Mike Harmon & Dan Beyer LIVE from the 123rd US OPEN

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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(00:23):
way tire buying should be. You hear the laugh, My god,
Dan Bayer. We met up at five am to get
on the shuttle. Only people on the shuttle. We're the
only on the course.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
We're shuttles period when they dropped us off. So this
is heck. We got here at yeah, five fifteen local
time in.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
La Sena clock in Soul right now, ted com right yeah.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
And when we say media center right now, it's singular
like it's usually meant to be plural like all media.
But right now it's just you and me. We're still
two and a half hours away from the first tea.
Time to start the founder on Happy Father's Day, by
the way, Yes, and so I am. So this is
you out there, you know whatever to all the dads
and you work your role in.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
Sphere of influence. Hopefully you're celebrated in some capacity today.
You will be walking around this beautiful course here at
the La Country Club as will I for a while
before my kids say hey, we need to eat.

Speaker 3 (01:19):
This is very unique.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
It's the USO been coming to La is Heckett, you know,
LA Country Club for the first time and hasn't been
here since the nineteen forties when it was at Riviera.
So for this to be a home game MIC on
Father's Day very very unique. We made plans yesterday to
celebrate Father's Day knowing that we would be doing the

(01:41):
show from here, knowing that it would be the final round.
And I'll tell you what, the gift of being a
father is unmatched. And we'll be missing hanging out with
the with the boy today, that is for sure. We'll
get some time tonight.

Speaker 1 (01:56):
I was going to say, you'll get home earlier.

Speaker 3 (01:57):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
This leaderboard should be able to provide us with some
excitement to try to to try to quiet that.

Speaker 3 (02:05):
Angst to death. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
We certainly have plenty of different angles as we approach
the final round. Here. Some of the big names that
even the most casual of golf observers would know through
the history and heartache in some places along the stretch.
But and one of the things we'll talk about, and

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I know our executive producer Ethan Miller, he was on
the course the other day wandering around as well. So
we'll have our observations from what we've seen thus far,
a lot of comments, criticisms, and any big event, there's
alabsolutism and some of the usual things, parking ticket prices,
all of those things that I mean, it's pervasive no

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matter what the event, concert, theater, to the movies at
this point or maybe how much your cheese curds cost
you today as opposed to twenty eighteen. All of those
things come together. But we do have who's who up
at the top of the leaderboard Ricky Fowler Rory McElroy obviously,
the two names that I think most people are focusing on.

(03:11):
A missed put on eighteen kind of set things askew
because you're like, oh, we've got them made from TV. Yes,
Wyndham Clark hitting the shot that he did, so he
is tied with Foler atop the leaderboard, and we have
a giant leaderboard ahead of us, and it really is
exciting to me because well, by eyesight as I get

(03:32):
older is not great, Dan. So the fact that it
is live and in living color in very large numbers
for me is reallykin nice.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
And on that leaderboard there are fifteen names to my count.

Speaker 3 (03:43):
And I will just.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
Say this because you will hear some criticisms about the scores,
You'll maybe hear some criticisms about the course set up.
But you just mentioned Fowler and McElroy, two names there.
How about Scheffler Scotti. Scheffler gets himself into the legitimate
picture just three shots back with his eagle on seventeen
and this birdie on eighteen. You've got Dustin Johnson, Xander Schaffley,

(04:08):
Bryson De Shamba, Cameron Smith, Hideki Montzuyama, Victor Hovelin. Those
are the names of the fifteen that we've got that
are on this leader board here. So there may be
a couple of names that maybe are not as familiar
with and Wyndham Clark and guy who won for the
first time on the tour earlier this year. But man,
there are some other big names. And you know two
hundred pars where Hideki Mantzayama and Victor Hovlin are. They're

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likely not going to be in contention. But let's just
say Victor goes out and shoots sixty four today, puts
himself at eight under, could put some pressure. So there
there's a lot of name value on this leaderboard as well.

Speaker 1 (04:42):
And then you had one making a name for himself
and Tom Kim became one of the course heroes. Right
shoots a twenty nine on the front nine yesterday, finishes
the round with a sixty six. He's tied for ninth.
Now I know historically, you know, because we love to
go through the facts and figures of it all, twenty
four straight where you had to be within four shots
of the lead uh to win the US Open. So

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that that means we've got a very narrow, narrow cast
in that regard. Again, it includes the names you mentioned
when you talk about Clark and follow atop the board,
and then McElroy, Scheffler and Harris English would be the
five based on historical data. But to your point, so
many other big names where we've seen guys go on tears.

(05:27):
We've seen I mean, we saw Follower hit a sixty
nine foot putt. Yeah, I mean, and that wasn't even
the longest of the week. Like that. That's been the
fun part of it watching for me. I mean, I'm
novice minus five kind of thing. In terms of my golf.
I learned and took lessons long ago, have a couple
of kids, I don't get it, and I haven't gotten

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out there A familiar story, very large everything else, and
so it kind of slides away. But you're you're observant,
and for us, a lot of the time we spend
on Fox Sports Radio. Look, you've gotta you gotta pick
your poisons as to what you really are invested in,
and especially once your kids start playing sports. Wait, wait,

(06:08):
wait on the broadster running around a football gridiron or
a soccer field.

Speaker 2 (06:14):
All of a sudden, I tell you something. So my
two year old kind of dominates the TV. And by dominate,
don't think that he watches TV eight times, eight hours
a day.

Speaker 3 (06:25):
And that's not the parent.

Speaker 2 (06:27):
What it is is when he wants the channel change
to what he wants to watch, he.

Speaker 3 (06:34):
Gets his way. Like that's what happens.

Speaker 2 (06:35):
So if I could be watching something and he wants
to watch I don't know, trash Truck on Netflix, we're
changing it. Like my I lose. Yeah, it's a cartoon.
It's actually a neat little I was kind of Brian
Bumgardner from the Office was one of the voices.

Speaker 1 (06:51):
Yes, I was kind of hoping it was like New
Jersey or Chicago, Santa.

Speaker 3 (06:56):
Found the garbage.

Speaker 1 (06:59):
Sure, wait for them.

Speaker 2 (07:00):
We're gonna wait for the reality TV e til a
little bit later on. What I mean is he dominates
it by if he wants to watch something, then we'll
put it on. We try to limit it then when
it actually is on. But Mike, what I tried to do,
and what I told my wife is I want him
interested in golf, obviously, and what better way to get
him interested in golf than to think that it's fun.

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So we had the US Open on and anytime anybody
would make a swing, we would cheer, because if we're cheering,
he cheers and collaps as well. So that was that
was my way of trying to get him into golf
at you know, the age of two years in almost
two months, was to see the swinging. Now, he loves

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to take matchbox cars and throw them in drains, So
I'm thinking the process of taking a golf ball and
putting it into a golf hole would be something that
I would be right down his alley. But I'm trying
to get him that we were trying to cheer. It
didn't matter if the ball went into the to the
rough or mister ed a little bunker. I wanted him
to think like, oh, swinging, that's fun and get him

(08:04):
the clapping. I know it may be dirty pool on
my part, but I tried, Hey, you.

Speaker 1 (08:08):
Know what, parenting, I don't judge. We all welcome to
things in a different way as it were. I mean, look,
you can have one of those swings where the golf
ball ends up in the drink holder of a golf car.
I mean also things that you never thought you would
see become part of an event. And look, however, you're
taking this in for me walking around here on Tuesday.

(08:31):
You know you've known me a long time, Dan, and
for the listeners, have been in this slot for many
a year here on Fox Sports Radio. Grateful to do it,
Grateful to have an opportunity to come out to events
like this, when we get to go to the Super
Bowl media week, when we get to go cover basketball
whatever it's been over our run. And you've certainly been

(08:51):
a little more well traveled than I in that regard
Dan with with your work at the network. But there's
a reverence to it, right, There's a solemnity to it
that you come in and like we were walking in
this morning and looking at each other, like we can
go do whatever we want. We're probably gonna get tackled
forty yards if we really did try to make a

(09:13):
break for it onto one of the greens, but just
the idea of walking in. You've got the sun is
and up here in southern California starting starting to rise
a little bit now, getting a little brighter outside, but
you know, you've got the June gloom as they call it,
or you know, just the mists over you know, overcast
kind of haze to it. You've got the city and

(09:35):
the distance, like all of these things that you just
pause for a second and you're grateful and we do
it in each of our own ways for whatever the
reason is. And obviously the vocation we have talking about sports.
I take all of those things, and I've done the
monologue a few times. But like you love watching people

(09:55):
in that element, yes, right, because you're you're only coming
here if you'll love it. Right. This is not easy
to get to. It's not a cheap ticket. It is
a place that you know, and we'll get into some
of the criticisms, fair or not, of how things have
been orchestrated.

Speaker 3 (10:12):
It's a private club, yes.

Speaker 1 (10:13):
And it is remaining, yes, a private club. So to
that end, you know, you feel like you've been let
behind the velvet rope a little bit, and you're twenty
feet from these top line golfers as they take a shot,
as they show their frustration, all of those things, but
you're in with people kindred spirits, and I always celebrate that,

(10:34):
Like whenever we get to go to these kind of events,
it's never lost on me that we still have a capacity,
as superficial as it may be for a golf tournament,
that people get together and there's an energy that flows
in the right way.

Speaker 3 (10:49):
I think it's I think it's great that you feel
that way.

Speaker 2 (10:51):
And I don't think that I have been fortunate enough
to be at a bunch of US Opens. I think
I accounted the other day. I think this is my
twelfth nice that I've been to. So I've been to
the US Open, have covered these events before, and sometimes
you can get jaded, and I'm curious on your thoughts
on other people who maybe experience this for the first
or the second time, and there is some there is

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some heaviness to it. The names that we just mentioned,
like someone's life is going to change, and you're gonna say,
Rory mcroy's got four majors, what's this gonna change? It's
already won the US Open, all is it gonna Rory
McRoy hasn't won a major since twenty fourteen years. Yes, yes,
so there's a nine year drought, plus the ringer that
he's been through over the last twelve months with Live

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and to see how he was then done by it,
that's a heck of a story. Scotti Scheffler, if he
wins today ends up coming from three shots back, You're like, okay,
now this we know. He's in the conversation right now
as one of the best players in the world, probably
top two to be, to be quite honest, best ball
striker there is in the game. But there is a

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different sort of atmosphere, different sort of level of player.
When you are a multi it's a bull major winner.
That's what's at stake for Scottie Scheffler. And then you
have Ricky Fowler. And it's funny because this is a conversation.
When we were broadcasting out here on Thursday at the
Doug Gottlieb Show, Ricky Fowler was on that list of
best player to never have won a major, and he
wasn't removed from the list because he won a major.

(12:18):
He was removed from the list because he wasn't one
of the best players anymore. So now to see him
maybe make his mark or even a Wyndham Clark too. Again,
we mentioned just a little while ago he won just
a month or so ago at the Wells Fargo and Charlotte.
His life ends up changing. There is some gravity to
all of this. There is some gravity in being on site,
being at this event when someone's life is going to change,

(12:39):
And honestly, it's another chapter in the history of golf,
and I think that there's weight to that well.

Speaker 1 (12:43):
And I think to expound a little more on the
point you made as related to the merger coming and
being announced as it was cover of darkness, kind of
like we walked into here on the course this morning,
that there's still a lot of ament wrapped up in
everybody and meetings I'm sure behind the scenes, still trying

(13:05):
to figure out exactly what happened, and for a guy
like Rory McElroy, who was one of the faces of
well I didn't go yes, and to be done and
not to get briefed and all of those things, to
be able to put that aside because he had a
great moment with the crowd that went viral. You know,
it's like, hey, what are you doing? Like at the

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moment he was in the lead. Yeah, and so you know,
I'm win the US Open kind of thing, So having
fun with it, but recognizing the seriousness of it and
what it means not only for his career, but also
a pretty big statement coming off of what we've seen transpire, because,
let's face it, outside of sports talk radio and sports television,

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you get a little bit of golf that seeps in
that isn't what's going on with Tiger, But that story
had so much weight to it. Yes, and so you
had people on either side, the PGA and the curiosity
and the I don't know how to best describe it,
but where we're at today is we're celebrating the game again, yes,

(14:11):
which is which is the one hundred percent the key
to it all.

Speaker 2 (14:15):
And I'm glad that we are and I'm not trying
to call out or name names or but one of
the things is a golf fan.

Speaker 3 (14:22):
And I sometimes.

Speaker 2 (14:23):
Unfairly make fun of hockey fans because I feel that
hockey fans want you to talk about their sport, and
then when you talk about their sport, it's not good
enough for them. I may be kind of in that
territory when it comes to golf. But Mike, to your
point of everybody wanted to talk about PGA tourn Live
and it was the only time that they talked about it.
And now we have a US Open, we have a major,

(14:43):
you know, a week or two after this whole thing,
and more people are talking about Jahn Morant suspension or
what's going to happen with Bradley Beal And you know,
to me, I'm like, this is the US Open. This
is you know, look at the names, Like I want
people to talk about it, but I also have to
under stand of kind of of where it is. And
PGA Tour and Live again, it was all about deceit.

(15:06):
It was backstabbing, it was deals in the cloak of darkness.
As you mentioned, like all of that stuff is not
sports related. It's so life you know related. But like
when it comes to golf. I hope people will not
be like, well, the guys are ten under, I'm not
watching the US Open. I hope they'll look at the
leaderboard and appreciate what we have here today.

Speaker 1 (15:26):
Well, a couple of things with that, I mean is
that you only have two guys at ten under. So
I'm like, there's fifteen guys. Yes, you've seen some tremendous runs,
and they're what the front nine playing far like the.

Speaker 2 (15:40):
And there's three part three's on the front nine two,
so you're gonna have lower scoring.

Speaker 3 (15:44):
But but yeah, but it.

Speaker 1 (15:45):
Was a stark contrast in the graphics that you're throwing
up and evaluating scorecards and all that. But I mean
you're only getting to you know, twelve, thirteenth and fourteenth,
you're only two under. Yeah, I mean not to just
but just what for those that are saying it's the
course has been made too easy. No, how about celebrating

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the couple of guys that have absolutely dominated it. And
if we are in the negative territory again, celebrate the
pageantry of it and the skill level of these players.
Given the way they've had to change out and the
way these courses have been playing I mean we had
one where the rough they're like, yeah, we don't even
know if that he's hitting his own ball because they
might have been from the practice roune that we're painting.

(16:27):
You know, things like that where you've had craziness. Now
where where the live thing? Not to make it about that,
but give it its last minute before we move on
into other topics related to the US Open and the
larger sporting world. Is it was something meaty because you
have the political side, you have just everybody that's been

(16:47):
done wrong. Yeah, to their estimation by a business, by
a partner by like everybody could relate to it in
that way. And then you start getting into litigation and
what gets found out and what gets uncovered as you
go in through the discovery, and that's where we get
the deal, right. Yeah, you're suing each other all over
the place. As soon as you start getting into discovers
like well, we don't want people to know about this

(17:09):
that the other why do you think you had settlements
and all those NFL cases.

Speaker 3 (17:12):
Sure sure, right on the other side.

Speaker 1 (17:14):
Was happy with whatever the dollar amount was, and the
other was like, well, while we may not be caught here,
this potentially trips us up here here here, and I
think for the PGA, it's very much the same kind
of circumstance, whereby the deeper you're going to things, and
the more disclosure that has to happen, maybe maybe not
related to live directly, but to the larger populous and

(17:38):
to your golfers as to how things go, because right
we've had a lot of battles about you know, pays
and everything else that that have happened through the years
as well.

Speaker 2 (17:47):
I will say that I do think that the talk
was muted at the start of the week, and obviously
it's it's not really a conversation Rory mclroy. You know,
we're looking on a screen after he met with the
media yesterday and and you know, he's not being asked
the questions he's being asked about his round. But there
is something to that. I mean, there was a there
was a recent piece where you know, an unnamed source
said that most people would be welcome back, or you know,

(18:10):
the live players have no problem with anyone, but.

Speaker 3 (18:13):
Someone named Rory's name of being like.

Speaker 2 (18:15):
You know, they use the term that wasn't too friendly
in describing Rory, and it's really unfair because he's just
been an amazing ambassador to the game and just some
people just may not like that. So that story is,
that story is there, and I really I think the
Ricky Fowler story is really you know, yeah, I think.

Speaker 3 (18:32):
A million levels. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (18:33):
Right, when you've been battling, scratching, as you said, you
have that list, that leaderboard that maybe you knocked. It's
kind of like the end of a Friday Night Lights
or whatever, when you've got the depth chart and you
knock the guy into the bin or into the drawing
because you don't need him. He's not on the depth chart.
But with a big effort here and perhaps a big
final round, we have that opportunity for Ricky Fowler to

(18:56):
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(19:39):
Welcome back in Fox Sports Radios. Fox Sports Sunday, Mike Harmon,
Dan Byer with you live from the mobile tirerac dot
Com studios here live at La Country Club, site of
the US Open. As we get ready for the final round.
Some of the big names on the leader board broke
it down a little bit earlier. Happy Father's Day to
everybody there. Also a happy birthday to my mom. Everybody

(20:02):
say up nicely so they may be listening. So I'll
say all sorts of positive things about myself, and I
won't be self deprecating at all, because I've been told
I'm too negative towards my life. So but that's what
makes radio, isn't that what we do in sports talk
radio and sports television. But we're here at the US
Open day and you've been here about I got around

(20:23):
a little bit on Tuesday when I came and got
my credential everybody's so kind and helpful and pointing out
all the little little nooks and crannies of things and
really being very welcoming. As I made my way to
the media center and then walked around and caught a
couple of shots of the practice round and guys kind
of trying to figure things out look at each other. Yeah,

(20:45):
I don't even know what I did there, you know,
that kind of thing in the practice round. But for you,
you've gotten around. I think you said you only had
a couple of holes you haven't been able to get
to over the couple of days here. But what's the
experience been.

Speaker 2 (20:57):
Like, Yeah, I think it's it's very un because this ground,
the way that this terrain is there is not it
is not fan friendly. We'll just put it that way.
There are not simple pathways to go through. We've heard
so much about the baranka on the course. It's it's difficult.
It's not just in the you know, a course that's

(21:18):
put in the field and flat. Everywhere there are there
are sometimes difficulties getting around, however, and being around. One
of the conversations that you hear so much is, you know,
the atmosphere isn't isn't there, and there's only twenty two
thousand people allowed on site. It's actually allowed things to
move a lot easier. You're moving freer, and I think

(21:40):
that if you are a spectator at an event like this,
that is a benefit. There may be only been like
one or two log jams when earlier in the week following,
you know, Rory McElroy and Brooks Kopko were playing with
the Deckie Matsuyama. So it's gonna be the Marquee group
and maybe a couple of points where it was a
little little bottleneck. That's about it. It's it's spaced out,

(22:02):
it's pretty well. The Merchandise ten is on the south course,
on the other side of willshar Boulevard, so there's I
think it's I think it's gone very well in terms
of being a comfortable watch if you are on site.
There are spots on the course people were saying, hey,
what about when Ricky made that seventy foot putt on
thirteen there was no reaction. Well, the spectators aren't allowed

(22:25):
to go that far on the course. There's no bleach
that's right where the Playboy Mansion is. What was the
Playbook Mansion is right there. So there are spots on
the course that you don't see, but I think it's
been fine. I'm curious actually from your perspective on what
it's like because I'm a golf fan. I've been to these.
It's kind of become the norm. While there's some different things.

(22:46):
Your guy that's gone to Super Bowl, it's been big
college football games, big baseball games. What are your thoughts
on this? For being a first time major at a
golf golf event.

Speaker 1 (22:58):
I would say here, you know, obviously, look, I lived
up in the San Francisco Bay area for a couple
of years when I was working at Yahoo, and we
got out to Pebble Beach a few times, right, so
I have a little experience with you know, the big
name things, and certainly went one during a competition round
and the other during the pro am, you know, Emitt

(23:19):
Smith and all those guys wandering around. And I had
the luxury of having a wrapped car that was a
new thing back then, right with the branding of the car.
And they let me have the little car that they
had wrapped with the Yahoo logo, which meant I was
also now really working because everybody wanted to know about

(23:39):
the car and start selling everything of Yahoo. But walking
around the courses there, I mean, it's a place with
the history and the reverence, and it's known to even
the most casual La Country Club not quite the same.
So when you come in in the gates here, like
I was saying before, a little bit of the you know,
it's it's special because it's different, it's private. It feels

(24:03):
like you're like we were walking in by ourselves and
looking around and there's nobody around except some folks kind
of fixing things a little bit here and there or
getting ready for the day. But you feel like you're
in a place that's a little unto itself and that
you've gotten behind the velvet rope. And even coming out
here on Tuesday in the practice round, people are just

(24:25):
excited again. The walkways, not massive crowds, and being able
to go and just say all right, according to the board.
My guys over here, and they knew within a couple
of minutes they weren't going to be in this huge
bottleneck and be in this massive crowd that you were
trying to fight against or whatever, that they were gonna

(24:45):
be able to get over there. And they're texting each
other back and forth like yeah, I made it, you know,
like that, and you could just see the excitement. And
then you know, it's always something for me when someone
turns and all of a sudden, like all right, they're
gonna tee off and they're coming our way, right, and
you're standing near the hole, and there's just that anticipation
one that they're gonna hit a great shot and you're
gonna get to see it. The second that you're not

(25:07):
gonna be able to judge where the ball is, so
chaos may ensue in any moment. So there's a little
bit of that excitement that comes in as well, especially
in a practice round, because they were trying to everybody
was trying to just figure out how forgiving each of
the holes were going to be. And I didn't get
to wander too extensively, but from the couple that I did,
it was all right, I'm gonna drop another ball and
take another hit to try to figure out the lay.

(25:30):
And then we watched it as it started to play
this weekend and watching the television coverage, like they start
to go in the telestrat it's like, yeah, everybody's aiming
for this fifteen feet right here. Because they've figured out
it's dead and word has gotten back to everybody that
this is where you need to hit it. Or there
was the one putt where it was like a mini
golf course where it got to the rail and down

(25:51):
it went and narrowly missed. But playing the slopes and
all that. So there's those added elements. But watching people's
reaction to shot here on Tuesday, I don't know, there's
just something about it, right. We all do it a
little bit, you more than I in terms of getting
out to a driving range or going to the muni
or whatever wherever you may be across the country. Here,

(26:14):
Like every shot, like people just stop and wait to
see the reaction, wait to hear the ping, wait to
hear all of those things. And there's to me, I'm
such a novice, but I love whatever gets people fired
up in their lives, Dan, whatever it is. Yeah, and
people that are making their way here and making the
pilgrimage here because it's not easy to get to no right,

(26:35):
driving in, taking shuttles, all of these things to get
to this course. You've made an investment and you can
see it in everybody's faces with every shot they hear.

Speaker 2 (26:43):
Yeah, it's it's I've used this line before. If you
want to watch golf, don't come to a golf tournament,
because you know, because you're watching one player swing and
even on that particular hole.

Speaker 3 (26:57):
You don't know if you're in the best spot when
you see them.

Speaker 2 (26:59):
If Rory McElroy is playing the sixth hole, well that
means that I'm you know, probably don't see Scotti Scheffler
playing the seventh hole.

Speaker 3 (27:07):
Or the eighth.

Speaker 1 (27:08):
Just it happens where the actually lands.

Speaker 3 (27:11):
That's the other part of it.

Speaker 2 (27:12):
And it's actually where I was going to go with
this is there is there is a battle even within
that do you want to see the player hit the
ball or do you want to see where the ball lands?
And is it better to just that's why you know
there's bleachers around the greens, but sometimes you also have them,
uh behind the tee, not in the first tee here,
but there are there are places here where you can

(27:32):
you can see that on the par four there's a
big bleacher that is set up that is a nice
view of the course. But that is that's what you
have to take from it. I know Ethan Miller are
our executive producer of the show is out here as well,
and I'm curious Ethan on your thoughts. And when I
saw Ethan actually on the grounds, randomly bumped into them.

(27:53):
He was geeked because he was watching Cam Smith. Ethan,
what were you What was your takeaway when you're on
the grounds here at ELI on Thursday.

Speaker 4 (28:01):
Well, guys, happy Father's Day to today.

Speaker 3 (28:03):
Thank you very much.

Speaker 5 (28:04):
Yes, you know, honestly, I just piggybacking off what you're saying.
It's this is the first time I've ever experienced any
golf tournament, so this was just about the experience. It
was so cool just to be there. I've never been
so close to like those type of golfers. We were

(28:25):
walking next to Rory and Brookes. I was like losing
my minds, like how this is so cool because in
other sports you don't get up that close. You don't
have that, like Mike was saying that like inclusive, exclusive,
you know, uh type of you know, format to the game.
But the problem that I was having and what you're
talking about, is you don't go to a golf tournament

(28:47):
if you're looking to watch it. Because here's my issue, Like,
I'll be there later today, I'll probably see you guys,
I'll shoot you a text, all right. And my issue
is is that you know, I want to I want
to follow Scottie and I want to follow Rory. But
the problem is that I don't know really how to follow.
You know, I don't like you're saying, do you stay

(29:09):
down at like the second shot or follow the t shot?
It's just a long walk eighteen holes. Is like, I
don't even know how to do that.

Speaker 1 (29:16):
Well, you're really young and get fast tracked, and I mean,
look how many years I had to work at Fox
Sports Radio before I got to go to this and
that you're just you just walked up, so you know
it's but you'll be okay. You're a lot younger than
Dan and I, especially me, I'm an old man.

Speaker 2 (29:32):
There is a point in terms of what you're saying
where this is what I tell people. If you want
to watch Rory McRoy or Scotty Scheffler, you're not going
to be able to watch them for the eighteen holes.
What you have to do is you got to plan ahead.
You jump ahead, and you say, all right, there on
the fourth hole, I'm going to be on the sixth hole.
So then that group comes through and on Thursday and Friday.
It's a little different now with the leaders, everything's going

(29:54):
to be backed up towards the end of more people
are going to be sticking around. But you do want
to jump ahead so you can get a good You're
gonna have to sacrifice some of that. You can't watch
every single shot that they do and.

Speaker 1 (30:05):
Or you got to run really fast. Yeah, and I
don't think the marshals and.

Speaker 3 (30:11):
It's definitely frowned upon it Augusta National.

Speaker 2 (30:14):
The The the fact is is that because that's where
everybody's attention is also going to be. And this is
you know Mike alluded to, this isn't the easiest course
to get around a lot of undulation. It does make
it difficult, Honestly, it makes difficult than any any tournament. Sure,
Like you're like, if you're going to follow like imagine,
imagine what it was like with Tiger Woods.

Speaker 3 (30:32):
You know, this is like this is this is no
but that's just.

Speaker 2 (30:35):
You know, I mean it was you know, it's it's
crazy and if you want to follow Rory for any
significant amount of time, really you're not going to see
a good, good view of Rory. So you kind of
got to balance that it's yeah, see what happens with
the golf.

Speaker 5 (30:47):
So pretty much I'm pretty much going to see like
four shots of Rory if I'm like because I'm not
going to be able to see.

Speaker 1 (30:54):
Ye to charge, charge your phone battery and whatever streaming
service you have, keep it with you. I think that
would probably be the best way to go. Obviously, turn
your sound down, have your earbuds in.

Speaker 2 (31:07):
But I like to see guys hit at tea boxes.
I do just because of.

Speaker 1 (31:14):
I just like those reactions.

Speaker 5 (31:17):
Sorry, you physically can't like walk from like a tea
box all the way down to a green. There's certain
holes that doesn't allow that, right, right, all right, yeah,
all right.

Speaker 1 (31:28):
Yeah. We've looked at the map and it's like the
thing you get at a when you go out with
your kid to a restaurant, and it's got the little
path you have to try to get to the end, right,
good luck. Because Dan and I were looking at like
we had we had the maze, right. We looked at
the chorus as it was set up, and Dan sent
it to me the other day and we started talking

(31:50):
about it a little bit and it's like, well, here's difficulty,
here's a thou shalt not pass kind of area like
you're in the Lord of the Rings. Here's there's, there's
all of these and then you've got a couple of
spots where you've got multiple holes kind of diet verging, Yes,
the same spot, So you get that back up. We
saw a couple of shots yesterday where a couple of

(32:10):
photographers almost got clipped as the balls are sailing by.
So and they were like on the course they were
setting up however they're doing there. Yeah, So like you've
got you got a lot of those things. So Ethan,
keep your head on a swivel and hydrate.

Speaker 4 (32:25):
Hey, love it, guys, Thanks, appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (32:27):
Ethan, appreciate you. We'll see you a little later on.
We'll keep chat near. Obviously you've got Mark or technical
producer making a sound so pretty and over at the
update desk, coming off a thrilling two to one victory
over rival San Diego. It's our voice of Angel City FC.
It's our guy, Isaac Lowincrown. He's got what's trending, what's
going on?

Speaker 6 (32:46):
Illo, Good morning, and thank you for bringing up a
wonderful memory from yesterday. And so glad I still have
a voice today. A voice said, in a little bit,
we'll be giving you guys some historical perspective on Major
League Baseball. But first, on Saturday night, Bob Huggins resigned
as the head men's basketball coach at West Virginia after
he was arrested on Friday night on a duy charge.

(33:08):
He'd already been suspended for the first three games of
the upcoming season after making homophobic remarks on a radio program.
After three rounds of the US Open and Los Angeles
Country Club, Ricky Fowler and Wyndham Clark, who was actually
a guy and not a hotel, are tied for the
lead at ten under par overall. Rory McElroy one back
of nine under, Scottie Scheffler three back at seven under.

(33:30):
Clark and Fowler will tee off at five thirty Eastern time.
In Major League Baseball on Saturday night, the Giants beat
the Dodgers in LA fifteen to nothing.

Speaker 1 (33:39):
It was the.

Speaker 6 (33:39):
Dodgers' largest home shutout loss in one hundred and twenty
five years since eighteen ninety eight, when they were known
as the Brooklyn bride Grooms. They faced such National League
rivals that season as the Chicago Orphans and the Cleveland spiders.

Speaker 1 (34:02):
Where do we get some of the merch?

Speaker 6 (34:05):
You know what, that ain't a bad idea.

Speaker 1 (34:07):
I mean, I think we get spiders that I don't know,
and I've ever seen the I don't know that I've
ever seen the orphans logo.

Speaker 6 (34:14):
I think I think the Orphan's logo would be kind
of sad. But I'm kind of wondering why didn't they
instead of naming them the Guardians, just renamed them the Spider.

Speaker 3 (34:23):
There was a big push for that, to be honest, but.

Speaker 6 (34:26):
You know why it didn't happen because it made too
much sense. That's why the bridegroom's roster in eighteen ninety
eight included such luminaries as grim Gaston.

Speaker 1 (34:37):
Nice and car Hey early Tobacco Cardell.

Speaker 6 (34:44):
I'll tell you what that might increase the value this connection.
One hundred and twenty five years later, Grim Gaston and
Magoon Howell of the eighteen Hours Brooklyn bride Grooms. Also
on Saturday Night, the Padres to beat a Tampa Bay
two to nothing. Blake Snell struck twelve and six innings
against his former team. Finally in the NBA three times
six Man of the Air Award winner Lou Williams announced

(35:07):
his retirement this morning after a seventeen year career. We
raise a plate of lemon pepper wings in tribute back
to you.

Speaker 1 (35:14):
Guys the Legend of Lou Williams at Isaac Lowencron, where
you find him on Twitter. You can also see his
call and hear his calls matched up with the video
of yesterday's thrilling victory come from behind with a new
coach on the bench after Angel City had dismissed theirs
earlier in the week. Hey, coming up next, we do
have to talk a little bit about Bob Huggins and

(35:36):
the resignation, the circumstances therein and what it means going
forward for the player and more importantly those assistant coaches.
We'll talk about that. He's Dan Bayer by Karma. This
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Speaker 1 (36:34):
Welcome back in Fox Sports Radios. Fox Sports Sunday by
Carmen alongside Dan Bayer live from the US Open LA
Country Club, and I see in front of him, my guy,
Dan Byer at Dan Byer on Fox. He is looking
at the grid of the whole placement for the final
round as we come down the stretch. Here all the

(36:54):
big names we've been talking about it. We'll get back
into it in earnest coming up in about ten minutes
from now, and any insights Dan you've gleaned from that.
But Bob Huggins, long career Division one coach since nineteen
eighty four, West Virginia coach blew up point two one
second dui. In recent months, you had the incident on

(37:17):
the radio or podcast radio show, the homophobic slur. So
already you know, kind of at the end of his
rope here and many wondering if that was going to
be the final straw. But then you get the details
of how this came to pass and in terms of
this dui and all the people that may have been affected, right,
we talk about it a lot of near misses and

(37:40):
but for the grace of God, this that the other
short drives from the watering hole or wherever you are home, right, many,
many people have had that experience here. We're talking about
a very long run of driving, covering several states in
terms of where the borders are, as well as people

(38:00):
from a Taylor Swift show, which we know is sixty
thousand people. Like all of this comes in and now
he resigns, and the question becomes, all right, for the players,
well you can transfer, right, that window opens at a
coaching change, but we've had so much movement already. I mean,
where you're going to find a spot, And for the
assistant coaches, there's no guarantee they get to keep their jobs.

Speaker 2 (38:23):
Correct, there is a report as well that West Virginia
is going to look at a full time replacement. And
what's interesting with that is sometimes when you have the
level of program at West Virginia, maybe it would take
someone from you know, a lesser school, smaller school, mid major,

(38:44):
and then they can move up and promote. But and
you still could do that. That is still absolutely an option.
He was just that ended up screwing that school. That
seems to be the route that they want to go
is they want a full time, long term solution, and
if it comes at the sacrifice of the kids that
are on the team now or this upcoming season, then
so be it.

Speaker 3 (39:03):
That seems to be the route they're gonna take.

Speaker 2 (39:04):
But yeah, if you're a kid that's gonna transfer, heck,
we're more than you know, we're past the halfway point
in June, that's not the That is not necessarily ideal.
Sometimes you'd have an assistant that would just move up.
I mean, heck, we saw it a you know, Texas,
but that was in December, those mid season. They really
had no other option. So Rodney Terry ends up ascending
to that, you know, to that top job, and ends

(39:26):
up you know, keeping it. But yeah, it's a it's
a really really tough spot. But again, Bob Huggins put
them in that tough.

Speaker 1 (39:33):
No, and that's the and that's the thing, right, And
that's why we focused on that part. For Bob Huggins,
great career, long career, one of the longest running, most
recognizable coaches in the game. We hope he gets whatever
help he needs. And obviously fortunate nobody was injured in
any of this. But now you've got a bunch of
other people that have to pick up the pieces based

(39:55):
on the bad decision that he made.

Speaker 2 (39:56):
Yeah, and there's likely going to be a school that
could end up thing screwed because they could lose their
head coach to Westford.

Speaker 1 (40:02):
That's it. He's Dan Buyer. I'm Mike Carmen here live
from the LA Country Club of the one hundred and
twenty third US Open Championship Final round coming up a
little later today. Coming up next here on the program,
we will get in to where the whole placement is
what we expect to see and the wide variations of
down and distance. Yeah, it's been a crazy course and

(40:25):
we'll tell you all about it next. John Fox, that
makes me so happy to hear it because yes, we
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the golfers would tell you that the ovation that Sam
just pumped in through the audio wizardry was louder than
the galleries they experienced yesterday.

Speaker 7 (41:06):
Here.

Speaker 3 (41:06):
Come on, maybe some of that's true me some of it.

Speaker 1 (41:11):
We'll see how long it is. Because I am loud
and obnoxious. We know this before I get someone holding
up a paddle telling me to be quiet or something.
Here in the media center at Swollen Dome at dan
Byer on Fox Dan posting a couple of photos from
our entry here this morning. It was just us, a
couple of people fixing microphones, maybe working a little bit

(41:35):
on the greens and kind of looking after some things
folks along the highways and byways and moving things around.
But it was just us. We were like two kids
in a candy store.

Speaker 2 (41:47):
There are people out on the course with the flashlights
on their heads, and I posted a video on Twitter
at Dan Byer on Fox if you want to see
the camera that I used aided how the course looked.

Speaker 3 (42:02):
Like it's but the two things to notice.

Speaker 2 (42:04):
It was a lot darker actually than what the video shows.
But you'll also notice that the marine layer is still here,
so the open skies, and it's going to take some
burning off to do so the course will probably be
a little bit softer. But not because Mike and I
did anything to the greens when nobody was around.

Speaker 1 (42:22):
No, No, we debated it, or at least I did.
I might have had that internal dialogue. I was like, well,
maybe how far can I get to the stick before
someone comes and Terry takes me to the turf? Or
or like we saw a couple of weeks ago, let
me pop a bottle champagne. Bad, just crazy. But to

(42:45):
your point, right, marine layer, and in watching the broadcast
and being out here earlier in the week and you've
been here a lot, Dan, how much different the course
plays as the day goes on, right, as as the
marine layer burns off talk about the conditions and the
soft landing spot that maybe becomes a huge advantage early

(43:08):
that comes off the board, and now the strategy has
to change as you get later into the day. And
as we saw yesterday, you know you're doing the breakneck
pace of those final groups trying to get your final
three holes in before nightfall. It felt like everybody was
playing at a little bit of an accelerated pace to

(43:29):
make sure they got through their eighteen.

Speaker 2 (43:31):
I saw a lot of stuff on Twitter, and this
is actually something that is not new to a West
Coast US Open, where they put the fun around in
prime time on the East coast so they can people
are like, yeah, I'm watching the US Open in the dark.

Speaker 3 (43:44):
This is awesome. It's you know nine point thirty here.

Speaker 2 (43:46):
The marine layer did hurt the light like that was
It wasn't that the sun was setting, was that the
sun was blocked by this thick layer of clouds. That's
why it seemed so dark. Out where I live in
southern California, there is no marine layer, so it was fine.

Speaker 3 (44:06):
It was bright.

Speaker 2 (44:06):
You can play the seven thirty eight o'clock and it
doesn't get as kind of we're inching in on the
longest day of the year here in a couple of days.

Speaker 3 (44:13):
It doesn't stay light.

Speaker 2 (44:15):
Out here for a longer period of time like in
northern parts of the country, a lot longer different spots
of where you're in the time zone. But the point
is is, yeah, so I'll go down here at about
eight o'clock and because of the marine layer, it made
it a lot darker at seven thirty.

Speaker 3 (44:32):
The cameras kind of.

Speaker 1 (44:33):
Didn't I maybe they didn't do him any favors, yes, right,
I mean, and maybe maybe there's something to be said
that the live experience versus televised because certainly, you know,
in watching the broadcast kind of you know, my daughter's
sidled up as we're watching and they're like, where are
we at? And you know what's going on. It's like, well,
it's around three, but they're trying to make sure before

(44:55):
it gets dark and you're watching it on television and
you know it's not that dark out yes, right, because
I'm looking out my window. But it's the same same
idea with the marine layer now looking up and trying
to track things and play through it became a much
different environment. We'll see how it plays out today.

Speaker 3 (45:14):
I know you live near the coast.

Speaker 2 (45:17):
I used to live just down Wilshire in Santa Monica
for years, and I know it doesn't resonate with people
that aren't from southern California, but I do know that
there are days where I would get to what is
the four or five, and there would be no marine layer,
and it's twenty degrees warmer than it is, you know,
just a couple of miles down the road.

Speaker 1 (45:36):
Yeah, well, and that's certainly something that you know if
you've visited southern California. Wherever you're listening, we appreciate you.
Happy Father's Day to my mom, Happy Birthday. My brothers
are down there. Hopefully the stuff we sent gets there.
If not, I'll blame the post office all of those things.
But we have the gradients, right, Whenever you have a
weather report, it's like, well, it'll be the upper seventies

(45:59):
maybe near the beaches, but go ten miles in it's
the and to get to the valley. Now we're talking
one hundred and five. So you've got these giant bands
of how how disparate and different the weather can be
over a twenty mile period, and that's no different here
with the marine layer and how quickly it burns off.
It's down by the beach. It may be three pm. Here,

(46:20):
you got patches where it started around noon where the
visibility kind of opened up. But I'd be curious for
this final round. You knows, as you've got the grid
of whole configurations. We've seen some pretty crazy shots. Yeah,
it's some pretty crazy adventurous things. Too bad. Phil Michelson's

(46:41):
it's still not with us for the final day and
try to chase because Lord knows what he would do
with a course like this in the final day.

Speaker 2 (46:49):
Yesterday or today, I can't remember what day it was,
but he did celebrate a birthday.

Speaker 1 (46:54):
Yeah, if it celebrated too much.

Speaker 2 (46:55):
The whole wait the cut, The whole placements are out
for the final round one of the quick Just the
final point about just the marine layer, and I'll get
to these pin locations. Is we've seen us opens at
Tory Pines. Heck, if you watch when John rom Wins,
who was an overcast marine layer, three pounds is right
on the ocean. Same thing with Pebble Beach. Even Riviera
is closer to the ocean than we are right now.

(47:16):
But there you don't necessarily know and you know, where
I'm from in the Midwest, there could be an opportunity
for a rain shower, or if the the you know,
the tournament's being held in New York, you know, there's
always a chance for a summer shower at overnight thunderstorm
or something like that, they could completely change the setup
of the course. We're probably not going to get rain,

(47:36):
you know, even though we've had a rainier year this
year in southern California. It is very difficult to predict
the marine layer and what it's going to do. And
that's who they fell victim to. But in looking at
some of these these pin placements, I am not surprised
that they used the short location at fifteen yesterday. There
is a tough back pin location to the right that

(47:58):
they will use on fifteen, just four paces off. That's
going to be difficult, But you didn't want an eighty
one yard hole to be the sixty ninth hole of
a seventy two hole.

Speaker 1 (48:07):
Champions Psychologically, that's got to be a pretty gripping thing
for golfers to approach, right because by way of contrast,
what we have five fifty seven, five fifty eight, depending
on how you're measuring as well, but you had the
eighty one yard and that was the you know, we
were talking about how the delicious theater. We had a

(48:28):
guest on what was about a month ago talking about
setting up the course and some of the surprises that
were in store, and how short you'd be able to play,
and just how different round a round, just moving things
a little bit here and there makes it play so
much differently, and so I think for this final round,

(48:50):
I think that's one of the the fun piece. But yeah,
eighty one yards because you go up there thinking, ah,
well eighty one yard. Well no, there's all sorts.

Speaker 2 (48:59):
Of things, yes, yes, and if you miss it here
you're going to have a difficult time getting it close.

Speaker 3 (49:05):
I don't think that it had.

Speaker 2 (49:06):
The results that they thought could happen.

Speaker 3 (49:12):
I think guys handled it pretty well.

Speaker 2 (49:14):
But again, even in just looking at you know, looking
at totals here, there've only been seven scores of worse
than double bogie throughout the three days. So it's kind
of why you've also got a you know, a leader
board where you can see it in groups. You've got
the two tens, the nines, and the seven, and then
it goes you know, six and the fives and a
couple of fours and a bunch of threes. There's been

(49:37):
no real separation and there is no water on this course,
so if you're going to lose a ball, you're going
to hit it in the junk or it's going to
be in the stuff that you can't find. There's not
a lot of that. The pins, as you mentioned, gush
looking at it here. Number two is just four paces off.
Three is on a front lobe that's surrounded by bunkers.

(49:58):
Six the driveable hole was going to be front right
today you could be some see.

Speaker 3 (50:04):
Some fireworks there, a lot of tuck pins.

Speaker 2 (50:06):
The only pin that I see on this core sheet
that isn't really tucked, if you will, is eleven, which
is the downhill par three, which I'll give you a
quick story on eleven in the second.

Speaker 1 (50:19):
How quickly the ball plays there.

Speaker 2 (50:21):
But yeah, it's it's it's you know, thirty two paces
from the front.

Speaker 3 (50:25):
It is. It is in the back.

Speaker 2 (50:26):
But that's the downhill par three that can play two
hundred and eighty two hundred and ninety yards, so you're
going to have to hit quite a shot to get
the ball back there. It's funny because when I did
the contest of the in playing on the media day,
I used holes six and fifteen, and I think that
those are the two holes that have guardered the most attention.
But whenever you saw any hype about lacc any picture,

(50:50):
you saw the eleventh hole. The eleventh hole is the
one that was with the it's a par three. The
green is set down Redance style green with the skyline
in the background.

Speaker 3 (51:02):
That is the one that you always see.

Speaker 2 (51:04):
But it's interesting to me to see as this championship
has come too and is now here. There's all the
conversation about six, and there was all the conversation about
fifteen because of the short length of it, and fifteen
has had the hole in ones. Eleven I think was
really the signature whole of this course doesn't get as much.
A pub today should be a brute with a pin

(51:24):
all the way in the back.

Speaker 1 (51:25):
Which reminds me we do have I picked up a
hat like I wanted to follow in the tradition of
the Dan Bayern Yes contest. So we need to figure
out exactly what we've got people shooting for. Okay, who's
doing the shooting.

Speaker 2 (51:37):
I'm about picking a winner and a score and if
we don't have a winner, if you've picked the winner
or the winning score in relation to par, then we
could have a drawing and see who wins.

Speaker 3 (51:47):
How about that.

Speaker 1 (51:48):
Sounds good to me? And if there is a time,
turn that out in a tweet.

Speaker 2 (51:52):
Yeah, you send it to at Swollen Dome. Pick the
winning score in relation to par. Don't give us, like
you know, eight, that's too tough for.

Speaker 1 (52:01):
Us to figure out.

Speaker 2 (52:03):
Just give us twelve underpar or whatever whatever you think
it's going to be.

Speaker 1 (52:08):
Well to that point, Dan, something I brought up a
little bit earlier, right that the rudimentary here's some of
the facts and figures. Twenty four straight years you had
to be within four shots of the lead to win.
Do you think that holds today? Or are we looking
at a larger pool where someone can maybe sneak from
the back right. You know, we talked a little bit
about Tom Kim in the round he put up. Can

(52:29):
somebody do something similar on this final stretch, maybe to
someone hitting off a little earlier, because they could take
advantage of the soft softer.

Speaker 2 (52:39):
Iurse, I think I would still include the guys five
shots back because of who they are, Because it's Dustin
Johnson and Xandersoftley. Xander got off to an awful start.
You would not yesterday, you would not expect that to
happen today. Should be able to take advantage of it,
really should have. You know, everybody's birdying one, he ends

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up boging it if he plays it like everybody else does.

Speaker 3 (53:04):
He's only three shots back.

Speaker 2 (53:06):
He's also a guy that shot sixty two, and Dustin
Johnson shot sixty four earlier this week, so they've shown
that they can go low. I would put them in
the conversation. I know I mentioned earlier in the show.
You know Victor Hoblin sitting there at two under. I
think Victor hobbinkove go out there. He's the type of
guy that could shoot sixty four and put a number
up there. It's just too many good players. Like if

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Holland shoots sixty four, that would probably be the only
opportunity for him to really do something.

Speaker 3 (53:33):
But yeah, of everybody else, I think it's going to
be different.

Speaker 2 (53:36):
Cam Smith, you know, is at three under again, he'd
have to shoot a sixty five sixty four to really
be in contention.

Speaker 3 (53:44):
I would stretch it out the five Mike.

Speaker 2 (53:46):
But I'm gonna I'm gonna say, yeah, if if anybody
has a chance, it's gonna be the two guys at
five hunder to break that stat Yeah.

Speaker 1 (53:53):
You know me, as much as I love the names
up the top of the board of it, I like
a little bit of chaos mixed in to where you
get a little bit of a charge, because it gives
us a little bit of extra juice in the final
round of a major. Here at what is such a
unique setup. You've got the history and we know the
courses that people have played. Right, Yesterday, June seventeenth, is

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an anniversary of a lot of things. By the way,
Micholson is June sixteenth, So.

Speaker 2 (54:20):
Happy today is Paul McCartney as well as my mom's
happy eighty first, Sir Paul.

Speaker 1 (54:28):
But yeah, there you go. I've getting a lot of
birthday birthday love in as it were. But you know,
we're looking at just the course and it's setting up
here in the all the other historical things. But on
June seventeenth, right, what was it ninety four or was

(54:48):
it ninety five? The last Jack Nicholas.

Speaker 2 (54:52):
Yeah, us opening, Yes, it would be all the way
to eighty six.

Speaker 3 (54:56):
Yeah, no, eighty six.

Speaker 1 (55:00):
Ninety five would have been the end. So like June
seventeen has had a lot of days because obviously, you know,
most folks remember they were watching the NBA Finals or
trying to when a certain white automobile took over the
freeways here of southern California. So you know that was
ninety four. Yeah, So like all of these things happening
out June seventeen, that was just a convergence of a

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lot of big things happening on that date throughout the years.
But you know, just but putting that in, you know,
Jack Nicholas and the US Open and sitting here today
and someone being able to etch their name into history,
is it, you know, the long awaited return to a
major victory for McElroy like we talked about earlier, or
does Ricky Fowler finally get that moment? And I think

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there's a lot of folks the sentimental is all right, Ricky.
So like when he missed that putt to hang around yesterday,
there was you could hear the exl from television's nationwide.

Speaker 2 (55:56):
Gut Punch, and you knew that Wyndam Clark could just
as well. And so here Ricky Fowlers going in and
could have a two shot lead as you sit on
the eighteen t and entering the final round, but instead
you are tied for the lead and have Rory mcclroy lurking.
The other funny thing about it was that McElroy and

(56:18):
follow and you'd you'd mentioned this even before the show
is there was a lot of people thinking like, all right,
McElroy and fol our final group.

Speaker 1 (56:24):
We're gonna get him together. It made for TV.

Speaker 3 (56:27):
Clark. It's like, hold on a second.

Speaker 2 (56:29):
There, I got different plans and his his ability to
hit a shot like that under that pressure shows yeah,
he's got a little something. So so I don't expect
Wyndham Clark to fade today. We'll say this when you
look at the leader board and I know we gotta
run here in a second. Everybody's shot in the sixties
or in the seventies or worse except three players Rory mclroy,

(56:54):
Scottie Scheffler and Wyndam Clark. Even Ricky Fowler seventy yesterday.
So the three players right now in all red numbers
in all three rounds. It would be difficult to do
it in all four rounds without that pedigree. But we'll
see if wind them. Clark's up to the task.

Speaker 1 (57:10):
Such a huge day ahead. We're with you till ten
am Pacific time, one o'clock Eastern. They'll tee off at
about what eight twenty three local time? It is currently
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(57:52):
Tour and look over at the NBA. Adam Silver made
his long awaited announcement about John Morant on Friday, something
Dan and I have touched on here on Fox Sports Sunday.
Did he get it right? Did you get it wrong?
Where's the gray area in all of this matter? We'll
get into it next here on Fox Sports Radio. Hey,

(58:14):
welcome back in It's Fox Sports radio's Fox Sports Sunday
Mike Harmon alongside Dan Byer live from the US Open
Championship one hundred and twenty third US Open here from
the LA Country Club.

Speaker 2 (58:27):
I Dan, easy way to remember that is the year
is also the like, so one hundred and twenty third
it's twenty twenty three.

Speaker 3 (58:36):
That's how you could always remember.

Speaker 2 (58:38):
So in twenty twenty six, it'll be the one hundred
and twenty sixth US Open in twenty thirty one, or
it'll be the one hundred and thirty first, So that's
an easy way for you to remember.

Speaker 1 (58:47):
That works out really well for this year. I was
just gonna sing Jackson five.

Speaker 2 (58:51):
Not okay, that's that ABC's Yeah, that's fine, easy as.

Speaker 1 (58:55):
One, two three, I you know, I put everything in song.

Speaker 2 (58:58):
First US Open happened in eighteen ninety five, you didn't
have two and nineteen seventeen and nineteen eighteen, and then
you missed four because of World War Two. But other
than that brings us so what matches up. So when
the one hundredth US Open was played, it was in
the year two thousand when Tiger won it.

Speaker 1 (59:15):
So it's nice to have things to set your watch by.
We were just talking about, you know, organizational stability, player stability.
We'll get to John Moran here in a second, the
idea that you can count on something, so outside of
World Wars, the US Open will go on.

Speaker 2 (59:31):
Yes, even during a pandemic, they were able to get it.
You know, get that played in twenty twenty. It was
in September for remember it was on it was an
NFL weekend. Last Yeah, the US Open and then the
Masters was obviously in November that year.

Speaker 3 (59:46):
But yeah, it was very very.

Speaker 1 (59:48):
Unique, made for a little bit of chaos, as it were,
But you know what, you adapt and you move on.
And here we're celebrating the final round kicking off a
little bit later today, eight twenty three. The first a
shot of the final round. Will we'll get us started?
So Dan on Friday, you know, we were all waiting

(01:00:09):
to see what the betting markets were emerging for when
Adam Silver would let us know about Jamran because coming
out of the NBA Finals, Jason Smith and I were
on air and we're talking about the finals, talking about
Silber in five games. So it's done, even though it's
a close game. Get into particular some of the failures
by Jimmy Butler down the stretch, and some bad decision

(01:00:31):
making by the normally reliable heat offense and the way
they structure things turnovers very low over the course of
the year. But when we immediately shifted to when's Adam
Silver gonna drop this? And I said, Friday news jump.
I didn't think it would be as early in the
day as it was. But we get it on Friday,

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and we get the twenty five games announced, and people
are all over the map. Right, You've got the Players
Association and a number four of play players that are
challenging that any punishment should have been levied. You've got
folks like my guy Smith who thought it should have
been a season or more. I thought maybe you'd go
half a season. And then we get into all right,

(01:01:14):
we argue this down, maybe not to the twenty five
where it ended up, but to where it is. And
I know the optics are awful and that and that's
the thing, right, the optics versus reality, and something you
and I have talked about on this topic quite a
bit as to you know, the league and after suspending
him once because remember the second incident broke as you

(01:01:36):
and I were on air, Yes, right, and you know,
whether it's a lighter, whether it's a toy gun, whatever,
the optics are terrible because it flew in the face
of well, yeah, you suspended me, but you know what,
beat it. I'm gonna do what I want, right. So
for that purpose, Adam Silver comes back over the top substantive, substantively,

(01:01:57):
and I know there's things of statutes, so we can
get into the the definition of brandishing and what it
means and who was you know, being threatened if anybody
in those as the laws and the way the definitional
thing plays out. But Adam Silver comes down with twenty
five games. Part of it, I think is the longer
he's away, perhaps you're fearing that whatever bad is encompassing

(01:02:23):
his life takes over fully and you lose him not
just as a basketball player and an identity for your game,
but as a person. But the other side is I
understand those that wanted to throw the book at him
for the idea of, you know, the gun culture, and
that's where it was kind of going to a lot

(01:02:45):
of it, given past PSAs and everything that the NBA
had done regarding gun violence.

Speaker 2 (01:02:52):
I actually think that Adam Silver got it right. I don't.
The reason I say that is this is I think
he got twenty five games because John Morant was being
a knucklehead.

Speaker 3 (01:03:06):
It's being dumb.

Speaker 2 (01:03:07):
It's what he was, and that is to hear him
talk about the difference between a real gun and a
toy gun, which is what Ja Morant's people were claiming
that it was. And I'm silver saying to Dan Patrick
on Fox Sports Radio, that's kind of it's.

Speaker 3 (01:03:27):
Not funny, haha that they're saying that.

Speaker 2 (01:03:29):
But that's the whole reason why he got in trouble
in the first time was because he was treating a
gun like it was aye and you knew it was
going to be more than eighteen games, so he couldn't
make any all NBA team. I actually do also think
this may not be fair, but you do also have
to think of the Memphis Grizzlies, and maybe there's something

(01:03:50):
that the Memphis Grizzlies need to do. Maybe they're the
ones to keep him in check. I just think it's
very difficult when you have a young superstar of that
stature to do that. And I also think think of
if you suspend him for half the season, what does
it do for the grizzly season. Maybe that's a lesson
he would need to learn, you know, like, hey, you
sabotaged our year. We didn't make the playoffs because of you,

(01:04:11):
or we're in the playing tournament because you missed half
the season. But in the end, I just think that
because he was a knucklehead, because he was being stupid,
he was clowning around with some buddies, didn't take the message.

Speaker 3 (01:04:22):
I feel like twenty five.

Speaker 2 (01:04:23):
Games is apropos. Now he does it again, Mike, it's
a third strike sort of deal. But I was very
I didn't like the first punishment. I thought it was very,
very lenient. This time around, I'm actually okay with it.

Speaker 1 (01:04:37):
Yeah, I think the first one it's kind of like
the ray Rice situation to a degree, and where you've
got a commissioner trying to figure out a policy and
what's right. Right when the ray Rice first punishment came
down right two games wait to know about the video,
All of those things felt light, but you're still trying

(01:04:59):
to figure out a new policy and how that's going
to be adjudicated. Likewise, Adam Silver didn't really do a
whole lot. Yes, right, every once in a while there's
a fight in game or whatever. There haven't been a
lot because go back to Donald Stule and that was
just public pressure, player pressure and Lebron James saying this
is what we're doing, right, I mean, let's let's call

(01:05:20):
it what it is. The power of the top of
the players Association kind of dictated terms there, and Adam
Silver hasn't had to do a ton in this regard since.
But going forward, you know, you're trying to you know,
is this too big, too small or is it just
right the old you know, porridge thing that we learned

(01:05:42):
and commerce cartoons we watched as kids. But at twenty
five games to your point, know, all NBA people could
say twenty five games only hits him in the wall,
it's so hard. Well, that makes them ineligible for the awards,
which also takes potentially a brinch truck worth of cash,
yeah away from him, So there is a substantive loss there.

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Some argue that it helps the Grizzlies, like, well, we're
going to talk about continuity and playing together and knowing
each other because this roster's not going to look the same.

Speaker 2 (01:06:12):
Rights has gone right, but you're you're going to see
a bunch of changes so that's twenty five games they're
not on the court together.

Speaker 1 (01:06:21):
Yes, is he technically fresher as you get deeper in
the season, sure, fine, whatever do you want to just
start serving at Christmas Day for twenty five games?

Speaker 3 (01:06:31):
Like?

Speaker 1 (01:06:31):
What are we doing? But you know, the the idea
that you know it needed to be something more and
that he didn't get punished enough that that there's a
there's a lot to it.

Speaker 2 (01:06:42):
I my problem with the first suspension, well, there are
a lot of problems. I'm not going to rehash it,
but it was just in summary, I felt that the
NBA and ESPN wanted to get John Morant on the
court as fast as possible, and John Morant wanted that
as well. So we felt at thirty six hours of
therapy was good for him and he was good to go.

(01:07:05):
So that would you really just saying I really annoyed
interview and get back on really really really bothered me.
There is a small part of this that did that
that did rub me a little bit wrong in that
Adam Silver announced in the finals press conference that there
was a suspension.

Speaker 3 (01:07:23):
There was something that was done.

Speaker 2 (01:07:25):
They didn't want to take it away take away from
the finals. Uh, but now you've also done it, so
it doesn't take away from the NBA Draft that comes
up on Thursday, doesn't spoil the Victor Wembin Yama party
that we're gonna have in four or five days here
doesn't and it's not gonna overshadow free agent. And see,

(01:07:46):
like there was like they you picked the Friday, you
picked the Friday news dump, and that was the Friday
that I was.

Speaker 3 (01:07:52):
Going to happen.

Speaker 2 (01:07:53):
What would have happened if the series would have gone
seven games? You know, is the NBA gonna then drop
it on the Monday? Are they gonna wait till the
Nuggets paradoes over on Tuesday and do it the day
before the draft?

Speaker 3 (01:08:03):
Or would you wait even longer to do it?

Speaker 2 (01:08:05):
To me, like that was the only issue, Like if
you had the suspension, you knew what it was gonna
be and you were ready to move forward. I'm sorry
if it overshadows Game two of the NBA Finals. But
that whole portion of it to me seemed a little
contrived that it was.

Speaker 1 (01:08:19):
Like a tease. Yeah, it's like they do for radio.
Hey coming up next, Hey, the families getting together next,
by the way, it is, but it's it's it felt
like a big tease, hey, or a commercial for a movie.

Speaker 4 (01:08:32):
Hey.

Speaker 1 (01:08:33):
You know, wait on Friday. You know, if you stick
around at halftime, you're gonna get it like you do
it all the time during Monday night football. Stick around
for a halftime, we get a special sneak preview of
the falls blockbuster. And that's what it felt like. Hey,
just wait for it. It's we figured it out, but
you gotta wait.

Speaker 2 (01:08:51):
And and you're right about the Friday news dump. As
you said, it happened a little bit earlier in the
day then we all thought. But yeah, that was that
was the only part of it. But honestly, all in all,
I'm good with it. If he doesn't, if he does
something stupid again, if he does something or fines himself,
then we're then we're down quite quite the tracks.

Speaker 3 (01:09:10):
But I'm I'm actually pretty good with twenty five.

Speaker 1 (01:09:12):
Yeah, And to this point, Nike stays on and other
businesses we see staying with him. So we'll keep an
eye on that as it goes forward. And obviously in
the next two weeks we're gonna have a very different
looking NBA between the draft and free agency and all
those trade rumors. All those pesky trade rumors. Dan Bayer
at Dan Byer Fox Ray find Dan, find me over

(01:09:33):
at Swollendome. Time to turn it over to our guy,
Isaac Lowenkron over at the Update desk. Get an idea
of what's going on in our sporting universe.

Speaker 6 (01:09:42):
Hello, including a baseball pop quiz for the two of
you coming up in mirror, my mom and so get
ready for that. We begin, however, with news from college basketball.
We're on Saturday night. Bob Huggins resigned as the head
men's basketball coach at West Virginia after he was arrested
Friday night a DIUI charge. He'd already been suspended the

(01:10:02):
first three games of the upcoming season after recently making
homophobic remarks on a radio program. After three rounds of
the US Open, Ricky Fowler and Wyndham Clark shared the
lead at ten under par overall. Rory McElroy one back
at nine under. Scottie Scheffler is three shots back at
seven under. It'll be Clark and Fowler teeing off the

(01:10:24):
final pairing at five thirty pm Eastern time. In Major
League Baseball Saturday night, the San Francisco Giants defeated the
Dodgers in LA fifteen to nothing. It was the Dodgers'
largest home shutout loss in one hundred and twenty five
years since eighteen ninety eight, when they were known as
the Brooklyn Bridegrooms now fellas. I'm going to give you

(01:10:48):
three names. Two of them are real members of the
eighteen ninety eight Brooklyn Bridegrooms roster, and one is made up.
So you guys have to guess which one is made up?

Speaker 1 (01:11:03):
Here that is a magic Johnson tweet. No go ahead,
pop quiz, hot shot.

Speaker 6 (01:11:09):
Well done, by the way.

Speaker 1 (01:11:10):
All right.

Speaker 6 (01:11:10):
The three names are Harry Mutton, Chop Wilkins, Brickyard Kennedy
and Candy the Chance. Which one of those names is fake?
The other two are real?

Speaker 1 (01:11:26):
Well, I said the third one is. I mean, it's Sunday,
it's a family show. I love yea. I know, it's
Father's Day and we're celebrating Fay Chance.

Speaker 3 (01:11:35):
That's what I would say. It's fake.

Speaker 1 (01:11:36):
I say that's the fake one.

Speaker 6 (01:11:37):
Okay, so you both are going to Candy the Chance,
I mean, I like the Mutton Shop guy. Harry Mutton
Chop Wilkins was the fake Namely Chance was a real person,
earning the nickname because he preferred to chew on peppermints
instead of chewing tobacco. One final NBA Note Time six

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Man of the Year Award winner Lou Williams announced his
retirement this morning after a seventeen year career.

Speaker 1 (01:12:06):
I'm gonna pour one out. That's one of my favorite
players of all time.

Speaker 6 (01:12:09):
Who Mutton Chop Wilkins.

Speaker 1 (01:12:11):
Yeah, Candy Williams. I'm gonna now write the ballad of
Mutton Chop Wilkins.

Speaker 2 (01:12:16):
Now that, now that I think about it, it is
too obvious that they would actually actually call him mutton Chops.

Speaker 3 (01:12:21):
He would just have it. Everybody had it. Why would
he be any different than anybody else?

Speaker 1 (01:12:26):
Right, I don't know how prevalent the mutet.

Speaker 3 (01:12:30):
They were very prevalent. I think they're very prevalent.

Speaker 1 (01:12:33):
Did they serve any functional purposes?

Speaker 6 (01:12:35):
What happened to mutton Shops? Aren't they due for a resurgence?

Speaker 1 (01:12:38):
You know what? I love? I think that would look
good on the next Angel City FC broadcast. Actually, since
it's radio, well, I mean, you guys have video. I mean,
Jake Warner just keeps putting video of you out all
the time, right.

Speaker 3 (01:12:49):
Did you get get a YadA YadA YadA in there yesterday?
Gotta go all right there.

Speaker 1 (01:12:53):
I'd be Father's Day. I loveday. Stay close to your microphone.
We're gonna need you here and Dan, would you like
to tell folks what's coming up here?

Speaker 2 (01:13:02):
Yes, yes, we are live at the US Open and
coming up next when we get the Fox family together,
we will find out who will carry the flag of
US Open champions Yes, that is the teas.

Speaker 1 (01:13:16):
That is the teas at Dan Byer on Fox where
you find Dan find me over at Swollen Dome. This
is Fox Sports Sunday Live from the US Open Championship
here at La Country Club. Welcome back in It's Fox
Sports Radios, Fox Sports Sunday Mike Carbon alongside Dan Bayer.
Coming up in about ten minutes, we'll get into the

(01:13:37):
fun and excitement that is the NBA Draft Draft Lottery.
I'm building a little bit of a soapbox for Dan
Byer to go there, but in the interim I'm gonna
hand them this stick microphone, thank you very much, him
to take over here, mist suit it up and ready
to go.

Speaker 2 (01:13:51):
It's great to have the Fox family back together on
the feud even though some of us are separated right
now because we are live for the US Open and
the Fox Family is back in our headquarters at a
different part of Los Angeles.

Speaker 3 (01:14:05):
Yeah, we play the feud here. All right, let's get
it together.

Speaker 2 (01:14:08):
Mike Harmon, Ethan Miller, Iowa, Sam Isaac Loehencron all make
up the Fox Family.

Speaker 3 (01:14:14):
Top ten answers on the board. I want to know.

Speaker 2 (01:14:20):
Of the of the top of the winners of the
US Open. Jersey, not New Jersey, but Jersey. The little
island off the coast of France is not included in this.
The top ten countries that can claim a US Open champion.
So yeah, so a US Open champion in the history
of the of the game have come from ten different countries.
Mike Carmon started off with you, there is a pass available,

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three strikes and you are out, sick.

Speaker 3 (01:14:44):
Get it started.

Speaker 1 (01:14:45):
Since we're going all the way back to eighteen ninety five,
I'm just going to take England.

Speaker 3 (01:14:48):
Oh, England. It's a very good pick, show me. England.

Speaker 2 (01:14:52):
Yes, the third most US Open champions with eight over
eight different, by the way I believe, so, yes, eight different.
All right, let's go over to Ethan Miller, executive producer.

Speaker 4 (01:15:05):
I'm gonna go with France.

Speaker 2 (01:15:07):
France, big, big, big France fan. Are you it's your
favorite French golfer?

Speaker 4 (01:15:14):
I don't have one. I'm just I just thought of
a country.

Speaker 2 (01:15:17):
I was like, maybe, yeah, maybe is it France? No,
it is not.

Speaker 3 (01:15:22):
It is not.

Speaker 2 (01:15:25):
France. Off the board. Don't go with France. Iowa, Sam,
They're a big X over to you.

Speaker 4 (01:15:30):
All right, We'll go with a country nearby.

Speaker 3 (01:15:33):
Give me a Spana, a Spana, show me Spain. Yes,
just one.

Speaker 2 (01:15:39):
John Ram one ago, John ram the first Spaniard to
claim the US Open over Isaac Loencrown.

Speaker 6 (01:15:46):
I didn't even know there was such a thing as
a jersey in France. Does gtl over there stand for
golf camp laundry.

Speaker 1 (01:15:55):
It's actually called.

Speaker 2 (01:15:56):
Kit and it's right, it's right off the coast, but
it uh it's a commonwealth that is uh, it's not
a part of the UK. But there's some I was
trying to read up on it. I'm stout like an idiot.
I sound even dumber than I am.

Speaker 6 (01:16:09):
But you sound worldly, You sound very air. You died
for for someone in Hartfield because I literally did not
know this play place existed. Anyway, we're all missing the
obvious one. But since it's so obvious, I'm gonna save it.
I'm going to say, throw your hands in the AA
if you a true Gary play a South Africa.

Speaker 2 (01:16:29):
Show Me South Africa has Gary player Ernie Else bringing
home the US Open titles for South Africa.

Speaker 3 (01:16:39):
That's my South Africa.

Speaker 1 (01:16:40):
That was pretty good.

Speaker 2 (01:16:41):
Yes, based off of Louis Tasan, I'll try to try
to do a little higher pitched and Trevor Emmelman, who's
now the analyst on CBS, I.

Speaker 1 (01:16:49):
Kinda dig this. Now we're gonna have Dan impersonating golfers
another one from the rest of the show.

Speaker 3 (01:16:56):
Answer correctly. Over to Mike Carmon.

Speaker 1 (01:16:59):
We're in the Mobile Tire Rack dot Com studios at
the one hundred and twenty third US Open Championship here
at La Country Club. I'm gonna go to Scotland.

Speaker 2 (01:17:07):
Scotland by scott show me Scotland.

Speaker 3 (01:17:12):
Yes, there there are number two on the list. Thirteen wins,
nine different winners.

Speaker 1 (01:17:16):
That's all early. I went to the early figuring there's
an obvious one that's gonna dominate.

Speaker 2 (01:17:22):
Later Alex Smith he won six and uh in ten,
but that was nineteen It was nineteen o six. Alex
Smith from Scotland. All right, over to over to Ethan,
Over to Ethan Miller.

Speaker 1 (01:17:35):
Yes, one hundred years.

Speaker 4 (01:17:37):
I thought of one, and it's going to be Ireland.

Speaker 2 (01:17:41):
Oh, it's gonna be Ireland. Is that your final answer?
Ireland is?

Speaker 4 (01:17:46):
And he's gonna go for a second today.

Speaker 2 (01:17:48):
Okay, is it Ireland? There was a reason I asked
for a final answer.

Speaker 4 (01:17:53):
There was a reason from Ireland.

Speaker 3 (01:17:55):
Yeah, where's from?

Speaker 2 (01:17:58):
He might be, he might be two strikes out of
the board, A pass is still available.

Speaker 3 (01:18:02):
Over to Iowa.

Speaker 4 (01:18:03):
Sam, all right, I'm going to go with a pretty
obvious one here. United States of America.

Speaker 2 (01:18:09):
Yeah, looking for countries represented by US Open winners.

Speaker 3 (01:18:13):
Show me USA number.

Speaker 2 (01:18:15):
One, answer by far, United States with sixty eight I
believe different winners. No, excuse me, eighty six wins, sixty
different winners.

Speaker 3 (01:18:27):
Over to Isaac Low and Crown.

Speaker 6 (01:18:28):
I'm gonna go hunting, shark hunting.

Speaker 1 (01:18:32):
Australia, show me down on the mite.

Speaker 3 (01:18:37):
Yes, Australia. There it is not Greg. It's not Greg
Norman though.

Speaker 6 (01:18:42):
Unfortunately, Oh no, I met, I just met in general.

Speaker 2 (01:18:44):
Yes, yes, oh, okay, Jeff Ogilvie, a representative of Australia,
one of the winners.

Speaker 3 (01:18:49):
All right, over to Mike Carmen.

Speaker 1 (01:18:53):
How about Argentina.

Speaker 3 (01:18:54):
Show me Argentina.

Speaker 2 (01:18:56):
An Hell Cabrera the only winner again, he's in jail
now domestic abuse. Not a good guy, but he's on
the title. Yes, Ethan Miller, we've got a pass still available.

Speaker 4 (01:19:09):
I'm going to have to pass. I can't get.

Speaker 3 (01:19:11):
Okay, all right, New Zealand. We're gonna take New Zealand
off the board.

Speaker 2 (01:19:17):
Yes, Michael Campbell won in two thousand and five to
left Iowa.

Speaker 3 (01:19:21):
Sam, you got one of them.

Speaker 4 (01:19:23):
Let's try Canada.

Speaker 2 (01:19:24):
Let's try Canada. Is it the great maple leaf flag flying?
Is it Canada?

Speaker 3 (01:19:32):
No? My goodness, Ethan was so close. Northern Ireland is
what we were looking with.

Speaker 2 (01:19:39):
Yes, that's why I asked for the final answer, and
the other one we did not get. Germany Martin Kimer one.
So their goots eight out of ten.

Speaker 1 (01:19:51):
It's not awful, No, No, pretty well? Yeah, getting into
our geography too, and you're giving us a side of
dan Byer that maybe we we didn't know. Doret impressions
of famous golfers coming out next as well, as the
NBA draft. Let's talk about it next. Dot box gindness
in our voices. The activity is picking up here at

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A lot more activity here in the media center. Stepped outside,
Take a breath of fresh air, take a look outside.
More activity, more people starting to mill about as we
get ready for first tee of the final round. And
I can see you. You're starting to get that little twitchiness,

(01:20:56):
the fast twitch muscles in your legs starting to activate.

Speaker 3 (01:20:59):
It's exciting.

Speaker 2 (01:21:00):
Reo Is Chicaga goes off in about twenty two minutes
from now to start the final rounds. He'll be I
think he'll be playing with a marker when they cut.
When the cut has made mic and this is not uncommon,
but when you have an odd number of players who
make the cut and you go off in two sums.
There's obviously going to be one person left out without

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a partner. We've seen it years at the Masters. They'll
do it again there. There was a marker that played
I think with Ryan Fox who was the odd man
out yesterday and didn't have a partner to play with.

Speaker 3 (01:21:34):
So I think Rio is Chicago le have a partner
as well. I would.

Speaker 2 (01:21:37):
I would volunteer, but I would probably shoot about one
hundred and twenty on this course.

Speaker 3 (01:21:41):
But there will be so much chance.

Speaker 1 (01:21:42):
Make them feel really good about himself.

Speaker 2 (01:21:45):
Yes, you probably wouldn't want to see my shots though,
because that would be a bad mental image.

Speaker 3 (01:21:50):
But yeah, we're gonna get this thing going in like
twenty minutes.

Speaker 1 (01:21:52):
Positivity, more action here in the media center, a couple
of television cruise showing up and and everything as we
get for the final round. So I gotta ask you,
we're gonna spend a little time wandering around the course.
You did a lot of your Father's Day togetherness yesterday,
not that you won't do some later, but so you
can stick around the course a little bit later into today.

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Happy Father's Day. To everybody out there, however you're celebrating,
be safe, look after each other. It takes a village
all of that stuff. You know, the sentiment's there, Happy
Father's Day and my dad down there in Florida, and
happy birthday to my mom. It just happens to sync
up perfectly. Look, Mom, I'm at a golf event. The

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things you'd never thought you'd hear coming from the South
side of Chicago, certainly growing up in my household, even
though I find out later as I get older that's
one of the things my dad my uncle would do
hustling as teenagers was caddying.

Speaker 3 (01:22:47):
Oh, I did not know that.

Speaker 1 (01:22:48):
I found that out, you know, later later on in
my existence. So there you go, find out little little
details along the way. But for you, as we get
ready to wander around and you get to be my guide,
are we going for the more interesting and intricate holes
and the placement and the potential chaos? There? Are we
going player.

Speaker 2 (01:23:08):
When we go out and watch, we are going to
end up sitting at some holes just for the simple
fact of there's not going to be a lot at stake.

Speaker 3 (01:23:17):
So and honestly, I'm like, I get it.

Speaker 2 (01:23:20):
If it's Tiger, I get it if it's Rory, but
Rory's not teeing off until later. Everybody else kind of
blends in, and so I want to see how things
are played all these top players, Yes, to see them
attack certain holes, see how we could see it played
later in the day. I even see some of the
action that I haven't seen too much on the course

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in these last couple of days that I've been here.

Speaker 3 (01:23:45):
I want to check that out. So we're going to go.

Speaker 2 (01:23:47):
We're going to check out the first team because it
is right up against the clubhouse.

Speaker 3 (01:23:52):
It is a great site. Maxhoma talked about it.

Speaker 2 (01:23:55):
Max didn't make the cut, but he talked about it
earlier this week and saying it was weird because there
is any huge bleacher right by the first g because
of how things are set off, so it didn't have
necessarily that noise. But still with that backdrop and where
the first he is located in the angle that we
have and most players have, you don't have the big
skyscraper or apartment building in the background, so it's just

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the clubhouse sitting there.

Speaker 3 (01:24:18):
It's pretty pretty neat sight.

Speaker 1 (01:24:20):
Tied for the lead, Windham Clark and Ricky Fowler. Isaac
made a reference to hotels and such. I was thinking
about the Wyndham family and the Wyats and everything of
WWE WWF and other fame because I got problems. Ricky
Fowler had the opportunity to have the lead by himself
an unfortunate putt that went awry, and you saw Clark

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make his shot. Otherwise we might have had that Fowler
McElroy combination along the way, Scheffler in fourth, Harris English
at six hunder he is in fifth, and then you
get Dustin Johnson and Schoffle and start going and down
the field a little bit. Well, it'll be interesting to
watch that front nine to see if anybody can catch

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fire like Tom Kim did yesterday, put a little bit
of pressure, yes, on the folks up front before they
t off.

Speaker 3 (01:25:11):
Yes, posting a number is a real thing.

Speaker 2 (01:25:13):
And this stretch, I don't think I could be wrong,
but I just don't think anybody's going to go two
three like Scotty Schefler did in the final two holes yesterday,
Especially down the stretch here, Sixteen, seventeen and eighteen are
difficult holes. Sixteen is very long, seventeen a very difficult hole,
even though Scotti Scheffler made it look easy. If you
can post a number and you have to par in

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from that number, it could make it very very difficult.
There's your last real birdy attempt is likely going to
come on the fourteenth hole, which is the par five.
So if that number is posted, somebody may have to
hold on for a wild ride. And it looks like
we just stepped outside a little bit ago. Marine layer
still fully here, not expected to burn off until about

(01:25:57):
eleven or noon. The leaders don't go off until two
local time, so yeah, there's there could be something there
for some of the players.

Speaker 1 (01:26:05):
Ye, how softly the course plays earlier, we watched that
happen a little bit yesterday. How differently playing some of
the holes as the day wore on. Uh, And look,
there's there's always a room for chaos the way this
is set up. We talked about pin placement a little
bit earlier, but just the vastly different lengths that we're playing,

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and let's face it, final round, you got to try
to make a move. Maybe you start to gamble a
little bit, maybe you know as forgiving as some of
the the fairways are right pretty wide, that may maybe
you're you're you're really trying to hammer down on one
side and and maybe overstrike. Because we've certainly seen some
errant shots along the way, we've seen some brilliant play

(01:26:50):
along the way a number of aces, as well as
some of the longest puts you'll see outside of your
local carnival.

Speaker 3 (01:26:57):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:26:57):
One of the things that I think that that you
could see is we saw it happened to Harris Harris
English yesterday. We saw it happen to Rory a couple
of days ago Greenside on eighteen. That rough is very,
very thick. They tried to hit wide open lob lob
wedges and their club just went right under the ball
and went nowhere. If you're sitting there trying to avoid

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that big number, maybe you turn your club face up
a little bit more so it's not as wide open,
but you're not going to put it within twenty feet
and you kind of take your medicine that way.

Speaker 3 (01:27:27):
That could be another situation.

Speaker 2 (01:27:28):
That we see, and it may not even just be
green Side, it's just maybe you hit an errant t
shot instead of making their heroic shots try to stay
par You got to figure.

Speaker 3 (01:27:35):
Out that a bogie isn't a bad play.

Speaker 2 (01:27:38):
That is also a common theme at the US Open,
so we could see that down the stretch today.

Speaker 1 (01:27:42):
Very excited to be here part of the history and
the return of the US Open to the Los Angeles area.
We are grateful for the hospitality that we've had here
at the media center and around the course all week long,
and so happy to be here with you here on
Father's Day again, however you're celebrating. I raise my oversized

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the NBA draft is upon us. The Victor Wenman Yama sweepstakes.

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I mean, he's now gonna deign to play a little
bit in Summer League. We did get that known yesterday.
There's a there's a big deal for you. Everybody's already
crowned him. You and I have had these discussions. I
just chuckle right. It's like talking to Smith the other
day about the large s of the Nikola Jokic final series.
I'll still take two thousand shack, sure, and many other

(01:28:52):
points in the past, but we're in the moment. You
celebrate how great it is. But we have the draft,
the draft lottery and whatever that is. Each and every
year we watched as the Dallas Mavericks said, playoffs, no,
thank you, We'd rather play.

Speaker 3 (01:29:07):
For ping pong balls.

Speaker 1 (01:29:08):
Yes, And the way the playoffs worked out, perhaps Mark Cuban,
in a quiet moment in his mansion, threw something against
the wall, kind of cursing his fate that maybe, just
maybe they should have tried to actually play in this tournament.
But the system is what it is, and it's not
going away anytime soon. But between that and the draft,

(01:29:29):
I mean, we already know where he's going. There's not
a whole lot of drama thereafter.

Speaker 2 (01:29:33):
No no, but there is drama on what's gonna happen
at two and what's gonna happen at three, and specifically
what's going to happen at three, because Portland's sitting there
and we feel that depending on what Portland does could
also determine the future of Damian Lillard. Sure, and Mike,
that's this is it's my fifth annual rant of the
Draft the Lottery, and it's because the draft is this week,

(01:29:53):
but it's highlighted by Portland doing what they're doing.

Speaker 3 (01:29:57):
Portland. You know, when the envelopes were being.

Speaker 2 (01:30:01):
Released and you saw they were one of the top four,
You're like, oh wow, this could be you know, this
could really be something. They could land Victor Webban Yama.
Let's just say that they did win the lottery. You know,
that would that would change Damian Lillard's future in Portland,
where if you're bringing in Brandon Miller or you're bringing
in Scoot Henderson, you're likely saying we're going to rebuild.

Speaker 3 (01:30:23):
But if you had Victor Wemban Yama, hey maybe we
could turn this thing over right now. Yes, yes, I'm
going to stick around.

Speaker 2 (01:30:29):
My whole problem with the lottery and why it is
important now this week is because I just feel like
that the lottery shouldn't reward teams for losing, which we
see in tanking a lot But even the teams that
were bad, you didn't have to be the worst.

Speaker 3 (01:30:43):
You just had to be bad.

Speaker 2 (01:30:44):
You had to have the best opportunities and it paid
off for San Antonio to get that whatever fourteen percent
that you know two other teams also had. If you
gave if you gave every team in the lottery the
same chance of getting the top player, I think it
would add more drama, but it would also I think
be better for your league.

Speaker 1 (01:31:05):
I think the long term effect is there, yes, And so.

Speaker 2 (01:31:08):
Like if if if wem beIN Yama does land in Portland,
it makes Portland that contender. Right now, the Spurs over
under for next season is thirty two wins. That is
not a playoff caliber team. That's the over under for
what they think Victor Webbnyama is going to do. And
it's going to take a build, and you're gonna have

(01:31:28):
to build your team, but you have that piece. I
just could be better in the league to put Victor
Webbyama on a better team. And so if you if
you are a Dallas and maybe you would have teams
being like, all right, I want to I don't want
to be in the plane. I'd rather have my chance
at this generational player. The problem is you're not going
to get a generational player every single draft, like wem
Ben Yama is really the most generational since Lebron and

(01:31:51):
maybe the most generational of all time.

Speaker 3 (01:31:53):
But I just I.

Speaker 2 (01:31:54):
Wish, I wish that, you know, a team like Dallas,
like Portland would have an opportunity to land these players
because it would be better.

Speaker 3 (01:32:04):
It would take care of tanking. You wouldn't.

Speaker 2 (01:32:06):
You wouldn't see teams wasting away, and you wouldn't also
might have conversations of, Okay, what is Portland gonna do
with number three? Are they gonna trade it? Are they
gonna try to get a veteran to help Lillard? Are
they gonna draft? You wouldn't have to have, you know,
that sort of conversation.

Speaker 1 (01:32:20):
Yeah, I think that's the curiosity to it, and I
like your your suggestion there of equal opportunity that way,
if you're bad, you don't get rewarded with extra ping
pong balls, you don't get a weight because you're you're
worse to where we watched. Look and Dallas did it
at the end of the year. So yes, okay, playoffs
are on the line. It's Mark Cuban, you've been in

(01:32:42):
trouble one hundred times, we slap you on the wrist,
which is really all they did. It's nothing substantive. But
Houston and San Antonio just weaved at us for an
entire season and nothing comes of it other than you've
got a really good shot to land this guy. Yes,
and then you know, look, you know, conspiracy theories are

(01:33:02):
are everywhere, but sometimes rooted in truth. Found it interesting, right,
we see the old pictures of Nicola Jokic. What kind
of jersey is he wearing? Oh gosh, Denver Nugget.

Speaker 3 (01:33:12):
I saw much shirt? Yeah, Nugget shirt. Yeah, yeah, old
old Denver Nugget. I thought it was photo shopped at first.

Speaker 1 (01:33:17):
Yeah, but yeah, but the veracity there. Lebron James, he
gets to go home. Now, this guy from France, Tony Parker,
Greg Popovich and his history of bringing folks from overseas
and integrating them into the NBA so well. Tim Duncan
there as a mentor like all of those, and the
Spurs end up with Webb and Yama. Like I get it.

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Fourteen percent is a weighty amount, but it all just
kind of goes into this big large If you were
going to tell me today, I come in with no
knowledge and not having watched this league at all, and
you add the frozen envelope to that, I'm probably looking
at things little sideways as related to.

Speaker 2 (01:34:01):
The I joked, I said that the NBA should have
rigged the draft, and then yeah, to that point, I
thought about it, and others made the point as well
of like maybe it was rigged so wemben Yama doesn't
go to one of those loser franchises.

Speaker 3 (01:34:15):
It's it's it's true.

Speaker 2 (01:34:17):
Maybe you know in the Pistons, you know, for example,
had had a great chance or had the odds of
landing number one. They also had number one with Kid
cunning am we spent hurt? They had number five with
Jaden Ivy. You know they they've got they.

Speaker 1 (01:34:31):
Got a nice nucleus sitting there. If they can get
on the.

Speaker 3 (01:34:33):
Court together, yes, yes, but they still stink.

Speaker 2 (01:34:35):
And it's like, do they deserve not the opportunity to
get Victor wemban Yama?

Speaker 3 (01:34:40):
No, do they even get do they.

Speaker 2 (01:34:41):
Even deserve the opportunity to get like Scoot Henderson or
Brandon Miller part of that draft, Like if you had
Scoot Henderson, and I know the Blazers can use it
as a trade chip for how they're going to but
you know, you got Toronto sitting there at thirteen. You
know what would that do for that organize that tried
to compete, tried to keep their core together after Kawhi left,

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and now it's kind of falling apart with Fred van Vliet,
you know, opting out of his his deal. But I
think that that would be better for the league then
to maybe put him on a you know, Charlotte Hornets team.
You know, like, let Charlotte figure out their own way.
If they get lucky enough, that's fine. But I just
think that some of these top players maybe maybe should
go to better teams. I think it would be better

(01:35:25):
for the NBA than to let them swim around in
Detroit for a while and figure out, you know, how
how how they're gonna you know, keep their head above
water and actually survive in the NBA. I just think
that some of these teams that just missed the playoffs
are better suited to add a better player, and then
that would help the league more because now you'd have
a more competitive team in the Well.

Speaker 1 (01:35:45):
We talk about it sometimes the benefit to mix leagues
for a minute. In the NFL, you don't get drafted
up top by the terrible teams that have it. Yes,
she have nothing in place right. The most obvious example
always goes back to Ben Roethlisberger. Yeah, he goes to
stability in Pittsburgh, wins a couple of Super Bowls, has
this long career, and go on down the line versus

(01:36:08):
other teams that are spinning their wheels. Again. You know,
we talk about stability and organizational stability from the top
on down with some great regularity, Like.

Speaker 2 (01:36:17):
How good would the West be if all of a
sudden it was you know, the Blazers and the Pelicans
and the Mavericks ended up getting some sort of Brandon Miller,
Scoot Henderson and Victor Webber Yama like that all of
a sudden, I you have these teams that are playoff contenders,
and san Antonio does want to hear that. These bad
teams don't want to hear that. But I just think
in the long in the long term of it, when

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you don't have a generational player, it actually may help
those teams get better and into the playoffs, which is
better for the league.

Speaker 1 (01:36:46):
Yeah. I'm just never a fan of all Right, We're
going into a season and we're quote competing you know
that the Rows, And it's no disrespect to the guys
that are playing. It's like watching Major League Baseball teams. Now,
it's like that guy's the best player on insert bad
team here. Well, he might be a pretty good player
somewhere else. Unfortunately he gets tagged with. Right, if you're

(01:37:07):
a member of the A's and they've had that winning
streak and you had the reverse walk out and everything else.
But if you're a great player there, you're just part
of a terrible organization that's not changing anytime soon, yep.
As opposed to finding your way to something a little
more consistent along the way. He's Dan Byer. I'm Mike

(01:37:28):
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(01:37:51):
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I'm Mike. This is Fox Sports Sunday, Fox Sports Radio.
And you know what, one of the big controversies of
the weekend Byer was about begging a team to come

(01:38:13):
back and do more work in front of the cameras
in the NFL. It's a show that I think jumped
the shark a long time ago, but people still seem
to like it. We'll talk about hard knocks and how
to avoid them next here on Fox. There we go.
We get a little Alan Jackson. Daddy, let me drive,
Dan Byer as I'm trying to teach my daughter bit

(01:38:35):
by bit. It's very strange trying to teach someone how
to drive out La roads. Mike Carbon Dan Byer.

Speaker 3 (01:38:42):
We're a helmet in the car, right.

Speaker 1 (01:38:45):
I keep trying to reach for that fake break, like
I'm a driving instructor. It's not there. From La Country Club,
part of the one hundred and twenty third US Open Championship,
getting ready to tee off here. We should have just
a couple of minutes ago go so getting ready here
for the final round. So much excitement and anticipation here

(01:39:05):
on the grounds, no question about it. We're excited to
be here. Dan and I will walk the grounds a
little bit later on today celebrating Father's Day, my mom's birthday.
You know, a point that I put up in the
social media is just to pause for a second, dan
is with graduation ceremonies. You know, my love of all
things sports and sports entertainment. That you come in to

(01:39:28):
pomp and circumstance, like you're Randy the macho man, right,
dun dun dun, dun dud, and you've got the robe
and something that you'll have folks flailed their arms out
and everything. But then at the same time, you've got
the the the tassel, you've got the cap, so you
look like the genius. His brother leaping Lonnie pofos So
the Poffo brothers celebrated in perpetuity and graduations from Pittler.

Speaker 3 (01:39:51):
To post Way to put it together, he was it was,
he was the genius.

Speaker 1 (01:39:57):
But also didn't he like he was the poet laureate?

Speaker 3 (01:40:00):
Yeah, yeah, I like keV And I also thought he
threw frisbees at one point.

Speaker 1 (01:40:03):
He did a lot of no question, you know, Randy,
Randy Pofa was a minor league baseball player, Yes, in
the Cardinals organization, but there you go. There's your little
did you know? In talking about minor league. Sometimes that's
what we see when a team decides to get on
board the Hard Knocks train. Dan Byer and reportedly earlier

(01:40:24):
in this week, the NFL was kind of hoping that
Dan Campbell and company would come on board and say yes,
because so many teams, so many coaches have just said, hey,
do you want to be putting No. No, it's the
furthest thing that we want from this and the Lions, man,
they may may end up being, by default, uh, the
squad that comes back and we look at the history

(01:40:45):
of teams on Hard Knocks not really a thing that
you love, yeah, and to be part of, and certainly
not getting the results that you're anticipating based on the hype.

Speaker 2 (01:40:56):
And I don't think that the Lions should for a
multi reasons. But really, Mike, I don't think it's as
interesting the second time around. I like they captivated the
audience that watched last year, but it's also them playing
better who Dan Campbell is what he said throughout the years,
all of that Last year's Hard Knocks was a really

(01:41:16):
good introduction for those that didn't know or weren't familiar
with the Lions, but they shouldn't have to do this again.
They shouldn't have to carry the burden of providing entertaining content.
It should be spread around and Robert Sala saying like, yeah,
the other teams, Yeah, it's a great show, but we
don't want it here, you know. To me, I understand

(01:41:37):
as a coach you want to keep everything as close
to the vest that you can. But there's also the
reality of realizing what's going to hurt us and what's
not going to hurt us.

Speaker 3 (01:41:49):
I don't think this hurts teams. I don't know any.

Speaker 2 (01:41:51):
Team that was like we were really destined for a
great year, but then hard knocks came in. Like the
problems that you would have are problems that would have
been there anyway, whether there was a camera or not.
Maybe something happens during the camp that you don't want
to see on camera, and that's what they're worried for.
All right, so be it. People, you know, forget about it.
But one of the most lasting images isn't wasn't it

(01:42:14):
the o Jo Sinko Joe Philbin meeting you know with
the Dolphins, Like those are the things that you remember,
Those behind the scenes things and I just it's almost
like a team isn't if you aren't able to handle
hard knocks, and you're probably not able to handle winning
football games and having a winning culture in the NFL,

(01:42:36):
because it really isn't that much of a nuisance in
my mind, you know what.

Speaker 1 (01:42:40):
To that point, it's something I've always said, when we
get into the well, you can't pull this guy now
in the NFL and quarterbacks, you'll never get him back
right his conference. Well, then he's not your guy, right
if he's not ready. But by circumstance you had to
put him out there, or you decided, hey, let's do
trial by fire, and then you realize it was too high. Yes,

(01:43:01):
it's okay you in theory, you've got a capable backup,
a veteran guy that can come in. Does it mean
you're leading to them to the playoffs and the promise?
Not No, Because if you were starting the first or
second year guy and you had reservations and that was
your thinking that it was the trial by fire, you
probably knew you were in for some rough patches as
it were. And if the quarterback can't rally learn from

(01:43:23):
it and get back and keep growing, then he's never
that guy. So as soon as that talk starts, it's
at the same token. Right, If this is the thing
that's going to derail you, then you've got a pretty
flimsy organization.

Speaker 2 (01:43:36):
I also think that the NFL, with their criteria yet
at one point, it does reward teams for winning and
do well in doing well. But I also think that
they're looking for a team like the Lions were last year.
They're looking for a team that is trying to improve,
trying to make a step. Otherwise you wouldn't have all
this criteria like the first year coach. It's probably unfair,

(01:43:57):
that's one thing, But to say that you're a playoff team, well,
why should it be any difference if you're a playoff
team and you're not a playoff team the next year
is completely different. Well, the NFL is basically saying either
they want to reward playoff teams by not having to
do it so it is a nuisance, or they feel
that the better storyline is with a team that doesn't
make the playoffs.

Speaker 3 (01:44:17):
Now it may be the former, but I.

Speaker 2 (01:44:19):
Think that the latter is really The true part about
it is if you went to Kansas City, what would
we really learn what would we really see.

Speaker 1 (01:44:27):
We already know Kelsey's a goofball. Mahomes can get snarky
with the best of them, low key snark like he
did this week with Jamar Chase and stuff that he'll
hit back. And now that his family's not his front
facing that he's been himself. We know Andy Reid likes cheezburgers.

Speaker 3 (01:44:46):
What else am exactly?

Speaker 2 (01:44:48):
But you have these other teams, newer teams, commanders, your bears.
You can learn stuff about them, the new look Saints
now that you know.

Speaker 1 (01:44:56):
Well Derek Carr said he didn't give his best to
the down the stretch. Sometimes people need to just stick
stay away from a microphone or have some you know,
It's like, what was it her? I think it was
herm Edwards right about tweeting, don't hit send same thing here.
Sometimes you just need to back away and recognize how
poorly that's gonna play.

Speaker 3 (01:45:17):
I do just feel it.

Speaker 2 (01:45:18):
Maybe his words, he was trying to say something, but
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:45:22):
But anyway, I would love to talking about circumstance and whatever.

Speaker 2 (01:45:25):
Yeah, I'd love to see how he makes himself a
part of that team. Now, how like that? That would
be a storyline that's what the compelling storylines are. That's
why those teams do it. And if you're not able
to handle it, that sounds like a you problem and
not of them problem.

Speaker 1 (01:45:38):
One hundred percent. He's Dan Byer. I'm my Karmen here,
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(01:46:00):
he going to be more outrageous? What other body parts
can he bite or attack as it were? What would
be your idea? I think it would be the Jets
and Rogers?

Speaker 3 (01:46:11):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (01:46:11):
Right?

Speaker 1 (01:46:11):
How his young teammates are responding to him, He's he's
been the greatest tourist the New York, New Jersey area
has ever seen. If nothing else, just put a can't
GoPro on his head as he goes to the Tony Awards.

Speaker 2 (01:46:23):
I honestly don't care because because because I think that
there are storylines that develop that allow you to care.
And when you have expectations, Oh I can't wait to
see what this guy does. Then you're hamming for the camera.
Then you're playing it up and it's not natural.

Speaker 3 (01:46:38):
I like the show.

Speaker 2 (01:46:39):
I enjoy the show every Tuesday night for what five
weeks in training camp, your preseason, you've got something to
lock in before the season starts.

Speaker 3 (01:46:48):
I'm a fan of it.

Speaker 2 (01:46:49):
I don't think that it does irreparable damage outside of
a few scenes that we've you know, mentioned that are memorable,
But I don't think that those are bad, and so
I don't think it's as much of a disrection as
the team. As the team that don't want to do
it are saying that it is.

Speaker 1 (01:47:02):
Unfortunately, the visualization of what is a bad story right
where someone runs a foul of NFL rules or the
law itself, that those are going to be covered, right.
So this just shows how the inner workings of a
team can help that process or where there might be
room for improvement. And sometimes when that's documented, that's the

(01:47:23):
only way change gets it starts to occur, as we
see that in all facets of society. Dan Byer in
with me Mike Carmen. This is Fox Sports Sunday Live
from the US Open Championship. Remember, give us your winner
and the final score at hashtag Harmon's scores. You got
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(01:47:44):
and whatever else I decide to throw in the box.

Speaker 3 (01:47:48):
You never know, and it's all safe. Don't have to worry.

Speaker 1 (01:47:51):
Oh no, no, absolutely, it's all Look. I've got memorabilia and
cards for days. You never know what might show up
in some of those stacks. But a guy who's still
riding the high as he came back up the five
yesterday from a victory in San Diego, it's our guy,
Isaac Lowenkron with what's trending.

Speaker 6 (01:48:10):
I'm trying to stay classy if you will.

Speaker 1 (01:48:12):
That second half, buddy, I'm a new coach. Yeah, new attitude.

Speaker 6 (01:48:17):
Oh it was delicious, wonderful scene. They do have a
great stadium and a great setting down there. Huge crowd
of twenty five thousand at Snapdragon Stadium. We had a
great time in America's finest city. Elsewhere in college basketball, though,
things not so great because on Saturday night, Bob Huggins
resigned as the head men's basketball coach in West Virginia

(01:48:39):
after he was arrested on Friday night on a dui charge.
Huggins had already been suspended for the first three games
of this upcoming season after he made homophobic comments on
a recent radio program. After three rounds of the US
Open at the Buyer and Harmon Country Club, excuse me
the Los Angeles Country Club, Ricky Fowler and Wyndham Clark

(01:49:00):
share the lead of ten under par overall, with Rory
mclerey one shot back at nine undred. You've got Scotty
Scheffler three back at seven under. It'll be Clark and
Faler teeing off the final round of the final pairing
at five thirty Eastern Time. Baseball Saturday night, the San
Francisco Giants defeated the Dodgers in LA fifteen to nothing.
Lamont Wade and J. D. Davis each homeward and at

(01:49:22):
five RBI. It was the Dodgers' largest home shutout loss
in one hundred and twenty five years since eighteen ninety eight,
when they were known as the Brooklyn bride Grooms. Also
Saturday night, the San Diego Padres defeated Tampa Bay two
to nothing. Blake Snell cad twelve and six innings against
his former team, finally in the NBA three times six

(01:49:44):
Man of the Year Award winner Lou Williams announced his
retirement today after a seventeen year career. Among the react
tours to the News, Williams one time teammate Paul George,
who posted and I quote Lemon Peppers on me quotes
and what that fellas?

Speaker 1 (01:50:03):
Back to you? Thanks Eilo. Now I feel like I
want some wings, maybe some smoke wings. Later on dan Byer,
what do you think?

Speaker 3 (01:50:10):
Maybe still early here at LACC.

Speaker 1 (01:50:13):
Hey, We've been up a while. I'm still at my
Did you finish that bacon? Though?

Speaker 3 (01:50:17):
The bacon is gone?

Speaker 1 (01:50:19):
It's a final. Hey, you got to listen to the
whole show at dan Byer on Fox where you find
Dan find me over at Swollen Dome. Some of the
shots from here at the US Open and the Media Center.
Take a look there, Hey, coming up next, How often
do you see someone decline a Hall of Fame honor?
Someone wants to give you an award and tell you
how great you are and you say, nah, not so much? Why? How?

(01:50:42):
And who will tell you? Next? Here on Fox?

Speaker 8 (01:50:46):
Hey, this is Tom Berducci from Fox Sports, MLB Networking,
Sports Illustrated.

Speaker 9 (01:50:51):
And I'm Joe Madden and We're going to be around
to talk a little bit about managerial decisions and what
may have accredit have di got maybe in the nineteen eighties.

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Speaker 1 (01:51:30):
Fox Sports Sunday Live Fromthetirac dot com studio and in
Los Angeles. Depending on where you are, many people claiming
to be at the happiest place on Earth. Really, heay
here on a Sunday because you can go down the
road find yourself at a theme park, yes, or you
could be here at La country club like us. Because

(01:51:50):
I think you're gonna be dancing like this song is
in your head as we get out of the course
a little bit later.

Speaker 2 (01:51:56):
I'm looking forward to it. I'm looking I really really
Am'm seeing out play out. There is a different energy,
and I know like the energy here has been a
theme and kind of heightened yesterday with some of the
comments Matthew Fitzpatrick made. But there is a different feel
when it is a final round of a major championship,
different than all the other days.

Speaker 1 (01:52:14):
I think it just gets to that difficult proposition of well,
what are you expecting, right, it is still a golf event.

Speaker 3 (01:52:21):
Yes, so are you.

Speaker 1 (01:52:21):
Counting bodies because in theory they should be fairly quiet
most of the time. Yeah, right, So to not have
large broars like I don't understand the psychology of where
he's coming from. Yes, you still have plenty of folks
in adoration of your shot. It's maybe a little quieter,
but again, it.

Speaker 2 (01:52:41):
Is a golf Yes, you're exactly right, and I know
we're going to touch on it at the top of
the hour. But there is that fine line. There is
a fine line, and sometimes if you want too much
of one thing, that's not good, and that's what can
happen in some cases.

Speaker 3 (01:52:58):
By the way, not all players get maybe the same, uh,
the same treatments.

Speaker 1 (01:53:03):
Sure so.

Speaker 2 (01:53:04):
Sergio Garcia perfect example of when he would go to
New York, he'd be heckled a lot. It's sometimes the
the hecklers can bring great energy to the players that
they're cheering for. But there's the flip side of the
corn as well.

Speaker 1 (01:53:16):
Do you think the heckler had anything to do with Michelson? Yeah,
with the sombrero that got ejected.

Speaker 2 (01:53:22):
Yeah, no, probably not, but I think probably Phil had
more to do with that than anything.

Speaker 3 (01:53:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:53:27):
I would still would have liked making him out there
in the final round gambling, I think that, And I
don't mean gambling is at betting. I mean with his
shot making that made him made him a lot of big.

Speaker 3 (01:53:40):
Four maybe also the other.

Speaker 1 (01:53:42):
Well, probably the other two. All right, speaking of big
events and big opportunities, David Freese, big consistent player for
the Saint Louis Cardinals, was voted the fan favorite into
the next class of Cardinals Hall of Famers. Right, big honors.
That meant you had a long lasting contribution to the
squad and it was a fan voted scenario. So a

(01:54:05):
lot of love, which means you became one of the
deer prized players. You know people with the jerseys, and
you have your favorite. It might not be a nationally
known guy, but there's that guy you know for your Brewers,
for my White Soxers, guys I liked that weren't necessarily
national national figures. He declined the option. A guy named

(01:54:26):
Max Lanier and jose O Kendo will go in solo
and Freeze release this statement. I'm given extreme amount of
thought to humbly even before the process began. I'm aware
of the impact I had helping the team bring great
members to the city I grew up in, including the
eleven title, but this honor means more to me. I
look at at who I was during my tenure, and
that weighs heavily on me. And he goes through and

(01:54:48):
apologizes for declining the honor. Cardinals put out a statement.
I've seen him ripped, and he's kind of looking back
at the person he was at the time. He's talked about,
you know, feeling, and it's tough because it's a voted thing. Yes,
so declining that has weight on one side, agree and
the other is the well personally, if it's going to

(01:55:08):
make you uncomfortable, I get you have the right to
decline it. I would say, go get inducted, just don't
go give a speech. Yeah, but let the plaque go
up and let people honor you.

Speaker 2 (01:55:21):
I understand we see this a lot and arguing about
specifically in the NBA, of being like, all right, this
guy is better than this guy ever was because that
guy played thirty years ago and this guy was playing now.
There's a lot of recency bias when we're talking about players.
There may be a recency bias with David Freeze in

(01:55:41):
people thinking that maybe he was better than his whole
career stated. But you pointed out the fans. The fans
are the ones that shows it. He's not the one
to decide. He's really not. And I would think that
some fans winning that World Series was a huge, huge deal. Now,

(01:56:01):
the Cardinals have been fortunate where they've been a successful organization,
so it's not like it's a generational thing or a
many generational thing like it was with the Cubs or
the White Sox for a while. But still it's with
the fans. It's having that role. I don't think that
it's David Freeze's choice to decide that. And I think
that David Freeze is not only making the wrong choice.

(01:56:22):
I think that David Freeze is actually going to look
back and regret it because at some point, Mike, ten
years down the line, you know, you take your kids
to the Cardinals Hall of Fame, it'd be pretty neat
to see, you know, Dad's face up there.

Speaker 1 (01:56:37):
Yeah. I think the thing, you know, you're reconciling your
self the person versus the ballplayer. They don't know you.
I mean, they know you're a Saint Louis kid, they
know you, but they know you as the ballplayer that
contributed to their title. Yeah, that's what they're voting on.

Speaker 3 (01:56:52):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (01:56:52):
They don't whatever went on in your personal life, whatever
demons you've had, whatever trials uh you've gone through, they're
sensitive to. But ultimately it's an honor reserve for those
that help them win and made them feel good on
a summer day. So why not embrace that that side
of what your life was. And you know, however, you

(01:57:15):
need to come to terms with the other do so.

Speaker 2 (01:57:17):
And maybe the news hit him, you know, harder when
it actually came through, and maybe felt worse about it.
But there's also just the point of saying, hey, you
know what. I know, I'm on the ballot here or
have the ability to be voted in. Let's just let's
put a stop to it right now, Yes, because now

(01:57:39):
it's more of a story.

Speaker 3 (01:57:41):
Let's say that he has a second thought.

Speaker 2 (01:57:43):
Now he's completely hijacked the entire celebration, you know, like
next week, like he's made up his mind to go.
In addition to the fact that I said, like ten
years down the line, he may he may change his mind.
I know he didn't intend for it to be that way,
and I do believe that he is very humble and
gracious for a time in Saint Louis and appreciates the
fan base and may not think that he's worthy.

Speaker 3 (01:58:05):
But again, it's not his decision.

Speaker 2 (01:58:07):
If he doesn't want to show up, like Jimmy Butler's
not going to show up to the Hall of Fame,
then that's fine too. But you're a fan vote right
like that. That's what it is. It's you're in there.
No matter how you went in there, you had an
enormous Yeah, you know, you look back at the what
ifs and what could have been. I mean, the Texas
Rangers were a strike away twice from winning a World series,
and David Freese presented that it prevented that and presented

(01:58:30):
then you know his organization with that world series.

Speaker 1 (01:58:33):
No, and that's that's the larger part to it is.
Even in coming to terms with the honor, you just say, hey,
you know, there were parts of me I didn't like
Ben that I battled through. Doesn't bring back the best
memories who I was, But look where I am now,
like it' said opportunity. Yeah, it's got to point out
where you're at in your process. And look, you can't

(01:58:56):
change the pass, can't legislate the pass. Whatever you did,
whatever you said, and whatever the thing is eating at you,
it's not gonna change. Only your perspective of it can't.

Speaker 3 (01:59:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:59:07):
And by the way, the Cardinals Hall of Fame is
not full of of you know, seventy Stan Musials and
Ozzie Smith's.

Speaker 10 (01:59:16):
You know, it's it's like, yes, probably hers and those guys.
I would imagine there are other players that maybe don't
rise to the level of those all time greats, but
they're still in there for whatever reason.

Speaker 1 (01:59:30):
I mean, jose O Kenda's going in, and we love
Josea Kendo. Sure, let's just call it what it is sure.

Speaker 2 (01:59:36):
Yeah, that's that's that's something else that I think he needs.

Speaker 3 (01:59:39):
I really think he's gonna regret this decision. I really do.

Speaker 1 (01:59:42):
We'll see if he has an about face, see what
goes on in the process. I just thought it was interesting.
Don't often see folks decline in honor of this type. Hey,
coming up next, we'll get back into uh the final
round of the US Open, and then we have a
special guest stopping by next hour. So keep it locked
us wherever you go. The iHeartRadio app serious XM Channel

(02:00:03):
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Sports Radio dot Com stay with us. He's Dan, I'm Mike,
and this is Fox Sports Sunday and Fox Sports Radio. Greetings.
Welcome in final hour of the program, and has gone
by so fast. Perhaps it's just the weight of our
anticipation of getting out on the course here at La
Country Club. The one hundred and twenty third US Open

(02:00:25):
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Speaker 3 (02:00:46):
I you're ready to go.

Speaker 1 (02:00:47):
Carbon damfyer with you at dan Fires right, Yeah, I'm
just getting warmed up. Let's go.

Speaker 3 (02:00:54):
It's exciting.

Speaker 2 (02:00:54):
Three players on the course have scores posted a couple
of more just off, so they were still waiting on that.
But Riyo Ishikawa right now one under parn is around
through three holes. He's got it. Mike t a plus nine.
That's where that's where we stand right now. Long road
begins with that first step, you know, just out the

(02:01:17):
door here is the tenth hole, so in no time
I love ten. Yeah, this is where I stood for
a good chunk of my Tuesday when I came out,
just watching them guys practice the nice par four guys
should be able to take advantage of it. But right
where our the media center is and where we walk
out is like right near the landing area where a.

Speaker 3 (02:01:34):
Lot of the drives off of ten will tee off.

Speaker 2 (02:01:36):
One of the quirks that I love about this course,
and sometimes it's not great, as you pointed out earlier,
the closeness of it. The fifteen tea boxes right by
the fourteenth Green and the fourteenth a par five and
a couple of shots that have disrupted those standing on
the fifteenth tee.

Speaker 3 (02:01:52):
I think Rory almost hit a camera guy Stotdye.

Speaker 2 (02:01:54):
Scheffler had to duck and seawoo Kim was I think
he was pelted by Keith and Mitchell. I don't know
if it actually made contact or see who was just
playing around, but you had to take cover at ten
the ten tea box is directly behind on Sundays, directly
behind the ninth Green and the ninth Green and the
eighteenth Green, are you know, fifteen yards apart from each other?

Speaker 3 (02:02:18):
You know, twenty yards maybe, but I.

Speaker 2 (02:02:20):
Mean very very close quarters with the ninth Green, tenth
tee and the eighteenth Green. In fact, Mike so close
that I made a TikTok about it. You can get
it on TikTok at Buyer Talk.

Speaker 1 (02:02:30):
At Buyer Talk. There you go at Harmon Rants. I
just need to scream more and maybe we'll take some shots.
We'll find some random fans out here and accost them,
I mean, talk to them nicely about their days. But
a lot of the story this week, as much as
we've we've gotten into the play of Wyndham Clark, Ricky

(02:02:50):
Foller atop the leader board, Rory McElroy up there, and
everything going on right where we're at in this calendar,
all the news and the wait of PGA Tour, the
live stuff. We addressed that earlier in the show, but
the idea that now we're in the final round of
this US Open at a very unique place in the

(02:03:12):
golf world. Right when we talk about for me growing up,
it was all right, you had a muni that maybe
folks went to, wasn't near us, so we didn't go
down the golf world. But and then you'd hear about
the country clubs right here, about the northern suburbs and
the North Side as it were in Chicago, So you

(02:03:35):
had all all of that. Like I just wonderment might
be the way to describe it, Like it was another world.

Speaker 3 (02:03:42):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (02:03:43):
So for me walking into places like this, having gone
to Pebble Beach and knowing the history, you go in
and you feel that weight when you come in here.
All the build up going back to when it was
announced that the US Open was coming here, there's there's
just so many stories that are abound right about where
it is, the placement the overhead shots yesterday. Here we

(02:04:05):
are just up the road. There's Universal Studios. Here, we
are here, you know, there's the former Playboy mansion, which
may still be called the Playboy Mansion. But you go
all the way through, like all these different little markers
of where this is, all the way down to here's
the estimated you know, real estate value of eight billion dollars.

Speaker 3 (02:04:24):
The Aaron Spelling mansion right just the.

Speaker 1 (02:04:26):
Idle rich overlook, all of those things have become part
of the lore of the tournament. Coming to this particular.

Speaker 2 (02:04:34):
Course, I agree, there is something about being behind the
velvet rope, and when you and listen, there's there's there's
positives to that, there's negatives to that. You know, some
people resent that sort of thing, and so so there
are unique emotions. What is interesting with what you laid
out and I saw it yesterday and it's actually and
I brought this point up, my home state of Wisconsin

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has just exploded with the game of golf. It is
now a golf destination because of the high quality courses
that are that are in the state. Wisconsin is a
destination not only in this country but worldwide for bibo
love golf.

Speaker 3 (02:05:11):
You can go to Wisconsin.

Speaker 2 (02:05:12):
You can have a boody strip, whistling straight Sand Valley
was you know, just built, Like there's there's so many
places that you can go that are destination places.

Speaker 3 (02:05:23):
When they showed the map of the great golf.

Speaker 2 (02:05:27):
Courses in the LA area, it was Riviera, it was
here La country Club, it was Hillcrest, it was Brentwood
Country Club. They showed Wilshire Country Club, and then they
showed Rancho Park. Ranchill Park is the only one that
you and I could go this afternoon. Probably wouldn't get
a tea time, but then we could go and play.
I think there's negatives, positives and negatives, like it's great

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to have all those great golf courses, but how many
can you and I go play? How many can can
the average person play? So there's there's a part of
that with l A and I and I bring up
Wisconsin for the simple fact of sure, the prices are high,
like you're gonna have to pay if you want to,
but you don't have to be a member.

Speaker 1 (02:06:07):
You know what it's like. But it's like anything. You
and I have this discussion all the time because people
that we work with that you know, when it comes
to ticket prices or anything, and right now all el
is inflation and run out of a room. But just
in general, the cost of going to a concert, cost
of going to your local gym probably went up over

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over time. And golf course isn't going to play so different.
You'd choose where your disposable income goes.

Speaker 2 (02:06:35):
But we don't have two hundred and fifty thousand dollars
to put done on an initiation membership to come play here,
you know, are to become a member here, and that's
you know, the price of the gym goes up.

Speaker 3 (02:06:47):
I get that, you know, but just like the prices
of golf. But there's also just the the it's not the.

Speaker 2 (02:06:52):
Cost, it's the access to accesibility.

Speaker 3 (02:06:55):
Yes.

Speaker 2 (02:06:56):
The funny thing as well as you're talking about this
place is I've heard this more than a couple of
times of people saying, you know, yeah, Joe, buy it
all the time.

Speaker 3 (02:07:04):
I didn't know what it was.

Speaker 2 (02:07:05):
I had no idea because there's not a huge sign
that says you know in Los Angeles Country Club.

Speaker 3 (02:07:10):
They like to keep it discreet.

Speaker 2 (02:07:12):
What I think is even more fascinating is how close
Sunset Boulevard is to certain holes that you had no
idea that because you just see the mansions and you
see the trees, you see it blocked, and you just
have no idea that you are a lob wedge away
from one of the top golf courses in the world.
Like if you knew it was a golf course driving
on Wheelshire, that's one thing. Or if you were in
a high rise, but when you drive along Sunset Boulevard

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and it's not the Sunset Strip, but it's Sunset Boulevard.

Speaker 3 (02:07:38):
You wouldn't know that you're that close.

Speaker 2 (02:07:39):
And it's the same thing because Riviera is just off
of Sunset, just on the other side of the four
or five. You wouldn't if you weren't a golf fan,
you wouldn't know what gem lies, you know, just down
the road or on the other side.

Speaker 3 (02:07:50):
Of some of those homes.

Speaker 1 (02:07:51):
No, And that's that's the thing. A lot of the
finances and all of that that come into play, you know,
And that's the thing of the I think in general,
and this is talking to the to the lay people
out there who might get out once in a while
with a work event or go to a driving range
once in a while. Guy like me, maybe you know,

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we get invited or we've done a corporate events in
the past. It's a while ago, uh, in the pre
covid era. But get out and grip it and rip
it and look terrible, but have fun doing it. Yeah.
But the accessibility, right, or feeling like you belong or
don't like, that's the other thing. My my thing was
always all right, I guess I can go out and try,

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but I don't want to be that guy that's holding
things up or that's spraying malls that potentially knock somebody out.
Now Here, we're seeing some randomness just based on the
way the course is set up, and some some errant
shots where it's it's been unfortunate. Right the golf cart
hole in one is the one that comes in the
mind right off the course and into the cup holder there.

(02:08:56):
But that's that was always one of my fears, like, yeah,
just don't belong, not because so I don't. You know,
we work as we do and we're part of the
larger machine. But it's like always feeling you along walk
into this point. Everybody's so kind and welcoming. What do
you need where you got to go? Like and the
reputation and this becomes the private versus private versus exclusivity

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that we're we are here that some have complained about,
some of the players on the tour have complained about
right in terms of galleries and who has tickets and
who has access and whatever else. But just feel welcomed,
feel a bit in awe of it all, because again,
a little different world than I'm used to, But it's
still that that point of you know, as as we're wandering,

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and we wander on a little bit later on today,
trying to figure out where that perfect merger is of
this stuff, and the fact that it's right in the
heart of this neighborhood just still bewilders me. And I've
lived here forever I knew existed. Right, It's not like
it's a secret on a blacked out on a map,
like it's a Department of Defense kind of thing. But

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it's not in your face like you said, there's no signs,
there's no hey, come check out our course, like it's
it's their own place. Yes, might as well have the interest,
Like the Batcave of the nineteen sixty six in TV.

Speaker 2 (02:10:19):
Show, you'd be surprised some places. This is a this
is a very good marriage. I'm glad that the LACC
and their members embrace this. There will be other events
coming up. A Women's Open comes up in nine years,
another US Open in twenty thirty nine, you know, God willing,
we're all here to come back and see that one
as well.

Speaker 3 (02:10:40):
This is the opportunity to do that. I think the
people that have been the most friendly to you.

Speaker 2 (02:10:44):
This is not a common membership, it is it's the
volunteers and the people are They're on the same boat.

Speaker 3 (02:10:50):
They wanted to know what it's like.

Speaker 2 (02:10:52):
Yes, they're just as excited to be able to you know,
hold that rope or you know, to carry that sign
or whatever they're you know, asked to do for the championship.

Speaker 3 (02:11:02):
And so this works out in that way.

Speaker 2 (02:11:04):
I do wish and I know the USGA is they've
set their their plans for the US Open years and
years in advance and locking updates with you know, with
Pinehurst and Pebble Beach and Oakmont and Marion and LACC
as I mentioned and others.

Speaker 3 (02:11:21):
There are a lot of private courses.

Speaker 2 (02:11:22):
And there is something neat to say, like I played
the US Open course and when it's public Victry.

Speaker 3 (02:11:27):
Pines, I mean, how much.

Speaker 2 (02:11:29):
How much do Pines benefit from not only hosting the
US Open, but then what Tiger did on it in
two thousand and eight, I think they had probably a
decade full run. Probably not going to go back to
Tory Pines anymore. Where I'm from. I mentioned Aaron Hills.
You know, now six years since the US Open was
at Aaron Hills, they still are getting that buzz and
they get a Women's Open in a couple of years there.

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It's neat to be able to go to those places
that are public that you don't have to be a
member to or know somebody to get to. I wish
there was more of that. Pebble Beach is public, but
again five six dollars yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:12:03):
And wait, hey, am I gonna make it to my
time and a.

Speaker 2 (02:12:08):
Night's stay if you know need as well, And that's
more as well. So it's not as as public as others.

Speaker 5 (02:12:13):
You know.

Speaker 2 (02:12:13):
I was Chambers Bay up up in Washington would get
another opportunity, especially with how things unfolded with the course
eight years ago. But I remember talking to people there
and they were so proud and they were so frustrated
because of how things turned out that they would want
the opportunity to you know, to host that event again.

Speaker 3 (02:12:29):
I wish we would see more of that. Unfortunately, because
they've booked it out.

Speaker 2 (02:12:32):
For so long, there's there's only so many spots still available,
and I don't think we're going to see that well.

Speaker 1 (02:12:38):
And that's the thing. Did you mentioned how long? I
mean nine years in the running right before we get
to the spot today, think of all the work behind
the scene. I want the time lapse photography, right, we
got drones for everything else. I would love to have
seen the transformation and the shoffling because we again we've
talked to people involved with the design and the designation

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of how they're going to do things here, and every
one of them they were giddy about it, right, just oh,
I can't wait to show you like and it's like
it's under like the sheet right the old presentation, waity
and get a.

Speaker 2 (02:13:11):
Load of They had a media event that that obviously
we've talked about on the show and had the contest
with that was May one. The bleachers behind fourteen weren't
even built. I don't even think that they were laying
out now, which they were because I sculled one over
the grain and really.

Speaker 3 (02:13:25):
Could have used it back stop, that would have been
great monster.

Speaker 5 (02:13:30):
You know.

Speaker 2 (02:13:30):
But they I mean, and they did a lot of
the build up here in like the the last six weeks.
The bigger structures were being built and they were set up,
but you know a lot of the bleachers around the
place weren't there. There was no bleacher around ten could
have used one there as well.

Speaker 3 (02:13:43):
But uh, but it is neat.

Speaker 2 (02:13:45):
There are positives and negatives, just like you're hearing from
the players, positives and negatives here. I don't think it's
a sour you know experience. I think it's actually been
a really really good week and hopefully we have a
great chance of good scurse.

Speaker 1 (02:13:57):
Yeah right, Obviously some frustrating hole and folks are gonna
have their They're always gonna fight about tea times and
whatever else. Like that's gonna be every tournament.

Speaker 3 (02:14:05):
I'll tell you one big win.

Speaker 2 (02:14:06):
I have not heard one traffic story, No people being
just talking with you know, former co worker Ralph Ervern
who's driving to San Diego yesterday, took him four hours
from Orange Counted to San Diego.

Speaker 3 (02:14:17):
Hoffin in southern California. Do you hear a traffic horror story?

Speaker 2 (02:14:21):
I have not heard one there may have maybe I
just missed it, but I have not heard of a
traffic problem issue with this US Open, which is that's
a winning itself.

Speaker 1 (02:14:29):
You did that to go watch a Padres game. They
should have let him in for free. He's Dan Fire.
I'm Mike Harmon here Fox Sports Radios, Fox Sports Sunday,
having a blast with you. Coming up next, we're gonna
have a special guest with us here from the mobile
tire IRAQ dot com Studios, talking all things US Open.
We'll talk about the leader board and what to expect

(02:14:49):
here in this final round as the energy really starting
to surge. A couple of golfers already out and about
on the course, so much to come as the day
goes on. Happy Fathers Day to you wherever you may be,
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(02:15:12):
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US Open talk here live from LA Country Club.

Speaker 2 (02:15:25):
You know video seg Jill Pander Lopez CVS two in
Los Angeles, once a writer for the LA Daily News.

Speaker 3 (02:15:33):
Was golf your beats on the Daily News?

Speaker 11 (02:15:36):
It was one of them. I had a bunch, so
that was one. But it was a lot of fun.

Speaker 12 (02:15:39):
Got to cover four majors I think in my time there,
and so it was it was a lot of fun.
I'll tell you how that happened. My sports editor came
up to me after Dave Schilburn, longtime golf writer and
golf columnists, had retired, and he said, you're the only
one that knows anything about golf. Will you be our
golf columnist? So when you preface it like that, well thanks.

(02:16:00):
I thought it was my wonderful writing and my hacker
golfing ability.

Speaker 11 (02:16:05):
Is happy to be here.

Speaker 3 (02:16:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:16:06):
Well, we're glad to have you because I think you're
a perfect person to talk to on a topic conversation
that Mike and I were just talking about, and it
is golf in LA and it's something that Hecket's always
been on my mind. I'm not a native of here,
moved out here eighteen years ago, and I've always felt
it was just a little bit more difficult than from

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where I was from. And we were just talking about
the private club access of that. How do you think
the city of La is viewed golf wise for not
just championships, we know all that, but just for the
common player, how do you view the city of La
You know, I was.

Speaker 12 (02:16:43):
Talking to Colin Marikawa about this and he mentioned he
thinks it is just like there's just two completely divided segments.
You have the private clubs and then you have the
public courses, and it's a very big divide. And so
he's the honorary campaign chair for the you know, for
Legacy campaign, which is raising the eighteen million dollars for

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the Maggie Hathaway Course. He grew up in La Caanata,
played here and he had a lot of opportunities and
he wants to give kids opportunities to play these courses.

Speaker 11 (02:17:12):
So again the.

Speaker 12 (02:17:14):
Big divide between you know, you look at the Hillcrest,
the La country Club Riviera and how much money it
is and how exclusive it is, and you can't just
like find a member and come play at some of
these country clubs. I don't want to name them, but
look at how many or how few golfers that were
playing this week had ever played.

Speaker 11 (02:17:34):
Here, you know.

Speaker 12 (02:17:36):
So I think golf in Los Angeles has There's been
a big boom in the pandemic, of course, like many cities.
But I think having this here, even though a lot
of people didn't get to come out to the tournament,
being able to watch it and having it in your backyard,
I think will open a lot of eyes and introduce
a lot more people to the game.

Speaker 2 (02:17:56):
How do you think the week has gone so far
better than expected? I just told Mike, I go, this
is the one thing that I've not heard, and I
think it's a huge plus. I've not heard one traffic
horror story, so I think that's.

Speaker 3 (02:18:09):
I mean, for this, you know, for this event. How
do you think the week is gone for the first
time at.

Speaker 12 (02:18:14):
LA CC so, I think overall it's been great. I
having the major, and people were thirsty for a major.
I know, I was first one in seventy five years here.
I think the fear kind of like when when I
hear about people talking about the eighty four Olympics. The
fear of the traffic mess was so big that people
stayed off the roads and stayed out of the way,

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so Karma Geddon the same thing. So I think it's
gone off without a hitch. I think, you know, weather wise,
people are expecting a lot more sunny days and the
first few early days, you know that the marine layer
like like, you know, I just drove in. I know
you guys got here super early, but it's still out there.
So I think people were expecting a little more sun
and fun, et cetera. So overall it's been great. You know,

(02:18:59):
A couple of things that you know, I'm disappointed in
is no Tiger, which there are no fault of anybody's right,
you haven't you've heard the roars around the course, but
there's it's always different when Tiger is is not taken
up in an event. So that's a bummer. And we
certainly hope he'll be back to playing the Majors after
his ankle surgery. You know, obviously we don't know what
the future is going to hold for him, except that

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it would probably just be Riviera and the Majors if
he can return to play. And then the other thing
is not enough people, in my mind, were able to
come out here. You know, the tickets were limited and
you see the course and how some of the holes,
you know, line up where you can't even get any
fans on the other side. And I was watching, you know,
on TV last night's the Highlights, and I thought, I mean,

(02:19:42):
it just doesn't look like a major in terms of
the fans. I want to see people like fifteen deep, yeah.

Speaker 11 (02:19:49):
And just you know. But but again, this course doesn't
set up that way. So that's the only other decison.

Speaker 3 (02:19:53):
I I was selfish.

Speaker 2 (02:19:54):
Jill Paynter Lopez CBS two in La joining us here
at Fox Sports Radio. Mike Harmon is here. We just
have a busted Mike. He's right there, and I'm Dan Byer,
Fox Sports Sunday.

Speaker 11 (02:20:05):
I came in and started breaking things.

Speaker 3 (02:20:07):
Sorry everybody, this is great.

Speaker 5 (02:20:10):
Hey.

Speaker 2 (02:20:11):
Of course, on the final day, I was going to
say I was selfish, and I said, you know what,
being here, I didn't mind.

Speaker 3 (02:20:16):
The non massive crowds. Okay, I get it.

Speaker 2 (02:20:20):
I get Matthew Fitzpatrick's complaint. Understandable. There's a vibe, there's
an energy. This place also isn't Boston. This place also
isn't New York or Long Island. It's not Philadelphia, it doesn't,
never has been, it won't be so for what it
is as someone who's actually here, I was selfish and
I'm like, hey, I actually like to be able to
move around and not have to bump into so many
people and actually get to see some golf shots.

Speaker 12 (02:20:42):
Right, And I get that, But I will say, like,
once you get to the course, and like you said,
you don't have to go elbow to elbow. But the
other ones I've covered were congressional. When Rory won in
twenty eleven, Tiger's in eight which is one of the worlds.
The nineteen hole playoff on that Monday with Rockomedia one

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of the most incredible things you can count on one hand.

Speaker 3 (02:21:05):
Ever, See where were you when Tiger made that put
on Sunday?

Speaker 11 (02:21:08):
And wait, where were you somewhere out there? I don't remember.

Speaker 3 (02:21:12):
I didn't see it. Like I was there.

Speaker 2 (02:21:14):
I couldn't see it because there were so many people,
like I got stuck in the herd, and just like
there was there's the spot between the eighteenth hole and
the lodge with a pathway and I was probably about
sixty yards because I wanted to see considering what Tiger
did on seventeen the day before, and all I could
do was if you heard a roar.

Speaker 3 (02:21:33):
He made it, if he if he didn't, he missed it,
and we heard a roar.

Speaker 12 (02:21:37):
I had the inside the rope spatch back. Sorry, I
was somewhere around the green. I'm sorry about that. But
of course, yeah, all right, and see you're looking there.
I must say that the fans were a little unruly.
I thought on that Sunday Monday they were a little

(02:21:59):
bit better, probably because many of them had to.

Speaker 11 (02:22:01):
Go to work.

Speaker 12 (02:22:02):
But sure, but I just but I just I love
that vibe and the ten deep the fifteen deep galleries,
and so in that way, it you know, it's it's
just a little bit of a bummer. But again, it's
been been a great tournament overall. Hopefully they crown a
great you know, great champion is hoisting that trophy today.
And but again I think lad did well. We're gonna

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have the US Women's Open at Riviera in twenty twenty six.

Speaker 11 (02:22:29):
They'll be back here. So in twenty thirty nine, I think.

Speaker 3 (02:22:33):
Yeah, the men's and the women's at thirty two, so a.

Speaker 12 (02:22:35):
Thirty two, yes, So look, las back in the game,
and it had been so long, so I'm I'm glad
for that.

Speaker 2 (02:22:42):
Two more questions and then we'll let you go and
do your actual work that you have to do. Of
that leader board, you see the names up there. Yeah,
who's the best story holding the trophy? Late Sunday evening.

Speaker 12 (02:22:53):
Oooh, interesting question, Dan, best story there's so I mean,
I think there's one for everybody when you look at
the top. But I mean, you know, Wyndham Clark and
Ricky Fowler, those two because neither of them have won
a major, Right, Rickey Fowler the SoCal kid, I think
I'd have to go with him. I mean, he was
such a popular he still is popular golfer. You've seen

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him out signing autographs and it's just an endless line
of kids that still love him. And he doesn't wear
the flashy you know, orange or stuff anymore, but he's
still the same. You know, He's.

Speaker 11 (02:23:25):
Just got that it factor.

Speaker 12 (02:23:26):
And for him, as good of his career has been
to have never won a major and to have come
back from the depths of golf to spair right where
he had lost his game. Yeah, you know, so, I'm
going to say that would probably be the best story
in being a so Cal kid. To win here would
be great. Wyndham Clark of course would would be as well.
And those two playing in the final pairing. You know,

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how much do people know about the twenty nine year
old Clark And not much. It's right, it's Father's Day.
He unfortunately lost his mom when he was in college
at Oklahoma State. I believe it was when he was
nineteen to breast cancer and that was tough for him. So,
you know, Father's Day, I'm sure that would be pretty
emotional for him. And then, of course Rory hasn't won
a US Open since twenty eleven, So.

Speaker 2 (02:24:09):
I think what Rory's gone through over the last twelve
months and over the last week, Like I was debating
him or Ricky and I just thought about it. I'm like,
you know what, he gets back into that conversation again,
I think Ricky winning would be great, but I don't
think it carries over to the Open in a month.
I think Rory winning does. Yeah, So I put Rory

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one in, Ricky a close second, and you're right.

Speaker 11 (02:24:32):
Rory McElroy.

Speaker 12 (02:24:33):
Again, he was twenty two when he won a congressional
and we're all thinking like how many of these US
Opens is he going to win? Right, and hasn't won
one since now, He's got four majors, so it's no slouch.
Had an amazing career. But you're right, the stuff that
he's dealt with and being the face of you know,
this live versus PGA debate and you know, obviously not
talking on Tuesday at the beginning of the week, and
it's just you know, this would be a major for him,

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like a feather in his cap if you will. And
I I, you know, I completely agree with him. He
as he said he was the sacrificial lamb. I agree,
And to go through all this stress and stuff. If
he's winning this major here today, I think that would
that would be a great story as well.

Speaker 3 (02:25:13):
And Scheffler, yeah, I think his game has backed it up.
That's the thing. And we did the same thing.

Speaker 2 (02:25:21):
We went to the top five and then you're like, oh,
Dustin Johnson and Xander Schoffli are there, and then I'm like,
what about a Victor Hovlin shoot sixty four?

Speaker 3 (02:25:27):
You're there.

Speaker 2 (02:25:28):
I don't think it's realistic, but there are there are storylines.
I'm obligated by the rules of golf. You mentioned Tiger.
We talked a little Tiger. Do you think we will
see him again?

Speaker 5 (02:25:38):
I do.

Speaker 12 (02:25:39):
He's so competitive that I know he wants to get back.
He probably wants to end his career on his own terms. Yeah,
but the problem is is what kind of Tiger Woods
will we see when he gets back?

Speaker 11 (02:25:48):
And so I think that's the that's that's the question.

Speaker 12 (02:25:52):
I think he's going to try it for sure, but
you know, just playing those four Majors and maybe Rivera,
which he hosts the Genesis Invitational.

Speaker 11 (02:25:59):
I just it's so unknown. But he has come back
so many times.

Speaker 12 (02:26:02):
I mean, you think about how many surgeries, the knee surgeries,
this last ankle surgery, and the way he's come back,
the scandal, the way he came back.

Speaker 11 (02:26:13):
It just I never count them out.

Speaker 2 (02:26:15):
Yeah, I agree. I think we will see him again.
I don't know what Tiger as he said, we'll see,
but there's no way he's going out like this. Jill
Painter Lopez CBS two in LA Live for the US Open.
Thanks Jill, Thanks Dan, I appreciate we will watch you locally.
And where can they find you social media wise? If
they want to see your work.

Speaker 12 (02:26:32):
Twitter is at Jill Painter and then Instagram is at
Jill Painter Lopez.

Speaker 11 (02:26:36):
They'll be quick.

Speaker 2 (02:26:37):
Did you try to add the Lopez on Twitter and
they wouldn't let you out or something.

Speaker 12 (02:26:41):
Yeah that happened. Yeah, so, I mean, you know how
Twitter goes. But but we'll have on a CBS if
you know people are staying up late ten thirty on
Sports Central and channel channel nine and then eleven thirty
on Channel two.

Speaker 3 (02:26:56):
I'll have our Sports Central CBS Las. Jill Paint will open.

Speaker 11 (02:27:00):
Thanks Jill, Thank you, guys.

Speaker 3 (02:27:01):
Joeb Final round. All right, Mike Cormon's going to get
his head set back.

Speaker 2 (02:27:03):
In the meantime, I'm going to throw Isaac loincron for
the latest of what is happening on this Father's Day.

Speaker 3 (02:27:08):
Happy Father's Day to you? Isaclorwia.

Speaker 6 (02:27:09):
Likewise, Xana Tella Jail I say hello, by the way,
she's one of the few people in this world who
tolerates my mediocre impressions of various sports personalities. We'll start
right where you guys are, and that's the final round
of the US Open. It's underway at Los Angeles Country Club.
Ricky Fowler and Wyndham Clark tied for the lead at
ten under par. Overall, you've got Rory McElroy one back

(02:27:30):
at nine under. Scotty Scheffler three off the lead at
seven under Clark and Fowler t off the final pairing
of the final round at five thirty Eastern time. Last night,
Bob Huggins resigned as the head men's basketball coach at
West Virginia after being arrested Friday night on a deuy charge. Remember,
Huggins had already been suspended for the first three games

(02:27:50):
of the upcoming season after making homophobic remarks on a
radio program. In Major League Baseball, the New York Mets
reinstated infielder Pete alon from the injured list today. I
was thought he's going to be out longer because of
a sprained wrist. Alonzo will play first base and Matt
cleanup later today against the Saint Louis Cardinals. Finally, in
the NBA three times six Man of the Year Award

(02:28:12):
winner Lou Williams announced his retirement this morning after a
seventeen year career. Back to the US Open at the
Los Angeles Country Club.

Speaker 1 (02:28:21):
Mike and Dan, thanks so much, Isaac. Appreciate you at
Isaac Loewenkron where you find Isaac on Twitter. It is
the one hundred and twenty third US Open Championship by
Carman Dan Byer with you here Fox Sports Sunday, and
coming up next, we close out predictions for the final round,
prediction for the fight, and of course we would be

(02:28:42):
remiss if we didn't mock the idea of Chris Paul
coming to the Lakers.

Speaker 13 (02:28:45):
We'll do that next year on Fox Sports Radio. Scottie Scheffler,
the strike on the seventeenth toll. This ball in a
good line. It lands just short of the flag. This
is really good. It's going right towards the hall.

Speaker 1 (02:28:58):
It's in scott By Scheffler's just hold out for eagle.
Scheffler is suddenly in the Pixar. More excited call than
you got for the NBA title the other night from
the local broadcast US Open Radio on Sirius XAM. The call.
That shot from Scheffler part of a sixty eight in

(02:29:20):
the third round, leaving him three strokes behind Wyndam Clark
and Ricky Fowler as we entered the final round of
the tournament. And as we've been talking all day, that
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got Steve Hartman and Rich Ornberger. Dan, As you've been
staring at this board. I mean, if you were Superman,
you would have pierced holes in that board all morning
trying to read you're reading alive.

Speaker 2 (02:30:02):
Well, I'm just I'm trying to see if there's a way,
And I just I when we talk about how many
players are within so many shots of the lead, I'm
just trying to find a way where a three under
like a Cam Smith or a two under like Victor
Hoveland would make their way up. And so, like I said,
like with Hoveland or Smith, if they shoot sixty four,

(02:30:26):
it puts them in contection contention, would put Smith at
nine under, would put Hoveland at eight under. But then
you would need Clark and Fowler to be over par,
which isn't out of the question considering the pressures of
a final pairing at a US Open. In the final round,
it's just the Scottie Scheffler, you know, remain in neutral.

(02:30:48):
Does Rory fall back it's just difficult for.

Speaker 3 (02:30:52):
Me to see.

Speaker 2 (02:30:52):
I think the fives have a chance. I think Dustin
Johnson and Xander Schoffley do. But yeah, three and two
is just too many guys in between, caliber players as well.
In between. It's just too much to ask. I think
some people say we got a five horse race. I
say seven horses.

Speaker 1 (02:31:07):
Yeah, waiting on a number of people ahead of you
to fall back. Just go out and shoot your own right.
Control what you can control, and obviously you got to
do a little bit of scoreboard watching to figure out
when you may have to gamble a little bit more.
As you get to your back nine, we'll see how
the course plays.

Speaker 3 (02:31:26):
Right.

Speaker 1 (02:31:26):
The marine layer still floating around as I'm looking out
the windows out here.

Speaker 2 (02:31:31):
I just stepped outside for a little bit and it's
a wet marine layer. There's a mist that is allowing
that will allow these greens to be receptive, especially early
in the morning. The guys they're playing right now are
way far back. They're not going to catch anybody. But
if you get some advantage, and again it shouldn't it
shouldn't dry out through the day, it shouldn't be treacherous.

Speaker 3 (02:31:54):
There will be the ability to make a score.

Speaker 1 (02:31:56):
Yeah, because I know driving in very early this morning
as we got here. Thanks for the hospitality. Thank you
Dan Bayer for helping to put this together and give
us the opportunity to come and broadcast out here from
LA Country Club. It was kind of missing on the
windshield as I was coming in. It's like, well, this
adds a little bit of an element and excitement.

Speaker 2 (02:32:16):
No, I do want to tell the story because you
mentioned it as well, and we hadn't talked about this
this event. We had known for gosh, I think it's
like nine or ten years that it was coming to
the La Country Club in twenty twenty three. So you
plan for everything and the one thing, and I'm sure

(02:32:37):
you had just on the fly, but the one thing
that didn't realized was that the.

Speaker 3 (02:32:41):
Driving range net was not high enough.

Speaker 2 (02:32:44):
Yeah, and guys were flying the net and that's great, Noll,
except when you have media members like Mike Harmon and
myself and other people using that entrance to walk in,
so people were people could be pelted by golf balls.

Speaker 3 (02:33:03):
Because the driving range that wasn't too high.

Speaker 2 (02:33:05):
You said you saw like a field of balls over
a set of temporary stairs that we walked.

Speaker 1 (02:33:10):
There were a bunch of balls laying there, and then
we saw a couple of kids as I was leaving
on Tuesday, after wandering the course a bit like trying
to dive over the top, and they were just getting
the stair, like the stair you got. Hey, Happy Father's
Day to all of you out there. You know the
stair that you got. You don't need any words. There's
no words to it. There's no hate. Don't do that.

(02:33:30):
It's just I see you right, the whole Robert de
Niro eyeballing thing. But there were a number of balls
that found their way. I would say in the one
area I looked at it, there had to be a dozen,
if not more, just in a small concentrated area. And
so to come back to this morning and you pointing
out the extra nets, higher nets that had been added,

(02:33:51):
I can't say I'm shocked.

Speaker 2 (02:33:52):
I wasn't here Tuesday and Wednesday, but when I came
back Thursday, there was a temporary an additional net that
was added, and then I didn't notice sit. I didn't
notice it Friday or I wasn't here yesterday, but walking
in they had added around.

Speaker 3 (02:34:06):
They had added even more on the corner.

Speaker 1 (02:34:08):
Yeah, yes, way, yes, yeah, just amazing.

Speaker 2 (02:34:13):
Yeah, that's that's what you get when you get the
world's best. Those driving range nets are those driving arrange
nets are for the membership.

Speaker 3 (02:34:20):
They're not going to be hitting it over. But when
you get the world's best.

Speaker 1 (02:34:24):
Launch Yes, what do you think the launch angle went? No,
just kidding, And I.

Speaker 2 (02:34:28):
Guarantee the players are, like you think we can hit them?
I don't know, let's try.

Speaker 1 (02:34:31):
Oh, especially seeing see me out there. I've probably said
something dumb, they've hurt on the radio and might have
been a spot that kind of situation going on. I
bet I can. So who's winning? Gosh, you've been trying
to find it? You said, now we're getting seven in
we're going from this top seven Now history says till
last twenty four. Gotta be four shots or less between

(02:34:55):
you and the leader.

Speaker 2 (02:34:55):
Can I drag this out a little bit because I
want to I want to explain. I do think that
Ricky Fowlers missed last night was a big deal.

Speaker 1 (02:35:01):
It's a huge deal.

Speaker 2 (02:35:02):
I just there's you don't want rick to to fold
and we forget how good Ricky Fowler of a player
he is. But again, when you're trying to get back
to that point. You have an opportunity. At the time
you think I make this pot, I could very well
have a two shot lead. Even if you made it,
it would only have been a one shot lead. But

(02:35:24):
we're nine years removed from the guy finishing in the
top five of the every major that year. That was
in twenty fourteen, T five, couple of T two's and
a T three. I am concerned about that putt. I
really like the way that Wyndham Clark finished. I think
that is a telltale sign. I think Rory's got a
game in him. But very rarely do the Gulf gods

(02:35:48):
shine upon you the way that they have done. Scotty
Scheffler and Scotty Scheffler not only eagle the seventeenth hole,
he made a twenty two foot birdie put on eighteen.
Mike and the flat stick has been the nemesis of
Scotti Scheffler. There's no one striking the ball better in
the entire world than Scotty Scheffler is just three shots back.
I expect to see something special from Scheffler today. He

(02:36:11):
played on the twenty seventeen Walker Cup team that dominated
Great Britain and Ireland, and I think Scotti Scheffler gets
it done today for major number two.

Speaker 1 (02:36:19):
There you go, sitting in the fourth slot, seven under.
I think we you know, you were talking with Joe
Paynter Lopez. Thank you to her for stopping by as
I was your videographer. So we'll have clips of that
that come up a little later today. Here's the deal.

Speaker 2 (02:36:37):
I tested it earlier in the week, but we had
to do an equipment swap, so then when we swamped it,
I didn't realize I hadn't checked.

Speaker 3 (02:36:44):
The new equipment, and the new equipment gave us the
double bogie of the day. That's what it was.

Speaker 1 (02:36:51):
That's all right. I'll claim it was my errand t
shot that did us in, but I can always blame round.

Speaker 3 (02:36:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:36:59):
But owing to that, that conversation about you know, storylines
and everything else, the follower is a big deal, right.
You know, you talked about the longevity, talked about where
his career has been, the expectations thereof about the Rory
McElroy thing. I mean, you want to talk about being
able to take a victory lap. Yeah, and whatever he

(02:37:20):
hasn't said yet you don't want to hear. I mean,
that's the speech. Yes at the end of the day,
right whatever, he hasn't yet let go of this. This
would be your cathartic moment of I've got this championship
and here's what I think.

Speaker 2 (02:37:36):
And it would be very very interesting if Rory wins
this of what happens next, because the next major is
at Royal Liverpool and the last player to win at
Royal Liverpool was Rory McElroy in twenty fourteen. So you
want to talk about momentum, good vibes, maybe things going
your way. And I don't know, just mentioned the golf

(02:37:56):
gods earlier. Maybe the golf gods, you know, shedding some
light giving Rory mcelroyal break considering what has gone over.
I know, got some feedback on social media, some people
not loving Rory's actions. I'd love Rory's actions with a
whole live PGA tour thing. He was the one that
was hung out to dry and you know what, he's
actually handled it pretty well since then.

Speaker 3 (02:38:18):
So the golfing gods could very much smile on Rory mclroy.

Speaker 1 (02:38:21):
So we'll save our conversation about Chris Paul and the
NBA trade deadline. We did a lot of uh PGA
Tour and the US Open as we should. We are
here at the La Country Club as we're closing up shop.
So much fun.

Speaker 2 (02:38:37):
Yeah, I went by to the USGA for having us out.
It was a great week and a happy Father's Day
to you, Mike. You to all the dads, all the
all the all the grandpa's out there, all the step dads,
all the guys who you know filling that role of.

Speaker 1 (02:38:50):
Dad, men, women whoever you are helping to fill that role.
And then and keep the line moving. Hopefully you get
a moment to pause and celebrate what you've been part
of and you can soak it in, maybe with a
nice frosty beverage. To watch the end of this one.
So Steve and Rich are coming up next. Dan and
I are going to go stalk the course. We'll see
you later on Fox.

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