June 10, 2025 • 68 mins
When playoff sports ramp up, the Bald Guys bring their A-game. Scott and Graham return after a brief hiatus, fired up and ready to dissect the most thrilling moments across the sports landscape.
The Stanley Cup Finals have delivered nail-biting overtime drama in both opening games. Edmonton and Florida have split the first two contests, with Scott boldly declaring "the Panthers are going to win 4-2" after analyzing how each team's physicality and execution have evolved from last year's matchup. The hosts break down key moments, including McDavid's "stupid good" assist and the controversial officiating that has already sparked heated debate.
Meanwhile, the NBA Finals produced perhaps the most stunning upset of the postseason when the Indiana Pacers shocked Oklahoma City in Game 1 despite being 10.5-point underdogs. The conversation centers around Tyrese Haliburton's clutch gene—he now has an astonishing five game-winning shots in these playoffs—despite being voted "most overrated player" by his NBA peers. As Scott notes, "My guy's got ice in his veins."
The heartbeat of this episode, however, is their passionate preview of the US Open at Oakmont. Drawing from Scott's firsthand experience playing the legendary course, the hosts paint a vivid picture of the punishment awaiting golfers. "If you want to watch the best players in the world hit bad shots, you better watch this week," Scott advises listeners. Their analysis goes beyond picking favorites (Bryson DeChambeau and Collin Morikawa) to explain why Oakmont represents the purest test in golf—where "par is an amazing score" and even bogeys can be celebrated.
Between predictions and analysis, Scott shares a hilarious flag football coaching saga involving sideline confrontations and a game ultimately called off by officials. The episode closes with the hosts realizing they've hit their three-year podcast anniversary, a testament to their enduring chemistry and sports passion.
Celebrate with us as we mark three years of the Bald Guys on the Bench podcast!
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Announcer (00:07):
Welcome to another episode of the Bald Guys on the
Bench podcast, with your hostsGraham Cohen and Scott Wasco.
Graham (00:21):
What's up everyone, welcome back to another edition
of the Bald Guys on the Bench.
Scotty, it's good to see youagain, brother, and oh damn, is
it hot out here.
Scott (00:29):
How you doing, brother, dude I know it's hot in Vegas,
but, bro, if you like 85%humidity, I'm right there with
you.
I know it's two different kindsof hot, but the main thing is
guess what?
It's goddamn hot Facts, oh man.
(00:52):
But gee, it's been a coupleweeks we haven't been on the air
.
It's time, bro, let's grab itand crack it.
Graham (00:59):
Sweet, I need to cool off, let's go.
Scott (01:01):
Oh, the only thing that can cool me off is I can dip my
balls in the pool right aboutnow.
Totally got done playing some gtoday and my dad and all his
buddies are like man I can'twait to get home, jump in the
pool and I'm like, god damn it,I miss my house in california,
right, oh god, you remember thedays, dude, you're going to get
(01:25):
home from playing some golf andit would be like superman
changing in the phone booth.
Bro, bathing suit, cord light.
I was so wanting that today.
But anyhow, uh, first foremost,sorry we didn't do an episode
(01:47):
last week, and with saying that,it kind of made me feel good
that we didn't do an episodelast week, because I got a lot
of texts from people going bro,where's the episode, where's the
episode, where's the episode?
And I'm like oh damn.
Okay.
Graham (02:04):
Let's go, my bad, let's go.
My bad, let's go I wasavailable.
Scott (02:08):
Graham had to do some work, but it was probably thanks
.
It was probably a good thing wedidn't do it last sunday night
because after the situations inflag football the whole segment
might have been a kick rocksmoment.
Graham (02:25):
That's right.
You got to bring that up thistime around.
I forgot about that.
Scott (02:29):
Oh yeah, we're going to bring it up, but you know, like
we always do, you got lastweekend and this weekend to kind
of talk about, even though weare recording for the first time
ever on a Saturday night.
Graham (02:44):
Yes, which is kind of weird, folks, I've always said
this to Scott and everyone else,friends of mine I'm a firm
believer in things happen.
For a reason Was it unfortunatethat we couldn't get an episode
out last week?
100%?
But?
But To be fair, what reallyhappened last week?
A whole lot of nothing.
(03:04):
I mean we were on break fromthe NHL playoffs.
We were on break in between theNBA.
Yeah, there was some hockey Imean hockey Slap myself.
There was some baseball goingon, but like, did we really miss
anything?
You got to watch ScottyScheffler dominate again at
(03:27):
jack's place yeah, I mean, isthis a golf podcast or all
around sports podcast?
Scott (03:34):
well, like we said in episode one, we met because of
the sport of golf facts a andand.
Graham (03:42):
As I told you, after that dominating performance, I
officially folks you heard ithere first.
Scott already knows but I am nolonger referring to scotty
scheffler as scotty schefflerfolks his new name is the white
tiger and I'm just leaving it,and folks, graham's already
(04:03):
gotten that patented, so try tosteal it.
Scott (04:06):
You're welcome.
He's already got the websiteWhitetigerorgcom.
Ballguys on the bench Go aheadand try, motherfucker.
Graham (04:22):
So I mean we're going to get into a lot of golf in a
little while, because Well, theUS Open, that's different, you
know, I mean jack's place isjack's place, I get it.
Memorial, I mean it's iconic, Iget it.
But yeah did you see?
Scott (04:33):
the little dig that jack did in his press conference
after tiger won.
It was amazing oh yeah about.
He's like yeah, ben griffin's agood player, yeah, step struck
is a good player, but they'renot even on the same level as
scotty bro.
Graham (04:55):
No one's on his level right now dude.
Scott (04:58):
It was so awesome that he said that.
I mean the way the media blewit up, like they always do, you
know, but jack's the only guythat can get away from get away
with saying that.
I mean, yeah, but anyhow, backto your weekend.
You know, sidetracked much yeah, right, um, um.
Graham (05:24):
What did I do?
I'd say the Cliff Notes versionis I helped my dad reset up the
little outside above-groundpool that we got Just been
having some complications withthat.
Got that all situated andworked out.
Finally got the float in themail from Amazon.
(05:47):
That should have been here in aday and it took a week and a
half, for whatever reason.
Thanks, work being work, Ididn't get into that, but really
I've.
Let's check out the moviechecklist.
What has Graham seen in thelast week and a half.
Scott (06:00):
Oh God, if it's in a theater.
My guy's seen it.
Graham (06:04):
Hey, I've been waiting for some movies to come out here
, so let's not, you know, eventhough I did watch two in the
past week, so three.
I saw the Mission Impossiblemovie Unbelievable.
I can't remember if we broughtthis up last time.
Scott (06:21):
We did Okay, alright, we got a broken record going.
Alright.
Alright, bro, we did Okay, allright, we got a broken record
going All right.
Announcer (06:26):
Bro, like I said on this podcast before.
Graham (06:29):
I don't remember what I had for dinner three nights ago.
So, to be fair, right, lastnight saw Ballerina, the spinoff
of the John Wick movies.
I thought it was really good,really enjoyed that, saw that
with Pops.
And then a few days ago I sawthe new karate kid movie.
And I'm gonna be honest, folks,I it's not that I had high
(06:52):
expectations going into themovie, but I was pleasantly
surprised on how good it was.
I mean, it wasn't cheesy likehow they did the cobra kai
series on netflix, like they dida really good job bringing in
Jackie Chan.
They brought in Ralph Macchio.
Scott (07:08):
They brought in Ralph Macchio.
Graham (07:10):
Yeah, dude, they even brought in Zepka.
No, sorry, but it was reallygood Wax off wax off
motherfucker.
Scott (07:28):
Yeah, so both movies are really good.
Good, I'm so happy you hit thatwe can say bad language on our
podcast button now, right now,for now, for now, okay.
Graham (07:38):
No, the only reason why I say it is like we can, but
when we start going on youtube,they demonetize you if you swear
.
Oh okay, so like we can swear,but it will be bleeped out okay,
that's fine, bleep me, bleepthese got him who dot, dot dot
(08:03):
cares.
Scott (08:05):
And yes, folks, you can tell we're fired up for this
episode after missing last weekand we haven't even started
talking about our god damn thing.
Graham (08:17):
Yeah I mean, hey, at this point, enough about me,
brother.
How was your last two weeks?
Scott (08:23):
well, you know it's been awesome.
It's getting hot, it's gettingbusy.
Golf season's booming here onthe east coast.
Uh, you know, flag footballlast week we had a double header
so we got rained out week oneand you know we were just
balling, dude, my team's fuckingdoing work and we had a game,
(08:48):
the first game last week.
We're playing a team thatwasn't very good and the second
game was the team that was infirst place above us because of
points scored against, that'sthe tiebreaker, right, right
scored against.
So, dude, literally first game.
It's less than a minute intothe game and my son has two
(09:10):
touchdowns, okay, it's like,yeah, we won 42 to 12, okay, and
we rested everybody.
So the the best part about thegame was the officials were like
, oh man, y'all play thecommanders next after this game.
Right, we're like, yeah, oh,somebody just hit a bomb, is
(09:32):
that Ronnie?
There we go, metropolitans.
The officials are like hypingit.
You know what I mean.
It was like the perfect storm.
The officials were like ooh,like oh, oh, oh, y'all gonna do
work against them.
Oh, y'all are big, oh, and thekids are like buying into it.
(09:53):
Yeah, you know, the officialsare talking to the kids about it
and I'm like, yeah, bro, shutup.
You know anyhow won the game.
The first game 42 to so nowwe're playing the commanders,
okay Right, the team that hasn'tallowed a point all season.
Oh damn, they skunked, sorry,they allowed eight points going
(10:15):
into the third game against us.
Fourth game oh wow.
And we did the coin toss.
They get the ball first, theyget a touchdown, they drive down
the field, bada bing, bada boom.
Eight, nothing, cause they gofor two.
We sought out on the field andyou've seen the video, first
player of the game.
I give it to Kellen run passoption.
(10:36):
What's Kellen do, graham?
Graham (10:39):
House call Booba.
Scott (10:44):
And we may put it on the video on our instagram now.
The best part about the videois number one kristin jumping up
and down, all excited.
Number two my dad going likethis, when kellen does his spin,
he's telling just my dad justgoes bye-bye, he gone, it's
awesome, but yeah, tie game, youknow, whatever this.
(11:04):
So this team, you know they'relike oh damn, we're in a battle,
right.
They're like, okay, and it'sthe first team they've played
that they can really say, okay,they're good and things just
went to shit after that, dude.
And when I mean shit, I meanshit, dude.
(11:28):
Normally it's your boy and I'lladmit it that gets fired up and
doesn't know how to shut hismouth.
You know that I mean, for once,kristen was like damn, I'm
proud of you, I can't evenbelieve it.
And it all started with, youknow, kellen spins when he runs
(11:49):
the ball.
They started saying you can'tspin in this league.
Well, no jackass, you can spin,you can't jump.
So we get into this heateddebate.
Their coach is saying somethingto Kellen.
And you know, dad coach.
And you know, dad coach,whatever you can say, whatever
(12:09):
you want to your players, youain't talking to my son, fat boy
, like right.
He said something to kellen andkellen fires back at him why
don't you eat a salad?
And at that moment I'm like Imean not that I didn't know
before, but my god knows, he'sgot my attitude in my mouth.
(12:32):
But anyhow, the game is, theofficial calls a timeout and has
me and the coach in a littlehuddle on midfield and I'm like,
and he's like arguing you can'tspin.
I'm like, dude, read the rules.
Blah, blah, blah.
Yeah, so I, I call the nextplay and I'm like walking off
the sidelines.
(12:52):
I'm like kellen, spin, spin.
Like and I didn't realize howloud I said it I'm like spin,
spin like a god dang tornado,dude.
My entire sideline loses it.
They're all dying, laughing,whatever right.
So, whatever I mean, it is whatit is.
(13:12):
Parents are getting hit orgetting pissed.
Their coach says to one oftheir players and that fat son
of a bitch in the bluesweatshirt is lucky I didn't
hear it because he goes.
If that kid, kid spins again,just hit him, dude.
I'd have put him in the StoneCold Stunner, and I'd have been
(13:35):
like Austin.
316 means I just whipped yourass, fat boy.
You want me to drop you on thatstack of dimes?
You call a neck, you know.
So that's going on.
My quarterback's dad is verymild tempered and he was about
to go over there lay the woodthe fat boy in the blue
sweatshirt, anyhow, halftime,second half starts and you know,
(13:56):
the kids start jawing becauseyou know it is what it is.
They're 14 years old dude, youknow.
Announcer (14:01):
Yeah.
Scott (14:07):
They're years old dude, you know, yeah, they're
competitive, they want to win.
Selling goes for a run.
Some dude like grabs his flag,throws it down and kellen's like
, oh, you think you're cool.
You were the last person onyour team that could have gotten
my flag, congratulations.
Dude gets in kellen's face andI'm like, oh god, I'm grabbing
kellen back.
So then the straw that broke thecamel's back was one of their
parents on the sideline startsyelling we got the ball on
offense.
(14:28):
And I'm like, dude, shut up.
I'm in the huddle and the kidon their team goes don't tell my
dad to shut up.
You shut up.
And he says something.
And my boy, shane you know,hoover vacuum best hands in the
league.
Shane's like bro, you ain'ttalking to my coach, like that
(14:49):
homeboy.
We're about to go down.
And that's when the leagueofficial called the game game
over.
Everybody, go home.
We're not finishing the game.
Wow, it got out of hand.
But all I'm gonna say is youknow, I wrote a letter to the
(15:10):
league.
We have to wear these redt-shirts, right, let's say nfl
flag coach on them.
That's how they distinguish whothe coach is right they had six
dudes on their sideline.
One person had the red t-shirton, okay, and they're all.
Yeah, they're all yelling andscreaming, and probably because
(15:30):
blue sweatshirt guy couldn't fitin his t-shirt that they sent
his fat ass.
So we'll excuse him, okay.
So then we got four more.
I mean, oh, my God, I don'tknow it was, so they ended up
giving us the loss.
Whatever it is what it is,we'll see him in the
championship.
That's the main thing.
Whatever, I'd rather lose in aregular season than that.
(15:53):
We know what they're all aboutand I'm not.
Hey, they were good.
I'm not taking anything awayfrom their team.
They were good.
Yeah, their coaches weredouchebags.
Graham (16:12):
Yeah, but something that you kind of left out that I
just want to bring up.
Scott (16:13):
Why do you think they were so good?
Oh, because they practicedmultiple times during the week.
Announcer (16:18):
Isn't that illegal?
Scott (16:20):
Yeah, in my league you're only allowed to practice an
hour before the game.
These dudes didn't settle theentire game.
I mean fat boy in the bluesweatshirt God, I wish I knew
his text because I'd send himthis Fat boy in the blue
sweatshirt.
(16:40):
I mean you ain't the secondcoming bro of God, dang Josh
McDaniels, or give me some otheroffensive geniuses.
I mean you ain't the secondcoming bro of God, dang Josh
McDaniels, or give me some otheroffensive geniuses.
I mean Sean Payton.
I mean, bro, come on, guyKingsbury, you don't have an
offense named after you, like me, the Woffence.
I mean I do this shit legal,bro.
We huddle, we practice an hourbefore the game.
(17:01):
That fat son of a bitch, Iguarantee you he goes the
fucking arby's as much as theypractice during the week.
Who's?
Graham (17:10):
got the beef that guy.
Scott (17:12):
Oh, dude, dude, anyhow, it is what it is.
Enough about that.
And I do have to say one thinggreg shane's dad.
He was texting me like bro,where's the episode?
(17:33):
And I knew what he was gettingat.
He was like poking the bearbecause he wanted to hear the
kick rocks.
But from the five game lastweek, greg, I get it, dude, some
parent told greg, I'll see youin the parking lot.
What?
Yeah, like bro, it's 13, 14year old kids playing flag
football.
I want to win as much asanybody, but come on, bro, I
(17:55):
mean yeah.
So anyhow, let's go, bro.
Stanley cup finals finallystart, after God knows how many
days off.
Game one in Edmonton you knowwe got a rematch of last year.
Last year the Panthers had homeice, this year the Oilers have
it.
Dude, I'm on the way home fromwork.
(18:16):
Forget the game's on, turn iton.
There's 18 minutes and X leftand it's already 1-0.
I'm like, holy shit, right,dude.
Overtime.
Game one Did it disappoint?
Not a chance.
Graham (18:36):
Pins and needles, that game Look.
Scott (18:42):
You know the best thing about this You're starting to
watch hockey playoffs.
Graham (18:45):
I told you know the best thing about this you're
starting to watch hockeyplayoffs I told you in the past,
and I was actually just gonnasay this I watch when the
playoffs go on.
There's an intensity and, trustme, I get why you like it.
I get it.
You know what I mean.
But it's just in all the sports, when the pressure is on and it
means something, the intensityis up and it's just like I don't
(19:05):
want to call it a differentgame, but like when something's
is on and it means something,the intensity is up and it's
just like I don't want to callit a different game, but like
when something's on the line, itmeans more.
And you could really tell.
I mean especially and we'll getinto it even with game two,
dude, game two in the doubleovertime, bro dude, there was
parts that I like I was watchingthe game before you even called
me and like I'm telling stuffto you and you're like, wait,
you actually did watch the game.
Scott (19:26):
I was like, yeah, I've been watching it from the
beginning dude, I told kristenlast night in the second after
the first overtime.
I'm like I'm so glad this isnot the nights, because I'd be a
wreck right now oh, facts eventhough it was only game two, but
anyhow it's.
And the worst part about it,bro, is you can't go take a leak
when you're having somebeverages, because there ain't
(19:48):
no timeouts.
It's like, oh, can a brotherjust go take a leak.
Graham (19:54):
Can a brother get that TV outside again?
Scott (19:57):
Thanks for making me remember my California house
again.
Graham, Appreciate it.
Just for that I'll smack myselfin the face.
I don't even know why, but youknow Oilers win game one, dude,
and you know it was insane.
It was what we wanted to see,right?
Yeah, Rematch and TP, and Isaid it, the Oilers are a better
(20:22):
team this year.
They're deeper, oh yeah, Muchdeeper.
But going into game two, mywhole thing were the Panthers
are going to light them up.
My prediction was and you'veseen the text my prediction was
Skinner's not in the net tostart game three.
You said that.
(20:43):
And, dude, he almost got hurt.
And then he was almost.
My prediction was going to beright.
Not that I want him to get hurt, I just wanted him to get lit
up like a christmas tree, butdude the way that game started.
Panthers score early on a powerplay and then edmonton scores to
11 penalties.
Dude In the first period.
Graham (21:06):
Bro.
I mean Unlike last year, youcould tell.
I mean for someone that's anoutsider Looking in, I could
tell how much More of a physicalteam that the Oilers Were
compared to last year.
Like last year the Pantherswere slapping them around.
You know what I mean.
And it's just like All thechippiness was from the Florida
Panthers.
(21:26):
Now this go around it was much.
I mean I would say the Pantherswere more aggressive with their
chippiness but the Oilersweren't backing down from it.
You know what I mean.
Like they were trying to holdtheir own.
Scott (21:40):
That's the way the Panthers play, dude Right.
And if you rewind back to whenthe Knights beat the Panthers in
the cup, it was the same thingand the Panthers are chippy,
chippy, chippy.
That's part of their game plan.
Dude, hit Graham after thewhistle.
Get Graham to retaliate.
Guess who?
The penalty's on Graham?
Yeah, and the Knights didn'tfall for their bullshit and
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that's why they were in thepenalty box the whole time and
that's why we beat them four toone.
No-transcript.
They're playing some hockey,man.
But with that being said, lastnight, third period, panthers
(22:25):
are up one empty net.
Three minutes left in thegame-ish, yeah.
Graham (22:33):
I was surprised that three and a half minutes.
They took them out, dude,that's a lot of fucking time
they had to get one quick, a lotof time.
Scott (22:43):
And dude, the Panthers couldn't maintain possession of
the puck.
You know my bet.
I had Panthers minus one and ahalf.
I'm going hell yeah, empty net.
Three and a half minutes, it'sgoing to take a miracle.
And then 18 seconds left.
Graham (23:05):
The worst part is I mean I've said it already like I
mean I want the Oilers to win,but the thing is, after how game
one went, I thought for surethe Panthers were going to come
out.
I wouldn't say smoke them, butI don't really want to say
easily take care of business,but like I thought they were
going to come out, I wouldn'tsay smoke them, but I wouldn't
even want to say easily takecare of business.
But I thought they were going toget the win.
So, that being the case,obviously I had to make up for
(23:28):
my losses in NBA.
Thank you very much.
So I put the money on Florida.
So when they scored or should Isay when the Oilers scored with
what, was it 30 seconds left?
Scott (23:38):
18.
Graham (23:39):
18 seconds left.
I'm like you've got to bekidding me and folks I know I've
mentioned this before.
It doesn't matter what sport itis.
What's worse than betting theother team when you really want
the original team?
It's like you want the teamthat you're not betting to
actually win, but you want yourmoney, so it's like a lose-lose
situation Just because I knowhow the series is going to go.
(24:03):
Every game matters, Dude, ifthe Oilers would have gone up
2-0, it would have been a muchbigger swing.
Granted, I know that thePanthers did lose two in the
last series and came back.
I get that, but they also arenot the Oilers.
Dude last series and came back.
I get that, but they also arenot the.
Scott (24:20):
Oilers.
So, dude, I couldn't agree withyou more.
The Oilers threw everything atthe Panthers and the kitchen
sink and in both games theOilers had to have a third
period goal to tie it up, justin both games overtime.
Last night was the series bro.
Have a third period goal to tieit up, just in both games of
overtime.
Last night was the series bro.
(24:43):
In my opinion I'm going outthere right now and saying it
Panthers are going to win 4-2.
Last night was huge for theorange yeah huge.
Graham (25:03):
I mean sound like a homer game.
Three is gonna be huge.
Scott (25:07):
That first game back in florida, oh dude that place is
gonna be rocking oh, as the kidssay, it's gonna be litty yeah,
the only the worst part about itis Kepka is not going to be
there.
He's going to be at Oakmont.
But whatever, beating thebookie, he'll be there.
But, dude, as I'm watching thegame last night, you could just
(25:31):
feel the one-sided BS from theofficials.
I mean, literally to feel it,the goalie interference when
Homeboy pushed the Panthersplayer into Skinner.
That's called a penalty.
Okay, if one player from oneteam pushes another player into
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the goalie, okay, whatever.
After the Panthers took thelead in the third, I'm literally
texting TP and texting Greg.
I'm like, oh, wait for thepenalty.
It's coming, wait for it, waitfor it.
Boom.
But the best thing I saw inthat game yesterday was make
(26:16):
David's assist.
Oh, dude, stupid, stupid good.
You know what can you say aboutit.
But how about marshand?
Dude, from a bruin to a panthergets the shorthanded goal and
then the game winner right andpeople hate him, whatever.
(26:38):
So what?
He licks people's ears.
It's hockey, dude, you got tohave a screw loose to play that
sport.
Oh for sure.
I mean people hate him becausehe's good and because he played
on the bruins and because he'sphysical and because you don't
take your shit.
You know, but we got game threeMonday night, which is crazy.
(27:03):
You know they got a couple daysoff.
Granted, they are going fromone side of the world to the
next.
Yeah, I mean, I don't know if amatchup could be any farther
apart, but let's jump into theNBA playoffs, dude, or finals
Sorry, my bad, they startedThursday night.
(27:23):
Okc, the heavy favorite.
I mean just what everybodypredicted, right, pacers,
thunders in the finals, yeah,maybe one side, but not the
other maybe one side, but notthe other.
Graham (27:49):
I you know, yeah, look, you gotta play the team that
that's there.
And what I mean by that is justbecause you think a certain
team's gonna win with betterrecord.
Sometimes it's.
It doesn't go how you thinkit's going to go.
Sometimes players get hurt.
I mean, look, everyone thoughtit was going to come down to
Boston and Cleveland in theEastern Conference Finals.
They had no idea it was goingto be the Pacers and the Knicks
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which, by the way, bringing itup, can you believe they fired
their head coach, tom Thibodeau.
I just don't get it.
Scott (28:18):
Like I said to you the other night, if you would have
told any Knicks fan that theywould have been three games away
from the NBA Finals at thebeginning of the season, do you
think they would have been coolwith that?
Graham (28:33):
Oh, all day, all day.
So you know it is what it is.
In that sense, look, I for thelongest time said well, I don't
want to say this, but it's justlike.
It's not that I didn't haveconfidence in the Patriots.
Wow, slap, pacers, pacers.
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It's just when you look attheir roster you're just like,
okay, yeah, they got someplayers.
Okay, you know they play welltogether.
And look, playing well togetheris pretty, pretty important.
Scott (29:12):
Dude, as you're saying that I'm sitting here thinking
back to our NBA playoffpredictions and this and that,
and I think I said Grahamcouldn't even tell you a
person's name that plays on thePacers.
Announcer (29:27):
Right, right Right.
Graham (29:31):
I mean a couple of guys.
But yeah, I mean especiallywith you for not watching it.
Scott (29:38):
Dude, my boy halliburton, my guy's got ice in his veins.
Graham (29:47):
Like all everybody in sports professional sports
always say he's got that dog inhim yeah, which is hilarious
because, voted amongst his peers, he is the most overrated
player in the NBA.
Scott (30:05):
What?
Okay, I'm sorry.
How'd that work out in Knicks,game one?
How'd that work out in OKC,game one?
Graham (30:13):
Bro, he has five, Not one, two, three or four.
He has five, not one, two,three or four.
He has five game-winning shotswith less than three seconds in
the playoffs in one season.
Scott (30:28):
Yeah, he's pretty overrated.
What?
Yeah, like I said, he's prettyoverrated.
You know the best thing aboutthat when he was voted the most
overrated player.
Remember when our boy Fowlerwas voted most overrated player?
Remember when our boy fowlerwas voted most overrated player
on the pga tour?
What did he do the next weekafter that came out?
Graham (30:47):
oh, he won the players championship yeah, right, like I
just so all this, build up allthis buildup, all this buildup,
and I'm sure we mentioned it afew weeks ago yeah, wasn't OKC
minus 900 to win the series 770.
Scott (31:08):
770.
Ok.
Graham (31:10):
Weren't they minus 400 to win the first game?
Scott (31:15):
What was the spread?
Was it like nine, nine and ahalf?
Graham (31:18):
Ten and a half and it's still ten.5 today or for
tomorrow.
Scott (31:23):
It should be for tomorrow .
Graham (31:26):
Bro, this could be.
This could be like Last serieswhere OKC Against the
Timberwolves, where theTimberwolves Snuck one out in
game, one Dude, the Timberwolveswere down.
It literally was the same play.
They were down anywhere of anaverage between 8 and 14 points
and then, like right at the endthey just come back and say, all
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right, bloop, here's a shot atthe end to get the dub and just
sneak out of the house and getthis dub.
Scott (31:54):
I remember sending you the emoji of the dude with the
big eyes and you're like shut up, no chance.
And then I sent another one andit was crickets.
It was like texting Andy whenhe said hashtag WS.
But dude, that game was exactlywhat you thought was going to
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happen until the fourth quarter.
Graham (32:19):
Fourth quarter.
How about the last six minutesof the game?
They were up by 14 points withsix and a half minutes left.
Bro, the money line was theywere plus like 38,000 at that
point.
Like it's unfathomable.
But it's dude the pacers howthey play the game, their pace,
(32:43):
they look.
Scott (32:44):
What did you just say?
The Pacers, how they their pace.
I like it.
Yeah right, I like that.
The pace of the game in whichthe Pacers play.
Graham (32:53):
The three-piece I like it, the three-piece shooting the
threes.
Bro, they can't miss like, butit but let's don't forget about
that block shot at the end ofthe game oh, 100 oh dude is that
100 oh like it's, you know hey,it's only one game, but they
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got OKC puckering up a littlebit.
Yeah, that's what the?
Timberwolves thought too.
What happened in game two, youremember?
Scott (33:32):
Yeah, I did, but we're talking about the Pacers.
We're talking about the Pacers.
We're talking about the Mall ofAmerica.
We're talking about what wasvoted the most miserable sports
city in all of sports, and thatis Minneapolis.
Graham (33:53):
And they got all four sports too.
Scott (33:57):
Yeah, how about it?
Who, yeah, how about it?
Who gives up for youtube?
Graham (34:11):
I mean, look, I'm not saying they're gonna get blown
out in game two like thetimberwolves did by 45 or
whatever it was, but um myselfand like every like all the
other 80 percent of people I amon bet mgm.
Uh yeah, not only are theytaking okc money line 80
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favorites minus 10 and a half80% favorites, and I was also
kind of surprised because howthe game started, game one, the
point the points between bothteams was low, like there was
three minutes left and it waslike 18 to 11.
Announcer (34:54):
And.
Graham (34:54):
I'm like, I'm like dude, how am I making it to?
Scott (34:57):
11 and a half in the first half.
Bet the over.
Bet the over on the half andthe total.
Graham (35:05):
Yeah, and the half made it.
I'm saying I think the end did,would you?
Scott (35:09):
say the line is 10 and a half.
Yeah, 10 and a half.
I'll alternate, spread thatshit to 14.
Facts the only thing that sucksabout that is if you got a big
lead in the.
Graham (35:25):
But here's the thing you know everyone's going to say,
oh well, the Pacers had 20turnovers and this.
I'm like, yeah, that's true.
But okay, see, played like shitin the first half.
Like well, it was more of thefirst quarter.
The second half played likeshit in the first half.
Well, it was more the firstquarter.
The second half they brought itback together.
I mean, when you watch them,okc far and away looks like the
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best team.
It's just, you know, the Pacersjust kept hanging around, and
hanging around, and hangingaround, and what happens when
you let a team just hang around,it's over.
I mean what it really comesdown to.
I mean, look, sean Gildress,sean Shane Gildress, alexander
(36:09):
had the ball in his hand for thelast.
What he thought was going to bethe last possession With 15, 20
seconds left, dribbled the ball, had it.
He's known as the bestmid-range jumper in the game.
He's the MVP.
He made his move, did a spinmove, took a shot in and out of
(36:31):
the rim and missed.
If he makes that shot, thisgame's over.
Scott (36:36):
Yep.
Graham (36:37):
Like they would have a four point lead.
Scott (36:40):
I need one more strikeout from Clay Holmes Please.
Graham (36:44):
I was wondering why you're looking at TV so intently
.
So it's just like look,obviously what happens happens,
and you know it's how the cookiecrumbles.
If he makes it, it's over, Ifhe doesn't, but then again, look
, you know, Halliburton is goingto get the ball.
You know all this stuff isgoing to happen you know where
it's going.
Yeah, it's like it's almost tothe point of everyone has to say
(37:12):
to themselves can he do itagain?
Can you be that lucky?
Scott (37:15):
I'm pretty sure he's backed it up.
Graham (37:18):
Yeah, yeah, I mean I get it.
Scott (37:21):
I mean remember Game 1 series against the Knicks.
Knicks were up what 14 with 3minutes left.
Graham (37:29):
Yeah, it was like 14 or 12 with 3 minutes left.
Yeah, I mean dude, they were upTotal total series swung on his
shot, oh facts, facts, oh, thatplus like if the Knicks would
have advanced, the Knicks wouldhave got their clocks cleaned.
So I mean, look, it's kind oflike the David and Goliath, a
(37:50):
team of destiny.
Well, they're both kind ofteams of destiny to be honest.
But it's good for the league.
But you know, yes, is it toosmall markets?
Yes, is it the new?
I don't want to say the newversion, but like, look, a lot
of the old teams that have beenaround for a while with the
older players.
They ain't there no more.
This is the young bloods andthis is like where we're going
(38:11):
to see the future, so like it'sgood for the game.
It's you the game.
The series has been good so far.
We'll see what happens.
All right, all right, all right.
Scott (38:22):
That's enough of the NBA.
I mean, we just spent a longtime talking about that.
Graham (38:33):
But hey, I will say the game was entertaining it was
super entertaining.
I mean I think that deserves agolf clap.
Hearing that from Scott, I meanhey, super entertaining Folks
that's.
I mean I think that deserves agolf clap.
Hearing that from Scott, I meanhey super entertaining.
Scott (38:43):
But, dude, something we've talked about for hours and
hours and hours on this showfinally happened, and that is
none other than the dude thatdoesn't like his mom and the
dude that dumped Danica PatrickStein with the Steelers and the
(39:05):
Mets just hit a bomb.
Who was that?
Jared Young, let's go.
Announcer (39:10):
Who.
Scott (39:12):
Exactly, exactly.
I was just talking to TP aboutthat earlier.
Rodgers is officially a Steeler.
I hate every part of it.
You love it.
Eh eh, I just don't like it.
Graham (39:30):
Love is not the right word, I would say I wouldn't
really say accepted, I would sayI prefer our chances to win
with him.
Obviously he's not a long-termsituation, bro.
Did you see his deal numbers?
Scott (39:50):
Yeah, in fact I screenshotted it.
Graham (39:52):
It was 13.6 and 10 guaranteed, yeah, and then like
19 with incentives if he hits.
It can't get any friendlierthan that.
Scott (40:03):
That's fine and dandy.
Graham (40:06):
And, bro, there's still rumblings.
Pittsburgh has picks, there'stalks on the town.
And, bro, there's stillrumblings.
Pittsburgh has picks, there'stalks on the town.
They want to make another tradeLike a splash trade.
Scott (40:16):
Like maybe potentially they don't need to, what I just
saw before getting on the showand I didn't want to bring it up
until we got on.
Yeah, I'm hearing Keenan.
Graham (40:27):
Oh, I did not hear that.
Scott (40:29):
Which would be an unbelievable underrated signing
for you guys.
Possession receiver.
Graham (40:38):
I'm mad at it.
Scott (40:40):
I'm mad at it at all.
No, no, I mean DK, and then youadd Keenan.
You got.
Roman Wilson, who was out hisentire rookie season.
Graham (40:51):
Yeah, you know, dude, I would much rather have old-ass
Keenan Allen than I mean webrought in, and by we obviously
the Steelers brought in GabeDavis, you know, the other day,
Is that even a question?
Scott (41:06):
Yeah, guy had one good game against the Chiefs and has
gotten paid for it.
Graham (41:13):
Hey, sometimes that's all you need bro.
Scott (41:15):
Just ask that dude, the Packers guy that went to the
Seahawks and then Russell Wilsonwas like hey bro, yeah, I'm
going to be the starter.
Flynn, Matt Flynn, Matt Flynn,it's 17 back in the day, Chimney
crickets Names you don't thinkof.
Graham (41:35):
Which goes to show you how important the quarterback
position is.
You can go from a zero to ahero in one game and all of a
sudden it's like, hey, can I payyou some money?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll take allthat.
Announcer (41:46):
Please come on down.
Graham (41:48):
So you know, I'll just say this and we'll finish it
with the football.
You see what Terry Bradshawsaid today.
Today, I've been seeing whathe's been saying in the past
Before the signing.
Scott (42:01):
No.
Announcer (42:02):
I've heard before.
Scott (42:03):
After the signing Look, the Steelers' problem ain't Mike
Tomlin.
He's a damn good coach, One ofthe best.
Our problem is that, oh, OmarKhan.
The Steelers haven't won asingle playoff game since he
became GM not effing one.
And now he's banking on a41-year-old Aaron Rodgers.
That's the dumbest move I'veseen in years.
Graham (42:24):
All right, Terry, I'm going to have to back you up on
that.
Scott (42:29):
Not back you up, that's not what I meant.
But I saw something earlier.
Cp sent me Okay and this openedmy eyes.
I was kind of like oh damn, wow, yeah, quarterback versus
quarterback stats Rodgers versusJosh Allen Rodgers 3,897 yards,
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allen 3,700.
What Completion percentage.
They're both at 63%.
Passing touchdowns, both at 28.
Interceptions Rodgers had 11.
Allen had 6.
Bad throw percentage I don'teven know what the hell you want
(43:13):
to call that.
Yeah, you know.
Maybe when aaron rodgersstarted calling mike williams
out for not running down the redline, how about you say good
morning to your mom?
Uh, 17.3% for Rodgers and 18%for Allen.
Granted, the Bills had adifferent style offense.
(43:35):
Yeah, they let them run theball, exactly.
Graham (43:40):
Their running back had how many touchdowns last year.
Scott (43:42):
Yeah, I don't know A lot.
He's a bitter Betty right now,huh.
Graham (43:46):
Well, I mean dude, rightfully so.
The NFL does not want to payrunning backs.
Or let me rephrase that Unlessyou're not the number one
generational talent, unlessyou're Saquon.
Announcer (44:02):
Derrick.
Graham (44:02):
Henry or Christian McCaffrey, you ain't getting
paid and it's just like.
Trust me, we've beaten the drumway too many times about that
whole situation.
We get it.
But it's just like, with thesalary cap going up every year,
you can't throw him a few Likewhy does the quarterback have to
(44:25):
get 60 million?
Like why can't he just get 50?
And then you can give therunning back like five more,
four more like.
It's just like you will have tokeep like spread, spread the
wealth is all I'm saying.
You know what I mean.
It's just like I'm not sayingeveryone has to be paid equally,
because that's not fair, likecertain people deserve it, and I
get that, which is also thetalent of how you run a team by
(44:48):
putting it together based on howwho you pay and not pay.
I get all that.
That being said, you know.
Scott (44:58):
Speaking of disgruntled players, who Scary Terry
Washington?
Announcer (45:07):
Yeah, he was a name that was mentioned in Pittsburgh
.
Scott (45:13):
Top five receiver in the league.
Look what he's done with nobodythrowing him the ball.
No offense, sarah Honegge, dudethey're.
I mean.
Oh, he just threw it in theleft field, let's go.
(45:33):
Dude, there's rumors out thereChargers.
He's only got one deal, oneyear left on his deal.
Graham (45:42):
Yeah, Chargers got money to spend too.
Scott (45:45):
Yeah, anyhow, let's go, bro.
What is next week?
As we sit here on Saturdaynight?
Graham (45:55):
You know, there's this golf tournament in La Trobe.
It's in La Trobe, right, no, no?
Announcer (46:02):
it's not Smack yourself.
Graham (46:05):
Thanks, it's next to La Trobe, all right.
Whatever it's called Oakmont Iknow, but I east.
It's the beast of all beast.
I just forgot it was that.
Scott (46:17):
That was the town's name um, maybe the hardest us open
venue out of the rotation, whatis?
Is Oakmont known for Greens?
Yeah, when I got to play it,dude, and the funny thing is
Google memories came up.
I was literally there fouryears ago today.
(46:39):
That's crazy, it's wild, butwhen I was there talking with
the head pro, they slow thegreens down for the US Open.
Graham (46:53):
That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard
.
You slow it down and it's at 15.
Scott (46:59):
That's because you haven't played there.
The members.
When that place was founded,they wanted the hardest golf
course.
That place was founded, theywanted the hardest golf course
and you know the best thingabout it there's no water.
There's a couple of ditches.
Graham (47:15):
All right, let me ask you this question what is the
club champion from Oakmont?
What's he shooting in theconditions right now?
Scott (47:25):
Well, the guy that invited me for that amazing trip
, rich Berglund, who's thenational sales manager for
Callaway.
He is the club champion andwhen he won it he shot three
under and six inch rough.
Graham, you've heard thestories right?
(47:48):
Yeah, no, I know.
If there was a natural disaster, oakmont would be ready the
next day to host the US Open.
Announcer (47:55):
Yeah.
Graham (47:57):
No, I get it, I get it.
Scott (47:58):
Dude, the place is ridiculous.
It's.
I mean it's ridiculous dude.
I mean it's ridiculous dude.
I mean the members love it.
They're prideful of it being ahard golf course.
They don't care, they don'tmind going out there and
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shooting a million because it'stheir club.
Graham (48:24):
Yeah.
Scott (48:25):
I mean that's slick.
Graham (48:27):
I mean that's now the world, that's pretty cool.
Scott (48:30):
Now the world gets to see it, starting Monday.
I mean, we've already seen alot of the players making
scouting trips to the facilityto play a couple rounds.
You know they did a littlerenovation.
Gil Hans took down all thetrees on the place.
There weren't a lot of treesback then, anyway, when I played
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it, but the players' videosposted on social media about the
green speed and the rough it'sreal, bro, it's going to be fun.
I can't wait.
I tell all my students that Iteach be fun.
I can't wait.
I tell all my students that Iteach.
If you want to watch the bestplayers in the world hit bad
(49:13):
shots, you better watch thisweek.
Because you're going to see it.
Graham (49:20):
They're going to go from this week at the RBC, shooting
20 under, to Oakmont next week,where the winning score could be
plus 5?
I hope.
I hope it is.
I mean it won't be under par.
I mean that has to be somethingwe can bet on.
I mean I'm sure it would beminus 200.
(49:42):
I'm sure we can find itsomewhere.
Scott (49:44):
Yeah, I mean there's no way.
When DJ won it in 16, I thinkhe finished it 400.
Really, yeah, almost positive.
Which one was it?
It ain't happening this year.
Graham (49:58):
Was it at Bethpage that they finished over par for the
Open?
Scott (50:06):
I don't know, cabrera was over par when he won it At
Oakmont yeah.
Graham (50:10):
I'm like I know I mean, look, the whole point of the US
Open is to be the toughest test,and it's usually Either right
at even par Two under somethinglike that.
It's a range of two under toplus Three or four Something
like that.
For four days and you can'teven break par.
I love that's amazing.
Scott (50:33):
I love when par is a great score, I agree, and I love
when making a bogey is not abad score.
Graham (50:45):
Well, I really think you should break that down in the
sense that people need torealize that, yeah, is it easier
?
For how do I say this?
It's easier for players on tourto play at a track like how it
is at the RBC and shoot 20 under, versus playing at Oakmont,
(51:07):
where it's just like.
I guess what I'm asking is youhave to use your all of your
game.
Scott (51:14):
Dude, look at look at to survive.
Graham (51:15):
Okay, you know what I?
Scott (51:16):
mean If the, the facility and the course that the tour is
playing at is a birdie fest,that does not benefit the best
player in the world named scottyshuffler oh, facts because he's
not a guy.
I mean not saying he's notgoing to go out there and shoot
(51:36):
78 under, but I'm just sayingthe reason he's the best is
because he hits fairways, hemisses on the right side of the
green and he only makes onebogey on the weekend at the
Memorial.
That's why he's ScottyScheffler.
Announcer (51:58):
Yeah.
Scott (52:01):
Dude, bogeys aren't bad scores.
One of my favorite US Opensever partly because I was there
was when Payne Stewart won in 99at Pinehurst.
Yeah, and he was the onlyperson under par.
Yeah, shot one under par for 72holes.
Par is an amazing score.
You're not at the Bob Hope,where if you don't shoot 65,
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you're losing ground to thefield.
Graham (52:32):
You know, don't shoot 65 , you're losing ground to the
field.
You know which, now that Ithink about it, it just kind of
throws even more context for theog tiger, where at pebble he
was the only person under parand one by 15 like the only
person under par and was doubledigits under par folks
Ridiculous.
Scott (52:52):
What and that's the crazy thing about going into us open
week Steffler plus two, 75.
So last time something was thatlow was when Tiger won.
At that page he was plus 175.
Right, is that any good?
(53:14):
Fun fact about Oakmont, dude,the Golden Bear, as a rookie,
won his first major championshipat Oakmont.
Graham (53:28):
Yeah, I was watching oh, that's because you sent it to
me the historian thing onOakmont.
Announcer (53:34):
Yeah, yeah, I remember that.
Graham (53:34):
Yeah.
Announcer (53:36):
Amazing dude.
Graham (53:37):
Amazing.
So, all this being said, it'sabout that time in the show you
got to hit me.
Bro, who's your favorite andlong shot to win?
Scott (53:48):
Well, before we get into mine.
Okay, I gave a little textmessage to tp.
Okay, told him we were gonna.
You know, like we always do onmajor championship shows, I was
like, give me your favorite andyour long shot.
And tp, his favorite, john Rahm, got a little momentum.
(54:10):
You know, finished he was whenhe tied with Scottie at the PGA
on the back line until he misseda couple putts, and Rahm is his
favorite and Hideki is his longshot.
Announcer (54:26):
Okay.
Scott (54:28):
So if we go in and look at those odds, let's see Rom is
12-1 and Hideki is wow.
Wouldn't you start with a wow70-1.
Wow.
Graham (54:48):
To be fair, outside of the top eight players in the
world, you're going down to 35to one.
Yeah, like real quick.
And at 35 to one you got ludwigand, honestly, the way he's
been playing there is not achance in hell.
Announcer (55:08):
I'm taking him right now.
Graham (55:11):
You know, and, as all these picks that we do for the
majors, we always say you knowanyone except Tiger, or now, in
this case, anyone exceptScheffler, because it's just
it's too obvious of a pick andwe're not going to be obvious.
Look, number two plus 850 oreight and a half to one, is rory
(55:32):
.
Am I taking rory?
Nah?
no chance you can't not play atthe memorial, but then your
whole thing is you.
You play the tournament beforea major.
Okay, you played at the rb.
How'd he do?
Oh yeah, he missed the cut.
Scott (55:50):
Well, he got the Toronto Maple Leafs jinx.
Announcer (55:53):
Well.
Scott (56:00):
I'm just saying.
Graham (56:02):
Oh man, I mean, anything could happen.
So, that being said, I'm notdoing that, I'm just looking at
it.
I don't want to repeat anybody.
So, that being said, I mean,for a while I was going to say
Morikawa, but even.
Scott (56:18):
Morikawa, you can't, because I've talked about him on
this show for like weeks andweeks and weeks.
Yeah.
Graham (56:25):
No, I'm not taking him.
Scott (56:26):
I'm not, I'm not Okay good, even though I want to
backtrack, but I still got tostick to my guns.
Graham (56:33):
No, no, that's fine.
The worst part is who I'm goingto take.
After the top guys, a favorite.
The next what we'll call afavorite is like 45 to 1.
So I'm not going to do that.
So if we're going to pick a topguy, I'll take Bryson.
I'll die on that hill.
Look, you need to be long.
It's a long course, so thatfits his game.
Scott (56:57):
It's really going to come down to him.
I hope it doesn't rain.
Graham (57:01):
Right, oh, 100%.
If they slow those greens downeven more, or should I say if
the rain slows those greens downanymore, it's going to change
everything completely.
Scott (57:09):
Not only that, but the fairways.
If the ball's not hitting andrunning, it's going to take a
lot of people out of the game.
If it stays firm, fast, itbrings a lot of people in, yeah,
but when it's firm and fast italso will get.
Graham (57:26):
Those balls could continue on and bounce into the
rough.
You know what I mean.
There's plus and minuses witheverything.
So, that being said, I gotBryson and then I was going to
go one or the other here, butI'm hoping your second guy is
not, because we've been talkingabout this.
Scott (57:46):
I know exactly who you're taking.
If it is, it's okay.
No, no, if it's your guy, thenI got to back this.
I know exactly who you'retaking If it is, it's okay.
Graham (57:49):
No, no, if it's your guy , then I got to back up.
I got to back up.
So obviously the originalchoice would be Lowry, but I
have a feeling that's who you'retaking, judging by the look on
your face and how salty you areright now.
So, that being said, I'm goingto take Sepp Straka Dude,
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they're the same guy, I knowthat's what I'm saying and
Lowry's playing so good rightnow.
Scott (58:14):
So is Straka, I know that's why, I said either or
such a man crush on those twoguys because you appreciate how
they play because they both hitit straight.
Lowry has one of the best shortgames on the planet.
Because you appreciate how theyplay, because they both hit it
straight.
Lowry has one of the best shortgames on the planet.
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I don't know.
I'm going to stick with myfavorite because I've been
talking about it for weeks andweeks and weeks on the show and
actually bet it.
Yeah, I was going to say,didn't you bet him?
Yeah, I bet it a long ass timeago.
I'm going to go with Morikawa,even though I'm not feeling
great about it right now, butyou know it is what it is.
(59:00):
I wish I could see when I betthis.
Graham (59:03):
Yeah, but also not to cut you off.
But I also want to say thatwhen we were on the phone before
we got on the show here, didn'tyou tell me I wouldn't call it
a stat.
But Oakmont is a place thatusually not the favorites win at
Exactly you know what I mean,yep.
Scott (59:23):
So I mean Morikawa is my favorite.
I mean obviously we've talkedabout that.
Yeah, I love Lowryawa's myfavorite.
I mean obviously we've talkedabout that.
Yeah, I love Lowry dude, lovehim, absolutely love him.
I don't know.
I, like a lot of people, justneed to look at the forecast,
(59:43):
yeah, so if you took Straka, I'mgoing to take Lowry.
Yeah, I mean, how are youfeeling about JT?
Graham (59:46):
Justin Thomas.
Yeah, so if you took.
Straka, I'm going to take Lowry.
Yeah, I mean.
Scott (59:51):
How are you feeling about JT Justin Thomas?
Graham (59:53):
Yeah, I'm just asking to ask.
I'm not like there's no agendawith the question, I'm just he
was trending dude Won atournament, I don't know.
Scott (01:00:07):
Oh, that's a Met McNeil home run.
Get out of that, let's go.
Graham (01:00:19):
I don't know Deuce the.
Scott (01:00:19):
US Open Facts.
You gotta hit it straight.
Graham (01:00:22):
Yeah, you have to.
I'm just looking at the oddsright here.
Who's been one of the hottestplayers in the last month?
Ben Griffin.
Yeah, I'm looking at him at 71right now.
I mean I'm not taking him towin, but I mean a top 20 place.
Put a couple ducats on that,Henley has been playing nice.
(01:00:47):
Corey Connors has actually beenplaying kind of nice Henley's
dead to me after the PGA.
Well, that's fair.
All right, let's retract thatstatement, fuck him.
Scott (01:01:01):
Even though I like him man, he's an amazing iron player
I can't do it, sorry bro.
I mean he's not even on here.
Graham (01:01:09):
I'm not even seeing, damn, how low is McNeely.
I'm not even seeing him on here.
No, he's over 101.
Wow, but it's look, I don'tknow.
All the majors are so excitingto watch.
(01:01:30):
Our two favorites are always,you know, the Masters of the US
Open.
We've already talked about allthe stuff Like this is the one.
And for it to be at Oakmont howchallenging it's going to be.
I'm super excited, mainlybecause I'm going to have a lot
of time off, or just how myschedule is.
(01:01:51):
I'm going to be able to watch alot of G this weekend and I'm
stoked about it.
Like, unfortunately, I work onSunday night so it won't be, you
know, a lot of the podcast theday after or whatever, but it's
just like I'll be able to watchall of Sunday.
I have Saturday off, so it'sjust like to watch the weekend
and how it just develops andwhat's going to happen.
(01:02:11):
I'm super pumped about it.
I'm going to be glued to the TV.
Scott (01:02:16):
I'm pumped about this about as much as I get pumped
about Torrey Pines hosting theUS Open.
You know how much I love TorreyPines.
I've played it a thousand andyou know how much I love Torrey
Pines.
I've played it a thousand times.
I mean, I named my goddamn dogafter it.
Graham (01:02:36):
Yeah, Just the fact that I've gotten to play Oakmont and
oh, it just kicks it up, feelit is amazing to me.
Scott (01:02:46):
Amazing to me the history , the clubhouse, the whole deal.
I can't wait, dude.
I can't wait to see Carnage.
And it's going to be amazing IfI was a betting person, which
we all know I am.
We already gave our favoritesand our underdogs.
Just go throw your money onScotty, let's go.
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I mean, we can talk about ourfavorites and under underdogs.
Just go throw your money onScottie, let's go.
I mean we can talk about ourfavorites and underdogs all we
want.
If you lose 50 bucks on Scottie,whatever you made the smartest
bet you've ever made in yourlife.
Graham (01:03:19):
Oh, facts, I mean look with all of these golf
tournaments, the US Openespecially, it's all about who
can handle adversity during theround, and Oakmont is going to
throw everything at you and it'sjust what players can be able
to be like.
All right, I hit a bad shot.
On to the next one.
(01:03:39):
Don't care about what happenedin the past, just be in focus.
Do what you need to do, andscore.
Scott (01:03:46):
Like I was saying earlier , there is such thing as a good
bogey.
Graham (01:03:50):
Right.
Scott (01:03:52):
Turn that double bogey into a bogey.
Graham (01:03:58):
Dude, you could have a putt that could be a good bogey.
That could turn into a triplereal quick.
Scott (01:04:04):
And, with that being said , my boy Mero, is one of the
best players I've ever gotten toplay with Good friend of us.
He got to play Oakmont for thefirst time back in October.
My guy had a 20-foot birdieputt on the second hole.
He's going to kill me fortalking about this, but whatever
, don't care.
Let's go 20-foot birdie putt onthe second hole.
(01:04:26):
You know what he had for histhird shot.
Graham (01:04:31):
Yeah, didn't he have like 60 yards?
Announcer (01:04:33):
Or 40 yards.
Graham (01:04:34):
Yeah, 40 yards, that's insane.
Scott (01:04:38):
And the hole's like 350 yards.
When I played it, dude, I hitfour iron sandwich.
And with that being said, folksenjoy the US Open, enjoy the
Stanley Cup Finals, enjoy theNBA Finals and let's don't
(01:04:59):
forget that's first team in theNational League to get to that
40 wins yes, I know, I knew thatwas coming.
Announcer (01:05:06):
Yes, I know, it knew that was coming.
Scott (01:05:08):
Yes, I know, it's only June 7th.
Let your boy have some fun,please.
Thank you, graham, get us outof here.
Graham (01:05:21):
Oh man, scott, I'm going to say this, it's not that I,
oh shit, what did we miss?
I'm sure to say this it's notthat, oh shit, what did we miss?
I'm sure we missed some.
Scott (01:05:33):
Oh, if you like, the three-year anniversary of our
podcast.
Graham (01:05:38):
Oh.
Announcer (01:05:39):
Yeah.
Graham (01:05:40):
In my defense, scott makes the notes for the show.
I didn't even I mentioned it toyou a couple days ago too.
Scott (01:05:48):
Yeah, while we were literally talking, I looked it
up Our first episode.
It's not to the day but it'scloser to June 9th June, 9th
2022.
Graham (01:06:02):
Who'd have thought, wow, wow.
You know, what I was going tosay was am I bummed?
We had that week off, yeah, butto be fair, granted, and look
there's also the extra hype ofthe US Open.
I'm not predetermining this isa top five show or a top 10 show
(01:06:25):
, but like I can't remember thelast time that I laughed so much
in this episode, like this.
Scott (01:06:31):
I can't remember the last time I mentioned salads as much
as I mentioned like folks,you're getting a bonus extra ten
minutes.
Graham (01:06:44):
I know they're normally an hour, but fuck it.
I mean, oh beep that outYouTube extra 10 minutes.
Scott (01:06:49):
I know they're normally an hour, but fuck it.
I mean, oh, beep that outYouTube.
And, on a side note, everybodythat reached out text me and
were like where the hell's theepisode.
Thank you Seriously.
Thank you, graham, and Iappreciate that.
It makes us feel like we'redoing this.
So the reason we do it is toentertain our boys, entertain
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our family.
You know, do what we do.
Talk about sports Now let's go.
Graham (01:07:19):
Scott, it's been an absolute pleasure to do this
podcast with you for the lastthree years.
You're the best homie.
For a reason.
I love you to death and, as thebest homie always says, buh-bye
.
Scott (01:07:32):
Good night blue sweatshirt.
You might want to go to.
What's that milkshake thatchick used to Slimfest.
Good night blue sweatshirt.
You might want to subscribe toSlimfest.
You fat piece of shit.
Announcer (01:07:50):
Subscribe to Slim Fest.
You fat piece of shit.
This episode of the Ball Guyson the Bench podcast is brought
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to you by our friends at NorthStar Credit Union and Southern
Auto, located in SoutheastVirginia.
Welcome to another episode of the Bald Guys on the
Bench podcast, with your hostsGraham Cohen and Scott Wasco.
Graham (00:21):
What's up everyone, welcome back to another edition
of the Bald Guys on the Bench.
Scotty, it's good to see youagain, brother, and oh damn, is
it hot out here.
Scott (00:29):
How you doing, brother, dude I know it's hot in Vegas,
but, bro, if you like 85%humidity, I'm right there with
you.
I know it's two different kindsof hot, but the main thing is
guess what?
It's goddamn hot Facts, oh man.
(00:52):
But gee, it's been a coupleweeks we haven't been on the air
.
It's time, bro, let's grab itand crack it.
Graham (00:59):
Sweet, I need to cool off, let's go.
Scott (01:01):
Oh, the only thing that can cool me off is I can dip my
balls in the pool right aboutnow.
Totally got done playing some gtoday and my dad and all his
buddies are like man I can'twait to get home, jump in the
pool and I'm like, god damn it,I miss my house in california,
right, oh god, you remember thedays, dude, you're going to get
(01:25):
home from playing some golf andit would be like superman
changing in the phone booth.
Bro, bathing suit, cord light.
I was so wanting that today.
But anyhow, uh, first foremost,sorry we didn't do an episode
(01:47):
last week, and with saying that,it kind of made me feel good
that we didn't do an episodelast week, because I got a lot
of texts from people going bro,where's the episode, where's the
episode, where's the episode?
And I'm like oh damn.
Okay.
Graham (02:04):
Let's go, my bad, let's go.
My bad, let's go I wasavailable.
Scott (02:08):
Graham had to do some work, but it was probably thanks
.
It was probably a good thing wedidn't do it last sunday night
because after the situations inflag football the whole segment
might have been a kick rocksmoment.
Graham (02:25):
That's right.
You got to bring that up thistime around.
I forgot about that.
Scott (02:29):
Oh yeah, we're going to bring it up, but you know, like
we always do, you got lastweekend and this weekend to kind
of talk about, even though weare recording for the first time
ever on a Saturday night.
Graham (02:44):
Yes, which is kind of weird, folks, I've always said
this to Scott and everyone else,friends of mine I'm a firm
believer in things happen.
For a reason Was it unfortunatethat we couldn't get an episode
out last week?
100%?
But?
But To be fair, what reallyhappened last week?
A whole lot of nothing.
(03:04):
I mean we were on break fromthe NHL playoffs.
We were on break in between theNBA.
Yeah, there was some hockey Imean hockey Slap myself.
There was some baseball goingon, but like, did we really miss
anything?
You got to watch ScottyScheffler dominate again at
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jack's place yeah, I mean, isthis a golf podcast or all
around sports podcast?
Scott (03:34):
well, like we said in episode one, we met because of
the sport of golf facts a andand.
Graham (03:42):
As I told you, after that dominating performance, I
officially folks you heard ithere first.
Scott already knows but I am nolonger referring to scotty
scheffler as scotty schefflerfolks his new name is the white
tiger and I'm just leaving it,and folks, graham's already
(04:03):
gotten that patented, so try tosteal it.
Scott (04:06):
You're welcome.
He's already got the websiteWhitetigerorgcom.
Ballguys on the bench Go aheadand try, motherfucker.
Graham (04:22):
So I mean we're going to get into a lot of golf in a
little while, because Well, theUS Open, that's different, you
know, I mean jack's place isjack's place, I get it.
Memorial, I mean it's iconic, Iget it.
But yeah did you see?
Scott (04:33):
the little dig that jack did in his press conference
after tiger won.
It was amazing oh yeah about.
He's like yeah, ben griffin's agood player, yeah, step struck
is a good player, but they'renot even on the same level as
scotty bro.
Graham (04:55):
No one's on his level right now dude.
Scott (04:58):
It was so awesome that he said that.
I mean the way the media blewit up, like they always do, you
know, but jack's the only guythat can get away from get away
with saying that.
I mean, yeah, but anyhow, backto your weekend.
You know, sidetracked much yeah, right, um, um.
Graham (05:24):
What did I do?
I'd say the Cliff Notes versionis I helped my dad reset up the
little outside above-groundpool that we got Just been
having some complications withthat.
Got that all situated andworked out.
Finally got the float in themail from Amazon.
(05:47):
That should have been here in aday and it took a week and a
half, for whatever reason.
Thanks, work being work, Ididn't get into that, but really
I've.
Let's check out the moviechecklist.
What has Graham seen in thelast week and a half.
Scott (06:00):
Oh God, if it's in a theater.
My guy's seen it.
Graham (06:04):
Hey, I've been waiting for some movies to come out here
, so let's not, you know, eventhough I did watch two in the
past week, so three.
I saw the Mission Impossiblemovie Unbelievable.
I can't remember if we broughtthis up last time.
Scott (06:21):
We did Okay, alright, we got a broken record going.
Alright.
Alright, bro, we did Okay, allright, we got a broken record
going All right.
Announcer (06:26):
Bro, like I said on this podcast before.
Graham (06:29):
I don't remember what I had for dinner three nights ago.
So, to be fair, right, lastnight saw Ballerina, the spinoff
of the John Wick movies.
I thought it was really good,really enjoyed that, saw that
with Pops.
And then a few days ago I sawthe new karate kid movie.
And I'm gonna be honest, folks,I it's not that I had high
(06:52):
expectations going into themovie, but I was pleasantly
surprised on how good it was.
I mean, it wasn't cheesy likehow they did the cobra kai
series on netflix, like they dida really good job bringing in
Jackie Chan.
They brought in Ralph Macchio.
Scott (07:08):
They brought in Ralph Macchio.
Graham (07:10):
Yeah, dude, they even brought in Zepka.
No, sorry, but it was reallygood Wax off wax off
motherfucker.
Scott (07:28):
Yeah, so both movies are really good.
Good, I'm so happy you hit thatwe can say bad language on our
podcast button now, right now,for now, for now, okay.
Graham (07:38):
No, the only reason why I say it is like we can, but
when we start going on youtube,they demonetize you if you swear
.
Oh okay, so like we can swear,but it will be bleeped out okay,
that's fine, bleep me, bleepthese got him who dot, dot dot
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cares.
Scott (08:05):
And yes, folks, you can tell we're fired up for this
episode after missing last weekand we haven't even started
talking about our god damn thing.
Graham (08:17):
Yeah I mean, hey, at this point, enough about me,
brother.
How was your last two weeks?
Scott (08:23):
well, you know it's been awesome.
It's getting hot, it's gettingbusy.
Golf season's booming here onthe east coast.
Uh, you know, flag footballlast week we had a double header
so we got rained out week oneand you know we were just
balling, dude, my team's fuckingdoing work and we had a game,
(08:48):
the first game last week.
We're playing a team thatwasn't very good and the second
game was the team that was infirst place above us because of
points scored against, that'sthe tiebreaker, right, right
scored against.
So, dude, literally first game.
It's less than a minute intothe game and my son has two
(09:10):
touchdowns, okay, it's like,yeah, we won 42 to 12, okay, and
we rested everybody.
So the the best part about thegame was the officials were like
, oh man, y'all play thecommanders next after this game.
Right, we're like, yeah, oh,somebody just hit a bomb, is
(09:32):
that Ronnie?
There we go, metropolitans.
The officials are like hypingit.
You know what I mean.
It was like the perfect storm.
The officials were like ooh,like oh, oh, oh, y'all gonna do
work against them.
Oh, y'all are big, oh, and thekids are like buying into it.
(09:53):
Yeah, you know, the officialsare talking to the kids about it
and I'm like, yeah, bro, shutup.
You know anyhow won the game.
The first game 42 to so nowwe're playing the commanders,
okay Right, the team that hasn'tallowed a point all season.
Oh damn, they skunked, sorry,they allowed eight points going
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into the third game against us.
Fourth game oh wow.
And we did the coin toss.
They get the ball first, theyget a touchdown, they drive down
the field, bada bing, bada boom.
Eight, nothing, cause they gofor two.
We sought out on the field andyou've seen the video, first
player of the game.
I give it to Kellen run passoption.
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What's Kellen do, graham?
Graham (10:39):
House call Booba.
Scott (10:44):
And we may put it on the video on our instagram now.
The best part about the videois number one kristin jumping up
and down, all excited.
Number two my dad going likethis, when kellen does his spin,
he's telling just my dad justgoes bye-bye, he gone, it's
awesome, but yeah, tie game, youknow, whatever this.
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So this team, you know they'relike oh damn, we're in a battle,
right.
They're like, okay, and it'sthe first team they've played
that they can really say, okay,they're good and things just
went to shit after that, dude.
And when I mean shit, I meanshit, dude.
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Normally it's your boy and I'lladmit it that gets fired up and
doesn't know how to shut hismouth.
You know that I mean, for once,kristen was like damn, I'm
proud of you, I can't evenbelieve it.
And it all started with, youknow, kellen spins when he runs
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the ball.
They started saying you can'tspin in this league.
Well, no jackass, you can spin,you can't jump.
So we get into this heateddebate.
Their coach is saying somethingto Kellen.
And you know, dad coach.
And you know, dad coach,whatever you can say, whatever
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you want to your players, youain't talking to my son, fat boy
, like right.
He said something to kellen andkellen fires back at him why
don't you eat a salad?
And at that moment I'm like Imean not that I didn't know
before, but my god knows, he'sgot my attitude in my mouth.
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But anyhow, the game is, theofficial calls a timeout and has
me and the coach in a littlehuddle on midfield and I'm like,
and he's like arguing you can'tspin.
I'm like, dude, read the rules.
Blah, blah, blah.
Yeah, so I, I call the nextplay and I'm like walking off
the sidelines.
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I'm like kellen, spin, spin.
Like and I didn't realize howloud I said it I'm like spin,
spin like a god dang tornado,dude.
My entire sideline loses it.
They're all dying, laughing,whatever right.
So, whatever I mean, it is whatit is.
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Parents are getting hit orgetting pissed.
Their coach says to one oftheir players and that fat son
of a bitch in the bluesweatshirt is lucky I didn't
hear it because he goes.
If that kid, kid spins again,just hit him, dude.
I'd have put him in the StoneCold Stunner, and I'd have been
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like Austin.
316 means I just whipped yourass, fat boy.
You want me to drop you on thatstack of dimes?
You call a neck, you know.
So that's going on.
My quarterback's dad is verymild tempered and he was about
to go over there lay the woodthe fat boy in the blue
sweatshirt, anyhow, halftime,second half starts and you know,
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the kids start jawing becauseyou know it is what it is.
They're 14 years old dude, youknow.
Announcer (14:01):
Yeah.
Scott (14:07):
They're years old dude, you know, yeah, they're
competitive, they want to win.
Selling goes for a run.
Some dude like grabs his flag,throws it down and kellen's like
, oh, you think you're cool.
You were the last person onyour team that could have gotten
my flag, congratulations.
Dude gets in kellen's face andI'm like, oh god, I'm grabbing
kellen back.
So then the straw that broke thecamel's back was one of their
parents on the sideline startsyelling we got the ball on
offense.
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And I'm like, dude, shut up.
I'm in the huddle and the kidon their team goes don't tell my
dad to shut up.
You shut up.
And he says something.
And my boy, shane you know,hoover vacuum best hands in the
league.
Shane's like bro, you ain'ttalking to my coach, like that
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homeboy.
We're about to go down.
And that's when the leagueofficial called the game game
over.
Everybody, go home.
We're not finishing the game.
Wow, it got out of hand.
But all I'm gonna say is youknow, I wrote a letter to the
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league.
We have to wear these redt-shirts, right, let's say nfl
flag coach on them.
That's how they distinguish whothe coach is right they had six
dudes on their sideline.
One person had the red t-shirton, okay, and they're all.
Yeah, they're all yelling andscreaming, and probably because
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blue sweatshirt guy couldn't fitin his t-shirt that they sent
his fat ass.
So we'll excuse him, okay.
So then we got four more.
I mean, oh, my God, I don'tknow it was, so they ended up
giving us the loss.
Whatever it is what it is,we'll see him in the
championship.
That's the main thing.
Whatever, I'd rather lose in aregular season than that.
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We know what they're all aboutand I'm not.
Hey, they were good.
I'm not taking anything awayfrom their team.
They were good.
Yeah, their coaches weredouchebags.
Graham (16:12):
Yeah, but something that you kind of left out that I
just want to bring up.
Scott (16:13):
Why do you think they were so good?
Oh, because they practicedmultiple times during the week.
Announcer (16:18):
Isn't that illegal?
Scott (16:20):
Yeah, in my league you're only allowed to practice an
hour before the game.
These dudes didn't settle theentire game.
I mean fat boy in the bluesweatshirt God, I wish I knew
his text because I'd send himthis Fat boy in the blue
sweatshirt.
(16:40):
I mean you ain't the secondcoming bro of God, dang Josh
McDaniels, or give me some otheroffensive geniuses.
I mean you ain't the secondcoming bro of God, dang Josh
McDaniels, or give me some otheroffensive geniuses.
I mean Sean Payton.
I mean, bro, come on, guyKingsbury, you don't have an
offense named after you, like me, the Woffence.
I mean I do this shit legal,bro.
We huddle, we practice an hourbefore the game.
(17:01):
That fat son of a bitch, Iguarantee you he goes the
fucking arby's as much as theypractice during the week.
Who's?
Graham (17:10):
got the beef that guy.
Scott (17:12):
Oh, dude, dude, anyhow, it is what it is.
Enough about that.
And I do have to say one thinggreg shane's dad.
He was texting me like bro,where's the episode?
(17:33):
And I knew what he was gettingat.
He was like poking the bearbecause he wanted to hear the
kick rocks.
But from the five game lastweek, greg, I get it, dude, some
parent told greg, I'll see youin the parking lot.
What?
Yeah, like bro, it's 13, 14year old kids playing flag
football.
I want to win as much asanybody, but come on, bro, I
(17:55):
mean yeah.
So anyhow, let's go, bro.
Stanley cup finals finallystart, after God knows how many
days off.
Game one in Edmonton you knowwe got a rematch of last year.
Last year the Panthers had homeice, this year the Oilers have
it.
Dude, I'm on the way home fromwork.
(18:16):
Forget the game's on, turn iton.
There's 18 minutes and X leftand it's already 1-0.
I'm like, holy shit, right,dude.
Overtime.
Game one Did it disappoint?
Not a chance.
Graham (18:36):
Pins and needles, that game Look.
Scott (18:42):
You know the best thing about this You're starting to
watch hockey playoffs.
Graham (18:45):
I told you know the best thing about this you're
starting to watch hockeyplayoffs I told you in the past,
and I was actually just gonnasay this I watch when the
playoffs go on.
There's an intensity and, trustme, I get why you like it.
I get it.
You know what I mean.
But it's just in all the sports, when the pressure is on and it
means something, the intensityis up and it's just like I don't
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want to call it a differentgame, but like when something's
is on and it means something,the intensity is up and it's
just like I don't want to callit a different game, but like
when something's on the line, itmeans more.
And you could really tell.
I mean especially and we'll getinto it even with game two,
dude, game two in the doubleovertime, bro dude, there was
parts that I like I was watchingthe game before you even called
me and like I'm telling stuffto you and you're like, wait,
you actually did watch the game.
Scott (19:26):
I was like, yeah, I've been watching it from the
beginning dude, I told kristenlast night in the second after
the first overtime.
I'm like I'm so glad this isnot the nights, because I'd be a
wreck right now oh, facts eventhough it was only game two, but
anyhow it's.
And the worst part about it,bro, is you can't go take a leak
when you're having somebeverages, because there ain't
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no timeouts.
It's like, oh, can a brotherjust go take a leak.
Graham (19:54):
Can a brother get that TV outside again?
Scott (19:57):
Thanks for making me remember my California house
again.
Graham, Appreciate it.
Just for that I'll smack myselfin the face.
I don't even know why, but youknow Oilers win game one, dude,
and you know it was insane.
It was what we wanted to see,right?
Yeah, Rematch and TP, and Isaid it, the Oilers are a better
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team this year.
They're deeper, oh yeah, Muchdeeper.
But going into game two, mywhole thing were the Panthers
are going to light them up.
My prediction was and you'veseen the text my prediction was
Skinner's not in the net tostart game three.
You said that.
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And, dude, he almost got hurt.
And then he was almost.
My prediction was going to beright.
Not that I want him to get hurt, I just wanted him to get lit
up like a christmas tree, butdude the way that game started.
Panthers score early on a powerplay and then edmonton scores to
11 penalties.
Dude In the first period.
Graham (21:06):
Bro.
I mean Unlike last year, youcould tell.
I mean for someone that's anoutsider Looking in, I could
tell how much More of a physicalteam that the Oilers Were
compared to last year.
Like last year the Pantherswere slapping them around.
You know what I mean.
And it's just like All thechippiness was from the Florida
Panthers.
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Now this go around it was much.
I mean I would say the Pantherswere more aggressive with their
chippiness but the Oilersweren't backing down from it.
You know what I mean.
Like they were trying to holdtheir own.
Scott (21:40):
That's the way the Panthers play, dude Right.
And if you rewind back to whenthe Knights beat the Panthers in
the cup, it was the same thingand the Panthers are chippy,
chippy, chippy.
That's part of their game plan.
Dude, hit Graham after thewhistle.
Get Graham to retaliate.
Guess who?
The penalty's on Graham?
Yeah, and the Knights didn'tfall for their bullshit and
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that's why they were in thepenalty box the whole time and
that's why we beat them four toone.
No-transcript.
They're playing some hockey,man.
But with that being said, lastnight, third period, panthers
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are up one empty net.
Three minutes left in thegame-ish, yeah.
Graham (22:33):
I was surprised that three and a half minutes.
They took them out, dude,that's a lot of fucking time
they had to get one quick, a lotof time.
Scott (22:43):
And dude, the Panthers couldn't maintain possession of
the puck.
You know my bet.
I had Panthers minus one and ahalf.
I'm going hell yeah, empty net.
Three and a half minutes, it'sgoing to take a miracle.
And then 18 seconds left.
Graham (23:05):
The worst part is I mean I've said it already like I
mean I want the Oilers to win,but the thing is, after how game
one went, I thought for surethe Panthers were going to come
out.
I wouldn't say smoke them, butI don't really want to say
easily take care of business,but like I thought they were
going to come out, I wouldn'tsay smoke them, but I wouldn't
even want to say easily takecare of business.
But I thought they were going toget the win.
So, that being the case,obviously I had to make up for
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my losses in NBA.
Thank you very much.
So I put the money on Florida.
So when they scored or should Isay when the Oilers scored with
what, was it 30 seconds left?
Scott (23:38):
18.
Graham (23:39):
18 seconds left.
I'm like you've got to bekidding me and folks I know I've
mentioned this before.
It doesn't matter what sport itis.
What's worse than betting theother team when you really want
the original team?
It's like you want the teamthat you're not betting to
actually win, but you want yourmoney, so it's like a lose-lose
situation Just because I knowhow the series is going to go.
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Every game matters, Dude, ifthe Oilers would have gone up
2-0, it would have been a muchbigger swing.
Granted, I know that thePanthers did lose two in the
last series and came back.
I get that, but they also arenot the Oilers.
Dude last series and came back.
I get that, but they also arenot the.
Scott (24:20):
Oilers.
So, dude, I couldn't agree withyou more.
The Oilers threw everything atthe Panthers and the kitchen
sink and in both games theOilers had to have a third
period goal to tie it up, justin both games overtime.
Last night was the series bro.
Have a third period goal to tieit up, just in both games of
overtime.
Last night was the series bro.
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In my opinion I'm going outthere right now and saying it
Panthers are going to win 4-2.
Last night was huge for theorange yeah huge.
Graham (25:03):
I mean sound like a homer game.
Three is gonna be huge.
Scott (25:07):
That first game back in florida, oh dude that place is
gonna be rocking oh, as the kidssay, it's gonna be litty yeah,
the only the worst part about itis Kepka is not going to be
there.
He's going to be at Oakmont.
But whatever, beating thebookie, he'll be there.
But, dude, as I'm watching thegame last night, you could just
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feel the one-sided BS from theofficials.
I mean, literally to feel it,the goalie interference when
Homeboy pushed the Panthersplayer into Skinner.
That's called a penalty.
Okay, if one player from oneteam pushes another player into
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the goalie, okay, whatever.
After the Panthers took thelead in the third, I'm literally
texting TP and texting Greg.
I'm like, oh, wait for thepenalty.
It's coming, wait for it, waitfor it.
Boom.
But the best thing I saw inthat game yesterday was make
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David's assist.
Oh, dude, stupid, stupid good.
You know what can you say aboutit.
But how about marshand?
Dude, from a bruin to a panthergets the shorthanded goal and
then the game winner right andpeople hate him, whatever.
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So what?
He licks people's ears.
It's hockey, dude, you got tohave a screw loose to play that
sport.
Oh for sure.
I mean people hate him becausehe's good and because he played
on the bruins and because he'sphysical and because you don't
take your shit.
You know, but we got game threeMonday night, which is crazy.
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You know they got a couple daysoff.
Granted, they are going fromone side of the world to the
next.
Yeah, I mean, I don't know if amatchup could be any farther
apart, but let's jump into theNBA playoffs, dude, or finals
Sorry, my bad, they startedThursday night.
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Okc, the heavy favorite.
I mean just what everybodypredicted, right, pacers,
thunders in the finals, yeah,maybe one side, but not the
other maybe one side, but notthe other.
Graham (27:49):
I you know, yeah, look, you gotta play the team that
that's there.
And what I mean by that is justbecause you think a certain
team's gonna win with betterrecord.
Sometimes it's.
It doesn't go how you thinkit's going to go.
Sometimes players get hurt.
I mean, look, everyone thoughtit was going to come down to
Boston and Cleveland in theEastern Conference Finals.
They had no idea it was goingto be the Pacers and the Knicks
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which, by the way, bringing itup, can you believe they fired
their head coach, tom Thibodeau.
I just don't get it.
Scott (28:18):
Like I said to you the other night, if you would have
told any Knicks fan that theywould have been three games away
from the NBA Finals at thebeginning of the season, do you
think they would have been coolwith that?
Graham (28:33):
Oh, all day, all day.
So you know it is what it is.
In that sense, look, I for thelongest time said well, I don't
want to say this, but it's justlike.
It's not that I didn't haveconfidence in the Patriots.
Wow, slap, pacers, pacers.
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It's just when you look attheir roster you're just like,
okay, yeah, they got someplayers.
Okay, you know they play welltogether.
And look, playing well togetheris pretty, pretty important.
Scott (29:12):
Dude, as you're saying that I'm sitting here thinking
back to our NBA playoffpredictions and this and that,
and I think I said Grahamcouldn't even tell you a
person's name that plays on thePacers.
Announcer (29:27):
Right, right Right.
Graham (29:31):
I mean a couple of guys.
But yeah, I mean especiallywith you for not watching it.
Scott (29:38):
Dude, my boy halliburton, my guy's got ice in his veins.
Graham (29:47):
Like all everybody in sports professional sports
always say he's got that dog inhim yeah, which is hilarious
because, voted amongst his peers, he is the most overrated
player in the NBA.
Scott (30:05):
What?
Okay, I'm sorry.
How'd that work out in Knicks,game one?
How'd that work out in OKC,game one?
Graham (30:13):
Bro, he has five, Not one, two, three or four.
He has five, not one, two,three or four.
He has five game-winning shotswith less than three seconds in
the playoffs in one season.
Scott (30:28):
Yeah, he's pretty overrated.
What?
Yeah, like I said, he's prettyoverrated.
You know the best thing aboutthat when he was voted the most
overrated player.
Remember when our boy Fowlerwas voted most overrated player?
Remember when our boy fowlerwas voted most overrated player
on the pga tour?
What did he do the next weekafter that came out?
Graham (30:47):
oh, he won the players championship yeah, right, like I
just so all this, build up allthis buildup, all this buildup,
and I'm sure we mentioned it afew weeks ago yeah, wasn't OKC
minus 900 to win the series 770.
Scott (31:08):
770.
Ok.
Graham (31:10):
Weren't they minus 400 to win the first game?
Scott (31:15):
What was the spread?
Was it like nine, nine and ahalf?
Graham (31:18):
Ten and a half and it's still ten.5 today or for
tomorrow.
Scott (31:23):
It should be for tomorrow .
Graham (31:26):
Bro, this could be.
This could be like Last serieswhere OKC Against the
Timberwolves, where theTimberwolves Snuck one out in
game, one Dude, the Timberwolveswere down.
It literally was the same play.
They were down anywhere of anaverage between 8 and 14 points
and then, like right at the endthey just come back and say, all
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right, bloop, here's a shot atthe end to get the dub and just
sneak out of the house and getthis dub.
Scott (31:54):
I remember sending you the emoji of the dude with the
big eyes and you're like shut up, no chance.
And then I sent another one andit was crickets.
It was like texting Andy whenhe said hashtag WS.
But dude, that game was exactlywhat you thought was going to
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happen until the fourth quarter.
Graham (32:19):
Fourth quarter.
How about the last six minutesof the game?
They were up by 14 points withsix and a half minutes left.
Bro, the money line was theywere plus like 38,000 at that
point.
Like it's unfathomable.
But it's dude the pacers howthey play the game, their pace,
(32:43):
they look.
Scott (32:44):
What did you just say?
The Pacers, how they their pace.
I like it.
Yeah right, I like that.
The pace of the game in whichthe Pacers play.
Graham (32:53):
The three-piece I like it, the three-piece shooting the
threes.
Bro, they can't miss like, butit but let's don't forget about
that block shot at the end ofthe game oh, 100 oh dude is that
100 oh like it's, you know hey,it's only one game, but they
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got OKC puckering up a littlebit.
Yeah, that's what the?
Timberwolves thought too.
What happened in game two, youremember?
Scott (33:32):
Yeah, I did, but we're talking about the Pacers.
We're talking about the Pacers.
We're talking about the Mall ofAmerica.
We're talking about what wasvoted the most miserable sports
city in all of sports, and thatis Minneapolis.
Graham (33:53):
And they got all four sports too.
Scott (33:57):
Yeah, how about it?
Who, yeah, how about it?
Who gives up for youtube?
Graham (34:11):
I mean, look, I'm not saying they're gonna get blown
out in game two like thetimberwolves did by 45 or
whatever it was, but um myselfand like every like all the
other 80 percent of people I amon bet mgm.
Uh yeah, not only are theytaking okc money line 80
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favorites minus 10 and a half80% favorites, and I was also
kind of surprised because howthe game started, game one, the
point the points between bothteams was low, like there was
three minutes left and it waslike 18 to 11.
Announcer (34:54):
And.
Graham (34:54):
I'm like, I'm like dude, how am I making it to?
Scott (34:57):
11 and a half in the first half.
Bet the over.
Bet the over on the half andthe total.
Graham (35:05):
Yeah, and the half made it.
I'm saying I think the end did,would you?
Scott (35:09):
say the line is 10 and a half.
Yeah, 10 and a half.
I'll alternate, spread thatshit to 14.
Facts the only thing that sucksabout that is if you got a big
lead in the.
Graham (35:25):
But here's the thing you know everyone's going to say,
oh well, the Pacers had 20turnovers and this.
I'm like, yeah, that's true.
But okay, see, played like shitin the first half.
Like well, it was more of thefirst quarter.
The second half played likeshit in the first half.
Well, it was more the firstquarter.
The second half they brought itback together.
I mean, when you watch them,okc far and away looks like the
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best team.
It's just, you know, the Pacersjust kept hanging around, and
hanging around, and hangingaround, and what happens when
you let a team just hang around,it's over.
I mean what it really comesdown to.
I mean, look, sean Gildress,sean Shane Gildress, alexander
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had the ball in his hand for thelast.
What he thought was going to bethe last possession With 15, 20
seconds left, dribbled the ball, had it.
He's known as the bestmid-range jumper in the game.
He's the MVP.
He made his move, did a spinmove, took a shot in and out of
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the rim and missed.
If he makes that shot, thisgame's over.
Scott (36:36):
Yep.
Graham (36:37):
Like they would have a four point lead.
Scott (36:40):
I need one more strikeout from Clay Holmes Please.
Graham (36:44):
I was wondering why you're looking at TV so intently
.
So it's just like look,obviously what happens happens,
and you know it's how the cookiecrumbles.
If he makes it, it's over, Ifhe doesn't, but then again, look
, you know, Halliburton is goingto get the ball.
You know all this stuff isgoing to happen you know where
it's going.
Yeah, it's like it's almost tothe point of everyone has to say
(37:12):
to themselves can he do itagain?
Can you be that lucky?
Scott (37:15):
I'm pretty sure he's backed it up.
Graham (37:18):
Yeah, yeah, I mean I get it.
Scott (37:21):
I mean remember Game 1 series against the Knicks.
Knicks were up what 14 with 3minutes left.
Graham (37:29):
Yeah, it was like 14 or 12 with 3 minutes left.
Yeah, I mean dude, they were upTotal total series swung on his
shot, oh facts, facts, oh, thatplus like if the Knicks would
have advanced, the Knicks wouldhave got their clocks cleaned.
So I mean, look, it's kind oflike the David and Goliath, a
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team of destiny.
Well, they're both kind ofteams of destiny to be honest.
But it's good for the league.
But you know, yes, is it toosmall markets?
Yes, is it the new?
I don't want to say the newversion, but like, look, a lot
of the old teams that have beenaround for a while with the
older players.
They ain't there no more.
This is the young bloods andthis is like where we're going
(38:11):
to see the future, so like it'sgood for the game.
It's you the game.
The series has been good so far.
We'll see what happens.
All right, all right, all right.
Scott (38:22):
That's enough of the NBA.
I mean, we just spent a longtime talking about that.
Graham (38:33):
But hey, I will say the game was entertaining it was
super entertaining.
I mean I think that deserves agolf clap.
Hearing that from Scott, I meanhey, super entertaining Folks
that's.
I mean I think that deserves agolf clap.
Hearing that from Scott, I meanhey super entertaining.
Scott (38:43):
But, dude, something we've talked about for hours and
hours and hours on this showfinally happened, and that is
none other than the dude thatdoesn't like his mom and the
dude that dumped Danica PatrickStein with the Steelers and the
(39:05):
Mets just hit a bomb.
Who was that?
Jared Young, let's go.
Announcer (39:10):
Who.
Scott (39:12):
Exactly, exactly.
I was just talking to TP aboutthat earlier.
Rodgers is officially a Steeler.
I hate every part of it.
You love it.
Eh eh, I just don't like it.
Graham (39:30):
Love is not the right word, I would say I wouldn't
really say accepted, I would sayI prefer our chances to win
with him.
Obviously he's not a long-termsituation, bro.
Did you see his deal numbers?
Scott (39:50):
Yeah, in fact I screenshotted it.
Graham (39:52):
It was 13.6 and 10 guaranteed, yeah, and then like
19 with incentives if he hits.
It can't get any friendlierthan that.
Scott (40:03):
That's fine and dandy.
Graham (40:06):
And, bro, there's still rumblings.
Pittsburgh has picks, there'stalks on the town.
And, bro, there's stillrumblings.
Pittsburgh has picks, there'stalks on the town.
They want to make another tradeLike a splash trade.
Scott (40:16):
Like maybe potentially they don't need to, what I just
saw before getting on the showand I didn't want to bring it up
until we got on.
Yeah, I'm hearing Keenan.
Graham (40:27):
Oh, I did not hear that.
Scott (40:29):
Which would be an unbelievable underrated signing
for you guys.
Possession receiver.
Graham (40:38):
I'm mad at it.
Scott (40:40):
I'm mad at it at all.
No, no, I mean DK, and then youadd Keenan.
You got.
Roman Wilson, who was out hisentire rookie season.
Graham (40:51):
Yeah, you know, dude, I would much rather have old-ass
Keenan Allen than I mean webrought in, and by we obviously
the Steelers brought in GabeDavis, you know, the other day,
Is that even a question?
Scott (41:06):
Yeah, guy had one good game against the Chiefs and has
gotten paid for it.
Graham (41:13):
Hey, sometimes that's all you need bro.
Scott (41:15):
Just ask that dude, the Packers guy that went to the
Seahawks and then Russell Wilsonwas like hey bro, yeah, I'm
going to be the starter.
Flynn, Matt Flynn, Matt Flynn,it's 17 back in the day, Chimney
crickets Names you don't thinkof.
Graham (41:35):
Which goes to show you how important the quarterback
position is.
You can go from a zero to ahero in one game and all of a
sudden it's like, hey, can I payyou some money?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll take allthat.
Announcer (41:46):
Please come on down.
Graham (41:48):
So you know, I'll just say this and we'll finish it
with the football.
You see what Terry Bradshawsaid today.
Today, I've been seeing whathe's been saying in the past
Before the signing.
Scott (42:01):
No.
Announcer (42:02):
I've heard before.
Scott (42:03):
After the signing Look, the Steelers' problem ain't Mike
Tomlin.
He's a damn good coach, One ofthe best.
Our problem is that, oh, OmarKhan.
The Steelers haven't won asingle playoff game since he
became GM not effing one.
And now he's banking on a41-year-old Aaron Rodgers.
That's the dumbest move I'veseen in years.
Graham (42:24):
All right, Terry, I'm going to have to back you up on
that.
Scott (42:29):
Not back you up, that's not what I meant.
But I saw something earlier.
Cp sent me Okay and this openedmy eyes.
I was kind of like oh damn, wow, yeah, quarterback versus
quarterback stats Rodgers versusJosh Allen Rodgers 3,897 yards,
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allen 3,700.
What Completion percentage.
They're both at 63%.
Passing touchdowns, both at 28.
Interceptions Rodgers had 11.
Allen had 6.
Bad throw percentage I don'teven know what the hell you want
(43:13):
to call that.
Yeah, you know.
Maybe when aaron rodgersstarted calling mike williams
out for not running down the redline, how about you say good
morning to your mom?
Uh, 17.3% for Rodgers and 18%for Allen.
Granted, the Bills had adifferent style offense.
(43:35):
Yeah, they let them run theball, exactly.
Graham (43:40):
Their running back had how many touchdowns last year.
Scott (43:42):
Yeah, I don't know A lot.
He's a bitter Betty right now,huh.
Graham (43:46):
Well, I mean dude, rightfully so.
The NFL does not want to payrunning backs.
Or let me rephrase that Unlessyou're not the number one
generational talent, unlessyou're Saquon.
Announcer (44:02):
Derrick.
Graham (44:02):
Henry or Christian McCaffrey, you ain't getting
paid and it's just like.
Trust me, we've beaten the drumway too many times about that
whole situation.
We get it.
But it's just like, with thesalary cap going up every year,
you can't throw him a few Likewhy does the quarterback have to
(44:25):
get 60 million?
Like why can't he just get 50?
And then you can give therunning back like five more,
four more like.
It's just like you will have tokeep like spread, spread the
wealth is all I'm saying.
You know what I mean.
It's just like I'm not sayingeveryone has to be paid equally,
because that's not fair, likecertain people deserve it, and I
get that, which is also thetalent of how you run a team by
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putting it together based on howwho you pay and not pay.
I get all that.
That being said, you know.
Scott (44:58):
Speaking of disgruntled players, who Scary Terry
Washington?
Announcer (45:07):
Yeah, he was a name that was mentioned in Pittsburgh
.
Scott (45:13):
Top five receiver in the league.
Look what he's done with nobodythrowing him the ball.
No offense, sarah Honegge, dudethey're.
I mean.
Oh, he just threw it in theleft field, let's go.
(45:33):
Dude, there's rumors out thereChargers.
He's only got one deal, oneyear left on his deal.
Graham (45:42):
Yeah, Chargers got money to spend too.
Scott (45:45):
Yeah, anyhow, let's go, bro.
What is next week?
As we sit here on Saturdaynight?
Graham (45:55):
You know, there's this golf tournament in La Trobe.
It's in La Trobe, right, no, no?
Announcer (46:02):
it's not Smack yourself.
Graham (46:05):
Thanks, it's next to La Trobe, all right.
Whatever it's called Oakmont Iknow, but I east.
It's the beast of all beast.
I just forgot it was that.
Scott (46:17):
That was the town's name um, maybe the hardest us open
venue out of the rotation, whatis?
Is Oakmont known for Greens?
Yeah, when I got to play it,dude, and the funny thing is
Google memories came up.
I was literally there fouryears ago today.
(46:39):
That's crazy, it's wild, butwhen I was there talking with
the head pro, they slow thegreens down for the US Open.
Graham (46:53):
That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard
.
You slow it down and it's at 15.
Scott (46:59):
That's because you haven't played there.
The members.
When that place was founded,they wanted the hardest golf
course.
That place was founded, theywanted the hardest golf course
and you know the best thingabout it there's no water.
There's a couple of ditches.
Graham (47:15):
All right, let me ask you this question what is the
club champion from Oakmont?
What's he shooting in theconditions right now?
Scott (47:25):
Well, the guy that invited me for that amazing trip
, rich Berglund, who's thenational sales manager for
Callaway.
He is the club champion andwhen he won it he shot three
under and six inch rough.
Graham, you've heard thestories right?
(47:48):
Yeah, no, I know.
If there was a natural disaster, oakmont would be ready the
next day to host the US Open.
Announcer (47:55):
Yeah.
Graham (47:57):
No, I get it, I get it.
Scott (47:58):
Dude, the place is ridiculous.
It's.
I mean it's ridiculous dude.
I mean it's ridiculous dude.
I mean the members love it.
They're prideful of it being ahard golf course.
They don't care, they don'tmind going out there and
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shooting a million because it'stheir club.
Graham (48:24):
Yeah.
Scott (48:25):
I mean that's slick.
Graham (48:27):
I mean that's now the world, that's pretty cool.
Scott (48:30):
Now the world gets to see it, starting Monday.
I mean, we've already seen alot of the players making
scouting trips to the facilityto play a couple rounds.
You know they did a littlerenovation.
Gil Hans took down all thetrees on the place.
There weren't a lot of treesback then, anyway, when I played
(48:51):
it, but the players' videosposted on social media about the
green speed and the rough it'sreal, bro, it's going to be fun.
I can't wait.
I tell all my students that Iteach be fun.
I can't wait.
I tell all my students that Iteach.
If you want to watch the bestplayers in the world hit bad
(49:13):
shots, you better watch thisweek.
Because you're going to see it.
Graham (49:20):
They're going to go from this week at the RBC, shooting
20 under, to Oakmont next week,where the winning score could be
plus 5?
I hope.
I hope it is.
I mean it won't be under par.
I mean that has to be somethingwe can bet on.
I mean I'm sure it would beminus 200.
(49:42):
I'm sure we can find itsomewhere.
Scott (49:44):
Yeah, I mean there's no way.
When DJ won it in 16, I thinkhe finished it 400.
Really, yeah, almost positive.
Which one was it?
It ain't happening this year.
Graham (49:58):
Was it at Bethpage that they finished over par for the
Open?
Scott (50:06):
I don't know, cabrera was over par when he won it At
Oakmont yeah.
Graham (50:10):
I'm like I know I mean, look, the whole point of the US
Open is to be the toughest test,and it's usually Either right
at even par Two under somethinglike that.
It's a range of two under toplus Three or four Something
like that.
For four days and you can'teven break par.
I love that's amazing.
Scott (50:33):
I love when par is a great score, I agree, and I love
when making a bogey is not abad score.
Graham (50:45):
Well, I really think you should break that down in the
sense that people need torealize that, yeah, is it easier
?
For how do I say this?
It's easier for players on tourto play at a track like how it
is at the RBC and shoot 20 under, versus playing at Oakmont,
(51:07):
where it's just like.
I guess what I'm asking is youhave to use your all of your
game.
Scott (51:14):
Dude, look at look at to survive.
Graham (51:15):
Okay, you know what I?
Scott (51:16):
mean If the, the facility and the course that the tour is
playing at is a birdie fest,that does not benefit the best
player in the world named scottyshuffler oh, facts because he's
not a guy.
I mean not saying he's notgoing to go out there and shoot
(51:36):
78 under, but I'm just sayingthe reason he's the best is
because he hits fairways, hemisses on the right side of the
green and he only makes onebogey on the weekend at the
Memorial.
That's why he's ScottyScheffler.
Announcer (51:58):
Yeah.
Scott (52:01):
Dude, bogeys aren't bad scores.
One of my favorite US Opensever partly because I was there
was when Payne Stewart won in 99at Pinehurst.
Yeah, and he was the onlyperson under par.
Yeah, shot one under par for 72holes.
Par is an amazing score.
You're not at the Bob Hope,where if you don't shoot 65,
(52:26):
you're losing ground to thefield.
Graham (52:32):
You know, don't shoot 65 , you're losing ground to the
field.
You know which, now that Ithink about it, it just kind of
throws even more context for theog tiger, where at pebble he
was the only person under parand one by 15 like the only
person under par and was doubledigits under par folks
Ridiculous.
Scott (52:52):
What and that's the crazy thing about going into us open
week Steffler plus two, 75.
So last time something was thatlow was when Tiger won.
At that page he was plus 175.
Right, is that any good?
(53:14):
Fun fact about Oakmont, dude,the Golden Bear, as a rookie,
won his first major championshipat Oakmont.
Graham (53:28):
Yeah, I was watching oh, that's because you sent it to
me the historian thing onOakmont.
Announcer (53:34):
Yeah, yeah, I remember that.
Graham (53:34):
Yeah.
Announcer (53:36):
Amazing dude.
Graham (53:37):
Amazing.
So, all this being said, it'sabout that time in the show you
got to hit me.
Bro, who's your favorite andlong shot to win?
Scott (53:48):
Well, before we get into mine.
Okay, I gave a little textmessage to tp.
Okay, told him we were gonna.
You know, like we always do onmajor championship shows, I was
like, give me your favorite andyour long shot.
And tp, his favorite, john Rahm, got a little momentum.
(54:10):
You know, finished he was whenhe tied with Scottie at the PGA
on the back line until he misseda couple putts, and Rahm is his
favorite and Hideki is his longshot.
Announcer (54:26):
Okay.
Scott (54:28):
So if we go in and look at those odds, let's see Rom is
12-1 and Hideki is wow.
Wouldn't you start with a wow70-1.
Wow.
Graham (54:48):
To be fair, outside of the top eight players in the
world, you're going down to 35to one.
Yeah, like real quick.
And at 35 to one you got ludwigand, honestly, the way he's
been playing there is not achance in hell.
Announcer (55:08):
I'm taking him right now.
Graham (55:11):
You know, and, as all these picks that we do for the
majors, we always say you knowanyone except Tiger, or now, in
this case, anyone exceptScheffler, because it's just
it's too obvious of a pick andwe're not going to be obvious.
Look, number two plus 850 oreight and a half to one, is rory
(55:32):
.
Am I taking rory?
Nah?
no chance you can't not play atthe memorial, but then your
whole thing is you.
You play the tournament beforea major.
Okay, you played at the rb.
How'd he do?
Oh yeah, he missed the cut.
Scott (55:50):
Well, he got the Toronto Maple Leafs jinx.
Announcer (55:53):
Well.
Scott (56:00):
I'm just saying.
Graham (56:02):
Oh man, I mean, anything could happen.
So, that being said, I'm notdoing that, I'm just looking at
it.
I don't want to repeat anybody.
So, that being said, I mean,for a while I was going to say
Morikawa, but even.
Scott (56:18):
Morikawa, you can't, because I've talked about him on
this show for like weeks andweeks and weeks.
Yeah.
Graham (56:25):
No, I'm not taking him.
Scott (56:26):
I'm not, I'm not Okay good, even though I want to
backtrack, but I still got tostick to my guns.
Graham (56:33):
No, no, that's fine.
The worst part is who I'm goingto take.
After the top guys, a favorite.
The next what we'll call afavorite is like 45 to 1.
So I'm not going to do that.
So if we're going to pick a topguy, I'll take Bryson.
I'll die on that hill.
Look, you need to be long.
It's a long course, so thatfits his game.
Scott (56:57):
It's really going to come down to him.
I hope it doesn't rain.
Graham (57:01):
Right, oh, 100%.
If they slow those greens downeven more, or should I say if
the rain slows those greens downanymore, it's going to change
everything completely.
Scott (57:09):
Not only that, but the fairways.
If the ball's not hitting andrunning, it's going to take a
lot of people out of the game.
If it stays firm, fast, itbrings a lot of people in, yeah,
but when it's firm and fast italso will get.
Graham (57:26):
Those balls could continue on and bounce into the
rough.
You know what I mean.
There's plus and minuses witheverything.
So, that being said, I gotBryson and then I was going to
go one or the other here, butI'm hoping your second guy is
not, because we've been talkingabout this.
Scott (57:46):
I know exactly who you're taking.
If it is, it's okay.
No, no, if it's your guy, thenI got to back this.
I know exactly who you'retaking If it is, it's okay.
Graham (57:49):
No, no, if it's your guy , then I got to back up.
I got to back up.
So obviously the originalchoice would be Lowry, but I
have a feeling that's who you'retaking, judging by the look on
your face and how salty you areright now.
So, that being said, I'm goingto take Sepp Straka Dude,
(58:10):
they're the same guy, I knowthat's what I'm saying and
Lowry's playing so good rightnow.
Scott (58:14):
So is Straka, I know that's why, I said either or
such a man crush on those twoguys because you appreciate how
they play because they both hitit straight.
Lowry has one of the best shortgames on the planet.
Because you appreciate how theyplay, because they both hit it
straight.
Lowry has one of the best shortgames on the planet.
(58:38):
I don't know.
I'm going to stick with myfavorite because I've been
talking about it for weeks andweeks and weeks on the show and
actually bet it.
Yeah, I was going to say,didn't you bet him?
Yeah, I bet it a long ass timeago.
I'm going to go with Morikawa,even though I'm not feeling
great about it right now, butyou know it is what it is.
(59:00):
I wish I could see when I betthis.
Graham (59:03):
Yeah, but also not to cut you off.
But I also want to say thatwhen we were on the phone before
we got on the show here, didn'tyou tell me I wouldn't call it
a stat.
But Oakmont is a place thatusually not the favorites win at
Exactly you know what I mean,yep.
Scott (59:23):
So I mean Morikawa is my favorite.
I mean obviously we've talkedabout that.
Yeah, I love Lowryawa's myfavorite.
I mean obviously we've talkedabout that.
Yeah, I love Lowry dude, lovehim, absolutely love him.
I don't know.
I, like a lot of people, justneed to look at the forecast,
(59:43):
yeah, so if you took Straka, I'mgoing to take Lowry.
Yeah, I mean, how are youfeeling about JT?
Graham (59:46):
Justin Thomas.
Yeah, so if you took.
Straka, I'm going to take Lowry.
Yeah, I mean.
Scott (59:51):
How are you feeling about JT Justin Thomas?
Graham (59:53):
Yeah, I'm just asking to ask.
I'm not like there's no agendawith the question, I'm just he
was trending dude Won atournament, I don't know.
Scott (01:00:07):
Oh, that's a Met McNeil home run.
Get out of that, let's go.
Graham (01:00:19):
I don't know Deuce the.
Scott (01:00:19):
US Open Facts.
You gotta hit it straight.
Graham (01:00:22):
Yeah, you have to.
I'm just looking at the oddsright here.
Who's been one of the hottestplayers in the last month?
Ben Griffin.
Yeah, I'm looking at him at 71right now.
I mean I'm not taking him towin, but I mean a top 20 place.
Put a couple ducats on that,Henley has been playing nice.
(01:00:47):
Corey Connors has actually beenplaying kind of nice Henley's
dead to me after the PGA.
Well, that's fair.
All right, let's retract thatstatement, fuck him.
Scott (01:01:01):
Even though I like him man, he's an amazing iron player
I can't do it, sorry bro.
I mean he's not even on here.
Graham (01:01:09):
I'm not even seeing, damn, how low is McNeely.
I'm not even seeing him on here.
No, he's over 101.
Wow, but it's look, I don'tknow.
All the majors are so excitingto watch.
(01:01:30):
Our two favorites are always,you know, the Masters of the US
Open.
We've already talked about allthe stuff Like this is the one.
And for it to be at Oakmont howchallenging it's going to be.
I'm super excited, mainlybecause I'm going to have a lot
of time off, or just how myschedule is.
(01:01:51):
I'm going to be able to watch alot of G this weekend and I'm
stoked about it.
Like, unfortunately, I work onSunday night so it won't be, you
know, a lot of the podcast theday after or whatever, but it's
just like I'll be able to watchall of Sunday.
I have Saturday off, so it'sjust like to watch the weekend
and how it just develops andwhat's going to happen.
(01:02:11):
I'm super pumped about it.
I'm going to be glued to the TV.
Scott (01:02:16):
I'm pumped about this about as much as I get pumped
about Torrey Pines hosting theUS Open.
You know how much I love TorreyPines.
I've played it a thousand andyou know how much I love Torrey
Pines.
I've played it a thousand times.
I mean, I named my goddamn dogafter it.
Graham (01:02:36):
Yeah, Just the fact that I've gotten to play Oakmont and
oh, it just kicks it up, feelit is amazing to me.
Scott (01:02:46):
Amazing to me the history , the clubhouse, the whole deal.
I can't wait, dude.
I can't wait to see Carnage.
And it's going to be amazing IfI was a betting person, which
we all know I am.
We already gave our favoritesand our underdogs.
Just go throw your money onScotty, let's go.
(01:03:08):
I mean, we can talk about ourfavorites and under underdogs.
Just go throw your money onScottie, let's go.
I mean we can talk about ourfavorites and underdogs all we
want.
If you lose 50 bucks on Scottie,whatever you made the smartest
bet you've ever made in yourlife.
Graham (01:03:19):
Oh, facts, I mean look with all of these golf
tournaments, the US Openespecially, it's all about who
can handle adversity during theround, and Oakmont is going to
throw everything at you and it'sjust what players can be able
to be like.
All right, I hit a bad shot.
On to the next one.
(01:03:39):
Don't care about what happenedin the past, just be in focus.
Do what you need to do, andscore.
Scott (01:03:46):
Like I was saying earlier , there is such thing as a good
bogey.
Graham (01:03:50):
Right.
Scott (01:03:52):
Turn that double bogey into a bogey.
Graham (01:03:58):
Dude, you could have a putt that could be a good bogey.
That could turn into a triplereal quick.
Scott (01:04:04):
And, with that being said , my boy Mero, is one of the
best players I've ever gotten toplay with Good friend of us.
He got to play Oakmont for thefirst time back in October.
My guy had a 20-foot birdieputt on the second hole.
He's going to kill me fortalking about this, but whatever
, don't care.
Let's go 20-foot birdie putt onthe second hole.
(01:04:26):
You know what he had for histhird shot.
Graham (01:04:31):
Yeah, didn't he have like 60 yards?
Announcer (01:04:33):
Or 40 yards.
Graham (01:04:34):
Yeah, 40 yards, that's insane.
Scott (01:04:38):
And the hole's like 350 yards.
When I played it, dude, I hitfour iron sandwich.
And with that being said, folksenjoy the US Open, enjoy the
Stanley Cup Finals, enjoy theNBA Finals and let's don't
(01:04:59):
forget that's first team in theNational League to get to that
40 wins yes, I know, I knew thatwas coming.
Announcer (01:05:06):
Yes, I know, it knew that was coming.
Scott (01:05:08):
Yes, I know, it's only June 7th.
Let your boy have some fun,please.
Thank you, graham, get us outof here.
Graham (01:05:21):
Oh man, scott, I'm going to say this, it's not that I,
oh shit, what did we miss?
I'm sure to say this it's notthat, oh shit, what did we miss?
I'm sure we missed some.
Scott (01:05:33):
Oh, if you like, the three-year anniversary of our
podcast.
Graham (01:05:38):
Oh.
Announcer (01:05:39):
Yeah.
Graham (01:05:40):
In my defense, scott makes the notes for the show.
I didn't even I mentioned it toyou a couple days ago too.
Scott (01:05:48):
Yeah, while we were literally talking, I looked it
up Our first episode.
It's not to the day but it'scloser to June 9th June, 9th
2022.
Graham (01:06:02):
Who'd have thought, wow, wow.
You know, what I was going tosay was am I bummed?
We had that week off, yeah, butto be fair, granted, and look
there's also the extra hype ofthe US Open.
I'm not predetermining this isa top five show or a top 10 show
(01:06:25):
, but like I can't remember thelast time that I laughed so much
in this episode, like this.
Scott (01:06:31):
I can't remember the last time I mentioned salads as much
as I mentioned like folks,you're getting a bonus extra ten
minutes.
Graham (01:06:44):
I know they're normally an hour, but fuck it.
I mean, oh beep that outYouTube extra 10 minutes.
Scott (01:06:49):
I know they're normally an hour, but fuck it.
I mean, oh, beep that outYouTube.
And, on a side note, everybodythat reached out text me and
were like where the hell's theepisode.
Thank you Seriously.
Thank you, graham, and Iappreciate that.
It makes us feel like we'redoing this.
So the reason we do it is toentertain our boys, entertain
(01:07:11):
our family.
You know, do what we do.
Talk about sports Now let's go.
Graham (01:07:19):
Scott, it's been an absolute pleasure to do this
podcast with you for the lastthree years.
You're the best homie.
For a reason.
I love you to death and, as thebest homie always says, buh-bye
.
Scott (01:07:32):
Good night blue sweatshirt.
You might want to go to.
What's that milkshake thatchick used to Slimfest.
Good night blue sweatshirt.
You might want to subscribe toSlimfest.
You fat piece of shit.
Announcer (01:07:50):
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