April 9, 2025 • 37 mins
Doug talks about Luke Doncic as he received a controversial technical foul and ejection Tuesday night, and Doug explains why that could be a blessing in disguise. Doug chats about the Masters with Dan Beyer before welcoming long-time golf writer and commentator Robert Lusetich onto the show to break down the event. Plus, Dan Beyer takes Doug through a game of "For Better or Worse?".
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way tire buying should be. Uh. Kind of a weird
night last night in the NBA, and by weird I
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mean super competitive, compelling games. I watched the Nick Celtics game. Uh,
there was the there's there's there's lots of not over
uh pre pre shadowing forecasting is it pre shadowing? Foreshadowing? Sorry,
foreshadow that's of foreshadowing. With that with those games, when
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you had Nick Celtics, you also had Oklahoma City taken
on the Lakers and in a really really close game
at the time, Luka Doncik was thrown out of the game. Now,
he had a previous technical foul for using profanity towards
an official, But then after hitting a shot again in
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which like a two point game, he turned and said
something apparently directed at a fan who he was talking
ish with, and he got thrown out. Here's Luco and
he was asked about the ejection.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
You can see it that happened. But you know, I
never got a fen injected.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Never, But if he's gonna talk, I'm going to talk
back that holy so that they had nothing to do
with the ref.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
So I didn't realdn' inderstand.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
I had nothing to do with the ref. The ref
thought it was directed at him, and it was not.
Here's Lebron talking about the ejection.
Speaker 5 (01:56):
It was a where where where A couple of minutes
after that are home with the dejection. I don't know
why the ref was taking it personal. He had already
gave Luca one and Luca knew that. And Luca was
going back and forth at that time with the fan
that was sitting courtside, like Luca does, and fans get
to talk with the talk out of their mind, whatever
the case may be, and he's going back or forth
in the ref took it upon themselves if they think
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it was you know, verse him or whatever the case
may be. But then another tea on Vando after a
block shot in New cameras just just weird a tail
after that moment.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Well, look, I don't think it's actually weird because the
Lakers are trying to set into place, set into place
they foreshadowing, or they're trying to be the big brother
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to Oklahoma City. Right, the narrative on Oklahoma City is yeah,
all good and fine, but they haven't won anything, and
Dallas went in and punked them last year and Oklahoma
City is trying to punk them this year. That's the
Jared Vanderbilt blocking a shot and talking trash. I don't
know why we're calling technical fouls in the NBA. This
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is you know, this is not in JB. This is
not youth basketball. But it's feels like painfully obvious of
what the Lakers are trying to do. They're trying to
big brother them. You know, you're not any good, you
haven't done anything. We're going to talk all kinds of
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trash and you try and do it now so that
it's it feels like you already know what you're walking
into they're trying to get into the head of the
Oklahoma City Thunder. Oklahoma City is a young, super talented team,
shake Gildas Alexander ends up having what forty two last
night did hit five threes is a foul merchant, but
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they end up taking advantage of Luca not being in
the game and winning the game. But in many ways,
the Lakers win even though they lost, because I think
we all know that Luca is not going to get
called for two technical fouls once we get to the postseason,
and Luca was a part of the Mavericks who beat
the who beat the Thunder last year in the playoffs,
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and if anything, it creates a just a feeling, an
overwhelming feeling that this is what it's going to be
looked like, gonna be like for four to seven games.
If you're going to vanquish Lebron and Luca and Austin
Reeves in the playoffs in a couple of weeks. It's
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almost w W E like in that this is round
one of a multi of a multi round fight, or
this is fight one in the and wher about this is, uh,
this is like a pool play when you kind of
throw a game early on, because you're trying to set
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set everything straight for when you play in bracket play. Sorry,
that's the AAU coach in me, which is you do
one thing in pool play, and then you do another
thing in bracket play. And the Lakers want to be
tough guys and want to talk trash and want to
push around the younger, younger Oklahoma City Thunder and talk
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all kinds of ish to them, and in some ways,
on some ways it was working. Luca hits a little turnaround.
It was one nine, one oh seven at the time,
so yeah, they lost the game, but Luca didn't play
with less seven forty to go in the fourth quarter
and they fall apart. Take the best player, take Shay
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off the Thunder for the last seven forty. The same
thing happens in reverse. But I think the Lakers won
because of it. I think that frees up Luca to
talk more trash. I think it frees up the Lakers
to feel like you can't beat us when Luca plays.
And I think the still the onus is still on
the Thunder to prove it in the playoffs, something they
have not done yet yet. And this is from a
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guy who knows and believes the thunder will win in
the playoffs, but it will not be easy. Will not
be easy byer? Does that make sense as far as
a read that this is kind of it was a
day of foreshadowing, just like the Knicks and the Celtics.
With how competitive that game is, despite the fact the
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Knicks have been a bit of a mess and the
Celtics end up winning in overtime, that one felt like
if they match up in the playoffs, it's going to
be a seven you know, getting to be a seven
game series, but almost like a twelve round prize fight.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Well yeah, and I think it's interesting and I'll put
this out there. I did not see the game last night.
I did not watch the Lakers game. The Lakers game,
actually I didn't watch any of them, just so that
Bucks come back against the Timberwolves. But I do know
about the technical do know about the whole deal. What
I find out what's interesting about the Lakers is they
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choose these opportunities to show up and which is why
their game against Golden State within the past week when
they ended up losing to the Warriors, was a bit
odd because it felt like the Warriors were playing that
game like it was their Super Bowl. Maybe it was
last Thursday, it could have been. I can't remember exactly
what day it was. But they picked their spots, they
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dug They did it on Christmas Day before Luca was
even there, and so then last night's now the opportunity
for them to try to send their message and then
falls apart when Luca ends up getting thrown out. So
I think your assessment is fair. I just don't know
why the Lakers just choose to turn it on at
certain points, and maybe it's maybe it's something Oklahoma City
needs to do. Maybe they didn't take last night as
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seriously as the Lakers did. Again, I didn't see the game,
but I think to your point of the Lakers turning
it on and showing, yeah, this can be us, it
sure seems to be their mo at times season.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Yeah, No, I think that's completely accurate. I think it's
it's completely accurate, and and part of it is there
might not be the need. Part of it is you
got some older pieces there, and part of it is,
unfortunately that's who they are, and that can end up
getting a beat as well. Right where you because there's
a point when you have older teams that you you know,
you go and you kind of hit that gas pedal
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and there's no gas. There's no there's no explosion thing.
I actually you played video games, do you remember RC cart?
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Vaguely? Vaguely, I remember the name of it.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Uh R C cart was like there, radio controlled carts whatever,
and you had a button you could press instead of
turbo like you have in football. It was nitrous oxside
you know so, but if you held it down too long,
then you went back to press nitrous outside there was
no nitross in there, and you could hold down the turbo.
But no, you want you won't going faster. That's the
problem with when you're an older team and you try
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and turn it. Let's just turn it on at the
right moment, sometimes you cannot.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
And wher they could do it in the seven game series.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Or how often you yes?
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Yes. What I do think is interesting as well, is
this because he touched off the top. I do think
Lebron's wording stood out because when I heard about the
ejection last night, then saw the replays on social media
of what happened, and oh, this is awful, and hearing
the play by play, this is the worst cause is agregious.
He doesn't get tossed if he doesn't already have a technical, right,
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if he's mouthing off to a fan, he's not tossed
because it's his first technical. The problem was is he
got a technical earlier? And isn't this the problem with
Luca that we saw in the NBA Finals and saw
through out so last night in a prove it game,
Lucas still couldn't keep his mouth shut and continued to
chirp and talk and it was frustrated in the Warriors game.
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Like that was the interesting thing to me is it
wasn't like he did something that was in immediate ejection.
The reason he got tossed was because it was his
second technical of the game, because he got the first
one from mouthing off to the ref and cussing out
the ref in the first in the third quarter.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Yeah, I I uh yeah, it's it was. It's the
Luca being Luca, right, Yeah, it's the Luca being Luca.
And I would actually use this expression my my late
father had to me for Luca, which is and and
again you'll understand that it wasn't in regards to technical fouls,
it was in regards to personal fouls. He would always say,
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you know, you can't get your second if you don't
get your first, And and it's the same thing for
for technical fowls, right like if you if you didn't
mouth off to the official, the fact that he thought
you were talking to him wouldn't have actually mattered to
the second time around.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Correct, Yes, I mean we completely gloss over that. We
want to blame the official and Lebron. Lebron's point is
that he felt the official hadn't an agenda from the
beginning for giving him the first technical and then knowing
that he had a technical, so we teet him up again.
But it's not like it's new that NBA officials may
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be sensitive. And so if you're Luca in that scenario,
if you don't get the first one, you can mouth
off to the fans. Guess what, then you only get
your one there. But just absolving them of any blame
I think is foolish.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
It is it is great, it's great theater, and it
feels it's like, how many times have we how many
times in our life have we had the kind of arrogant, glamorous,
big name Lakers go into said road game road series
in the playoffs and they all do the beat La chant,
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And obviously you feel like it started with the set
Lakers Celtics in the eighties. But you can remember when
when there was a series at the Old Salt Palace,
when we first learned of the Jazz in the late
I think it was late eighties, maybe early nineties, but
I want to say it was late eighties when the
Lakers was like a three game or a five game series,
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but it was a real I think it was five
m series. It was a really hard series. And that
was when we first learned about Stockton and Malone, you know.
And then there was previous Lakers series with Portland, and
previous Lakers series with Phoenix, and previous Lakers series with
Dallas and previous Lakers series. You know. Kobe Bryant, when
when the when the Oklahoma City Thunder first got it going.
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The year before, maybe two years before, they made the
NBA Finals with Durant and Westbrook and James Harden. They
lost to the Lakers in a series, and even though
they lost, it did feel like, Okay, they're going to
be a problem. Well now here we are and it's
this is like the the thirtieth year of my life.
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Where the Lakers have the big name guys, they have
a certain level of arrogance based upon achievement, based upon perception,
and they're going into a raucous environment. And now we're
setting the We're setting the set in the stage for
what's very likely to be a super physical lot of
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trash talking Lakers trying to big Boy or Deebo if
you will, of the Oklahoma City Thunder. It won't happen
round one, but it does feel like it's gonna happen.
And then of course Luca Now tonight they play Dallas,
and Lucas said this. Of course it's gonna be a
lot of emotion for me, he told, who's that Jovan Buja,
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I don't even know what to expect. I don't know
how I'm gonna feel. Honestly, I'm looking forward to being
back in Dallas, obviously, with the fans, teammates, ex teammates.
It's gonna be very emotional for me for sure.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
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Speaker 1 (13:52):
Doug Gottlieb Show here on Fox Sports radio. I don't
think there's any question that the littles in the all
white caddy gear at the par three contest. It's the
cutest thing in all the sports. It's the cutest thing
in all the sports. Who am I watching right now?
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Their daughters running across the green and she's got a
little like his little blondehaired girl. And now she's sitting
on the Is that Rory's daughter? Yeah, yeah, that's Roy's daughter,
and she's got a little white bea. And then there's
two others with ones got the hat. Are those all
his kids? I didn't know if he had three kids.
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That's easily cute. This is the cutest thing in all
the sports, right ever, like annoyingly cute, Like, God, your
kids are really really cute. And there's some really little
ones that are adorable. So kind of cool, fun family day,
and the Masters is tomorrow. It's such a big day
in Dan Byer's life that he does this every year.
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He takes two days off and he's like, Hey, if
you need me, I'll be at my house in front
of my TV watching golf, Right Dan.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
That is the case. Yeah, especially with the television window.
But there are a lot of options online available, and
there's even expanded for Saturday and Sunday. You can if
you have a paramount plus accounts on Saturday and Sunday, Doug,
they're giving you a few more hours of coverage via
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that route. But plenty of places to watch featured groups
holes you know that are featured Amen Corner fifteen and sixteen, four,
five and six. Yeah, it's great watch.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
I think it's just me. I think the best part
of this particular tournament is like you got to Live
guys there and what was it? Was it a year
ago or a year and a half ago. We thought
that Live and the PGA would somehow and some weird
we were told they would reunite, and that hasn't happened.
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It doesn't look like it's gonna happen, Like I haven't.
I don't track it or keep an update, but you know,
in the hasn't that happened yet? Like yet? No, that
that's doesn't feel like it's any closer to happening. But
you know, whether they're the bad boys of golf or
they were the smart ones because they took that they
took that big paycheck and ran with it, Like the
Live guys and the regular PGA too, or the guys
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being back. It does create, at least perception wise, some tension.
Is that is that a reality there.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Was at one point. I think a lot of it
has simmered down just because of the fact, Doug, to
your point is, we thought there was going to be
a point where they would end up merging. And I
think that the guys on the PGA Tour side of things,
specifically someone like Rory mcclroy, who was vocal. Heck, John
Rahm was vocal, and he jumped ship. You know, he
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crossed party lines, if you will. But Rory's even backed
off of his stance on the way that Live operates
and how they could be in corporate. So I think
it allows for a much easier playing field. Liv always
wanted to have best of both worlds, so there was
nobody really on that side that needed to change their stance.
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So it was all kind of everybody on the PGA
Tour side of things that were kind of standing up
and saying, hold up, no, you're not going to do both.
You guys took the money, you have to do what
you live with your decisions. But now what seemed like
an imminent agreement I think people kind of put their
guard down and were just like whatever. I don't think
Rory has the energy to fight anymore. He's trying to
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win the career Grand Slam. I think that's part of it.
But it's died down, not as heated as much anymore,
even though there's a split between the two tours.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Yeah, it's I mean, I look, Rory's a guy who
he's had so many kind of nightmares there, right, It's
like it's like the place where you got PTSD and
he's played well so far this year, so you know
it's I liken this too. I can tell you in
terms of like my free throw shooting in college. Right,
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you work on it all off season, you work with
a sports psychologist. You think you're fixed, you think you're cured,
and then all of a sudden, at the very wrong moment,
you feel that anxiety creep up. And I just don't
know if if Rory's there. Here's Roy McElroy. He said
this to the PGA, to the PGA media about the
PGA media access.
Speaker 6 (18:21):
Look, every other athlete, whether it be in the NBA, NFL,
they're obligated to speak to you guys after a game
we're not, so you know, whether that's something that the
PGA Tour looks to in terms of putting that into
their rules and regulations, but as long as that's not
the keys, and we have that option to opt out
whenever we want expect guys to do that.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Yeah, I don't know why they have the expectations of
opting out. I just don't like, you don't have a
spokespirsus we have team like.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
I don't know to give to give some context to this.
This has actually kind of been going on a month
for about a month, and it was when Colin Morikawa
did not want to talk with the media after he
lost the lead at bay Hill and lost the tournament,
and then was asked about it at the Players Championship
which was the next week, and then his press availability
basically said I don't know you anything. Mari Kawa really
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hasn't backed off from his stance. I can see where
he's coming from. His point is is when I'm a
top five player in the world and I'm playing well,
and there are times that you guys don't want to
talk to me, but when it's bad, that's when you
guys want to talk to me. That's where he is
coming from in that situation, and then they started to
use the team sport aspect of it. I just think
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you have to look at Tiger Woods, who had to
talk every single time, no matter what he did, and
that's the example that you need to follow.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
No, it's pretty obvious. Okay. The media is like, we're
part of helping promote your sport. If you don't like that,
then you're not promoting your sport. Every logo you wear
it's part of it. So if you want to be
talked about more, win more, get more interesting. It's the
Gottlieb Show here on Fox Sports Radio and on my TV.
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We're watching the the uh the par three the par
three Challenge or Championship at Augusta. Of course, the Masters
gets underway tomorrow. It's The Gotleb Show and we'll take
you inside golf with longtime golf writer and commentator is
the author of the book Unplayable. It's of course about
Tiger Woods, published back I don't know, like like a
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decade ago. Robert Lucettez joins us here on Fox Sports Radio.
There's a bunch of different storylines that are interesting. Let's
start with the live guys kind of reuniting with the
tour guys, and it's just this kind of almost like
a weird family vacation where you had a whole group
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that divorced themselves and now for this weekend they're back together.
What's that do for the temperature? What's that do for
the environment? You think of the Masters, well, I mean, Doug.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
I honestly I look at this as the first real
golf tournament of the season. I mean the the Players Championship,
which was obviously a big one, but you know, it
would be like the NBA if you just took six seven,
you know, very good players and they went to play
in you know, Saudi Arabia and you didn't have them anymore,
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and then they come in and play in some tournament.
The idea that they're back to me makes golf more interesting.
They The one thing about Live that has been underappreciated
is that they took a lot of the characters, the
you know, the Sergios and the d Chambeau's, you know,
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the guys that could be a little prickly, the Hattons,
the Patrick Reid's, the Bubbers, and as much as you
might not like them, you know, I just always think
in any kind of sport, it's not just that you're
rooting for someone, but you're kind of rooting against someone
else at the same time. And that makes it interesting.
I mean, you could could go down, you know, the
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years and many sports and you know, like in tennis
and say, well, you know, I don't like Djokovic, but
I love feder and you know, so it becomes an
inspiration and motivation, I guess, and we haven't had that
in golf, and you know, I mean, what's interesting is
that we're hearing that, you know, a couple of the
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big live names, you know, may not be that happy
with LIV, one of them being brooks Kepka, who took
obviously took the money to go and play in the
in the Rebel Tour. And another name that's that's on
that list seems to be John Rahm, a former Masters champion,
and the word was that, you know, Phil Mickelson essentially
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convinced him to take the money and then golf would
be reunited in a year or so and and everything
would be great. And as it's turned out, it's everything
is not great, and it doesn't look like the PGA
Tour and Live are going to be coming together anytime soon.
So that's what makes the Majors to me, you know,
really important. That's what's going to make this week really
I think must see TV for golf fans.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
If there was one golfer who's most important or the
one you should watch for, the one people are talking
about the most, would it be Rory?
Speaker 3 (23:22):
I mean, it has to be Rory, doesn't it. I mean,
you know, twenty fourteen is a long time ago, and
that was the last time he won the fourth of
his majors. He's had a dozen close calls since, including
famously at the US Open last year where he missed
a little button. D Chambeau came back to beat him.
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But what's interesting I think about Rory in a lot
of ways, like Greg Norman and you know, those who
don't get along, but there's some similarities between the two
of them, is that, you know, Norman never won a
Masters and his game was really cut out for it.
I mean it was it was made for the Masters,
and yet you know, he just had all these close
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calls and in the end he couldn't do it. And
Rory he's in the same boat. I mean, he's had
a number of opportunities at Augusta. It's the only major
he hasn't won. And you know, every year we seem
to be having this this, you know, is this the
year Rory's going to get the monkey off his back?
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And I think in some ways this might, you know,
And I having said that, I actually think Rory's going
to play very well this week. His personal life, you know,
he had a big issue last year with his with
his marriage. It seemed like it was falling apart. Now
they're back together again. And I think he's the kind
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of guy that is, he's a confidence player, and he
has two pretty big wins already this season, and so
I would look to him, you know, if he can
just deal with not feeling that pressure. I think he's
the favorite, and I think he's going to you know,
he's going to win one here at some point. I
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mean he should and why not?
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Now, isn't everybody a confidence player? I guess, I guess
that's what my and I understand what you're saying. You're
saying he's a confidence player and he's playing well, so
his confidence should be high. But he has so many
demons at Augusta. That's my question is is has is
his confidence sustainable considering it's at a place where there's
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some nightmares in the past.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
Yeah, I mean that's that's obviously you know the question, right,
And it's the eight hundred pound gorilla in the room
for Rory and I just you never know. I mean,
he's got the game for it. No one's ever disputed
that he's a tremendous driver of the golf ball. You know,
he's putting better. I've never thought that he was a
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great putter, but he's a decent putter and he's putting better.
But the thing is, you know, part of the thing
with all there is that it's very, very difficult to
show up and play well there. It's a very nuanced place.
And you know, now, I mean he you know, two
thousand and nine was his first Masters. I mean that
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was a very long time ago. So he's not a
kid anymore. You know, you can see the gray in
his temples these days. Right, He's not a kid. And
I think that at some point, you know, maybe the
doors don't slam as hard in your head and you
get it done. And again, I'm not saying that the
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same story won't repeat itself, because there's plenty of instances.
Phil Mickelson, for instance, you know, not winning a US Open,
but you can't explain that, but he never did. And
I think the idea that Rory, you know, doesn't win
a Masters would be just a head scratcher. But again,
you know Greg Norman didn't win one either and he
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had an amazing game for it. So at the end
of the day, I think it just does become about
the temperament and whether he can just keep things quiet
and you know, mostly between the years, because that there's
no doubt that he has the physical ability. And when
you say confidence, you know, yeah, a lot of these
guys have confidence, but they don't you know, they don't
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you know, hit their drives into them thirty yards straight
down the middle. So every time, so there's there's something.
You know, he's got the talent. We know he's won
twice this year in some big tournaments, including the Players,
and it's a matter of him putting it all together.
But look, there's going to be a lot of competition.
The thing about the Masters is the good players, you know,
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because it's the smaller fields and invitational you've got about
thirty guys that have no shot, some older guys so
really it's it's it's like a small field of the
best players, and so there isn't the chance that you
get on a regular week when there's you know, one
hundred and fifty six guys who you might get, some
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dark horse just comes out and just you know, blows
the field away. That doesn't tend to happen here. It
tends to be uh, somebody that that you know and
that we've heard of, and the big names are all there,
so there it's it's like, you know, it's like a
horse race and you you've you've got all the thoroughbreds
lined up, and I and I think that you know,
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it'll be it'll be interesting, and it's always interesting. I
think it's just one of the great tournaments. You know,
I've been to that place so many times. But I
think that you know, Rory to me still is the.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Favorite Stuart Gottlieb show here on Fox Sports Radio, Robert
Lucet it's just uh is joining us. Of course, he's
an incredible golf commentator and golf writer as well. Uh.
I saw this Jason day, they're asking him to tone
down his gear, right, and it's it's I like, and
(28:55):
it's because he's got the big words written written across
the front. Uh it ist.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
Look, I mean that you know, the company that sponsors
at Melbourne Golf is you know, they're out there and
they're they're you know, a lot of what they do
reminds me of those Harris you know runway shows where
you see these clothes and nobody ever you never actually
see a person wearing them. They just see you just
(29:22):
see these weird outfits. But yeah, I mean I think
that the reason he got a tap on the shoulder,
and I'm not surprised about it, is that he showed
up Pebble Beach with a full sweats outfit, you know,
like and that was I don't know, it was a biggy,
small nineteen ninety something. It just was. It was a
(29:43):
weird look. And it's not a golf you know. I mean,
this is the Masters, this is Augusta. They are about
etiquette and they're about history and tradition, so you can
you can you know, I don't think they would be
I don't think you have to be completely conforming. I
mean I saw cam Smith, another one of my AUSSIEU compatriots,
today was wearing a blue blazer which is bizarre because
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he's from Queensland, the Florida of Australia, as is Jason Day.
But yeah, he was wearing a blue blazer. I mean,
you know, I don't know where we're going with that,
but you know, the companies need to sell their their
merch right Doug. So I think that's what's happening, and
you need to stand out. And Jason's getting paid, Cam
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Smith's getting paid, so you know, there we are. But
I think you know, the the Green Coats of Augusta,
they'll they'll only go so far.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
They will only they've they've they've obviously hit their limit
with what he was, what he was doing out there.
If you were if you were going to lay your
hard earned money, you're gonna call your guy. If you're
going to press the button on one of the apps
on your phone, who would it be to win?
Speaker 3 (30:49):
I'm still going to the rary. I feel like, you know,
he's the guy, but uh, there's you know, there, there's
there's other you know, rom could be, could be, sobody
to look at. D Chambeau is an interesting one because
he's just so erratic. I never know what to expect
from that guy, and I don't know that anybody does.
(31:09):
You know, he's kind of out there on his own planet,
so you know. But and the other guy I would
just keep an eye on, just to throw out there.
As Shane Lowry, I think he's playing very well, and
you know he's for a big man, he's got a
nice touch. That place requires a bit of finesse, a
bit of a bit of imagination, so he would be
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one I would look.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
At awesome stuff, Robert. I appreciate your time, man, enjoy
the tournament. We'll look forward to talking to you, hopefully
next week to recap it. Thanks for our guest on
Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
You gotta do too.
Speaker 4 (31:41):
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Speaker 1 (31:49):
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We'd love to indulge in whatever is working in the
brain of Dan Byer. Let's cant do a game game time.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
This is game time on the Doug Gottlieb Show.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
What's the game today, Dan, Doug, it's a Wednesday, So
the game today.
Speaker 4 (32:13):
Is for better for worse?
Speaker 2 (32:16):
All right, for better or worse? Traditional events. I think
you'll know what I'm talking about or what I'm getting
at here, Masters versus the Rose Bowl game for better
or worse the traditional event, the pageantry.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
I would say the Masters is better, and it's because
the Masters. If you're a traditional event, you keep your traditions,
you don't change. The Rose Bowl is no longer between
the championship of the Big Ten, champion of the Big Ten,
the champion of the Pack ten. Pack ten doesn't exist.
(32:53):
It's part of the college Football playoff, which can give
us a former Pac ten team and a Big ten team.
But the traditions are so changed with the with the
Rose Bowl, I think it's the Masters and it's not
really that close.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
I do want to go to our biased insider, Iowa Sam,
who loves the Rose Bowl. Are you Are you good
with Doug's explanation. I am. I completely am on board
with it.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
I feel like the Rose buls meaning and significance is
diluted and the Masters is still the Masters. I was
gonna put the Kentucky Derby, but for two reasons I didn't.
Number one, I've never been, and number two, I've just
heard it's just a drunk fest, especially on the infield.
I don't know if that's true or not. But that's
what I've heard pregaming for hours and hours only for
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ninety seconds.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
I have been, and we did drink, and I wasn't
on the infield, so I can't speak to that. I
thought the Belmont was more of a drug. Maybe that's
what it was on the on the infield. But yeah,
I mean like I think you put Kentucky Derby in
ninety five hundred. Those are the two that you are.
Those of the two comps.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
Okay, fair enough. Again, I've never been, would love to
go once for just to check it out. See what's
happening in Louisville, all right, For better or worse, Doug
Miracles shot on the golf course hole in one, which
is again a one on a par three in ace ye,
or an albatross, which is three under par on a hole.
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So a two on a par five or an ace
or a one on.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
A par four albatross is better. Okay, there's less luck involved.
That means you hit two incredible shots, certainly, yes, but
it's an albatross. There's no way that you're you know,
that's no way that your your drive was into the
woods or into the rough, right, yeah, the hit two.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
Interesting. That's a really good way of thinking. I never
would have thought of it that way. I thought that
it would it's more rare for as you said, for
an albatross as opposed to just a regular hole in
one on a par three. But if you who to
have the luck aspect of it, because there are lucky
hole in ones, you're absolutely right you can't get I
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suppose you could get lucky and two shots. But that's
a really good point, I think, just saying like you
have a hole in one. Like if you go around
saying like, yeah, well I had an albatross, people like yeah,
but you don't have a hole in one, so it
doesn't necessarily register. There's something about the hole in one.
I have neither, by the way, But I think that's
a I think that's a good way to look at it,
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all right. For better or worse, Doug sports jacket brain versus.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
Plaid, what's the plaid jacket for?
Speaker 2 (35:33):
Well, the plaid jacket is given next week at Harbor
Town in Hilton Head. Come on, you know, just but
I'm not. I'm just talking about the look.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
Yeah, my green jacket is synonymous with the Masters sure
iconic gold jacket. Daggett, who gives it gold jacket is
Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
Also, that would be a good one. That would also
used to be.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
A realer Scheck didn't didn't know certain was it what
realtors used to wear? The gold jacket? I forget which one?
Speaker 2 (36:03):
Century?
Speaker 1 (36:03):
Twenty one, century, twenty one, right, Yeah, my dad for it.
He got when they got he got fired at Long
Beach State, he did Tarbell realtor. I think they had
red jackets at the time.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
That would have been better, green versus gold instead of plaid.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
And these little kids are so cute for better, these
kids on the on the par three are so cute,
but they are definitely delaying some of these shots.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
For better or worse? Who has a better game tonight?
Anthony Davis or Luka doncic Uh.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
I think Anthony Davis does. I think it means more
to Anthony Davis than to his team.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
I think Anthony Davis, all right, Doug for better or worse?
New York Baseball, let's go Mets versus Yankees. Who do
you like? If you were a fan of a New
York team, Mets, you'd be a Mets fan.
Speaker 1 (36:46):
That's my dad my late father was a Mets fan.
That's a been a Mets fan. Plus the Mets are
I know, they spend a bajillion dollars, there's still somehow
a bit of the underdog.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
Finally, Doug, we saw some snow floorries earlier on the
week in the tree right for better or worse? Back
to our snow gain conversation, football versus baseball.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
In the snow? Yes, football, you hate football in the snow?
I love it. I love it. I mean baseball is
so unique in the snow and they get the flurries.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
But football, that's game time.
Speaker 4 (37:21):
Game This is game time on the Doug Gottlieb Show.
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mean super competitive, compelling games. I watched the Nick Celtics game. Uh,
there was the there's there's there's lots of not over
uh pre pre shadowing forecasting is it pre shadowing? Foreshadowing? Sorry,
foreshadow that's of foreshadowing. With that with those games, when
(01:02):
you had Nick Celtics, you also had Oklahoma City taken
on the Lakers and in a really really close game
at the time, Luka Doncik was thrown out of the game. Now,
he had a previous technical foul for using profanity towards
an official, But then after hitting a shot again in
(01:23):
which like a two point game, he turned and said
something apparently directed at a fan who he was talking
ish with, and he got thrown out. Here's Luco and
he was asked about the ejection.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
You can see it that happened. But you know, I
never got a fen injected.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Never, But if he's gonna talk, I'm going to talk
back that holy so that they had nothing to do
with the ref.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
So I didn't realdn' inderstand.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
I had nothing to do with the ref. The ref
thought it was directed at him, and it was not.
Here's Lebron talking about the ejection.
Speaker 5 (01:56):
It was a where where where A couple of minutes
after that are home with the dejection. I don't know
why the ref was taking it personal. He had already
gave Luca one and Luca knew that. And Luca was
going back and forth at that time with the fan
that was sitting courtside, like Luca does, and fans get
to talk with the talk out of their mind, whatever
the case may be, and he's going back or forth
in the ref took it upon themselves if they think
(02:19):
it was you know, verse him or whatever the case
may be. But then another tea on Vando after a
block shot in New cameras just just weird a tail
after that moment.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Well, look, I don't think it's actually weird because the
Lakers are trying to set into place, set into place
they foreshadowing, or they're trying to be the big brother
(02:51):
to Oklahoma City. Right, the narrative on Oklahoma City is yeah,
all good and fine, but they haven't won anything, and
Dallas went in and punked them last year and Oklahoma
City is trying to punk them this year. That's the
Jared Vanderbilt blocking a shot and talking trash. I don't
know why we're calling technical fouls in the NBA. This
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is you know, this is not in JB. This is
not youth basketball. But it's feels like painfully obvious of
what the Lakers are trying to do. They're trying to
big brother them. You know, you're not any good, you
haven't done anything. We're going to talk all kinds of
(03:35):
trash and you try and do it now so that
it's it feels like you already know what you're walking
into they're trying to get into the head of the
Oklahoma City Thunder. Oklahoma City is a young, super talented team,
shake Gildas Alexander ends up having what forty two last
night did hit five threes is a foul merchant, but
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they end up taking advantage of Luca not being in
the game and winning the game. But in many ways,
the Lakers win even though they lost, because I think
we all know that Luca is not going to get
called for two technical fouls once we get to the postseason,
and Luca was a part of the Mavericks who beat
the who beat the Thunder last year in the playoffs,
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and if anything, it creates a just a feeling, an
overwhelming feeling that this is what it's going to be
looked like, gonna be like for four to seven games.
If you're going to vanquish Lebron and Luca and Austin
Reeves in the playoffs in a couple of weeks. It's
(04:42):
almost w W E like in that this is round
one of a multi of a multi round fight, or
this is fight one in the and wher about this is, uh,
this is like a pool play when you kind of
throw a game early on, because you're trying to set
(05:02):
set everything straight for when you play in bracket play. Sorry,
that's the AAU coach in me, which is you do
one thing in pool play, and then you do another
thing in bracket play. And the Lakers want to be
tough guys and want to talk trash and want to
push around the younger, younger Oklahoma City Thunder and talk
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all kinds of ish to them, and in some ways,
on some ways it was working. Luca hits a little turnaround.
It was one nine, one oh seven at the time,
so yeah, they lost the game, but Luca didn't play
with less seven forty to go in the fourth quarter
and they fall apart. Take the best player, take Shay
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off the Thunder for the last seven forty. The same
thing happens in reverse. But I think the Lakers won
because of it. I think that frees up Luca to
talk more trash. I think it frees up the Lakers
to feel like you can't beat us when Luca plays.
And I think the still the onus is still on
the Thunder to prove it in the playoffs, something they
have not done yet yet. And this is from a
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guy who knows and believes the thunder will win in
the playoffs, but it will not be easy. Will not
be easy byer? Does that make sense as far as
a read that this is kind of it was a
day of foreshadowing, just like the Knicks and the Celtics.
With how competitive that game is, despite the fact the
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Knicks have been a bit of a mess and the
Celtics end up winning in overtime, that one felt like
if they match up in the playoffs, it's going to
be a seven you know, getting to be a seven
game series, but almost like a twelve round prize fight.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Well yeah, and I think it's interesting and I'll put
this out there. I did not see the game last night.
I did not watch the Lakers game. The Lakers game,
actually I didn't watch any of them, just so that
Bucks come back against the Timberwolves. But I do know
about the technical do know about the whole deal. What
I find out what's interesting about the Lakers is they
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choose these opportunities to show up and which is why
their game against Golden State within the past week when
they ended up losing to the Warriors, was a bit
odd because it felt like the Warriors were playing that
game like it was their Super Bowl. Maybe it was
last Thursday, it could have been. I can't remember exactly
what day it was. But they picked their spots, they
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dug They did it on Christmas Day before Luca was
even there, and so then last night's now the opportunity
for them to try to send their message and then
falls apart when Luca ends up getting thrown out. So
I think your assessment is fair. I just don't know
why the Lakers just choose to turn it on at
certain points, and maybe it's maybe it's something Oklahoma City
needs to do. Maybe they didn't take last night as
(07:49):
seriously as the Lakers did. Again, I didn't see the game,
but I think to your point of the Lakers turning
it on and showing, yeah, this can be us, it
sure seems to be their mo at times season.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Yeah, No, I think that's completely accurate. I think it's
it's completely accurate, and and part of it is there
might not be the need. Part of it is you
got some older pieces there, and part of it is,
unfortunately that's who they are, and that can end up
getting a beat as well. Right where you because there's
a point when you have older teams that you you know,
you go and you kind of hit that gas pedal
(08:23):
and there's no gas. There's no there's no explosion thing.
I actually you played video games, do you remember RC cart?
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Vaguely? Vaguely, I remember the name of it.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Uh R C cart was like there, radio controlled carts whatever,
and you had a button you could press instead of
turbo like you have in football. It was nitrous oxside
you know so, but if you held it down too long,
then you went back to press nitrous outside there was
no nitross in there, and you could hold down the turbo.
But no, you want you won't going faster. That's the
problem with when you're an older team and you try
(08:54):
and turn it. Let's just turn it on at the
right moment, sometimes you cannot.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
And wher they could do it in the seven game series.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Or how often you yes?
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Yes. What I do think is interesting as well, is
this because he touched off the top. I do think
Lebron's wording stood out because when I heard about the
ejection last night, then saw the replays on social media
of what happened, and oh, this is awful, and hearing
the play by play, this is the worst cause is agregious.
He doesn't get tossed if he doesn't already have a technical, right,
(09:25):
if he's mouthing off to a fan, he's not tossed
because it's his first technical. The problem was is he
got a technical earlier? And isn't this the problem with
Luca that we saw in the NBA Finals and saw
through out so last night in a prove it game,
Lucas still couldn't keep his mouth shut and continued to
chirp and talk and it was frustrated in the Warriors game.
(09:48):
Like that was the interesting thing to me is it
wasn't like he did something that was in immediate ejection.
The reason he got tossed was because it was his
second technical of the game, because he got the first
one from mouthing off to the ref and cussing out
the ref in the first in the third quarter.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Yeah, I I uh yeah, it's it was. It's the
Luca being Luca, right, Yeah, it's the Luca being Luca.
And I would actually use this expression my my late
father had to me for Luca, which is and and
again you'll understand that it wasn't in regards to technical fouls,
it was in regards to personal fouls. He would always say,
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you know, you can't get your second if you don't
get your first, And and it's the same thing for
for technical fowls, right like if you if you didn't
mouth off to the official, the fact that he thought
you were talking to him wouldn't have actually mattered to
the second time around.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Correct, Yes, I mean we completely gloss over that. We
want to blame the official and Lebron. Lebron's point is
that he felt the official hadn't an agenda from the
beginning for giving him the first technical and then knowing
that he had a technical, so we teet him up again.
But it's not like it's new that NBA officials may
(11:01):
be sensitive. And so if you're Luca in that scenario,
if you don't get the first one, you can mouth
off to the fans. Guess what, then you only get
your one there. But just absolving them of any blame
I think is foolish.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
It is it is great, it's great theater, and it
feels it's like, how many times have we how many
times in our life have we had the kind of arrogant, glamorous,
big name Lakers go into said road game road series
in the playoffs and they all do the beat La chant,
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And obviously you feel like it started with the set
Lakers Celtics in the eighties. But you can remember when
when there was a series at the Old Salt Palace,
when we first learned of the Jazz in the late
I think it was late eighties, maybe early nineties, but
I want to say it was late eighties when the
Lakers was like a three game or a five game series,
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but it was a real I think it was five
m series. It was a really hard series. And that
was when we first learned about Stockton and Malone, you know.
And then there was previous Lakers series with Portland, and
previous Lakers series with Phoenix, and previous Lakers series with
Dallas and previous Lakers series. You know. Kobe Bryant, when
when the when the Oklahoma City Thunder first got it going.
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The year before, maybe two years before, they made the
NBA Finals with Durant and Westbrook and James Harden. They
lost to the Lakers in a series, and even though
they lost, it did feel like, Okay, they're going to
be a problem. Well now here we are and it's
this is like the the thirtieth year of my life.
(12:44):
Where the Lakers have the big name guys, they have
a certain level of arrogance based upon achievement, based upon perception,
and they're going into a raucous environment. And now we're
setting the We're setting the set in the stage for
what's very likely to be a super physical lot of
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trash talking Lakers trying to big Boy or Deebo if
you will, of the Oklahoma City Thunder. It won't happen
round one, but it does feel like it's gonna happen.
And then of course Luca Now tonight they play Dallas,
and Lucas said this. Of course it's gonna be a
lot of emotion for me, he told, who's that Jovan Buja,
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I don't even know what to expect. I don't know
how I'm gonna feel. Honestly, I'm looking forward to being
back in Dallas, obviously, with the fans, teammates, ex teammates.
It's gonna be very emotional for me for sure.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
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Speaker 1 (13:52):
Doug Gottlieb Show here on Fox Sports radio. I don't
think there's any question that the littles in the all
white caddy gear at the par three contest. It's the
cutest thing in all the sports. It's the cutest thing
in all the sports. Who am I watching right now?
(14:12):
Their daughters running across the green and she's got a
little like his little blondehaired girl. And now she's sitting
on the Is that Rory's daughter? Yeah, yeah, that's Roy's daughter,
and she's got a little white bea. And then there's
two others with ones got the hat. Are those all
his kids? I didn't know if he had three kids.
(14:33):
That's easily cute. This is the cutest thing in all
the sports, right ever, like annoyingly cute, Like, God, your
kids are really really cute. And there's some really little
ones that are adorable. So kind of cool, fun family day,
and the Masters is tomorrow. It's such a big day
in Dan Byer's life that he does this every year.
(14:55):
He takes two days off and he's like, Hey, if
you need me, I'll be at my house in front
of my TV watching golf, Right Dan.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
That is the case. Yeah, especially with the television window.
But there are a lot of options online available, and
there's even expanded for Saturday and Sunday. You can if
you have a paramount plus accounts on Saturday and Sunday, Doug,
they're giving you a few more hours of coverage via
(15:23):
that route. But plenty of places to watch featured groups
holes you know that are featured Amen Corner fifteen and sixteen, four,
five and six. Yeah, it's great watch.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
I think it's just me. I think the best part
of this particular tournament is like you got to Live
guys there and what was it? Was it a year
ago or a year and a half ago. We thought
that Live and the PGA would somehow and some weird
we were told they would reunite, and that hasn't happened.
(15:59):
It doesn't look like it's gonna happen, Like I haven't.
I don't track it or keep an update, but you know,
in the hasn't that happened yet? Like yet? No, that
that's doesn't feel like it's any closer to happening. But
you know, whether they're the bad boys of golf or
they were the smart ones because they took that they
took that big paycheck and ran with it, Like the
Live guys and the regular PGA too, or the guys
(16:21):
being back. It does create, at least perception wise, some tension.
Is that is that a reality there.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Was at one point. I think a lot of it
has simmered down just because of the fact, Doug, to
your point is, we thought there was going to be
a point where they would end up merging. And I
think that the guys on the PGA Tour side of things,
specifically someone like Rory mcclroy, who was vocal. Heck, John
Rahm was vocal, and he jumped ship. You know, he
(16:49):
crossed party lines, if you will. But Rory's even backed
off of his stance on the way that Live operates
and how they could be in corporate. So I think
it allows for a much easier playing field. Liv always
wanted to have best of both worlds, so there was
nobody really on that side that needed to change their stance.
(17:10):
So it was all kind of everybody on the PGA
Tour side of things that were kind of standing up
and saying, hold up, no, you're not going to do both.
You guys took the money, you have to do what
you live with your decisions. But now what seemed like
an imminent agreement I think people kind of put their
guard down and were just like whatever. I don't think
Rory has the energy to fight anymore. He's trying to
(17:30):
win the career Grand Slam. I think that's part of it.
But it's died down, not as heated as much anymore,
even though there's a split between the two tours.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Yeah, it's I mean, I look, Rory's a guy who
he's had so many kind of nightmares there, right, It's
like it's like the place where you got PTSD and
he's played well so far this year, so you know
it's I liken this too. I can tell you in
terms of like my free throw shooting in college. Right,
(18:00):
you work on it all off season, you work with
a sports psychologist. You think you're fixed, you think you're cured,
and then all of a sudden, at the very wrong moment,
you feel that anxiety creep up. And I just don't
know if if Rory's there. Here's Roy McElroy. He said
this to the PGA, to the PGA media about the
PGA media access.
Speaker 6 (18:21):
Look, every other athlete, whether it be in the NBA, NFL,
they're obligated to speak to you guys after a game
we're not, so you know, whether that's something that the
PGA Tour looks to in terms of putting that into
their rules and regulations, but as long as that's not
the keys, and we have that option to opt out
whenever we want expect guys to do that.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Yeah, I don't know why they have the expectations of
opting out. I just don't like, you don't have a
spokespirsus we have team like.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
I don't know to give to give some context to this.
This has actually kind of been going on a month
for about a month, and it was when Colin Morikawa
did not want to talk with the media after he
lost the lead at bay Hill and lost the tournament,
and then was asked about it at the Players Championship
which was the next week, and then his press availability
basically said I don't know you anything. Mari Kawa really
(19:12):
hasn't backed off from his stance. I can see where
he's coming from. His point is is when I'm a
top five player in the world and I'm playing well,
and there are times that you guys don't want to
talk to me, but when it's bad, that's when you
guys want to talk to me. That's where he is
coming from in that situation, and then they started to
use the team sport aspect of it. I just think
(19:34):
you have to look at Tiger Woods, who had to
talk every single time, no matter what he did, and
that's the example that you need to follow.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
No, it's pretty obvious. Okay. The media is like, we're
part of helping promote your sport. If you don't like that,
then you're not promoting your sport. Every logo you wear
it's part of it. So if you want to be
talked about more, win more, get more interesting. It's the
Gottlieb Show here on Fox Sports Radio and on my TV.
(20:03):
We're watching the the uh the par three the par
three Challenge or Championship at Augusta. Of course, the Masters
gets underway tomorrow. It's The Gotleb Show and we'll take
you inside golf with longtime golf writer and commentator is
the author of the book Unplayable. It's of course about
Tiger Woods, published back I don't know, like like a
(20:25):
decade ago. Robert Lucettez joins us here on Fox Sports Radio.
There's a bunch of different storylines that are interesting. Let's
start with the live guys kind of reuniting with the
tour guys, and it's just this kind of almost like
a weird family vacation where you had a whole group
(20:46):
that divorced themselves and now for this weekend they're back together.
What's that do for the temperature? What's that do for
the environment? You think of the Masters, well, I mean, Doug.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
I honestly I look at this as the first real
golf tournament of the season. I mean the the Players Championship,
which was obviously a big one, but you know, it
would be like the NBA if you just took six seven,
you know, very good players and they went to play
in you know, Saudi Arabia and you didn't have them anymore,
(21:21):
and then they come in and play in some tournament.
The idea that they're back to me makes golf more interesting.
They The one thing about Live that has been underappreciated
is that they took a lot of the characters, the
you know, the Sergios and the d Chambeau's, you know,
(21:41):
the guys that could be a little prickly, the Hattons,
the Patrick Reid's, the Bubbers, and as much as you
might not like them, you know, I just always think
in any kind of sport, it's not just that you're
rooting for someone, but you're kind of rooting against someone
else at the same time. And that makes it interesting.
I mean, you could could go down, you know, the
(22:03):
years and many sports and you know, like in tennis
and say, well, you know, I don't like Djokovic, but
I love feder and you know, so it becomes an
inspiration and motivation, I guess, and we haven't had that
in golf, and you know, I mean, what's interesting is
that we're hearing that, you know, a couple of the
(22:25):
big live names, you know, may not be that happy
with LIV, one of them being brooks Kepka, who took
obviously took the money to go and play in the
in the Rebel Tour. And another name that's that's on
that list seems to be John Rahm, a former Masters champion,
and the word was that, you know, Phil Mickelson essentially
(22:45):
convinced him to take the money and then golf would
be reunited in a year or so and and everything
would be great. And as it's turned out, it's everything
is not great, and it doesn't look like the PGA
Tour and Live are going to be coming together anytime soon.
So that's what makes the Majors to me, you know,
really important. That's what's going to make this week really
I think must see TV for golf fans.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
If there was one golfer who's most important or the
one you should watch for, the one people are talking
about the most, would it be Rory?
Speaker 3 (23:22):
I mean, it has to be Rory, doesn't it. I mean,
you know, twenty fourteen is a long time ago, and
that was the last time he won the fourth of
his majors. He's had a dozen close calls since, including
famously at the US Open last year where he missed
a little button. D Chambeau came back to beat him.
(23:45):
But what's interesting I think about Rory in a lot
of ways, like Greg Norman and you know, those who
don't get along, but there's some similarities between the two
of them, is that, you know, Norman never won a
Masters and his game was really cut out for it.
I mean it was it was made for the Masters,
and yet you know, he just had all these close
(24:05):
calls and in the end he couldn't do it. And
Rory he's in the same boat. I mean, he's had
a number of opportunities at Augusta. It's the only major
he hasn't won. And you know, every year we seem
to be having this this, you know, is this the
year Rory's going to get the monkey off his back?
(24:25):
And I think in some ways this might, you know,
And I having said that, I actually think Rory's going
to play very well this week. His personal life, you know,
he had a big issue last year with his with
his marriage. It seemed like it was falling apart. Now
they're back together again. And I think he's the kind
(24:46):
of guy that is, he's a confidence player, and he
has two pretty big wins already this season, and so
I would look to him, you know, if he can
just deal with not feeling that pressure. I think he's
the favorite, and I think he's going to you know,
he's going to win one here at some point. I
(25:06):
mean he should and why not?
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Now, isn't everybody a confidence player? I guess, I guess
that's what my and I understand what you're saying. You're
saying he's a confidence player and he's playing well, so
his confidence should be high. But he has so many
demons at Augusta. That's my question is is has is
his confidence sustainable considering it's at a place where there's
(25:30):
some nightmares in the past.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
Yeah, I mean that's that's obviously you know the question, right,
And it's the eight hundred pound gorilla in the room
for Rory and I just you never know. I mean,
he's got the game for it. No one's ever disputed
that he's a tremendous driver of the golf ball. You know,
he's putting better. I've never thought that he was a
(25:52):
great putter, but he's a decent putter and he's putting better.
But the thing is, you know, part of the thing
with all there is that it's very, very difficult to
show up and play well there. It's a very nuanced place.
And you know, now, I mean he you know, two
thousand and nine was his first Masters. I mean that
(26:13):
was a very long time ago. So he's not a
kid anymore. You know, you can see the gray in
his temples these days. Right, He's not a kid. And
I think that at some point, you know, maybe the
doors don't slam as hard in your head and you
get it done. And again, I'm not saying that the
(26:34):
same story won't repeat itself, because there's plenty of instances.
Phil Mickelson, for instance, you know, not winning a US Open,
but you can't explain that, but he never did. And
I think the idea that Rory, you know, doesn't win
a Masters would be just a head scratcher. But again,
you know Greg Norman didn't win one either and he
(26:55):
had an amazing game for it. So at the end
of the day, I think it just does become about
the temperament and whether he can just keep things quiet
and you know, mostly between the years, because that there's
no doubt that he has the physical ability. And when
you say confidence, you know, yeah, a lot of these
guys have confidence, but they don't you know, they don't
(27:16):
you know, hit their drives into them thirty yards straight
down the middle. So every time, so there's there's something.
You know, he's got the talent. We know he's won
twice this year in some big tournaments, including the Players,
and it's a matter of him putting it all together.
But look, there's going to be a lot of competition.
The thing about the Masters is the good players, you know,
(27:38):
because it's the smaller fields and invitational you've got about
thirty guys that have no shot, some older guys so
really it's it's it's like a small field of the
best players, and so there isn't the chance that you
get on a regular week when there's you know, one
hundred and fifty six guys who you might get, some
(28:00):
dark horse just comes out and just you know, blows
the field away. That doesn't tend to happen here. It
tends to be uh, somebody that that you know and
that we've heard of, and the big names are all there,
so there it's it's like, you know, it's like a
horse race and you you've you've got all the thoroughbreds
lined up, and I and I think that you know,
(28:21):
it'll be it'll be interesting, and it's always interesting. I
think it's just one of the great tournaments. You know,
I've been to that place so many times. But I
think that you know, Rory to me still is the.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Favorite Stuart Gottlieb show here on Fox Sports Radio, Robert
Lucet it's just uh is joining us. Of course, he's
an incredible golf commentator and golf writer as well. Uh.
I saw this Jason day, they're asking him to tone
down his gear, right, and it's it's I like, and
(28:55):
it's because he's got the big words written written across
the front. Uh it ist.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
Look, I mean that you know, the company that sponsors
at Melbourne Golf is you know, they're out there and
they're they're you know, a lot of what they do
reminds me of those Harris you know runway shows where
you see these clothes and nobody ever you never actually
see a person wearing them. They just see you just
(29:22):
see these weird outfits. But yeah, I mean I think
that the reason he got a tap on the shoulder,
and I'm not surprised about it, is that he showed
up Pebble Beach with a full sweats outfit, you know,
like and that was I don't know, it was a biggy,
small nineteen ninety something. It just was. It was a
(29:43):
weird look. And it's not a golf you know. I mean,
this is the Masters, this is Augusta. They are about
etiquette and they're about history and tradition, so you can
you can you know, I don't think they would be
I don't think you have to be completely conforming. I
mean I saw cam Smith, another one of my AUSSIEU compatriots,
today was wearing a blue blazer which is bizarre because
(30:06):
he's from Queensland, the Florida of Australia, as is Jason Day.
But yeah, he was wearing a blue blazer. I mean,
you know, I don't know where we're going with that,
but you know, the companies need to sell their their
merch right Doug. So I think that's what's happening, and
you need to stand out. And Jason's getting paid, Cam
(30:27):
Smith's getting paid, so you know, there we are. But
I think you know, the the Green Coats of Augusta,
they'll they'll only go so far.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
They will only they've they've they've obviously hit their limit
with what he was, what he was doing out there.
If you were if you were going to lay your
hard earned money, you're gonna call your guy. If you're
going to press the button on one of the apps
on your phone, who would it be to win?
Speaker 3 (30:49):
I'm still going to the rary. I feel like, you know,
he's the guy, but uh, there's you know, there, there's
there's other you know, rom could be, could be, sobody
to look at. D Chambeau is an interesting one because
he's just so erratic. I never know what to expect
from that guy, and I don't know that anybody does.
(31:09):
You know, he's kind of out there on his own planet,
so you know. But and the other guy I would
just keep an eye on, just to throw out there.
As Shane Lowry, I think he's playing very well, and
you know he's for a big man, he's got a
nice touch. That place requires a bit of finesse, a
bit of a bit of imagination, so he would be
(31:30):
one I would look.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
At awesome stuff, Robert. I appreciate your time, man, enjoy
the tournament. We'll look forward to talking to you, hopefully
next week to recap it. Thanks for our guest on
Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
You gotta do too.
Speaker 4 (31:41):
Be sure to catch the live edition of The Doug
Gottlieb Show weekdays at three pm Eastern noon Pacific.
Speaker 1 (31:49):
Doug gottlib Show, Fox Sports Radio. Every day of this time.
We'd love to indulge in whatever is working in the
brain of Dan Byer. Let's cant do a game game time.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
This is game time on the Doug Gottlieb Show.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
What's the game today, Dan, Doug, it's a Wednesday, So
the game today.
Speaker 4 (32:13):
Is for better for worse?
Speaker 2 (32:16):
All right, for better or worse? Traditional events. I think
you'll know what I'm talking about or what I'm getting
at here, Masters versus the Rose Bowl game for better
or worse the traditional event, the pageantry.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
I would say the Masters is better, and it's because
the Masters. If you're a traditional event, you keep your traditions,
you don't change. The Rose Bowl is no longer between
the championship of the Big Ten, champion of the Big Ten,
the champion of the Pack ten. Pack ten doesn't exist.
(32:53):
It's part of the college Football playoff, which can give
us a former Pac ten team and a Big ten team.
But the traditions are so changed with the with the
Rose Bowl, I think it's the Masters and it's not
really that close.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
I do want to go to our biased insider, Iowa Sam,
who loves the Rose Bowl. Are you Are you good
with Doug's explanation. I am. I completely am on board
with it.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
I feel like the Rose buls meaning and significance is
diluted and the Masters is still the Masters. I was
gonna put the Kentucky Derby, but for two reasons I didn't.
Number one, I've never been, and number two, I've just
heard it's just a drunk fest, especially on the infield.
I don't know if that's true or not. But that's
what I've heard pregaming for hours and hours only for
(33:39):
ninety seconds.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
I have been, and we did drink, and I wasn't
on the infield, so I can't speak to that. I
thought the Belmont was more of a drug. Maybe that's
what it was on the on the infield. But yeah,
I mean like I think you put Kentucky Derby in
ninety five hundred. Those are the two that you are.
Those of the two comps.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
Okay, fair enough. Again, I've never been, would love to
go once for just to check it out. See what's
happening in Louisville, all right, For better or worse, Doug
Miracles shot on the golf course hole in one, which
is again a one on a par three in ace ye,
or an albatross, which is three under par on a hole.
(34:22):
So a two on a par five or an ace
or a one on.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
A par four albatross is better. Okay, there's less luck involved.
That means you hit two incredible shots, certainly, yes, but
it's an albatross. There's no way that you're you know,
that's no way that your your drive was into the
woods or into the rough, right, yeah, the hit two.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
Interesting. That's a really good way of thinking. I never
would have thought of it that way. I thought that
it would it's more rare for as you said, for
an albatross as opposed to just a regular hole in
one on a par three. But if you who to
have the luck aspect of it, because there are lucky
hole in ones, you're absolutely right you can't get I
(35:07):
suppose you could get lucky and two shots. But that's
a really good point, I think, just saying like you
have a hole in one. Like if you go around
saying like, yeah, well I had an albatross, people like yeah,
but you don't have a hole in one, so it
doesn't necessarily register. There's something about the hole in one.
I have neither, by the way, But I think that's
a I think that's a good way to look at it,
(35:27):
all right. For better or worse, Doug sports jacket brain versus.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
Plaid, what's the plaid jacket for?
Speaker 2 (35:33):
Well, the plaid jacket is given next week at Harbor
Town in Hilton Head. Come on, you know, just but
I'm not. I'm just talking about the look.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
Yeah, my green jacket is synonymous with the Masters sure
iconic gold jacket. Daggett, who gives it gold jacket is
Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
Also, that would be a good one. That would also
used to be.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
A realer Scheck didn't didn't know certain was it what
realtors used to wear? The gold jacket? I forget which one?
Speaker 2 (36:03):
Century?
Speaker 1 (36:03):
Twenty one, century, twenty one, right, Yeah, my dad for it.
He got when they got he got fired at Long
Beach State, he did Tarbell realtor. I think they had
red jackets at the time.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
That would have been better, green versus gold instead of plaid.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
And these little kids are so cute for better, these
kids on the on the par three are so cute,
but they are definitely delaying some of these shots.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
For better or worse? Who has a better game tonight?
Anthony Davis or Luka doncic Uh.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
I think Anthony Davis does. I think it means more
to Anthony Davis than to his team.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
I think Anthony Davis, all right, Doug for better or worse?
New York Baseball, let's go Mets versus Yankees. Who do
you like? If you were a fan of a New
York team, Mets, you'd be a Mets fan.
Speaker 1 (36:46):
That's my dad my late father was a Mets fan.
That's a been a Mets fan. Plus the Mets are
I know, they spend a bajillion dollars, there's still somehow
a bit of the underdog.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
Finally, Doug, we saw some snow floorries earlier on the
week in the tree right for better or worse? Back
to our snow gain conversation, football versus baseball.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
In the snow? Yes, football, you hate football in the snow?
I love it. I love it. I mean baseball is
so unique in the snow and they get the flurries.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
But football, that's game time.
Speaker 4 (37:21):
Game This is game time on the Doug Gottlieb Show.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
That's Doug Gotlieb Show here on Fox Sports Trader all right,
coming up next, we'll get to the midway, middle of
the week, middle of the show, middle of the day,
where we pick one topic where I'm kind of in
the middle of That's actually the Doug Gotlieb Show, Fox
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