April 14, 2025 • 48 mins
On this edition of The Best Of The Doug Gottlieb Show: Doug talks about Rory McIlroy completing his career grand slam and winning the Masters. Doug and Dan Beyer explained why everyone was rooting for Rory Sunday.
Doug and the crew share what they loved and hated from the sports weekend in this version of love AND hate.
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you're doing great. Hope your weekend was good. Hope your
life is good. Hope your mentals are good. We're we're
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butting up against the NBA Playoffs, which is awesome. The
play in this set, most of the racketing is set.
I mean, I think we're in a kind of good
place right tomorrow night. You got Orlando and Atlanta in
one play in in the East and Golden State falling
to the play and to take on Memphis in another
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play in game in the West. So if you look
at those Western Conference standings and what ended up happening, right,
the Golden State Warriors fell all the way all the
way down to the seventh seed. So now obviously if
you win on Tuesday, then you're in the playoffs, and
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I believe they'll take on what the Rockets, right, and
then you have Lakers who are gonna take on the Timberwolves,
Nuggets take on the Clippers, and the thunder will take
on whoever the last team is in, whether it's the
Mavericks who took them out last year, the Kings, the Grizzlies,
or you know, I guess I don't think it could
be the Warriors here. So Warriors gotta win one in
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order to keep playing. Let's get to this story of
the weekend, which is Rory winning the Masters. What's interesting
about it is maybe it's because of the emotion afterwards.
Maybe it's because he generally comes across as a likable fella.
I do feel like people wanted Rory to win though
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he's not. He he hadn't reached like Phill level of
popularity generally, like yeah, so when he misses a putt
on eighteen, or when he you know, hits a hits
a webshot into the water on thirteen, looks like he's
gonna collapse. When things go wrong with people we like,
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we have a tendency to go like, oh, that's just
bad luck. Whereas if we don't like him, they're a choker.
But the problem with them being a choker is all right,
is he still a choker if he goes from having
a lead to trailing, then retakes the lead, then gives
up the lead, then he comes from behind with two
late birdies, then he misses au put on eighteen, then
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the second time round in eighteen he hits a birdie,
Like is he now clutch? I'm just struggling with what
is clutch and what is not clutch. And maybe a
portion of it is he's more roller coaster up and down.
Maybe it's that we didn't have television covering every shot
in every hole, so we just looked at final scores
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and we don't realize this is how it's always been.
Or maybe it's we're giving him a pass where all
of us who play golf know that that second ball
you hit is always better than the first ball you hit, always,
always always, always, but for whatever reason, there's different ways
to cover different sorts of struggles. And maybe it's because
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he won. That's the pother Hey, at the end of
the day, he won. Had he not won, he would
have been a joker. But he did win, so now
he's a champion. But that was the whole thing. Was
amazing to watch, even on the playoff hole. The fact
that he had to wait there for like five extra
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minutes to tee off. I'm sitting there thinking, well, the
longer you got to wait there, doesn't that build up
the pressure. But then he just pipes the drive kind
of perfectly to nearly the same spot he did, you know,
twenty minutes earlier on eighteen. We'll hear from all the
guys in a second. First, let's take a listen. This
is Ry McElroy talking about winning the Masters.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
It feels incredible. This is my seventheenth time here and
I started to wonder if it would ever be my time.
And I think, you know, the last ten years coming
here with the burden of the Grand Slam on my
shoulders and trying to achieve that. I'm sort of wondering
what we're all going to talk about going into the
end of next year's Fasters. But I'm just absolutely honored
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and thrilled. I'm just so proud to be able to
call myself a master shocker.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Yeah he should be. It's pretty awesome stuff. You know again,
maybe I'm a sucker for it, but I thought the
same thing when I don't know if you guys saw
and Darren Devrees got the job at Indiana, when just
the moment of walking into Indiana as their head coach
kind of struck him. And the same thing for Rory
is he's walking from eighteen to turn in his scorecard
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and you can see him being overcome by emotion, like,
I don't know, I dig that stuff. I dig that stuff.
But it is interesting on how today he is a champion.
But we saw him both win it, give it away,
win it again, maybe give it away, and then win
it again. It was good TV. And that four K
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where they're super in hyper focus and everybody is not
is that was a fantastic watch from CBS from a
visual aspect, We'll get to the verbal aspect of the second.
Dan Byer, you took the weekend off in order to
watch golf.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
I wasn't technically off. I was on in the morning.
I was on with you, but I was just out
of the studio. Yes, Okay.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
The point is that, like this is a it's your
favorite golf tournament, you kind of set your clock to it.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
It's my favorite event period.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Favorite event period. Yes, how would you characterize it?
Speaker 3 (06:19):
An amazing, amazing afternoon of ups and downs. And I
felt that everybody was on Rory's side in this entire battle. Sure,
there may been some people that wanted to see Bryson
breakthrough and other people that may just have never liked
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Rory McElroy so they're not going to cheer for him.
But if you were neutral, you were on Rory's side yesterday.
If you had no interest in were watching, you were
on Rory's side. If you were a passionate golf fan,
I feel that you were on Rory's side yesterday. And
it was four and a half to five hours of
a roller coaster ride, and I thought it was magnificent television.
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It wasn't perfect for Rory, but I think the shots
that Rory then did hit when he needed to were
shots that only a select few maybe in the history
of golf could hit. And that's what also made it
so compelling.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Okay, what about you there, Iowa, Sam, I know you
watched yesterday. What'd you think?
Speaker 4 (07:28):
I love seeing him win. You know, he had a
very human experience. I think a lot. It makes it
relatable for most people to watch someone go up and
down and finally grab the championship. I think it's good
for golf that he won. I think he's recognizable. He's
been trying to win a Master's for a long time.
He's recognizable voice, he's a recognizable face and name. And
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I think it was really really good for golf that
he won the Masters yesterday. And I agree with Dan.
I think everybody was rooting for him. He seems like
a nice guy, a good dude, and to have that
product take place on Sunday was really really good for
the Masters.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
It was definitely one.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
Remember.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
I agree that everybody's rooting for him. I agree that
the narrative is he's a really good guy. Like I
don't buyer. Is he as well liked as we like
to believe that he is?
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (08:23):
So.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
And I will even say this for as much as
certain players don't have to name certain names that we
think that are universally loved by everyone, or were universally
loved by everyone. There's other stuff behind the scenes that
maybe you're like okay, and vice versa. Guys that maybe
you didn't think were great guys were loved by their peers.
Nobody really has a bad thing to say about Rory,
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except when maybe he was speaking up about live golf.
Some people felt that maybe he's too righteous at times,
but overall, I think he's been a model person and
a model citizen that by and large everybody does love.
Because there are also vulnerabilities there. And I thought it
was interesting because people point out this career Grand Slam deal,
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but every time he would go to Augusta, they would
bring up twenty eleven when he hit the hook on
ten and was by cabins that people didn't even know
where on the property at Augusta National. So when people
yesterday were saying, you've been carrying this burden since twenty fourteen,
because that's when he got his third leg of the
Grand Slam, he said, I, actually, I've been carrying it
since twenty eleven. And so every time that he went
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to Augusta National, the demons of the tenth hole were
popping up. In what happened on that second nine in
that afternoon, and he carried those and I think that
they were actually with him popping up at times yesterday.
I don't think it was a coincidence when you saw
Rory shine and when he saw Rory kind of flub up,
because there everybody knows that back nine and there are
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just times that you know that, okay, you can take
advantage of this, and you got to be be careful
of that. And it was almost with the opposite of roar.
Like his bugaboo is ten and he goes in Birdie's ten.
So what does he do on eleven? His second shot,
He almost hits a hook because he's behind the trees,
and it almost goes into the pond. So then you're like, okay, xhale,
you get through eleven and twelve just with a bogie
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on eleven and twelve, you're able to par thirteen should
be an easy hole and easy power form. And what
does he do, as he said, chips it into the
water from eighty yards out, Like it was such the
opposite of everything that you would think that would go on.
And I think that reveals Rory's vulnerability, and it had
been with him for the last fourteen years. It's crazy.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Yeah, it's you know, I don't think most of us.
I mean, I know, Jay stew you loved watching it,
loved watching and like Jay loves to hate watch lots
of things, he did not. He actually truly enjoyed it.
But I don't think Jay, that brought, even with you
the close to the history of it. You were just
kind of in the moment enjoying it.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
Is that fair first and foremost. I said this all
last week. I always watched Sunday of the Masters. I
think that it is the most prestigious event in that sport,
but it's also like top five or top ten, and
what we need to pay attention to. I think sporting events,
individual sporting events. And I will take issue with what
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Dan said. Not everybody was rooting for Rory. I was
rooting for the choke. And that's why I always root
for the choke. I think it's better content. I think
it would have been better content for him to be
devastated and to have to answer all the questions. Again.
I wanted the prolonged agony. That's what I was rooting
for yesterday. So when Justin Rose is making all those
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shots and he's cocky and it's one birdy after another.
He's a middle aged guy that I was rooting for.
It seems like a good dude. I was rooting for
him to win the playoff. And to answer your question, Doug,
what's the difference between being clutching and choking? I think
being clutch is what Tiger was. Did he ever give
up a lead on a Sunday in a in a
major when he was leading? I don't think so that's clutch.
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The other end of the spectrum is a total choke job,
which is what Greg Norman was known for, or Van Dervelt.
And then there's just like degrees of gagging, and he
was gagging the whole day. To put it into like
the perspective of a golfer's mind, I saw this tweet
from Steve Elkinton after the regulation eighteen that could be
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the greatest collapse in golf history, and Bleeping CBS says,
quote unquote, we have a playoff. I think that kind
of speaks to like the moment when he missed on
on that putt on eighteen, there was there was silence
and then he hits the tap in. It's like we
got a playoff. Well Man, there was a lot of
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context in between that wasn't there. Dan, Yeah, I will
say this number one.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
I think that you come from a radio content perspective
that zero point zero zero zero zero one percent come from.
So that story is I think from that angle. I
also think Elk can be very negative at times with this.
But if you're gonna knock Rory for the poor shots
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that he hit, he was one over par on his round,
you have to give him credit for the shots that
he then did hit. There were I wrote down the number.
I think there were five shots of his life just
on Sunday. There may have been eight in the over
the weekend. We're talking shots of his life. Of the
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shot on fifteen two days in a row, the shot
on seventeen to allow the birdie, the shot on the
playoff hole on eighteen. There were other shots that again,
shot of his life. I think Adam Schefter, which when
you know it's something when NFL insiders are tweeting about
golf and what's going on randomly, and you're thinking you're
going to see a top thirty visit and instead and
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it's Adam Schefter tweeting shot of his life too. There
were like eight shots of his life over this past weekend.
But what made it so great was he put himself
in the situation where he needed to hit shots of
his life and I think that is something that is
very relatable and maybe not the extreme portion of it,
but to be able to bounce back and come through
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in that situation, I thought it was amazing.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
I do I agree with you. The bounce back was incredible.
I guess the question with the bounce back is it's like, yeah,
I mean, so many of us we hit the shot
on thirteen and it begins the toilet bowl effect. And
we've seen it. We've seen it from Rory in the past,
We've seen it from others where I mean, you just
hit something so poorly you can't pour yourself out of it, right,
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And yes.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Can I add context to that too, And it's kind
of what I alluded to earlier. Amen, corner Thirteen is
the breather. Thirteen is the point where you make hay
or you at least just sail through. And that's what
was so shocking is ten is not an easy hole.
Rory Birdie is it. Eleven is not an easy hole.
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He almost puts it in the drink on eleven and
then twelve. We know we've seen history, guys putting into
the drink. Freddy Couples won a master because his ball
stayed up on the bank on twelve. So much history.
Jordan Speith lost his masters on twelve. That's where Eduardo,
excuse me, Francisco Maulinari in Tiger's Year lost his masters
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on twelve. You get through twelve and you think it's okay.
There it is, and I think we all thought that.
So now you go to a par five and Rory
plays it safe and then hits a chip forty five
degrees right or you know, however bad it was. That's
also the context to it of it wasn't just a
choke job on that shot. It was the easiest hole
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on the course where he just navigated, arguably the toughest
stretch that he was going to have to navigate on
that Sunday. That's what pid it's so awesome. It's what
made it's so great. Then seventeen comes along where he
double bogey on Thursday and he makes birdie. All right,
all you gotta do is power. On eighteen, all you
have is a gap wedge puts it in the bunker.
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Doesn't make the putt to win it. There was so
much of that. It was it was awesome.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
It was a great day. It was a good day
to go.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Yes, and as a golf fan, Jason talking about sharing
for Justin Rose, I felt awful for Justin Rose. By
and large. I know he's fared well in major's lately.
This was his last chance and we saw the graphic
throughout the weekend. Guy who's led the Masters for the
most rounds and never won ten times. He's had the
lead and around of the Masters twice. Now he's lost
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in a playoff. You can't get much closer than that.
He's middle forties, and even that couldn't sway people to
move off of Rory because of you know what it
would have meant for Justin Rose. That didn't even register.
Everybody wanted Rory.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
I you know, it's I got into a discussion with
a couple of buddies this weekend and I was talking
about how, of course Sunday at the Masters always have
it on, but when you're watching golf, it's a little
bit it can be a little bit like a novel, right,
like three pages in I'm asleep and the Masters I
usually I liked him as soon as it comes on
and to watch it because I know I'm gonna fall
asleep and then wake up and watch the meat of it,
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which is exactly what happened. Exactly what happened. Something about
it made it a real enjoyable watch. Maybe was because
it there wasn't the Tiger like forced to like pay
attention to somebody who wasn't going to win. Again. I
know that there's been others event other times Tiger is
not even involved in Sunday at the Masters. I'm not
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sure what it was, but I really really enjoyed watching
watching Sunday. And I also think a portion of it
is because he did go from bad to good to
bad to good. And I love narrative kills, sure, and
so if the narrative bus he's a choker, well then
why did he play so well the very next hole?
And if he's a study, he's got this and it's
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so easy, then you know, you watch, you're like, okay,
but you're always just one shot away from disaster and
golf yea, even the t shot in eighteen you're like, yeah,
it doesn't matter, right then is it? Then you know,
then he hits one in the sand. You're like, oh, oh,
that's that's big. And then the last part is I
just I love and hate the fact that it's just
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so hard to translate how difficult or easy a putt is.
It just is like you're sitting there going like, I
can't tell is that close? Is that far? Is that easy?
Is that hard? Yeah? That that part is interesting to me.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
I The the other point that I think is interesting
is we all went into Sunday thinking one thing. I'm
not saying our expectations were the same, but in no
way did we think it was going to play out
like this. And I think maybe you get this in
a good TV show or in a series. We all
thought it was going to be raw against Bryson, Bryson
versus Rory live versus PGA Tour, PGA Tour versus Live,
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and maybe by nine holes that was over, and then
it's the coronation, and then it's not the coronation. And
at one point you have Ludwig Oberg, Justin Rose and
Rory sitting there at ten under par on like it
was completely different from what we expected, but then even
surpassed our expectations. I feel sometimes like with a TV show.
You think you know how it's gonna play out, and
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then it doesn't, but it's even better than what you expected.
And I felt like that was Sunday at the Masters.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
It was a little bit like a twenty was it
twenty twenty? You know when you watch us on Friday
Night where all of a sudden there's some suspect that
comes out of the blue. You're like, Ludwig ben Oberg,
what the hell?
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Why is he?
Speaker 1 (19:47):
The gardener had no You're like screaming the TV. The
gardener had nothing to do with it. And then it
circles back to the to the main charriacters, like, oh,
yeah it was it was the ex husband, after all,
it was Rory, after all. The little big bit over
that one was wait, who what trying to explain to
somebody who he is? And then you're like, okay, let's
not even pay attention to him. Justin Rose is who
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we need to pay attention to. And then Justin Rose
is out there, and you know when when Rory's on eighteen,
he's out there taking practice strokes, and you know, half
the dude's watching. You're sitting there going like, yeah, he's
out there, like just for show. He doesn't really need
to be lose. This thing's Rory's or whatever. I'm like, yeah,
I don't know, it's not that easy. And then all
of a sudden they got to wrangle him off the
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practice tea to come and play eighteen again. Play eighteen again.
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You can always expect the DG Show on a Monday
to recap all of our thoughts from the weekend. And
this was a big This was a kind of a
fun weekend because it was the first non big NFL
or non you know, like Final four whatever, where I
felt like we all watched the same thing. Don't get
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me wrong, Jase Doo, I know, is watching his Dodgers.
I'm not sure if Sam was was watching this preseason
WNBA kidding and of course Buyer we know was locked
in on this, as he said, this is his favorite
event in sports. But to have us all watch it
and you know, it's like you can sit next to
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three other dudes that all love sports, that are all
about the same age, and that all work together, but
we have different vantage points. That's what makes this so cool.
Let's get to love and Hey, what.
Speaker 6 (22:04):
Did you love?
Speaker 1 (22:04):
God? I love you? And what did you hate?
Speaker 7 (22:08):
Meet these player hays?
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Hey there, Dan Byer, what'd you love for the weekend?
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Well, Doug, this one is pretty easy for me because
it was my entire weekend. I know basketball was played yesterday.
I know we have a bracket in the NBA playoffs,
but I even tweeted about this that right at eleven
o'clock when the broadcast for the Masters started, I had
our TV on at my house and this was actually
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I broadcast from Buy Your Cabin Again on Sunday for
my Sunday show with Mike Harmon. So I had the
Paramount Plus stream going on from nine local time to eleven,
and when our show ended at ten fifty five local time,
I went downstairs and I turned it on DOUG It
was one of those DirecTV boxes about to go in
(23:07):
sleep mode because I just did not touch the remote
control for four hours, and it was four and a
half to five hours, and then it was over to
Golf Channel after that. But I was truly captivated by
what happened yesterday in the history that we saw with
Rory McElroy and really just the entire Masters event. I
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loved every minute of it. I cheered, I was almost
brought to tears. I wasn't even on a text chain
with anybody. I was so wrapped up into it of
what was going on. I felt physically drained after it
was all over with in just watching it and sitting
on the couch the whole time. It was a magnificent
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four and a half five hour, drama filled roller coaster
ride that I wondered, would it be a dud? We've
had those Masters years before, and the fact that not
only it wasn't a dum, but it was history was magnificent.
So I loved just everything about the Masters this weekend,
everything about it. Yesterday, I know baseball was happening. I
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couldn't tell you anything outside of the Mike Trout foul
ball confrontation with the fan that wasn't a confrontation that
was also going to be my love because I loved
how that played out. But everything about the Masters this
weekend was to me just spectacular. Given Bryson shot making
on Saturday to keep us interested and keep that rivalry
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to carry us overnight, all of it was great. It
completely surpassed any expectation of what we had of going
into the Masters.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Great stuff, Chase two.
Speaker 5 (24:43):
It was kind of like a NFL Sunday for me,
and that my TV was on Sports from eleven until
eight thirty at night or whatever it was. It's so
rare that you get a non NFL Sunday like that.
Because the cool thing about the playoff and the Masters
is it butted right up against the beginning of the
Dodger game. Things did not work out for the Dodgers.
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And I'm gonna say this in my love because I
loved being able to sit on my couch and watch
sports all day. But within the love, there's something that
annoys me. I don't know if you guys saw this
in the Dodger game, but Nico Horner was miked up.
Nico Horner is the second baseman of the Cups. There
was a pop up behind second base yesterday. As he's
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miked up and has a you know, headset in his
ear or whatever, he needs to make one of the
toughest plays in sports, running away from the infield. You
have the outfielder coming in. And I just think that
that's not responsible to have players miked up in the
middle of a game. Literally, he could have been hurt
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if just one thing distracted him. In fact, he said,
running off the field last night, that's the worst kind
of play that you can have with a microphone in
your ear. And I said, that's exactly right. And if
he was hurt, permanently damaged, at the very least, it
would have stopped the stupid miked up on ESPN.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
That's the centator from California, Jason Stewart. I would say,
what do you.
Speaker 7 (26:21):
Got, Well, my name is Ryan actually, but thank you, right,
I forgot.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
We did.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
Swapped.
Speaker 7 (26:28):
I love the fact that my Clippers, yes I'm a
Clippers fan, beat the Warriors because I can't stand the Warriors.
I grew up in the Bay Area and when I
was growing up, no one liked the Warriors. Everyone liked
the Bulls. Because of Michael Jordan. Then all of a sudden,
like when the Warriors got better, everyone's like, oh yeah,
lifelong Warriors fan. Yeah, Chris Mulling this, Chris Gatling, yah, YadA, YadA. No,
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you weren't.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
I was there. You're a liar.
Speaker 7 (26:54):
And I love the fact that my Clippers beat the Warriors.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
That's it, Okay, okay, I mean it was just a
regular season game, but a meaningful one nonetheless, so I
like it.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
I follow a lot of the Warriors and Clippers beat
writers and people who cover those teams. Yeah, and as
I was trying to keep up and follow the Masters
as well on social media, there's that seemed to be
a heck of a ball game yesterday, But again I
have no idea. Did not change the channel at all,
but they were saying a great job and what a
great job by Moses Moody and the whole deal and
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the Clippers win, and yes, but couldn't tell you.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Okay, uh. Things I love from the weekend. The Nazi
guy got knocked out in UFC? Which guy was that?
Did you got anybody watch UFC? Was that Friday or
Saturday night? Again? My my weekend, I don't of your
days kind of run together. But there was a guy
who was talking lovingly about Hitler and then he got
knocked out. That that was amazing. I was like, uh
(27:59):
oh oh ah, there we go the knots he got
knocked out. Cool, he's just talking to the gloily about Hitler.
But again, what I loved I loved the raw motion
of Rory. I love the uh just the camera focused
on him as he's walking in people and you could
just see it setting in on him what he had accomplished,
(28:20):
all the ups and downs. Right as he's walking in,
he's just can't like you can just see, you can
almost feel like he's saying to himself, I can't believe it.
I finally did it. I can't believe it. I finally
did it. And it just you guys, you know the
part I'm talking about right where he after the eighteenth toll,
where he's taking what seemed like just a ridiculously long
walk to the clubhouse and he's just and then you know,
(28:45):
he comes up on his boys, he's talking with them.
I just watching somebody kind of emotionally work through what
we just watched for the last four or five hours.
And as Dan said, like this goes back to twenty eleven,
so you're walking through fourteen to fifteen years of mental
anguish and then it's all on camera and we're trying
(29:06):
to read his body language. That was I loved it.
I loved it all Right, what do you hate from
the weekend? Let's turn to the other side. What do
you got there? Jason Sturia, resident hater?
Speaker 5 (29:19):
Just a little bit of residual on your first love. Okay,
So Bryce Mitchell is the fighter. He on a podcast,
has been taken up for Nazis and stuff. He got
choked unconscious and Gene Silva stood above his unconscious body
and talked talked ess to him while he was unconscious.
(29:42):
So that was a cool visual over the weekend. Beautiful interesting,
like anti Semitic stories going on around right now. That
whole Dave Smith Douglas Murray debate on Joe Rogan is fascinating.
Courage all the our listeners to access that and then
(30:02):
check out what Pierce Morgan said on Bill Maher Friday night.
It's I think that both of these things are important
to access and listen to. The thing that I hated
most about the weekend, and I totally forgot what I
hated from the weekend after If you got me on
the anti semitic tangent, I'm thinking about doing for the
(30:25):
first time, and in passing, I'm going to pass and
then circle back to me when you think of oh no,
this is what I couldn't stand. On my Twitter account
right now, if you go to ad Jason Stewart, you
can see a visual the Rockies reveal their new City
Connect uniforms and they're just ridiculous. They're outlandish, they're stupid.
There's colors that aren't Rocky colors. There's yellow, and then
(30:50):
they have their quarterback, their shortstop Tovar, looking all badass
in it, but he looks like a clown. I hate
the Rockies new City Connect uniforms. In general. I'm against
City Connecting uniforms, but these were outrageously stupid.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
Thank you, right?
Speaker 5 (31:07):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Jase? Do I mean? I mean sorry? I was Sam?
Speaker 7 (31:12):
No, I mean it's not there, you go there, you
go sport back to the Clippers.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
Warriors.
Speaker 7 (31:19):
So my mother is a diehard Warriors fan.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
You hate your mom?
Speaker 7 (31:24):
No, I don't, Mom, I love you. If you're listening, Uh,
I call her all the time. Uh So I called
after my Clippers beat her Warriors, And well, Doug, have
you ever been cussed out by your mother? No, that's
not true. I doubt that.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
I doubt that very seriously.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
My mom does not curse.
Speaker 7 (31:43):
Okay, well, has your mother ever yelled at you?
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Yeah? Of course.
Speaker 7 (31:46):
Okay, Well that's I got cussing and yelling when I
call them. It went like this, Hi, Mom, how are you?
What the bleep do you want? Why are you calling me?
I'm like, Mom, I'm your son, And she's like, I
hate your clippers, I hate beard Man. She calls James
Harden beard Man. She hates him, and she hung up
by me. I'm like, Mom, I'm your son, I'm your son. Yeah,
(32:08):
she was, she was. She was not happy. So that's
what I hated about the weekend. That probably doesn't happen
too often.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
I mean, considering the great run that the Warriors were on, right,
I mean no, but every time they lose, I do
kind of like teeser about it because I don't like
the Warriors. I don't like Draymond Green, I don't like
Steph Curry.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
So yeah, okay, what about you there, Dan.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
Byer, Well, Doug, I hated that yesterday happened to Justin Rose.
I hated that it very likely, in my opinion, was
his last chance at a green jacket and last chance
at a major championship run. I get the recent form
(32:53):
that he is in, and it was so such a
positive message after his round, saying hey, this happened to me.
And twenty seventeen when I lost to Sergio and I
was able to take advantage of that, I became world
number one. I've now finished second in the last two majors.
I think positives will come from that. But truly to
(33:14):
play the round of I don't want to say the
round of his life, but in those circumstances and what
he needed to do, especially on the second nine, and
to see him fall short to someone else's story, it's
captivated America. Like if it was anybody else, I think
we all would have been let's go Rosie, Let's go
(33:35):
Justin Rose, especially for people in their forties like I am,
and cheering for a guy that is our contemporary. I mean,
I love Rory and Rory is great, but Rory isn't
necessarily my generation. So if it was anybody else that
Justin Rose was playing against, I think we all would
have been for Justin Rose except maybe Tiger Woods, so
(33:57):
there may be two people. But to have him comes
so close and not be able to cash in again.
So really, I don't want to say no fault of
his own. He could have played better on Saturday, and
he did miss some short putts on Sunday. Nobody was
perfect on Sunday and he was darn good and for
him to fall short, Yeah, I hated that. I loved
(34:21):
everything with the Masters, and I loved Rory getting the
career Grand Slam. I just hate that it had to
come at the expense of Justin Rose in a playoff.
Speaker 5 (34:28):
To your point, like he did miss a couple of
putts and I don't know which holes you'll know, like
to think of how good he played, and he was
on such a heater and you could just see it
in his body language. Man, I've got this thing, I've
got this thing. And then he did miss a putt
and that's all the difference in the world.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
Yeah, I'm I'm fourteen and seventeen. He bogied, But otherwise
there was a shape on every score I think on
the scorecard of the second nine. Truly remarkable and just
when we had counted him out. Honestly, when we were
looking at the leaderboard, Justin Rose was the leader going
in to the third round, and we had completely counted
(35:11):
him out. Were like, is Rory's back in it after
his sixty six? Bryson de Shamba is there? Scotti Scheffler's
going for three of his last four, Ludvig Oldberg is
the next great star in golf, the soft spoken swede,
all of that, and then when he came to Justin
Rose like yeah, he's gonna fall off and he won't
be there in the end, and then he fell off
on Saturday, so we kind of dismissed him going into Sunday.
(35:33):
And for him to have the comeback that he did
would have been a great story in pretty much any
other Masters, but it was just completely overshadowed and in fact,
probably turned into the villain for some because he would
have had a one to prevent Rory.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
Yeah. I don't think, well, he may have turned the villain.
It just seemed like such a likable guy.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
Oh yes, right, he is, like.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
Man, such a likable guy. But and he didn't play poorly.
You know. It's like one of those things where like, yeah,
he's eighteen.
Speaker 3 (36:06):
To ultimately get into the playoff. I mean, he sunk
a long put on eighteen to put him at eleven
under and to get to that number. Yeah, it's great
after that tough fogi that he had on seventeen.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
I hate the playing. I hate the play you know,
I understand what the NBA has been trying to do
and to make it more exciting, but what does it
really really solve. It doesn't change tanking, you know, maybe
it takes two or three more teams away from tanking.
(36:44):
If anything, it a couple of years ago it kept
Step out of the playoffs. It can keep them out
of the playoffs this year, like they're clearly a playoff team,
especially since the trade. But I just don't like the plan.
Speaker 3 (36:55):
I agree with you. I feel it's there to save
teams like the Phoenix Suns who couldn't be saved, right,
even if it's just to get an extra game in
or maybe it was just an awful regular season, but
maybe they could put something together in the postseason. Who knows.
But even like a team like the Phoenix Suns couldn't be.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
Saved, Nope, could not be saved at all. Any other
hates all right, that's the love and hate.
Speaker 6 (37:22):
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Speaker 1 (37:32):
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sports for Fox Sports One. But of course he also
writes and has covered the NBA for over twenty five years.
So let's start with the with the Golden State Warriors.
(37:52):
They don't play Kaminga in that last game, okay, but
they didn't play Stephen dre and again, look, it ends
up to them falling back into the playing game. What
are your thoughts on the criticism of what Steve kirchows
do that last game of the season.
Speaker 8 (38:14):
I completely understand why he did it, and my feeling
is that if the star players don't make some of
the egregious mistakes that they made, that Jonathan Kaminga not
playing is a non story and that no one's pointing
to it. They're they're looking at the fact that he
went with his veterans and and with a system that
(38:37):
has been effective over the last few weeks, and and
it ultimately worked. You know, the shortcoming wasn't that Jonathan
Kaminga didn't play, or that Kevon Looney got his minutes,
because Looney was effective in the minutes that he played.
Quentin Posts really didn't get a whole lot of run.
He had a very tight rotation. So for me, it's
(39:04):
he put on the floor the role players that allow
the stars Draymond, Jimmy Andre to shine and do their job,
and they simply didn't to the level necessary with this group.
Steph Curry with eight turnovers, you simply can't have that happen.
Their margin of error with this particular Warriors team is
(39:27):
not big enough against a Clippers team that matches up
with them so well, you simply don't. You know, they
don't have that margin of error in general, but they
certainly wouldn't didn't have it against the team that presents
as many problems for them as the Clippers do.
Speaker 1 (39:44):
Stuck Gotleib show here on Fox Sports Radio. Okay, let's
let's continue. The Lakers people are celebrating that they take
on the Timberwolves here in the first round. Yeah, Now,
I thought Anthony Edwards is the next Michael Jordan last year,
(40:05):
this time Granted they've changed out some personnel up front,
but why suddenly the one ad on who the Timberwolves are.
Speaker 8 (40:14):
Yeah, it's interesting. I didn't know that Karl Anthony Towns
carried that much weight, and I believe a big part
of it is because the Timberwolves. Timberwolves weren't very good
for the better part of this year, and that Anthony
Edwards was focused on let me show you that I
can shoot the three, whether it was necessary, and I
(40:36):
often feel as if in a lot of situations, tim
shooting the three is the best thing that he can
possibly do for the opposition, no matter what presentage that
that that he is shooting. But haven't paid attention to
what they have done over the last three four weeks
and what they're still capable of doing defensively, and from
(40:57):
at least a physical standpoint. I like defensively, how they
can match up. There aren't a whole lot of teams
that have the bodies, the requisite bodies and defensive players.
You can also be a thread at the other end
that match up with the Lakers. Between Austin Austin Reeves
(41:17):
and Luka Doncis and Lebron James. You have to have
fairly unique defenders. You need some you need some size,
but you still need some agility. Well with nos Reed
and Julis Randalls, they have that. They can they can
they can, They can contend as defenders against Luca and
Lebron as much as anybody can. And Dade McDaniels, if
(41:41):
you end up putting him on Austin Reeves, maybe maybe
you switch those around. But I like I like their
ability to match up and defensively they can be challenging.
And then you got the you know, the ridy go
bear elements where you know Luca likes to to get inside.
If you can make the Lakers really rely on and
(42:02):
Luca and Lebron and Austin to rely and make them
a three point shooting team, particularly those guys shooting threes,
I think it plays in the in the big picture.
It plays in your favor because when they're at their
their most dangerous is when Luca is getting into the
(42:22):
paint and getting the defense to collapse, and now you're
getting wide open threes for everybody. When Lebron has to
shoot a contested three, it's not nearly as good as
wide open. And I would say the same goes for
Jared Vanderbilt and Dorian finnih Smith. So I think the
Timberwolves have has the requisite pieces and experience to make
(42:46):
this an interesting series, far more interesting series than I
think a lot of people are are are giving it
credit simply because it's it's not the Warriors, it's not
one of the the other teams that we thought they
might be matched up, with the Clippers being another that
would make it far more interesting. I think I think
everybody kind of fell off with with Minnesota and the
(43:06):
way they started the season, and I wasn't as big
on them last year as most people, but I'm also
not Uh. I don't think it's the four gun conclusion
that the Lakers just walk away with this this series
and make it a short one.
Speaker 1 (43:20):
Stuck Gottlieb Show here on Fox Sports Radio. Uh, that's
the that's the voice of of Rick Buker. Of course,
Rick Buker covers the NBA for Fox Sports and Fox
Sports One. He joins this year on the DG Show.
Mark Mike Budenholds are fired at the end of the
season for the Suns, the second straight year they've had
(43:41):
a one and done, one and done coach. I had
I thought that it was a bad idea to hire
Bud because he had gotten a reputation of being really
difficult to deal with. Right, But another one and done coach,
What is what is? Uh? What does Phoenix do? Now?
Speaker 8 (44:02):
It's a great question because I don't know that there's
a coach that solved their problem with this roster. It's
a roster made to kill coaches because it's got a
lot of big names, got a lot of individual talent,
but it doesn't have any leadership on the floor, and
it doesn't really have a whole lot of connective tissue.
(44:23):
You know, Bradley Beal, Kevin Durant, Devin Booker. If you're
building a fantasy league team, that might work, but if
you actually have to go on the floor and play
basketball five y five, it's a completely different story. And
then you just you don't have enough of the ancillary
pieces to do all of the dirty work that those
(44:46):
three players are not going to do at this stage
of their careers. So I don't know where you go
with a coach. The problem is the roster. And until
you address the roster and I and from me make
some severe mood like moving KD, I don't even know
if you can lose Bradley Beal. But most everybody is
(45:06):
like Kevin Durant is going to get moved and he's
going to go somewhere. I'm like, okay, fine, what are
you going to bring you back? At this stage? Is
not enough to transform this team if you really are
serious about building the Phoenix Suns into a title contending team,
as much as they don't want to do it, as
(45:27):
much as he's the face of the franchise, As much
as I hold nothing against Devin Booker, Devin Booker is
the guy that you could set, you could trade and
potentially get pieces back where you can remake yourself. Other
than that, you're just continuing to patch a ship that
is not going anywhere.
Speaker 1 (45:47):
Yeah, yeah, you got to start over there. Yeah, you have.
Speaker 8 (45:53):
To start with the roster. It's like there's no magic
pill to be taken here with a coach that you're
going to hire that's somehow going to figure route the formula.
That's not that, it's the pieces don't.
Speaker 1 (46:04):
Ship, No, not even not even close to fitting. Rick
Berger joined us here on the Doug Gottlieb Show on
Fox Sports Radio. How dangerous of the Clippers heading in the.
Speaker 8 (46:17):
Playoffs dangerous to the Denver Nuggets, and that I believe
that the coaching change needed to be made, and I
believe that they're a better team now, and they're a
better team than they've shown for the better part of
this season. Do I think they're at their championship level.
(46:40):
I'm not convinced of that, in spite of Nikola Jokic's
being better than ever. They are. They are dangerous, and
that they have all the elements that you want in
a title contending, formidable team, playoff team. They have defense,
they have experience, and they have go to scorers that
(47:01):
are that are that are handful one on one and
James Harden and Kawhi Leonard. The problem is that they
also just do a lot of dumb stuff, and they
do dumb stuff at critical points of the game, and
they've consistently done that this year. Uh and and dumb
stuff in the postseason at critical times will lose you
(47:25):
gains and lose your series. And so when I look for,
like the intangibles with this team, the communication, the leadership,
that's where they're that's where they're they're they're missing and
or that's what they're missing, and those are vital ingredients
for anybody who's going to make a deep playoff run.
So I like what they have. There's as good as
(47:47):
they've been, largely because Kawhi is healthy. Guy has done
a nice job of of you know, getting the most
I think out of this team and getting the most
out of James Harden. But they are still like conversely
compared to say the Lakers, like, they're still they're all
ISO players offensively, so you just kind of kind of
(48:09):
hope you find the right matchup. But they're not going
to make each other better. They don't have a playmaker
in the form of a Luka dacicch or even a
Lebron James and and that's why if you can match
up and quiet their ISOs, then you have a chance
(48:29):
of beating them.
Speaker 1 (48:31):
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You got it, dog.
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Sway tire buying should be Welcome, Welcome, Welcome in. Hope
you're doing great. Hope your weekend was good. Hope your
life is good. Hope your mentals are good. We're we're
(00:53):
butting up against the NBA Playoffs, which is awesome. The
play in this set, most of the racketing is set.
I mean, I think we're in a kind of good
place right tomorrow night. You got Orlando and Atlanta in
one play in in the East and Golden State falling
to the play and to take on Memphis in another
(01:15):
play in game in the West. So if you look
at those Western Conference standings and what ended up happening, right,
the Golden State Warriors fell all the way all the
way down to the seventh seed. So now obviously if
you win on Tuesday, then you're in the playoffs, and
(01:36):
I believe they'll take on what the Rockets, right, and
then you have Lakers who are gonna take on the Timberwolves,
Nuggets take on the Clippers, and the thunder will take
on whoever the last team is in, whether it's the
Mavericks who took them out last year, the Kings, the Grizzlies,
or you know, I guess I don't think it could
be the Warriors here. So Warriors gotta win one in
(01:57):
order to keep playing. Let's get to this story of
the weekend, which is Rory winning the Masters. What's interesting
about it is maybe it's because of the emotion afterwards.
Maybe it's because he generally comes across as a likable fella.
I do feel like people wanted Rory to win though
(02:19):
he's not. He he hadn't reached like Phill level of
popularity generally, like yeah, so when he misses a putt
on eighteen, or when he you know, hits a hits
a webshot into the water on thirteen, looks like he's
gonna collapse. When things go wrong with people we like,
(02:40):
we have a tendency to go like, oh, that's just
bad luck. Whereas if we don't like him, they're a choker.
But the problem with them being a choker is all right,
is he still a choker if he goes from having
a lead to trailing, then retakes the lead, then gives
up the lead, then he comes from behind with two
late birdies, then he misses au put on eighteen, then
(03:04):
the second time round in eighteen he hits a birdie,
Like is he now clutch? I'm just struggling with what
is clutch and what is not clutch. And maybe a
portion of it is he's more roller coaster up and down.
Maybe it's that we didn't have television covering every shot
in every hole, so we just looked at final scores
(03:25):
and we don't realize this is how it's always been.
Or maybe it's we're giving him a pass where all
of us who play golf know that that second ball
you hit is always better than the first ball you hit, always,
always always, always, but for whatever reason, there's different ways
to cover different sorts of struggles. And maybe it's because
(03:46):
he won. That's the pother Hey, at the end of
the day, he won. Had he not won, he would
have been a joker. But he did win, so now
he's a champion. But that was the whole thing. Was
amazing to watch, even on the playoff hole. The fact
that he had to wait there for like five extra
(04:07):
minutes to tee off. I'm sitting there thinking, well, the
longer you got to wait there, doesn't that build up
the pressure. But then he just pipes the drive kind
of perfectly to nearly the same spot he did, you know,
twenty minutes earlier on eighteen. We'll hear from all the
guys in a second. First, let's take a listen. This
is Ry McElroy talking about winning the Masters.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
It feels incredible. This is my seventheenth time here and
I started to wonder if it would ever be my time.
And I think, you know, the last ten years coming
here with the burden of the Grand Slam on my
shoulders and trying to achieve that. I'm sort of wondering
what we're all going to talk about going into the
end of next year's Fasters. But I'm just absolutely honored
(04:49):
and thrilled. I'm just so proud to be able to
call myself a master shocker.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Yeah he should be. It's pretty awesome stuff. You know again,
maybe I'm a sucker for it, but I thought the
same thing when I don't know if you guys saw
and Darren Devrees got the job at Indiana, when just
the moment of walking into Indiana as their head coach
kind of struck him. And the same thing for Rory
is he's walking from eighteen to turn in his scorecard
(05:15):
and you can see him being overcome by emotion, like,
I don't know, I dig that stuff. I dig that stuff.
But it is interesting on how today he is a champion.
But we saw him both win it, give it away,
win it again, maybe give it away, and then win
it again. It was good TV. And that four K
(05:42):
where they're super in hyper focus and everybody is not
is that was a fantastic watch from CBS from a
visual aspect, We'll get to the verbal aspect of the second.
Dan Byer, you took the weekend off in order to
watch golf.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
I wasn't technically off. I was on in the morning.
I was on with you, but I was just out
of the studio. Yes, Okay.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
The point is that, like this is a it's your
favorite golf tournament, you kind of set your clock to it.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
It's my favorite event period.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Favorite event period. Yes, how would you characterize it?
Speaker 3 (06:19):
An amazing, amazing afternoon of ups and downs. And I
felt that everybody was on Rory's side in this entire battle. Sure,
there may been some people that wanted to see Bryson
breakthrough and other people that may just have never liked
(06:41):
Rory McElroy so they're not going to cheer for him.
But if you were neutral, you were on Rory's side yesterday.
If you had no interest in were watching, you were
on Rory's side. If you were a passionate golf fan,
I feel that you were on Rory's side yesterday. And
it was four and a half to five hours of
a roller coaster ride, and I thought it was magnificent television.
(07:05):
It wasn't perfect for Rory, but I think the shots
that Rory then did hit when he needed to were
shots that only a select few maybe in the history
of golf could hit. And that's what also made it
so compelling.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Okay, what about you there, Iowa, Sam, I know you
watched yesterday. What'd you think?
Speaker 4 (07:28):
I love seeing him win. You know, he had a
very human experience. I think a lot. It makes it
relatable for most people to watch someone go up and
down and finally grab the championship. I think it's good
for golf that he won. I think he's recognizable. He's
been trying to win a Master's for a long time.
He's recognizable voice, he's a recognizable face and name. And
(07:51):
I think it was really really good for golf that
he won the Masters yesterday. And I agree with Dan.
I think everybody was rooting for him. He seems like
a nice guy, a good dude, and to have that
product take place on Sunday was really really good for
the Masters.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
It was definitely one.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
Remember.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
I agree that everybody's rooting for him. I agree that
the narrative is he's a really good guy. Like I
don't buyer. Is he as well liked as we like
to believe that he is?
Speaker 3 (08:23):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (08:23):
So.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
And I will even say this for as much as
certain players don't have to name certain names that we
think that are universally loved by everyone, or were universally
loved by everyone. There's other stuff behind the scenes that
maybe you're like okay, and vice versa. Guys that maybe
you didn't think were great guys were loved by their peers.
Nobody really has a bad thing to say about Rory,
(08:46):
except when maybe he was speaking up about live golf.
Some people felt that maybe he's too righteous at times,
but overall, I think he's been a model person and
a model citizen that by and large everybody does love.
Because there are also vulnerabilities there. And I thought it
was interesting because people point out this career Grand Slam deal,
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but every time he would go to Augusta, they would
bring up twenty eleven when he hit the hook on
ten and was by cabins that people didn't even know
where on the property at Augusta National. So when people
yesterday were saying, you've been carrying this burden since twenty fourteen,
because that's when he got his third leg of the
Grand Slam, he said, I, actually, I've been carrying it
since twenty eleven. And so every time that he went
(09:32):
to Augusta National, the demons of the tenth hole were
popping up. In what happened on that second nine in
that afternoon, and he carried those and I think that
they were actually with him popping up at times yesterday.
I don't think it was a coincidence when you saw
Rory shine and when he saw Rory kind of flub up,
because there everybody knows that back nine and there are
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just times that you know that, okay, you can take
advantage of this, and you got to be be careful
of that. And it was almost with the opposite of roar.
Like his bugaboo is ten and he goes in Birdie's ten.
So what does he do on eleven? His second shot,
He almost hits a hook because he's behind the trees,
and it almost goes into the pond. So then you're like, okay, xhale,
you get through eleven and twelve just with a bogie
(10:15):
on eleven and twelve, you're able to par thirteen should
be an easy hole and easy power form. And what
does he do, as he said, chips it into the
water from eighty yards out, Like it was such the
opposite of everything that you would think that would go on.
And I think that reveals Rory's vulnerability, and it had
been with him for the last fourteen years. It's crazy.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Yeah, it's you know, I don't think most of us.
I mean, I know, Jay stew you loved watching it,
loved watching and like Jay loves to hate watch lots
of things, he did not. He actually truly enjoyed it.
But I don't think Jay, that brought, even with you
the close to the history of it. You were just
kind of in the moment enjoying it.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
Is that fair first and foremost. I said this all
last week. I always watched Sunday of the Masters. I
think that it is the most prestigious event in that sport,
but it's also like top five or top ten, and
what we need to pay attention to. I think sporting events,
individual sporting events. And I will take issue with what
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Dan said. Not everybody was rooting for Rory. I was
rooting for the choke. And that's why I always root
for the choke. I think it's better content. I think
it would have been better content for him to be
devastated and to have to answer all the questions. Again.
I wanted the prolonged agony. That's what I was rooting
for yesterday. So when Justin Rose is making all those
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shots and he's cocky and it's one birdy after another.
He's a middle aged guy that I was rooting for.
It seems like a good dude. I was rooting for
him to win the playoff. And to answer your question, Doug,
what's the difference between being clutching and choking? I think
being clutch is what Tiger was. Did he ever give
up a lead on a Sunday in a in a
major when he was leading? I don't think so that's clutch.
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The other end of the spectrum is a total choke job,
which is what Greg Norman was known for, or Van Dervelt.
And then there's just like degrees of gagging, and he
was gagging the whole day. To put it into like
the perspective of a golfer's mind, I saw this tweet
from Steve Elkinton after the regulation eighteen that could be
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the greatest collapse in golf history, and Bleeping CBS says,
quote unquote, we have a playoff. I think that kind
of speaks to like the moment when he missed on
on that putt on eighteen, there was there was silence
and then he hits the tap in. It's like we
got a playoff. Well Man, there was a lot of
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context in between that wasn't there. Dan, Yeah, I will
say this number one.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
I think that you come from a radio content perspective
that zero point zero zero zero zero one percent come from.
So that story is I think from that angle. I
also think Elk can be very negative at times with this.
But if you're gonna knock Rory for the poor shots
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that he hit, he was one over par on his round,
you have to give him credit for the shots that
he then did hit. There were I wrote down the number.
I think there were five shots of his life just
on Sunday. There may have been eight in the over
the weekend. We're talking shots of his life. Of the
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shot on fifteen two days in a row, the shot
on seventeen to allow the birdie, the shot on the
playoff hole on eighteen. There were other shots that again,
shot of his life. I think Adam Schefter, which when
you know it's something when NFL insiders are tweeting about
golf and what's going on randomly, and you're thinking you're
going to see a top thirty visit and instead and
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it's Adam Schefter tweeting shot of his life too. There
were like eight shots of his life over this past weekend.
But what made it so great was he put himself
in the situation where he needed to hit shots of
his life and I think that is something that is
very relatable and maybe not the extreme portion of it,
but to be able to bounce back and come through
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in that situation, I thought it was amazing.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
I do I agree with you. The bounce back was incredible.
I guess the question with the bounce back is it's like, yeah,
I mean, so many of us we hit the shot
on thirteen and it begins the toilet bowl effect. And
we've seen it. We've seen it from Rory in the past,
We've seen it from others where I mean, you just
hit something so poorly you can't pour yourself out of it, right,
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And yes.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Can I add context to that too, And it's kind
of what I alluded to earlier. Amen, corner Thirteen is
the breather. Thirteen is the point where you make hay
or you at least just sail through. And that's what
was so shocking is ten is not an easy hole.
Rory Birdie is it. Eleven is not an easy hole.
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He almost puts it in the drink on eleven and
then twelve. We know we've seen history, guys putting into
the drink. Freddy Couples won a master because his ball
stayed up on the bank on twelve. So much history.
Jordan Speith lost his masters on twelve. That's where Eduardo,
excuse me, Francisco Maulinari in Tiger's Year lost his masters
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on twelve. You get through twelve and you think it's okay.
There it is, and I think we all thought that.
So now you go to a par five and Rory
plays it safe and then hits a chip forty five
degrees right or you know, however bad it was. That's
also the context to it of it wasn't just a
choke job on that shot. It was the easiest hole
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on the course where he just navigated, arguably the toughest
stretch that he was going to have to navigate on
that Sunday. That's what pid it's so awesome. It's what
made it's so great. Then seventeen comes along where he
double bogey on Thursday and he makes birdie. All right,
all you gotta do is power. On eighteen, all you
have is a gap wedge puts it in the bunker.
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Doesn't make the putt to win it. There was so
much of that. It was it was awesome.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
It was a great day. It was a good day
to go.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Yes, and as a golf fan, Jason talking about sharing
for Justin Rose, I felt awful for Justin Rose. By
and large. I know he's fared well in major's lately.
This was his last chance and we saw the graphic
throughout the weekend. Guy who's led the Masters for the
most rounds and never won ten times. He's had the
lead and around of the Masters twice. Now he's lost
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in a playoff. You can't get much closer than that.
He's middle forties, and even that couldn't sway people to
move off of Rory because of you know what it
would have meant for Justin Rose. That didn't even register.
Everybody wanted Rory.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
I you know, it's I got into a discussion with
a couple of buddies this weekend and I was talking
about how, of course Sunday at the Masters always have
it on, but when you're watching golf, it's a little
bit it can be a little bit like a novel, right,
like three pages in I'm asleep and the Masters I
usually I liked him as soon as it comes on
and to watch it because I know I'm gonna fall
asleep and then wake up and watch the meat of it,
(17:22):
which is exactly what happened. Exactly what happened. Something about
it made it a real enjoyable watch. Maybe was because
it there wasn't the Tiger like forced to like pay
attention to somebody who wasn't going to win. Again. I
know that there's been others event other times Tiger is
not even involved in Sunday at the Masters. I'm not
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sure what it was, but I really really enjoyed watching
watching Sunday. And I also think a portion of it
is because he did go from bad to good to
bad to good. And I love narrative kills, sure, and
so if the narrative bus he's a choker, well then
why did he play so well the very next hole?
And if he's a study, he's got this and it's
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so easy, then you know, you watch, you're like, okay,
but you're always just one shot away from disaster and
golf yea, even the t shot in eighteen you're like, yeah,
it doesn't matter, right then is it? Then you know,
then he hits one in the sand. You're like, oh, oh,
that's that's big. And then the last part is I
just I love and hate the fact that it's just
(18:27):
so hard to translate how difficult or easy a putt is.
It just is like you're sitting there going like, I
can't tell is that close? Is that far? Is that easy?
Is that hard? Yeah? That that part is interesting to me.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
I The the other point that I think is interesting
is we all went into Sunday thinking one thing. I'm
not saying our expectations were the same, but in no
way did we think it was going to play out
like this. And I think maybe you get this in
a good TV show or in a series. We all
thought it was going to be raw against Bryson, Bryson
versus Rory live versus PGA Tour, PGA Tour versus Live,
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and maybe by nine holes that was over, and then
it's the coronation, and then it's not the coronation. And
at one point you have Ludwig Oberg, Justin Rose and
Rory sitting there at ten under par on like it
was completely different from what we expected, but then even
surpassed our expectations. I feel sometimes like with a TV show.
You think you know how it's gonna play out, and
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then it doesn't, but it's even better than what you expected.
And I felt like that was Sunday at the Masters.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
It was a little bit like a twenty was it
twenty twenty? You know when you watch us on Friday
Night where all of a sudden there's some suspect that
comes out of the blue. You're like, Ludwig ben Oberg,
what the hell?
Speaker 3 (19:45):
Why is he?
Speaker 1 (19:47):
The gardener had no You're like screaming the TV. The
gardener had nothing to do with it. And then it
circles back to the to the main charriacters, like, oh,
yeah it was it was the ex husband, after all,
it was Rory, after all. The little big bit over
that one was wait, who what trying to explain to
somebody who he is? And then you're like, okay, let's
not even pay attention to him. Justin Rose is who
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we need to pay attention to. And then Justin Rose
is out there, and you know when when Rory's on eighteen,
he's out there taking practice strokes, and you know, half
the dude's watching. You're sitting there going like, yeah, he's
out there, like just for show. He doesn't really need
to be lose. This thing's Rory's or whatever. I'm like, yeah,
I don't know, it's not that easy. And then all
of a sudden they got to wrangle him off the
(20:27):
practice tea to come and play eighteen again. Play eighteen again.
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You can always expect the DG Show on a Monday
to recap all of our thoughts from the weekend. And
this was a big This was a kind of a
fun weekend because it was the first non big NFL
or non you know, like Final four whatever, where I
felt like we all watched the same thing. Don't get
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me wrong, Jase Doo, I know, is watching his Dodgers.
I'm not sure if Sam was was watching this preseason
WNBA kidding and of course Buyer we know was locked
in on this, as he said, this is his favorite
event in sports. But to have us all watch it
and you know, it's like you can sit next to
(21:53):
three other dudes that all love sports, that are all
about the same age, and that all work together, but
we have different vantage points. That's what makes this so cool.
Let's get to love and Hey, what.
Speaker 6 (22:04):
Did you love?
Speaker 1 (22:04):
God? I love you? And what did you hate?
Speaker 7 (22:08):
Meet these player hays?
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Hey there, Dan Byer, what'd you love for the weekend?
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Well, Doug, this one is pretty easy for me because
it was my entire weekend. I know basketball was played yesterday.
I know we have a bracket in the NBA playoffs,
but I even tweeted about this that right at eleven
o'clock when the broadcast for the Masters started, I had
our TV on at my house and this was actually
(22:45):
I broadcast from Buy Your Cabin Again on Sunday for
my Sunday show with Mike Harmon. So I had the
Paramount Plus stream going on from nine local time to eleven,
and when our show ended at ten fifty five local time,
I went downstairs and I turned it on DOUG It
was one of those DirecTV boxes about to go in
(23:07):
sleep mode because I just did not touch the remote
control for four hours, and it was four and a
half to five hours, and then it was over to
Golf Channel after that. But I was truly captivated by
what happened yesterday in the history that we saw with
Rory McElroy and really just the entire Masters event. I
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loved every minute of it. I cheered, I was almost
brought to tears. I wasn't even on a text chain
with anybody. I was so wrapped up into it of
what was going on. I felt physically drained after it
was all over with in just watching it and sitting
on the couch the whole time. It was a magnificent
(23:48):
four and a half five hour, drama filled roller coaster
ride that I wondered, would it be a dud? We've
had those Masters years before, and the fact that not
only it wasn't a dum, but it was history was magnificent.
So I loved just everything about the Masters this weekend,
everything about it. Yesterday, I know baseball was happening. I
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couldn't tell you anything outside of the Mike Trout foul
ball confrontation with the fan that wasn't a confrontation that
was also going to be my love because I loved
how that played out. But everything about the Masters this
weekend was to me just spectacular. Given Bryson shot making
on Saturday to keep us interested and keep that rivalry
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to carry us overnight, all of it was great. It
completely surpassed any expectation of what we had of going
into the Masters.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Great stuff, Chase two.
Speaker 5 (24:43):
It was kind of like a NFL Sunday for me,
and that my TV was on Sports from eleven until
eight thirty at night or whatever it was. It's so
rare that you get a non NFL Sunday like that.
Because the cool thing about the playoff and the Masters
is it butted right up against the beginning of the
Dodger game. Things did not work out for the Dodgers.
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And I'm gonna say this in my love because I
loved being able to sit on my couch and watch
sports all day. But within the love, there's something that
annoys me. I don't know if you guys saw this
in the Dodger game, but Nico Horner was miked up.
Nico Horner is the second baseman of the Cups. There
was a pop up behind second base yesterday. As he's
(25:30):
miked up and has a you know, headset in his
ear or whatever, he needs to make one of the
toughest plays in sports, running away from the infield. You
have the outfielder coming in. And I just think that
that's not responsible to have players miked up in the
middle of a game. Literally, he could have been hurt
(25:54):
if just one thing distracted him. In fact, he said,
running off the field last night, that's the worst kind
of play that you can have with a microphone in
your ear. And I said, that's exactly right. And if
he was hurt, permanently damaged, at the very least, it
would have stopped the stupid miked up on ESPN.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
That's the centator from California, Jason Stewart. I would say,
what do you.
Speaker 7 (26:21):
Got, Well, my name is Ryan actually, but thank you, right,
I forgot.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
We did.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
Swapped.
Speaker 7 (26:28):
I love the fact that my Clippers, yes I'm a
Clippers fan, beat the Warriors because I can't stand the Warriors.
I grew up in the Bay Area and when I
was growing up, no one liked the Warriors. Everyone liked
the Bulls. Because of Michael Jordan. Then all of a sudden,
like when the Warriors got better, everyone's like, oh yeah,
lifelong Warriors fan. Yeah, Chris Mulling this, Chris Gatling, yah, YadA, YadA. No,
(26:52):
you weren't.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
I was there. You're a liar.
Speaker 7 (26:54):
And I love the fact that my Clippers beat the Warriors.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
That's it, Okay, okay, I mean it was just a
regular season game, but a meaningful one nonetheless, so I
like it.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
I follow a lot of the Warriors and Clippers beat
writers and people who cover those teams. Yeah, and as
I was trying to keep up and follow the Masters
as well on social media, there's that seemed to be
a heck of a ball game yesterday, But again I
have no idea. Did not change the channel at all,
but they were saying a great job and what a
great job by Moses Moody and the whole deal and
(27:30):
the Clippers win, and yes, but couldn't tell you.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Okay, uh. Things I love from the weekend. The Nazi
guy got knocked out in UFC? Which guy was that?
Did you got anybody watch UFC? Was that Friday or
Saturday night? Again? My my weekend, I don't of your
days kind of run together. But there was a guy
who was talking lovingly about Hitler and then he got
knocked out. That that was amazing. I was like, uh
(27:59):
oh oh ah, there we go the knots he got
knocked out. Cool, he's just talking to the gloily about Hitler.
But again, what I loved I loved the raw motion
of Rory. I love the uh just the camera focused
on him as he's walking in people and you could
just see it setting in on him what he had accomplished,
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all the ups and downs. Right as he's walking in,
he's just can't like you can just see, you can
almost feel like he's saying to himself, I can't believe it.
I finally did it. I can't believe it. I finally
did it. And it just you guys, you know the
part I'm talking about right where he after the eighteenth toll,
where he's taking what seemed like just a ridiculously long
walk to the clubhouse and he's just and then you know,
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he comes up on his boys, he's talking with them.
I just watching somebody kind of emotionally work through what
we just watched for the last four or five hours.
And as Dan said, like this goes back to twenty eleven,
so you're walking through fourteen to fifteen years of mental
anguish and then it's all on camera and we're trying
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to read his body language. That was I loved it.
I loved it all Right, what do you hate from
the weekend? Let's turn to the other side. What do
you got there? Jason Sturia, resident hater?
Speaker 5 (29:19):
Just a little bit of residual on your first love. Okay,
So Bryce Mitchell is the fighter. He on a podcast,
has been taken up for Nazis and stuff. He got
choked unconscious and Gene Silva stood above his unconscious body
and talked talked ess to him while he was unconscious.
(29:42):
So that was a cool visual over the weekend. Beautiful interesting,
like anti Semitic stories going on around right now. That
whole Dave Smith Douglas Murray debate on Joe Rogan is fascinating.
Courage all the our listeners to access that and then
(30:02):
check out what Pierce Morgan said on Bill Maher Friday night.
It's I think that both of these things are important
to access and listen to. The thing that I hated
most about the weekend, and I totally forgot what I
hated from the weekend after If you got me on
the anti semitic tangent, I'm thinking about doing for the
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first time, and in passing, I'm going to pass and
then circle back to me when you think of oh no,
this is what I couldn't stand. On my Twitter account
right now, if you go to ad Jason Stewart, you
can see a visual the Rockies reveal their new City
Connect uniforms and they're just ridiculous. They're outlandish, they're stupid.
There's colors that aren't Rocky colors. There's yellow, and then
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they have their quarterback, their shortstop Tovar, looking all badass
in it, but he looks like a clown. I hate
the Rockies new City Connect uniforms. In general. I'm against
City Connecting uniforms, but these were outrageously stupid.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
Thank you, right?
Speaker 5 (31:07):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (31:09):
Jase? Do I mean? I mean sorry? I was Sam?
Speaker 7 (31:12):
No, I mean it's not there, you go there, you
go sport back to the Clippers.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
Warriors.
Speaker 7 (31:19):
So my mother is a diehard Warriors fan.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
You hate your mom?
Speaker 7 (31:24):
No, I don't, Mom, I love you. If you're listening, Uh,
I call her all the time. Uh So I called
after my Clippers beat her Warriors, And well, Doug, have
you ever been cussed out by your mother? No, that's
not true. I doubt that.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
I doubt that very seriously.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
My mom does not curse.
Speaker 7 (31:43):
Okay, well, has your mother ever yelled at you?
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Yeah? Of course.
Speaker 7 (31:46):
Okay, Well that's I got cussing and yelling when I
call them. It went like this, Hi, Mom, how are you?
What the bleep do you want? Why are you calling me?
I'm like, Mom, I'm your son, And she's like, I
hate your clippers, I hate beard Man. She calls James
Harden beard Man. She hates him, and she hung up
by me. I'm like, Mom, I'm your son, I'm your son. Yeah,
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she was, she was. She was not happy. So that's
what I hated about the weekend. That probably doesn't happen
too often.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
I mean, considering the great run that the Warriors were on, right,
I mean no, but every time they lose, I do
kind of like teeser about it because I don't like
the Warriors. I don't like Draymond Green, I don't like
Steph Curry.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
So yeah, okay, what about you there, Dan.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
Byer, Well, Doug, I hated that yesterday happened to Justin Rose.
I hated that it very likely, in my opinion, was
his last chance at a green jacket and last chance
at a major championship run. I get the recent form
(32:53):
that he is in, and it was so such a
positive message after his round, saying hey, this happened to me.
And twenty seventeen when I lost to Sergio and I
was able to take advantage of that, I became world
number one. I've now finished second in the last two majors.
I think positives will come from that. But truly to
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play the round of I don't want to say the
round of his life, but in those circumstances and what
he needed to do, especially on the second nine, and
to see him fall short to someone else's story, it's
captivated America. Like if it was anybody else, I think
we all would have been let's go Rosie, Let's go
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Justin Rose, especially for people in their forties like I am,
and cheering for a guy that is our contemporary. I mean,
I love Rory and Rory is great, but Rory isn't
necessarily my generation. So if it was anybody else that
Justin Rose was playing against, I think we all would
have been for Justin Rose except maybe Tiger Woods, so
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there may be two people. But to have him comes
so close and not be able to cash in again.
So really, I don't want to say no fault of
his own. He could have played better on Saturday, and
he did miss some short putts on Sunday. Nobody was
perfect on Sunday and he was darn good and for
him to fall short, Yeah, I hated that. I loved
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everything with the Masters, and I loved Rory getting the
career Grand Slam. I just hate that it had to
come at the expense of Justin Rose in a playoff.
Speaker 5 (34:28):
To your point, like he did miss a couple of
putts and I don't know which holes you'll know, like
to think of how good he played, and he was
on such a heater and you could just see it
in his body language. Man, I've got this thing, I've
got this thing. And then he did miss a putt
and that's all the difference in the world.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
Yeah, I'm I'm fourteen and seventeen. He bogied, But otherwise
there was a shape on every score I think on
the scorecard of the second nine. Truly remarkable and just
when we had counted him out. Honestly, when we were
looking at the leaderboard, Justin Rose was the leader going
in to the third round, and we had completely counted
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him out. Were like, is Rory's back in it after
his sixty six? Bryson de Shamba is there? Scotti Scheffler's
going for three of his last four, Ludvig Oldberg is
the next great star in golf, the soft spoken swede,
all of that, and then when he came to Justin
Rose like yeah, he's gonna fall off and he won't
be there in the end, and then he fell off
on Saturday, so we kind of dismissed him going into Sunday.
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And for him to have the comeback that he did
would have been a great story in pretty much any
other Masters, but it was just completely overshadowed and in fact,
probably turned into the villain for some because he would
have had a one to prevent Rory.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
Yeah. I don't think, well, he may have turned the villain.
It just seemed like such a likable guy.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
Oh yes, right, he is, like.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
Man, such a likable guy. But and he didn't play poorly.
You know. It's like one of those things where like, yeah,
he's eighteen.
Speaker 3 (36:06):
To ultimately get into the playoff. I mean, he sunk
a long put on eighteen to put him at eleven
under and to get to that number. Yeah, it's great
after that tough fogi that he had on seventeen.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
I hate the playing. I hate the play you know,
I understand what the NBA has been trying to do
and to make it more exciting, but what does it
really really solve. It doesn't change tanking, you know, maybe
it takes two or three more teams away from tanking.
(36:44):
If anything, it a couple of years ago it kept
Step out of the playoffs. It can keep them out
of the playoffs this year, like they're clearly a playoff team,
especially since the trade. But I just don't like the plan.
Speaker 3 (36:55):
I agree with you. I feel it's there to save
teams like the Phoenix Suns who couldn't be saved, right,
even if it's just to get an extra game in
or maybe it was just an awful regular season, but
maybe they could put something together in the postseason. Who knows.
But even like a team like the Phoenix Suns couldn't be.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
Saved, Nope, could not be saved at all. Any other
hates all right, that's the love and hate.
Speaker 6 (37:22):
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Speaker 1 (37:32):
It's the Doug Gottlieb Show here on Foxsports Radio. Let's
welcome in Rick Buker. Of course, he covers all things
sports for Fox Sports One. But of course he also
writes and has covered the NBA for over twenty five years.
So let's start with the with the Golden State Warriors.
(37:52):
They don't play Kaminga in that last game, okay, but
they didn't play Stephen dre and again, look, it ends
up to them falling back into the playing game. What
are your thoughts on the criticism of what Steve kirchows
do that last game of the season.
Speaker 8 (38:14):
I completely understand why he did it, and my feeling
is that if the star players don't make some of
the egregious mistakes that they made, that Jonathan Kaminga not
playing is a non story and that no one's pointing
to it. They're they're looking at the fact that he
went with his veterans and and with a system that
(38:37):
has been effective over the last few weeks, and and
it ultimately worked. You know, the shortcoming wasn't that Jonathan
Kaminga didn't play, or that Kevon Looney got his minutes,
because Looney was effective in the minutes that he played.
Quentin Posts really didn't get a whole lot of run.
He had a very tight rotation. So for me, it's
(39:04):
he put on the floor the role players that allow
the stars Draymond, Jimmy Andre to shine and do their job,
and they simply didn't to the level necessary with this group.
Steph Curry with eight turnovers, you simply can't have that happen.
Their margin of error with this particular Warriors team is
(39:27):
not big enough against a Clippers team that matches up
with them so well, you simply don't. You know, they
don't have that margin of error in general, but they
certainly wouldn't didn't have it against the team that presents
as many problems for them as the Clippers do.
Speaker 1 (39:44):
Stuck Gotleib show here on Fox Sports Radio. Okay, let's
let's continue. The Lakers people are celebrating that they take
on the Timberwolves here in the first round. Yeah, Now,
I thought Anthony Edwards is the next Michael Jordan last year,
(40:05):
this time Granted they've changed out some personnel up front,
but why suddenly the one ad on who the Timberwolves are.
Speaker 8 (40:14):
Yeah, it's interesting. I didn't know that Karl Anthony Towns
carried that much weight, and I believe a big part
of it is because the Timberwolves. Timberwolves weren't very good
for the better part of this year, and that Anthony
Edwards was focused on let me show you that I
can shoot the three, whether it was necessary, and I
(40:36):
often feel as if in a lot of situations, tim
shooting the three is the best thing that he can
possibly do for the opposition, no matter what presentage that
that that he is shooting. But haven't paid attention to
what they have done over the last three four weeks
and what they're still capable of doing defensively, and from
(40:57):
at least a physical standpoint. I like defensively, how they
can match up. There aren't a whole lot of teams
that have the bodies, the requisite bodies and defensive players.
You can also be a thread at the other end
that match up with the Lakers. Between Austin Austin Reeves
(41:17):
and Luka Doncis and Lebron James. You have to have
fairly unique defenders. You need some you need some size,
but you still need some agility. Well with nos Reed
and Julis Randalls, they have that. They can they can
they can, They can contend as defenders against Luca and
Lebron as much as anybody can. And Dade McDaniels, if
(41:41):
you end up putting him on Austin Reeves, maybe maybe
you switch those around. But I like I like their
ability to match up and defensively they can be challenging.
And then you got the you know, the ridy go
bear elements where you know Luca likes to to get inside.
If you can make the Lakers really rely on and
(42:02):
Luca and Lebron and Austin to rely and make them
a three point shooting team, particularly those guys shooting threes,
I think it plays in the in the big picture.
It plays in your favor because when they're at their
their most dangerous is when Luca is getting into the
(42:22):
paint and getting the defense to collapse, and now you're
getting wide open threes for everybody. When Lebron has to
shoot a contested three, it's not nearly as good as
wide open. And I would say the same goes for
Jared Vanderbilt and Dorian finnih Smith. So I think the
Timberwolves have has the requisite pieces and experience to make
(42:46):
this an interesting series, far more interesting series than I
think a lot of people are are are giving it
credit simply because it's it's not the Warriors, it's not
one of the the other teams that we thought they
might be matched up, with the Clippers being another that
would make it far more interesting. I think I think
everybody kind of fell off with with Minnesota and the
(43:06):
way they started the season, and I wasn't as big
on them last year as most people, but I'm also
not Uh. I don't think it's the four gun conclusion
that the Lakers just walk away with this this series
and make it a short one.
Speaker 1 (43:20):
Stuck Gottlieb Show here on Fox Sports Radio. Uh, that's
the that's the voice of of Rick Buker. Of course,
Rick Buker covers the NBA for Fox Sports and Fox
Sports One. He joins this year on the DG Show.
Mark Mike Budenholds are fired at the end of the
season for the Suns, the second straight year they've had
(43:41):
a one and done, one and done coach. I had
I thought that it was a bad idea to hire
Bud because he had gotten a reputation of being really
difficult to deal with. Right, But another one and done coach,
What is what is? Uh? What does Phoenix do? Now?
Speaker 8 (44:02):
It's a great question because I don't know that there's
a coach that solved their problem with this roster. It's
a roster made to kill coaches because it's got a
lot of big names, got a lot of individual talent,
but it doesn't have any leadership on the floor, and
it doesn't really have a whole lot of connective tissue.
(44:23):
You know, Bradley Beal, Kevin Durant, Devin Booker. If you're
building a fantasy league team, that might work, but if
you actually have to go on the floor and play
basketball five y five, it's a completely different story. And
then you just you don't have enough of the ancillary
pieces to do all of the dirty work that those
(44:46):
three players are not going to do at this stage
of their careers. So I don't know where you go
with a coach. The problem is the roster. And until
you address the roster and I and from me make
some severe mood like moving KD, I don't even know
if you can lose Bradley Beal. But most everybody is
(45:06):
like Kevin Durant is going to get moved and he's
going to go somewhere. I'm like, okay, fine, what are
you going to bring you back? At this stage? Is
not enough to transform this team if you really are
serious about building the Phoenix Suns into a title contending team,
as much as they don't want to do it, as
(45:27):
much as he's the face of the franchise, As much
as I hold nothing against Devin Booker, Devin Booker is
the guy that you could set, you could trade and
potentially get pieces back where you can remake yourself. Other
than that, you're just continuing to patch a ship that
is not going anywhere.
Speaker 1 (45:47):
Yeah, yeah, you got to start over there. Yeah, you have.
Speaker 8 (45:53):
To start with the roster. It's like there's no magic
pill to be taken here with a coach that you're
going to hire that's somehow going to figure route the formula.
That's not that, it's the pieces don't.
Speaker 1 (46:04):
Ship, No, not even not even close to fitting. Rick
Berger joined us here on the Doug Gottlieb Show on
Fox Sports Radio. How dangerous of the Clippers heading in the.
Speaker 8 (46:17):
Playoffs dangerous to the Denver Nuggets, and that I believe
that the coaching change needed to be made, and I
believe that they're a better team now, and they're a
better team than they've shown for the better part of
this season. Do I think they're at their championship level.
(46:40):
I'm not convinced of that, in spite of Nikola Jokic's
being better than ever. They are. They are dangerous, and
that they have all the elements that you want in
a title contending, formidable team, playoff team. They have defense,
they have experience, and they have go to scorers that
(47:01):
are that are that are handful one on one and
James Harden and Kawhi Leonard. The problem is that they
also just do a lot of dumb stuff, and they
do dumb stuff at critical points of the game, and
they've consistently done that this year. Uh and and dumb
stuff in the postseason at critical times will lose you
(47:25):
gains and lose your series. And so when I look for,
like the intangibles with this team, the communication, the leadership,
that's where they're that's where they're they're they're missing and
or that's what they're missing, and those are vital ingredients
for anybody who's going to make a deep playoff run.
So I like what they have. There's as good as
(47:47):
they've been, largely because Kawhi is healthy. Guy has done
a nice job of of you know, getting the most
I think out of this team and getting the most
out of James Harden. But they are still like conversely
compared to say the Lakers, like, they're still they're all
ISO players offensively, so you just kind of kind of
(48:09):
hope you find the right matchup. But they're not going
to make each other better. They don't have a playmaker
in the form of a Luka dacicch or even a
Lebron James and and that's why if you can match
up and quiet their ISOs, then you have a chance
(48:29):
of beating them.
Speaker 1 (48:31):
That's the voice of one Rick Buker. We're getting ready
for the playing tournament into the NBA playoffs, and he's
the guy we're going to turn two every week, Buki
the best man. Thanks for joining us.
Speaker 3 (48:41):
You got it, dog.
Speaker 1 (48:42):
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