April 15, 2025 • 25 mins
Luke Arcaini joins Sean Brace to talk all things #Phillies-#Giants, #TheMasters, Rory McIlroy, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here we go.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Welcome back Gambler Live for you got a lot to
discuss from the weekend. You just heard me rant and
rave about everything from Augusta.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
What a weekend it was.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
As far as the world of golf is concerned. For
the fightings, not so much. We're gonna talk a little
bit about what took place in Saint Louis and how
I think they were just set up for failure from
the beginning. I'll talk a little bit more about that
with our next guests. Of course, joined us from the
front seat because he's heading down the Citizens Bank Park.
Hopefully the weather's going to hold up. I don't know
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if rain is on the horizon or not. Does feel
nice outside?
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Uh? Luke rcaney as the affilies.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Welcome in the San Francisco Giants to Citizens Bank Park,
first pitch, six forty five pm, Taiwan Walker on the mound.
Of course, you can read Luke over at Crossing broad
dot com. Luke, good afternoon. How we doing today?
Speaker 3 (00:56):
What's going on?
Speaker 4 (00:57):
We're We're doing well, awesome, awesome Master Sunday yesterday, getting
ready to head over to the stadium.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Should be a good series for the Phillies.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
They got a Giants team who is who has looked
really good so far to start the year. A lot
of offense on their side so far, so hopefully the
Bats get going again earlier this week.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
But yeah, we're doing good, Sean. How are you doing?
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Done? All right?
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Man?
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Done all right?
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Would have been nice if I had a Rory seven
to one ticket, which I said I thought he could win.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Instead I did not.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
I didn't really wage, yeah it didn't really wager a
lot this weekend when it came to AUGUSTA was on
the move, had a lot going on Saturday yesterday, had
a baby shower, had had to get up to Scranting
for it.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
But I had a lowry ticket. He played well.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
His uh, his dream came to an end. He had
a he struggled down the stretch. But man, it starts
and ends with Rory, because what a what a tournament
it was. But we'll get to the Masters to close up.
I promise you on that, because I know you got
a lot to discuss. But let's talk about the Phillies
here as we just brought up. Taking on to San
Francisco a Giants tonight. Giants coming in with eleven and
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four record, Phillies now nine and.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Six on the season.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
I just want to say that I thought, like the
you know, again, all teams are going to deal with
this throughout the course of a season. It's one sixty two.
Major League Baseball has to get these games in, whether
you like it or not. It was just a rough
situation for the Phillies to lose the way that they
did in Atlanta on Thursday night, to have the game
go to one am whatever it was, hop a flight,
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then go to Saint Louis and play. Of course, the
under was the play in that when they lose two
to nothing on Friday Saturday was an interesting because I
was hopeful that that was going to be a night game.
It caught my attention to quick turnaround there. You would think, like,
all right, they lose the game, they can get back,
relax a little bit. There was none of that because
they had to play a day game. They ended up
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winning in that game four to one on a Saturday
in the in Saint Louis. But then of course close
up shop yesterday not the way that you want to
end as far as the series is concerned, and they
ended up losing seven to nothing. Wheeler ended up getting
the start in that one quick look at the box score.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
As far as wheelers Day was concerned.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
He pitched six innings, seven hits, four earned, three strikeouts,
gave up a home run. So just not the best
series from start to finish for the Phillies. They did
win a game on Saturday, but just a rough spot.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Am I off? Am I making too much about it?
Where do you stand on that?
Speaker 3 (03:37):
No, I don't think you are at all.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
I think it's been you know, it's been a I mean,
it's it's hard for me to say a rocky start
because they obviously want a huge series against the Dodgers,
but it's it's kind of been an up and down
I would say, especially with the bats.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
The bats haven't looked great so far.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
It's really hinging on one. Really not a ton of
protection for Harper right now, which was caused because of
the sort of Marsh and Boem struggles. They had to
move Bom out. That's really been sort of their protection
early last year.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
That's why they were so.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Successful early last year was because Harper was able to
get going because he had the protection of Bom. Harper
hasn't had a great start to his season, which Obviously,
if Harper's not hitting the ball well, the Phillies aren't
going to.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Win a ton of games.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
But at the same time, it's it's been a pretty
brutal start for I would say five to nine in
the Phillies lineup.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Not a ton yet.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
For Max Kepler, I will say he is walking a lot,
which is nice to see. He's getting on base, just
not really the pop yet. I'm not worried about Max Kepler.
I think we'll be fine. But I mean, I think
the players you have to worry about right now are
Marsh and Boem And I know we talked about this.
I think Friday, you need those guys to to hit
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the baseball and be productive. You can't have two automatic
outs in your lineup right now and and and that's
basically what they are. Brandon Marsh doesn't have a hit
since March thirtieth. It's April fourteenth. He's I believe for
his last twenty seven. He has a few walks mixed
in there, but it's been really, really brutal. He spoke yesterday,
and obviously I mean he's he's a little down in
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the dumps right now, and I mean rightfully. So it's
it's been a tough stretch for him. I don't think
Brandon Marsh has ever been some you know, premier player,
but he's been a guy that's been able to get
some nice clutch hits, work some singles, find some gaps.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
He can't.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
He can't get a ball out of the outfield right now,
So it's it's been a rough start for him. He
has thirty seven at bat he's already up to fourteen strikeouts.
I believe he leads the team in strikeouts. That's a
guy who is not good enough.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
To lead your team and strikeouts.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
I know we sort of mentioned that last week that
if Brandon Marsh was a guy who hits three hundred
and hits thirty five homers a year, then yeah, he's
he has the wiggle room to strike out more.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
But that's not who he is.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
He's he's not a guy that can strike out one
hundred and fifty six times like he did last year
in one hundred and thirty games.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
So he needs to get going. But I'm not worried.
And listen, man, it's it's April fourteenth.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
There is May, June, July, August, September, and then playoff
Baseball there's over five six months of baseball left.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
It is very early.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
But yeah, definitely not a not a good series at
all for the offense.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
No, Saturday was a good day, of course, the only
game that they lost. They only got three hits yesterday, Harper, Sosa,
Real Muto, we're the only ones to deliver a base
hit yesterday. Ugly ugly zeros all across the lineup and
the Stott experiment, it's just, you know, you would like
to believe that that would work out. And again two
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games is that enough. No, But you had to change
it up and try something different there to get that going.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
I actually liked it. I liked the fact that.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Topper is being a little aggressive with changing up. I
also like putting the pressure. You know, when you look
at that lineup that they put out there on Friday,
and for those that don't know, Scott was the lead
off and it's like, I think he's had two hits
since he was putting that spot. He didn't bat in
that position yesterday. I think he had the day off yesterday,
but he was as far as over four on Friday
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night to lead off there. Turner go second, Harper third,
schoerberfod Cast five, then Kepler six, and then the pressure
is there on seven, eight, nine. That's the pressure. So
I thought like that would deliver, you know, for those guys.
I thought that that would be better for guys like
Bauman Marsh, like, all right, you know what, man, you
guys are on an island by yourself. Instead, they went
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zero for five on the Friday night game and then
come back on Saturday in the game that the Phillies
were able to lose, and there was some change in there.
Boone was the only one that was left in there.
Let's see Harry, Yeah, because Marsh or no excuse me, boom.
So then he dropped them back to eight to nine.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
So bowm was able to get a hit.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
He went one for four and then Brandon Marsh ozho
for two in the ninth spot.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
As far as in that game too there so it's just, you.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Know, he's trying new things, trying to figure this out
as far as Topper is concerned. But these guys got
to go out there and they got to produce, and
you know you're getting it from some players, but I
totally agree with you as far as the struggles with
Bowma Marsh, that's what everybody is paying attention to at
this point in time, and we discussed it at Linked
on Friday. There's not a lot, a whole lot of
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change that.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
They can do.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
There's not a lot of replacements that are out there,
so these guys are going to get the time. Alec
Bohm is the starting third baseman for this team. He
played in a hundred and forty three plus games last
year back to back seasons. I'd be shocked if he
doesn't reach that number again this year. But if he
continues to struggle the way he is, I don't know
if he will. And then Marsh, who knows what they
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could do out there in the outfield. Maybe they got
to try and do something. As you said, no hits
in a month of April, that is just ugly. But
they're back home, do you do you feel like something
could change with the fact that they're back home here
after that quick road trip out to Atlanta and of
course Saint Louis.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
I mean, yeah, absolutely, They're back home against Giants, team
one who I would.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Say is hitting the ball a lot better than pitching
the ball.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
The Phillies are five and one at home this year,
They've played very well this.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Year at home so far. They always play usually very
well at home.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
The offensive production is usually a lot higher at home
than it is on the road. That's just kind of
been the sort of trends. So yeah, I mean I
do like them in the series. But the bottom line
is it's it's three real sort of positions right now
better killing them central field, left field, third base. And
I mean this is from Bob Wlankle of Crossing broad
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Here's where the Phillies have gotten this season. Center Field,
based on the league average, they're twenty eighth in batting average,
twenty eighth in slugging percentage, twenty seventh in OPS. The
left field position, they're twenty seventh in batting average, twenty
fifth in slugging percentage, and twenty fourth in OPS. Third base,
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they're twenty sixth in batting average, thirtieth in slugging percentage,
and thirtieth in OPS. Alec Baum has the worst OPS
in all of baseball off of qualified hitters right now.
So when you go from a team last year who
a guy that started in the All Star Game at
the position, to now being basically the worst qualified hitter
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in baseball based off the first.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Three weeks of the season.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
It's it's going to hurt your team, obviously, but listen,
it's early. Once again, I'm not throwing in some crazy talent.
I don't think they need to cut both guys today.
But the bottom line is they need to get out
of their slump because the Phillies need to win some
ball games, and I think they have a nice chance
to do that.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
This week, especially this weekend.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
Obviously, if you can take a minimum two games from
the Giants hopefully three ideally Marlins this week at home,
that should be a nice series for them to get
back in the win column a lot.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
But obviously we're looking towards tonight.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
Walker, like you said, I should hopefully be a win
tonight for the Phillies.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Well, let's talk a little bit about Taiwan Walker and
things have changed.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Last year was just oh, Walker's on the mountain.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Well, I'm expecting him to uh to pitch to a
loss and no, it was actually like the low heck,
could he get the five innings? Don't ruin the bullpen?
Can he can he just get to five innings? But
that's a little bit changed so far this year. Just
recently tossed four to two thirds against Atlanta on Wednesday.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Nice jet there and.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
In the previous game. As I'm trying to pull up
his numbers here, but Walker has actually looked like a
pretty darn good pitcher this year. Do we feel like
there's going to be continue change with him or is
this fool's gold and eventually yeah, the you know, the
rug's gonna be pulled out from underneath us here.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
I mean, listen, I think going into the first start,
I was down there for the first start, and I
don't think there was a lot of hope. He ran
out to booze and he left to a standing ovation.
I didn't think there was a lot of hope for
him in Atlanta. I believe he is who he pitched against,
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and he pitched really well. So I think it's hard
to just sit there and say the regression is going
to start, because I don't think anyone really sort of
knows if that's the case or not.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
He's he's looked really well.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
The velocity's way up from from what it was lat year,
which is really really good to see. Obviously last year
he just wasn't he wasn't throwing the ball hard. If
your fastball's coming in around eighty eight miles an hour,
and and and you don't have any movement on your splitter.
I mean you're bound to get knocked around. And I
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mean that's what happened all year last year. But his
velosses up around ninety three to ninety four. The splitter
looks really really good this year. So yeah, I mean,
there's there's no signs right now to saying that the
regression will come soon or or maybe just like a
sort of have him back down to Earth.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Kind of thing.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
I will say this, this this Giants lineup has been
hitting the ball very well. They won another series this
weekend against the Yankees. They've had some major contributions from
some not really that big of names. So I will
say I think tonight is a night where you could
look for an over I don't know exactly what that
line is at.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
I think tonight could be a little bit of a
torn game.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
But listen, man, if Walker can can continue to hang
in there, maybe until Ranger gets back, and listen, I mean,
if if he continues to shine, and then obviously I
think that this is Ranger's job, but it's that will
be a good problem for the Phillies if Ranger comes
back and it's a hard decision to move Walker out
of the rotation.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
All right, we got Luke Rcany, he's in the front seat.
He's heading down the Citizens Bank Park. That number right
now is Phillies minus one eighteen. Nine is your total.
Nine is your total in tonight's game, six forty five,
first pitch, full throttle, all things major League Baseball, of
course on the card this afternoon and evening here over
on DraftKings Sports Book. A lot of great games to
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look at, and of course just a brand new start
to the week as far as the world of Major
League Baseball is concerned. Now, staying with the Giants, what's
is there a hitter that we need to be looking
out for more than most because the Giants are surprise story,
and I don't really recall too many people out there
that were saying, you know, the Giants are going to
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be a team that could potentially win the division. Now
no one's saying that because they're eleven and four and
as I said, it's April fourteenth. But they are playing well,
and you got to give them all the credit in
the world because there was a zero expectations, So they're
off to a great start.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
As far as.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Jung Hu Lee, he he homered twice in the game
against the Yankees. Is there anybody else that really jumps
off the page that, of course, we need to be
paying attention to, and more so the Phillies pitching needs
to pay attention to here.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
So, I mean there's a few guys right now that
are hitting the ball really well. Wilmer Flores is hitting
the ball well. He leads a team in RBIs. He's
got nineteen RB hogs, nineteen RBIs. He is tied with
Schwarber and a few others for the lead in the
league in home runs, which is definitely the of one
of the guys at the top of the home run
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list right now. I did not think I'd see Wilmer
Flores his name up there three weeks into the season. Yeah, obviously,
Like you said, Jung Ho Lee, Mike h Tremski looks
really good now.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Uh, he's been out in in a right field.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
A bunch of Elliott Ramos has has looked good ish
so far. They just they just have a good amount
of guys that just have been contributing.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
It hasn't really been one superstar.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
Obviously, yesterday was a huge day for young ho Lee,
but they've just had a lot of guys that are
really contributing. And at the same time, they're not getting
anything from LaMonte Waye Junior, they're not getting anything from
Matt Chapman right now, and they're not getting anything from
their new biggest signing in franchise history, uh Willia Domas.
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So they they have some room to continue to make
this offense even better. I still think this Giants team
is maybe on a bit of just a high right
now to start the year. I don't see them being
a team that finishes with ninety ninety five wins. I
think they'll probably finish over five hundred, But especially in
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a league like the National League, I think they're pitching
will probably flatten out eventually. You know, once you get
into the summer, it's it's it's hard for these middle
of the pack rotations with a team that doesn't have
a lot of depth.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
To really stay sort of healthy.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
I mean, they're getting not really much from Jordan Hicks,
Robbie Ray's looks pretty good, Lord knows what you're gonna
get from Justin Verlander.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
He's like eighty years old at this point. But yeah, so,
I mean it's it's tough.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
I think they're a team that will probably flatten out eventually,
but as far as the first three weeks of the season,
I think they're I think I saw them number one
in the power rankings this morning.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
They've been playing really well so far.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
So it should be a nice little sort of early
week sort of matter catch up for the Phillies.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
All right, Yeah, and again, a lot to discuss as
far as baseball is concerned from the weekend, specifically the
Dodgers losing two of three to the Cubs and getting
smashed over the weekend sixteen to nothing.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Sixteen nothing.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Yeah, it was interesting.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Now again, I know the Braves had some spots lash
or the Dodgers had some spots last year where they
didn't produce, but I never got a feeling like it's
not gonna work out for them last year.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
This year, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
I'm getting a little bit different vibe. Again, it's April,
but we'll see how this one plays out. But I
don't know if they're exactly the most teflon team that
we wanted to make them out to be, like it
was Lock stock barrel.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
They were winning division.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
This team is going to the World Series, and everybody
else is playing for second, especially in the National League.
They are flawed defensively. They're dealing with some injuries right now.
We'll see what happens throughout the course of one sixty two.
Will bigger names get hurt? I don't know, But at
this point in time, they're eleven and six and they
don't They're not even leading their own division. I don't
even think they're in second. I think they're in third.
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I think the Padres are in second.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
I think they are. Yep, all right, yep.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
I'm not getting too crazy here because it's April, but
you understand where I'm coming.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
I thought that was a big deal.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
We'll talk more about big picture stuff obviously getting this
one started here.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
We got Luke for a half an hour. Let's go ahead.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
I got to get your thoughts as far as what
took place yesterday and Augusta. But Rory, you're a big
time golfer. Rory getting over the hump and finally winning
the Green jacket seventeen years in the making. He's the
young dude man, only thirty five years old. But that
that list is short six names.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
He's now the sixth name to win a career Grand Slam.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
So cool, and you know, Luke, just from the reward perspective,
from where we're at as fans, that was awesome from
Thursday to Sunday. I mean, we all love the Masters.
It's the start a golf season. It means so much
more to people who play it and really enjoy golf.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
But that delivered and then so man, that was in
incredible theater all week and long.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Yeah, it was.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
It was the best Masters I've ever watched, from top
to bottom. And I'm young, so I don't really I
didn't get to watch Thursday Sunday late nineties in the
early two thousands, but that, like, this was an all
time Masters. And to to cap it off with Rory
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and Justin Rose, who are seemed to be really close
and and and good friends in that playoff and honestly
really good hole for both of them, it was it
was it was both of them had awesome drives off
the playoff hole. I thought Justin Rose had an awesome
web shot going in, and then Rory's just Rory caught
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the slope and he stuck it to about four feet
and then just to see all the emotion from Rory,
because nobody in professional golf has gone through more than
what Rory McElroy has gone through over the last ten years.
Just constantly people yelling and every single time Rory goes
to a major, are you finally gonna win this one?
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Every time I go to Augusta saying are you finally
gonna do this?
Speaker 3 (21:18):
And just see, I mean, that was that video.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
If you have to describe just raw emotion to somebody,
you show them that video of Rory yesterday, the second
that plot went in, just from the potter over his
head falling down to his knees.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
That was.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
That was eleven years in the making right there. It
was awesome to see. I mean, those other five names
that he is now with, I mean, those are those
are arguably the five greatest golfers ever. So for Rory
to be on that list, it's it's it's just it's
awesome to see him wear the green jacket, and I
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I will say, when he met up. I think my
favorite moment of the whole thing was when he met
up with his friends walking off the green and they
were all going nuts and the mic bottom and he
sort of looks at his friends and goes, all right,
I gotta go get a green jacket, and they went nuts.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
Everybody went nuts. It was just it was really awesome.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
It was anyone that loves golf or anyone that loves
the Masters, that was probably the best possible outcome for
yesterday unless you had a Justin Rose ticket. I think
he had to tell you what. I saw a guy
flash his ticket. I believe it was Saturday morning. He
had a Justin Rose ticket to win like twenty grand
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and it was a hefty pre tournament number, So that
had to hurt for some people who had that one.
But just an unbelievable weekend, an awesome tournament from Rory,
and that approach shot that he hit on fifteen yesterday
was one of the best shots I've ever seen in golf.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
So good, so good, great tournament.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Of course, as you said, sports fans all over, whether
or not you like golf or not, you still had
to be watching and enjoying what you were watching because the.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Leaderboard had some great names.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Of course, great shots were being hit, and uh, nothing
better than than that venue down there.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
In Augusta, that's for sure.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Uh, well, one that is up there at the Citizens
Bank Park. No, lie, so you're heading to a great venue.
Of course, you got Rob Thompson speaking to the media
soon here, So a lot the dude down at the Ballyard.
Enjoy the game, Luke, you got you got the Phills
winning tonight.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
I do, I do.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
I'm gonna take the Phillies and take over as well.
I think we get some runs tonight, maybe a few bombs.
I'm gonna go Phillies Philly six, Giants four.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
How about that? There you go.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
I like it all right.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Daily Ticket's gonna roll on here other side, I will
talk about the Nico dial as far as Tennessee is concerned,
and NBA playoffs.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
We now know who will be matching up.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
And of course it all starts on two Tuesday tomorrow
with the play in games. Luke's heading down the Sisters
Bank Park. Appreciated. Lucas always don't touch that. They'll keep
it locked right here to the Gambler. More after this,
it's the Daily Ticket with Sean Brace three Monday to Friday.
We'll tell you what the sports calendar keeps spinning, and
right now it's doing donuts in the parking lot.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
People.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
We just witnessed an electric Final four. The Phillies are
storming into the twenty twenty five season like a team
on a World Series mission, and the Masters leaderboard looks
like it's a who's Who of golf Royalty. Oh did
someone say playoffs? Yeah, both the NBA and NHL are
ready to crank up this week. It's the kind of
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stretch that makes hosting a sports talk radio show in
Philadelphia feel like winning the lottery.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Now.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
The only downside is the Sixers and Flyers decided to
gost the postseason and taxes. Yeah, but hey, other than that,
it's a great time of year. Let's cash in and
keep it locked right here to the Gambler.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
You can wager on it. We're talking about it right
here on the Gambler. Stays Babby
Here we go.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Welcome back Gambler Live for you got a lot to
discuss from the weekend. You just heard me rant and
rave about everything from Augusta.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
What a weekend it was.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
As far as the world of golf is concerned. For
the fightings, not so much. We're gonna talk a little
bit about what took place in Saint Louis and how
I think they were just set up for failure from
the beginning. I'll talk a little bit more about that
with our next guests. Of course, joined us from the
front seat because he's heading down the Citizens Bank Park.
Hopefully the weather's going to hold up. I don't know
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if rain is on the horizon or not. Does feel
nice outside?
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Uh? Luke rcaney as the affilies.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Welcome in the San Francisco Giants to Citizens Bank Park,
first pitch, six forty five pm, Taiwan Walker on the mound.
Of course, you can read Luke over at Crossing broad
dot com. Luke, good afternoon. How we doing today?
Speaker 3 (00:56):
What's going on?
Speaker 4 (00:57):
We're We're doing well, awesome, awesome Master Sunday yesterday, getting
ready to head over to the stadium.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Should be a good series for the Phillies.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
They got a Giants team who is who has looked
really good so far to start the year. A lot
of offense on their side so far, so hopefully the
Bats get going again earlier this week.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
But yeah, we're doing good, Sean. How are you doing?
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Done? All right?
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Man?
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Done all right?
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Would have been nice if I had a Rory seven
to one ticket, which I said I thought he could win.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Instead I did not.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
I didn't really wage, yeah it didn't really wager a
lot this weekend when it came to AUGUSTA was on
the move, had a lot going on Saturday yesterday, had
a baby shower, had had to get up to Scranting
for it.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
But I had a lowry ticket. He played well.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
His uh, his dream came to an end. He had
a he struggled down the stretch. But man, it starts
and ends with Rory, because what a what a tournament
it was. But we'll get to the Masters to close up.
I promise you on that, because I know you got
a lot to discuss. But let's talk about the Phillies
here as we just brought up. Taking on to San
Francisco a Giants tonight. Giants coming in with eleven and
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four record, Phillies now nine and.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Six on the season.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
I just want to say that I thought, like the
you know, again, all teams are going to deal with
this throughout the course of a season. It's one sixty two.
Major League Baseball has to get these games in, whether
you like it or not. It was just a rough
situation for the Phillies to lose the way that they
did in Atlanta on Thursday night, to have the game
go to one am whatever it was, hop a flight,
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then go to Saint Louis and play. Of course, the
under was the play in that when they lose two
to nothing on Friday Saturday was an interesting because I
was hopeful that that was going to be a night game.
It caught my attention to quick turnaround there. You would think, like,
all right, they lose the game, they can get back,
relax a little bit. There was none of that because
they had to play a day game. They ended up
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winning in that game four to one on a Saturday
in the in Saint Louis. But then of course close
up shop yesterday not the way that you want to
end as far as the series is concerned, and they
ended up losing seven to nothing. Wheeler ended up getting
the start in that one quick look at the box score.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
As far as wheelers Day was concerned.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
He pitched six innings, seven hits, four earned, three strikeouts,
gave up a home run. So just not the best
series from start to finish for the Phillies. They did
win a game on Saturday, but just a rough spot.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Am I off? Am I making too much about it?
Where do you stand on that?
Speaker 3 (03:37):
No, I don't think you are at all.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
I think it's been you know, it's been a I mean,
it's it's hard for me to say a rocky start
because they obviously want a huge series against the Dodgers,
but it's it's kind of been an up and down
I would say, especially with the bats.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
The bats haven't looked great so far.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
It's really hinging on one. Really not a ton of
protection for Harper right now, which was caused because of
the sort of Marsh and Boem struggles. They had to
move Bom out. That's really been sort of their protection
early last year.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
That's why they were so.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Successful early last year was because Harper was able to
get going because he had the protection of Bom. Harper
hasn't had a great start to his season, which Obviously,
if Harper's not hitting the ball well, the Phillies aren't
going to.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Win a ton of games.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
But at the same time, it's it's been a pretty
brutal start for I would say five to nine in
the Phillies lineup.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Not a ton yet.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
For Max Kepler, I will say he is walking a lot,
which is nice to see. He's getting on base, just
not really the pop yet. I'm not worried about Max Kepler.
I think we'll be fine. But I mean, I think
the players you have to worry about right now are
Marsh and Boem And I know we talked about this.
I think Friday, you need those guys to to hit
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the baseball and be productive. You can't have two automatic
outs in your lineup right now and and and that's
basically what they are. Brandon Marsh doesn't have a hit
since March thirtieth. It's April fourteenth. He's I believe for
his last twenty seven. He has a few walks mixed
in there, but it's been really, really brutal. He spoke yesterday,
and obviously I mean he's he's a little down in
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the dumps right now, and I mean rightfully. So it's
it's been a tough stretch for him. I don't think
Brandon Marsh has ever been some you know, premier player,
but he's been a guy that's been able to get
some nice clutch hits, work some singles, find some gaps.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
He can't.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
He can't get a ball out of the outfield right now,
So it's it's been a rough start for him. He
has thirty seven at bat he's already up to fourteen strikeouts.
I believe he leads the team in strikeouts. That's a
guy who is not good enough.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
To lead your team and strikeouts.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
I know we sort of mentioned that last week that
if Brandon Marsh was a guy who hits three hundred
and hits thirty five homers a year, then yeah, he's
he has the wiggle room to strike out more.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
But that's not who he is.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
He's he's not a guy that can strike out one
hundred and fifty six times like he did last year
in one hundred and thirty games.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
So he needs to get going. But I'm not worried.
And listen, man, it's it's April fourteenth.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
There is May, June, July, August, September, and then playoff
Baseball there's over five six months of baseball left.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
It is very early.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
But yeah, definitely not a not a good series at
all for the offense.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
No, Saturday was a good day, of course, the only
game that they lost. They only got three hits yesterday, Harper, Sosa,
Real Muto, we're the only ones to deliver a base
hit yesterday. Ugly ugly zeros all across the lineup and
the Stott experiment, it's just, you know, you would like
to believe that that would work out. And again two
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games is that enough. No, But you had to change
it up and try something different there to get that going.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
I actually liked it. I liked the fact that.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Topper is being a little aggressive with changing up. I
also like putting the pressure. You know, when you look
at that lineup that they put out there on Friday,
and for those that don't know, Scott was the lead
off and it's like, I think he's had two hits
since he was putting that spot. He didn't bat in
that position yesterday. I think he had the day off yesterday,
but he was as far as over four on Friday
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night to lead off there. Turner go second, Harper third,
schoerberfod Cast five, then Kepler six, and then the pressure
is there on seven, eight, nine. That's the pressure. So
I thought like that would deliver, you know, for those guys.
I thought that that would be better for guys like
Bauman Marsh, like, all right, you know what, man, you
guys are on an island by yourself. Instead, they went
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zero for five on the Friday night game and then
come back on Saturday in the game that the Phillies
were able to lose, and there was some change in there.
Boone was the only one that was left in there.
Let's see Harry, Yeah, because Marsh or no excuse me, boom.
So then he dropped them back to eight to nine.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
So bowm was able to get a hit.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
He went one for four and then Brandon Marsh ozho
for two in the ninth spot.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
As far as in that game too there so it's just, you.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Know, he's trying new things, trying to figure this out
as far as Topper is concerned. But these guys got
to go out there and they got to produce, and
you know you're getting it from some players, but I
totally agree with you as far as the struggles with
Bowma Marsh, that's what everybody is paying attention to at
this point in time, and we discussed it at Linked
on Friday. There's not a lot, a whole lot of
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change that.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
They can do.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
There's not a lot of replacements that are out there,
so these guys are going to get the time. Alec
Bohm is the starting third baseman for this team. He
played in a hundred and forty three plus games last
year back to back seasons. I'd be shocked if he
doesn't reach that number again this year. But if he
continues to struggle the way he is, I don't know
if he will. And then Marsh, who knows what they
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could do out there in the outfield. Maybe they got
to try and do something. As you said, no hits
in a month of April, that is just ugly. But
they're back home, do you do you feel like something
could change with the fact that they're back home here
after that quick road trip out to Atlanta and of
course Saint Louis.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
I mean, yeah, absolutely, They're back home against Giants, team
one who I would.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Say is hitting the ball a lot better than pitching
the ball.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
The Phillies are five and one at home this year,
They've played very well this.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Year at home so far. They always play usually very
well at home.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
The offensive production is usually a lot higher at home
than it is on the road. That's just kind of
been the sort of trends. So yeah, I mean I
do like them in the series. But the bottom line
is it's it's three real sort of positions right now
better killing them central field, left field, third base. And
I mean this is from Bob Wlankle of Crossing broad
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Here's where the Phillies have gotten this season. Center Field,
based on the league average, they're twenty eighth in batting average,
twenty eighth in slugging percentage, twenty seventh in OPS. The
left field position, they're twenty seventh in batting average, twenty
fifth in slugging percentage, and twenty fourth in OPS. Third base,
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they're twenty sixth in batting average, thirtieth in slugging percentage,
and thirtieth in OPS. Alec Baum has the worst OPS
in all of baseball off of qualified hitters right now.
So when you go from a team last year who
a guy that started in the All Star Game at
the position, to now being basically the worst qualified hitter
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in baseball based off the first.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Three weeks of the season.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
It's it's going to hurt your team, obviously, but listen,
it's early. Once again, I'm not throwing in some crazy talent.
I don't think they need to cut both guys today.
But the bottom line is they need to get out
of their slump because the Phillies need to win some
ball games, and I think they have a nice chance
to do that.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
This week, especially this weekend.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
Obviously, if you can take a minimum two games from
the Giants hopefully three ideally Marlins this week at home,
that should be a nice series for them to get
back in the win column a lot.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
But obviously we're looking towards tonight.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
Walker, like you said, I should hopefully be a win
tonight for the Phillies.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Well, let's talk a little bit about Taiwan Walker and
things have changed.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Last year was just oh, Walker's on the mountain.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Well, I'm expecting him to uh to pitch to a
loss and no, it was actually like the low heck,
could he get the five innings? Don't ruin the bullpen?
Can he can he just get to five innings? But
that's a little bit changed so far this year. Just
recently tossed four to two thirds against Atlanta on Wednesday.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Nice jet there and.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
In the previous game. As I'm trying to pull up
his numbers here, but Walker has actually looked like a
pretty darn good pitcher this year. Do we feel like
there's going to be continue change with him or is
this fool's gold and eventually yeah, the you know, the
rug's gonna be pulled out from underneath us here.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
I mean, listen, I think going into the first start,
I was down there for the first start, and I
don't think there was a lot of hope. He ran
out to booze and he left to a standing ovation.
I didn't think there was a lot of hope for
him in Atlanta. I believe he is who he pitched against,
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and he pitched really well. So I think it's hard
to just sit there and say the regression is going
to start, because I don't think anyone really sort of
knows if that's the case or not.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
He's he's looked really well.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
The velocity's way up from from what it was lat year,
which is really really good to see. Obviously last year
he just wasn't he wasn't throwing the ball hard. If
your fastball's coming in around eighty eight miles an hour,
and and and you don't have any movement on your splitter.
I mean you're bound to get knocked around. And I
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mean that's what happened all year last year. But his
velosses up around ninety three to ninety four. The splitter
looks really really good this year. So yeah, I mean,
there's there's no signs right now to saying that the
regression will come soon or or maybe just like a
sort of have him back down to Earth.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Kind of thing.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
I will say this, this this Giants lineup has been
hitting the ball very well. They won another series this
weekend against the Yankees. They've had some major contributions from
some not really that big of names. So I will
say I think tonight is a night where you could
look for an over I don't know exactly what that
line is at.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
I think tonight could be a little bit of a
torn game.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
But listen, man, if Walker can can continue to hang
in there, maybe until Ranger gets back, and listen, I mean,
if if he continues to shine, and then obviously I
think that this is Ranger's job, but it's that will
be a good problem for the Phillies if Ranger comes
back and it's a hard decision to move Walker out
of the rotation.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
All right, we got Luke Rcany, he's in the front seat.
He's heading down the Citizens Bank Park. That number right
now is Phillies minus one eighteen. Nine is your total.
Nine is your total in tonight's game, six forty five,
first pitch, full throttle, all things major League Baseball, of
course on the card this afternoon and evening here over
on DraftKings Sports Book. A lot of great games to
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look at, and of course just a brand new start
to the week as far as the world of Major
League Baseball is concerned. Now, staying with the Giants, what's
is there a hitter that we need to be looking
out for more than most because the Giants are surprise story,
and I don't really recall too many people out there
that were saying, you know, the Giants are going to
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be a team that could potentially win the division. Now
no one's saying that because they're eleven and four and
as I said, it's April fourteenth. But they are playing well,
and you got to give them all the credit in
the world because there was a zero expectations, So they're
off to a great start.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
As far as.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Jung Hu Lee, he he homered twice in the game
against the Yankees. Is there anybody else that really jumps
off the page that, of course, we need to be
paying attention to, and more so the Phillies pitching needs
to pay attention to here.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
So, I mean there's a few guys right now that
are hitting the ball really well. Wilmer Flores is hitting
the ball well. He leads a team in RBIs. He's
got nineteen RB hogs, nineteen RBIs. He is tied with
Schwarber and a few others for the lead in the
league in home runs, which is definitely the of one
of the guys at the top of the home run
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list right now. I did not think I'd see Wilmer
Flores his name up there three weeks into the season. Yeah, obviously,
Like you said, Jung Ho Lee, Mike h Tremski looks
really good now.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Uh, he's been out in in a right field.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
A bunch of Elliott Ramos has has looked good ish
so far. They just they just have a good amount
of guys that just have been contributing.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
It hasn't really been one superstar.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
Obviously, yesterday was a huge day for young ho Lee,
but they've just had a lot of guys that are
really contributing. And at the same time, they're not getting
anything from LaMonte Waye Junior, they're not getting anything from
Matt Chapman right now, and they're not getting anything from
their new biggest signing in franchise history, uh Willia Domas.
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So they they have some room to continue to make
this offense even better. I still think this Giants team
is maybe on a bit of just a high right
now to start the year. I don't see them being
a team that finishes with ninety ninety five wins. I
think they'll probably finish over five hundred, But especially in
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a league like the National League, I think they're pitching
will probably flatten out eventually. You know, once you get
into the summer, it's it's it's hard for these middle
of the pack rotations with a team that doesn't have
a lot of depth.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
To really stay sort of healthy.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
I mean, they're getting not really much from Jordan Hicks,
Robbie Ray's looks pretty good, Lord knows what you're gonna
get from Justin Verlander.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
He's like eighty years old at this point. But yeah, so,
I mean it's it's tough.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
I think they're a team that will probably flatten out eventually,
but as far as the first three weeks of the season,
I think they're I think I saw them number one
in the power rankings this morning.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
They've been playing really well so far.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
So it should be a nice little sort of early
week sort of matter catch up for the Phillies.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
All right, Yeah, and again, a lot to discuss as
far as baseball is concerned from the weekend, specifically the
Dodgers losing two of three to the Cubs and getting
smashed over the weekend sixteen to nothing.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Sixteen nothing.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Yeah, it was interesting.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Now again, I know the Braves had some spots lash
or the Dodgers had some spots last year where they
didn't produce, but I never got a feeling like it's
not gonna work out for them last year.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
This year, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
I'm getting a little bit different vibe. Again, it's April,
but we'll see how this one plays out. But I
don't know if they're exactly the most teflon team that
we wanted to make them out to be, like it
was Lock stock barrel.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
They were winning division.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
This team is going to the World Series, and everybody
else is playing for second, especially in the National League.
They are flawed defensively. They're dealing with some injuries right now.
We'll see what happens throughout the course of one sixty two.
Will bigger names get hurt? I don't know, But at
this point in time, they're eleven and six and they
don't They're not even leading their own division. I don't
even think they're in second. I think they're in third.
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I think the Padres are in second.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
I think they are. Yep, all right, yep.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
I'm not getting too crazy here because it's April, but
you understand where I'm coming.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
I thought that was a big deal.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
We'll talk more about big picture stuff obviously getting this
one started here.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
We got Luke for a half an hour. Let's go ahead.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
I got to get your thoughts as far as what
took place yesterday and Augusta. But Rory, you're a big
time golfer. Rory getting over the hump and finally winning
the Green jacket seventeen years in the making. He's the
young dude man, only thirty five years old. But that
that list is short six names.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
He's now the sixth name to win a career Grand Slam.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
So cool, and you know, Luke, just from the reward perspective,
from where we're at as fans, that was awesome from
Thursday to Sunday. I mean, we all love the Masters.
It's the start a golf season. It means so much
more to people who play it and really enjoy golf.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
But that delivered and then so man, that was in
incredible theater all week and long.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Yeah, it was.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
It was the best Masters I've ever watched, from top
to bottom. And I'm young, so I don't really I
didn't get to watch Thursday Sunday late nineties in the
early two thousands, but that, like, this was an all
time Masters. And to to cap it off with Rory
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and Justin Rose, who are seemed to be really close
and and and good friends in that playoff and honestly
really good hole for both of them, it was it
was it was both of them had awesome drives off
the playoff hole. I thought Justin Rose had an awesome
web shot going in, and then Rory's just Rory caught
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the slope and he stuck it to about four feet
and then just to see all the emotion from Rory,
because nobody in professional golf has gone through more than
what Rory McElroy has gone through over the last ten years.
Just constantly people yelling and every single time Rory goes
to a major, are you finally gonna win this one?
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Every time I go to Augusta saying are you finally
gonna do this?
Speaker 3 (21:18):
And just see, I mean, that was that video.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
If you have to describe just raw emotion to somebody,
you show them that video of Rory yesterday, the second
that plot went in, just from the potter over his
head falling down to his knees.
Speaker 3 (21:32):
That was.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
That was eleven years in the making right there. It
was awesome to see. I mean, those other five names
that he is now with, I mean, those are those
are arguably the five greatest golfers ever. So for Rory
to be on that list, it's it's it's just it's
awesome to see him wear the green jacket, and I
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I will say, when he met up. I think my
favorite moment of the whole thing was when he met
up with his friends walking off the green and they
were all going nuts and the mic bottom and he
sort of looks at his friends and goes, all right,
I gotta go get a green jacket, and they went nuts.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
Everybody went nuts. It was just it was really awesome.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
It was anyone that loves golf or anyone that loves
the Masters, that was probably the best possible outcome for
yesterday unless you had a Justin Rose ticket. I think
he had to tell you what. I saw a guy
flash his ticket. I believe it was Saturday morning. He
had a Justin Rose ticket to win like twenty grand
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and it was a hefty pre tournament number, So that
had to hurt for some people who had that one.
But just an unbelievable weekend, an awesome tournament from Rory,
and that approach shot that he hit on fifteen yesterday
was one of the best shots I've ever seen in golf.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
So good, so good, great tournament.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
Of course, as you said, sports fans all over, whether
or not you like golf or not, you still had
to be watching and enjoying what you were watching because the.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Leaderboard had some great names.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Of course, great shots were being hit, and uh, nothing
better than than that venue down there.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
In Augusta, that's for sure.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Uh, well, one that is up there at the Citizens
Bank Park. No, lie, so you're heading to a great venue.
Of course, you got Rob Thompson speaking to the media
soon here, So a lot the dude down at the Ballyard.
Enjoy the game, Luke, you got you got the Phills
winning tonight.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
I do, I do.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
I'm gonna take the Phillies and take over as well.
I think we get some runs tonight, maybe a few bombs.
I'm gonna go Phillies Philly six, Giants four.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
How about that? There you go.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
I like it all right.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
Daily Ticket's gonna roll on here other side, I will
talk about the Nico dial as far as Tennessee is concerned,
and NBA playoffs.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
We now know who will be matching up.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
And of course it all starts on two Tuesday tomorrow
with the play in games. Luke's heading down the Sisters
Bank Park. Appreciated. Lucas always don't touch that. They'll keep
it locked right here to the Gambler. More after this,
it's the Daily Ticket with Sean Brace three Monday to Friday.
We'll tell you what the sports calendar keeps spinning, and
right now it's doing donuts in the parking lot.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
People.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
We just witnessed an electric Final four. The Phillies are
storming into the twenty twenty five season like a team
on a World Series mission, and the Masters leaderboard looks
like it's a who's Who of golf Royalty. Oh did
someone say playoffs? Yeah, both the NBA and NHL are
ready to crank up this week. It's the kind of
(24:42):
stretch that makes hosting a sports talk radio show in
Philadelphia feel like winning the lottery.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Now.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
The only downside is the Sixers and Flyers decided to
gost the postseason and taxes. Yeah, but hey, other than that,
it's a great time of year. Let's cash in and
keep it locked right here to the Gambler.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
You can wager on it. We're talking about it right
here on the Gambler. Stays Babby
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