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A local hero wins the Masters for the 2nd time. He's a dominant force, but why were we pulling for others?

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This is a downbeat on ninety sevento one the freak. We know that
the NBA playoffs are pretty much set. We'll get to that a little bit
at nine. Maybe Mavericks will havethe Clippers in Round one, five seed
versus the four. So when doesthat start next Sunday Monday? Well,

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I think it'll be Friday or Saturday, or maybe Saturday or Sunday, because
the play in tournament will begin tomorrownight with the two teams in the West,
with the four teams in the West. Actually, I think we'll play
Kings and Warriors will play. Loserof that game will be out, and

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then you'll have the Lakers playing thePelicans and then then they'll go through all
the things if they win. Youknow, obviously the winner of the seven
eight game gets in and then theeight and the nine team will play.
So yeah, but interesting, theMavericks are set, the Suns will play
the Who's the three? Gosh,I was looking at it earlier. The

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point is we'll talk about it,not because I had it, No,
I just had it up a minuteago. It's like, uh, and
then there's like a lot of stuffabout it. In the other portion of
the Bright youell them the Knicks forthe two seed in the East, bind
the Celtics. Jalen Brunson is andthe Knicks are the Celtics the only team
in the East that remotely scare anybody, I think, so, I think

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they're the only them. And theNuggets are the only team you could argue
are better than the Mavericks. AndI'm not saying the Mavericks are incapable of
beating either, because we don't knowwhat these nuts down the road are capable
of. Sure, you know,yeah, yeah, true. So you
know, we look at it,youngest team ever to be the one seed,

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their average player, their average age, and the roster is twenty three
point nine years old. Yeah,oh yeah, I would buy all the
stock and okay, see in thenext few years. But also, yeah,
On Bronton is so good and Ithink it's underreported how incredible that man
is. Like, we nailed it, you hit, but I just you
couldn't afford to make it work andthere'd be no Kyrie if you kept Bronson.

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Yeah, I think it's worked outright. Yeah, it's the tea
Wolves and Suns. That's kind offun, Denver. The two will play
you know, we'll see what happens, either the Lakers or the It's funny
because the Warriors could lose one gameand be out just like that. I
think that's good, right, Ithink that'd be very good. I wouldn't

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want to mess with them, tobe honest. I'd rather have the Kings
than them. More on that atnine right now though, the full Sports
at seven with the intro right nowseven now Sports at seven, Another ranger

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thing for you at nine too.Yesterday Master Master Master, it is a
Master weekend. How hard did you, guys? Masters? Danny, Hmmm,
pretty hard, Not as hard asI would have liked to, because
I had Malcolm quite a bit onSaturday after like in the prime time of

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it, and then yesterday morning midday, but I had it on you know.
Yeah, there's certain times where youknow, he wants to play or
he wants to watch something else,and but I was pretty locked in a
golf doesn't pique his interest all thatmuch on TV at least he you know,
dude, he'll kind of stop downand watch and he thinks it looks

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cool. And putts. He likeswatching the putts because he likes to see
especially the long ones and they getclose, he's like, oh, it
almost went in. I'm like,yeah, dude, that a lot for
Tiger. Yeah almost went in.Made the damn cut. He made the
cut, and my god, it'sabout it. He played a lot of
golf this weekend. She's weak deadlast. Yeah. Think he was sixteen

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over sixteen over eighty two seventy sevenon the weekend. That's the worst round
he's ever played, right, Ithink as a pro boy, I've got
to be right. I think itwas. I think I read that headline
somewhere earlier today. He looks sotired. He looked sweaty too. He
was very sweaty. He's always justso listening, I know. But it

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might be just because he's so hislegs are so messed up. The way
he has to matriculate the course,I guess is just harder because yeah,
he's drenched all the time. There'sso many times where the camera went on
him on Saturday where he had justthis look on his face after completing a

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hole and he looked like the BenAffleck cigarette meme. It's like this guy
of all people that look like theywant a cigarett. Right now, it's
Tiger Woods when he was finishing hisfront nine. I think it was the
feature groups and Colton ost or somebody. They're like, they're like fifty to
fifty that he just walks off thenine green and right into the locker room,

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you know, because he knows he'sout of it. Yeah, he's
clearly hurting. I didn't see toomuch like wincing or like pain, you
know, but he's a tough sob. I think he hides that pretty well.
But it's just that look on hisface like he's about to throw up.
It's not so much pain that it'sa deep pain, I think,
or he just can't handle the notbeing able to do what he used to

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do. But he's he said itmultiple times, continues to that I don't
practice, which is maybe it's notstrange, maybe he's really just protecting his
body. But he's going to tryto play at the PGA Championship which is
May sixteenth, and the US Openafter that, and the Open Championship.

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He's going to play in those oncea month is what he's been his plan.
But he said I don't practice,so I don't think he can.
And he said, you know,he gets up at three am. That's
what Shipley said. The amateur heplayed with, they talked about it.
He said he had to wake upat three, and they keep like alluding
to whatever he has to do toget his body ready to play. But

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I don't think they ever really layit out. It's probably a lot of
stretching. It's got to be.But if you really have to wake up
at three for whatever nine am teatime, maybe yeah, yeah, just
to do what you need to doto get ready to go and hang at
eighty two. Who cares? Hemade the damn cut. A lot of
very good current players didn't make thecut, like all in all solid week.

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We talked of his last week,and I think it was the I
think it was off the air,and if it was on the air,
I apologize. But all the thingsthat happened to him injury wise all fine.
The the wreck was so unnecessary andhe could have still done some of
these things. Yeah, if thewreck doesn't have and which is just him

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being a bad driver or not beinglucid or whatever was going on, we
still don't really know, and therewas a sketchy investigation around it, but
that if that doesn't happen, maybehe can still do it. Yeah,
you know, but you know hetalked about too like the Masters, he
knew this course front and back,he knew where everything would bounce, so
the next one actually have to gopractice and walk the course and find out

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where the ball is gonna you know, break and all that stuff. I
texted you guys. Look, heif he could have putt, and I'm
talking about not crazy putts, ifhe could have just been fairly consistent with
his with his putting, he wouldn'thave been half bad. But he missed
so many damn what looked like sixto eight foot putts that you're just normally

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used to seeing a professional golfer rightsink. He's forty eight. I keep
going back to if he took twoyears off, could he like be good
to play when he's fifty like oris it just allways gonna be I think
he's just not what he's got now, and he knows he's like my age,
young enough to drag it out.And I'm eligible for these tournaments,

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so I might as well. Iwonder if I wonder if he's just playing
it. So when he won theMasters in nineteen, that's five years for
all the majors. But I yeah. So it's just the Master's in PGA
that he's eligible for life, right. I don't know how it works on
the US Open. No, youdon't get it for life in the US
Open or the Open. And Iwonder if he's like, well, who

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am I not to play in these? I'm eligible, like as a golfer
because I wanted twenty nineteen, notbecause I'm this legend grow the game.
But after those five years, ifhe'll just do the Masters forever, would
you? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, that's how much it hurts, Like
DD Yeah, I was the wholetime going why he doesn't need to finish

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today? He doesn't have to dothis. He's not the forty seven hundred
dollars he got from that. Yeah, it does not matter. He's hurting.
Get off the course, dude.Like, I don't know, it's
sad to watch him too, man, I don't know. It's like hard
to watch most people play the Mastersforever. And he might, but he
also might have the ego that hedoes not want to go out there as

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a sideshow, which he is.I don't want to say he is because
he made the f and cut andSpeeth and Justin Thomas and Victor Hovlin.
Three dudes are right near the topof the world. Didn't make the cut,
you know, so that's I don'tthink the delay did him any favors
either, or he had to playextra golf on uh yeah Friday, twenty
three holes. Yeah, that mighthave been what done him. Man,

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Friday whooped their asses. Man thatrun rough Saturday. They wanted off that
course. I wonder if his looksof anguish were also combined, you know,
not only the pain and the result, but obviously kind of being somewhat
reflective and thinking, man, I'malmost fifty and I'm gonna be that guy
and not not too many years.That's taking the ceremonial first shot, yeah,

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and just realizing that the glory days. Yeah, the glory days are
over. Man. It probably willbe him and Phil for like ten years
when they're in there six mid latesixties. Oh, Phil is gonna play
till he sixty. And Phil hasbeen what great health always. He made
the cut too. Bj Singh madethe cut too, though, so yeah,

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of course, knowledge Jose Mariela Faubleat sixty. You're right though,
on in a tournament that had therain and the wind and everything. The
names you listed of guys that didn'tmake the cut. Could they can win
any tournament on any given week.Yes, you don't say that about Tiger
now, but for him to hebeat him, it's incredible. Yes,

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making the cut should have been hisvictory for the weekend, and clearly it
was really because that was not goodon Saturday Sunday. All right, let's
get to it. The Scotti SchefflerShow and there have You know, it's
I don't know if it's lazier justyou can't help it, or if it's
correct that Scotty Scheffler is showing signsof Tiger level domination. Now, yes,

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give wait another decade or at leasta half decade before you even kind
of officially invoke their names together.But there's some dominant traits to what Scotty
Scheffler's doing that does make you thinkof this. Now, there were times
when Brooks Koepka and Jordan Speith overthe last decade have been the oh my

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god, they and Rory, Imean, we're fine. Are they just
on the precipice of destroying everyone everyweek and it never really happens. He
looks like he's doing it, andhe's going to be the favorite in every
major this year, right, Andthere's some similarities as far as winning the
players and winning the Masters, winningas the number one player in the world.

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I mean, there are Tiger esquethings that he's doing. And then
just the eyeball test, he ishead and shoulders the best player out there,
bogey avoidance, He's got very similarnumbers to Tiger, and it was
it felt inevitable, and that isa Tiger thing. Now there's maybe a
different conversation to where are we allrallying behind Scotty like we are Tiger?

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No, we're not. Is Scottyhave an army of people that he's bringing
to Masters coverage? No, Tigerdefinitely had that, and it felt like
you were watching magic when you watchTiger at his peak, and that maybe
because he is that damn good.The Scotty shuffler went on to thump everybody
finished eleven under four struke victory forhis second Masters in three years, and

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dominant not even close to the buzzwe told them this last week. Now
even close to the buzz that speakhad in his day with no dominant you
know, it's like and the numbersthat Scotty said to two Masters wins in
five years, fastest to do itand to win two since the guy who
won it first in nineteen thirty four, Mike Horton Smith. Horton Smith.

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But that's a little unfair because thefirst one was the first one, you
know. Yeah, but no oneelse has won two in three years like
that, right, But if youwin the first one, then you're a
heavy favorite to be the first toset that record. But yes, well
again, sad eighty eight years sincethat's happened, so no one else is
doing that. I mean to bothwins by three and four shots, not

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squeaking it out. That's a shortlist too. Yeah, what in the
world, he's multiple winners that havedone it by that many strokes. Yeah.
I think Tiger is on the that'sanother equivalent. And I do predict
that he will fall off once thiskid comes, because life gets harder when
you have a kid. Okay,at least that's what I've been told.

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I don't I couldn't speak to thatpersonally. Well, I think priorities shift.
And he said that he's like,you know, starting in a weeks,
he said, golf will probably bedon't know about fourth. Yeah,
but he's always kind of done that. He's been very good at compartmentalizing how
good he is at this skill,this sport, versus the rest of his
life. And I think he hasprioritized his religion and his wife over golf.

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Now I don't know how that allactually plays, and I don't know.
He seems like the kind of guywho would say, yes, now,
golf is fourth, this child ismore important to me, and he
still goes out and thumps everybody.I mean, I don't think Scotti Scheff's
gonna win the Grand Slam. Thisis a second major win. You know,
it's not like he's racked up.You know, he's not doesn't have

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he's not winning him every time hegoes out there. But he's just on
a different level right now. Weknew he was gonna win coming into the
weekend, coming into Sunday, andhe did what you expected him to do,
which is pump ball straight down thefairway. Now, I don't think
he was in the top ten,and like approach shots as far as strokes
gain, which is where he ishead and shoulders better than ever. Everyone

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on earth is iron accuracy essentially,so he kind of did it without his
most dominant trait showing itself. Butit was just kind of never in doubt,
you know what I noticed about him? And in the break he's a
robot and not so much referring tohis personality, but he's so efficient and

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he doesn't make the fatal flaw.He doesn't make the big mistake. So
you really don't even know how creativeof a golfer he is. He's not.
He never puts himself into a positionto where he's having to Bubba Watson
himself, yeah, to make somethinginsane or shoot left handed or everything is

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just so meticulous and regimented. Yes, and right down the middle. He
stripes every damn drive right where hewants it to be. And you're right.
I mean, I think he's alwaysbeen known. You know, his
one of his strong suits is hisiron play. But his putting is so

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consistent. He never puts himself ina position to where, uh, oh,
Scott, he's in trouble. Nowfixed it. He fixed it like
a month ago. Yeah, andthey said he had a change and like,
forget all the alignment, forget overthinkingthis be an athlete and do this
thing that you were born to do. And his putting has turned around completely.
Okay, I'm glad you said that, because I don't think. I

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don't know Scotty, right, Idon't know his family, I don't know
friends of his. But I thinkthere's something to him that might just be
super helpful. Is that he's thatthat big, that size, that athletic.
He can do a lot of thingswith the ball that no one else
can do. Plus he's kind ofjust kind of dumb guy. Now he
may be smart, but I feellike he approaches golf as he's just kind

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of simpleton. And I'm gonna hitit here and then I'm gonna hit it
here and then it's gonna go inand I'm gonna win, and now I'm
gonna go home. We're gonna havea baby. Like I do think there's
up there Whereas Speith is running throughthe stuff in his head and he's over
calculating if it's sixty five and thewind hits there, it's gonna be seventy
five yards. Oh there, Ohcrap, hits it in the water.

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Like I think there's something about thatand maybe that wrong. I no,
no, I don't want to underestimateanything about this, but I I just
watched him on that first season ofFull Swing too. He's speeding and they're
talking about dude, you're speeding.He's like, oh yeah, oh the
speed limit. It's like, okay, this guy, does he know how

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to drive? It's very odd.Does he friends with anybody on the tour?
Speith, yeah, Tom Kim,Max Homo was waiting for him.
I think he's friends with all ofthem, maybe not best friends with I
think you're right, but domb isso unfair, total field golfer. Is
that what you're saying? No,like simple and calm minded maybe is a

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better way to say it. DustinJohnson's dumb. Yeah, he's a simple,
beautiful idiot and he benefited from thatbecause you don't even think about it.
But the truth is, and Brysonsaid this, and Brython's a psychopath
too, and who knows where toslot him? But Bryce's like, look,
you have to remember I am playinggolf, that we're on a course,

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we're on the same course. Thisball's got to go in that hole,
like, try not to overthink it. And Scotty, however he does,
he does it perfectly, absolutely right. It just hit that green.
I played a golf tournament once whereI wrote on my glove like a d
tst. I wrote it right inthe web of my thumb, and that
man man always do the smartest thing. Just try to remind myself. It

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did not work. I shot terribly, But I think Scotty has that inherently.
Yes, like you said, likehe stays out of trouble hill at
the middle of a fat green.I mean, just look at amen corner,
look at eleven right, the eleventhhole tied for the hardest hole in
the course. It took out allof his contenders. It's where everyone went
down. They all went down becauselud big Aberg hooked it into the water.

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Call Marikawa hooked it into the water. You just throw it out short
right or way right. And Scottymissed the green to the right. Fine,
But in golf sometimes you can't helpit. And then when you're in
second or third place, you're lookingup the leader words Saint Jesus, Scotty
shuffler. I know he's not gonnascrew anything up. I have to go
for a pin or give myself achance at something that you know. I

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mean, Mark Howis said it,Mark Howis said it. He's like I
knew I shouldn't have gone for that, but I couldn't help it. Skin
Scotty had By that point, theyall knew where he was because Scotty had
done damage on eight and nine andten. I think to get that lead,
like we were still tying, weget the whole seven hoole a,
we were still yes a one strokematch. By then, he had already

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extended the lead to three strokes beforeeveryone started hurting themselves and they're like,
well, crap, we gotta catchhim. So they take the aggressive play,
hit the water max. Homa hitit into a bush on twelve.
He kind of got screwed because hetried to do the smart thing because it
was in Tiger's win where everyone triedto go for the pin, and the
way twelve is situated, it's wayfurther out that part of the green that
it is the front left, andTiger's like right over that bunker every time,

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don't even think about it. AndHoma tried that and he hit it
good, and then it took abrutal hop and disappeared in the bush,
essentially ending his day. I mean, or Obert Albert might have been the
star of the week, right,Yeah, and he and he's the dude
who looks like he belongs and willbe a part of your golf life for
the next fifteen years. And heI felt like he was almost like and

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they even mentioned this on the broadcast, like he was just almost like soaking
everything in, not even trying tocatch Scottie, Like you know, it's
like it's impossible, I'm not getfour birdies and last four holes. Let's
just hit it and just kind ofsoak it all in. And I don't
know if that's true or not,but watching him, he was smiling even
after a missit. He's just smiling. He would de text his tech too,
So I support Ludwig Obert. He'snot as euro as his name makes

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him sound. No, I meanhe is a euro but he was at
Tech. You wouldn't even know he'szero when you hear him talk. And
he's got a little bit of spice, some smiles and a little number one
up. When he made that poton whatever then twenty four he didn't even
he didn't even get mad when someonesmacked the power bar out of his hand.
Yeah, hey, you know whybecause because he knew that, oh

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I just lost my power bar andthe next hole. It shows him munching
on a sandwich, like a bigass sandwich. He's out there just eating
two dollars sandwich. He's playing.I'm claiming him. That's my guy.
You you don't get to claim that'smy guy. You can't claim him.
What does that mean? He didthat's my guy. That means it's his
guy. Okay, you guy.You called your guy years ago. Fleetwood,

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Yeah, he was around, hewas kidding. You know what,
I would have served myself by pickingthe joke picks. I could have picked
Max Helma because he burdied on himthree. I could have picked Tommy Fleetwood,
and I could have picked Danny.Will it even? Yeah? And
I would have been fine, whiteknuckle riding freaking d Shambeau for four days.

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That's my friend. That's my bestfriend, Pryce and d Shambeau.
I did send you, guys thepicture of us playing backyard football football?
What did you see? You sawtwo friends throwing a football? Now you
did see it? Is that whatyou saw? Danny? Because I want
to tear this down and I don'tknow why. Frankly, we saw hot
broad in the pool at the pool, don't zoom into the people in the
pool. When I'm showing you acool picture, a cool it was a

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live picture. You could also pressit. Yeah I did. You did?
You saw the boobs right on thesurface of the water bouncing and your
boobs from the post. Something happenedwith the lens of that camera. Bryon
looked really lean on the post route. He was making you run fifty seven
yards down the field. Huh runningback. He was playing fetch with you,

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not catch. He's not playing hisfriends having a catch together. You
were Simon's friend. He did good, although he couldn't make a putty there,
but he hung around. It wasfun. But something about the inevitability
of Scotty is and you know what'smoney He's made just as caddy in the
ten percent you see that tweet.His caddy's made like one and a half

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million dollars in the last this year, basically last three months. Yeah,
I love these They do this allthe time. So based on ten percent,
his caddy, Ted Scott's made onepoint two million this year his caddy,
and that puts him fifty fourth outof the two hundred PGA players.
And he's ahead of Victor Hobblin RickyFowler, his caddy. All the live
guys are like, well, we'remaking them way more than you guys are.

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Are you still? We'll clean upa little more at nine anything else
including how they kind of ruined thesend off to Vernelnquist's master's career, and
some other stuff with the Rangers andthe MAVs at nine o'clock a little bit
later coming up next. Yeah,you're right, guys. You guys ready
for us? Butt City? Isit coming? The storms are a coming.

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