April 15, 2024 • 48 mins
On today's Dan Patrick Show, DP recaps Scottie Scheffler's 2nd win at Augusta. Are people already getting ahead of themselves by comparing him to Tiger Woods? Mike Tirico discusses the atmosphere at this year's Masters, and Dan discusses the passing of OJ Simpson.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
We did it, We did it. We're back. I don't
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take your phone calls, got to play the day, got
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to pull question, and of course the stat of the
day or two. The great Mike Tarico, who was on
the call for the Masters on Sirius XM will join
us from Augusta as we close up shop. On Scotty
Scheffler winning his second Masters in the last three years
and putting himself in some pretty select company. He's twenty seven,
fourth youngest golfer to have multiple Green jackets, behind Jack
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Nicholas who was a little over twenty five, Tiger was
a little over twenty five, and Sevi bi Asteros was
a little over twenty six years of age. But Scotty Scheffler,
all he does is play great golf. There's nothing dynamic
about him. It's almost that kind of water torture. It's
just slow, it's steady, and he knows what he's doing
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when he needs to. And certainly that back nine, that's
what you want to see. You want to see somebody
go out and win a turnament four hunder sixty eight
in the final round, finishing at eleven under, winning his
second Masters in the last three years. And this is
what he had to say. After winning. I mean, how
do you put this in the words?
Speaker 3 (02:13):
You win the Masters, You're about to be a father
for the first time.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
It's pretty sweet.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Yeah, you're about maybe cry here in Butler Cabins. No,
it's a very very special time for both of us.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
I really can't.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
I can't put it into words what it means to
win this tournament. Again, I really can't put it into
words what it's going to be like to be a
father for the first time. So I looking forward to
getting home and celebrating with Meredith, and it's been a
long week here without her. But I'm just looking forward
to getting home.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Okay, we're not to the point where it's Scotty or
the field the way we were with Tiger, but the
early odds to win the PGA Championship, Scotty Scheffler is
a big favorite. Then it's Rory John Rahm, Brooks, Koepka
and Victor Hoblin. All right, seet, what's pole question. We're
going to start out hour one with, well, we.
Speaker 5 (02:56):
Might as well start right there. That's when PAULI sent
over with if you leave the Masters on Sunday with
the lead, if your wife went into labor with your
first child.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
All right, here is Scotty talking about that with that
exact question. You and your wife Meredith are expecting your
first child. You've maintained throughout the week. If you get
a call, you're gone. Are you still saying that going
into the final round?
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Yeah, I'm sticking sticking my word.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
You know.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Fortunately, I'll be here at the Master's for quite some time.
And yeah, I think you only have your first child once,
so I'd rather be at home if that's gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
It is true you only have your first child once.
But I know what Scotty's saying.
Speaker 6 (03:33):
There.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Would you have left? Let's say you get to the
tenth pole, so he's taken, you know, the lead. He's
on the tenth pole, it's right by the clubhouse, and
all of a sudden you get the call she's going
into labor. Todd, what would you do? You're leading the Masters,
your wife's in labor. It's time for you to go.
Speaker 6 (03:55):
I think it's time to go.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
You would go?
Speaker 6 (03:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Okay?
Speaker 6 (03:58):
Especially first child?
Speaker 2 (04:00):
O Connor, uh not stay okay, Marvin, I'd stay two
all right, Paulie.
Speaker 7 (04:06):
Okay, here's my answer. It's the second Masters for him
and the first child, I would go if for flip
flopped and it was a second baby and the first masters,
I'm staying okay, So it's a sliding scale for me,
baby scale.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
I was fortunate that I was able to be there
for all for my children. But the last one was
dicey on a Sunday night at Sports Center. But of
course that's obviously different. Sports Center, far more important than
winning a green jacket out Augustin. But I decided that
I was going to miss Sports Center that night, Sunday Night,
Big Night on.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
Sports hone, which is essentially the Masters of TV broadcasts
pretty much Sunday Night, Yes sports Center, Yes, yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 7 (04:47):
All weekend watching the coverage, all the guys kept saying,
he's going to walk off the course if he gets
the call. Do you think it's hard to you know,
you'll never know the answer. Do you think at the
turn he gets a call with the lead he would
have actually walked off the court.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
It seems like a man of principle and felt like
that that was going to be the case. I was
there when Payne Stewart and Phil Mickelson were going to
head to head and Phil was going to leave if
his child was born. Payne ended up winning that tournament,
that major, but I remember that was a big storyline
throughout the week that Phil said, Hey, I'm gonna even
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if I'm in contention leading winning, if my wife goes
into labor, I'm leaving.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Yes.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
See, my wife has always sort of had this attitude
of your working, go work, So I think obviously we
would have talked about it, and if she was just like, no,
I need you in the hospital, then I would have left.
But knowing just the conversations we've had over the last
fifteen years, she's always kind of been like, this is
what you do for a living, and we need you
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to go do that, So go work and we could
figure everything else out.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Yeah, I mean, we're dealing with the hypothetical. Here would
I leave if I was leading the Masters? I think
only brings up a great point. If it was my
second child and it was my first Masters that I
was leading, then I would have stayed the first one.
I mean, there's nothing like that that first time, as
long as there's no complications. Now, if you knew going
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into it that there could be complications, then I think
you have to be there. But being there for the
first one, you know, nothing like it.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
Yes, it's such an interesting insight into how first children
are treated versus everybody else in the family. Yeah, because
they are treated like well, you know, you're the special one,
then there's the others.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely, yes, yes, I almost wish.
Speaker 7 (06:40):
It would have gone the other way and it actually
would have played out at the ten. You know, Scheffler
with the lead cruising would have got the call and left.
He would have been a legend in an entirely different community.
Like today on sports shows they'll talk about Scotti Scheffler,
second Masters, great golfer. But if he had done the
other thing, it would lead the Today's Show and Good
Morning America and like evening if he'd be father of
the Year before having him a baby, even he'd be
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a husband of the Year.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Yeah, but he'd still get criticized though, like, hey, this
is what you do, you're paid to do that, you're
supposed to be out there. You should have known this.
I could just see the reaction here of what people
would say, how they would react. It's difficult, but you know,
it's individual choice there that whatever you feel like you're
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comfortable with your wife, is comfortable with now. The people
on the outside, they don't understand what conversations have you had?
But I get it. And the fact that it was
sort of looming there. Like let's say she goes into labors,
he's walking up eighteen does he go nup? I can't
finish here. I mean, like, at what point do you say, Okay,
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I gotta stay or you know, third hole you might go,
I gotta go, Hey, seventeen Green. Plus he's got to
go to Texas, Like she's not there.
Speaker 7 (07:57):
Oh she wasn't like one town over. No, oh, okay,
that changes a lot of it too.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Yeah, it's not like she was there.
Speaker 7 (08:05):
What if it happened like a Sunday morning. He sent
his caddy first, and then he plays a few holes.
See if he's in contention.
Speaker 6 (08:12):
Yes, ton I kind of thought she was there and
they could maybe set up some kind of birthing tent
nearby where he's just you know, depending on how far
along the contractions, you can just kind of skip over
from the hole.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
So Butler cabin could be a Butler birthing cabin exactly,
like you could set something up there. Jim Nance is
in there calling play by play, Dula corner all of
a sudden, like, hey, all right, I like it. She's
getting the epidural here he goes here and it's a
baby in polite Gulf lies and the patrons would surround
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what else, little chubby little a little Nina. Yeah, let's
see what else do you we have?
Speaker 5 (08:53):
Also, which basketball program improved most, Kentucky or Arkansas?
Speaker 2 (08:58):
We'll save that. Yes, I like that one a little spicy. Yeah,
John Caliperry going to Arkansas.
Speaker 5 (09:06):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, fun story.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Mark Pope going to Kentucky coming back home. It's amazing.
They sold out Rupp Arena for a press conference. There's
there's no other place in college back. I mean, that's
like SEC football, but it's SEC basketball. Mark Pope going there,
and it felt like Arkansas won in Kentucky one. It
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was a win win for both and it felt like
coach cal was going to jump before he was pushed.
And you were able to bring in a former Kentucky
player and coach call going to Arkansas. I liked that
he said, yeah, I went in to meet my team
and there's no team. Okay, good luck.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
Coach Dude is always great for a sound body. He
is there's always something coming that you're like, well, that's
my team.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
That's what he had at Kentucky because they'd all leave
and go to the pros, so he's used to that feeling.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
Is the roster turning over it?
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Yeah, yeah, it's just wild. Though, USC gets Eric Musselman,
Andy Enfield goes to SMU. I mean, it's just kind
of crazy connecting the dots there. And coach cal had
a really good friend who has a lot of money
in the Arkansas community and probably said, you know what,
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let me let me reach out to call and see
if he's interested. And lo and behold, he was and
gonna make a good salary there. And I think it
was best for both that it was time for him
to leave Kentucky and you bring in Mark Pope and
felt like the fan base is excited, they're going to
raise money for NIL and they'll be ready to go.
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I'd be interested in the transfer portal. I'd love to
see what Kentucky does in the transfer portal because that's
what we had been saying, Hey, you're great at one
and Done's and they've made a lot of money, but
you have underachieved more than any other coach has with
all the talent, you got one championship there, and look,
I love Cal, but there's no excuses for that. With
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all that talent, you got one title, and you know
it's it's been a one and done type philosophy here
for quite some time. Other schools have adopted that same philosophy.
But at some point, you know, coach Cal had to realize, hey,
I got to be a better coach. I got to
be a better recruiter to get older players, season players,
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veteran players, because that's who we're losing to. If if
you got to take your Kentucky players for four years
or three years, okay, that's completely different. But this is
one and done. You're there six seven months and we've
seen that happen where you get bounced early. Yes.
Speaker 5 (11:47):
Do you think he changes that philosophy?
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (11:50):
In Arkansas, well, I don't know if you might have to.
It's going to get the same players that Kentucky gets
just based on the name. I know it's him too
as the coach, but I wonder if he has to change.
You get one or two one and done's and then
fill out an actual team around them.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Yes, I think that's that would be the approach that
I would have you.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
Kondas showed the model on how to do this.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Yeah, but I think that's what I would try to do.
There's the blueprint there. Now not everybody can you follow
with what Yukon did. I mean, Danny Hurley did a
wonder from job, but there were some years there where
he's what eighteen and fourteen, then all of a sudden,
there's some magic here. I don't know how many teams,
how many schools will go that's what we're trying to do.
All I know is every tournament, what happens somebody who's
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got like a like a junior season, senior Leyden tournament,
they end up winning, They knock people off. It's rare
when you have a fab five, you know, breezing through
the tournament. It's just that kind of pressure. I don't
care who you are and where you play and what
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conference you played in. We've seen that happen. All it
takes is somebody who understands what to do, when to
do it, how to do it, and you know, a
great coach as well. Every tournament we have one of
those teams, two of those teams, three of those teams.
Where we go how did they do it? And most
of the time it comes down to what they had
some experience.
Speaker 8 (13:15):
Yes, Marv at Arkansas, do you think the fan base
will be satisfied with a final four pairents or does
it have to be a national title?
Speaker 2 (13:22):
We cal is there, Well, they've won national titles before.
But what I expect that I would hope for that.
I think that's the difference. Kentucky you expected, Arkansas, you
hoped for that, and hopefully that does. You know that
doesn't change, because then it'll be pretty tough on Cali
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PERI to go, Hey, I couldn't win a title there,
but they want me to win a title here. I
just think the more he talks about developing players going
to the NBA, like as if you know, if I'm
a fan of Kentucky, I'd be turned off by that. Great,
those guys are making a ton of money. We want
to win championships. That's what we want. That's what you're
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paid for. But you know cal would say, I'm here
to develop these players to get them into the NBA. Well,
that philosophy got a lot of players a lot of
money and got Kentucky one banner. Arkansas's philosophy probably a
lot different, but then their expectation level should be a
little less than Kentucky's. I mean, Mark Pope walks in.
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It's not like they go, hey, why don't you just
put up the numbers you did at BYU. Nope, nope,
I mean you've sold out rapp Arena for a press conference.
Do you think they're going? Man, this is just a good,
feel good story and we're just happy to have you
back and hope we get past the second round of
the tournament. No, no, they want you to win. They
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expect you to win. It's not hope you win. All right,
we'll take a break. Phone calls coming up best and
worst of the weekend, Mike Tarrico in about an hour
from now. Some of the leftovers from the week that
was while we were on vacation. We hope to hear
from you, coming up eight seven to seven, three DP
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Mike Trico, he's going to be hosting the Olympics in
Paris coming up later on this summer. He was busy
this weekend as he was doing master's duty for Sirius XM,
and he joins us on the program. Why do you
think the ratings were up for the Masters this year?
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Getting the live guys and the tour guys back. It
felt like it was the first big, big event of
the year. The players was a great event. But you
have something missing, and I think sooner or sooner then later.
Excuse me, They're gonna need to get both sides back together.
This sport is not big enough to split the pot.
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What did you think was going to happen? Let's go
back to Thursday or Wednesday in golf, so bradle shan't
believe who I know you've had on bradle says some
outrageous headline grabbing things that don't often get said in
the very nice world of golf commentary. And he said
Scotty should win by seven or eight shots, and if
he's got his best game, the brandle like easy man.
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But Scotty didn't have his best and he won by four.
I got to do the Bayhill Arnold Palmer tournament and
the players and see Scotty win both of those, and
watch most of Houston where he missed a put on
eighteen to get in the playoff. So he's first, first, second,
and it's real, like his ball striking dand is so good,
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his scrambling is so good, and the one thing that
was weak is putting. He got figured out. So I
think we all expected Scotty to be the guy right
near the top of the board. But I was still
impressed with his dominance this week and his ability to
win by that many, especially the way he played. You look,
he played on the second nine like he's the number
one guy in the world.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
We always want to fast track somebody to greatness and
put him in categories. Now you're hey, you're the next Jack,
You're the next Tiger.
Speaker 8 (17:35):
You know.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Scotty's twenty seven and there's nothing dynamic about him. You
could say he's the golf equivalent to John Stockton. He
just kind of shows up, does his job, doesn't care
about really anything else, cares about his faith and his family.
But are we ready to fast track you know Scotty? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Yeah, two Masters in three years. So the one thing
you're going to want to see is Scotty win outside
of his stretch of the year. All of his wins
have come from January to April. Now we're really nitpicking, right,
but that would be the next step. Win a US Open.
He can contend in all of these tournaments. He can
contend in Louisville at the PGA being played at Valhalla
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in the week after the Derby, So he's got all
of that. I did the radio broadcast on Serious Exam
and worked with Taylor's arsers. Terrific guy and does a
great job covering golf for them and does college football
and other stuff. I thought Taylor brought up a good one.
Pete Sampras or NASCAR Jimmy Johnson. I thought those were
really good, like defined excellence in many ways. When you
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look at the record, stretches of dominance, but very low key.
This is who I am. I'm not gonna go seek
every endorsement under the sun. Success will not change me.
I'm just gonna be this guy. Scotty's fun. Scotty's a
nice guy to be around, great humor, a great family,
obviously deep in faith. But he's not going to be
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seeking the wow stuff that you get even with a
Bryson de Shamble. So I thought all those Stockton for
you as well, those are really acting good comparisons. That
doesn't mean he's not great. It just means he's not
Madison Avenue million dollars every time it turns around. And
that's fine.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
And it's kind of like Andrew Luck as well, Like yeah,
he Luck, he didn't want endorsements, didn't really care, walked
away from the game, and you know, never really return.
We're talking to Mike Tarico joining us in Augusta before
he goes to Paris to get ready to host the
Summer Games, Summer Olympics. Are you ready for that?
Speaker 3 (19:34):
I'm not staying the entire so you're not.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Okay, no, no, okay.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Back on Friday, actually back in a couple of days. Okay,
it's a hundred it's one hundred days out, so we
kind of light the candle to get everybody ready. Today's
show is going to have a bunch of the Team
USA athletes on the plaza with Savannah, Joda, Al Craig
and the whole crew. I'll be in Paris, so it
just kind of gets us, gets us going. I'll do
a few things over there too, in advance of going
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back what twelve weeks later for the Games.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
I love to Shambo in the villain role. Now, I
don't know if he embraces the villain role, but he's
good content.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
He wears some of that black hat, There's no doubt
about it. Contents the perfect word. You know, every sport
has its little social media following and group of commentators,
and I thought the ones under Shambo were dead on
when they said he's the best content provider where it's
the drives or carrying the signe pole like he did. Hey,
this is a temporary, movable, immovable object. I'm gonna move it.
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He just kind of carries it and moves it around.
I yeah, there's a little bit of villain quote unquote.
I think anybody who went to live, who's going to
come back is going to be If that happens, there's
gonna be a little bit of that role at varying
degrees and levels. I think to Shambo is interesting and unique.
I think he's one of the most unique guys, certainly
in golf and maybe in all of sport. He does
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things so different Dan he was using a pair a
set of ions that cost ten thousand dollars to produce.
One of a kind three D printer made the ions.
They weren't conforming, didn't fit the rules of the USGA
officially until Monday, they had to be tested. So he
does things to push the edges. Sport needs that. Every
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sport does this one especially. I hope he's back playing
with these guys soon because I think he's talented, he's
very different, and he's very good.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
The Tiger situation, he makes the cut again, but certainly
stumbled towards the finish line. Finishing last I kept looking
to see was he injured, was he limping? And I
think he was honest afterwards, just said, look, I didn't
play well. What did you take from Tiger's performance or
lack thereof? He's going to be impacted by his injuries
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for the rest of his career. He's got fused back
and affused ankle. It's kind of limiting in the world
of golf. I think it's remarkable at forty eight he
doesn't need another dollar to do this. He continues to
want to try to compete as much as possible. I
think Friday having to play twenty three holes because we
didn't get done on Thursday probably set him back.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
Was an early turnaround. It takes hours for him just
to be ready to go play because of all he
has to do is get his body to that point.
But it's the first time in a regular event he's
completed seventy two holes in over a year, so I
think that's a box to check in a positive says
he wants to play in the other majors. We'll see
if he does, but the fact that he's even talking
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about being able to do it is good. The two
things I saw yesterday that were to me the coolest
because the gust, as you know you've been here so
many times, it gives you the great fields and it's
really cool stuff. One was Tiger, who is known for
being laser laser focused, stopping at sixteen to walk over
and say hi to Verne lun push when Verne was
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watching from down behind a tree there, and it's just
an ultimate sign of respect that that was so cool
that Tiger did that. And seeing Tiger's kid out of
the tournament practice area with him like holding away holding
the shaft of a driver to have your hands fly
under it. It's a drill that guys do often. This
is really cool to see because we both have been here,
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Dan seeing Tiger's dad with Tiger and now we're seeing
Tiger with his son and Charlie's like talking swing stuff
with him. It's just for one of the biggest athletes
we'll see come across in our lifetime. To see this
evolution and generational pass along, it was so cool. I'll
take that with me for a long time.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Do you think Tiger's afraid of retirement.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Yeah, a little bit. I mean, what do they tell everybody?
Do it until they tell you you can't anymore, or
you can't anymore if you really love it, And he
is obsessed with the sport so afraid of it in
some ways. But I think as long as he can
get himself out there and do it.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Look, Jack did but what do you do when you
retire from golf? Do you play golf?
Speaker 3 (24:02):
You play golf, you talk about golf, you design golf courses. Right,
you put out a line of golf clothes and shoots.
And Jack still out here talking golf and being a
part of it. He visited with us this week. Tom
Watson is Gary player is running around telling people you
need to do more, set up, you need to get better, champion,
and he's in his late eighties and he's like hitting
t shots and throwing that leg up in the air
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with that kick. So yeah, it's a forever sport and
I think the association with it fuels and drives a
lot of these guys. Other guys have other hobbies. I
don't think Tiger has as many other hobbies as these
guys do, like fishing or other stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
All right, can we get a little bit of your
master's voice before we say goodbye.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
So this is interesting doing the radio as I have
a serious XM for the last I guess four the
last five years. You have a commentary position that is
right by the eighteenth green, I mean from you to
the dan Etes to the teenth green that far away.
So when you go out there, and I only go
out there for the last four holes. You do have
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to speak softly. So as Scheffler is about twenty yards
from me getting over the putt, you have to do
the Scottie Scheffler shuffles his feet, pulls the putter back
and in, and then you've got to go match the crowd,
and you feel like a complete idiot. But that's that's
why for years golf announcers whispered because the towers were
right over the greens and guys would look up and go, hey,
(25:27):
I'm trying to work down here. What are you doing right?
So we don't have many towers that we do that anymore.
They're all enclosed booths. But that's the one situation you've
got to go. This is from Bertie and the Masters.
So there you go.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Have you been shushed before?
Speaker 3 (25:44):
I have not, and I haven't done this very much
in terms of being that close. But I am. I
am shushless. I leave Augusta for the third consecutive Masters
and four of the last five sands.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
What an incredible streak you're on. Mike. Hey, you're brutal.
Safe travels to Paris. Good to talk to you. Thanks
for making time.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Oh all the time. Talk to you over somebud.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Be safe, Mike jur Rika. He was on the call
for serious XM at the Master, so he came up
with Pete Sampress and Jimmy Johnson from NASCAR. Oh, Sampress
is a good call, very good call, Scottie Scheffler. That's
the comparison we talked about John Stockton, but Stockton didn't
win championships. You know, Pete Sampress, I remember a long
(26:29):
time ago. I spent a lot of time with Sampress,
but I think he always thought that people wanted him
to be more than what he was. He played exciting,
he wasn't exciting, whereas Agasy wasn't as decorated, but it was,
you know, having style over substance. I remember when Agassy
did his camera commercial, I think, and he had his
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long hair. But you know, what we want out of
our athletes. Definitely is a normal guy.
Speaker 7 (26:55):
He's just a normal person. But then you know, a
couple of years ago and brooks Kepko is really hot
and winning may he was starting to lean into the
media and lean into being a.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
His girlfriend at the time would take provocative pictures and
so there was like internet chatter about that.
Speaker 7 (27:11):
But he was embracing the star role like Dustin Johnson
when he was a hot golfer. He had a star
power around him with his girlfriend Paulina Gretzky, but he
never lean into the interview part of it.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
I think he was good. I don't think he's a
good interview Kopka turned out to be surprisingly good, like
he when he wanted to. He was good, But Dustin Johnson,
I mean, certain guys just aren't interested in it, or
they don't they're not comfortable saying things, or they're worried
about what they say gets you know, uh, somebody translates
(27:43):
that ooh speaking of witch sho hey o Tani. I
think baseball's talking to him today, and it feels like
they're going to move on from that story, that they've
heard everything they needed to hear, and that they're they're
going to move on. Although looking at the transcripts of
his interpreter, and he would lose these bets. I don't
(28:05):
know how much money, but it felt like these were
big numbers that he was losing, and then he would
say to the bookie, oh gosh, I have the worst luck. Hey,
can I get another bump? Can I make another bet?
And then he would lose, and then he would say
to the bookie, hey, this is it. This is the
last time. Can I get another bump? And then he
(28:27):
would lose that one as well, and then I think
he loaded up again for one more. Now the bookie
only wants to know if you can pay, that's it.
They want to know do you have backing you're going
to place these bets? So at what point did the
interpreter say, because his salary I don't know what it was,
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but let's say one hundred grand, you're not covering millions
and millions of dollars. At some point, don't you have
to say to the bookie, hey, I'm Sho Heeo Tani's interpreter.
I have money, because I would not let you have
another bump if I'm a bookie. Like, somebody has to
(29:09):
co sign, whether they literally co sign or you're co
signing for them, which is what appears to have happened. Yes,
poem so Ipe Mizihara.
Speaker 7 (29:19):
The report of the charges against him came out, So
these are facts, These aren't speculative. He's accused of stealing
more than sixteen million dollars from sho Heotani. That's step one.
In twenty six months December twenty one to January twenty four,
Misihara made nineteen thousand sports bets. Not one of them
was baseball related. Just to put that at bed. He
won one hundred and forty two million dollars as a gambler.
(29:42):
Unfortunately he lost one hundred and eighty two million dollars,
so his total net losses were forty million, six hundred thousand.
He's only accused of stealing sixteen million from Atani, So
there's still the question to where the other you know,
more than twenty million dollars is had come from.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
Yeah, so that's where we are. Well, when we first
arted this and then we had a gambling expert on
who said that he probably bet eighty million dollars. Now
he ended up losing this amount of money. But when
we had somebody on from ESPN and he said he
probably bet upwards of eighty million dollars, now we realize
(30:18):
it was far more than that. But to be able
to do that you have to as a bookie. That
bookie wants to know, can you pay this? They don't go,
hey man, that's tough loss. Don't worry about the five
hundred grand that you owe me. That that's all Bookie
wants to know. But that desperation that he had is relatable. Now,
(30:41):
if I'm betting a thousand and I don't have a thousand,
you know that desperation sets in. He may be betting
one hundred thousand, but that desperation sets in. Now you're
going to bet again, and now you're going to bet again.
That's that's what happens in this world. Hey, it's just
for entertainment. It's just for fun, and till it's not. Now,
(31:01):
all of a sudden, you're chasing. And when you chase gambling,
when you're betting, you never catch up. It'll always sting
you at some point. That's what happened to him. Yeah, boom.
Speaker 7 (31:13):
People are having a hard time believing Shoho Tani did
not know sixteen million dollars have been stolen from him,
according to those ESPN reports. Remember when they were in Korea,
the exation was showing Hey Shohey was like, I'm just
learning about this now. He wasn't worth one hundred million
dollars a year ago, Ohtani, Yes, he just started getting
paid twenty twenty three thirty million dollars in his career
on the field. He had made about fourteen million bucks
(31:36):
before twenty twenty two.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
If that's look, do I have questions?
Speaker 3 (31:40):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Do I think this interpreter was desperate? Yes? Was he
signing for co signing for Otani? Perhaps that's a lot
of money to go missing, and nobody else has any
kind of idea. There's no flags that go up anything
with the bank. I don't know that. That's where it's
(32:03):
still puzzling here.
Speaker 6 (32:04):
Yes, Tom, and that eBay text to the Bookie, I
guess Matthew Boyer stood out for me. Technically I did
steal from him. It's all over for me? Is what
Eba put in the.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Text Yah to the book? Yeah? Yeah, Now you do
a plea deal. I don't know. You know, they serve
jail time. Is he going to be able to make?
Is there a restitution here? Like? I don't know what
else is next here, but I think Baseball said that
they were going to put this to bed. I think
later today, all right, we'll take a break. More phone
calls will give you our best and worst of the weekend.
(32:33):
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Speaker 1 (32:34):
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Speaker 2 (32:46):
A couple of more phone calls coming up on the program,
Let Me See Sam and Alaska. Hi Sam, what's on
your mind today?
Speaker 9 (32:54):
Hey, thanks for taking my call, first time caller, and
I just wanted to weigh in on the whole favorite
child thing. Guys we're talking about We've got five adult
kids now, so it's been a discussion over the years,
and what I finally decided was, yes, I do have
(33:15):
a favorite, but it's a fluid concept. So it's all
about what have you done for me lately?
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Okay, I don't have a sliding scale with my kids.
I treat them all the same, and I don't have
a favorite.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
Now.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
There are times when one child might be my favorite
for one thing or another. Maybe they did something really well,
or they got a promotion, or maybe they did laundry
or something. You know, the bar's not too high. It's
just like, yeah, maybe contribute a little bit, yes, Paul.
Speaker 7 (33:50):
When your children were younger, did you discipline them all
the same way to try to be fair and did
they take it different ways?
Speaker 2 (33:57):
You disciplined differently. I think when you start out, you
don't even know what you're doing, and then you pick
your moments. I always felt just if I if I
spoke in a like a little bit more reserved tone,
oh I got my message across to my daughters, I'd
be like, I'm I'm really disappointed. Boom, that's all you need.
(34:20):
My son, it didn't matter. It didn't matter. For about
three years, there didn't matter. My wife and I were like,
I don't know, what are you gonna do. She'd be like,
I don't know. I got to the point where and
I think I've told this story. My wife hates when
I tell this story. But my son we had four
(34:43):
kids in a seven year period, and my wife is
getting the kid's breakfast they're going to school, and my
son wanted a certain type of egg and he kept saying,
I want this, I want mom, I want this, and
I have, you know, my three daughters and my wife,
and he said, okay, you want your eggs. And she
grabbed the eggs and smashed them off his forehead, three
(35:06):
of them. Boom, boom boom.
Speaker 7 (35:09):
How old was he again?
Speaker 2 (35:10):
He was probably maybe eight seven or eight boom boom boom,
right off his forehead. That settled that here's your egg,
And I'm like, okay, it's like my mom hit my
brother with a pan because he wanted something when we're
growing up, and she kept the pan. I had a
(35:32):
dent in it to remind us be careful if you're
going to sass back. Hey, you can't do those things
now at least it's frowned upon. But I just remember
we'd see that pan and I'd be like, damn, I
don't want to cross mom. Curt in Michigan, Hi, Kurt,
what's on your mind today?
Speaker 3 (35:51):
Dan?
Speaker 10 (35:52):
Welcome back, welcome back. He just saved three hours of
my day again.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
Well, thank you, Kurt.
Speaker 10 (35:58):
Hey, boy, this is a family advice. Now I've got
some other I need some other advice. My nephew has
asked me to the MC at his wedding, and I
don't know. Do I go serious? Do I sprinkle in jokes?
Speaker 9 (36:16):
Well?
Speaker 2 (36:16):
Wait, help me out, Kurt. What does MC mean?
Speaker 3 (36:22):
Well?
Speaker 11 (36:22):
I announced at the reception okay, okay, yeah, at the
reception sorry, yes, okay, announcing Bridon grooms, announced him whatever
soon okay, But once you announced the wedding party, then
what else do you do.
Speaker 12 (36:40):
Moderate?
Speaker 10 (36:42):
He hasn't told me whether they have open mic or not.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
I don't know. I don't know, Okay, okay, Kurt. I'm
not sure of the setting here, the environment. I would
just play it straight, no inside jokes where somebody's going
what what does he mean? I don't understand that. I
would try to do it in a fun way, you
know what. The enthusiasm, the tone in your voice is
(37:10):
what's going to be great. But I wouldn't try to
you know, don't go live at the improv there. That
would be my advice. Yes, seton, Kurt.
Speaker 5 (37:18):
Are you a stand up comic or in comedy in
any way in real life?
Speaker 2 (37:23):
Marvin just hung up on that.
Speaker 5 (37:24):
Then I would say if unless, If the answer to
that is no, then don't make jokes, even if you.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
Are a stand up comedian. Pick your spons Less is
always more when it comes to a wedding reception. By
the way, the bride looks beautiful, of course, the mother
of the bride looks beautiful, but.
Speaker 7 (37:42):
You can't say you gotta even say it just like
you said, she looks beautiful. You gotta say, you know,
and Joan over there is holding.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
Up well, yeah, decent. You know I've got together. Yeah,
if I wouldn't, if I wasn't married, I might go
after that, like, you can't do any of those funny
things about the mother in law. Are youan a formaldehigh botox? Yeah?
Just always be careful of trying to be too funny
(38:09):
because I and you always go too long. If you
give the speech, for you best men out there, cut
it in half. Don't do todd Okay, don't be fritzy
three minutes Max, tell a really good story, compliment and
then get the hell out. You're not as funny as
you think you are accurate, and the more you drink,
you're less funny. And even though I'm drinking more while
(38:31):
listening to you, having been drinking more, You're still not funny.
Always go split it in half. You can't go wrong
with that. Can't go wrong. Yes, Paul.
Speaker 7 (38:41):
If during the middle of your speech and your stories
you say the phrase to make a long story short,
that means you failed.
Speaker 3 (38:48):
You failed.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
Yeah, And does anybody really make a long story short?
They go long and then realize they went too long,
and then they stay to make a long story short. No,
you made a long story longer. That's all you did, Yes, Todd,
that's a fact. Thank you. In and out, I kept
a nice and breaking Rob in Orlando. Hi Rob, what's
(39:11):
on your mind today?
Speaker 12 (39:12):
Good morning, guys.
Speaker 3 (39:13):
Glad to have you back. A best and the worst
for you.
Speaker 12 (39:16):
The best of the weekend was seeing Alan Iverson get
his tiny trophy installed, not at the arena, but appropriately
at the practice facility.
Speaker 3 (39:26):
Yes, practice.
Speaker 12 (39:28):
And the worst of the weekend was Saturday, last Saturday
and off this past one. In our church Direct League basketball,
I broke my leg and as I'm swearing on the floor,
I go into shock, not because of my leg, but
because I realize, oh crap, I don't have the DP
show next week. So thanks guys.
Speaker 2 (39:49):
All right, well, got another captive audience here. Broken leg
can't go anywhere. That's right in our wheelhouse. Hey, hey,
you can't get up and change the channel. We're the
show for you. Uh Barry and Santa fe Hi Berry,
welcome back. Good morning.
Speaker 3 (40:10):
So it's good morning, chat Bro.
Speaker 10 (40:13):
I have a name for that golfers son.
Speaker 2 (40:16):
Okay, put putt e u t t s oh putts
puts tefler kind of a negative cond of tent does
because if I called you a Putts. Yeah, yeah, that's
a name kind of mean.
Speaker 6 (40:31):
Yeah, what's like you're a dope or something you said
or did something stupid, you'd be a Putts.
Speaker 2 (40:36):
So Puts is it would mean you're a dork? Is
that what it is?
Speaker 8 (40:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (40:41):
Along those lines.
Speaker 6 (40:42):
I'd even go as far as to say that, like,
being a Putts is kind of being kind of dumb
and sick head.
Speaker 2 (40:47):
Yeah ignorant. Okay, well I can't call you ignorant because
you graduated second in your class of six hundred.
Speaker 6 (40:54):
My wife likes to remind me, this is the high
school I went to.
Speaker 2 (40:56):
Wasn't that big a deal.
Speaker 6 (40:56):
They probably wasn't that many smart kids there.
Speaker 2 (40:59):
But still there was six hundred kids. Yes, and you
ended up cheating in high school.
Speaker 6 (41:07):
I checked some chemistry.
Speaker 2 (41:09):
Did cheat? You did cheat? You did cheat. When we
were on vacation, uh, it was announced that O. J.
Simpson had passed away. I did not know that he
was battling cancer. And you know, when I think back
on OJA, I have mixed emotions here because I remember
watching vividly in the late sixties when he is running
(41:30):
in the Rose Bowl and I had not seen somebody
run like that. I you know Gail Sairs was similar,
but I had not seen anybody like that. He just
had this ability to sort of be floating when he
was running and then goes into the NFL Russia's for
two thousand yards and uh, you know it was part
(41:51):
of you know, Juice in the Electric Company in Buffalo,
and then he had commercials. I mean, he was so
well liked. I Middle America, everybody they loved OJ Run.
Oj Run And you know a lot of people don't
remember that person. But I have to factor in everything.
(42:12):
If I'm thinking about him. I've talked about, you know,
my interview that I had with him after you know,
the murder trial, the uncomfortable moments that I had during
that interview with Oj. But when you think of reality TV,
I think reality TV started with OJ Simpson because all
(42:34):
of a sudden, we had a live police chase, a
slow chase in the White Bronco and you're watching this.
So this is during I'm at the NBA Finals, and
I remember we had one monitor with the NBA game
on at the garden and then you had the other
one with OJ. And I'm watching OJ even though I'm
(42:55):
there to cover the NBA Finals, and you know Al
cowling h you know, he had played at USC best
friends and he's driving the car and you know, we're wondering,
you know, where's he going and why's he do? You know,
what's if he didn't do it? And you know, so
all of this stuff kind of factors in. But then
everybody sort of became a reality star. I don't remember
(43:19):
anything else in my lifetime where you know, kato' kalan
became part of the reality star world. All the lawyers
there and Johnny cochran and Judge Edo, like, they all
became reality stars. And it took over a year for
that trial, I believe, and then everything that happened after
(43:41):
that and what it spawned, and the fact that Kim
Kardashian's dad was on the legal team with OJ, and
then all of a sudden, you see what that led
to with the Kardashians. But I just remember with OJ,
you know, when he was found guilty or not guilty,
(44:02):
And I was playing golf that day in Hartford with
some of the members of the Hartford Whalers and we
went into the grill room and we watched the verdict
and we were just like, how did that happen? But
it did, but it felt like it was a reality show.
And then years you know, passed and OJ was supposedly
(44:27):
looking for the killers while playing golf constantly got put
in prison for what happened in Vegas. When he was
trying to get his memorabilia back, he would have his
Twitter World things that he would say, it's.
Speaker 5 (44:40):
A bad day for people who do impressions of OJ.
Speaker 2 (44:45):
I mean, I ran into cato' kalen in Vegas at
Shadow Creek. We're playing golf. He's with Norm MacDonald and
like you're just thinking, how did this happen? But it did?
I think where reality TV was born for better or worse?
Speaker 5 (45:04):
Yeah, seen, the dude actually had audacity isn't even the
right word. Yeah, But just the fact that he wrote
a book called If I Did It Confessions of the Killer,
a hypothetical like account of how he would have done.
Speaker 2 (45:19):
It if he had no just apathetical. That is unbelievable.
He never he never read the room. He was always
the most important person in the room. Imagine you loved
somebody so much that you kill them, like he he
loved her, but he killed her because he didn't want
(45:40):
anybody else with her. And whether he acted alone, which
I don't think he did, but still, I remember he
tried to tell me during the interview that you know,
he didn't do it, and I just said, I don't
want to hear it, because you know that That's where
we had the awkward moment when we're not on camera
(46:03):
and he says to me, do you think I did it?
And then I said did what? And then he said
kill those two people? And then I said yes, and
then we started up the interview right after that. But yeah,
I gets we tend to see Oj in that light.
We forget what he was before that, and it's not
(46:24):
that we should remember that, but I do. I you know,
how big of a star he was. Just the context
of telling somebody's life story, It's easy to jump to
the very end, but look, I was right there and
appreciating OJ Simpson the football player. I met him a
couple of times personally outside of that interview that I did,
(46:48):
when he was working for ENDBC. So yeah, just bizarre.
And then who he's calling, and he's trying to get
a hold of Bob Costas, who's on the air at
the time with NBC, and who was visiting him in prison,
and just wild wild. Yeah, Paul, it.
Speaker 7 (47:05):
Really does feel like you're speaking about we're speaking about
two different people. Because before the day that the killings happened,
he was one of more popular celebrities, like where he
enjoyed being a celebrity. You see him on TV shows,
He enjoyed, he goes, he was in movies and I
had heard from people saying, like, if you walk up
to him, photograph, he give you the time, He give
you the picture. He was an American celebrity that loved
(47:27):
being it and we liked him. He was in TV
shows and movies and Monday that football I didn't work
out great, but he was on it because he was
such a likable guy.
Speaker 2 (47:34):
Yeah, he wasn't a good broadcaster, but he was so
charismatic and you just you look back on that and
he had everybody fooled because then I started asking questions.
I'm at the NBA Finals, it said halftime, and I'm
asking somebody who was a friend of OJ. I said,
would you come on camera? And he said no, but
(47:57):
he said he used to beat her all the time.
And I remember hearing that from this person. I was
so disappointed that he didn't And maybe it's not fair.
But in the moment, I'm thinking, why didn't you say
something to somebody? But I mean, it's just all surreal, surreal.
(48:18):
You're in an NBA finals and I'm asking if I
can do interviews with certain people about Oja and everybody
said no. Everybody did last call for phone calls. What
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take your phone calls, got to play the day, got
(01:08):
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day or two. The great Mike Tarico, who was on
the call for the Masters on Sirius XM will join
us from Augusta as we close up shop. On Scotty
Scheffler winning his second Masters in the last three years
and putting himself in some pretty select company. He's twenty seven,
fourth youngest golfer to have multiple Green jackets, behind Jack
(01:32):
Nicholas who was a little over twenty five, Tiger was
a little over twenty five, and Sevi bi Asteros was
a little over twenty six years of age. But Scotty Scheffler,
all he does is play great golf. There's nothing dynamic
about him. It's almost that kind of water torture. It's
just slow, it's steady, and he knows what he's doing
(01:54):
when he needs to. And certainly that back nine, that's
what you want to see. You want to see somebody
go out and win a turnament four hunder sixty eight
in the final round, finishing at eleven under, winning his
second Masters in the last three years. And this is
what he had to say. After winning. I mean, how
do you put this in the words?
Speaker 3 (02:13):
You win the Masters, You're about to be a father
for the first time.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
It's pretty sweet.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Yeah, you're about maybe cry here in Butler Cabins. No,
it's a very very special time for both of us.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
I really can't.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
I can't put it into words what it means to
win this tournament. Again, I really can't put it into
words what it's going to be like to be a
father for the first time. So I looking forward to
getting home and celebrating with Meredith, and it's been a
long week here without her. But I'm just looking forward
to getting home.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Okay, we're not to the point where it's Scotty or
the field the way we were with Tiger, but the
early odds to win the PGA Championship, Scotty Scheffler is
a big favorite. Then it's Rory John Rahm, Brooks, Koepka
and Victor Hoblin. All right, seet, what's pole question. We're
going to start out hour one with, well, we.
Speaker 5 (02:56):
Might as well start right there. That's when PAULI sent
over with if you leave the Masters on Sunday with
the lead, if your wife went into labor with your
first child.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
All right, here is Scotty talking about that with that
exact question. You and your wife Meredith are expecting your
first child. You've maintained throughout the week. If you get
a call, you're gone. Are you still saying that going
into the final round?
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Yeah, I'm sticking sticking my word.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
You know.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Fortunately, I'll be here at the Master's for quite some time.
And yeah, I think you only have your first child once,
so I'd rather be at home if that's gonna happen.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
It is true you only have your first child once.
But I know what Scotty's saying.
Speaker 6 (03:33):
There.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Would you have left? Let's say you get to the
tenth pole, so he's taken, you know, the lead. He's
on the tenth pole, it's right by the clubhouse, and
all of a sudden you get the call she's going
into labor. Todd, what would you do? You're leading the Masters,
your wife's in labor. It's time for you to go.
Speaker 6 (03:55):
I think it's time to go.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
You would go?
Speaker 6 (03:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Okay?
Speaker 6 (03:58):
Especially first child?
Speaker 2 (04:00):
O Connor, uh not stay okay, Marvin, I'd stay two
all right, Paulie.
Speaker 7 (04:06):
Okay, here's my answer. It's the second Masters for him
and the first child, I would go if for flip
flopped and it was a second baby and the first masters,
I'm staying okay, So it's a sliding scale for me,
baby scale.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
I was fortunate that I was able to be there
for all for my children. But the last one was
dicey on a Sunday night at Sports Center. But of
course that's obviously different. Sports Center, far more important than
winning a green jacket out Augustin. But I decided that
I was going to miss Sports Center that night, Sunday Night,
Big Night on.
Speaker 5 (04:39):
Sports hone, which is essentially the Masters of TV broadcasts
pretty much Sunday Night, Yes sports Center, Yes, yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 7 (04:47):
All weekend watching the coverage, all the guys kept saying,
he's going to walk off the course if he gets
the call. Do you think it's hard to you know,
you'll never know the answer. Do you think at the
turn he gets a call with the lead he would
have actually walked off the court.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
It seems like a man of principle and felt like
that that was going to be the case. I was
there when Payne Stewart and Phil Mickelson were going to
head to head and Phil was going to leave if
his child was born. Payne ended up winning that tournament,
that major, but I remember that was a big storyline
throughout the week that Phil said, Hey, I'm gonna even
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if I'm in contention leading winning, if my wife goes
into labor, I'm leaving.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Yes.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
See, my wife has always sort of had this attitude
of your working, go work, So I think obviously we
would have talked about it, and if she was just like, no,
I need you in the hospital, then I would have left.
But knowing just the conversations we've had over the last
fifteen years, she's always kind of been like, this is
what you do for a living, and we need you
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to go do that, So go work and we could
figure everything else out.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Yeah, I mean, we're dealing with the hypothetical. Here would
I leave if I was leading the Masters? I think
only brings up a great point. If it was my
second child and it was my first Masters that I
was leading, then I would have stayed the first one.
I mean, there's nothing like that that first time, as
long as there's no complications. Now, if you knew going
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into it that there could be complications, then I think
you have to be there. But being there for the
first one, you know, nothing like it.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
Yes, it's such an interesting insight into how first children
are treated versus everybody else in the family. Yeah, because
they are treated like well, you know, you're the special one,
then there's the others.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely, yes, yes, I almost wish.
Speaker 7 (06:40):
It would have gone the other way and it actually
would have played out at the ten. You know, Scheffler
with the lead cruising would have got the call and left.
He would have been a legend in an entirely different community.
Like today on sports shows they'll talk about Scotti Scheffler,
second Masters, great golfer. But if he had done the
other thing, it would lead the Today's Show and Good
Morning America and like evening if he'd be father of
the Year before having him a baby, even he'd be
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a husband of the Year.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Yeah, but he'd still get criticized though, like, hey, this
is what you do, you're paid to do that, you're
supposed to be out there. You should have known this.
I could just see the reaction here of what people
would say, how they would react. It's difficult, but you know,
it's individual choice there that whatever you feel like you're
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comfortable with your wife, is comfortable with now. The people
on the outside, they don't understand what conversations have you had?
But I get it. And the fact that it was
sort of looming there. Like let's say she goes into labors,
he's walking up eighteen does he go nup? I can't
finish here. I mean, like, at what point do you say, Okay,
(07:45):
I gotta stay or you know, third hole you might go,
I gotta go, Hey, seventeen Green. Plus he's got to
go to Texas, Like she's not there.
Speaker 7 (07:57):
Oh she wasn't like one town over. No, oh, okay,
that changes a lot of it too.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Yeah, it's not like she was there.
Speaker 7 (08:05):
What if it happened like a Sunday morning. He sent
his caddy first, and then he plays a few holes.
See if he's in contention.
Speaker 6 (08:12):
Yes, ton I kind of thought she was there and
they could maybe set up some kind of birthing tent
nearby where he's just you know, depending on how far
along the contractions, you can just kind of skip over
from the hole.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
So Butler cabin could be a Butler birthing cabin exactly,
like you could set something up there. Jim Nance is
in there calling play by play, Dula corner all of
a sudden, like, hey, all right, I like it. She's
getting the epidural here he goes here and it's a
baby in polite Gulf lies and the patrons would surround
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what else, little chubby little a little Nina. Yeah, let's
see what else do you we have?
Speaker 5 (08:53):
Also, which basketball program improved most, Kentucky or Arkansas?
Speaker 2 (08:58):
We'll save that. Yes, I like that one a little spicy. Yeah,
John Caliperry going to Arkansas.
Speaker 5 (09:06):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, fun story.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
Mark Pope going to Kentucky coming back home. It's amazing.
They sold out Rupp Arena for a press conference. There's
there's no other place in college back. I mean, that's
like SEC football, but it's SEC basketball. Mark Pope going there,
and it felt like Arkansas won in Kentucky one. It
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was a win win for both and it felt like
coach cal was going to jump before he was pushed.
And you were able to bring in a former Kentucky
player and coach call going to Arkansas. I liked that
he said, yeah, I went in to meet my team
and there's no team. Okay, good luck.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
Coach Dude is always great for a sound body. He
is there's always something coming that you're like, well, that's
my team.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
That's what he had at Kentucky because they'd all leave
and go to the pros, so he's used to that feeling.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
Is the roster turning over it?
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Yeah, yeah, it's just wild. Though, USC gets Eric Musselman,
Andy Enfield goes to SMU. I mean, it's just kind
of crazy connecting the dots there. And coach cal had
a really good friend who has a lot of money
in the Arkansas community and probably said, you know what,
(10:22):
let me let me reach out to call and see
if he's interested. And lo and behold, he was and
gonna make a good salary there. And I think it
was best for both that it was time for him
to leave Kentucky and you bring in Mark Pope and
felt like the fan base is excited, they're going to
raise money for NIL and they'll be ready to go.
(10:45):
I'd be interested in the transfer portal. I'd love to
see what Kentucky does in the transfer portal because that's
what we had been saying, Hey, you're great at one
and Done's and they've made a lot of money, but
you have underachieved more than any other coach has with
all the talent, you got one championship there, and look,
I love Cal, but there's no excuses for that. With
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all that talent, you got one title, and you know
it's it's been a one and done type philosophy here
for quite some time. Other schools have adopted that same philosophy.
But at some point, you know, coach Cal had to realize, hey,
I got to be a better coach. I got to
be a better recruiter to get older players, season players,
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veteran players, because that's who we're losing to. If if
you got to take your Kentucky players for four years
or three years, okay, that's completely different. But this is
one and done. You're there six seven months and we've
seen that happen where you get bounced early. Yes.
Speaker 5 (11:47):
Do you think he changes that philosophy?
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Yes?
Speaker 5 (11:50):
In Arkansas, well, I don't know if you might have to.
It's going to get the same players that Kentucky gets
just based on the name. I know it's him too
as the coach, but I wonder if he has to change.
You get one or two one and done's and then
fill out an actual team around them.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Yes, I think that's that would be the approach that
I would have you.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
Kondas showed the model on how to do this.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Yeah, but I think that's what I would try to do.
There's the blueprint there. Now not everybody can you follow
with what Yukon did. I mean, Danny Hurley did a
wonder from job, but there were some years there where
he's what eighteen and fourteen, then all of a sudden,
there's some magic here. I don't know how many teams,
how many schools will go that's what we're trying to do.
All I know is every tournament, what happens somebody who's
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got like a like a junior season, senior Leyden tournament,
they end up winning, They knock people off. It's rare
when you have a fab five, you know, breezing through
the tournament. It's just that kind of pressure. I don't
care who you are and where you play and what
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conference you played in. We've seen that happen. All it
takes is somebody who understands what to do, when to
do it, how to do it, and you know, a
great coach as well. Every tournament we have one of
those teams, two of those teams, three of those teams.
Where we go how did they do it? And most
of the time it comes down to what they had
some experience.
Speaker 8 (13:15):
Yes, Marv at Arkansas, do you think the fan base
will be satisfied with a final four pairents or does
it have to be a national title?
Speaker 2 (13:22):
We cal is there, Well, they've won national titles before.
But what I expect that I would hope for that.
I think that's the difference. Kentucky you expected, Arkansas, you
hoped for that, and hopefully that does. You know that
doesn't change, because then it'll be pretty tough on Cali
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PERI to go, Hey, I couldn't win a title there,
but they want me to win a title here. I
just think the more he talks about developing players going
to the NBA, like as if you know, if I'm
a fan of Kentucky, I'd be turned off by that. Great,
those guys are making a ton of money. We want
to win championships. That's what we want. That's what you're
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paid for. But you know cal would say, I'm here
to develop these players to get them into the NBA. Well,
that philosophy got a lot of players a lot of
money and got Kentucky one banner. Arkansas's philosophy probably a
lot different, but then their expectation level should be a
little less than Kentucky's. I mean, Mark Pope walks in.
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It's not like they go, hey, why don't you just
put up the numbers you did at BYU. Nope, nope,
I mean you've sold out rapp Arena for a press conference.
Do you think they're going? Man, this is just a good,
feel good story and we're just happy to have you
back and hope we get past the second round of
the tournament. No, no, they want you to win. They
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expect you to win. It's not hope you win. All right,
we'll take a break. Phone calls coming up best and
worst of the weekend, Mike Tarrico in about an hour
from now. Some of the leftovers from the week that
was while we were on vacation. We hope to hear
from you, coming up eight seven to seven, three DP
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Speaker 2 (15:45):
Mike Trico, he's going to be hosting the Olympics in
Paris coming up later on this summer. He was busy
this weekend as he was doing master's duty for Sirius XM,
and he joins us on the program. Why do you
think the ratings were up for the Masters this year?
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Getting the live guys and the tour guys back. It
felt like it was the first big, big event of
the year. The players was a great event. But you
have something missing, and I think sooner or sooner then later.
Excuse me, They're gonna need to get both sides back together.
This sport is not big enough to split the pot.
(16:22):
What did you think was going to happen? Let's go
back to Thursday or Wednesday in golf, so bradle shan't
believe who I know you've had on bradle says some
outrageous headline grabbing things that don't often get said in
the very nice world of golf commentary. And he said
Scotty should win by seven or eight shots, and if
he's got his best game, the brandle like easy man.
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But Scotty didn't have his best and he won by four.
I got to do the Bayhill Arnold Palmer tournament and
the players and see Scotty win both of those, and
watch most of Houston where he missed a put on
eighteen to get in the playoff. So he's first, first, second,
and it's real, like his ball striking dand is so good,
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his scrambling is so good, and the one thing that
was weak is putting. He got figured out. So I
think we all expected Scotty to be the guy right
near the top of the board. But I was still
impressed with his dominance this week and his ability to
win by that many, especially the way he played. You look,
he played on the second nine like he's the number
one guy in the world.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
We always want to fast track somebody to greatness and
put him in categories. Now you're hey, you're the next Jack,
You're the next Tiger.
Speaker 8 (17:35):
You know.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Scotty's twenty seven and there's nothing dynamic about him. You
could say he's the golf equivalent to John Stockton. He
just kind of shows up, does his job, doesn't care
about really anything else, cares about his faith and his family.
But are we ready to fast track you know Scotty? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Yeah, two Masters in three years. So the one thing
you're going to want to see is Scotty win outside
of his stretch of the year. All of his wins
have come from January to April. Now we're really nitpicking, right,
but that would be the next step. Win a US Open.
He can contend in all of these tournaments. He can
contend in Louisville at the PGA being played at Valhalla
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in the week after the Derby, So he's got all
of that. I did the radio broadcast on Serious Exam
and worked with Taylor's arsers. Terrific guy and does a
great job covering golf for them and does college football
and other stuff. I thought Taylor brought up a good one.
Pete Sampras or NASCAR Jimmy Johnson. I thought those were
really good, like defined excellence in many ways. When you
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look at the record, stretches of dominance, but very low key.
This is who I am. I'm not gonna go seek
every endorsement under the sun. Success will not change me.
I'm just gonna be this guy. Scotty's fun. Scotty's a
nice guy to be around, great humor, a great family,
obviously deep in faith. But he's not going to be
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seeking the wow stuff that you get even with a
Bryson de Shamble. So I thought all those Stockton for
you as well, those are really acting good comparisons. That
doesn't mean he's not great. It just means he's not
Madison Avenue million dollars every time it turns around. And
that's fine.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
And it's kind of like Andrew Luck as well, Like yeah,
he Luck, he didn't want endorsements, didn't really care, walked
away from the game, and you know, never really return.
We're talking to Mike Tarico joining us in Augusta before
he goes to Paris to get ready to host the
Summer Games, Summer Olympics. Are you ready for that?
Speaker 3 (19:34):
I'm not staying the entire so you're not.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Okay, no, no, okay.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Back on Friday, actually back in a couple of days. Okay,
it's a hundred it's one hundred days out, so we
kind of light the candle to get everybody ready. Today's
show is going to have a bunch of the Team
USA athletes on the plaza with Savannah, Joda, Al Craig
and the whole crew. I'll be in Paris, so it
just kind of gets us, gets us going. I'll do
a few things over there too, in advance of going
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back what twelve weeks later for the Games.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
I love to Shambo in the villain role. Now, I
don't know if he embraces the villain role, but he's
good content.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
He wears some of that black hat, There's no doubt
about it. Contents the perfect word. You know, every sport
has its little social media following and group of commentators,
and I thought the ones under Shambo were dead on
when they said he's the best content provider where it's
the drives or carrying the signe pole like he did. Hey,
this is a temporary, movable, immovable object. I'm gonna move it.
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He just kind of carries it and moves it around.
I yeah, there's a little bit of villain quote unquote.
I think anybody who went to live, who's going to
come back is going to be If that happens, there's
gonna be a little bit of that role at varying
degrees and levels. I think to Shambo is interesting and unique.
I think he's one of the most unique guys, certainly
in golf and maybe in all of sport. He does
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things so different Dan he was using a pair a
set of ions that cost ten thousand dollars to produce.
One of a kind three D printer made the ions.
They weren't conforming, didn't fit the rules of the USGA
officially until Monday, they had to be tested. So he
does things to push the edges. Sport needs that. Every
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sport does this one especially. I hope he's back playing
with these guys soon because I think he's talented, he's
very different, and he's very good.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
The Tiger situation, he makes the cut again, but certainly
stumbled towards the finish line. Finishing last I kept looking
to see was he injured, was he limping? And I
think he was honest afterwards, just said, look, I didn't
play well. What did you take from Tiger's performance or
lack thereof? He's going to be impacted by his injuries
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for the rest of his career. He's got fused back
and affused ankle. It's kind of limiting in the world
of golf. I think it's remarkable at forty eight he
doesn't need another dollar to do this. He continues to
want to try to compete as much as possible. I
think Friday having to play twenty three holes because we
didn't get done on Thursday probably set him back.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
Was an early turnaround. It takes hours for him just
to be ready to go play because of all he
has to do is get his body to that point.
But it's the first time in a regular event he's
completed seventy two holes in over a year, so I
think that's a box to check in a positive says
he wants to play in the other majors. We'll see
if he does, but the fact that he's even talking
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about being able to do it is good. The two
things I saw yesterday that were to me the coolest
because the gust, as you know you've been here so
many times, it gives you the great fields and it's
really cool stuff. One was Tiger, who is known for
being laser laser focused, stopping at sixteen to walk over
and say hi to Verne lun push when Verne was
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watching from down behind a tree there, and it's just
an ultimate sign of respect that that was so cool
that Tiger did that. And seeing Tiger's kid out of
the tournament practice area with him like holding away holding
the shaft of a driver to have your hands fly
under it. It's a drill that guys do often. This
is really cool to see because we both have been here,
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Dan seeing Tiger's dad with Tiger and now we're seeing
Tiger with his son and Charlie's like talking swing stuff
with him. It's just for one of the biggest athletes
we'll see come across in our lifetime. To see this
evolution and generational pass along, it was so cool. I'll
take that with me for a long time.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Do you think Tiger's afraid of retirement.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
Yeah, a little bit. I mean, what do they tell everybody?
Do it until they tell you you can't anymore, or
you can't anymore if you really love it, And he
is obsessed with the sport so afraid of it in
some ways. But I think as long as he can
get himself out there and do it.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Look, Jack did but what do you do when you
retire from golf? Do you play golf?
Speaker 3 (24:02):
You play golf, you talk about golf, you design golf courses. Right,
you put out a line of golf clothes and shoots.
And Jack still out here talking golf and being a
part of it. He visited with us this week. Tom
Watson is Gary player is running around telling people you
need to do more, set up, you need to get better, champion,
and he's in his late eighties and he's like hitting
t shots and throwing that leg up in the air
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with that kick. So yeah, it's a forever sport and
I think the association with it fuels and drives a
lot of these guys. Other guys have other hobbies. I
don't think Tiger has as many other hobbies as these
guys do, like fishing or other stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
All right, can we get a little bit of your
master's voice before we say goodbye.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
So this is interesting doing the radio as I have
a serious XM for the last I guess four the
last five years. You have a commentary position that is
right by the eighteenth green, I mean from you to
the dan Etes to the teenth green that far away.
So when you go out there, and I only go
out there for the last four holes. You do have
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to speak softly. So as Scheffler is about twenty yards
from me getting over the putt, you have to do
the Scottie Scheffler shuffles his feet, pulls the putter back
and in, and then you've got to go match the crowd,
and you feel like a complete idiot. But that's that's
why for years golf announcers whispered because the towers were
right over the greens and guys would look up and go, hey,
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I'm trying to work down here. What are you doing right?
So we don't have many towers that we do that anymore.
They're all enclosed booths. But that's the one situation you've
got to go. This is from Bertie and the Masters.
So there you go.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Have you been shushed before?
Speaker 3 (25:44):
I have not, and I haven't done this very much
in terms of being that close. But I am. I
am shushless. I leave Augusta for the third consecutive Masters
and four of the last five sands.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
What an incredible streak you're on. Mike. Hey, you're brutal.
Safe travels to Paris. Good to talk to you. Thanks
for making time.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Oh all the time. Talk to you over somebud.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Be safe, Mike jur Rika. He was on the call
for serious XM at the Master, so he came up
with Pete Sampress and Jimmy Johnson from NASCAR. Oh, Sampress
is a good call, very good call, Scottie Scheffler. That's
the comparison we talked about John Stockton, but Stockton didn't
win championships. You know, Pete Sampress, I remember a long
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time ago. I spent a lot of time with Sampress,
but I think he always thought that people wanted him
to be more than what he was. He played exciting,
he wasn't exciting, whereas Agasy wasn't as decorated, but it was,
you know, having style over substance. I remember when Agassy
did his camera commercial, I think, and he had his
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long hair. But you know, what we want out of
our athletes. Definitely is a normal guy.
Speaker 7 (26:55):
He's just a normal person. But then you know, a
couple of years ago and brooks Kepko is really hot
and winning may he was starting to lean into the
media and lean into being a.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
His girlfriend at the time would take provocative pictures and
so there was like internet chatter about that.
Speaker 7 (27:11):
But he was embracing the star role like Dustin Johnson
when he was a hot golfer. He had a star
power around him with his girlfriend Paulina Gretzky, but he
never lean into the interview part of it.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
I think he was good. I don't think he's a
good interview Kopka turned out to be surprisingly good, like
he when he wanted to. He was good, But Dustin Johnson,
I mean, certain guys just aren't interested in it, or
they don't they're not comfortable saying things, or they're worried
about what they say gets you know, uh, somebody translates
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that ooh speaking of witch sho hey o Tani. I
think baseball's talking to him today, and it feels like
they're going to move on from that story, that they've
heard everything they needed to hear, and that they're they're
going to move on. Although looking at the transcripts of
his interpreter, and he would lose these bets. I don't
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know how much money, but it felt like these were
big numbers that he was losing, and then he would
say to the bookie, oh gosh, I have the worst luck. Hey,
can I get another bump? Can I make another bet?
And then he would lose, and then he would say
to the bookie, hey, this is it. This is the
last time. Can I get another bump? And then he
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would lose that one as well, and then I think
he loaded up again for one more. Now the bookie
only wants to know if you can pay, that's it.
They want to know do you have backing you're going
to place these bets? So at what point did the
interpreter say, because his salary I don't know what it was,
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but let's say one hundred grand, you're not covering millions
and millions of dollars. At some point, don't you have
to say to the bookie, hey, I'm Sho Heeo Tani's interpreter.
I have money, because I would not let you have
another bump if I'm a bookie. Like, somebody has to
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co sign, whether they literally co sign or you're co
signing for them, which is what appears to have happened. Yes,
poem so Ipe Mizihara.
Speaker 7 (29:19):
The report of the charges against him came out, So
these are facts, These aren't speculative. He's accused of stealing
more than sixteen million dollars from sho Heotani. That's step one.
In twenty six months December twenty one to January twenty four,
Misihara made nineteen thousand sports bets. Not one of them
was baseball related. Just to put that at bed. He
won one hundred and forty two million dollars as a gambler.
(29:42):
Unfortunately he lost one hundred and eighty two million dollars,
so his total net losses were forty million, six hundred thousand.
He's only accused of stealing sixteen million from Atani, So
there's still the question to where the other you know,
more than twenty million dollars is had come from.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
Yeah, so that's where we are. Well, when we first
arted this and then we had a gambling expert on
who said that he probably bet eighty million dollars. Now
he ended up losing this amount of money. But when
we had somebody on from ESPN and he said he
probably bet upwards of eighty million dollars, now we realize
(30:18):
it was far more than that. But to be able
to do that you have to as a bookie. That
bookie wants to know, can you pay this? They don't go,
hey man, that's tough loss. Don't worry about the five
hundred grand that you owe me. That that's all Bookie
wants to know. But that desperation that he had is relatable. Now,
(30:41):
if I'm betting a thousand and I don't have a thousand,
you know that desperation sets in. He may be betting
one hundred thousand, but that desperation sets in. Now you're
going to bet again, and now you're going to bet again.
That's that's what happens in this world. Hey, it's just
for entertainment. It's just for fun, and till it's not. Now,
(31:01):
all of a sudden, you're chasing. And when you chase gambling,
when you're betting, you never catch up. It'll always sting
you at some point. That's what happened to him. Yeah, boom.
Speaker 7 (31:13):
People are having a hard time believing Shoho Tani did
not know sixteen million dollars have been stolen from him,
according to those ESPN reports. Remember when they were in Korea,
the exation was showing Hey Shohey was like, I'm just
learning about this now. He wasn't worth one hundred million
dollars a year ago, Ohtani, Yes, he just started getting
paid twenty twenty three thirty million dollars in his career
on the field. He had made about fourteen million bucks
(31:36):
before twenty twenty two.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
If that's look, do I have questions?
Speaker 3 (31:40):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Do I think this interpreter was desperate? Yes? Was he
signing for co signing for Otani? Perhaps that's a lot
of money to go missing, and nobody else has any
kind of idea. There's no flags that go up anything
with the bank. I don't know that. That's where it's
(32:03):
still puzzling here.
Speaker 6 (32:04):
Yes, Tom, and that eBay text to the Bookie, I
guess Matthew Boyer stood out for me. Technically I did
steal from him. It's all over for me? Is what
Eba put in the.
Speaker 2 (32:12):
Text Yah to the book? Yeah? Yeah, Now you do
a plea deal. I don't know. You know, they serve
jail time. Is he going to be able to make?
Is there a restitution here? Like? I don't know what
else is next here, but I think Baseball said that
they were going to put this to bed. I think
later today, all right, we'll take a break. More phone
calls will give you our best and worst of the weekend.
(32:33):
After this.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
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Speaker 2 (32:46):
A couple of more phone calls coming up on the program,
Let Me See Sam and Alaska. Hi Sam, what's on
your mind today?
Speaker 9 (32:54):
Hey, thanks for taking my call, first time caller, and
I just wanted to weigh in on the whole favorite
child thing. Guys we're talking about We've got five adult
kids now, so it's been a discussion over the years,
and what I finally decided was, yes, I do have
(33:15):
a favorite, but it's a fluid concept. So it's all
about what have you done for me lately?
Speaker 2 (33:22):
Okay, I don't have a sliding scale with my kids.
I treat them all the same, and I don't have
a favorite.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
Now.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
There are times when one child might be my favorite
for one thing or another. Maybe they did something really well,
or they got a promotion, or maybe they did laundry
or something. You know, the bar's not too high. It's
just like, yeah, maybe contribute a little bit, yes, Paul.
Speaker 7 (33:50):
When your children were younger, did you discipline them all
the same way to try to be fair and did
they take it different ways?
Speaker 2 (33:57):
You disciplined differently. I think when you start out, you
don't even know what you're doing, and then you pick
your moments. I always felt just if I if I
spoke in a like a little bit more reserved tone,
oh I got my message across to my daughters, I'd
be like, I'm I'm really disappointed. Boom, that's all you need.
(34:20):
My son, it didn't matter. It didn't matter. For about
three years, there didn't matter. My wife and I were like,
I don't know, what are you gonna do. She'd be like,
I don't know. I got to the point where and
I think I've told this story. My wife hates when
I tell this story. But my son we had four
(34:43):
kids in a seven year period, and my wife is
getting the kid's breakfast they're going to school, and my
son wanted a certain type of egg and he kept saying,
I want this, I want mom, I want this, and
I have, you know, my three daughters and my wife,
and he said, okay, you want your eggs. And she
grabbed the eggs and smashed them off his forehead, three
(35:06):
of them. Boom, boom boom.
Speaker 7 (35:09):
How old was he again?
Speaker 2 (35:10):
He was probably maybe eight seven or eight boom boom boom,
right off his forehead. That settled that here's your egg,
And I'm like, okay, it's like my mom hit my
brother with a pan because he wanted something when we're
growing up, and she kept the pan. I had a
(35:32):
dent in it to remind us be careful if you're
going to sass back. Hey, you can't do those things
now at least it's frowned upon. But I just remember
we'd see that pan and I'd be like, damn, I
don't want to cross mom. Curt in Michigan, Hi, Kurt,
what's on your mind today?
Speaker 3 (35:51):
Dan?
Speaker 10 (35:52):
Welcome back, welcome back. He just saved three hours of
my day again.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
Well, thank you, Kurt.
Speaker 10 (35:58):
Hey, boy, this is a family advice. Now I've got
some other I need some other advice. My nephew has
asked me to the MC at his wedding, and I
don't know. Do I go serious? Do I sprinkle in jokes?
Speaker 9 (36:16):
Well?
Speaker 2 (36:16):
Wait, help me out, Kurt. What does MC mean?
Speaker 3 (36:22):
Well?
Speaker 11 (36:22):
I announced at the reception okay, okay, yeah, at the
reception sorry, yes, okay, announcing Bridon grooms, announced him whatever
soon okay, But once you announced the wedding party, then
what else do you do.
Speaker 12 (36:40):
Moderate?
Speaker 10 (36:42):
He hasn't told me whether they have open mic or not.
Speaker 2 (36:48):
I don't know. I don't know, Okay, okay, Kurt. I'm
not sure of the setting here, the environment. I would
just play it straight, no inside jokes where somebody's going
what what does he mean? I don't understand that. I
would try to do it in a fun way, you
know what. The enthusiasm, the tone in your voice is
(37:10):
what's going to be great. But I wouldn't try to
you know, don't go live at the improv there. That
would be my advice. Yes, seton, Kurt.
Speaker 5 (37:18):
Are you a stand up comic or in comedy in
any way in real life?
Speaker 2 (37:23):
Marvin just hung up on that.
Speaker 5 (37:24):
Then I would say if unless, If the answer to
that is no, then don't make jokes, even if you.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
Are a stand up comedian. Pick your spons Less is
always more when it comes to a wedding reception. By
the way, the bride looks beautiful, of course, the mother
of the bride looks beautiful, but.
Speaker 7 (37:42):
You can't say you gotta even say it just like
you said, she looks beautiful. You gotta say, you know,
and Joan over there is holding.
Speaker 2 (37:47):
Up well, yeah, decent. You know I've got together. Yeah,
if I wouldn't, if I wasn't married, I might go
after that, like, you can't do any of those funny
things about the mother in law. Are youan a formaldehigh botox? Yeah?
Just always be careful of trying to be too funny
(38:09):
because I and you always go too long. If you
give the speech, for you best men out there, cut
it in half. Don't do todd Okay, don't be fritzy
three minutes Max, tell a really good story, compliment and
then get the hell out. You're not as funny as
you think you are accurate, and the more you drink,
you're less funny. And even though I'm drinking more while
(38:31):
listening to you, having been drinking more, You're still not funny.
Always go split it in half. You can't go wrong
with that. Can't go wrong. Yes, Paul.
Speaker 7 (38:41):
If during the middle of your speech and your stories
you say the phrase to make a long story short,
that means you failed.
Speaker 3 (38:48):
You failed.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
Yeah, And does anybody really make a long story short?
They go long and then realize they went too long,
and then they stay to make a long story short. No,
you made a long story longer. That's all you did, Yes, Todd,
that's a fact. Thank you. In and out, I kept
a nice and breaking Rob in Orlando. Hi Rob, what's
(39:11):
on your mind today?
Speaker 12 (39:12):
Good morning, guys.
Speaker 3 (39:13):
Glad to have you back. A best and the worst
for you.
Speaker 12 (39:16):
The best of the weekend was seeing Alan Iverson get
his tiny trophy installed, not at the arena, but appropriately
at the practice facility.
Speaker 3 (39:26):
Yes, practice.
Speaker 12 (39:28):
And the worst of the weekend was Saturday, last Saturday
and off this past one. In our church Direct League basketball,
I broke my leg and as I'm swearing on the floor,
I go into shock, not because of my leg, but
because I realize, oh crap, I don't have the DP
show next week. So thanks guys.
Speaker 2 (39:49):
All right, well, got another captive audience here. Broken leg
can't go anywhere. That's right in our wheelhouse. Hey, hey,
you can't get up and change the channel. We're the
show for you. Uh Barry and Santa fe Hi Berry,
welcome back. Good morning.
Speaker 3 (40:10):
So it's good morning, chat Bro.
Speaker 10 (40:13):
I have a name for that golfers son.
Speaker 2 (40:16):
Okay, put putt e u t t s oh putts
puts tefler kind of a negative cond of tent does
because if I called you a Putts. Yeah, yeah, that's
a name kind of mean.
Speaker 6 (40:31):
Yeah, what's like you're a dope or something you said
or did something stupid, you'd be a Putts.
Speaker 2 (40:36):
So Puts is it would mean you're a dork? Is
that what it is?
Speaker 8 (40:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (40:41):
Along those lines.
Speaker 6 (40:42):
I'd even go as far as to say that, like,
being a Putts is kind of being kind of dumb
and sick head.
Speaker 2 (40:47):
Yeah ignorant. Okay, well I can't call you ignorant because
you graduated second in your class of six hundred.
Speaker 6 (40:54):
My wife likes to remind me, this is the high
school I went to.
Speaker 2 (40:56):
Wasn't that big a deal.
Speaker 6 (40:56):
They probably wasn't that many smart kids there.
Speaker 2 (40:59):
But still there was six hundred kids. Yes, and you
ended up cheating in high school.
Speaker 6 (41:07):
I checked some chemistry.
Speaker 2 (41:09):
Did cheat? You did cheat? You did cheat. When we
were on vacation, uh, it was announced that O. J.
Simpson had passed away. I did not know that he
was battling cancer. And you know, when I think back
on OJA, I have mixed emotions here because I remember
watching vividly in the late sixties when he is running
(41:30):
in the Rose Bowl and I had not seen somebody
run like that. I you know Gail Sairs was similar,
but I had not seen anybody like that. He just
had this ability to sort of be floating when he
was running and then goes into the NFL Russia's for
two thousand yards and uh, you know it was part
(41:51):
of you know, Juice in the Electric Company in Buffalo,
and then he had commercials. I mean, he was so
well liked. I Middle America, everybody they loved OJ Run.
Oj Run And you know a lot of people don't
remember that person. But I have to factor in everything.
(42:12):
If I'm thinking about him. I've talked about, you know,
my interview that I had with him after you know,
the murder trial, the uncomfortable moments that I had during
that interview with Oj. But when you think of reality TV,
I think reality TV started with OJ Simpson because all
(42:34):
of a sudden, we had a live police chase, a
slow chase in the White Bronco and you're watching this.
So this is during I'm at the NBA Finals, and
I remember we had one monitor with the NBA game
on at the garden and then you had the other
one with OJ. And I'm watching OJ even though I'm
(42:55):
there to cover the NBA Finals, and you know Al
cowling h you know, he had played at USC best
friends and he's driving the car and you know, we're wondering,
you know, where's he going and why's he do? You know,
what's if he didn't do it? And you know, so
all of this stuff kind of factors in. But then
everybody sort of became a reality star. I don't remember
(43:19):
anything else in my lifetime where you know, kato' kalan
became part of the reality star world. All the lawyers
there and Johnny cochran and Judge Edo, like, they all
became reality stars. And it took over a year for
that trial, I believe, and then everything that happened after
(43:41):
that and what it spawned, and the fact that Kim
Kardashian's dad was on the legal team with OJ, and
then all of a sudden, you see what that led
to with the Kardashians. But I just remember with OJ,
you know, when he was found guilty or not guilty,
(44:02):
And I was playing golf that day in Hartford with
some of the members of the Hartford Whalers and we
went into the grill room and we watched the verdict
and we were just like, how did that happen? But
it did, but it felt like it was a reality show.
And then years you know, passed and OJ was supposedly
(44:27):
looking for the killers while playing golf constantly got put
in prison for what happened in Vegas. When he was
trying to get his memorabilia back, he would have his
Twitter World things that he would say, it's.
Speaker 5 (44:40):
A bad day for people who do impressions of OJ.
Speaker 2 (44:45):
I mean, I ran into cato' kalen in Vegas at
Shadow Creek. We're playing golf. He's with Norm MacDonald and
like you're just thinking, how did this happen? But it did?
I think where reality TV was born for better or worse?
Speaker 5 (45:04):
Yeah, seen, the dude actually had audacity isn't even the
right word. Yeah, But just the fact that he wrote
a book called If I Did It Confessions of the Killer,
a hypothetical like account of how he would have done.
Speaker 2 (45:19):
It if he had no just apathetical. That is unbelievable.
He never he never read the room. He was always
the most important person in the room. Imagine you loved
somebody so much that you kill them, like he he
loved her, but he killed her because he didn't want
(45:40):
anybody else with her. And whether he acted alone, which
I don't think he did, but still, I remember he
tried to tell me during the interview that you know,
he didn't do it, and I just said, I don't
want to hear it, because you know that That's where
we had the awkward moment when we're not on camera
(46:03):
and he says to me, do you think I did it?
And then I said did what? And then he said
kill those two people? And then I said yes, and
then we started up the interview right after that. But yeah,
I gets we tend to see Oj in that light.
We forget what he was before that, and it's not
(46:24):
that we should remember that, but I do. I you know,
how big of a star he was. Just the context
of telling somebody's life story, It's easy to jump to
the very end, but look, I was right there and
appreciating OJ Simpson the football player. I met him a
couple of times personally outside of that interview that I did,
(46:48):
when he was working for ENDBC. So yeah, just bizarre.
And then who he's calling, and he's trying to get
a hold of Bob Costas, who's on the air at
the time with NBC, and who was visiting him in prison,
and just wild wild. Yeah, Paul, it.
Speaker 7 (47:05):
Really does feel like you're speaking about we're speaking about
two different people. Because before the day that the killings happened,
he was one of more popular celebrities, like where he
enjoyed being a celebrity. You see him on TV shows,
He enjoyed, he goes, he was in movies and I
had heard from people saying, like, if you walk up
to him, photograph, he give you the time, He give
you the picture. He was an American celebrity that loved
(47:27):
being it and we liked him. He was in TV
shows and movies and Monday that football I didn't work
out great, but he was on it because he was
such a likable guy.
Speaker 2 (47:34):
Yeah, he wasn't a good broadcaster, but he was so
charismatic and you just you look back on that and
he had everybody fooled because then I started asking questions.
I'm at the NBA Finals, it said halftime, and I'm
asking somebody who was a friend of OJ. I said,
would you come on camera? And he said no, but
(47:57):
he said he used to beat her all the time.
And I remember hearing that from this person. I was
so disappointed that he didn't And maybe it's not fair.
But in the moment, I'm thinking, why didn't you say
something to somebody? But I mean, it's just all surreal, surreal.
(48:18):
You're in an NBA finals and I'm asking if I
can do interviews with certain people about Oja and everybody
said no. Everybody did last call for phone calls. What
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