July 16, 2025 • 33 mins
Money and DMac talk about the All-Star game and The Open with David Dussek+ some NBA.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
The must I'm still on the line, on the line,
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Speaker 2 (00:18):
To be even more annoying than they usually are, and
I just hate them, and I mean, I have no
words because it and I'm really going down to yellow
and brown. That's what's in.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Bucking the loose.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
Let's go goose, That's what's in.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Bryce's gonna lose and man, he's gonna cruise. That's what's in.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
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Speaker 5 (02:52):
Story of it.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
There's a lot, a lot of flapping of the gums
done when it came to the All Star Game this year.
Some of it good, some of it not good. The
good a lot of people happy that the players were
going back to wearing their own uniforms.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
I like that too.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Yeah, you don't the whole All Star al NL. No,
we want to see the whites and the roads. And
then if you want to do a cap like they did,
it was a specific All Star cap that you can sell.
Speaker 6 (03:20):
Great.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
It looked fantastic, But that was like were people against that?
They weren't against it. That was the only positive thing.
There were a few things that I don't want to
say were controversial, but we're polarizing here in LA. Of course,
it was very not polarizing Clayton Kershaw being named as
a legend pick to go out there. They did it
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with Mickey Cabrera and Albert Pools. Both of those players
happened to retire at the end of that year. Led
some people to speculate that, you know, if major League
Baseball is going to do this, they ask the player, like, hey,
we want to make sure we do this right. What
are we thinking that that's a signal that Clayton is
thinking this in fact, is his last go around. And uh,
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if you happen to miss it last night because you're
not into the exhibitions, what is this, Adam, about two
minutes worth of sound? What have we got about two
minutes worth of sound? But it is worth every second.
Kershaw agreed to be miked up while he was pitching.
And when I say while he was pitching, I mean, like,
if you didn't see it, this is not him talking
between pitches.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
He was mid wind up.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
He is just having a conversation with John Smoltz and
Joe Davis the entire time he's out there, And we're.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Actually gonna get to talk baseball with Clayton. I can't
believe you're doing this, Clayton.
Speaker 7 (04:35):
Okay, e there, I'm gonna try to throw some cheese
real quick. Hold on, Catley hooks it in there to
the left field.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Had up, Tucker? Easy, Oh sick.
Speaker 6 (04:55):
Tucker. Now with the Cubs enjoying a great season and
enjoy breatcat.
Speaker 7 (05:03):
It's gonna be my last batter.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
Guys, that was yeah?
Speaker 1 (05:06):
How hard was that?
Speaker 7 (05:07):
One ninety one?
Speaker 3 (05:09):
It was an out?
Speaker 1 (05:10):
It was an out? All right? Go on cheese again?
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Okay, Oh yeah, that's hard. I mean you and Paul
Skeins are pretty much the same.
Speaker 7 (05:18):
Guy right down the middle. I'm so glad you didn't swing.
H Okay, I'm going curveball here?
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Okay, o short?
Speaker 6 (05:31):
What now? Double lot?
Speaker 7 (05:33):
All right now, I think I've probably gotta go slider.
Let's think what will thinks? But I think I gotta
go slider here. No, no, he wants curveball again.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
All right, fine, I got him, Uncle Charlie.
Speaker 8 (05:49):
Okay, what do.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
You want, Smolt?
Speaker 1 (05:53):
What do you want?
Speaker 5 (05:54):
Cut her in?
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Slider in?
Speaker 6 (05:55):
I don't throw a cutter?
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Something to make a short?
Speaker 8 (06:01):
Thank you?
Speaker 2 (06:03):
How about this splitty break out?
Speaker 7 (06:05):
This is so weird talking to you guys.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Hey, sit him down.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
I think that might be it.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
I think that's it.
Speaker 6 (06:20):
And uh, what a year, buddy, what a career and
one a moment sunk it in.
Speaker 7 (06:27):
Thanks all right, Thanks, thanks dud, Thanks guys.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
That was fun.
Speaker 7 (06:35):
That was fun.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
Thank you, Thanks dude.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Thanks you really that was funny.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
That's your I keep it, that's yours.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
You keep all right, Thank you, George, Thank guys.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
All right.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
One of the greatest that ever right there, Clayton Kershop.
Speaker 7 (06:48):
Fun guys, thanks for talking.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
I want to talk about that, though, Matt, because I
was sitting there with my youngest son Trent, watching it
and we were discussing. You could tell that Scooble and
Rally I didn't want to do it. And I want
to say, and I can't confirm this, but it looked
like Rally took his earpiece out out during it, and
it's a little unfair. And I just wondered, did they
really want Kershaw because they knew he was pitching second
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or did Skeen say I ain't doing it. Fair point
because if it were different level, but playing like to
be miked up in talking to somebody. It's one thing
to have a mic on and there's picking up what
you're saying, but to be going back and forth, especially
if I'm starting an All Star.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Game right like you're throwing You're thrown to a Taani.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
I bet your Skeenes was like, no chance, I'm doing that. Yeah,
And then Kershaw, where he's at his career, he doesn't
care like.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
And see, that's what's so funny about it, right, Like,
if you think about Kershaw, not even tenure, you think
about Kershaw five years ago, there's no way he had
no chance. And it's one of It's like, it's one
of the great things about getting to if you're able
to get to this point when you've you kind of
already recognized I'm on borrow time. Man, It's crazy that
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I've got these last two three years out of this.
You saw it with Kobe. He just kind of flipped
that switch and it became so much more affable and
kind of had this sort of looking back perspective. And
Kershaw is the exact same way, a real red ass
throughout his entire career. In these last few years, it's
been really fun to kind of see him. You know,
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I'm not saying he wasn't enjoying it before, but it
seemed like he wasn't really enjoying it, you know, and
that was that was something I would have never thought,
and I think that's why they made light of it,
and he even he did, He's like, can you believe
I'm doing this? But it was pretty great, and it's
it's what for all of the incoming that all Star
games get. It's what I watched it.
Speaker 5 (08:41):
I liked it.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
It's well, it's truly the one. It's like the one
All Star game that works because it's still just pitcher
versus hitter. I mean, yes, Suarez taking one off the
freaking hand at ninety six miles and a half Howard
so like the picture and Hitter are still going at it,
and that is still a legitimate, no different than a
World Series game showdown between those two individuals, if you
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include the catcher, those three individuals.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
There is no fix for the NBA or the NFL.
No All Star game, but there's no fix. They've tried everything.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
That's why the Midsummer Classic is the one that you
pay attention to. The other big controversy was Jacob Meserowski,
a guy only made five starts and then I mean,
we just got a little bit here, but just you know,
a listening to the gas hopefully you get that through
the audio. But then just how how much fun he
had and how big that smile was talking to Ken Rosenthal,
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I just got right.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Here has been one of the big stories of the
last month or so in baseball. He debuted on June twelfth,
and here he is at the All Star Game. Pok
up Messerowski. But the one fastball Huskins got here fast right.
He started last year's game after eleven big league games,
Mansarowski's done it in five.
Speaker 6 (09:53):
Can you imagine what his heart rate is right now?
It's probably as much as his fastball. I mean, he
can sling it, and there's the eighty nine pitches of
one hundred miles an hour plus.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
But man last time out struck out twelve Dodgers, top
offense in the National League and beat Clayton Kershaw.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Jacob, I know you've only started five major league regular
season games.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
How did pitching in the All Star Game compare?
Speaker 8 (10:19):
Yeah, I mean it was fun, and you know it's
a it's a little different than starting so but it
was fun.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
You had a big smile on your face. After the
single by Rondo, what were.
Speaker 8 (10:28):
You thinking, Oh, I was trying to get a change
up by him and you know, have a little fun
and to show off, and you know, like he got
to it, so you know, it's all fun.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
As you know, some players were upset by the fact
that you were selected. But how were you treated by
the players on your team?
Speaker 6 (10:42):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Yeah, awesome.
Speaker 8 (10:43):
I mean they were all so happy for me, and
you know it was it was awesome.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
And the National League All Stars, how did they treat you?
Speaker 8 (10:51):
They're good, They're they're really good. Yeah, they're awesome. You know,
the guys they're all happy for me.
Speaker 5 (10:56):
So it's awesome, good stuff.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Yeah. It was arguably, outside of Kershaw, the most fun
pitching that we saw, save one person, and that was
the dude that came in after the ninth inn to
throw a few pitches to Kyle Schwarber.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Forty thousand eyes all burning holes through you, Schwarmer in
the air to center field, headed towards the wall and.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
That center that's huge for the National League.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
They're within one, so there you go. He said if
he could get it on his first swing, and he did.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Swarm Bars in the All Star Game tied it free.
Speaker 6 (11:39):
That's MVP material if he gets a third one right here.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Hey, I rallied in the game. L has rallied in
the swing.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Tracks.
Speaker 6 (11:50):
Look out chop house.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
National League takes to ID four to three.
Speaker 6 (11:56):
Unblievable.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
That was right, Like, it was spectacular And some people
were peeing and moaning about it in the moment, like
just let it be a tie. Go home, it's an
All Star be a tie, right, It's like, oh, what's that?
Who cares? Give me the free baseball? And you saw
the players on the field. Everybody's freaking out. I listen,
I'll take that over the runner on second base to
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start the tenth thouars no.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Doubt, And whoever is complaining about it, I guarantee you
that's coming back next year.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Yes, no doubt, no doubt. And I think like it's look,
it's there in the All Star Game forever. But I
truly believe that could be a you know, you don't
have to use an extra pitcher, you can save your bullpen,
you don't have to worry about eleven twelve innings. It's
like we said, it's already, you're already amending the game.
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So it worked out great, and I would have no.
I'm guarantee there's going to be a lengthy discussion in
the offseason about whether or not you know that thing's
going to make its way to the regular seat. I
think it will, damn right there, Gunna Dino Evil will
expound upon that in the six o'clock hour. If you
missed it from earlier. Don McClain in for Petros Dave
Doosik talking British Open, Major golf. When we return on
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Down McClain in for P today. Tomorrow will be George
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Reister and come, I don't know two am or so
or one am, maybe midnight, maybe even earlier than that
ten pm tonight. It is the Open Championship as they
call it. Don you love the golf, We love the golf.
I love the British Open as I would refer to
it as now the Open Championship. It's out Royal Port
Rush this year and any time a major rolls around.
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ready for another major. Deu sir, what's happening.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
Let's get one thing perfectly clear, gentlemen, Until those until
those British sports writers stop preferring to the tournament in
April as the US Masters. This is the British Open.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Yeah, that's a puppy or two.
Speaker 5 (14:35):
I will die. I will die on matt Hill for
you people. I Am not letting go of that. And
you know the best part, It torchs them off so
bad all it makes my year just to do that.
How are you guys doing?
Speaker 3 (14:48):
We're great, We're good. I love golf writer fights. That's
that's what we're all about. Strife and discord, Doucer. So
how about this iteration of the British Open as we
like to call it. U Rory, Scottie Scheffler, John Rahm
seemed to be the favorites. How does the course line
up should this be an intense, competitive down to Sunday
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late morning tournament.
Speaker 5 (15:13):
For your listeners out there in la ten thirty five
pm Pacific, We get this thing going, Lord, and then
it goes, you know, all of the it's. They send
them out on the first e box starting at six
thirty five am local at Royal Port, Rush, which is
just up up there on in Northern Ireland. So we
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are going to get wind. We're going to see lots
of beautiful shots of the ocean basically just outside off
the west coast of Scotland yet lib Ba of the
Irish scene, five miles from bush Mills, by the way.
If you're happy to be a person who likes the
distilleries and tremendous course, little over seventy three hundred yards,
lots of gorse, lots of tumbling fairways, tricky greens, it
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should be a fantastic event. Last time we were here,
Shane Lowry in twenty nineteen ended up winning the Claire
jug and I think he sobered up from that victory
back in March.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (16:09):
He he enjoys himself a Guinness or ten anytime he
has a chance to do it. Should be awesome, should
be great, Dave.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
What are the players saying through practice round about the
course that rough looks pretty mean out there.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
Yeah, it's it's no joke. I mean, I think that
we're going to get the most wind is predicted to
get between fifteen and twenty five miles an hour on Thursday,
and then it's going to calm down a little bit.
So I think Thursday is a day to sort of
get by keep the ball in the fairway. The rough
varies from you know, ankle high to fescue that's going
to be up you know, in your thighs, your belt
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buckle kind of stuff. There is all kinds of places
where you just cannot put the golf ball. It's it's
going to be very, very challenging because you want to
get the ball down obviously, as far as you can
towards the hole to do that. Normally, the way the
guys play, they hit it high up in the air.
You can't do that on a links course. You gotta
get it down, you gotta get chasing. But because the
ground is so filled with pot bunkers and different humps
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and hollows and things like that, there's a level of
randomness to links golf that comes into play, and you
just have to accept the fact that you can hit
a good shot and get nothing out of it. You
can misplay a ball, it hits off of something, and
then all of a sudden you're in great position. There's
a it's just a weird, quirky kind of of a layout.
I think the guys really like it because it's different.
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It makes them think about shots you want to. It's
sort of the artist type thing rather than when you're
going on so many courses here in the US, where
you sort of go from point to point to point.
This is much more sort of seeing it and then
creating it. And I think the guys really like that.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
It's I love that you put it that way, because
it is for those that don't watch a lot of
golf or tennis. Like one of the great things about
the Majors is how different they are. You know, you
go from clay to grass and it is a completely
different game. In tennis, When you think about the Masters,
it's Augusta, it's a men corner. You think about the
US Open, it's a complete mind deft. You're going to
win that thing at one under, maybe even par, and
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then you get to the British and like you said,
you've got to go from being I don't know, like
from an engineer or a scientist to an artist. And
the first person I think of then is Bryson. And
why Bryson just never has a chance to win this tournament, right,
It's just it's it's not baked into him or could
you envision him being sort of creative enough to try
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to crack this nut. I don't see how that happens.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
I think he has to get outside of his comfort zone,
and he's somebody who's willing to try and experiment, and
I give him a lot of credit for that. I
don't think that you will ever overpower. Of course, like
Royal Port Rush, now, there may be some days when
it's a little bit easier to do that than others,
at least to attempt it. If the wind is down.
Bryson can hit shorter, more controllable clubs because he hits
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those clubs so far. He doesn't need to hit his driver,
he doesn't need to hit his three wood where most
players would in order to get the ball farther down.
He can take irons and just land the ball in
the fairway and have a chase for one hundred, one
hundred and twenty yards, which is much safer play. But
that goes against his instincts. It goes against the way
that he typically plays. When he won at Wingfoot, when
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he won at Pinehurst, he was playing bomb and gouge.
Now he he also came up with some really creative
shots here and there. But I I want I'm gonna
believe it when I see it that for four rounds
Bryson D. Schambeau is not going to get his mind
turned into like capioca pudding by these conditions. I think
they're just going to play with his head. He will
get frustrated. It has happened in the past. It doesn't
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mean he's not a great golfer, and he's not really,
you know, someone who is capable. Lots of people who
have been fantastic players and capable of hitting shots have
not been able to win an Open championship, you know,
on a link style course. But it's it's I think
a very very tall ask and out of what he
instinctively does.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
So which guy Dave or guys on paper at least
their game does fit this style of play.
Speaker 5 (19:57):
Well, I'll tell you there's a couple of guys who
who you know, every course fits they play. Number one
Rory McIlroy, the local kid, I think, is finally got
the monkey off his back. You know, we've talked a
little bit about the fact that he wins the Career
Grand Slam by winning at the Masters, he won the
Players Championship, he won at Pebble Beach this year. He's
got bucket loads of confidence. But my worry for Rory
would be that he's got too much pressure he puts
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on himself to win this one. He said in his
press conference earlier in the week that when he flipped
open the calendar to twenty twenty five, this was the one,
maybe even more than the Masters, in the Career Grand
Siemus he wanted to win. That's a lot of self
of pressure that he's putting on himself. Plus the hometown thing,
the fact that he didn't get it done in twenty nineteen,
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that is detrimental. I think the more that Rory is
just sort of able to play freely and just go
out and play his game, the better I like him.
He's putting great, he's the best driver of the golf
ball out there. He's ranked number two in the world.
There's nothing not to like about Rory and there's nothing
not to like about Scotti Scheffler. You know, Scheffler again
is having the best putting season ever had, which is
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really not fair because he's the best iron player also
in the game as well. You can't you can't have both.
It's just it's not fair of the competition. You wonder
whyse boy, the guy who's just a top ten machine.
I think when he goes to the bathroom it's one
hundred dollars bills to come out of him and say that.
You know what, it's He's fantastic. I mean, did you
guys see his press conference earlier this week? We got
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all philosophicalized. What did you guys think of that?
Speaker 3 (21:25):
I thought it was great. It's like the anti Tiger Woods, Right,
He's the best golfer in the world, and instead of
being a I'm going to compete, I'm going to cut
out their throats. It's yeah, I'm good man, you know cool.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Well, in its opposite, David, what you just said about Rory,
Like it seems like Rory puts all this pressure on
him stuf because it means that much. And Scheffler's like,
you know what, I'm really good and if I don't win.
Speaker 5 (21:44):
So what to hear an athlete say that? Basically, you
work really hard, you achieve your goal, you win the championship,
and two or three minutes later, the sort of euphoria
goes away. You're there with your family, like, what are
we doing for dinner tonight? You know that it comes
back to earth that fast is jarring to those of
us who live outside the ropes, who aren't in locker rooms.
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You know, seeing these guys week in and week out,
you know, I would hope that you win a super Bowl.
It's more than just like a day or two that
you're reflecting on something an NBA championship. You're thinking about
those things and you're feeling the joy from it more.
But clearly Shuffler has got a very philosophical idea that look,
I'm a husband, I'm a dad, I'm a son. I
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love being able to play golf. I love the fact
that professional golf provides for my family, and that's awesome.
But you don't feel like if he loses it it
eats at him, that it doesn't tear him up inside
the way that it does clearly to some other players,
and in the long run, that's probably a much much
healthier way to be.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
But what's interesting about that, Dave is usually the guys
that are great it is that, right, It's that they
have this drive of they can't the old thing where
I remember the losing more than I do the winning
kind of thing. So it is different that he's like
that and doesn't use like this stuff. Not winning is
motivation to make him great.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
It is.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
It is different for sure.
Speaker 5 (23:05):
Which makes you think that he's got different types of motivations.
You know, you can't there's one of these things where
you guys have been around enough elite athletes and heard
people in all different kinds. There has to be a
level of selfishness when you're going to be a professional
athlete like that. I mean, if you're going to be
somebody who is you know, capable of making it and
being a star in the NBA or the NFL or
the PGA Tour or whatever like, you have to have
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put in so much time and so much work instead
of doing other things that that level of selfishness gets
you to where you needed to be to be able
to compartmentalize that and say, yeah, you know what I'm
Scottie Scheffer. I'm the number one player in the world.
I've won two Green jackets, I've won a PGA Championship,
gonna I'm you know, I have won more money than
I can ever hope to spend. And I'll be working
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the grill tonight, slipping burgers for everybody, and I'll have
a little of the Coleslaw on the side. It's it's
an unbelievable way to think.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Last thing for you to do, sir, We appreciate it.
And again it's ten thirty tonight is when the British
Open will get underway. I think some of my favorite
British Open memories and maybe it's because I am getting
a little long in the tooth here. The old dudes
like Tom Watson wins that that British Open, and it
might be one of my favorite sports memories. But just
seeing DC Darren Clark win it, and knowing that, you
(24:18):
know you've got Adam Scott who's forty four, Justin Rose
who's in his mid forties. I mean, maybe there's some
magic left and Lefty it doesn't seem like it, or
maybe Patty Harrington finds some magic over these four days.
Is it still realistic for someone you know of that
advanced stage to take down these twenty somethings that are
bombing at three hundred and fifty four hundred yards off
(24:39):
the tee, and.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
This would be the type of a place where it
would happen. You know, the Masters at Augustin National is
so long. The US opens now are so long. And
then what I sort of spoke with, you know when
when Tom Watson and nine was able to out Dull
Stewart sink he was hitting driver the ball of land
two hundred and seventy yards out there, but then chase
another forty or fifty yards, so he could make that up.
(25:03):
If you're looking for an opportunity, you know, to get
something like that at eleven fifty eight local, which I'm
so bad at math. Okay, So like what is so
midnight six around four am Pacific time, Zach Johnson is
going out there. Zach Johnson won the twenty fifteen British
Open at Saint Andrews. That's gonna be your guy. He's
(25:25):
gonna bunt it around the golf course, he's gonna chip
and he's gonna putt. And if he has a hot
week with those clubs. Can he contend yes? Do I
think that he's gonna Outduel Scotti, Scheffler and John Rahm
and some of the other Vanderschofli, the players that we've
been talking about this one, Probably not, But if he
were going to this would be the place where he
do it.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Does it for Golf Week and does it for us
whenever we call the answers, and we certainly appreciate that.
Follow him at Golf Week, underscore doucec on Twitter X
whatever you want to call it, we always appreciate it. Doucer,
enjoy the British gentlemen.
Speaker 5 (25:57):
Thanks a lot, all right.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
Coming up on about an hour to go. Oh, we
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Dino Ebel, it was fantastic. We'll play that in the
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no doubt about it. Dodgers Brewers on Friday from the
Gallpin Motors broadcast booth. But worthy of discussion here. We
got into it a little bit earlier this hour, or
(26:58):
actually early in the four hour down, but following the
addition of Bradley Beal just kind of put together the
top five. You know, you're starting fives and your impact
players off the bench. And I think the one thing
that maybe because I hear people talking about, oh, the
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Clippers and now they had Beal to go with Jones, Leonard,
Zubs and Harden and the Thunder, or I should say
the Lakers get DeAndre Ay and a legitimate center. It
was the one thing they desperately needed. And don't forget
this was the three seed last year. But then I
looked at the Thunder and I'm like, is that kind
of part of the calculus with the Clippers, Like, you
(27:39):
know what, We're just we're gonna ride this thing out
for two years because there's no sense trying to rebuild
right now. Have no draft picks, not that well they
have no draft picks. I just mean like in terms of, oh,
we should trade and get a little bit younger and
try to kind of the thunder are a freaking buzz
saw and they are going to be a buzz saw.
And the best shot you're gonna have at them is
(28:01):
just hoping that these guys are healthy and you've got
these MVPs and veterans that can take it to them.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Well, Kawhi coming off being healthy for the first time
in a while, have an off season not rehabbing, working
out and getting ready for next year. But I'm telling you,
I really really like what they did, getting Bill John
Collins and Brook Lopez like that address how much flexibility
they have with their roster is incredible now. And I
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don't know who's going to start. I'm assuming you want
to get bigger at that four spot. I'm assuming that
Collins is probably going to start and bring Derrick Jones
Junior off the bench. The interesting part will be, you know,
Norman Palace started last year, but last year is the
first year he started, So does Beal just slip into
his starting role it seems like it, but now coming
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off the bench. But Chris Dunn started a lot of
games and he was very valuable guarding the other team's
best wing player every night, so do you bring him
in early? But again it comes down to the flexibility
with matchups. No matter who you play, your roster is
so deep and so good that you can match up
now to whoever you want to play it. And they
lost to Denver in the first round and essentially it
(29:12):
was Zoo Zoo played like thirty eight minutes a game
in that series. Now you've got Brook Lopez, they can
deal with them. John Collins could deal with them. Derek
Jones junior too small at that power forward spot to
deal with Jokich. So I again, it's on paper and
they have to stay healthy. But as good as the
Clippers were last year from Christmas on, like, they could
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be better than that next year if everyone's healthy.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
Yeah, I mean I would think so if you're trading.
I mean, look, Norman pot was sensational last year. Yeah,
and it should have been an All Star I mean
absolutely got robbed from the All Star Game. But as
you've detailed, you know, Bradley Beal can rediscover that. I
kind of I brought it up sort of in the
bigger picture of everybody in the East is shipping players
(29:56):
out because they're all hurt, and teams like or landor
like we got a shot to make the final. Yep,
the West is the exact opposite. The West is like one.
The Thunder are a buzzsaw with twenty five year old
franchise level players and they are eight deep. Adam, you're
looking at me like you want to weigh in.
Speaker 4 (30:15):
No, you're completely right. They're in a tier of their
own above everybody else because of their health and they
have a guy who's in his prime that just won
MVP right.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Well, and that's why they spent eight hundred million this
offseason exact, because they know they can win it. Not
saying they're going to, but they could win it for
the next five years.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
Yeah. I mean they have three guys that will make
eighty to ninety percent based on the escalators of their
salary cap, and they're three all NBA level players. But
then you go behind that the Rockets. Now, the Nuggets
made moves. They I really like what the Nuggets do. Yeah,
if Valency Unis is willing to I don't know what
the hell's going on with him, but he's gonna end
up playing in the NBA. Now you're talking about Oh
(30:52):
you got Brook Lopez. Well, now the Nuggets got another
big yep, and they probably got better by moving on
from Porter and bringing in Cams.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
So, like, I got one for Adam if you want
to hop on at I think the one thing the
Nuggets that isn't being talked about enough because he's kind
of gone into purgatory a little bit since. But you know,
I like the Cam Johnson move for Porter. I never
thought Porter was a good fit with Jokich and Murray
and those guys. Bruce Brown, Like how big Bruce Brown
was for the Nuggets the year they won the championship.
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I think they finally realized that and brought him back.
Speaker 4 (31:24):
He killed the Lakers in the conference finals like.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
He was unbelieva.
Speaker 4 (31:28):
Well, you remember Mike Malone with the parade was saying,
is Bruce gonna leave us? Hell no?
Speaker 7 (31:33):
Hell no?
Speaker 4 (31:34):
And then he got like two years, sixty million or
something like that from Indiana. Yep, he's valuable. He is
kind of flying under the radar to get him for
the Veterans Minimum, by the.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
Way, exactly. And that's the thing with the Clippers that
we haven't really talked about how they were able to
do this and not spend a bunch of money because
they really couldn't, or they'd be in the second apron.
They're paying hard, and they're paying Kawhi to get Brook
Lopez for nine million a year, Brad Beial for five
million a year. It is uh And I didn't look
this up at him, but his call Collins is on
(32:04):
an expiring deal, right.
Speaker 4 (32:06):
Yeah, he's at twenty six and a half million. That expires.
Everybody is off the books by twenty twenty seven at worst,
except for Viata Zoobots.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
And again you've got Lakers three seed Rockets and Lakers
I think got better, you know, with with the addition
of Aiden after having no and you know they lose
dfs they bring in the Rabia. But Nuggets got better,
Rockets got better, Thunders are a buzzsau Clippers got better.
I think the Mavericks, I mean, obviously depends on what
happens with Kyrie, but they got freaking Cooper Flag Like,
(32:37):
that's a deep team you kind of forget about. It's
a it's gnarly. It's going to be a really fun
fun TI. All right, we were at the top. There
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Speaker 5 (02:52):
Story of it.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
There's a lot, a lot of flapping of the gums
done when it came to the All Star Game this year.
Some of it good, some of it not good. The
good a lot of people happy that the players were
going back to wearing their own uniforms.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
I like that too.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Yeah, you don't the whole All Star al NL. No,
we want to see the whites and the roads. And
then if you want to do a cap like they did,
it was a specific All Star cap that you can sell.
Speaker 6 (03:20):
Great.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
It looked fantastic, But that was like were people against that?
They weren't against it. That was the only positive thing.
There were a few things that I don't want to
say were controversial, but we're polarizing here in LA. Of course,
it was very not polarizing Clayton Kershaw being named as
a legend pick to go out there. They did it
(03:43):
with Mickey Cabrera and Albert Pools. Both of those players
happened to retire at the end of that year. Led
some people to speculate that, you know, if major League
Baseball is going to do this, they ask the player, like, hey,
we want to make sure we do this right. What
are we thinking that that's a signal that Clayton is
thinking this in fact, is his last go around. And uh,
(04:04):
if you happen to miss it last night because you're
not into the exhibitions, what is this, Adam, about two
minutes worth of sound? What have we got about two
minutes worth of sound? But it is worth every second.
Kershaw agreed to be miked up while he was pitching.
And when I say while he was pitching, I mean, like,
if you didn't see it, this is not him talking
between pitches.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
He was mid wind up.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
He is just having a conversation with John Smoltz and
Joe Davis the entire time he's out there, And we're.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Actually gonna get to talk baseball with Clayton. I can't
believe you're doing this, Clayton.
Speaker 7 (04:35):
Okay, e there, I'm gonna try to throw some cheese
real quick. Hold on, Catley hooks it in there to
the left field.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Had up, Tucker? Easy, Oh sick.
Speaker 6 (04:55):
Tucker. Now with the Cubs enjoying a great season and
enjoy breatcat.
Speaker 7 (05:03):
It's gonna be my last batter.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
Guys, that was yeah?
Speaker 1 (05:06):
How hard was that?
Speaker 7 (05:07):
One ninety one?
Speaker 3 (05:09):
It was an out?
Speaker 1 (05:10):
It was an out? All right? Go on cheese again?
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Okay, Oh yeah, that's hard. I mean you and Paul
Skeins are pretty much the same.
Speaker 7 (05:18):
Guy right down the middle. I'm so glad you didn't swing.
H Okay, I'm going curveball here?
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Okay, o short?
Speaker 6 (05:31):
What now? Double lot?
Speaker 7 (05:33):
All right now, I think I've probably gotta go slider.
Let's think what will thinks? But I think I gotta
go slider here. No, no, he wants curveball again.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
All right, fine, I got him, Uncle Charlie.
Speaker 8 (05:49):
Okay, what do.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
You want, Smolt?
Speaker 1 (05:53):
What do you want?
Speaker 5 (05:54):
Cut her in?
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Slider in?
Speaker 6 (05:55):
I don't throw a cutter?
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Something to make a short?
Speaker 8 (06:01):
Thank you?
Speaker 2 (06:03):
How about this splitty break out?
Speaker 7 (06:05):
This is so weird talking to you guys.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Hey, sit him down.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
I think that might be it.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
I think that's it.
Speaker 6 (06:20):
And uh, what a year, buddy, what a career and
one a moment sunk it in.
Speaker 7 (06:27):
Thanks all right, Thanks, thanks dud, Thanks guys.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
That was fun.
Speaker 7 (06:35):
That was fun.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
Thank you, Thanks dude.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Thanks you really that was funny.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
That's your I keep it, that's yours.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
You keep all right, Thank you, George, Thank guys.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
All right.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
One of the greatest that ever right there, Clayton Kershop.
Speaker 7 (06:48):
Fun guys, thanks for talking.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
I want to talk about that, though, Matt, because I
was sitting there with my youngest son Trent, watching it
and we were discussing. You could tell that Scooble and
Rally I didn't want to do it. And I want
to say, and I can't confirm this, but it looked
like Rally took his earpiece out out during it, and
it's a little unfair. And I just wondered, did they
really want Kershaw because they knew he was pitching second
(07:12):
or did Skeen say I ain't doing it. Fair point
because if it were different level, but playing like to
be miked up in talking to somebody. It's one thing
to have a mic on and there's picking up what
you're saying, but to be going back and forth, especially
if I'm starting an All Star.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Game right like you're throwing You're thrown to a Taani.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
I bet your Skeenes was like, no chance, I'm doing that. Yeah,
And then Kershaw, where he's at his career, he doesn't
care like.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
And see, that's what's so funny about it, right, Like,
if you think about Kershaw, not even tenure, you think
about Kershaw five years ago, there's no way he had
no chance. And it's one of It's like, it's one
of the great things about getting to if you're able
to get to this point when you've you kind of
already recognized I'm on borrow time. Man, It's crazy that
(08:00):
I've got these last two three years out of this.
You saw it with Kobe. He just kind of flipped
that switch and it became so much more affable and
kind of had this sort of looking back perspective. And
Kershaw is the exact same way, a real red ass
throughout his entire career. In these last few years, it's
been really fun to kind of see him. You know,
(08:21):
I'm not saying he wasn't enjoying it before, but it
seemed like he wasn't really enjoying it, you know, and
that was that was something I would have never thought,
and I think that's why they made light of it,
and he even he did, He's like, can you believe
I'm doing this? But it was pretty great, and it's
it's what for all of the incoming that all Star
games get. It's what I watched it.
Speaker 5 (08:41):
I liked it.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
It's well, it's truly the one. It's like the one
All Star game that works because it's still just pitcher
versus hitter. I mean, yes, Suarez taking one off the
freaking hand at ninety six miles and a half Howard
so like the picture and Hitter are still going at it,
and that is still a legitimate, no different than a
World Series game showdown between those two individuals, if you
(09:03):
include the catcher, those three individuals.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
There is no fix for the NBA or the NFL.
No All Star game, but there's no fix. They've tried everything.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
That's why the Midsummer Classic is the one that you
pay attention to. The other big controversy was Jacob Meserowski,
a guy only made five starts and then I mean,
we just got a little bit here, but just you know,
a listening to the gas hopefully you get that through
the audio. But then just how how much fun he
had and how big that smile was talking to Ken Rosenthal,
(09:33):
I just got right.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Here has been one of the big stories of the
last month or so in baseball. He debuted on June twelfth,
and here he is at the All Star Game. Pok
up Messerowski. But the one fastball Huskins got here fast right.
He started last year's game after eleven big league games,
Mansarowski's done it in five.
Speaker 6 (09:53):
Can you imagine what his heart rate is right now?
It's probably as much as his fastball. I mean, he
can sling it, and there's the eighty nine pitches of
one hundred miles an hour plus.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
But man last time out struck out twelve Dodgers, top
offense in the National League and beat Clayton Kershaw.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Jacob, I know you've only started five major league regular
season games.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
How did pitching in the All Star Game compare?
Speaker 8 (10:19):
Yeah, I mean it was fun, and you know it's
a it's a little different than starting so but it
was fun.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
You had a big smile on your face. After the
single by Rondo, what were.
Speaker 8 (10:28):
You thinking, Oh, I was trying to get a change
up by him and you know, have a little fun
and to show off, and you know, like he got
to it, so you know, it's all fun.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
As you know, some players were upset by the fact
that you were selected. But how were you treated by
the players on your team?
Speaker 6 (10:42):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Yeah, awesome.
Speaker 8 (10:43):
I mean they were all so happy for me, and
you know it was it was awesome.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
And the National League All Stars, how did they treat you?
Speaker 8 (10:51):
They're good, They're they're really good. Yeah, they're awesome. You know,
the guys they're all happy for me.
Speaker 5 (10:56):
So it's awesome, good stuff.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Yeah. It was arguably, outside of Kershaw, the most fun
pitching that we saw, save one person, and that was
the dude that came in after the ninth inn to
throw a few pitches to Kyle Schwarber.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Forty thousand eyes all burning holes through you, Schwarmer in
the air to center field, headed towards the wall and.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
That center that's huge for the National League.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
They're within one, so there you go. He said if
he could get it on his first swing, and he did.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
Swarm Bars in the All Star Game tied it free.
Speaker 6 (11:39):
That's MVP material if he gets a third one right here.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Hey, I rallied in the game. L has rallied in
the swing.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Tracks.
Speaker 6 (11:50):
Look out chop house.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
National League takes to ID four to three.
Speaker 6 (11:56):
Unblievable.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
That was right, Like, it was spectacular And some people
were peeing and moaning about it in the moment, like
just let it be a tie. Go home, it's an
All Star be a tie, right, It's like, oh, what's that?
Who cares? Give me the free baseball? And you saw
the players on the field. Everybody's freaking out. I listen,
I'll take that over the runner on second base to
(12:21):
start the tenth thouars no.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Doubt, And whoever is complaining about it, I guarantee you
that's coming back next year.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Yes, no doubt, no doubt. And I think like it's look,
it's there in the All Star Game forever. But I
truly believe that could be a you know, you don't
have to use an extra pitcher, you can save your bullpen,
you don't have to worry about eleven twelve innings. It's
like we said, it's already, you're already amending the game.
(12:49):
So it worked out great, and I would have no.
I'm guarantee there's going to be a lengthy discussion in
the offseason about whether or not you know that thing's
going to make its way to the regular seat. I
think it will, damn right there, Gunna Dino Evil will
expound upon that in the six o'clock hour. If you
missed it from earlier. Don McClain in for Petros Dave
Doosik talking British Open, Major golf. When we return on
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Down McClain in for P today. Tomorrow will be George
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or one am, maybe midnight, maybe even earlier than that
ten pm tonight. It is the Open Championship as they
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I love the British Open as I would refer to
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Rush this year and any time a major rolls around.
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ready for another major. Deu sir, what's happening.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
Let's get one thing perfectly clear, gentlemen, Until those until
those British sports writers stop preferring to the tournament in
April as the US Masters. This is the British Open.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Yeah, that's a puppy or two.
Speaker 5 (14:35):
I will die. I will die on matt Hill for
you people. I Am not letting go of that. And
you know the best part, It torchs them off so
bad all it makes my year just to do that.
How are you guys doing?
Speaker 3 (14:48):
We're great, We're good. I love golf writer fights. That's
that's what we're all about. Strife and discord, Doucer. So
how about this iteration of the British Open as we
like to call it. U Rory, Scottie Scheffler, John Rahm
seemed to be the favorites. How does the course line
up should this be an intense, competitive down to Sunday
(15:09):
late morning tournament.
Speaker 5 (15:13):
For your listeners out there in la ten thirty five
pm Pacific, We get this thing going, Lord, and then
it goes, you know, all of the it's. They send
them out on the first e box starting at six
thirty five am local at Royal Port, Rush, which is
just up up there on in Northern Ireland. So we
(15:34):
are going to get wind. We're going to see lots
of beautiful shots of the ocean basically just outside off
the west coast of Scotland yet lib Ba of the
Irish scene, five miles from bush Mills, by the way.
If you're happy to be a person who likes the
distilleries and tremendous course, little over seventy three hundred yards,
lots of gorse, lots of tumbling fairways, tricky greens, it
(15:57):
should be a fantastic event. Last time we were here,
Shane Lowry in twenty nineteen ended up winning the Claire
jug and I think he sobered up from that victory
back in March.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (16:09):
He he enjoys himself a Guinness or ten anytime he
has a chance to do it. Should be awesome, should
be great, Dave.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
What are the players saying through practice round about the
course that rough looks pretty mean out there.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
Yeah, it's it's no joke. I mean, I think that
we're going to get the most wind is predicted to
get between fifteen and twenty five miles an hour on Thursday,
and then it's going to calm down a little bit.
So I think Thursday is a day to sort of
get by keep the ball in the fairway. The rough
varies from you know, ankle high to fescue that's going
to be up you know, in your thighs, your belt
(16:42):
buckle kind of stuff. There is all kinds of places
where you just cannot put the golf ball. It's it's
going to be very, very challenging because you want to
get the ball down obviously, as far as you can
towards the hole to do that. Normally, the way the
guys play, they hit it high up in the air.
You can't do that on a links course. You gotta
get it down, you gotta get chasing. But because the
ground is so filled with pot bunkers and different humps
(17:05):
and hollows and things like that, there's a level of
randomness to links golf that comes into play, and you
just have to accept the fact that you can hit
a good shot and get nothing out of it. You
can misplay a ball, it hits off of something, and
then all of a sudden you're in great position. There's
a it's just a weird, quirky kind of of a layout.
I think the guys really like it because it's different.
(17:25):
It makes them think about shots you want to. It's
sort of the artist type thing rather than when you're
going on so many courses here in the US, where
you sort of go from point to point to point.
This is much more sort of seeing it and then
creating it. And I think the guys really like that.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
It's I love that you put it that way, because
it is for those that don't watch a lot of
golf or tennis. Like one of the great things about
the Majors is how different they are. You know, you
go from clay to grass and it is a completely
different game. In tennis, When you think about the Masters,
it's Augusta, it's a men corner. You think about the
US Open, it's a complete mind deft. You're going to
win that thing at one under, maybe even par, and
(18:01):
then you get to the British and like you said,
you've got to go from being I don't know, like
from an engineer or a scientist to an artist. And
the first person I think of then is Bryson. And
why Bryson just never has a chance to win this tournament, right,
It's just it's it's not baked into him or could
you envision him being sort of creative enough to try
(18:21):
to crack this nut. I don't see how that happens.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
I think he has to get outside of his comfort zone,
and he's somebody who's willing to try and experiment, and
I give him a lot of credit for that. I
don't think that you will ever overpower. Of course, like
Royal Port Rush, now, there may be some days when
it's a little bit easier to do that than others,
at least to attempt it. If the wind is down.
Bryson can hit shorter, more controllable clubs because he hits
(18:46):
those clubs so far. He doesn't need to hit his driver,
he doesn't need to hit his three wood where most
players would in order to get the ball farther down.
He can take irons and just land the ball in
the fairway and have a chase for one hundred, one
hundred and twenty yards, which is much safer play. But
that goes against his instincts. It goes against the way
that he typically plays. When he won at Wingfoot, when
(19:08):
he won at Pinehurst, he was playing bomb and gouge.
Now he he also came up with some really creative
shots here and there. But I I want I'm gonna
believe it when I see it that for four rounds
Bryson D. Schambeau is not going to get his mind
turned into like capioca pudding by these conditions. I think
they're just going to play with his head. He will
get frustrated. It has happened in the past. It doesn't
(19:31):
mean he's not a great golfer, and he's not really,
you know, someone who is capable. Lots of people who
have been fantastic players and capable of hitting shots have
not been able to win an Open championship, you know,
on a link style course. But it's it's I think
a very very tall ask and out of what he
instinctively does.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
So which guy Dave or guys on paper at least
their game does fit this style of play.
Speaker 5 (19:57):
Well, I'll tell you there's a couple of guys who
who you know, every course fits they play. Number one
Rory McIlroy, the local kid, I think, is finally got
the monkey off his back. You know, we've talked a
little bit about the fact that he wins the Career
Grand Slam by winning at the Masters, he won the
Players Championship, he won at Pebble Beach this year. He's
got bucket loads of confidence. But my worry for Rory
would be that he's got too much pressure he puts
(20:19):
on himself to win this one. He said in his
press conference earlier in the week that when he flipped
open the calendar to twenty twenty five, this was the one,
maybe even more than the Masters, in the Career Grand
Siemus he wanted to win. That's a lot of self
of pressure that he's putting on himself. Plus the hometown thing,
the fact that he didn't get it done in twenty nineteen,
(20:39):
that is detrimental. I think the more that Rory is
just sort of able to play freely and just go
out and play his game, the better I like him.
He's putting great, he's the best driver of the golf
ball out there. He's ranked number two in the world.
There's nothing not to like about Rory and there's nothing
not to like about Scotti Scheffler. You know, Scheffler again
is having the best putting season ever had, which is
(21:00):
really not fair because he's the best iron player also
in the game as well. You can't you can't have both.
It's just it's not fair of the competition. You wonder
whyse boy, the guy who's just a top ten machine.
I think when he goes to the bathroom it's one
hundred dollars bills to come out of him and say that.
You know what, it's He's fantastic. I mean, did you
guys see his press conference earlier this week? We got
(21:21):
all philosophicalized. What did you guys think of that?
Speaker 3 (21:25):
I thought it was great. It's like the anti Tiger Woods, Right,
He's the best golfer in the world, and instead of
being a I'm going to compete, I'm going to cut
out their throats. It's yeah, I'm good man, you know cool.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Well, in its opposite, David, what you just said about Rory,
Like it seems like Rory puts all this pressure on
him stuf because it means that much. And Scheffler's like,
you know what, I'm really good and if I don't win.
Speaker 5 (21:44):
So what to hear an athlete say that? Basically, you
work really hard, you achieve your goal, you win the championship,
and two or three minutes later, the sort of euphoria
goes away. You're there with your family, like, what are
we doing for dinner tonight? You know that it comes
back to earth that fast is jarring to those of
us who live outside the ropes, who aren't in locker rooms.
(22:06):
You know, seeing these guys week in and week out,
you know, I would hope that you win a super Bowl.
It's more than just like a day or two that
you're reflecting on something an NBA championship. You're thinking about
those things and you're feeling the joy from it more.
But clearly Shuffler has got a very philosophical idea that look,
I'm a husband, I'm a dad, I'm a son. I
(22:28):
love being able to play golf. I love the fact
that professional golf provides for my family, and that's awesome.
But you don't feel like if he loses it it
eats at him, that it doesn't tear him up inside
the way that it does clearly to some other players,
and in the long run, that's probably a much much
healthier way to be.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
But what's interesting about that, Dave is usually the guys
that are great it is that, right, It's that they
have this drive of they can't the old thing where
I remember the losing more than I do the winning
kind of thing. So it is different that he's like
that and doesn't use like this stuff. Not winning is
motivation to make him great.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
It is.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
It is different for sure.
Speaker 5 (23:05):
Which makes you think that he's got different types of motivations.
You know, you can't there's one of these things where
you guys have been around enough elite athletes and heard
people in all different kinds. There has to be a
level of selfishness when you're going to be a professional
athlete like that. I mean, if you're going to be
somebody who is you know, capable of making it and
being a star in the NBA or the NFL or
the PGA Tour or whatever like, you have to have
(23:28):
put in so much time and so much work instead
of doing other things that that level of selfishness gets
you to where you needed to be to be able
to compartmentalize that and say, yeah, you know what I'm
Scottie Scheffer. I'm the number one player in the world.
I've won two Green jackets, I've won a PGA Championship,
gonna I'm you know, I have won more money than
I can ever hope to spend. And I'll be working
(23:49):
the grill tonight, slipping burgers for everybody, and I'll have
a little of the Coleslaw on the side. It's it's
an unbelievable way to think.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Last thing for you to do, sir, We appreciate it.
And again it's ten thirty tonight is when the British
Open will get underway. I think some of my favorite
British Open memories and maybe it's because I am getting
a little long in the tooth here. The old dudes
like Tom Watson wins that that British Open, and it
might be one of my favorite sports memories. But just
seeing DC Darren Clark win it, and knowing that, you
(24:18):
know you've got Adam Scott who's forty four, Justin Rose
who's in his mid forties. I mean, maybe there's some
magic left and Lefty it doesn't seem like it, or
maybe Patty Harrington finds some magic over these four days.
Is it still realistic for someone you know of that
advanced stage to take down these twenty somethings that are
bombing at three hundred and fifty four hundred yards off
(24:39):
the tee, and.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
This would be the type of a place where it
would happen. You know, the Masters at Augustin National is
so long. The US opens now are so long. And
then what I sort of spoke with, you know when
when Tom Watson and nine was able to out Dull
Stewart sink he was hitting driver the ball of land
two hundred and seventy yards out there, but then chase
another forty or fifty yards, so he could make that up.
(25:03):
If you're looking for an opportunity, you know, to get
something like that at eleven fifty eight local, which I'm
so bad at math. Okay, So like what is so
midnight six around four am Pacific time, Zach Johnson is
going out there. Zach Johnson won the twenty fifteen British
Open at Saint Andrews. That's gonna be your guy. He's
(25:25):
gonna bunt it around the golf course, he's gonna chip
and he's gonna putt. And if he has a hot
week with those clubs. Can he contend yes? Do I
think that he's gonna Outduel Scotti, Scheffler and John Rahm
and some of the other Vanderschofli, the players that we've
been talking about this one, Probably not, But if he
were going to this would be the place where he
do it.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
Does it for Golf Week and does it for us
whenever we call the answers, and we certainly appreciate that.
Follow him at Golf Week, underscore doucec on Twitter X
whatever you want to call it, we always appreciate it. Doucer,
enjoy the British gentlemen.
Speaker 5 (25:57):
Thanks a lot, all right.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
Coming up on about an hour to go. Oh, we
get your quick hits. If you missed our conversation with
Dino Ebel, it was fantastic. We'll play that in the
six o'clock hour, and of course gets your dead and
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(26:36):
guy birthday that they get out of here after four hours. Tomorrow,
George Reister going to be in for Petros who was
out at Mountain West Media. Football Talk tomorrow, Football Talk tomorrow,
no doubt about it. Dodgers Brewers on Friday from the
Gallpin Motors broadcast booth. But worthy of discussion here. We
got into it a little bit earlier this hour, or
(26:58):
actually early in the four hour down, but following the
addition of Bradley Beal just kind of put together the
top five. You know, you're starting fives and your impact
players off the bench. And I think the one thing
that maybe because I hear people talking about, oh, the
(27:19):
Clippers and now they had Beal to go with Jones, Leonard,
Zubs and Harden and the Thunder, or I should say
the Lakers get DeAndre Ay and a legitimate center. It
was the one thing they desperately needed. And don't forget
this was the three seed last year. But then I
looked at the Thunder and I'm like, is that kind
of part of the calculus with the Clippers, Like, you
(27:39):
know what, We're just we're gonna ride this thing out
for two years because there's no sense trying to rebuild
right now. Have no draft picks, not that well they
have no draft picks. I just mean like in terms of, oh,
we should trade and get a little bit younger and
try to kind of the thunder are a freaking buzz
saw and they are going to be a buzz saw.
And the best shot you're gonna have at them is
(28:01):
just hoping that these guys are healthy and you've got
these MVPs and veterans that can take it to them.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Well, Kawhi coming off being healthy for the first time
in a while, have an off season not rehabbing, working
out and getting ready for next year. But I'm telling you,
I really really like what they did, getting Bill John
Collins and Brook Lopez like that address how much flexibility
they have with their roster is incredible now. And I
(28:28):
don't know who's going to start. I'm assuming you want
to get bigger at that four spot. I'm assuming that
Collins is probably going to start and bring Derrick Jones
Junior off the bench. The interesting part will be, you know,
Norman Palace started last year, but last year is the
first year he started, So does Beal just slip into
his starting role it seems like it, but now coming
(28:49):
off the bench. But Chris Dunn started a lot of
games and he was very valuable guarding the other team's
best wing player every night, so do you bring him
in early? But again it comes down to the flexibility
with matchups. No matter who you play, your roster is
so deep and so good that you can match up
now to whoever you want to play it. And they
lost to Denver in the first round and essentially it
(29:12):
was Zoo Zoo played like thirty eight minutes a game
in that series. Now you've got Brook Lopez, they can
deal with them. John Collins could deal with them. Derek
Jones junior too small at that power forward spot to
deal with Jokich. So I again, it's on paper and
they have to stay healthy. But as good as the
Clippers were last year from Christmas on, like, they could
(29:34):
be better than that next year if everyone's healthy.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
Yeah, I mean I would think so if you're trading.
I mean, look, Norman pot was sensational last year. Yeah,
and it should have been an All Star I mean
absolutely got robbed from the All Star Game. But as
you've detailed, you know, Bradley Beal can rediscover that. I
kind of I brought it up sort of in the
bigger picture of everybody in the East is shipping players
(29:56):
out because they're all hurt, and teams like or landor
like we got a shot to make the final. Yep,
the West is the exact opposite. The West is like one.
The Thunder are a buzzsaw with twenty five year old
franchise level players and they are eight deep. Adam, you're
looking at me like you want to weigh in.
Speaker 4 (30:15):
No, you're completely right. They're in a tier of their
own above everybody else because of their health and they
have a guy who's in his prime that just won
MVP right.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Well, and that's why they spent eight hundred million this
offseason exact, because they know they can win it. Not
saying they're going to, but they could win it for
the next five years.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
Yeah. I mean they have three guys that will make
eighty to ninety percent based on the escalators of their
salary cap, and they're three all NBA level players. But
then you go behind that the Rockets. Now, the Nuggets
made moves. They I really like what the Nuggets do. Yeah,
if Valency Unis is willing to I don't know what
the hell's going on with him, but he's gonna end
up playing in the NBA. Now you're talking about Oh
(30:52):
you got Brook Lopez. Well, now the Nuggets got another
big yep, and they probably got better by moving on
from Porter and bringing in Cams.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
So, like, I got one for Adam if you want
to hop on at I think the one thing the
Nuggets that isn't being talked about enough because he's kind
of gone into purgatory a little bit since. But you know,
I like the Cam Johnson move for Porter. I never
thought Porter was a good fit with Jokich and Murray
and those guys. Bruce Brown, Like how big Bruce Brown
was for the Nuggets the year they won the championship.
(31:21):
I think they finally realized that and brought him back.
Speaker 4 (31:24):
He killed the Lakers in the conference finals like.
Speaker 3 (31:27):
He was unbelieva.
Speaker 4 (31:28):
Well, you remember Mike Malone with the parade was saying,
is Bruce gonna leave us? Hell no?
Speaker 7 (31:33):
Hell no?
Speaker 4 (31:34):
And then he got like two years, sixty million or
something like that from Indiana. Yep, he's valuable. He is
kind of flying under the radar to get him for
the Veterans Minimum, by the.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
Way, exactly. And that's the thing with the Clippers that
we haven't really talked about how they were able to
do this and not spend a bunch of money because
they really couldn't, or they'd be in the second apron.
They're paying hard, and they're paying Kawhi to get Brook
Lopez for nine million a year, Brad Beial for five
million a year. It is uh And I didn't look
this up at him, but his call Collins is on
(32:04):
an expiring deal, right.
Speaker 4 (32:06):
Yeah, he's at twenty six and a half million. That expires.
Everybody is off the books by twenty twenty seven at worst,
except for Viata Zoobots.
Speaker 3 (32:14):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
And again you've got Lakers three seed Rockets and Lakers
I think got better, you know, with with the addition
of Aiden after having no and you know they lose
dfs they bring in the Rabia. But Nuggets got better,
Rockets got better, Thunders are a buzzsau Clippers got better.
I think the Mavericks, I mean, obviously depends on what
happens with Kyrie, but they got freaking Cooper Flag Like,
(32:37):
that's a deep team you kind of forget about. It's
a it's gnarly. It's going to be a really fun
fun TI. All right, we were at the top. There
you go, Adam Don McClain talking basketball when we return,
gets your quick hits, your fun fact and get you
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