got to call travel when there's a little hop there.

Speaker 5 (02:19):
He makes the bucket, then he'd unable to score, Davian
Mitchell unable to cash in at the end, and the
Hornets survive. And it was pandemonium in Charlotte. But you
know what else it was, Monty, It was fun entertaining
NBA basketball. And we talked about this around Christmas time
when the Christmas games tipped off, that the NBA teams

(02:41):
that were playing on Christmas Day put on a show.
They had something to play for, They put on a
great product. And last night it may not be playoff basketball,
but it was different from anything that we had seen
in the previous eighty two games of the season. And
I'm ready to give the NBA some leeway on this.
This is the topic we continue to talk about. But

(03:02):
last night's game in Charlotte and last night's game in Phoenix,
they just have a different feel. And if the NBA
wants to come to terms with them being now a
two month out of the year sport, I think that
could be better for everyone. But I thoroughly enjoyed that
lipstick on a pig last night, Manci. I told you this,
I was making out with the pig last night. I

(03:23):
loved what I saw in Charlotte. It was magnificent. I
loved what I saw in Phoenix between two teams that
we really don't think are going to go anywhere once
the actual playoffs do start. But I like the playing tournament.
The basketball we got last night was different than anything else,
and for that, I say thumbs up, NBA.

Speaker 6 (03:41):
It is a thumbs up, but it paints a bigger
picture of you guys. It's gotta be frustrating to the
fans because it's like, we know that there can be
good product on the court. We know that there can
be and last night prove that, but it's is.

Speaker 7 (03:57):
It a bit of fools gold?

Speaker 6 (03:59):
Once we get past this play in the first two
rounds between an eight seed and a one seed in
both conferences, it may not beat fun, It.

Speaker 7 (04:07):
Might not be might not be fun.

Speaker 5 (04:08):
But then you know, you don't have the Bucks playing
the Heat this year, so they know.

Speaker 6 (04:12):
The Heat who always make it fun. The Heat do
make it interesting every single time.

Speaker 7 (04:17):
I I love watching the Heat, and I'm bum they didn't.
You know, do what they usually do is win the
playing game.

Speaker 5 (04:22):
You love the NBA more than I do, and you've
got your team in the mix with the Clippers.

Speaker 7 (04:28):
Playing Nobody talked to me after she's.

Speaker 5 (04:31):
Got got her Kawhi Leonard shirt on and she's ready
to go rite it out. Sit back and watch this
game and hopefully they can, for your sake, beat Golden State,
maybe end Steve cursed ten year with the Warriors, and
then see what they do against Phoenix on Friday.

Speaker 6 (04:44):
Yeah, it's gonna be a calling sick tomorrow with you
if they lose.

Speaker 5 (04:47):
You know what I mean.

Speaker 7 (04:48):
Really, I'm just kidding, I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding,
just kidding.

Speaker 5 (04:52):
I'm just getting well playing tournament mons, you would be
so ill, so ill, But at least it means something.

Speaker 7 (04:58):
Absolutely and that's.

Speaker 6 (05:01):
No, no, And I'm totally kidding because after the start
to the season and everything that's happened, just to be
in the play in is cool because I didn't.

Speaker 7 (05:09):
Think it was gonna happen.

Speaker 5 (05:10):
What I find interesting comparing the play in games is
the NBA has tried to make a lot of changes.
They're going to be changing the lottery to try to
avoid tanking. But this is again, fresh off of a
month where we had thirty point blowouts seemingly every night
in the NBA teams that didn't care. We've now moved

(05:30):
some of them aside and all of them aside and
started this postseason and you had a competitive game. There
are times when you have back to backs. I was
singing about the NFL, like, how do we compare this
to the NFL? And to go on just a little
bit of a tangent the NBA when we talk about
playing hard and playing for something, I don't think guys

(05:54):
don't try during the regular season. I don't think that's
the case. You're just not seeing the effort that was
put forth last night when your season is on the
line in those sort of crunch time situations, and you
can't replicate that in the regular season. In the NFL,
you can a little because you only play seventeen games.
But Manzi, even in that window, if you have a

(06:15):
Thursday night game and you're playing on Sunday and you
have an injured player that is coming back from injury,
what you usually do is you say, I'm going to
hold out this guy and keep them from next week.
Keep them from next week. Then he'll have more rest,
he'll be able to come back. That decision is not
unlike the decisions that we get night in, night out
in the NBA. Of guys playing or not. You're trying

(06:36):
to decipher what is our best opportunity with people on
load management now players trying to get their sixty five
games in for their postseason awards, but you're trying to
decipher when do we play this guy? And sometimes for teams,
if you're actually looking at how the standings break down,
it's better to have your star players against the worst teams,

(06:57):
so then you get your automatic win. And if you
don't play them against the better team, then guess what.
You may have lost that game with your best player anyway,
and at least you didn't have the wear and tear.
It's all it's all a math gaming. You're trying to
figure things out. So I'm actually giving the NBA a
little bit of a pass. But last night just showed
the urgency of the play in and of the playoff,

(07:18):
and comparing it to the NBA Cup like last night
was one hundred times better. Like it actually showed that
there was something on the line. Your season was on
the line, and that's that's what I just I took
away from last night. Season wasn't on the line for Phoenix,
but it's gonna be on Friday night and they really
wanted to win, so they didn't have to play on Friday,
So there were stakes at stake last night. And that's

(07:39):
different than anything that you can get in the previous
eighty two games.

Speaker 6 (07:42):
It's really difficult to compare, I feel like the NFL
to any sport because the stakes are high Week one
of the NFL for every team, and it's every game
feels like they are desperate to win, like it's it's
quite incredible how the NFL makes you feel like that
from Week one all the way through, and an NBA
season it's not. It's almost like, well, stay with me here, dad,

(08:04):
let's think outside of the box here. I know that
the playing tournament with the one off games are great,
and I the NBA Cup has had good games right
at this point, why don't we just make this eighty
two game season four different tournaments throughout the NBA in
that year, there's four different tournaments. If you win one
of the tournaments, you get a top seed in the playoffs,

(08:27):
and then the rest can be figured out. Go away
with the conferences that's already been played with. You know,
the idea of getting rid of the conferences and just
make the top teams but every you know, every month
and a half, it's a tournament, and then you move
on and there's four winners.

Speaker 7 (08:40):
By the end of it.

Speaker 6 (08:41):
Theoretically, maybe it's the same winner all the time. But
if you want to if it's showing to these players
that having just like a little bit of stake to
win something, if this is what it's gonna lead to,
then like maybe you won't have tanking. Maybe they'll be
a month and a half where the Portland Trailblazers get.

Speaker 7 (08:58):
Really hot and win one of those tournaments.

Speaker 5 (09:00):
Oh then what so you would have say the first quarter,
Oklahoma City finishes eighteen and two in their twenty games,
it's the best record of anybody in the West. They
are automatically in the playoffs.

Speaker 7 (09:11):
And there is like a championship game for that first tournament.

Speaker 5 (09:15):
Let's say, okay, and then so they would end up
playing something you aren't you huh or someone else in
the West to get.

Speaker 6 (09:23):
It doesn't even have to be Yeah, it doesn't have
to be East West. But I feel like this could
work four different tournaments within the NBA calendar year.

Speaker 5 (09:33):
Your idea isn't crazy because what used to happen in
minor league baseball, and I don't know if it still
does today. Maybe Isaac or Ryan Bersching or knows. You'd
have a first half champion of a season, and then
you would have a second half champion of the season,
and that would be your final Isaac, is that correct?

Speaker 2 (09:50):
I mean it is correct, And it actually happened once
in Major League Baseball in nineteen eighty one. Applicable because
of the current threat of a workstoppage in Major League Baseball,
but in eighty one, and there was a long strike
right in the middle of the season. So when they
resolved the strike, they declared whatever teams were in first
place the champions of the first half and they would

(10:10):
play the champions of the second half in the postseason
that year. And it actually turned out to work out
really well and was actually very exciting. So it actually
has happened before.

Speaker 5 (10:19):
When you end up putting something on the line, I
think is your goal of like, let's have something.

Speaker 7 (10:24):
Put the line more times throughout the season, Yes, but have.

Speaker 5 (10:27):
Something of value to that line. Now, Listen, there are
ways too, and I'm not saying that yours is imperfect.
I think there's ways to poke holes in everything. You
would say, what would happen if you won the first one.
What's the team supposed to do for the rest of
the sixty games. There's things to work out. But what
last night again proved is that postseason basketball is just

(10:50):
a different game than regular season basketball. There is a
decent chance we see the Charlotte Hornets play forty eight
more minutes of basketball this season and then they're done.
But last night didn't matter. And maybe last night didn't
matter because of what the Charlotte Hornets have gone through,
But it's your seam. Phoenix was playing their heart out
and the fans wanted that win for a team that
not a lot was expected of heading into the season.

(11:13):
And here they are, the seventh seed, and here's Portland
coming in having their own troubles just like Charlotte has
had in the past, and Portland goes in and steals
a game and now solidifies. There was just there was
so much at stake and so much weight to it
that I just I don't know how you can replicate
that in other spots, and maybe your idea works, it
would put some sort of weight at different points of

(11:34):
the season as a build up to those spots, but
it was just it felt like we compare men's and
women's basketball, they're two different games, very different. You know,
college baseball and college softball are two different sports. They're
just they're not even the same. And it almost feels
like regular season NBA and postseason NBA are just two
different sports.

Speaker 6 (11:53):
And it's frustrating, especially this year, where you and I
have sat here and discussed how early the tanking came
about so many teams, and it's like they're not taking
you mentioned this a couple of minutes ago.

Speaker 7 (12:04):
They're not taking the whole the whole game.

Speaker 6 (12:06):
But they'll take their foot off the gas, and it's
evident going into the fourth quarter, like they may have
kept it close, but clearly we're actually we're not trying
to win. We're trying to see what we've got here
and play some good basketball. But we're not trying you
see it.

Speaker 5 (12:20):
And that's why changes are being made because I don't
think the problem is with the teams. I think it's
the environment that you end up playing in. And the
NBA has basically told teams that the best way to
get better is to accumulate young talent. I mean, look
at Charlotte last night. Yeah, for the lineup like that

(12:41):
they had, and I know that different pieces have been
brought in, but you're talking about LaMelo Ball who was
a top three pick, talking about Brandon Miller, yeah, who
was a top pick, and kon Kin Eppel top five pick.
So you've got all of these guys playing roles. But
that also means you've been picking in the top five
of the lottery and right now for Charlotte, it was

(13:03):
good enough for ninth in the Eastern Conference. Yeah, and
that you know that to me is a fault of
the NBA and trying to build it and how it's
it's constructed, and so that's something that they have to
work around. But also it's just like the NFL. Like
I think the NFL has probably about sixteen good gms,
there's about sixteen others that aren't good. Some are saved
by good players on their teams. I don't think that

(13:24):
the NBAS has thirty great general managers. I think there's
probably about ten. And figuring out ways to do it.
So you're trying to navigate all of that as well
to try to make your team a competitor. But when
it comes down to it, Mazi, last night was fun
and last at a drama. I mean, I don't think
LaMelo Ball should be penalized for the foul on bam Anebayo,
but you know, but in a way like this, this conversation.

(13:48):
Eric Spolstro was ticked off about it last night, Like
these are conversations now that will carry out throughout the
week of the season.

Speaker 6 (13:55):
Penalize like in the sense of being suspended for this
upcoming game, Absolutely not or no, how you chatting with
you in the moment, you could have given him a
flavorant in that moment that was not a basketball play,
you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 7 (14:07):
But he didn't get anything, and it just it sucks
because we've seen other players do it. And I'm stopped
speaking about you, Draymond Green.

Speaker 6 (14:16):
It takes forever for you to get suspended and you
do stuff left and right. So no, you can't suspend
LaMelo Ball because other players have had similar moments. Whether
he did it on purpose or not, I don't know
if it was dirty in the sense that he was
like I am going to purposely hurt bam out of Bio.
I don't think that's what he was doing. But you
do have to be aware of what you're on the floor.

Speaker 7 (14:35):
Don't go for a.

Speaker 6 (14:36):
Leg thinking like you're gonna get up like I just
don't move for a second. There's commotion going above. You
protect your head. He said he hit his head.

Speaker 7 (14:43):
Did you after the game? He was like, I hit
my head. I'm sorry, I didn't know.

Speaker 6 (14:47):
So wait a second, did you have a concussion going on?
Should we have checked on you at that point for that?
Like he said it twice, I hit my head. All right, Well,
you still need to be fully aware of what you're doing.
And so I think a flagrant foul in the moment
was right, but he should not be suspended for the upcoming.

Speaker 5 (15:02):
Yeah, I think that it's a freak play. It's unfortunate
that Bam got injured. Have you ever bruised your tailbone?

Speaker 7 (15:11):
It is awful, It sounds awful, It stinks.

Speaker 5 (15:14):
It's that it's it hurts. It happened to me in
high school. I had to sit at a forty five
degree angle at my desk because you could not sit
down on it. Like it's it's it's super painful. And
I'm talking as a fifteen year old. I can't imagine
what falling on the on the on your back. If
that's what it ended up being for Bam at a bio,
but that's what it looked like to me, and I'm like, oh,
if you did that like that, that's a pain that

(15:38):
some people have never experienced. But I don't think the
action of Lamello was completely vicious. Donovan Klinging got a
flagrant follow last night with a hook around Dylan Brooks's
neck that I didn't even think that was bad, and
they reviewed it and said he followed through, and but
I don't think that Lamello's intense was there. And I
think the worst thing about it is that Bam got hurt,

(16:00):
because there could have been a way he fell and
didn't get hurt and just got up and then it's
not that big of a deal. But because Bam wasn't
available and got hurt on the play, I think we're
making the action much worse than it actually was.

Speaker 6 (16:11):
Or just how he felt like right if he would
it looked like a hard fall, but it could have
been that he just trips.

Speaker 7 (16:16):
In fact, now everybody's pulling.

Speaker 6 (16:18):
Up the video of him doing this to Bam two
three years ago where he was running and kind of
like went for his legs and Bam just as like
a little trip and keeps going. Had that been this situation,
we wouldn't be talking about it. It's just like it
looked like a bad fall and like you said, he
was taken out.

Speaker 7 (16:32):
Of the game. That's not what you want.

Speaker 6 (16:34):
It's it's almost like the perfect storm and like the
worst way for the Heat. Also losing in overtime by
a point, you know what, like it's you you cannot not.

Speaker 7 (16:41):
Think about that.

Speaker 6 (16:42):
You lost your best player and then you went literally
down to the wire and you lost it in the
final second on a travel layup.

Speaker 7 (16:50):
He traveled, he hopped.

Speaker 5 (16:53):
Oh that allows discussion. Yes, this would have happened Tuesday,
not in a regular season. We're not caring about it.

Speaker 7 (16:57):
We're not caring about it, absolutely.

Speaker 6 (16:59):
And it's also like I think we're just also so
used to the Heat being in this situation, winning, advancing,
going into the postseason, Charlotte's coming out of nowhere and
so people that adds to the story I'm telling it
was a perfect storm in a bad way for the Heat.

Speaker 5 (17:14):
What did you think of Damian Lillard's outfit last night
at the bench.

Speaker 7 (17:17):
He looked real comfy, Like when I saw me. That
is a great point, he looked real comfy.

Speaker 5 (17:23):
It was a sweatsuit. Yes, Ryan Bursching, Are you liked
the digs from All dameon Liller last night?

Speaker 4 (17:29):
It is interesting when you say he looks real comfy,
because now suddenly it looks kind of like pajamas when
you think about all that way.

Speaker 6 (17:35):
One thousand percent. When I saw this, I was like,
why does you look too comfy? Like you're about to
take a nap on the side.

Speaker 5 (17:42):
You look like you're about to take a handoff from
a Cleveland Browns quarterback and run for eight yards. I
tweeted that he looked exactly like Nick Chubb in a
full Brown's uniform. It did. I don't know, Isaac, I
don't know if you saw it. Chris Purfett, did you
see Damian Lillard's outfit that he wore last night?

Speaker 1 (18:00):
I did not.

Speaker 5 (18:01):
Well, imagine, go tot Dan Byer on Fox. You can
take a look at it.

Speaker 7 (18:05):
Let's go see it.

Speaker 5 (18:06):
It's not that he wore a Nick Chubb jersey because
it didn't say Chubb twenty four on the back. I'm
sure the outfit is eight thousand dollars and it's probably
by what Valenciaga was that what you could say, You
could say something like this is uh, this is doult
jay and aaban. I don't know, it's probably thousands of dollars.

Speaker 1 (18:26):
Looks more like van Houssen to No.

Speaker 5 (18:29):
It doesn't. This is high end stuff. You don't wear
a pretend football jersey and try to pull it a uniform,
not even a jersey, a uniform. It was full set
Browns and then even the stripes on the sleeves were
similar to what the Browns wore. Look.

Speaker 1 (18:45):
Shake comes in here, one of our produced Shake comes
in here all the time. He comes to Browns, but
he comes into Browns jersey all the time. What Dame's
wearing right now? That does not look like the Browns
jerseys that Shaye wears. There's no orange?

Speaker 5 (18:56):
Are you kidding me? What did you want an exact replica?

Speaker 8 (19:00):
No?

Speaker 1 (19:00):
No, that's what I mean. But that that makes it any.

Speaker 5 (19:01):
Want of the helmet, the mouth guard as well.

Speaker 1 (19:03):
I'm just saying that makes it more boutique. It's not
a Mitchell and ness here. On a related note, is.

Speaker 5 (19:08):
He chose to go to the game in a full
Cleveland Brown's uniform or, as Monzi put it, pajamas. I
think a sweatsuit would have been worked out as well.
This was a crazy look from Damian Lillard last night.
You could see it at Dan Byron Fox.

Speaker 2 (19:23):
Unfortunately, if if Shador Sanders should happen to get injured
during the course of this next season, would he show
up to a Cleveland Browns game wearing a Portland Trailblazers jersey.

Speaker 7 (19:31):
Just to retrain, he should, right, he really should.

Speaker 5 (19:34):
Look at this. Chris is left, Chris is out protesting,
He is leaving the studio. We can't even go to
commercial because Chris is now leaving. He is out of here.
He's called Shaye down.

Speaker 7 (19:45):
Yeah, he's right here, Shay go over there.

Speaker 5 (19:48):
This is this is I'm telling you.

Speaker 1 (19:51):
When you see that does not look like Dame's jersey
at all.

Speaker 7 (19:54):
But he has stripes you're talking about? Look at shit.

Speaker 5 (19:58):
This it's a Cleveland a general like yes, and it's brown.
It's brown. What what did you want? You wanted the
NFL logo on the neckline is that's what's missing for you?
My goodness, that is one.

Speaker 7 (20:15):
The same jersey, but it is like the comfy version.

Speaker 5 (20:19):
It looks like it's color Rush Thursday Night Football with
the Browns.

Speaker 1 (20:22):
It might be color Rush.

Speaker 5 (20:24):
It's got the.

Speaker 4 (20:25):
Same stripe pattern on the sleeves.

Speaker 1 (20:27):
It's yes, Dame Liar's Dame Lillard's been holding onto color
Rush jerseys. I think is the bigger story.

Speaker 5 (20:32):
So and I are coming around instead of like completely
shooting down the idea.

Speaker 1 (20:36):
I didn't say it wasn't a Cleveland one. I think
I'm saying. I'm saying, to your point, it's a hot
boutique Cleveland Jersey.

Speaker 5 (20:42):
Yeah, yeah, I know, I know. But he looks like
a Browns player. He looks like he could line up
and face the Steelers in minutes.

Speaker 7 (20:50):
He does. He's ready to go.

Speaker 1 (20:52):
I don't think he wants to fae play the Steelers.

Speaker 5 (20:54):
Like uh, you know and Nick Chubbs, you know, spent
last year with the Houston Texans. But so it was
maybe rollback. I waited for camera angles to see if
there was a back number on that outfit. Monci.

Speaker 6 (21:06):
Yeah name, there's a video of him getting there to
the game, Like that's the video I saw him walking.

Speaker 5 (21:10):
There wasn't. It was just it was blank on the back.
There was no name, there was no Lillard, there was
no Chubb, there was there was none of that on
the back, but just a and he could have worn
he could have worn a lot of different numbers. But
Nick Chubb is someone that we've seen and that we've
watched and watched throughout the years. I mean, if you

(21:32):
wore number six, maybe I would have said Brian Hoyer
of the Brons, But this just worked out so well.
If he wore seventy three, it would have been Joe Thomas.
If he would have worn ninety five, you would have
known it was Miles Garrett. Nick Chubb falls into that category.
And that's what Damian Lillard looked like last night.

Speaker 6 (21:47):
My brother Gus just said, I have to look up
what Damian Lillard wore.

Speaker 7 (21:50):
Yeah, that's literally what he's saying.

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Speaker 5 (22:40):
Live and let die is about to die. As Isaac said, nice.
There was a report from Rex Hoggar to the Golf
Channel who said that some vendors haven't been paid by
Livgolf all. Had someone tell me who's in Mexico City,
that it is a very strange feeling that people haven't
been told anything. Tournament's going on schedule to start tomorrow.

(23:03):
Saw on the Golf Channel that they were saying the
pro am was being played today. So business as usual.
But I think likely when they's smoke, there's fire when
it comes to a topic like this, that Live is
likely on its way out and almost over. So now
that begs the question from when they started their first
event in June of twenty twenty two and here we
are almost four years later, who actually won? Who actually

(23:25):
benefited in all of this? And I think that the
list is very very small.

Speaker 7 (23:31):
Yeah, Rory McElroy, I think.

Speaker 5 (23:33):
That is a great answer. That is a magnificent answer
from Monty Belangios, because I think you would default, well,
let's see who benefited from Live, But I think it's
the other way around that it's Rory McElroy. And as
a whole, I would add to that the PGA Tour.

Speaker 7 (23:53):
Oh absolutely.

Speaker 5 (23:54):
Now there is a way that you could say Phil
Mickelson in a way benefited, whether it be with the
financial that he got for playing Live. I also think
that Phil Mickelson in a way got what he wanted,
but I don't know if he really wanted this. And
by saying that his changes were made to the PGA

(24:14):
Tour and one of the comments that Phil made to
Alan Chipknuok which kind of started this whole, you know,
wildfire of Live taking over, where the comments about how
Phil wanted the PGA Tour to make certain changes and
Live scared the PGA Tour into making changes. It is
a different looking tour than it was four years ago
when Live started, But the PGA tours survived through this,

(24:38):
and so Phil Mickelson in saying that changes needed to
be made to the PGA Tour were fine. You can
take that as a win. But I think ultimately we
don't look at Phil Mickleson anywhere near like we had
him revered prior to four years ago. I mean, he
was fresh off of winning a PGA Championship in May
of twenty twenty one a in South Carolina in his fifties,

(25:02):
became the oldest player to ever win a major, and
now he's kind of persona on Grada like there's he
didn't participate in the Masters because of a family issue,
but even when he was competing in the Masters a
couple of years ago, he wasn't the focus of competition,
kind of rode off to the sunset, and I think
that his reputation was damaged. So it's tough for me
to say that Phil Mickelson, well maybe right on some

(25:24):
of his premises, was actually a winner in all of this.
Brooks Koepka maybe could have looked at a winner. But
there's a guy that looked at live golf at a
time when he needed when he was dealing with injuries,
and then ultimately left and is now happier back on
the PGA Tour, Bryce and the Shamble maybe in a
way because he was allowed to do a lot of
other things outside of golf, and he was Live's biggest star.

(25:45):
But I would say Rory McElroy, the PGA Tour, Anthony Kim,
who revitalized his career, and for a moment, Taylor Goot,
she would say some crazy things, but played really golf,
a really good golf. But that was really about it.
I don't think any of the other players truly won
or benefited by joining Live Golf. Their bank accounts may.

Speaker 7 (26:06):
Have maybe, yeah, maybe they got it.

Speaker 5 (26:08):
Sure that's and I'm sure there could be money still outstanding,
And if there is, I don't think you're gonna see
that money.

Speaker 8 (26:14):
Yeh.

Speaker 6 (26:14):
No, no, no, I think you're right about Phil Mickelson
is kind of like an afterthought. And he wasn't at
before this, Before all of this went down, he wasn't
an afterthought.

Speaker 7 (26:21):
He was one of those golfers. It's definitely gonna be
discussed if you're having a discussion. People love that Phil exactly.
He was always gonna be talked about. Now he's like
an afterthought.

Speaker 6 (26:28):
But this whole thing, I'm not surprised this didn't work out.
I guess I thought it would last maybe five years,
so I'm a little surprised at how quickly it all
just fell apart, but.

Speaker 7 (26:39):
They were just trying to create something with just money.

Speaker 6 (26:42):
They were like, we're gonna throw money and bring all
of these top golfers to our league, and we're gonna
show you that just because we have the money, we
can do exactly what you've been doing over there, meaning
the PGA over there, and it's like, no, are.

Speaker 7 (26:55):
You a little bit putting lipstick on a pig?

Speaker 6 (26:58):
And it just it finally came off. It took four years,
but it's like, none of them, this isn't real. This
is all fabricated. You bought this fancy stuff, put it together,
but it's still just scotch tape.

Speaker 7 (27:08):
Yes, yes, that's what that was with money.

Speaker 5 (27:10):
That was the quality of the courses exactly. Like there
were some spots where Live hit in Australia, which is
a country and a continent that loves golf. There is
a strong Australian contingent that joined Live Golf. Greg Norman
obviously was one of the leaders of that. But you
got cam Smith, you got Mark Leishman, you had others
from Australia. When they would play in Australia, there would

(27:33):
be great crowds. That was a bonus for them, but
anywhere here in the States. I don't think it was
a bonus at all. The quality of courses that they
played is not a bonus. John Rahm, I think severely
and maybe permanently damaged his career for making the switch.
And he was one of the later switches. It was
just a couple of years ago. Then he ended up
making the switch. He was one of those who stood

(27:54):
against it and then succumb to taking the money. Didn't
was going to be a part of the Teacher, which
is the indoor simulator golf that we see on ESPN.
Dropped out of that, and then there were rumors Alway's
probably going to go to live and he ultimately did,
but his game hasn't been anywhere near the same. I
don't know his pathway back to the PGA Tour. The
good thing with Cam Smith and John Rahm is that

(28:14):
their games are good enough that the PGA Tour may
figure out a window to allow them back because they're
great players. But that's not going to happen to everybody.
They allowed a window for those players to come back
earlier this year if they were to agree to some
of the stipulations that Brooks Koepka agreed to and those
players didn't, and now you're going to be stuck in
a spot where you didn't accept that offer previously. And

(28:38):
I don't know what's going to happen with John Rahman
and Cameron Smith. Dustin Johnson still had miles in his
game for how good he was. I think Dustin Johnson's
got paid handsomely, but I don't know if we're going
to see Dustin Johnson be a factor anymore. And then
there's just a whole group of players, and a lot
of them are European players of Ian Poulter, Sergio Garcia,
Lee Westwood, Graat McDonnell, Paul Casey Martin, or just some

(29:00):
of the names that I wrote down that were guys
you kind of just went for the money because they
were later in their careers. But so their way back
to the PGA Tour, the you know, Champions Tour, if
they want to play, I don't think it's going to
be there. So I don't know what's going to happen
to those guys. Maybe it was all worth it for
the money, but there are very few people who actually
benefited from golf or from live golf. And your point

(29:21):
Manzi with Rory McElroy and then the PGA Tour as
a whole. That list is very short, and it's even
shorter for the people who are actually in live that
actually benefited from live Golf.

Speaker 6 (29:30):
You said something right now that I'm still stuck on.
So you think some of these golfers went to live,
the ones that were maybe thriving at one point that
their golf game went down because of the courses, the
quality of the courses that they were going.

Speaker 5 (29:45):
Through, quality of the courses, quality of the play around them.

Speaker 7 (29:49):
The competitive nature.

Speaker 5 (29:50):
Yes, the format, I mean just the format. They tried
to do a bunch of different things. They tried to
formulate team golf, so you had each group having it
their own team. You would play what does a shotgun start? Now,
for those that play golf know exactly what a shotgun
start is, But that's when you have a group on
every one of the eighteen holes starting at this right time,

(30:12):
not at nine, nine, nine thirty, it's everybody at noon. Well,
you just go around in a circle. So you start
at the sixteenth hole. Your last hole of the day
will be fifteen, so you'd play sixteen, seventeen and eighteen,
come around, which, by the way, is difficult to watch it. Yeah,
Like from a standpoint of you would just probably follow
around the stars because they whereas if you were to

(30:34):
go to a golf tournament, you sit at eighteen, you
wait for groups to play through, watch them finish. Just
very funky, very funky format.

Speaker 7 (30:42):
Yeah, I don't like any of that.

Speaker 5 (30:43):
They just changed the format this year from fifty four
holes to seventy two holes. There just wasn't it wasn't there.
It didn't provide that that competition that you needed, and
someone like John Ramua I think thrived off of it
severely had his game fall apart. Cam Smith was one
the Open Championship in twenty twenty one, was rumored to

(31:03):
be leaving for Live and ultimately did. And he really
hasn't been in contention in majors and he was a
great young talent guy who could win multiple majors. So
there are very few winners in this if you take
out what these guys got in their wallets, and it.

Speaker 7 (31:18):
Was and again hoping that it's already in the wallet.

Speaker 5 (31:21):
Yeah, yeah, for their for their sake, they hope it is.
And a lot of them don't have a road back
because of what they did to the PGA Tour, and
so now it'll be interesting to see what the PGA
Tour accepts back and what they don't. But the life
of Live is a likely soon over. She's Monte Milanios,
I'm Dan Byer. It is Cavino and Rich here on
Fox Sports Radio and that huge news story that is

(31:44):
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(32:05):
can find me at Dan Byer on Fox. Have we
heard from Gus in the Nick Chubb uniform.

Speaker 7 (32:09):
Oh he sent me some laughing emojis.

Speaker 5 (32:12):
Yeah he agrees. Yeah, see Chris Purffett. Other people think
it looks like a Brons uniform. Oh all right. The
NBA playoffs don't start until Saturday. It's the postseason right now,
but the playoffs don't start until Saturday. We look ahead
to the NBA Finals in a way that is just
a bit of a head scratcher. She's Monty. I'm Dan

(32:32):
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Speaker 5 (32:48):
Welcome in. It is a hum day. It is a Wednesday,
and we have got play in tournament action tonight in
the NBA, including Manzi's Clippers taking the court tonight's against
the Golden State Warriors.

Speaker 7 (33:00):
I'm nervous. I'm nervous about it.

Speaker 6 (33:01):
Dan, I'm not gonna lie to you because Steph Curry,
even though they can't, they're gonna they say they're gonna
limit his minutes, but I don't.

Speaker 7 (33:08):
Are you gonna limit them to ten? I don't think so.

Speaker 6 (33:11):
They say about thirty and he could he could go crazy,
he could go off.

Speaker 7 (33:15):
But Kawhi Leonard, He's going to carry us well.

Speaker 5 (33:19):
He could be an NBA Finally we've seen Kawhi win
a couple of NBA finals. MVP could another one, could
be This be the start of another run to an
NBA Finals MVP. I want to get to that in
about sixty seconds.

Speaker 7 (33:34):
Would that make him better than Lebron?

Speaker 6 (33:36):
Like, let's just hypothetically say he carries the Clippers to
the finals wins.

Speaker 7 (33:42):
Is he better than Lebron?

Speaker 5 (33:44):
No? No, that is nuts. No, let's not not at all.

Speaker 7 (33:48):
Come on, you just you're just blinded.

Speaker 5 (33:51):
Did you see the other news of the day. The
Washington Commanders got in new uniforms. Have you seen these? No,
Washington Commanders got in new uniforms very similar to the
style that they wore in the nineteen eighties. In the
nineteen nineties, they also have an alternate now with their
with the black uniform with the W on the helmet

(34:12):
and an arrow going through it. They used to wear
an arrow through their helmet in previous the nineteen sixties.
So a new look for the Washington Commanders. I'm waiting
for Chris Purfett to tell us why they don't look
like the eighties and nineties, just like you did with
my Nick Chubb.

Speaker 1 (34:27):
Damien's gonna say it looks like something Damian Lillard would wear.

Speaker 5 (34:30):
I listen. I just put up the tweet as well.
I found a picture of Nick Chubb standing in a
full Brown's uniform next to what Damian Lillard wore last night,
and it's a see it's a full Browns uniform. That's
not anybody is that is in NFL uniforms. If the

(34:51):
sweatsuit that Dame was wearing last night was purple, I'm
not even sure I could do like a Vikings Ravens
because of the stripes on the sleeve. But it's the
stripes on the sleeve that really put this look over
the top and make him look like he wore a
full Cleveland Browns uniform to the Blazers Suns game last night.

Speaker 7 (35:10):
He really did. He really does look like that.

Speaker 6 (35:13):
It still looks like a comfy sweatsuit or pajamas, but
right next to it, it's like, no, you're wearing Yeah,
you aren't wearing Nick Chubb's uniform.

Speaker 5 (35:21):
Leah Long the long draw strings of the that are
hanging out as well, that's another another issue to UH
to deal with. But that's where we are today. I
wanted to just point that out. At Dan Byer on
Fox's you can see the the side by side of
what Damian Lillard wore last night in Phoenix is the

(35:42):
Blazers are now on to face the Spurs in the
first round of the play in Tournament of the NBA Playoffs. Well,
the Suns are stuck in the play in tournament. Magic
and Sixers tonight in the other playing game outside of
the Warriors.

Speaker 7 (35:54):
And Clippers could be a fun one too.

Speaker 5 (35:56):
I mentioned Kawhi Leonard and the Finals MVP, so over
the next hour or so here on Fox Sports Radio,
there are Manzi, there are a few names that I
think that you should take note. I'll put it that way.
If I were to ask you the question, how many
players have a realistic chance of winning NBA Finals MVP

(36:21):
this year NBA Finals MVP? How many players? Just the number?
You don't have to even give me the names because
we'll get to that in a second, but realistic names
to win the NBA Finals MVP award? How many players
do you think have a realistic chance of winning that?

Speaker 7 (36:36):
Four ish four? Let's put the number a four and
a half.

Speaker 5 (36:40):
Ryan Bursching, are you We'll just say four? Are you?
Are you good with four?

Speaker 1 (36:43):
I like it that?

Speaker 4 (36:44):
Yeah, maybe in the five to ten range, five to
ten field generous.

Speaker 5 (36:47):
Isaac Chris, do you guys differ with that number at
all players that can realistic win the NBA Finals MVP Award.
You guys good with four to five, four to ten.

Speaker 1 (36:58):
Go three to four at the three to four.

Speaker 5 (37:01):
If you're Isaac, could you differ on any of it?

Speaker 2 (37:04):
Well, this does take a topic away from a future
game of in the neighborhood, but yes, five to six.

Speaker 5 (37:10):
Well. Bet online is released the odds for thirty five
players to that that have actual odds to win the
NBA Finals MVP Award. Thirty five players have odds. Yeah,
So over the next hour of this show, I want
to know if we can get all thirty five. Now,

(37:30):
we're not going to just do this right now because
there is we have to get the Manzi's Weekend of Golf.
But throughout the show, if we throw out names, and
we ask you as well to throw out names eight seven,
seven nine nine on Fox eight seven seven nine nine
six six three six nine or reach Monti on X
at Monzy Belanos. You can find me at Dan Bayer

(37:51):
on Fox. Can you get one of the names that
made like they're good enough to have odds?

Speaker 7 (37:57):
Right?

Speaker 5 (37:58):
But there are some long shots here. Thirty five players
have listed odds from Bed Online to win the NBA's
final NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award.

Speaker 7 (38:10):
That is ridiculous that there's thirty five on this.

Speaker 5 (38:12):
You want to throw a name out there just to
kind of get this started. Alexander Okay, he's number one,
five to four plus one twenty five, so SGA is
off the board. And the other names to get this.

Speaker 3 (38:23):
Role Uber one, Nicole Jokich Jokich right now ten to one,
he's third on the list, number three, or bed online
you know what, it's good, I'm gonna go home.

Speaker 1 (38:38):
Or Kate Cunningham.

Speaker 5 (38:40):
Twenty to one. He is sixth actually seventh best odds
right now seven and Isaac Longkron is their name you
would like to submit.

Speaker 2 (38:51):
I mean, if we're going up to thirty five, George Mikeham, I.

Speaker 5 (38:53):
Mean the list is interesting. It's there's just a there's
a lot of players, but it's not like it's I mean,
it's thirty five players right now spanning.

Speaker 7 (39:06):
That's crazy.

Speaker 5 (39:07):
I can't get twenty teams. So that's that's that's where
we are.

Speaker 7 (39:10):
No, that's ridiculous, all right, you do you have a name?

Speaker 5 (39:14):
You don't, You're just gonna stick with the mic and joke.
Did you have it?

Speaker 8 (39:17):
No?

Speaker 1 (39:17):
No, yeah, okay, curious who the thirty fifth is?

Speaker 5 (39:20):
All right, well we'll find out throughout this show if
you want to. If you want to add to the
list again, tweet that Manzi at Manzi Blanos or me
at Dan Byron Fox. Also, you can give us a call.
Eight seven seven nine nine six six three six nine.
That's eight seven seven nine to nine on Fox.

Speaker 7 (39:36):
Can we just take off Victor?

Speaker 5 (39:38):
There it is, there is, Thank you very much.

Speaker 7 (39:39):
Can we take let's let's please okay, yeah, let's just
get him out of the way.

Speaker 5 (39:45):
Eddie was number two. So there we go. We got
four down, thirty one to go. We're gonna we're gonna
complete this list. All of these players have odds you
could wager.

Speaker 7 (39:54):
That's crazy.

Speaker 5 (39:55):
Yes, you could wager on them if you wanted to.

Speaker 4 (39:57):
That's crazy.

Speaker 5 (39:58):
All right. You had a heck of a week end.

Speaker 7 (40:00):
I sure did.

Speaker 5 (40:01):
The NBA regular season wrapped up, but that's not where
your eyes were. You watched a lot of golf this weekend.

Speaker 6 (40:05):
I watched a lot of the Masters throughout the four days,
but the day that I spent hours was on Saturday,
and I mean hours, and it flew by.

Speaker 7 (40:16):
I was at the edge of my seat. I was excited.

Speaker 6 (40:20):
I was wondering why there was that hole where all
the golfers just couldn't get it to go straight.

Speaker 7 (40:25):
They all went left, and I was like, why they
all go left? What is it about this hole? Why
do they all go left? Then the marker I had
to text you. I didn't want to bother you. I
know this is like your Christmas.

Speaker 6 (40:34):
Your holiday, but I was like, are we just like
all trusting each other with that marker we put by?

Speaker 7 (40:38):
Like everyone just trust each other.

Speaker 5 (40:40):
This was a good question, and golf is the isn't
Monty's favorite sports now, but you're taking to it and
you're learning more about what actually goes on within the sport,
playing the sport, and what goes on in the tournament.
And she asked me about what happens when a player
marks his ball on the green? Yeah, like you're just thinking,

(41:00):
like someone could just throw a coin down, Oh my
ball was there there?

Speaker 9 (41:03):
It was?

Speaker 8 (41:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (41:04):
I asked if is there someone that's like impartial there
watching this.

Speaker 5 (41:08):
And it's a very good question because there are rules officials,
but no one is watching that. That is more of
an honor code system. But when you hear players stretching
the rules, trying to push the limits of what they
can do, one of the places that they will mention
is how they mark their golf ball.

Speaker 7 (41:25):
Yeah, of course, you know you're.

Speaker 5 (41:25):
Supposed to put the coin or your ballmarker right behind
the ball. Some may do that, but then may give
themselves maybe a half an inch a little bit closer.
Maybe people are out a different way. If you want
to talk about ways where maybe someone has thought of
as a cheater in golf, it could be by the
way that they mark their golf ball or do so incorrectly.
So that was a very very good, astute question by you,

(41:47):
because I think it is foreign to a lot of
people that aren't familiar with what did he just do?
He just put something down and then he put the
ball back down again. It's a good question.

Speaker 6 (41:55):
And I was like, not even thinking of you inching
it closer. But I feel like the too matters, right
Like if I put the coin a little bit over
he is because I want the ball outside. I was like,
we're just allowing this, okay, okay, all right on her code, Okay.

Speaker 1 (42:11):
It is something interesting nowadays. Two where we've got television
angles of everything. My dad works as does rules officiating
for the USGA, and I know one thing he talks
about is basically beause we have streaming and we've got
cameras now everywhere, like exactly that you're talking about. Mostly
it's coming back from those replays and seeing you know
how close that is.

Speaker 2 (42:30):
By the way, this is interesting. Augustin National has actually
just announced the twenty twenty seven Masters will feature the
debut of the Moncey Cast and alternative Alternate telecast starring
Mancy Bolagos.

Speaker 7 (42:42):
I feel like a lot of people would relate to
my questions.

Speaker 6 (42:45):
Okay, I had so I it's so many again, why
do the balls all go laughed at this hole? None
of them can get it the marker. We just all
trust each other. And then another thing I realized that
I didn't say it to you, but I was like, oh,
my goodness, they're doing the same course every day, so you're.

Speaker 7 (42:57):
Doing this four times. And then ye, you gave me
another bomb today where you said, what do we call it?
Not the hole?

Speaker 5 (43:07):
The pin? Yeah, pin, the pin moves.

Speaker 6 (43:09):
Isaac bomb, What do you mean the pin moves every day?

Speaker 7 (43:15):
So that oh mind blown? Mine blown?

Speaker 5 (43:18):
It completely changes the way that the course plays. Now
they're the same holes, but there are different whole locations
and pin placements, however you want to call them. Well,
think about it.

Speaker 7 (43:27):
That's good.

Speaker 5 (43:27):
You just potted the ball into one spot for four
straight days.

Speaker 7 (43:31):
Yeah, I should be excellent at it by the fourth day.

Speaker 5 (43:33):
Oh, think of the wear and tear that would go
on around that one spot on the green as well.
There's there's other reasons for it, but the strategy is
I think first and foremost, but a close second is also.

Speaker 7 (43:48):
Just sure, Okay, that makes sense.

Speaker 5 (43:50):
I didn't really think of that where in Tara just
you wouldn't be able to hold up to the sort
of traffic, especially at the conditions that they're playing with
at Augusta.

Speaker 6 (43:59):
How long does it take at Augusta to get from
like hold a hole walking It seems like a long process.

Speaker 5 (44:04):
Well, some of the shows, some of the holes have
been pushed back because of distance, so when it was
originally set up, the walks were not long or longer.
It's actually a great test on what is a great
course and what is not a great course. And in
the travel from the green to the to the next tee,

(44:25):
some places you go to resorts. A lot of those
are you would want a cart on a lot of
courses of course up by me where there's no way
I would walk it because of the travel. I mean,
you can walk it, but it's just a long way
from green to the to the next tee. Augusta. It's
pretty close, and I think that when you're watching it
you don't realize on the area of land it is.

(44:46):
But certain holes run perpendicular or you know, run up
parallel to each other. One's one way, one's another, but
they may be completely different. But the walks that you
have aren't as long as you would maybe say at
like a resort course. But there are a a few
hikes like eleven. As I mentioned, it was backed up
quite a bit. They backed up the fifteenth tee a
little from the fourteenth tee. Over the previous years, second

(45:10):
hole has been pushed back, the fifth hole has been
pushed back. But like the fifth holes, tea boxes right
behind the fourth green. So, but it's all relatively close
to Augusta.

Speaker 6 (45:19):
M Any any of the golfers when they were on
the green and they were close to it and they
wouldn't get it. I was like, oh, You're just go
to your hole, like you just how frustrating is it
when you're so close and then you still can't get it.

Speaker 1 (45:34):
The gore hoole.

Speaker 5 (45:36):
What I'm so glad is that you texted me on
Saturday where I think, well, I know it was. I mean,
Rory had a six shot lead going into to that round.
So you're watching two players, like you're watching Rory McClary
and Cameron Young, two top end players. One is having
just the dartiest of times Rory and trying to figure
it out, and Cameron Young's making it look easy. You know.

(45:58):
That's one of the great things I think about Augusta
is that if you're playing well and hitting the ball
in the right spots, you can take advantage of it.
But if you're not, you're really in trouble. And then
the pressure starts to get to the pond that Rory
hit it into on Saturday. That pond by eleven, and
they've redone the green a couple of times, and they
had they recently redone it because of a washout. But

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that place is where like masters went to die, Like
the pin would be close to the left on the
green and players would try to take on that pond.
Now you're seeing them play to the right way to
the right. Well, you saw justin Rose play way off
to the right, but it cost him a stroke because
he didn't want to hit it in the water, didn't
want to pull anything. Then he ended up not being
able to get it up and down on Sunday. But

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that's the great thing about it if you put the
ball in the right position, and even on that it's
still a very difficult shot on eleven, but you can
score at Augusta National and some of.

Speaker 6 (46:52):
The angles of the camera, like in one of those
shots where it's like long and it's their teen off
and then the minute they hit and then all the
people like go into the shot to look at the ball,
like they all their heads go in and they all
look one way. Just so many, so many details that
I hadn't paid attention to prior to my four hours
of watching The Masters.

Speaker 5 (47:12):
I've got some good news for you, Mancy Blanos. I
don't know you guys know this, but Mancy has been
approved for credentials for the US Women's Open.

Speaker 8 (47:20):
Here.

Speaker 5 (47:22):
Yes, yes, get the email.

Speaker 7 (47:23):
To get the email.

Speaker 5 (47:25):
You watch some of the world's best women play at
play golf at one of the greatest courses in the
world at Riviera coming up.

Speaker 1 (47:33):
Don't wear jeans. Don't trust me. Trust me. I found
that out the hard way there once.

Speaker 7 (47:37):
Okay, I gotta I gotta look the part. I gotta
look the part.

Speaker 6 (47:40):
No Kawhi Leonard T shirt.

Speaker 7 (47:43):
I gotta look the part. Gotta go get like a polo. Yeah,
like a polo, Like I'm golay tennis. Don't wear a full.

Speaker 5 (47:49):
Nick Chubb Browns uniform. That's all that we asked. Wait
for you.

Speaker 1 (47:53):
I wore jeans the La Country Club when the US
Open was here. So is this stricter than that? Because I,
I mean, I'll be going as well.

Speaker 5 (48:01):
Well, there's two things. Number One, you probably shouldn't wear
jeans to a golf course, but they're not going to
kick you out if you're there as a fan. Number Two,
I just wouldn't want to wear denim if I'm out
in the sun for eight hours. That would be the
only thing about it is. I would rather just, you know,
have it a little more breatheable.

Speaker 7 (48:15):
Yeah, I know, I'm gonna go get a tennis outfit.

Speaker 6 (48:17):
There you go, That's what I'm gonna do. I know,
it's not the same sport, but I feel like that's
what we're looking at this country club.

Speaker 7 (48:22):
Yeah, that's what we're looking for.

Speaker 5 (48:23):
I just there's not a lot of people that I
think on a national scale will want to talk golf,
and it's one of my passions and to see someone
like Mancy take an interest in it really just makes
me happy. Like there are a lot of reasons to
not like it. Oh, it's boring, and you know, it
takes forever, and there are some things in golf that

(48:45):
needed to change, like the actual time of the rounds
was a reason why at one point golf numbers were dropping.
But golf is taken off from COVID. It's probably the
sport that's benefited the most in twenty twenty, and there's
from twenty twenty until now, and I love to see
it just play fast. You know, if you play slow,

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that's a problem. But any way that you can find
enjoyment from it really makes me happy. And we've had
the live story today and I wanted to hear your
experience of sitting down because it's tough to take it,
like I if you aren't into it to be able
to sit and do what you did on the weekend,
and then you were obviously at the news desk covering
it and you know the scoring and how everything works.

(49:27):
But when you sit down and actually watch three or
four hours of it, I think it's if you can
understand what you're watching. I think it's a lot of fun.

Speaker 7 (49:34):
And that's exactly what it was.

Speaker 6 (49:36):
And it's like I would you know, I told you
there's a ton of Master's coverage, Like I didn't know
what channel, but I was on one, and if it
would go to commercial, I would go, like, maybe look
for something. I always went back, and then eventually I
stopped changing the channel and I was like, I'm just
gonna watch some Masters like And I liked the slowness
of it because it wasn't slow, but it's obviously not
a fast paced game like basketball or like volleyball, which

(49:58):
I love as well. I enjoyed the slower aspect of it.
I just snacked all day, sat on the couch. No,
I liked it. I thoroughly enjoyed it. You would have
thought that I had money on that game.

Speaker 5 (50:10):
Even today, we watched Totung least ten on the par
five to thirteenth.

Speaker 8 (50:14):
He hid it.

Speaker 5 (50:15):
He just got worse and worse unfortunately for him. All Right,
she's mont Blanios, I'm Dan Byer. Do we want any
more additions to our NBA players that actually have odds
to win the NBA Finals Award? This year? We've got
four off the board. We've got SGA, Victor Webbin Yama,
Nicolokitch and Kate Cunningham. Again, there are thirty five people

(50:36):
that have listed odds via bet online, thirty five players
in the NBA. There's no way that there are thirty
five possible players that can win the NBA Finals MVP.
But let's just see who's who? Of who's who? Do
you have another nominee?

Speaker 7 (50:49):
Jason Tatum?

Speaker 5 (50:50):
Jason Tatum twelve to one, Boston Celtics. He is fourth
on the list. Get them in fact, tied for fourth?
Birst Chris or Isaac? Anybody?

Speaker 1 (50:58):
Well, what about Jalen Brown is.

Speaker 5 (51:00):
Tied for with Jason Tatum at twelve to one at
that fourth spot, So then they.

Speaker 1 (51:04):
Got one piston down. What about Jalen.

Speaker 5 (51:06):
Duran, Jalen Duran, let's find him on the list.

Speaker 1 (51:09):
Gotta be down in the thirties.

Speaker 5 (51:10):
Probably Jalen Duran is not on the line. He is
not on the list.

Speaker 6 (51:17):
There's thirty five and Jalen Duran is not that as shocking.

Speaker 1 (51:21):
That's that's a little surprising.

Speaker 5 (51:23):
Yeah kid, Cunningham is not the only Piston on this list.

Speaker 1 (51:28):
He's not the only Piston, but Jalen Duran is not
the other Piston.

Speaker 5 (51:31):
Yeah kid, Cunningham is not the only Piston on this list.
That was Chris's nominee at first