Willard and Jackson: 04/08/2018

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and Jim Uh, you should share with everybody what you
just said to me. We looked up Tiger just birdied
I think it was sixteen or seventeen. He's back to
even par for the tournament. And I said, oh, you know,

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now you're go on a run, too little, too late.
And you said, no pressure, it's not I mean, it's
I'm fortunate from that perspective when you think about Tiger
and pressure, but it's it's the reality. I think so
much was put on because of how we played coming
in host Rivereria, that he could compete, plus because he's

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never missed a cut. This is a course that has
typically even when he came back from that incident with
his wife. He still finished I think in the top five.
That yeah, he was still able to make able to
make his way away, so that the betting odds were
that he would be in contention. But I think as
we've seen with the Masters, and I'm you know, it's
all about golf of me today, I got some side

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bets going all at all. Yeah, because we a group
of pick we get we get a pool, seven of
us put numbers in and we can pick two golfers
and whoever wins wins the pool. But so your golfer
doesn't win, you go by who places, so who comes
in second third, who places the highest, and the guys

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that you have can win money. You do side bets,
all kinds of stuff, almost like fantasy. You're like your
your narrative busting right now, which I'm I'm I'm really digging,
like I don't think many people would have been, like
we'll tune in on Sunday. I'm a year uh former
NBA player Jim Jackson, which I dig out about you.

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But I've been to the Master's two. I've been blessed
to go. There is a tradition like no other. Here's
the thing thought me, let me name drop. Okay, so
one year and with second year, I went on with
Chris Carter. Okay, Hank Haney is coaching Tiger at the time.
So we was heyday, now, hey day. We're with Hank

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and I'm with Chris and we're walking following Tiger. I'm like, cold,
this is you're hanging me. I like to chill and
just watch half a cigar, you know what I mean,
Just enjoy. Let's give a couple of holes. Just be
a patron you out there, Chris Carter, we go t box,
second shot, whatever, the second shot, if it's on the green,

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oh he'll par or birdie. Go to the next hole,
do the same thing. Okay. He's got a strategy to
get across the course. And you don't realize how hilly
the okay mark end of the day, I was so sore, exhausted. Listen.
And by the way, the Masters is different than any
other golf tournament. To be a fan and in attendance,

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it is not that easy to work your way around.
I have been to a lot of golf tournaments and normally,
you know, you've got spots on the golf course where
it's like, oh, we're just on the fairway of number sixteen.
There's not gonna be the people there. You can just
kind of cruise around. The Masters is jammed. It is
jammed from t to fairway to green, especially when you

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get through a amen corner. It is totally jammed. And
so I can imagine if you have strategically want to
walk and follow a golf for the whole way, you're
gonna be exhausted. Now. So there you have it. Golfers
are athletes. They are on the mouth of an NBA.
You know what I figured out two two things about AUGUSTA. One,

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when you come in, you kind of know that you
go do right. You're not messing because whoever got you
that ticket, if you do something wrong, get kicked out.
If the person that got the tickets will be he
would no longer she would no longer be able to come,
so they'll take their tickets. Second, I was thoroughly impressed.
But the pricing, oh it's the best, the best, the

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best deal in sports. You will never there is not
a sporting event in America, at least not that I
know of, professional where correct, yea, yeah, that's where you
go to a high school game and you could eat
four dollars. I'm telling you, you could spend the whole
day there and have lunch and dinner with a ten
dollar bill. Listen, I don't drink beer. I thought about
getting a couple of beers just because they were cheap.

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I don't even drink something it is. It amazed me
when I saw the price, but also the prices of
the you know, the golf shirts, the hats, everything, don't
you know, overwhelm me with it. It's not about that,
it's about the experience. They thought of everything. And I
always share this because I just think it's kind of
quirky and funny and rething you buy food wise that

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the Masters comes in a green wrapper. And I always
love to quiz people why do you think it comes
in a green wrapper? And the number one answer on
the board usually is they're like, well, that's kind of
that's the Master's color. So it's like a branding thing Masters,
the green jacket, it's all in green. It's like, No,
the reason behind that is should a rapper not to

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end up in the trash? Can it not gonna show
up on TV? Yes? I've been there. Tigers coming up
eighteen right now, approach shot on the par four is
even No, precious is probably gonna stick it right right next.
Actually it looks like it's got a little air underneath it. Yeah,
it's up top two. He's got a long cut down.

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He's probably gonna finish it, even for the tournament most likely.
All right, here's my question, as Tiger makes them walk
up the eighteenth fairway. I wonder, this is a question
we used to explore a lot back at the beginning
of his career, in the heyday of his career. But
he's not gonna win today. And there are all kinds

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of quote unquote big names around the board. You got
your Rory, you got your Ricky. If you're a golf fan,
Patrick Reid is actually, although never won a major, not
a small name, Dustin Johnson, Speed, these guys are all
in the neighborhood. So outside of Tiger Woods, the leaderboard
is everything you would want it to be. But for
a lot of the average fans out there, that's not

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gonna do it. It has to be Tiger, and I
wonder we used to talk about this, but in what
is the answer to this question? And you can weigh
in eight seven, what is it about him in ten.
That makes him so exciting as compared to any of

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these other guys. I think you have to go back.
You have to go back into when Tiger first stepped
on the scene, out of his amateurism to the professional rings.
He had a story he was on that's incredible. He
was his golfing prodigy. He was of African, American and
Asian descent. Cannot get away from that. So his storyline

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was a lot different than the golfers at the time.
Keep in mind, he was a young gun, so it
wasn't a lot of young players playing at that time.
Think about the Gentsen was playing at the time, Tom
Watson playing at the time. I think um Phil was
still pretty young. But you had Greg Norman that was

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still competing. Gary player was still competing at some level,
Jack at some not at the high but but you
had older This was this young gun coming in, so
he had all of this intrigue, the storyline. He just
had an aura about him that captivated people and they
wanted to see him. Even if you weren't a golf fan,
you would tune in to see what Tiger is doing. Okay,

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the fast forward, you asked the question why when Sergio
and I may be wrong on this, but I swear
this was Greg. When Sergio was going for his green
jack last year. First time they were pumping everything surgery.
The ratings were down. Okay, on the Masters Today's players,
you named him Rory unbelievable irishman. You've got Jordan Speef,

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young gun. I mean just you know, Kenny win thirteen fourteen,
fifteen Majors is there for the taking. Ricky followed because
of his dress. He's changed a little bit, but motorbikes.
He'd done all the kind of thing. He kind of
got the young kids involved, kind of like Tiger. Dustin Johnson.
He's got mysteries what happened to Gretzky all over Instagram

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like and for some reason, but it doesn't, it doesn't.
Jason Day, just just go down the list. None of
them have an intriguing story for the person that doesn't
follow golf. For me, I followed golf, so I'm gonna
watch it. But for the person that's a novice golfer,
don't know anything. They're not just turn it at on

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before they would turn it on. For Tiger, he had
he had something that drew people to the team. I
get what he had then, and I still got it.
I get now we because of what we've seen, where
we've been on this story. What we want, what he's achieved,
what we want the normal thing people will say in sports,
let's take a look at Bryce Harper and Mike Trout.

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Why is Bryce harp more popular when Mike Trout is
probably a little bit better and more consistent? Oh, personality,
So are you watching Tiger for personality? No, he doesn't
sound any different than Jordan's speed. Right, are you following
him because he wins every week? Not anymore? He hasn't
won in five years? Um, are you are you following

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me because of his skin color? I don't know. Jason
Day's got darker skin, so does VJ. Singh. That never,
that never translated. It's not the same. It's not I
understand in I understand they're not American, they're not black.
Tiger Woods is also at least half not black. I
know it's accepted by the black community. But again, he

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doesn't sound any different than Jordan's speak when he talks.
But he has it, and it is something that you
can't quantify. Here's a prime example. Larry Bird Magic Johnson
walking the room. Dominique will walk in the room, Michael
Jordan walks in. Is a whole different animal. The energy

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in the room feels different. Today's game. You could have
Anthony Davis, you can have Carmelo, you can have um Um,
James Harden, Chris Paul, all these people come in the room.
That door opens in the back of Lebron walks in.
It's a different or Okay, I was just gonna that's
the word. It's a different. It's a different. That's a

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good answer. What's yours? Eight seven, seven ninety nine. On Fox,
Lee Jansen, two times US Open champion, joins us in
a little bit less than twenty minutes as well. Patrick
Reid is Bogey the first hole. UH TV executives probably
pretty excited about that. Baby, John Ram to come back.
Ram is your guy today? Well, I got John Rum
and Justin Tom and Justin Thomas. I'm I'm explained, don't

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I'm I'm explained to you when we come back? Are
how this thing is set up? Why I'm rooting where
you please? Please? Because I want I want to understand,
Like when I when I throw to you and you
don't even respond because you're glued to the team. I'm
up here, baby, Okay, alright? Perfect? Fox Sports Radio, all right,
what Jim Jackson, Mark Wellard, Fox Sports Radio. How's your Sunday, Master, Sunday.

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You gotta get to Hooters and try the new smoked wings,
whole new way to crave wings. All the tastes, half
the calories. You can eat twice as many Hooters. All right,
Tiger just three. Jack eighteen finished the tournament at one man.
It's it's it's so. Here's the thing for a guy
that was mentally tough, and I'm a Tiger fans. I
had a chance to have some dinner with him. This
is maybe a second year before he stopped playing in

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the Buyer Nelson unbelievable. His biggest asset was his mental
capacity to focus. Okay, to me, when I when I
saw it started to go wrong when everything happened with
his ex and he chose not to come back and
play right away. He chose a safer route to me,
which was Augusta, because he didn't want to go to

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the Phoenix Open, which is a little bit more rocks
and you start to hear things. So he chose to
wait until Augusta, where it was safe. Okay, and think
about this as a guy like Tiger who really never
been through stuff. I mean real where the fans were
against him, he was able to block out all the
noise on the course, but once he started going through everything,

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you could hear everything, everything in the crowd, those little
whispers before you tuned out, You hear it now, So
it starts to play in you. He he began to
change who he was as a per said, okay, try
to be a little bit more friendly, more accommarable. Lab
That's not who he is. That's not who that's that
Tigers make. So now you're trying to change who you

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are as a person, and as a golfer, you're changing
your swing every year. All these things are going on
from a mental perspective, why his game not Again, the
health was there too, But I'm telling you as a
professional athlete, for me, I look at the mental side
of it, and as a guy that was so strong
that other side of him, when he started to hear

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those voices and started to change kind of the dynamics
of who he was as a person, it affected him
on the course. I mean, it's it's it's unbelievable, it's Actually,
you know, we'll all remember this weekend as a disappointment
for Tiger Woods. But when you really go deep into

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what has happened over the last five to ten years,
adding everything you just said with the injuries, and it's
kind kind of amazing that we're even here, we're even
still talking about it. Just tell you how specially. But yeah, absolutely, so,
you know, it's interesting. It is something I you know,

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I was driving in and I'm thinking, okay, so why
is Tiger Woods different than any other golfer for me?
Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox you can weigh
in because I'm a golf fan and therefore I sometimes
do struggle with it. I can get just as excited
if Jordan's speech and Dustin Johnson was the final group today,
I'm just as excited as if it was Tiger and Phil. Well.

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Now I wonder, I wonder for other people why it
is because you can't say it's all about the winning,
because it's not anymore. And you can't say it's all
about the personality because he's never been a big personality,
as you just pointed out. Question. Yeah, if you had
a choice, who you want to hang out with on tour?
Who would be your guy, like you want to hang out?

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Not Tiger definitely, not now because I actually hosted an
event with him. I had had and very brief I
don't want to make it sound like name dropping. I'm
not friends with Tiger Woods, but I hosted an event
of his one time in Hollywood. I've been around him
for you know, a handful of minutes, interviewed him a
few times. There's nothing wrong. But but but not the

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guy you'll go grab beerwood right, Okay, of today's place,
probably the first name that comes to mind seemingly is
the easiest to talk to and have a good time
with the Rory McElroy, I would say Dustin. Dustin seems
pretty I think when you get him out, when you
get him, you just wanted like, hey, listen, I hang out.

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I'm gonna start hanging out with a rod to for
the other reasons, you know what I'm saying. Okay, man,
you know, but but you know what, it seems like
I'm older, But it seems like Jordan's justin that little
crew would be cool to hang out with. They'll just
have a good time. Yeah, you know what I mean. Yeah,

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Jordan's speed and Justin Thomas are best buds. They're playing
together today and by the way, playing really well. Patrick
Reed just rolled in a birdie, so he is back
to fourteen under par Rory has gotten to twelve and
uh and not done with with his third hole yet
now he is he just rolled one by. Was that
a birdie or a par though? Is the question? You know,

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who's the most unconventional golfer that looks out there, that
steal that that plays well that if you saw him
walking down the street. Charlie Hoffman, Oh yeah, Charlie shoulders
down to halfway down. His bad does not look like
the product. But I mean you can play, you know
what I mean? No doubt how many people that are

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listening to us right now even know who Charlie Hofman is.
That's the thing, all right. So eight seven, seven ninety
nine on Fox, Rory's miss putt moments ago was a
par putt, so right back to a three shot lead
for Patrick Read it had gotten down. I can't I
love him my pool? Okay, explain the pool. Okay, So
seven players, what we do is put in numbers one

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through seven on the piece of paper, put it like
in a little box, and we shuffle it up, so
it determined your picks one through seven. So whoever gets
the first pick, you pick the player one through seven.
Then it then it works back what was the number
one overall pick? Uh? No, No, that means you have
a smart girls, right, he didn't. They didn't pick tiger.
So you go one through seven, so it's a snake

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draft and then go backward. Yeah, like a fantasy draft.
Fantasy draft. So mine, I end up getting seven, but
you get two of the top eight. But I got
I picked Justin Thomas and I picked John run and
it wasn't looking too good the first day and a half.
But John is that is that nine under right now?
Justin Justin is that is? He had minus six. Justin

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Thomas is at minus he's at six sunder. He just
Birnie and this high works. So let's say none of
our guys win it. Then it trickles down to who
finishes the high. How many rounds you pick? How many rounds? Like,
how many players did anybody have? Patrick read? No, no, no,

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because when we started looking at the numbers, Patrick reads
numbers and stuff. But see that's why I like John
m alright, So so you're rooting for Rom. You're rooting
for Justin and your anti Rory. Well yeah, because if
he wins in someone's got him. So and Fowler, someone's
got him. Somebody got fouled. Okay, so you're rooting against
well you know what, No, I don't think anybody has nobody.

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I don't think golf group are. Here's the thing, now,
I got a side bet. The side bed is what
my boy Terrence is. We have a side bet that
our two golfers against my two golfers against his, who
have finished high. Okay, and you have Rom and Justin
and who does he have? Uh? Well he's out of
he got like filing feeling and somebody he's he's going

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all right, so good, So you're in good shape. No,
I'm I'm I'm playing with house money right now, you know.
And there's so much money involved. It's like a twenty
dollar pool plus it ten dollars. So it doesn't matter.
I've learned it, even professional athletes. I've told the story before.
I ended up in a black teck table and Taho
with Trent Green one time, and he would start shaking
if he had to double down. He was betting ten dollars.

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I'm like, dude, do you need me to pull up
the article where you just signed a seven figure contract? Like, dude,
you have an eleven and the dealer as a six
showing put another. I literally said this green one time.
He looks at me, he goes double down. I go.
If you don't, I will, And I don't have any money.
What is the matter with you? And that's how we
are listening. I just found out, just found out breaking news.

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Nobody had in our group has Ricky Fowler. Okay, you
got a weird group. So I got no no, and
no one took Ricky Fowler. Rory and Bubba are only two. Okay,
Bubba's Bubba's back at five. So my god, Teterence, he
had Phil and Justin Rose. That's money for me. All right,
you're in good shape. I'm money. You're in good shape.

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But we got a long way to go, all right,
So you're AUNTI Rory h Lee Jansen. In five minutes,
let's go to Richard, Florida on what is it that
still has a different feel for you when tigers in
the hunt versus any other golfer. Rich go ahead. Tiger
Woods is a living legend, and that's what it is, guys,

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that's never gonna change what he's already done. He's already
proved himself. Now he's a comeback player. I want to that.
I want to see him come back and be great again.
That makes sense. But here's my follow up. Then, how
come he had just as much attention in fanfare when
he first arrived and he hadn't won any majors yet

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because he had muscles and he looked good. He totally
did not look like you're generic golfer. Everyone had a
little bit of a gun, even if they didn't they
look soft. He was chiseled, right, rich rich rich rich rich.
When he when he first started, he was when he
when he got into it, he really got into the workloud.

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So when he first came out as an amateur, he
did he was, He was lean, He had you know,
his legs and hips were a little big and was
different than too like you wear a golf shot that
was like a size too big, and like big sleeves
and hang down to your elbows and everything. And that's
what he looked like when he started. Ryan and Utah, Ryan,
what's your thought? Finally playing golf a day in my life?

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But I just gotta give thanks to you guys giving
this guy itself the pad on the back because I
grew up and Tiger was the face of golf and
even today he's plus one yet a whole segments dedicated
to him. And that's why, you know, when I hear golf,
I think Tiger. When I come across golf on the TV,
I'll see how Tigers doing. You know you? Yeah, no doubt.

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Well that's fair, Ryan thinks, And somewhere hidden in the
entire conversation we just had, there's a problem for golf
because it's Master's Sunday. The biggest names in the world
are coming down the stretch to win the biggest tournament
in the world. And we're talking about a guy who's
already done with his day. But what I mean, but
what can golf? Golf is doing everything they can. Just

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look at the marketing in regards to the players, Okay,
individual wives. You're trying to do everything they can to
put a face on the screen that associates itself with
golf and how it is projecting into the future, all
the all all the stuff to talk. Now, listen, golf
is in great hands because of Ricky foul Roy. McRoy,

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Dustin Johnson, Um, Jason Day, John Ron, all the young guns,
the amateurs that are coming up. Golf is in good hands.
It's in good hands. The problem is great hands. Though.
What what captured the imagination wasn't a plethora of players.
It was a Jack Nicholas. Yes, it was a Arnold

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poem one or two. It was a Gary player, it
was it was, it was Sevy. It was something about
them that made you want to watch even if you
weren't a golfer. These guys are great, but what makes
me really want to watch if I'm not a golfer?
Jordan's what's so intriguing about him? Did you know what

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I'm saying? I want? That's not taking anything from him,
but it's just the storyline. Just yeah, Lee Jansen joins us.
In a second. I wonder if he feels like golf is,
as you said, doing everything it can uh to market
these guys. We'll get into that and a little bit
more with him here in just a second, but let's
get gas got in here with the latest out and
about Dave. Good afternoon, I'm doing good. I I just

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gave a grand tour to a bunch of your young
bright mind, thank you. Yes, uh yeah, some students of mine,
I teach it the university level. Uh. Somehow they let
me teach sportscasting and I just while we were talking
here on the radio, I turned them all over to
you and hopefully you didn't ruin them. But what happened,
I I they had plenty of smiles, they were they

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were actually this is what it was amazing. They were
actually taking pictures of what we were doing and not
taking selfies. So I know you're already a good teacher.
Like I know you've already gotten them past that first
level of like journalism where you show up an event,
you take a selfie at the arena like, hey, look
at me, I'm being busy the other west. Yes, it's amazing.

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I didn't know they did that anymore. I told them
if they need any kind of media request or autographs,
to reach out to Jim Jackson. Come on, guys, a
lot of action today. Obviously. The master's Patrick Reid. Currently
here's your leader. He's at minus fourteen. Rory McElroy, he's
three strokes behind Jordan's speed. He is at minus eight.
And you have Paul Casey he's at minus six and

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you guys have already mentioned Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods.
Obviously done for their day and obviously the tournament left.
He showed up today, he was at minus five and
plus chief for the tournament Tiger Woods, he finishes at
plus one. Meanwhile, in the NBA Tons of action today
as well, proppings into the other end, lays it outside
to Stevenson, bounces it into Sabonis. Not very good, Dwight Howard.

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He was whining and pouting behind the play Allah Jermaine
O'Neil during his Pacers days, and Sabonis just out ran
him to the other end, took the pass and dunked Neil.
On a Sunday Sunday Pacers Radio Network, Sabonis had thirty

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points in one for the field. Pacers went at one
to one seventeen. Celtics have lost three of their last four.
They get beat today at home by Atlanta one twelve
to one oh six seventy six pound out the Mavericks
one seven one. Note in Major League Baseball, Yankees holding
on to a one run advantage over the Oriel six
to five. Aaron Judge one for two with one strike

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coulenge Young Carlo Stanton oh, for three three ks. He's
been doing that a lot so far. I think he
just doesn't want to hear Sterling do that home run
call anymore. So he's just like, Yeah, they're just swinging
mess over and over all. Right, good stuff, Dave, Thank you,
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The only hard part figuring out which way is easier.
He's a two time US Open champion and he joins
US now live on Fox Sports Radio. Mark whether Jim Jackson,
He's Lee Jansen, Lee, thanks so much for coming on.
We're just sitting here talking and you know, the drill
on this by now, like we get it in golf.
Here comes Rory McElroy and Ricky Fowler and Jordan's speak

(26:46):
down the stretch. But we've spent the majority of the
last half hour talking a lot about Tiger Woods and
and Jim just made the comment golf is doing everything
it can to market its other stars. Do you agree
with that statement? Um? I think they're trying. It's um
that's something we thought about for years and years and years. Um,

(27:09):
you know how much how many players are they going
to market because some of them. Sometimes you see a
young player and we know who the guys were eventually against,
our winning majors and whatever are and they don't really
get any publicity until they win one. Um. Some guys
get a lot of hype right out of college, right
as they start. Um, you see young players right out
of college getting sponsors exemptions, Um, seven of them right

(27:32):
out of the gate. Patrick read he had the Monday
qualify every week. He did not get any sponsors exemptions, so, um,
you know he earned his way onto the tour. And
then now every guy has to earn his way on
the tour. But some you know, getting seven sponsors exemption
makes it all easier than have to go Monday qualify.
They they I was I was telling thanks for coming

(27:53):
on too. I was telling Mark to One of the
mantras or taglines for the p G A is that
you know the game is in good hands, you know,
with all the young players. But I think I do
think so. I mean, look you look at what our
Ryder Cup teams did time we played, and it's a
really good young court group that's going to be around

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for a while. So question, but but how, but why
aren't the ratings reflecting that the Well, the ratings certainly
spiked one Tiger plays um and no one else drives
the ratings like he does. So if Tiger had never played,
we would just be comparing these little ups and downs
in the ratings. But he makes them go crazy. Um,

(28:37):
well we ever have another Tiger Woods? I don't know.
I mean, that's how could we? Um? What he did
was amazing Number one. Number two is just you know,
all of these guys today play the game differently because
of Tiger Woods. He played in a new way that
you know, the rest of us were even thinking that way,

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and then by the time we figured out what he
was doing, it was too late to So these guys
have all learned how to play based on how he plays.
Lee Jansen joining us Fox Sports Radio. Lee, I wonder
what your thoughts are on Patrick Read And you know, he,
in a playful way, is a bit of a trash talker.
I certainly believe that golf could because it's relatable and

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as long as it's classy and playful, I think could
use a little more of that. What I wonder is
there more of that out there on tour than maybe
we realize. Uh, well, Patrick does it a little bit
more in public. So the practice rounds you probably hear
a lot of trash talking. But you know, we also
grew up in the environment with adults. As you know,

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we're kids. That golf course is growing up and there's
adults around, so we learned an early edge. We had
to behave a certain way at the golf course. So
we all have etiquette, Um, a certain etiquette. And I'm
not saying Patrick doesn't have that etiquette, but you know
I love his attitudes. Um. You know over there playing
the Routot Cup in Europe, he wanted to take on
the entire crowd by himself. And you know I would

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love it to have twelve guys like that on the team. Um.
They one of my guys that I just pay attention to.
I think he just has the ability to work his
way around the golf course. He can hit it long,
his short game is improving. I think his mental aspect
also as he's getting more mature, he's improving. But that's
John Rum. How good can he be? There's another one? Um, yeah,

(30:24):
he's very young, so to think of all the things
he could just tidy up a little bit, you know,
he just he's he's a great driver of the ball,
super long. Um. Any of those guys that drive the
ball that distance, Rom, Dustin Johnson, Justin Thomas just probably
a couple of dozen those guys that hit it, you know,
three d yards in the air, no problem. Rory, you know,

(30:47):
kills the ball off the tea. So when they're on
with their driver, they can completely dismantle a golf course
and don't even know no matter where it is. You know,
Dustin Johnson did it at Oakmont a couple of years ago.
He had an incredible week driving the ball. So the
golf course was that his mercy. Um. So when they
do play like that, then it just you know, it
is a matter of their mindset. They're keeping their bodies healthy,

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playing the right amount and having a good short game.
Lee Jansen with us Lee Rory just made Bertie on four.
He is only two back right now. If he wins today,
that's the career Grand Slam. Can you put into words
what kind of an accomplishment that is out here? That
it would be amazing because there's pressure number one just
to win a major. But when you're win. And he

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knows too. This is it. To win the Curve vand Slam,
he will be in very small company. And um, how
many guys have done four or five? I think it's six, right, Yeah,
I think it's six. Yes, that's pretty amazing. So um
but you know, like I said, the these guys grew
up idolizing Tiger. They wanted to be just like him.

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Tiger came out on the scenes. I'm here to win
every week. I'm gonna win everything I play in. So
they took that mindset as kids, and I doubt that
it's changed any So I think Rory has been compared
his whole life for this moment to be a career
Grand Slam winner. And just real quickly, is that? How
important is that? And and Patrick Read is playing great?

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But how important is that for golf? That if Rory
finds a way to win From a storyline perspective, moving
forward deeper into the golf season, oh, I think it
sets the year off pretty good. Um, We've been waiting
for him to win the Masters. It's the first major
of the year. And over the last few years I've
noticed get starting. Um, let's say six years ago, I

(32:41):
thought he was a little too amped up at the
Masters each each day on the opening day, so that
he would take himself out of the tournament early on.
I think he has learned how to pace himself and
now he is right there at the doorstep with a
chance to win. Lee, great to have you on Masters Sunday.
You appreciate a few minutes of your time. Thank you

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for having me on anytime. All right, there he goes
Lee Janssen. He won the US Open two times. And
here we are on Master's Sunday looking at it all
come together again. Rory with a birdie on four right now,
two shots behind, Patrick Read, Ricky Fowler, John Romer at
nine under, five back, and don't forget about speed now
Speece is at a really good front nine and has

(33:24):
got himself into fifth place right now. We want him
to come in four days, I bet you do. All right,
we'll keep following along with the Masters. But there are
definitely some NBA questions to ask as well, and I
need to get into this with you, Jim. Is it
an m v P award that should have never been?
That's next on Fox Sports Radio, Man alex Is tight Man,

(33:49):
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Tani's gonna pitch today, We'll chicken on that. Our boy
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to help keep your facility running. Granger for the ones
who get it done. I've painted myself into a corner
when it comes to having conversations that involved Russell Westbrook
because the if you've listened to our shows at all,

(34:37):
I've been branded as a hater. And um, Russell Westbrook's
a phenomenal player. I mean, my gosh, it's coming. It's
a beast. It's not a butt in terms of he's
a phenomenal player, but the butt is coming. The butt
is about the m v P Award last year. The

(35:00):
it is about averaging a triple double, which is intense
and insane and amazing. What I view sometimes when I'm
watching sports is not just the sport itself, but the
reaction to it. And when I see something that's out
of line, I'm gonna ask some questions. So, how come
in averaging a triple double was the greatest thing that

(35:22):
any of us have ever seen? And then when he
does it again in pretty much I know he's at
nine point nine rebounds right now. When he does it again,
it's met with a collective yawn. Why because it was
it was never done before. I mean besides the big
old so but this does but it's never been Here's

(35:47):
the thing. Let's think about this again. We go backtrack
like we did a tiger. Okay, if you're talking about
really the most valuable player, then Michael Jordan should have
got it every year every year. How do we have
where between Shock and Kobe? They only got two m
vps between them? Okay, how does Lebron James not getting

(36:10):
to tell about most valuable? So the criteria is different.
Last year, I thought the NBA needed the marketing tool.
They needed something. That's again Cobby winning the World Series?
Is this the year that was a great storyline for baseball?
People bought in once they want it. Now it's like
you don't have that storyline anymore. Okay, because they want
it finally, Russell Westbrook, Oh, he's trending towards a triple double.

(36:35):
Let's get behind this and market isn't push it and
push it and put guess what? That became the overriding
theme of last season, and it galvanized a lot of
people from a marketing perspective, NBA perspective, historical perspective. Whether
you liked Russell or not, it was still an historical
moment that the NBA latched onto. No, there's no question

(36:56):
about that. But this year is just like, well see,
I I think think there's more to the dynamic. That
one is true. I'll give you another one. I think
that a lot of people last year felt sorry for
Russ because he lost Katie and he didn't have any
good teammates, and Russ seemed to the majority of the
public did not like what Kevin Durant did, and Russ

(37:19):
seemed to tackle that head on with anger, which is
the way you attacks the basket on every single play,
and therefore it resonated with people. Now flash forward this year.
Statistics are buying large pretty much the same, your record
buy and large pretty much the same. You're seating by
and large pretty much the same. What's different You have

(37:41):
all star teammates and your team didn't get any better.
That is in the minds of many a knock and
I don't. I don't think that's unfair. Well it's not.
And I'm gonna go back to this. And I said
this one k D and Russ were together. You have
three one against Golden State, and other people look at
different scenarios. Scotty Brooks, I played within Dallas, great friend

(38:05):
of mine. But I'm gonna go back to accountability. And
I said this before. You have to hold your star
player as accountable as your fifteenth player. And the reason
why I say that is because now as a fifteen
twelve player, I know what my job is and I
know if he gets on the number one player, I

(38:26):
have no room for error. But what it does, it
holds you accountable for making the right decisions in the
right moment. I thought all year Scotty didn't hold Kevin,
Durant and Russell accountable for their actions in critical situations.
So you let it fester. You let it fester. Guess
when it shows his face in critical situation because you

(38:48):
go back to who you are because those bad habits
didn't get corrected. So you're up three one, but now
it's game seven, you're running the picking roll with Steven
Adams and Canner on the left hand side of the court,
killing Golden State. You miss a couple of Golden State
goes down to score. Guess what Russ and Katie starts
to go to one on one. Scotty Brooks can't pull

(39:10):
him back in and say no, get back to the
game plan. You see what I'm saying. So a lot
of it to me is that but Russell plays one way,
which is tough. But I don't know is that is that? Okay,
you just said it and I agree with it. No,
but you need to have somebody to hold him accountable

(39:30):
care well, okay, but isn't that in effect what kad
was finally saying. He's like, listen, we've all had talks
in this organization about Russell West. But but Katie can't
eliminate itself because Katie, Katie himself should have been held
on some of those shots in possessions. Because I've been
with a A pat Riley, I've been with a Jeff

(39:51):
Van Gunn, I've been with a Larry Brown, all of them.
Get on and look at Popovic the bigg and you
make that correction and what you're preparing for is later
on in the playoffs when it's tough that they make
the right decision. See, I want that lack of awareness,
I think is the one thing that people do if

(40:12):
you really do a deep dive on Russ. That's the
thing you just said it. He plays one way, but
that that that's not working. Well, it's about Paul George
is gonna leave. Well think about it. U c l
a quasi point guard KAUSI you didn't know what he's
gonna be. Comes into the league, can kind of do whatever.
So he's never coached in that perspective to really think

(40:34):
that part of it from a point guard perspective. He
plays so hard as ridiculous. No, that's all true, all right,
Mark Wheellard Jim Jackson will continue to follow along in
the Masters. Jim will love this. Roy yes, Rory just bogey. Yes.
So he is now three behind Patrick. Read again, they're
on the sixth hole. But coming up next an idea
for Lebron James team next year. Okay, Alex Marvan is

(40:57):
gonna join us in about a half hour and is
getting real interesting. In AUGUSTA, Patrick Reid is gonna tap
in a bogey right there on number six push him
back to thirteen under. Who just joined the party with
a five front. It's a former Master's champ by the
name of Jordan's. He's hit in the back nine right

(41:19):
now at ten under par. That is, in fact now
third place by himself. Rory McElroy has got a tester
for par on number six himself. Speed is dialed in
straight down the fairway at number ten right now. So
we'll keep you up to date on that. I got
a Lebron question for you in a second. But what
are you seeing right here? I mean, I think that

(41:41):
Reid and McElroy both look like you would expect a
final group to look on a Master's Sunday, which is
that they're playing it a little bit safe. There's some
nerves in there, speaks the guy who already has a
green jacket was just letting it rip and he showed
up at five under par, and now he's got a
double digits before he even hits the back nine. But

(42:02):
the hardest thing to do is to win that first
one and to figure how to do that. You know,
it's interesting because if you look at so Patrick read
and McElroy is in with his par so the lead
is to now once again, it goes Read thirteen, Rory eleven,
Speed ten. Right now that's the uh the leaderboard, rom

(42:22):
is it nine and Fowler is it eight? There's your top.
So Patrick Read didn't he go to was it Augusta State?
Augusta State? But he didn't. But he but he didn't
get a chance to play. There's that like he played
at Augusta not an Augusta National. Right, It's not like
he has an advantage because people say, well, you know
he's from that area. No he no, So but here's

(42:45):
the thing. Learn how to win that first one? How
do you get through the nerves and calment. Okay, you've
been leading the you know the last three rounds. You're
going and that's great Friday, Saturday, but Sunday when it counts,
what's your mind at How do you calm the nerves
when you hit it? You know in basketball we said
you gotta have a short memory, like when you uh

(43:06):
you played in the Western Conference finals. How is that different?
Different then even the earlier playoffs so different just because
and we were so close, like our first game we lost. Shit,
this is lockout year from winning that. If we did
won game one, game one in San Antonio, Tim Duncan's
second year, Sean Elliott catches it. His heel is on

(43:27):
the out of bounds nine, he doesn't step on it
hit the big three. If we win that game, that
totally changes the dynamics to the series. Because we win
game one, we lose a close win in game two
and then end up beating US four to one, but
trying to figure out how to break through and win
like Patrick Ree right now, Okay, we just saw him

(43:48):
spray a put a little bit further to beat nerves
whatever it is. But that's the biggest chalel. And my
boy just joined speed at ten under, far too under
for his rounds. You got four players now at double
digits and three shots separates all of game on, game on,
pressure bust, And I don't you know that the part

(44:11):
about betting like this is that you pulling for the
other guy to kind of mess up. You are, I mean,
you know, just kind of anti golf. But guess what
for this dost, I'm gonna win. I'm pulling from the
mess up. But I want them to finish well. I
want my two golfers to finish near the top. You know,

(44:34):
maybe next year, you know, it's funny. We were talking
about that dynamic yesterday where golf is the sport where
you're not supposed to root against and and the main
reason is um is because these guys aren't really playing
against each other. This isn't match play, they're playing the course.
Then let me tell you sense so like, who roots
for an inanimate object to beat a human being? That's

(44:55):
kind of weird, but we all his golfers. No, oh
that when your opponent is standing over a putt, you're
hoping he missed you. You're hoping when he when he's
on the tea box, and you gotta bet going well. Yeah,
of course, even on the back night on Sunday of
the Masters, I'm sure as Rory stands next to Patrick Reed,

(45:18):
he's not losing a sleep if Patrick hits it in
the woods. But on Thursday, even on Thursday, three days ago,
I guarantee you those guys that are playing next to
each other, just as you're starting to tournament out, you
don't root against your opponent. You don't. There's a hundred
and fifty guys like It's not like, oh, I'm gonna
pick this guy that I'm playing with to root against
note's not not not early they because they even feed

(45:40):
off each other. If one guy is playing well, the
other guy starts to play pretty well. You know what,
You root for your guy until you get today, you
get to Sunday. Dog, I'm telling you it's like this.
It's like, um, I'm not rooting against you, but uh,
you know, you know what the funny part is like
when it's a tight match and say somebody sprays their

(46:01):
second shot. Get into the green of par four. You
have the advantage. You're on the green with a chance
for Bertie a little bit longer outside putt, but you're
on the green. You're you're you're playing made his off.
He chips it in the reaction on that other player's
face because he pretty much figured, if nothing else, I

(46:22):
can pall and win this whole. Maybe he gets a mind,
you know, he drops a shot. Yes, the body language
on how he has to really give it up for
that chip that changes. Oh, it's it's it's I look
at it as an athlete like I gotta show you love,
but I really don't because I thought I had this whole.

(46:43):
I get it, I get it complete. Its hilarious, man,
all right, So we got four guys at double digits
underpar We will follow along, keep you up to date.
Alex Marvan is joining in a little bit over twenty
minutes with Jim Jackson, Mark Willard, I gotta, I gotta
ask you this because and buddy Bruce Hard I think
he's gonna be in here in a couple hours with
Rob Parker. Now is Chris is off today? All right,

(47:04):
he's too busy, so anyway, but I heard him this
week say, Lebron, if you're gonna leave Cleveland, Philly is
the spot. Look what they're doing, and Bead goes out.
They just keep on winning. Ben Simmons looks like a
transcendent star. And I said, stop right there, that's exactly
the point. The last thing Philadelphia needs, and even bigger,

(47:29):
the last thing any NBA fan needs, is Lebron James
going to Philadelphia, because we do have someone that could
qualify as the next big thing. His name is Ben Simmons,
and if Lebron goes there, the whole thing will get
ruined because they both are ball handlers who love to
pass first, and how can they both do what they

(47:50):
do and be on the same team. That would be
a nightmare. Scenario. If you ask me, I don't like
it from the perspective of just like when Cleveland had
Andrew Wiggins. Okay, they traded him, it's a dumb trade.
Is gonna hurt? I said, No, Andrew Wiggins will be
able to expand his game because playing under Kyrie and
Lebron and even Kevin Loved to some extent, he was

(48:12):
gonna be that four five guy. He never was gonna
be in situations where it put him to perform through pressure.
The ball wasn't gonna be in his hands in late
game situations or the meat of the game. He wasn't
gonna be able to grow through his mistakes. So the
best thing that happened was he went to Minnesota where
he can be in nis scenaria, he can fail to

(48:32):
get better. Now he hasn't become the player I thought
he would be, but he's better. The same thing. But
if Lebron goes to Philly, as great as that sounds
on paper to me, it inhibits what Ben Simmons does,
which is controlled the temple of the game. That's why
didn't they didn't get a conventional point guard and Wan

(48:54):
after Mark Hill falls because he can catch and shoot
on the wing. He can create opportunities off the dribble,
and he didn't necessarily have to handle the ball. Why
would you bring Lebron. It's the best player in the universe,
But why would you bring him in and inhibit what
Ben Simmons is doing? To me? It just doesn't make sense.
If he's your future, Okay, it doesn't make sense to

(49:17):
bring in another person who's going to dominate the ball.
If I'm Philadelphia, if I'm their executive staff, I'm literally
I am starting to send Lebron with no return address,
little notes telling him that he should go to l
a uh Philadelphia. By the way, Patrick Reid, Uh, he
just almost jarred one from the rough on number seven,

(49:39):
So he's gonna make birdie and go back to fourteen.
That's a tap in birdie for him. Yeah, exactly, exactly right.
But but back to Lebron, Like Philadelphia, the best thing
that they could have happened is not Lebron joined them.
It's Lebron to leave the East because of the East.
Because things I remember when I was growing up in
the eighties, Boston versus Philadelphia, that was the East in conference.

(50:00):
We'll get right back to it. Next year, if Lebron
goes to l A. Kyrie gets healthy, Gordon Hayward gets healthy,
it's Boston versus Philadelphia for a good five six year
run for Eastern Conference supremacy and uh and let Lebron
battle it out with everybody going on in the West.
You know, the outlier I think could be Minnesota. I
mean that Minnesota with Milwaukee okay, depending on who they

(50:24):
hire as a coach, because they have enough young talent
and enough core pieces if they're focused in the right
direction offensively and defensively on what they can do. Dianna
Ta Dacoma Boat continues to improve. I think they still
need to have a system that puts in place where
they get easier. Basket is another knockdown shooter on the perimeter.

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They can be a threat because with Washington, you just
don't know. They're up and down. I mean, they got
the town. They don't know. Indiana as an outlier to
natemn Millan has that crew playing. They add a couple
of pieces. But again you're talking about premier Philly because
you have two superstars too, superstar no doubt, and you're

(51:07):
talking about Boston with a healthy Kyrie again quote on
healthy Kyrie and Brad Stevens on the sideline. Oh between
those two. Yeah, that to me, that's that's the best
scenario for the NBA fan. Um. But listen, listen, I
know you talked to people in the circles all the time,
So just let us know. Now where where's Lebron playing

(51:28):
next year? Wherever you want to go? Yeah, I mean
you don't know. I mean, because what makes sense? What
Houston not? I l A makes the most sense. But
then here's the question again, Alonzo Ball doesn't play off
the ball. Well, I get that. So make the same
comment about Alonzo that I made about Ben Simmons. Here's

(51:50):
the difference. Ben's better. Oh no, no, no, no, Alonzo
is not good enough for me to worry about. But
but from from Magic's perspective, because he touted Alonzo's and
here's my thing about Alonzo Ball. Here's my thing about
Alonzo Ball. He's perfect for the Lakers. The reason why
you have scores around him. Okay, so he doesn't have

(52:13):
to score. What he has to do is understand how
to maneuver, manipulate the chessboard. So if you average anywhere
between ten and fifteen, eight or nine, assists six or
seven rebounds, a couple of stills box shot. That's what
he needs to do. Knock down some open jump shots.
This team has the options, so think about it as

(52:34):
a conventional point guard running the team. That's what alon
That's what Alonzo needs to do for the Lakers. So
I like him for the Lakers long term. Bringing Lebron. Yeah,
he's gonna be pushed it aside a little bit. But
if I'm the Lakers, I'm willing to They're gonna go
all in without the sixers. I'm not willing. I wouldn't

(52:55):
willing to do it, all right, Mark Wheller, Jim Jackson,
Alex Marvaz in a few He played football yesterday for
the first time in a long time. What does it
mean for his future? We'll tell you who we're talking about.
Next fit's with Jim Jackson, Mark Willard. Shohio Tani is
out there pitching again for the second time. You're ready

(53:17):
for his first hitting? I am, and I guess whatever
happens in spring training don't count. Huh, Well, I spent
I'm talking about this yesterday based off Shohyotani. I am
now listing spring training stats amongst the most pointless things

(53:38):
in sports. I put it right next to divisions in
the NBA. UM, managers wearing uniforms. Uh, let's see what
else I can think of? Um, No, not preseason football.
Preseason football is in the next That's a B level
of that group because there's actually something that does happen.
There may not be that entertaining, but there are guys

(53:58):
playing for jobs that they either win or lose. Can
we go back real quick? Yeah, the managers wearing the
uniform I like that. We should have Would you have
a discussion about that? So was it back in the
early baseball days where the manager also played. Uh? Yeah,
that's been a long time. So they just kept the
tradition as the manager. But it's been been A seventy

(54:21):
two year old man in stirrups is not a good
luck in the middle. I mean, and you know, not good.
This is very you're very hard pressed. What would you
change it to? Um, that's a good question. So in
the NBA, they wear a suit, they wear kind of suit. Yeah,
there's some space there. Belichick wears a hoodie. They can

(54:42):
wear they can wear like a sweatsuit, like a like
I would wear. UM, like if they I like them
in a hat, a baseball cap, a hooded sweatshirt for
their team if it's but not hooding when it's like
eight hundred degrees in l Okay, Yeah, you can wear
you can wear, you know, short sleeve, dry fit. Yeah, okay,

(55:02):
what I don't know what to do with What do
you do with the pants? I think you should just
wear like a the sweats I got on their Nike
issue something like this, like whatever your team comfortable, whatever
it is you wear that, I'm fine with that. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
you know, I've never thought about that's that's that's that's
baseball pants when you're setting anyway, Shoeyo Tani has thrown

(55:24):
one inning. He faced three batters. The first one struck out,
the second one struck out, and the third one struck out.
That's show Heyo tanis so far today. Now he's facing
the A's again, the same team he faced last Sunday
when you and I were talking during his and uh,
you know they're not good. So it's not a great

(55:44):
lineup he's going through. But how long does this have
to go before we go? Okay, this guy actually he
is as advertised, well, if he if he keeps going
and doing what he's doing now. But here's an interesting
part though, how long do they really keep him? What's
their focus? I was reading too where the manager here

(56:05):
the Angels talked about they want to get him more
on the pitching side. They're not as concerned about the
hitting is great, but we want to get him to
a point where he's our best pit you know what
I mean? Number one, number one, yes, but if that
dominant number one starter. And by the way, I want
to know, is he d today He's not, he's not.
He does he doesn't play in the field, or doesn't

(56:29):
d H the day after a start or the day before.
So you're looking in general about two to three d
H starts per week. And if the guy's gonna run
every single time, even, why would you stop? Why would
you stop? Okay, so now you got to think outside
the north. You gotta do something different. When everybody said no, no, no,

(56:49):
he needs to do this, he needs to do will
they really take it upon themselves in the organization, not
just for the short term but a long term and say,
you know what, we got an anomaly here we gotta
be able to use. Is this how we use it?
I think it's a question, but we have to use it,
you know what I mean? This fell in our lapt
not so to speak, because they did their scouting and
got the right person. But I also wonder this, like,

(57:13):
do you remember I thought that was one of the
weirdest things that ever happened in baseball. Remember when Steven
Strasburg the Nationals shut him down and they had said
going into the season, we knew he only had this
many innings or this many starts in him. And my
thought was, well, if you knew that going into the season,
why didn't you have him sit in April as opposed

(57:35):
to sitting in Sepeptember when I didn't understand anything. So why, now,
what are you gonna do with Otani? If the Angels
contend and you get into the last couple of weeks
of September and you're in a playoff race and you
know that that guy's the best stick you have at
d H, you're gonna sit him because he's pitching tomorrow.

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I want to see if they break stride then yeah,
but then they would have to plan that out because
they wouldn't know going down to stretch. Here are critical games,
and this is how we could play it, you know
what I mean, It wouldn't be allowed, as you know,
wouldn't be a last minute decision. But if they're getting
they're forecasting, Okay, this is where we're gonna be at
the end of September or whatever it is. When we

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know we had this opportunity, they can start the forecast
that line up and how they're gonna use him ahead
of time. You know what I mean, right Mark Willard,
Jim Jackson, Alex Marvez in five minutes. Okay, Johnny Manzel
played in this little spring game yesterday. I don't know
what you gather from that as an NFL team trying
to assess what he can do. You know, he threw

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he threw a touchdown pass. I don't even know who
he was playing with. I don't know what the rules were.
I don't know any of this stuff. But apparently there's
still some teams that are kind of intrigued by him.
I I just think this when it comes to Johnny Manzel,
he said after the game yesterday, either he gets by
an NFL team by this fall, or he's gonna take

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the CFL deal that's on the table for him right now.
I want to know what about door number three. There's
this Alliance of American Football launching next spring. It's being
run by NFL people. They are clearly interested in big personalities.
Just look at the coaches that they're hiring. Steve Spurrier

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has already been announced as a coach. There's a rumor,
and we'll talk to Alex about this, that there'll be
a team in California coached by Rick new Hives. Well,
they're going for big names at the coaching spot. They're
gonna try to do the same at the quarterback spot.
To me, this is an obvious play next February after
the Super Bowl. If you said, hey, we got these
two new football teams, ones in Orlando and once in

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San Diego, and one's quarterbacked by Kaepernick and the other
one's quarterback to my man's health, you're telling me people
won't watch that. Holy smokes, Yes they will. And you're
that much closer because you're with NFL people and basically
an NFL fee your league. I'd go that way, not
the CFL if I were Johnny Well And and again
that's probably before all of this transpired. As far as

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being a viable option, he probably had in his mind
this contract with CFL. I know stable, I know this,
I can play. I think it changes the narrative now
because of who's all involved. When you're talking about Charlie
Impersol coming in with CBS to come in with CBS
Sports Network to kind of do a game CBS to
do a game, you're talking about the ten team format, um,

(01:00:30):
fifty man roster. I think it makes so much sense
from the Alliance perspective, from a marketing to have a
guy like Mansilla in it. If he's right, I mean,
he gotta be right. Um. But even sometimes when he's not,
it still brings intrigue, you know what I mean, it

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still does. It's gonna come down to the quarterbacks as
far as whether or not people are gonna want to watch,
and so I would target Listen. I would call Tibow.
You interested if he's hitting you know one a D
in double A this year, I would call Tibow. I
would Kaepernick's a no brainer, Manzil, As you said, if
he's right, what if r G three doesn't make the Ravens,

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would you make that one of your quarterback? No doubt?
There are others, you know who else I'd call. I'd
i'd call him. I think he'd well, you know who
has a job right now, but it finishes in January.
Tony Romo, I don't know. If Tony why not, i'd

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call but but but but Tony can play on an
NFL roster. Can Yeah, somebody picked Tony. If Tony put
his name back in the hat, somebody picked him was
in the hat last year and traded. They didn't want
to give up anything value. Okay, But if he came
back in as a free agent, that's a different story.
Trade wise. I don't see the value free agent wise,

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I don't know. I'm telling you, come on, we have
seen some stuff in the NFL. People sign it. Come
on insurance policy that right now, if Tony Romo were
a free agent, you think that an NFL team would
say you're our guy. No, you're our back up to
the backup. But I'm just saying, but he can. But

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but I'm just saying he could be I'm not saying
he could be his guy. They're got um alright, No,
let's uh, let's get Alex Marvezi on this conversation. We'll
do that in about sixty nine seconds. But first, David
gascon with the latest. The master's leaderboard continues to look good. Dave,
what do we got? Yeah? Who was your guy again? Rory? Rory?

(01:02:41):
He got this. Don't you worry? The amen corner hasn't
even happened yet. And can I get an amen? Wanna
go out on a limb? Mark? What? Man? He's in
second place right now with the problem. You did that
yesterday when he was in the second place, all of
a sudden, You're like, Rory's my guy. He hasn't fallen
any further back since we had this conversation twenty four
hours ago. Even what's wrong with that? And nothing? Nothing

(01:03:02):
gonna right there. Look, there are four guys right now,
I think in double digits, and Rory is one of him.
He's got he's got a shot and needs he's got
a tough power. Put right here. Oh it lipped out,
never mind, I'm off. Rory's out. Jordan's speed Wow, Wow,

(01:03:23):
it's speed. Rom and Rory ten under and Read is
now four clear of the field. Um As they head
to the nightcall Tiger Woods. Well he was had a
pretty good showing today, but overall finishes plus one again
another and loose day with irons And I'm putting an
awful today. I had to three puts three pots seven
from about six ft. It was possibly the high score

(01:03:44):
coach shot today. So all in all, it was a
bitter sweet ending. You know what, I would like Tiger
so much more back in the day if he was
this candidate with his performance. But you know what, though,
what I would love to see golfers do. I always
I can't with a straight face listen to post round
golf interviews when they're like I three putted and then
I had a fore iron on the fifth, Like I

(01:04:06):
would just be more general, just kind of be like
my putting stunk, and my emotions were this, and we're
out of whack here at the Masters when they started
going a hole by whole. It just sounds so nerdy,
it does. But I do appreciate the fact that he's
kind of turned around his image. Much like Alex Rodriguez.
They are just they are people you want to look
at now and listen to when they're on television. Diagary

(01:04:28):
was dismissive, and now he's just I love it, man.
It is they both had no choice, that's right, perfectly
late in their career. Kobe did this, Tom Brady Yeah,
that's true. That's true. He's calculating in his assessment. Yeah,
he'll go, no doubt, guys. In Major League Baseball, handful

(01:04:52):
of games that are going final turning final. Pirates just
blanked the Reds five to nothing, Indians three Royals one
raised on top of the it Socks seven to three.
Cubbies leading the Brewers in Milwaukee three nothing, Cardinals and
d Backs. They are tied at one apiece market. And
you've got a heavy interest in San Diego Astros four
friars just one. Did you see how that game ended

(01:05:14):
yesterday with the walk off pop up? Man? It was
like five feet for the home plate. That was the
worst thing I've ever seen. Nick Mark cake Is just
went yard for Atlanta. Right now they lead in Colorado
to nothing. Otani is back to work on the bump today.
Alert Pools has one for one, Angels lead the Athletics
to nothing. Dodgers and Giants just underway from San Francisco.

(01:05:37):
It is not on in l A. But there's no
score there you go, so there's nothing to see here.
Good stuff today. Appreciate that. I love it when golfers
have self awareness. Jordan's speech just gave himself a Bronx
cheer because he hit it at the part three twelfth
over water. This is where he lost the matter that
last year, and he did not get it in the water,

(01:05:58):
and so he put his hands up, started smiling and laughing,
and he made it across. I don't even open. It's
a good shot, but it wasn't wet. It wasn't wet.
It was right in front of the bunk of rup top.
But he didn't get in the water. So good move. Yeah.
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he joins us now live Alex. Great to have you
as always. I keep hearing a lot of people in
NFL circles will say no way on Johnny Manziel, not
anytime soon. Others seem to indicate they're still intrigue out there.

(01:06:41):
How would you characterize what you hear from NFL teams
as far as what they think about his future? Well,
he didn't help himself yesterday. I will tell you that.
And listen. If you're in for a penny, you're in
for a pound with Johnny Manziel, right, and you have
to be willing to take except everything that goes with it.
You're gonna have to have a support system in place
when it comes to a substance use issues. You may
have to have some extra psychological help. If if it

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is indeed true that he that he suffers from bipolar disorder,
which is what he claimed back in December January, you know,
and how truthful he's being about that. Who knows. No
one in the NFL seemed to have detected that during
his time in the league. It was never used as
any sort of excuse for Johnny the Junkie during his
time in the league. So I just I'm not really
sure where it's at. You go out in the Spring League, King,

(01:07:24):
you played two a couple of mediocre quarters, and you know,
now he's saying, oh, yeah, things don't work out for me, Well,
I'll just go up to Canada and I'll light it
up there. Uh, and I mean just playing football, by
the way. But the point is that it's a long
way to go look, and if the draft comes and
a team that wants to address the quarterback position isn't
able to and Johnny Manzel is still out there and
you want to go through all of this, then then

(01:07:45):
I can see it. But you know, what Johnny Manzel
is doing, quite honestly, guys, is a disservice to himself
by not taking the opportunity that he has to play
in the Canadian Football League. Yes, it's a two year commitment,
but you'll actually get on the field and play if
you sign it with an NFL team. Right now, they
don't look at you as a starter. They may not
even look at you as a credible backup. You may
just be a camp farm. Quite honestly, who's who's basically

(01:08:08):
one strike away from getting released from that team. I'm
just not really sure with Johnny Manziel the way that
it stands right now, if any team wants to take that.
From what I understanding and talking to folks around the league,
his name it doesn't even really come up, you know
what I mean. It's you know, listen, because he's Johnny Manzel.
He's gonna get hyper, gonna talk about him. But I mean,
just watch the guy on the field. You know what
I'm saying. I'd rather see him go to Canada, prove

(01:08:30):
that he can play this game, prove that he's committed
as well to his sobriety, and if he is, hey,
he'll get a chance in a couple of years. He's
only twenty five years old. Well, here's the question, and
it's twofold one. There he goes to Canada, he plays well.
Is against that competition in today's word? Is that enough
for teams to say he plays well, he can be
a viable candidate or option for us. But the second

(01:08:50):
part of it too, from a skill set perspective, we
get down to the bottom line. How did the NFL
guys look at Johnny Manzel as far as what his
strengths are. Could he the add value to a franchise.
I'm so glad you asked that question. And with the
NFL shifting the more types of college offenses, I do
think that that helps him. I think it helped r
G three to an extent. If you're gonna put in

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some some ore you know, repass option r p O
type stuff, and you're willing to have your you know,
expose your quarterback to running the football a little bit,
which the r p O can be predicated off of.
Sometimes you know, obviously you either fake the handoff, you
throw the football, or the quarterback has the option to
turn up field. And in some cases, if you have
a quarterback that's really adepted, you know, with their feet,
you know, Mandel can run, so you know, let's you know,

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that is something that's going to appeal to him. You know, listen,
size is an issue that's going to be like that
as well. I think the Canadian Football League experience it.
It not only shows the on field but the off
you know, is he going to meetings? Is he growing
as a player, is he a team leader? Do people
like being around him? I mean, do you think about
all the stuff that's gone on with Manzel lately? You know,
all of a sudden, it's everyone else's fault, but his

(01:09:54):
it was the Brown's fault, right, it's Brian Hoyer's fault.
You start to see this a little bit more right
and instead of it just being a you know, a
certain snippet or something arranged by his agent or a
Good Morning America type of interview, instead, what you're getting
is maybe the real Johnny Manzell starting to come out
again where it's everybody else's fault, but Johnny is that
he was a complete screw up in the NFL. You're

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not hearing the same apologetic Johnny Manzel that you had
initially when this process began. Right as months have gone
on and he's, hey, he hasn't gotten signed and he
hasn't even been brought in for a private workout. Thinking
about that, guys, you're talking about someone that worked out
for all of these teams, you know, and when he did,
he showed up at these college workouts. It wasn't only
teams were coming to see him, some of them may
but at the University of San Diego and also I

(01:10:36):
believe in San Diego. I don't think it was STSU,
but at San Diego. And then on top of that,
you go to the Texas A and M pro day
and you're throwing there. You're in front of all these teams.
Thirty two of them saw you at Texas A and M,
and no one brought you into their facility to work
out after that, to do anything at this point. That's
why I'm saying the Anslo cowfulee long at least in
Canada as he'll have a chance to show that he
can be can be an effective player. It's gonna take

(01:10:57):
two years. It's frustrating for him to pay is a
little bit less us. Obviously it could be substantially less.
You're talking about five thousand Canadian dollars, which you know,
no jokes is going to translate it's about three d
It's about four under twenty thousand dollars, Okay, is what
he'd make each year. But is that the worthwhile investment
to have for a guy that can, you know, maybe
parlay it even more in the NFL? Why not? Yeah,
Alex Marvez joining us, Alex, I wonder about this alliance

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of American Football for Johnny. It's interesting to see what
they've done coaching wise. They've already hired Spurrier. I heard
you yesterday say it looks like new Heizel is gonna
get a gig. They definitely want big names, They're gonna
want attention. Um, it's NFL people. Why would the Menzel's
and Kaepernick's for that matter of the world, not the

(01:11:42):
UH in that league come next February. Well, first we
have to realize if the sleep is ever gonna take off,
And I hate to say, I hate to be cynical, Mark,
but I've done. You know, I paid a real close
attention to these developmental leagues for more than twenty years
now because I've always found it a fascinating topic. And
while the Alliance of American Football they're paying their coaches,
these guys aren't coach and for free. And apparently their
quarterbacks are gonna get paid as well. There was talk

(01:12:03):
of I believe it was fifty tho a game for
for the regular players. I've been told. I haven't gotten
this confirmed yet, but I'm pretty sure since it's from
the same sports that tipped me off to Spurrior in
New Hail. Quarterbacks going a hundred thousand dollars a year,
so there's a chance or a week rather, so you
have a chance to make me as much as Yeah,
you know what I mean, because they know the value
of the quarterback position. You have a chance to get

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on the field and make some cash. But there's a
lot that's going to go into that as well, you know.
I mean, it's it's actually I'm sorry, let me take
that back. It's a hundred thousand dollars for the season.
That's what it is. That's only eight games though, right,
it's it's ten in total. But I think, yeah, you're right.
And not only that, but then you're free to sign
with an NFL team anytime you want. And that's part
of the key here. When you signed a deal with

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the Canadian Football League, just to explain to our listeners,
because of the labor agreement, you are locked into that
team for two years. It's not like you show up,
you play in Canada and then the next week you're
out the door to the NFL. No, you have to
do your service time there. So this could be, this
could be viable for quarterbacks like that. Hey, they're gonna
have a whole bunch of interesting guys I assume playing.
I think they're gonna be a little bit short on
talent at the position. So you may see guys like

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a Josh Freeman who washed out of the league. You know, guys,
you know, former high picks that that maybe just want
to give it another shot. You know, Hey, let me
keep trying and this might be my way to get
back in. I think that that league is going to
appeal to them, but does it ever actually start to
play games. You know, this is this is not cheap
to get this thing started. So far, so good with
the head coaching announcements, but you know, when it comes

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to attracting players and also guys putting on a quality
football product, I mean, isn't that ultimately what's going to
draw people to this. I mean, if you have good football,
then I think people will tune in. Or if you're
able to prove that you can develop some quarterbacks, the
NFL make and interested in helping you bank roll things
because obviously they have a quarterback shortage around the league. Well,
Alice suit I thought one of the big issues during
the course of the year with oversaturation of football, because

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you have Thursday, you had Monday, you had Sunday, you
had all this football going on, but yetting still we want,
you know, to XFL you got the alliance. Is it
too much football? Or is this what the market is
streaming for, especially during the off season from a betting perspective,
And that's why a minor league like this now comes

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into the topic of conversation. You know, CBS is filling
to pay for it, right, I mean they're the ones
that struck the TV deal and a new figure. You
look down the road to the relaunched XFL. If that
ever comes about, they're gonna have maybe a TV deal
because of w w E success in producing television, but
at least some online type of thing where it may
even be through new new streams such as a Twitch

(01:14:33):
or something like that, that you know, people are able
to watch the games on it and you try to
grow your market. You know. One of the appeals of this,
by the way, it's not just football, but it's in
game gambling, and that's what they're coming up with our apps,
so that you're able to bet on things during these games,
and they're going to try to appeal to people like that.
I think you'll have some die hard football fans that
end up tuning in. How much loyalty they build in

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a particular market is a question. The optics of it
are going to be a question. You remember those old
XFL games about sixteen years ago. You tune in and
there's like two thousand people in a seventy thousand seat stadium.
It's terrible to look at, you know, that type of thing.
You know, they're charging thirty five dollars a ticket, which
they which is a reasonable price, you know for family
type football thing. If you want to take everyone's a

(01:15:14):
lot cheaper in the NFL. But bad football is just
bad football. I think that you know there again, I
think people will watch football, but how much how rapid
they are about this and you know what, you know,
the quality of the product itself and any of the
bells and whistles they're going to attach, I think they're
going to be the key to whether this thing can
succeed because by the time the Super Bowl rolls around,
Let's be honest, a lot of fatigue among football fans.

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But don't forget, for many of them, the final week
of the season came in December. They may watch the
playoffs a lot of us do, of course, but then
you've got that time off before the Super Bowl. Maybe,
just maybe that spring league is ready to start recapturing
some interest February nine, when they kick off on CBS. Yeah.
Alex Marvez, Fox Sports Radio. Alex. By the way, real quick,
will you expand on the report you put out there

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yesterday as far as where Rick new Haisl will be coaching?
What do you know about where the Southern California team
will be Yes, it is my strong impression that Rick
new Heisl will be coaching in the Alliance of American Football. Now,
Rick can't confirmed this to me. I've worked on radio
with him, but you know, there's a non disclosure situation
that all of these coaches signed there trying to keep
things under wrap. So when when, like yesterday, even though

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I had reported Spurrier before, you know, when the team
is announced, where the location is, that the head coach
is announced with it to try to generate some local
media buzz. Thus, that's what they did with spur in
the Orlando franchise. So I would imagine very soon, maybe
as early as next weekend, you'll hear Rick Newhizel's name
attached with a team in southern California. My impression is
they're going to go after San Diego. Would not be

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surprised if they're playing at old Walcom Stadium and you
try to make a run with it from there. For
out of the eight teams in this league, from what
I'm told, the only one that may have a duplicate
as far as an NFL city in the same market
is Dallas. That might be the only one that has
a duplication. But other than that, they're looking to try
to get some big, bigger markets, maybe not the top
tier markets, guys, but second tier markets can make this

(01:17:00):
justifiable for CBS to continue doing this. Remember CBS didn't
sign on. You know, if they're gonna have everything, he's
gonna be you know, in small market towns. They want
to have some teams that have some sort of television relevance.
Best you would see the San Diego market come into
play with Rick new Hansel. They're also trying to line
up coaches that have a geographical connection to the area
to try to generate interest. We all know Rick new Heisel,

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star quarterback at U c L, a former coach there.
I mean, he's in the he's around that all the time.
So you know, San Diego is where I would be. Again,
if it's in Los Angeles, it wouldn't stun me. But
my impression is that's where they're going to be heading.
Love it, Alex. Interesting stuff, and thank you so much
as always for some of your time on the weekend.
Here may all of your put sync. Thank you. There

(01:17:42):
you go, Alex, Alex marveas Fox Sports Radio. Actually yesterday
for me they did I'd like my best day on
the golf course ever, and I'm like, must be Masters
weekend next weekend we'll go back to being a normal golfer,
a kaid. So all right, we in fact have an
update from the Masters because we have a new a
new player in second place and his name is no,

(01:18:05):
his name is not John Cena, but uh, some of
the initials are the same. We'll tell you about that.
There's an No Tawny update to give you as well.
That's next on Fox Sports Radio. I tell you so,
it's coming up next hour. We'll reset how everything looks
at Augusta. As we get to the back nine. Your

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new lead chaser is a guy by the name of
Jordan's speif And oh, by the way, Jim, he's standing
over another birdie putt right now on the par five.
This is to get to win two on its way
outside outside, didn't have a chance. Didn't have a chance,

(01:18:48):
all right, moved to the next hole. I don't know,
moved to the next hole. Bye by Yeah, I've always
said that that spee um so he's in it. Par Oh,
I'm hold on, I'm sorry. That was that was an
eagle putt. My bad tap in birdie and speech is
within two. That was to get to within one. That

(01:19:09):
was a huge He is seven under par through thirteen
holes today, and so Patrick Reid remains at fourteen under
speech is now at twelve. And then you've got a
group sitting at ten under par that includes uh Fowler
and Rom and Rory McElroy who is being betrayed by
his putter a little bit today. Um here's the other

(01:19:31):
update of what's going on right now. As we speak,
jo hey o Tani has faced six batters. They've all
made out, and four of them by strikeout. Um. Again,
I always say you cannot pass a baseball judgment in
the month of April, and I and I stand by that.

(01:19:53):
And we haven't even gotten halfway through April yet. So
if your team stinks, or if your team is off
to a great start, I wouldn't throw in the towel
yet and I wouldn't start bragging yet. But it's a
little different here because in spring training he literally looked overmatched.
There were scouts saying this won't work at the big
league level. And the more that this goes into one

(01:20:15):
week than two weeks. In three weeks, it's like this
isn't just a hot streak. He looks phenomenal out there. Well,
how about this forget about baseball, And we talked about
this last week. How about the adjustment just he has
to make personally to living in the United States, the
language barrier, the cultural difference, all that he has to now, Um,

(01:20:38):
he has to accommodate himself with, but he also acclimate
himself with in a totally new environment, no family around.
All that plays into the mindset of how you perform
on the field. So now I think what you see
within his baseball game is the comfortability in his life.
He feels he's feeling better, probably more portable, and as

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a result, he's playing a lot better on the field.
And people tend to discount that part of a foreign
player coming over and just totally forget about that. And
that has so much more to do with how a
guy performs by how his mindset is. And right now,
I guarantee you he's feel a lot more comfortable as

(01:21:21):
an Angels on and off the field than he was
before in spring training. He looks totally under control, while
in spring training look totally overmatched. Uh, it's crazy, but
a ton of fun to watch. You gotta get to
Hooters trying the new smoked wings, whole new way to
crave wings. And with all the taste and half the calories,
you canna eat twice as many hooters. Mark Wheller, Jim Jackson,
and coming up next, should the NBA get a cut

(01:21:41):
of gambling funds? All right, Mike Trout just went tank
straightaway center field. The Angels lengthen their lead and show hey,
O Tony nine up, nine down, six strikeouts. Or of
course I also watching the Masters and our staff just

(01:22:02):
came in and was talking about something and I concur
with them. They came in and they're like, you know,
we've all decided that you, Jim Jackson, Uh, your number
one sport is not basketball, It's golf. It's golf. And
I got to admit I came in today because I'm
a big golf nick and I'm like, I'm gonna have
to come in with some thoughts and some takes and
will make this interesting so that so that Jim is

(01:22:25):
you know, can can rock with us on this. I'm like,
I'm almost feeling overwhelmed. Uh, you might be more into
this than me. Yesterday watched the Masters. Guess some work
done at the house. Had a couple of cigars. Got
me so pumped as soon as it went off, I
went to the driving rate for now. That that's how
pumped out I played. I played nine holes yesterday. Also listen, uh, phenomenal.

(01:22:47):
It's Master's Sunday. A lot of people see this as
a holiday. Your boy Tariko this morning. This is something
he said on the pre coverage. He said, three hundred
sixty four days of of the year are not Master Sunday,
and then one day is and that's today, and that's

(01:23:08):
you know, that's how a lot of us feel. Um,
all right, Jordan's speeth has got albeit lengthy birdie putt,
but this to get to within one shot of Patrick Read,
he's on the fourt. And we can also pass along
to you that on the eleventh Read went into jail
into the right rough speed. Is gonna miss that Birdie putt.
He's gonna give himself about three ft back first par

(01:23:31):
very likely that he'll clean that up and stay within two.
But again, Read on the eleventh hole is way off
into the woods. Some fans will remember this. Do you
remember where Tiger goes over there a lot a few
years a few years ago in the Masters, Tiger um
was stuck behind a tree there and whacked the ball
with a fore iron and then broke the fron on

(01:23:53):
the tree where the club wrapped around the tree. If
everybody remembers that, uh, that's where read is, That's where
red is right now. It's not a place where you
usually make par so, so we'll keep you up to
date on that. UM. Really interested. As Bubba Watson just
made ego he gets to eight, we'll keep you up
to date. I'm really interested to see the way this

(01:24:15):
play is. The trend is certainly going this way. This
is a governmental issue, um, A a law issue, but
as far as the legalization of sports betting, it certainly
looks like it is headed that way. And if it dies, UM,
I wonder what your reaction is to this. Adam Silver
came out this week and said, realize that for us

(01:24:35):
to do this, first of all, just these studies and
the work that we've already done has cost us millions,
if not billions. And let me take a step further.
For us to then go ahead and make sure that
if sports betting is legal, for us to make sure
that it's all gonna be up and up, for us

(01:24:57):
to make sure that the sports stays clean, this is
gonna cost us billions. Therefore, we deserve one percent you
buy it. I do because Adam Silver has always been
more progressive in regards to what he wants to do,
kind of stepped out the norm he'd learned from David Stern.
But because basketball is such an international game, he understands

(01:25:20):
the value and that betting is going to be a
part of it. Now, how you control it is the issue.
What you do with it in regards to the regulations
is the issue. And you should get a part of it,
which means that the players that get a part of it.
Keep in mind he's this is the same Adam Silver
that talked about and I was reading an article a
while ago on the micro betting, but also on the

(01:25:43):
transactions where the micro transactions, where you say, the attention
span for their average audience is not like he used
to be. So sitting there watching an entire game and
paying for a subscription, it's not as conducive as it
was in the past. So how about we allow the
fan to buy a part of the game that they
want to watch for a small fee instead of watching

(01:26:05):
the whole thing. So think about the think about the
mindset of Adam Silver, thinking outside the box to do
something a little bit different. That makes sense knowing the
trends are changing, knowing that gambling is a part of it,
So how can we get in and make sure that
we get our share, But we also are in on
effect of how we control the betting regulations too that

(01:26:29):
it doesn't impact and hurt our sport. It's interesting to me,
I listen, it's already happening, been held, it's been happening.
You know, you're seeing state by state by states start
to legalize marijuana. There's an aspect of that that's like, well, look, so, uh,
it's already happening, is already happening at a wide level.

(01:26:49):
That doesn't mean that you should just make anything legal
if it's happening in a wide uh space. But you
have to run it through from a business perspective, also
a moral perspective. If yeah, well, whether whether it be marijuana,
I'm talking about all of these things, any not. You
can't have any anything that you're gonna legalize that people
are already doing that right now is illegal. Uh, you're

(01:27:12):
not gonna just do it. Well if everybody's doing but
so you're gonna run it through your moral compass. You're
gonna run it through the business compass. But the gambling
thing is fascinating to me, because yes, it's already happening,
But I want to know what is it gonna look like.
Is it one thing to say, all right, um, we're
gonna allow people in the arena to be on their

(01:27:35):
phone and do this stuff during the game. Or are
we literally going to set technology up at their seat
to in essence encourage it. What about that? I'm no prude,
but I'm no. I'm no prude, but I will say

(01:27:56):
I might be. Depending on how this plays out, I
might less likely to bring, for instance, my kid to
a game. When I go to games, it's often with
my son, he's eleven. I've got another one who's four.
I've got a daughter who's nine. Sheet comes a lot.
If they're gonna come to games, I don't want them
sitting at a seat that's got a gizmo at it

(01:28:17):
that encourages them to gamble. Not because we're already like
the daily plight of a parent of young children is
to get them off of their screens. Well hold up, wait,
let's back up. That starts at home. So it's just
like I was at I was at dinner yesterday and
I'm watching this family and their kids were sitting there
at the dinner table on their phone. That starts at home.

(01:28:40):
And if you if you take that away and you
put that as a man, that that doesn't happen at
the table, then when they go out to dinner, if
never be brought up. So when you go to a game,
think about all the stuff that kids here at a game.
You can stop taking them to a game because you've
got some rowdy fans. If people are around that say
some things, do some things, you can stop taking them. No,
you can't control that, can't control that environment. But again

(01:29:03):
there's a message being sent that's different between we will
allow this versus we will encourage this. How easy do
you want to make it? What will that do to
the fans? Are any of them gonna still actually watch
the game? But you're But it goes back to the
intention span. So what they part of this to what
Adam Silver was talking about, is that over in Europe

(01:29:27):
they have where you can watch the broadcast and at
the same time. Okay, so it's a lot of people
already do here, do it all the time. So at
the game, I'll tell you what, I'm an avid basketball
fan I get bored, of course. Okay, so this is
a way to engage the fan they stay involved in

(01:29:47):
the game in some aspect. When is it in arena experience?
Once again? Okay? So, but again, what I'm asking is
it's one thing to say, yes, pull out your phone
and this is legal and you can do this right now.
Or are you gonna literally turn the arm rest of
the seat. No, I will into an electronic device where
people can bat on the game that they're watching. This

(01:30:08):
is what I would do. From a costing perspective, Why
not create an app that you can connect to inside
the arena and we can get a piece of Because me, infrastructurally,
I don't want to have to pay to retrofit all
of the seats when I can just tap into an
app and have you been able to pull it up
on your phone? My cost is nothing compared to that

(01:30:30):
perspective of it, but my benefits are huge. So infrastructurally,
where to put some stuff in the arena so you
can be able to tap into it? But I don't
have to physically change anything in the arena in regards
to the seats. He's just gonna cost me. I think
that's fair that that to me is fair and listen words.
Unless you're building a new facility and you say you

(01:30:50):
want to have that interact kind of like what Mark
Cuban did when he first started over twenty years. That
will happen, of course it will. But I don't know
if I would retrofit right now. I would be I
would I would love to have the fan engage using
their own device, but tapping into a portal that we control. Yeah, um,
I'll buy that. And I am also buying exactly what

(01:31:10):
Adam Silver said with regard to whether it's a one
percent cut a half of a percent cut. I don't
know necessarily what the right cut is. That's for somebody
else to figure out. But he's right that they will
need to cut because think about the NBA already, we
already and we're about to be there. You're gonna hear
this in about two weeks, three weeks. Conspiracy theories. They're

(01:31:32):
gonna come flying out of everybody's mouth because somebody's gonna
beat somebody in the playoffs. And you'll hear people say, oh,
the referees and the NBA wanted X team to beat
Y team to help ratings. So if you've already got
a sport, even though I don't buy into him at all.
If you've already got a sport where people sometimes have
a hard time trusting what the officials are doing, then

(01:31:55):
you're gonna have to be careful times too. Once gambling
is actually legal. You've already got one ref that ended
up in jail because of this stuff. I would I
would say yes, if we had the typical first second
round five game series, seven games is a little bit
more challenging that that in itself. To be able to

(01:32:16):
do it four out of the seven or seven game
series is more challenging to pull off than it would
be in a five game scenario because if that team,
that lower seeded team, when's that first I mean, Ohio
set a team, I must saying it right, lower seeded team,
the underdog. Um, if they win that first game, that

(01:32:38):
show that totally changes dynamic. If you win it in
the seven game series is okay, we still got time
and some things can happen. But to maneuver and manipulate
that for seven games is a lot more challenge. I'm
saying it can't happen, but yeah, But if gambling is legal,
they're gonna have to definitely mind the p's and ques
there all right, Mark Wheller, Jim jon still right around

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(01:33:45):
to take the lead. Jim Jackson, are you calling me out?
Where's the whole all here? It is not even close,
not even close. It's still rolling though, what you mean,
not even close, not even close to go all right,
he's got a few feet yeah, look at if he's saying, man,
if I've just hit that as harder, okay, But he

(01:34:09):
looks like he's only got about maybe four ft or so.
They all are the Masters four ft put for birds
to tie for the lead um at the Masters. And
this is interesting. The largest deficit over ever overcome on
the final day of the Masters. This happened twice is

(01:34:30):
eight strokes. Jordan's speed was down by nine strokes to
start this tournament, and he is about to stand over
a four ft put to tie for the lead with
Patrick Read. Now Read is only on the twelve the
par three. He's there safely. Bertie Putt coming up, but
it's a long one, so we'll keep you up to

(01:34:50):
date on all of that. Uh, this day is going
perfectly for you and your thirty dollar bet. John rom
is playing pretty well. The guy who's gone backwards much
my chagrin is uh is Roy McElroy. Roy McIlroy is
too over part today and has fallen into fifth place
at nine under par. Uh. I can't just can't seem

(01:35:13):
to you to get it going. Um. And then there's
also the Otani story that we've been following. Jimmy's Uh
pitched four innings and he hasn't given up any base
runners and in those twelve batters that came to the plate,
seven strikeouts. At what point, when the film work is

(01:35:33):
in number of games, you guys start to try to
configure him out. How much is this is new? Because
they haven't had a lot of film and table at
this latter point um compared to if you get further
into the season, you see a lot of rookies. Someone
will make a call up, spot start and they pitched
really well because no one's seen him. That's fair. But

(01:35:54):
here's what's interesting here. First of all, he didn't have
any scouting reports on the hitters either. But secondly, but
when you think that, when you think that'd be easier
for the picture of the picture, however, remember this is
the same team he faced last week. These hitters all
saw him seven days ago. I got three or four
pats against him. They they can't touch him. They cannot

(01:36:17):
touch him. So this is great for baseball. That's really what.
Oh my gosh, Patrick read just hit that. But no,
my gosh, no, yeah, no, no, Bernie too. On the
twelve thread back to fourteen under part two, shot lead
over Jordan's speed and now he heads to a stretch
where two par five's in a stretch of three holes.

(01:36:40):
Uh that was huge. Well, you know what that was
huge for Patrick Read. I'm pulling from Patrick because my
gut um, John Rum is where we are, He's at ten.
He probably can't catch him. He needs to do something crazy.
So if none of our guys winned, just the faults
to which guys finished to back. Okay, I need Jordan's

(01:37:04):
to fall off. Oh no, no, no, I'm no, no,
not rooting against Jordan because you're not in the bed,
so I don't care about I am all. I need
him to fall back three strokes. Okay, that's it. This
this dump one in the water somewhere. Take a triple
rooting against these fine and oh yeah, these fine golfers

(01:37:24):
have done nothing to you, you know, and so my
guy can finish second and I can win the pool. Um,
good luck to you. I hope you than that speech
is Uh. Speed is standing over the cover once agar
a good one. Uh, George Speed is standing over that

(01:37:47):
Bertie right now. That is way and that put so
he stays one shot behind Read. He's now thirteen under
read fourteen under. Speed is heading to the par three
six that Charlie Hoffman just made a hole in one
on about fifteen minutes ago. Okay, I want to ask

(01:38:08):
you this. So the Connor McGregor thing this week, I
don't buy any of it. I think the whole damn
thing was a stunt. I think the whole thing was
a complete stunt. Think about this. So, first of all,
what is it the Connor was really mad at like,
I'm not buying. Oh, they stripped his belt. First of all,

(01:38:29):
they warned him thirty seven times, We're gonna strip your
belt if you don't fight. He doesn't fight, and then
all of a sudden, he's that angry that he's going
to throw a dolly through a bus. Second, now Dana
White and Connor McGregor are fighting. What's the best thing
that can happen to a sport have its two most

(01:38:49):
famous people fighting. Right. We want to see Kobe play Lebron.
We want Tiger to go against Phil. We loved it
when Bill Belichick and Tom Brady aren't getting along. This
is the best thing that we don't No one even
knew there was a UFC fight this weekend until this,
and I saw and I watched the fight. Now, you know,
I can't I forget the kid's name from Long Island.

(01:39:09):
I mean that fount last night. I forget all their names.
To gregor though, so it makes sense that he would
freak out. Listen, so you get he filled in at
the last minute. And actually it was a good five
good five rounds. But how about also add into the
mix Floyd Mayweather saying if he was to come back,

(01:39:31):
it would be UFC. So you got Dana mad at Connor,
but yetn't still hovering under the surfaces like, oh well,
we can mind things if Floyd wants to fight Connor
and they'll figure out that big pay day. So if
they made if Floyd made three hundred plus million on
the fight boxing, what could he make on the UFC fight?

(01:39:58):
It would be a lot. It would be last, but
be a lot. I mean, who who who wouldn't want
to see? Like Floyd is smart and saying if he
finds skin, is gonna be UFC, because uh, no one's
going to sign up to watch those two box again.
Because oh, by the way, guess what everybody found out?
It was kind of a publicity stunt. Everybody knew Floyd

(01:40:19):
was going to win. Floyd knew he was gonna win.
So the only way to make this intriguing is Okay, now, uh,
let's see if Floyd Mayweather can kick. Nobody knows that exactly,
so now people are gonna want to see it. Um.
But when it comes to these sports, uh, the judges,
the media conferences when all this stuff happens, I don't

(01:40:43):
buy it. I don't buy that there wasn't a meeting
the day before to discuss it. Do you think it
went too far? Though? Of course it did if somebody
got hurt, By the way, have we seen any visual
evidence of that yet? Always saw all those people inside
the bus all got hurt? They did? Or did we
get told that they got hurt? Well, they told us

(01:41:03):
and couldn't fight, so they had gotta step in. So
so by it. The people who didn't get to fight,
what are their names? I don't know them either. Conspiracy theory,
I'm telling you, like and maybe when it comes to
the fight game, I'm a little bit too cynical. Scully

(01:41:25):
where Scully at? Okay, Scully, come on, Scully telling you
man there there is nothing about this sport. You're two
most famous people. What a meanute? You've got Floyd Mayweather
in and out of you know, trouble with the law
his entire life. I'm retired, I'm not retired. We're not

(01:41:47):
gonna do this. We're not gonna do that. I've always thought,
every time you see either one of these dudes do
or say South famous, there was a private meeting about
it the day before. No different Gregor getting racist at
the media day was Floyd and that that that that

(01:42:07):
that was And I was there, you were there. I
didn't go to media Day, but I was outside. But
then we went to the way in and uh, when
I started watching all of the the press conferences and
and when they did their city tour, world tour or
whatever it was to promote the fight, I knew what
it was, but it was. But it worked because he

(01:42:29):
knew people were gonna buy into it because that love
hate relationship with Connor and Floyd, No doubt, maybe this
is the same thing because people want to see a
lot of people want to see Floyd get beat up,
have his mouth shut, and no better way to do
it than in an uncomfortable environment UFC. But Floyd is

(01:42:49):
not stupid. You know. You may not like some of
his tactics, some of it, you know, his language, some
of the things that he does, but he's not stupid.
He's not gonna put himself in a situation neither of
them are, you know what I mean. All by the way,
people say, oh, look he got charged, he's gonna gonna
have to go to a court of law. Now, oh,

(01:43:09):
so you're telling me the police couldn't be in on this.
Have you been to any movie ever? Like all this stuff?
He is at a high level, high level business, high
level money. This is just phone calls. It's just phone
calls three days before. So hey, guys, here's what we're doing.
Connor just made a hundred million dollars. Connor, you're probably

(01:43:29):
gonna have to pay a little bit out, but just
call it an investment. Because if you pay a hundred
thousand dollars in legal problems, now you just earned yourself
another fifty million on the fight. Who doesn't make that investment? Yeah,
I don't buy any of it. I'm glad you're with me,
all right, um, give, give and go. Coming up next,

(01:43:51):
Mark Willi, Jim Jackson, Fox Sports Radio. But let's take
Gason back in here so he can make fun of
me for the Rory McElroy prediction from yesterday. Not looking
so good. I think you're kind of soft for not
wearing a red shirt today. Well, listen, I don't like
to be a knockoff. I'd like to be an original.
And how do you know I don't have red underwear on?

(01:44:13):
Whoa I'm just asking you how you know are you
wearing red under that's a personal question. Well are you
said we're friends yesterday and all of a sudden we're not.
We're friends, But that's what I mean. Not My friends
don't usually ask me what kind of underwear I'm wearing.
But no, by the way, I'm not. No, they're blue,
all right? They got blue underwear on awesome? All right?
Is that blue for Patrick Reed or Jordan's Speed or

(01:44:36):
Ricky Fowler? Just blue? Because after the end of the day,
the mass was will be over. So I'm feeling I
wish it could be every day. Fellas. Patrick Reed currently
is your leader. He's at minus fourteen, just one stroke
in front of Jordan's Speed, who sits at minus thirteen.
He's through fifteen holes. Though Ricky Feller is at minus twelve.
Rory McIlroy, he has five strokes behind the leader. Tiger

(01:44:58):
Woods finishes this tournament at plus one. Allward to Major
League Baseball. Cubbies and back to back days get victories
in Milwaukee's winging Up Pop Fly, This is gonna do
it Shoudow Center Alma is there in The Cubs take
three out of four three in noth in the final
Who's It can Don on the Cubs Radio network, six full,
three hits, snow er and runs in six ks to

(01:45:18):
pick up the victory. Meanwhile, the Pirates blanked the Reds
five to nothing. And I don't know if it's turely
for this guy's I don't think Jim is a kind
of Jinks kind of guy. But don't do it. No, no, no,
to is perfect four You can say that that. You
can say he's perfect twelve up and twelve down. Yes, yes,

(01:45:39):
not even halfway through the game yet. No, but four innings,
seven ks, no hits, no walks, no runs, halos four
a's nothing. I'll tell you what will be interesting though. Um,
the social have show hey on a pitch count no,
because they've been easing him into everything, Like he's at

(01:46:01):
fifty two pitches right now. I wonder what if this
is still going after eight innings and he's throwing a
hundred and fifteen pitches. Pitch count right now is at
fifty two through four, So he's okay, sitting at what eleven? Um?
Yes he is. Sorry, I got distracted because Jordan's speeds
just sunk. Just suck up, Birdie putt from here to

(01:46:25):
the next area code, and we are tied for the
lead at the Masters. And he's wearing blue like your underwearing. Well,
his bag is blue. Look at that. That's not a coincidence.
He's he's nine on the partyday, he's nine, So he's
tied now. He's through sixteen. Patrick Read is only through

(01:46:47):
twelve right now, so he's got plenty of time obviously
make up that ground. But as you mentioned, minus nine
for the day, it's a heck of a day and
to getting started off and put all the pressure on
the current leader. So good, all right, Dave, great stuff,
Thank you, Live Geico, Fox Sports Radio Studios, Easy to
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(01:47:07):
Com eight s only hard part figure out which way
is easier. So check out Patrick Read here. He's at
the par and he had a great drive. He was
there to hit in two and he came up a
little short, but it didn't roll back into raised creek.
It stayed on the side hill. So he just needs
to get up and down and he birdies and he

(01:47:30):
will go back in front. I know, I'm I'm at
this point. I'm simply talking to the listeners who actually
are just like watching this for golf steak. They don't
have thirty bucks on the line, pride Um. But Speech,
this is what he does man when the putter is

(01:47:50):
dialed in, so he has tied for the moment and
not in fact technically because he's played more holes. Speech
is the leader right now. Um, Patrick read standing over
a chip needs up and down for Bertie producer Rob Gary,
what do you got? What's going? Apparently Jim Jackson isn't
the only one who has money on this final round
at the Masters? Are good friend Jay c the brick
is that the Alvie superbook watching the Masters, he says

(01:48:13):
a loud scream of cheers when Jordan's Speeth nailed that Bertie,
because everyone is rooting against Patrick Reid because they're trying
to make money. They took well and in general in general,
think of Tiger in general. As sports fans, we root
when you have two things competing against one another, and

(01:48:36):
one you know and one you don't, you're root for
the guy you know. Like Speeth is a bigger name
than Patrick read Um, but interesting, okay, reads putt or
his chip came up short enough, He's gotta make about
Bertie putt, but it's not a tap in. If he
makes it, he's back in front by one. If he misses,
Speef and Read remain tied. Speech only has two holes

(01:49:00):
to go. And we're watching some other names as well.
Ricky Fowler and John Robb here are in this conversation
as well. Where's he at thought eleven? He's right there?
What you mean? Do you know what a swing that is?
You make this birdie? That's well, that's true. Okay, okay,

(01:49:22):
now you got a real good shot. You know what
can happen another bat? Right now? Eighteen is tough. Eighteen
is tough. I will bet you that the winner of
this tournament is either Patrick Reader, Jordan's speed. You're front runner.
You are a front run. Hey, let's do it. You
are a front Rock wheellerd Jim Jackson every day at

(01:49:44):
let's let's do the giving go. Let's go. It's given,
go given, go, give go, go go. Here's giving go
and fellas, I gotta jump on in for our executive producer,
Robert Garret. Pretty interesting. On Fox sports dot com, you
can go to the golf graphic and show the leaderboard

(01:50:08):
and for the leaderboard I'll show who's in front. So
Jordan's speed right now, hold the lead. And there's nothing
but green across his board today because it goes obviously
gold with an eagle, green for a birdie, red for
a bogeye blew, a double bogie. It is all green
for him today. I mean birdie on one to five, seven, eight, nine, fifteen,

(01:50:28):
and then just sixteen. He is certainly caught on fire. Now,
given go lots of things to talk about the world
of sports, and we have covered a lot of it,
but not in great detail. Jim, I almost start something
off with you real quick, and that was in particular
for what you brought up last segment with the UFC
and one with Mayweather. Now he's a perfect fifty and
oh but he's wrestling a little bit with retirement, and

(01:50:50):
we talked about possibly coming back to the ring. This
is what he said quote, it is possible I do
come back, but if I do come back, it has
to be in the octagon. I spoke with my team,
I spoke with my advisor, Al Hayman. Hayman says, no,
I spoke with Showtime. I also spoke with Showtime parent
company CBS. If I do come back showtime, and CBS

(01:51:11):
have to be involved with that being. Said Dana White
during his presser yesterday said this ain't happened him. That
ain't happening. We'll do it on HBO. So two part
question for Jim and then Mark. Does this happen and
does it happen on Dana White's terms or on Floyd's

(01:51:31):
if they wants to happen? Is gonna happen because too
much money involved both sides to figure out how to
do it. I know sometimes being a cable you can
split HBO, but didn't the proceeds how you do it,
they'll figure it out. It's too much money involved. Um,
totally agree. Whenever there's this much money involved, Yes, it
will happen. Whose terms will it happen? Yeah, it's kind

(01:51:53):
of both, I mean somewhat more for uh Dana White
because the broadcast networks are gonna be the ones that
actually decide how this plays out. But look, bottom line,
both guys are gonna say it ain't happening, but they lie.
That's all they do. Go back in the history of
every Dana White, Connor McGregor Floyd Mayweather comment, and you

(01:52:18):
can find on a yearly basis where they said something
wasn't gonna happen that ended up happening. Sure, without shadow
of a doubt. One thing Mayweather did say, quote, I
will not box again, so he will remain perfect fift.
You know, gentlemen, we go from the cage or the
boxing ring to the hardwood court in the NBA. Two
part questions will start things off with you Mark Western Conference.

(01:52:38):
We go. Three teams have clinched, but five have not. Utah,
New Orleans, Santonio, Oklahoma City, Minnesota. The one team looking
on the out right now is Denver. That's just because
of a tiebreaker between Minnesota and Denver. So one through eight,
who is out first? One through eight? I mean, some

(01:52:58):
of this has to come down to the schedule that
is still remaining. Utah is at the Lakers today. Utah
is gonna get a win right there. Um, Oklahoma City
is definitely going to be in San Antonio is about
to host Sacramento. Minnesota's about the host Memphis. You get
the idea, these teams are gonna start winning on their

(01:53:20):
way out the door, I'll say, is the team that's
out they they go to Minnesota on the last night
of the regular season, Wednesday, I say the Wolves win
that game and knock the Nuggets out. Whatever you just said,
right there, you go, right what it makes the most

(01:53:41):
sense because Denver on outside looking in, I mean, okay,
see you, they're gonna get in. They have a game
against Memphis. But the one thing is, and I'll bring
this up Denver Place Portland tomorrow night in Denver. Would
Portland want to rest their starters? Um? They might, they might.
I mean some of these teams they're not only thinking
about resting their starters, but they also got to think

(01:54:02):
about who do you want to play in the first one? Okay?
So if I were Portland, I would sit down and
I would run that algorithm. Yeah, that's true. Utah right
now sits on the fourth seed there, forty six and
thirty three. They're just a half geam in front of
New Orleans, San Antonio, and Okay, see in a game
and a half in front of Minnesota and Denver. That's
a wild race to the finish line here in the
Western Conference of the NBA. Now I gotta switch gears

(01:54:25):
and go to the Eastern Conference. Philadelphia got another big
victory today, one seven at the hands of the Dallas Mavericks.
That's fourteen consecutive wins in a row for Philadelphia and
here's their head coach, Brett Brown wins with two games remaining,
to have four now in a row to secure a
home court advantage. That is fantastic, guys, and start this

(01:54:48):
thing off with Jim. There's been a lot of things
happening in the Eastern Conference, in particular with Cleveland, with Boston,
but all of our focus right now is in the
City of Brotherly Love. Do the seventies Sixers have a
realistic shot not getting to the Eastern Conference Finals, but
winning it. No, I just don't think they're prepared mentally
to win it. But can they get to the Eastern

(01:55:09):
Conference finals? Yes, because of the way the East is,
Boston is not completely healthy. Still don't know about Toronto.
But here's the thing. If they're stuck at that three
position now playing against Miami, I like that matchup for Philadelphia.
They can get in. This is a team that's trending
in plus because they're young, the naive, they don't know.
That's right. And I will say this, not only could

(01:55:31):
the Sixers make the Eastern Conference Finals, they will make
the Eastern Conference Finals and Oh, by the way, I
do give them a puncher's chance, not a great one.
When you've got that youth against the experience of Lebron,
you're the underdog. But if you've got home court in
that series, and the way they're playing, and for the
reason you just said, they don't know to be nervous,

(01:55:52):
they don't know, they're not ready, and Cleveland's deficiencies defensively,
I give them a fifteen percent chance to win. The
home court go is out the way because I think Cleveland,
they played Cleveland, they had home court, Philly, le Braun
will making a mandate they take game one, and just
because Lebron says it, it happened. Com He doesn't just

(01:56:12):
say they're gonna win the title because he don't want
to do days. Can we just talk about the Eastern
Conference fun? Alright, Okay, giving go Dave gascon on this stuff.
Mark whether Jim Jackson, Jordan's speed coming down the stretch
and Patrick reads on the fourteenth they are even all

(01:56:33):
tied up. Let's bring you some of the exciting conclusion
coming up in a moment on Fox Sports Radio. I'm
very very excited about it. I'm I'm sorry to laugh
it's not funny. It's not funny. I don't know if
I've ever watched golf like this, Like golf is a

(01:56:55):
very enjoyable kind of calm watch. You're like the Arina
version of watching golf. Man. John Rom just hit one.
He was going for the part five in two and
he hit the front of the green and it rolled
back into the drink and and you look like you

(01:57:20):
look like you might be drinking for the rest of
the night because of it. Well, I'll be paying for drinks.
And what I'll tell you what. That's probably it for
Rome's chances to win the tournament. Uh. Speech is on eighteen.
His drive is gonna go Yanks. That looks a little left.
Left is better than right. He's not blocked out, but

(01:57:42):
he doesn't love it. So um speech is back to
one back again as Patrick read, just birdied the four
so right now read at fifteen speech at fourteen, R
I'm in Fowler at twelve Fouler on the par five

(01:58:04):
and two. Rom in the water reeds. Drive on the
par five left side of the fairway. Actually not where
you want to be at all. That's jailed over there.
That means you're gonna have to hook it around trees
in order to get to the green. This would be
interesting to see whether or not he plays that safe

(01:58:25):
or tries to tries to make Birdie. I mean, you
want up. You gotta force Jordan's speed to make a
play coming out of the left side to get back
in play. Right, so Birdie ties it. But your thought
is that you don't know what speeds doing mind in
your mind, I thinking speed is gonna Birdie birdies it.
You you mess up here, Bogey loses it for you,

(01:58:49):
So why put it back in play? Snuggle it up
real clothes. Okay, I do want to remind you when
you snuggle it up close to fifteen. This is the
whole where sir Jeoe Garcia went in the water you're
talking about. No, No, they're on Patrick read Is on
the fifties. Sergio Tiger did this once where the ball

(01:59:14):
went into the water a couple of times. I'm thinking
he was on eight. I'm sorry, me back up. He
still has room to play with. Okay, let me back up.
I'm thinking he's on a team with Jordan because we're
watching him simultaneous, like three holes ahead. Yeah, he can
he can put this back into put it back into play.
But when you're short, when you go with a wedge

(01:59:36):
up close to there's a lot of spin on the ball.
And these guys that green, they spin it back into
the water sometimes and crazy. How you gotta be careful.
You said you don't want to be too close. You
know what I mean. You want to be to get
a full swing out of a club that you can
get it up there without having to do that and
rely on the um um, the back spin that I

(01:59:59):
don't have in my game at all. When it happens
is like what I wouldn't suppose happen. But um, I
don't know what happened with speed. But he is really
upset and upset. I don't know if that ball did
that ball hit a tree and come backwards. He's looking
he looked up at the tree like he can't believe
that it hit. And where he's looking, I mean, he's
like a hundred yards off the tea. Oh you know

(02:00:20):
it had to hit a tree. He's trying. Didn't make
the fairway, No, he didn't even get it to the fairway.
But but but a professional, here's the problem. Play for
par in a choice right now. But you hope that
Patrick Read down the stretch gives a shot of two.
Ba's all you can do? What can you do right now?
You didn't even reach your fairway off the dry because

(02:00:42):
it hit a tree. So your second shot is going
to be a layup shot to get you in a
position to get a par Ye, no, I know it,
but I just think hoping for Patrick Read to fall
apart coming down the stretch. Not a very comfortable spot.
But Jordan Speed there has no bogies on the card
whatso ever, now facing his toughest hole on the eighteenth

(02:01:03):
after a wayward drive. Okay, the other story that we
are following is only getting bigger and bigger, and that
is Shoho Tani the big a Right now in Anaheim.
There in the bottom of the fifth, there's one out.
The Angels lead the game five to nothing. Here's showhez
line so far. Keep in mind in spring training he

(02:01:24):
also struggled with control. He walked a lot of guys.
Not only did guys hit the ball, he walked a lot.
Here is showhez line today. Five innings, no hits, no runs,
no walks, ten strikeouts in five innings. He is striking
out two out of every three batters he has faced

(02:01:48):
uh Speed has punched his ball forward on the eighteen,
so he is now up in the middle of the fairway.
But he needs to get up and down for part
you know what. For me, he like double this and
then fall back and then m can get in front
of and then nobody wins overall. But then my guy
finish his second. You are watching this, then everybody else.

(02:02:10):
There's a lot of people understand that. But Jordan's Speed
sitting there at one shot back, You're like not even
thinking about whether it win the tournament or not to
fall into Fourth's your guy, John rom for par Um
for par on the fifteenth, do you want to live
live discussed this? That's um, that's a. That's what a

(02:02:35):
That's what a bogey sounds like America. That's the sound
of a bogey.

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