Quail Hollow falls flat, TGL rents out to Pro Wrestling, and Early PGA thoughts

Now the shotgun starting golf is full of mathematics. There's a lot of setup work that we have to do in order to make a tournament work. So I'm going to demonstrate to you just exactly how we do a shotgun start here. And here we go. Alright, alright, alright. Gentlemen! Start your...INJ! Greetings and welcome to a Monday episode of the shotgun start. It is May 11th. Kevin, how we doing? PJ, I'm doing so good. Listen, I was a little bit jealous that the gang got together. And I felt like the odd man out. So I wanted to come in and try to at least audition for the role of... I feel like you and Joseph are like the Ninja Turtles. And I'm like Splinter. I'm the old wise one. And I want to educate you however I can. So at least I'm here to BS my way through that audition. So are you saying you want to be a gang member? Is that what I'm hearing? That is correct. Yes. I think we can...I think we can... I have from Baltimore. Come on. Let's go. We're off to a rip road start here on a Sunday. This is, you know, if you've made it, you know, a minute into this episode so far and you want to stick with us for however long we're going to go here, you're more than welcome to. And he's off, you know, celebrating the return of the Bulls. Big lottery result for the Bulls today. The Bulls in the top four. He's already wants to reunite the Caleb's, Caleb Wilson, Caleb Williams. He wants all of the Caleb's in the greater Chicago area. So we're here. We're going to hear to recap, you know, some of the biggest stories in golf, comeback wins from past Ryder Cupers, you know, Ricky Fowler's Peacock and around. What a great weekend of golf this was. I listen, you know that I'm going to Peacock a little bit about Ricky Fowler because you were on a podcast with the earlier today where I predicted the rise of Ricky. And our, our dear young buck Joseph was sweating it out this afternoon was he was, he was kind of, you know, throwing some cold water on that Ricky Fowler's backtake. Then he had to sweat it out in the evening. He was sweating it. We'll start with the truest. We'll get right in. This might be the quickest that anyone's ever gotten the golf on a Sunday episode, at least in recent memory here, but you know, where's it picking up and going? We're going to the truest where Christopher Wrighton wins his first PGA tour event, signature event after getting in as the last alternate in Miami. The playing his way into the Aon swing five for this week takes down Alex Fitzpatrick, the A4 mentioned Ricky Fowler, Nico Hoygaard. The leaderboard got crowded there at the end of Sunday. Wrighton's had it moving, played well at the Masters, was T2 to the Fitzpatrick brothers at the Zurich and now gets across the line for his first PGA tour win at the truest. This moves him into the top 30 of the AWGR after he got his tour card through the DP World Tour last year. What do you make of the very, I'll call it maybe B, you could even call it C tier European leaderboard today at the truest. If you are, you know, Jim Furrick, are you concerned right now? Because I think I am. Terrified, Beach. I mean, the B flight is already kicking your ass, right? Ricky Fowler's probably going to be on that Ryder Cup team. He's going to be on that wall. We know he is. We haven't learned anything as Americans. We're just going to keep repeating this over and over again. We'll get to that, believe me. Yeah, I don't think that, look, it was a lot of weird talk afterwards about how Wrighton was like almost a YouTube golfer. What does it say about the Europeans that they got like a whole stable just YouTube golfers they can roll out and win tournaments? What do they feed them over there in Norway? No, it's it was it was good to watch. Like I feel I didn't know he's like the grandson of like a grocery magnet over there in Norway, like one of the richest people in all of Norway. So it's just it's good to see a guy who's down on his luck really make it. He played awesome down the stretch. You know, everybody kind of thought his short game was kind of, you know, limiting there and he made some really great shots. Honestly, it's just a great drive on 18 great great drier and into the middle of the green there. I don't know. I mean, I feel like he was he's not a lot of personality there. I don't think a dial tone kind of guy, but not a lot of color. I'll watch the press conference afterwards just to try to get a little sense of who he was. You know, this is very very Norwegian just kind of very chill and very not even probably like a two on the Victor Havan scale of Victor Havan being like a nine of Norwegian personality. He's he's kind of more, you know, two or three, but that's fine. That's got the golf done. Yeah. Let me tell you as somebody who talked to Mr. Righton at the players first timers, little media gaggle with Joseph, not in our two minute long conversation, not a lot going on there. Was not it was not a standout performance. Just talked about how his favorite golf course he's ever played was Augusta. It's like sick take, dude. Congrats. Really, really way to go out on a limb there. But this is this is alarming for, I would say the Ryder Cup ecosystem. Obviously we're a year out, but you look at the older guard. The older guard, Shane Lowry is going to be 40 at this time next year. Justin Rose is starting to kind of age out and don't worry. You know, you got both Hoy guards. Nico Hoy guard is is a T2 today. Righton is coming. Ludwig ended up in the top 10 today. This is a it's an alarming time, I think for the European for the American side when the Europeans, you know, a new Fitzpatrick has just spawned. If we ought to get into Alex finished solo fourth today after sleeping on the 54 hole lead. Matt went out super early, did an interview with Rex Hoggard saying that he was going to stick around and watch Alex for the rest of the day there. You know, he he had two doubles Alex did that kind of prevented him from from winning today. But for a guy that, you know, hand up myself included said maybe a two year exemption is a lot for a win in Zurich. Guys, guys banked almost $3 million over the last two weeks in his first two signature events. It certainly looks like he belongs in the upper tier of PGA tour players at this point. Is the line just too thin between YouTube golfers, guys who can win on the tour and guys who are little brothers of guys who won on the tour and get an exemption like that's what had my head spin in a little bit is like, whoa, like I, I don't think this means like American YouTubers could win on the golf on the tour. But you know, maybe they could maybe I don't know what I'm talking about. You know, an American YouTuber is going to show up at a run amic tomorrow and see if he if he can win. So and blocky too. So I actually actually we're going to have we're going to have two YouTubers show up and attempt to play and win an event, not a PGA tour event. But you know, Bryson and blocky will be out there. I think, you know, listen, it's a it's pretty bleak when Ricky Fowler is your best chance to win a tournament as the Americans right now. And you accurately, you know, we were sitting in these same chairs like six Yeah, 10 hours ago. And you go out on a limb and you say Ricky Fowler this is before he even teed off at this point today. Thank you. Thank you for playing this out. You go out on a limb and you say hey not gambling advice. Ricky Fowler seems like he's trending as the best chance to win a major championship and maybe a long time before this. I guess technically it's LACC right would be the only other chance that has been at least somewhat recently that you can find Ricky involved but did have the clubhouse lead gave a shot back on 18 with the with what I would call bad bogey on 18 left himself probably a 12 footer for part 18 and couldn't make it. But Ricky Fowler getting back in the mix at a signature event has admittedly played pretty well this year was probably the best player not in the master's field when it was all said and done. What do you make of Ricky Fowler in the big 2026 you can expand more now on your take from this morning. Well one of my takes was what if Ricky Fowler is the last best remaining of the Bakers Bay boys from SBK. What was it 2016. I think it's 16. Yeah. You know that was gosh you were what you had a teenager back then. So it was it was all a light you kind of invented golf Twitter back then when the boys were doing cartwheels and stuff and tweaking about it. I had I had Smiley's Snapchat or whatever they were posted on on whatever public feed that they were on on Snapchat back then we were it was in fact the children were invested I can promise you that much. It was really funny to watch a lot of old sports writers of which I am one now but wasn't quite back then like try to figure out what Snapchat was like just a bunch of b-riders. I don't know there's a Snapchat thing that's coming around and we're we're fucked. We can't figure this out. No I my point was essentially if you look at the way that he's been trending he's been playing pretty good golf over the last six months for sure. Cobb or tweet something out recently that he and Bryson essentially have the same strokes gain numbers over the last year. So you know I admire Rick. I say more about Rick or does that say more about Bryson. I think it says there. I think it says that Rick is probably a little bit underrated and Bryson's probably a little bit overrated in the way that we have viewed them. You know Rick's not out here like grinding irons in his garage on his SuperD3D computer so he's probably got a little easier path to that 1.4 8 strokes gain for around but you know I think I think that it's been a long time since someone won a major in their 30s that was like their first major. You know it's it's that's the VJ saying Marco Mura you know sort of Sean McKeel kind of path and Ricky I think I don't know that he I don't think as I said he's not going to win the PGA but it wouldn't surprise me if he was in contention and then today just kind of went out and confirmed a little bit of that. I think he's worked real hard to get back to putting great and that's kind of who he was when he was really good and the drivers good the irons are good he's you know as another example today it's short game has kind of been blah and you know he didn't make a very good chip on 18 there. I think like a lot of probably I think Rory gets up all up and down I think Scotty gets up all up and down. That's probably part of what makes a difference between where Rick is and where some of those guys are but man like for the first time in a big tournament in a while like he he was in it and I think that juice had to feel pretty good. I mean he's up to 17 in the all important FedEx Cup rankings for whatever for whatever you want to put on that. It's a decent summation of the year for a guy who missed the Masters and is pacing for Eastlake right now. I don't know how what odds you would have gotten on Ricky Fowler making it to Eastlake but I think you know A this is further confirmation that that New York golf club just runs the world of outdoor golf and maybe we'll see some more this week in a relatively home game. I would say Philly is more home game for New York than any of these other teams at this point. Can we talk about the wrestling match that occurred in the TGL stadium? Believe me. We'll get to that. I was going to say that. Yeah that was going to send us home. Sorry to step on that earlier. I was just too excited. No we're going to get to that and I will say just myself personally Philly is a home game for New York sports after the debacle at Wells Fargo Arena. The last couple of nights for Philly sports fans. What a disaster. Good luck with that. I know the Knicks are good but they just kind of laid down and didn't even put up a fight. Well today they straight up just gave up which I appreciate. Honestly you're down 3-0. Take the vacation guys. Don't get hurt. Don't put it to me. Yeah. Walk in your track. Take over your trap for the Knicks and the fans. So very happy that everybody made it down the Jersey Turnpike for that. But I mean Ricky, I don't know. I would love to. I think it would be good for golf. If Jordan Spieth is like the best possible answer. Career Grants plan when everybody has it written off and myself included. It has no chance of happening. Would there be a more unifying win than Ricky Fowler at this point? No. I don't think there's anything that would really even rival it. I'm trying to think of what would even come close. I don't think Tommy would be in the same category but does not have the 15 years of history here. I don't think anybody would be that upset if Tommy Fleetwood won a major. But that's the only thing that I think is even comparable to a... Ricky would probably get near or if not 100% approval rating if he was able to get one done. Would a Tiger, if Tigers like stumbled out of, you know, whatever rehab and rolled up and just shot 67 on the first round. Would that be better received than Ricky doing it? Honestly, no. I don't think so. I think there are people who are probably done with Tiger at this point. Deservedly so. I don't know that I think Ricky getting hot and being a story entering Sunday. I mean, LACC, like, I don't know. You were out there. Did you genuinely believe that Ricky had a chance to get it done? No. I think he bogeyed like the fourth hole bad bogey and I was like, yep, we're done here. And he was like using that big old ugly putter that, yeah, where it comes up, way past your hands and almost touches your belly button. I mean, Wyndham was using the same dumbass putter and he won the damn thing. I just, I don't know. I remember thinking, you know what, if Roy doesn't win, Ricky would be a great story. And four holes in, I was like, dude, just not have it today. Like that is, this is pretty much living up to whatever expectations I had of him not finishing this. But I don't know, man. I think Rick is like, it's fascinating why we like some golfers. And we were talking a little bit about that this morning of why Jordan Spieth remains compelling. And I think Spieth remains compelling for like legitimate reasons. He's interesting. He's good talker. He's wild off the tee and manages to come do crazy things. Like my kids are kind of into Jordan Spieth and they don't really know much about, you know, like Rick doesn't have any of that. No. Rick is just like, as corporate and dry. I mean, he's super nice. If you ever talk to him, he's just insane, anything interesting. But I don't really get exactly why Rick is so beloved in that sense, unless you've been around for the whole arc of things. And remember the player's championship and I don't know, he was, he was talking about motorcross. It was very much a throwback. I don't really read the professor today, but they were asking him motorcross questions. I was like, man, what is this? Like 2014? This was wild that we were digging up the motorcross angle. He was staying up late night watching it. Some of his buddies were like winning the motocross event. I don't know. I just think it would be sort of a win. When Darren Clark finally won, it was that was sort of like the European version of what a Rick would be like. Oh my gosh, we're so glad that this guy is finally validated in his career. He's a major winner, you know, maybe a little bit of a mirror. But I don't know. I just want to see Rick kind of take one last run at it, because I think the sentiment to push him over that might be, might be very, it's kind of like the one last remaining story in golf now that we've had, you know, Phil win, excuse me, one Tiger win one, Rory win the Masters. Let's get Rick his sentimental thing. And then this era can kind of move along. So is this is this your way of saying are you team Rick or are you team speed? If we can only get one. God, I think I might be team Rick. I'm putting you on the clock here. Speed. You know what speed did that go get that thing this week with? You want to do that. We can do that. I kind of do like what the frick was this PJ? That was like chubby checker doing let's twist again. Like you can't bring back that stupid thing that it completely defiles the original. I mean, to like, let's call it space, but like doing it when you're however many shots back and you're like T 55 or whatever you were on a random Saturday at Quail Hollow. It's like you're ruining it. This is just for show now. It's just a great thing. Congratulations. Good job. I it's a you know, man, it's not cool anymore. It's not cool anymore. And I so badly want it to be cool. I think me and you of honestly this company, I think me and you are the last two people on that wall being we can go back to the very infamous Ryder Cup dinner where me and you are just screaming that he's going to win another Masters and Andy is just laughing us out of the restaurant. Like I do genuinely believe that I want that to happen. But every time we get another week of all it's close like oh it's so close. Oh it's so close. And then we're just like playing the hits like oh Michael, do you like this window? I'm going to hit it there anyway. Go get that. It's like dude. Come on. Like just dig in to quote the great Conor McDavid. Dig in. Come on. Walk in for like three seconds. Don't play the hits. Just like look at who you are in 2026 and dig in for me for three seconds and it just it has it has yet to happen. You know, Colonial is coming up. So who knows like maybe it's Colonial. Maybe he's the demon at the new Craig Ranch. Maybe Lanny set it up just for him. Like there are options I guess but doing the go get that and when you are completely for lack of a better word of relevant. Made me it's honestly kind of depressing. Page M&M was really big when I was in college and M&M was like this force of nature when he came out and he was like making fun of all the Christian Aguilera and the Backstreet Boys and all the stuff and it was like oh man look at this guys it's just doing these amazing things and then like five years later it was like oh we're still doing that like we're still kind of like making fun of Moby like that's that's your thing that's what speed feels like now it's like we're still doing this same thing like I think maybe some new material is important here. Jordan's beat just for the record T 52 alongside Matthew Fitzpatrick, Max Homer, Brian Campbell, Mackenzie Hughes, the Bridgeman. He did beat Xander and Bob McIntyre for whatever that's worth but I just wanted to say T 52 and we're doing go get that in in 2026. I mean was this the most useless quail hollow that we've had ever. That's funny because I was going to ask you is this the most even more than last year honestly is this the most useless major we've had in the long time because I feel kind of nothing right now. Yeah. I want to feel like I'll get into it once it starts next week but it's it certainly feels like the most useless one since Valhalla and I know that's not that long ago but it just the PGA keeps keeps ringing the slot machine and coming up with you know. Three different kinds of emojis there. I don't know how it comes back to the date and comes back to the venue. I mean we were talking a little bit this morning on Friday about what venues would be better and the one question I didn't get to ask was throw out to the guys was like what would be your ideal PGA championship venues. And I think you know Chambers Bay I think Aaron Hills even was like straights I would like to go back to it just the ones right now are just not working and this is has a real good chance to be another example that I would say to say that about like a dollar Ross course but I don't know what is going to bring next week juice unless we get a Ricky or Jordan in the mix like even even Rory winning does that do anything for you next week. No, like I mean it might in the moment but right now it's like you tell me Rory wins by two over you know pick a top player in the world call it. Matt Fitzpatrick. Yeah. And then you have you have a Nico Heuregard has a nice week it also gets in the mix like no honestly I don't think that does a lot for me it's just like another Rory major congrats man what do you want me to tell you like that's this is clearly all that matters for him. On the quail hollow side I think it was useless because Rory had nothing and didn't come up like I feel like in my head we're going to quail hollow like the juice comes with Rory to an extent at Rory's alley whatever we want to call it right like and and it was clear from the start that that wasn't going to happen I think Cam Young could have given it a little juice obviously for me personally but for the greater community if he kind of rallied today that transitions into my next point of I believe we have a space jamming situation going on between Justin Thomas and Cameron Young which is real real bad because Friday Friday afternoon right after his wonderful statements about the rollback if you're watching this on the SGS YouTube or if you're not already subscribed to the SGS YouTube you can see the gang that now we're calling it where Kevin would like to be a member Joseph myself and Garrett did a little quick 15 minute video there on Friday afternoon about an Adam Shupack article regarding more tour pros complaining about the potential rollback namely Justin Thomas was one of a few to put his name on it which I respect going on the record and putting your name on a take congrats like good for you. He goes out he's playing pretty well he's in the top 10 after two days he has a press conference Friday night evening and he says that he changed up his putter this week he's he was in the bottom 15 in strokes game putting I know this because I wrote him up for our little PGA championship preview that's going to be posted tomorrow I believe on the Friday dot com he's in the bottom 15 on tour of strokes game putting which is about where he usually is he had a pretty decent putting your last year but not historically a great putter. He texted the Scotty Cameron reps and was like hey give me Cameron Young's putter as it turns out he might have gotten Cameron Young's putter because Cameron Young had the worst putting day like a prime Cameron Young putting day today that prevented him from winning a second straight signature event he you know for put it from 14 feet he had multiple three putts he lost over four shots to the field putting and reps he had a pretty good putting day. So he's in the top four. Very depressing very not what the Cam Young contingent wanted to see heading into a major championship where in theory he should be you know third on the odds board right now. I think Joseph was being punished for like braining on my Ricky Faller take and so I think it'll be fine but I think that was you know more. Yeah I believe off the air you guys are talking about Cam was going to win by four or five shots will be in a diet. I mean I'm not sure if he's going to win but I think he's going to win by four shots. I think he's going to win by four shots. I think he's going to win by four shots. I think he's going to win by four shots. I think he's going to win by four shots. I think he's going to win by four shots. I think he's going to win by four shots. I think he's going to win by four shots. I think he's going to win by four shots. I think he's going to win by four shots. I think he's going to win by four shots. I think he's going to win by four shots. I think he's going to win by four shots.哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎哎 in the top 10. Any more last minute takeaways from you here? Very few. I enjoyed that bunker shot that Sanjay hit, you know, the ultimate backboarding. Yeah, number one backboarder. Perhaps the greatest backboarding of all time that goes right back into the bunker and you get to hit it again. I never know if Sanjay is like a serious player. Like, I don't know what it is that separates him from actual good players who win tournaments, but he does not ever seem to really ever give himself a chance to win. It was sort of in this one today, but not really. And then it just kind of made a double from about eight feet, just blah. But no, I mean, I just, it's not, it never feels like there's much to take away from, from Quail to me. It just doesn't, doesn't translate much to actual majors unless there's an actual major right there. So nothing. If there, if there is another major there, does that even move you at this point? I don't think it does. I don't think, I just, is it there, if there's, well, there probably has already a major scheduled there. We're just going to have to grin and bear it every five years. It's sort of, you know, I guess economically important to the game to keep doing. But I think, you know, the, the Kardashian quote that Gabby Herzegov from Hunter Mayhem, it's probably the most devastating thing that anyone could ever say about the place. This is like, it's pretty, but it has no soul. And that will kind of probably resonate for a long time. That's that. I mean, do you talk about all time quotes? That is, that's on there. That's a quote graphic that will live in infamy forever. That one, that one will stick around. We're getting texts from Brendan here before we move completely off of the truest reading text from BP. He would like us to acknowledge that Reitn is from what would be the equivalent of the Sears family or Walmart, whatever in Norway, as you alluded to before. But he does confirmed have a squares logo on his collar. This is trying to be a self-made man. He doesn't need that Norwegian grocery money. He wants to make it with squares. This is the shoe company that I believe Falda was a part of at some level here. That is now getting airtime on this Norwegian heirs collar as he wins a PGA tour signature event and banks three and a half million dollars. PGA, I knew that my kids were watching too much golf for healthy teenage girls when my youngest could recite the squares commercial by heart. Don't call Child Protective Services on that on me for that, but that is a real thing. That's alarming. Honestly, that's a lot. We'll toss it to an ad break here if you're listening on audio. We don't have an ad today. I hope a squares ad comes up here. If you're watching on YouTube, we'll just keep power through. But please, hopefully, squares ad will be inserted here on your audio feeds. All right, we'll keep going here. We'll head down to Myrtle Beach, another Carolina's PGA tour event where, you know, turn back the clock for Ricky, turn back the clock for Brant Sennettiker, baby. We have a playing captain off again for the United States of America. As Brant Sennettiker, he almost wins the Valspar. Honestly, kind of bottles the Valspar. Guy gave it away, but he's still hot wins the one flight Myrtle Beach Classic. How about it? First win since the 2018 Windham Championship for Sneds. I mean, I said it was a throwback. We got Rick talking about Motocross. We got Brant Sennettiker win in PGA tour events. I didn't watch a single bit of this, Pidge. I don't, I'm not going to pretend that it could carry my attention. I followed the KEPCA stuff a little bit as a certified KEPCA original fan. I'm sure you can appreciate that. You know, I've been monitoring that situation. Make sure that. No, listen, Andy called me. Andy called me before just to check in so he could fill some time on his drive. And he asked me how I thought the pod went this morning, the PGA Championship preview pod with you and Joseph on the fried egg feed. Go listen to it. I thought it was great. And I said, you know, even though it happened at the hour for a minute, Mark, I'm just happy Brooks got mentioned because on the 1% chance, whatever it realistically is that he won. I, you know, I'm just glad I got out there. I'm glad it got mentioned. And I do agree with you that it feels like the mental is in the right spot, better spot than it's been in a long time seemingly. I'm having fun playing golf again. That's a good, I'm pro that. That feels pretty good. Didn't get it done in the humiliation ritual that a five-time major champion had to go play the one fight Myrtle Beach Classic. No offense to the one flight Myrtle Beach Classic, but Brooks Kepke shouldn't be playing in your event. Couldn't get it done, but Brent Snedeker does. Made it very clear, very clear that immediately NBC does the post round interview. He's crying. I guess he lost his mom like relatively recently, Mother's Day. He's crying first win in eight years here. First question and immediately strikes it down, said, you know, I'm not playing, I want to make it clear. I'm not playing the president's cup. I'm not even considering playing the president's cup. I'm not, I'm not doing it. I want to get, I want to get in. I'm happy to, to play a major. He hasn't played a major since the 2021 open. So he's in the field now at Aranamake. He's like, I'm excited to get up there. I'm excited to see the guys be around the guys because I haven't, you know, I'm not, I'm on the PGA B tour whenever I get my starts. He hasn't had a card. So he's just kind of loitering around. He's happy to be with the guys, be around guys, play practice rounds with them. And then says to your earlier point, specifically says, I got to go watch quail. I hope Ricky wins. So Ricky Fowler didn't win. But to me, kind of alarming that winning a sleepy truest in May would be enough for Ricky Fowler to already be on the president's cup team if that did happen. I'm going to say right now, Rick is going to be on that team. This, this is how the old guard works. Peach. This is exactly why Snedeker got that gig is to assure that Rick will be the 12th man on that team. And then he can do what he often does, which is like tie two matches and get some digestive problems and have to sit out another and then losing singles. The Americans will scrape it by and just barely win. I mean, that's so sad that we're at this point. But he's immediately on the radar. You didn't watch much. I didn't watch a ton. I was a little bit coming down the stretch here. Mark Hubbard was the 54 whole leader loses by one to Brands. I was pulling for Mark. He's a good book. Yeah. I think he's like eighth all time in money without a win now. He's like very high on the list. So it's not a list you want to be on, but if, if you don't have a win, it's a, it's a good list to be on. Crash Davis, the crash Davis of things. Yeah. Blades Brown, a top 10 on a sponsor exemption. Yeah. Kids are real player. I mean, clearly hasn't, hasn't exact, hasn't won yet on the cornfury tour, but has popped in enough PGA tour events. I mean, the AmEx thing is, is still kind of fresh on my mind at least, but clearly is trending in the right direction as, as 18 or 19, whatever, however old he actually is. He's not 20 yet. Do we know what he needs to do to get his card? Is that way too early to even like speculate? Like, let me look up where he's 10th on the cornfury tour right now. So, I mean, he's inside the, he's inside the number. So that could see him out next year. I mean, if you had the game within the game on Brooks Kepka versus Blades Brown this week and you had Blades Brown, congratulations. Cause I certainly didn't see that coming. So if you did good for you. I mean, Tom Kim, a T six in an alternate field event doesn't really feel like Tom Kim plays golf anymore. So that's a sort, I guess. PGA Blades Brown and Brooks Kepka are like the dueling romantic leads in a John's Hughes movie. Like one of them is going to like Blades Brown is going to win the girl in the end, but like Brooks is going to be like the guy, I don't know, just popped into my head. He's proven, he's proven. He's still got it. His body might be breaking down, but he's still in the mix, still getting out there. So congrats to Brant's Nettiker, who I appreciate immediately shot down all playing captaincy rumors. No, no interest, but happy for him. You know, if you're a real, real sicko and you want to get the PGA app this week and you want to track who Brant's Nettiker is playing practice rounds with, I think that's maybe worth your time. Like, does he go with the Zach contingent of the Jordan JT Ricky or like, Hey, like, Hey, I mean, Cam Young is obviously guaranteed to be on the team. So like who's a who's a tweener that I mean, Sam like Sam Burns, like Sam Burns, getting some FaceTime with with Brant's Nettiker. Patrick Reed will be. Yeah. Yeah. Patrick Reed will be eligible, I believe for the presence cup. So I think so. I think his suspension expires in August, which would make him a PGA tour member. So available if anybody got her up. Yeah. You know, JT is going to be lobby. Right now, JT's 12th. So that that seems like, yeah, that we're going to see some, some real vote whipping and lobbying that would, you know, put some congressmen to shame come now that Sennettiker is going to be in the mix for this and stuff. You know, maybe I hope he spent some time with the Akshay Gharra young, young gun contingent. Cause I would have guessed PGA that Brant was older than 45. I was about to say that he's going to be a problem on the champs tour, but I'm going to hope the champs are still around by the time he gets there. I mean, five years is a long time and under the rollout brain. He's he's got a PGA tour card now until he's 48. So how about that? We'll see. You know, two years for Myrtle for an opposite event. Yeah. Yeah. I should know that. Someone covers golf. I believe you do. I believe that is that is what you get. He does not automatically get into the Ciggies for this year, but I believe you now has a card. So congrats to Brant Sennettiker on that. You know, good, good job. We'll throw it now to live Virginia where Lucas Herbert, don't call me a bear goes wire to wire and secures the one live exemption spot into the US open. I guess, I mean, I don't I don't have any expectation for Lucas Herbert at the US open. I hope I'm wrong. But as we were looking at the very confusing live golf leaderboard, there was apparently a one of the most insane leaderboards I've ever looked at. And I don't get that a graphic for this, but man, like here, I'll just pull it up quick. You fill a buster here for a second. I mean, the way that it works is like they they have the individual thing, but then there's was a playoff for the team. And so they just slapped that stuff on top of the other leaderboard here. So if you're watching here on YouTube, so I guess it was a two man, two two team playoff for the team win. And they had two guys from each team. So it's bias there and poos for the fireballs and AK and D tree for the four races. But they have put those guys finishing in a smattering from fifth to 12th on top of the actual leaderboard. So you roll up and Lucas A. Herbert, I almost called him a bear is fifth on the leaderboard for winning. And Bowser, D tree, and AK and Boug all on top of him for whatever reason. That's, you know, great coding job by the lives graphics team. So very, very confusing there. You haven't you haven't given many takes on on the week that was at Live Virginia. You were you were out playing some golf earlier this week. I'm providing you a soapbox here on, you know, anything you want to get off your chest as this week became everybody gets whatever they want off their chest. I had Trump, Trump, Virginia. I don't really have any serious takes. I feel like the, the situation right now kind of speaks for itself. You know, we're playing at a garbage course with a fake civil war battle, sort of, you know, etched in blood there on the on a plaque and there's a giant frigging waterfall that looks like a super conductor data center sort of thing. It's, I mean, yeah, nothing. Were you surprised about that? Were you surprised by like the airing of grievances that like everybody just found a microphone this week and was just ready to let it rip whether you were pro or anti the current situation. I mean, live is basically like Festivus where the airing of grievances like a major part of the entire identity. Like that is what it is always. So, you know, I'm just really kind of bored of like the, I haven't even really made fun much fun of live lately. I've kind of just sort of let the facts speak for themselves. And, you know, it's, they kind of continue to sort of cry and cry and cry and then whine about the coverage of when they cry about things. And it's, even that part is kind of growing less interested to me. I mean, the only thing that kind of made me laugh was Rahm saying, yeah, I mean, that's pretty locked step contract. Like there's no way for me to get out of it. Like what an endorsement of your thing when you're your top player other than Bryson is basically like, yeah, you know, if you look at it legally, I'm screwed. I'm here. I'm obligated to be here. So, until I'm not, I will continue to show up for work. They did a good job. Shout out to the live lawyers. Maybe there's a whole contingent of you live bots on Twitter. It'd be like, yeah, man, we got the best lawyers. Suck it. You can't even break our contracts. Losers. So, yeah, that's about it. Well, you know, it's a busy, busy week for everybody in front of the microphone. John Rahm, allegedly, I'm just going to throw out allegedly because there's no video evidence of this whatsoever. It's on a scorecard. Made in Albatross today on Sunday on the 17th hole of part five, made it two. Was not on the broadcast is not on Liv's website. You would think this would be on social media. Like, oh my God, our best player made it two. Well, there's supposed to be lots of people there. There's no one had their phones out when Rahm was going for the 17th hole and two here. All right. To be fair, I will say it looked relatively well attended. It did look like there was like a decent amount of people there. Watching Bryson in particular, I did watch a little bit of it on Thursday and Friday. I did not catch it on. I think it was on the Fox Business channel this weekend. Didn't catch it on Fox Business. But how does this video not exist of this? How is this video not tweeted like immediately by literally anybody? Is that how far John Rahm has fallen? Question, Mark? What if they just all signed NDAs and that's where we're at now? I saw they had to sign a bunch of NDAs with the state of Louisiana to get out of their deal there. The Times Pick You and did some good reporting on that, of how they untangled themselves from that arrangement. So maybe everyone there signed an NDA to not talk about this wrong. Albatross. Legion 13 has now tweeted a cell phone video. There is no broadcast footage of this. You cannot see the ball go in. You could just see him hit it and then people cheer. So again, draw your own conclusions. Like the moon landing. Still might be fake. Draw your own conclusions. That's that. I do want to give a shout out to Anthony Kim, 10 under today on Sunday as he was playing for that final spot. Obviously, needed to win and needed Lucas Herbert to not effectively place to get into that last exception spot. But you know, man, he's going to try and qualify for the US Open. It's time to test your game against the real big boys here. That's that's what I said. The 91 when we did the pod, I was like, Hey, man, like what? Brendan said, like, what are the odds he ever plays a major again? And I was like, why can't he get hot for 36 holes like final qualifying? Like what is stranger things have happened? He won an event again. He won an event in a final group with John Rom and Bryson Shambow. I would qualify that as a stranger thing than getting hot. You can win the Ohio sectional if you can beat John Rom and Bryson Shambow in over 36 holes. So I hope I hope he actually tries to qualify because that would be that would be pretty sweet. That would give a whole, you know, another level to golf's longest day there. I'm sure golf channel would love to be tapped in on AK watch if it gets to that point. For sure. On the LPGA, the Mizzouho America is open over in New Jersey. Gino Tiricun wins back to back at the Mizzouho second win this year. World number two. What do you make of this? You know, we are the greatest dad of all time last year that they made it to October, whatever it was, without a repeat winner, I think is one of the greatest feats in sports history. And I can only dream that maybe one day some full season will happen. You know, maybe we get out of the reign of Scotty Schaeffler and the reign of Matthew Fitzpatrick now, apparently, and even Cameron Young and one day all 40. Is it going to have the same effect when Brian Roll up cuts half the events and there are only, you know, 27 events? It won't be hard. That much harder to get unique winners. We've had plenty of double up winners on the LPGA this year already. Gino joins the group. What do you make of this? Look, I mean, she's the best. I think you can make a case that she's the best player on the LPGA tour, even better than Nelly. But until you prove it in a major, all of this is just sort of window dressing. Like we're at the point now where it's like, hey, you really need to get it done in a major. Like you came so close at Evian last year. So, but now come on, like please prove it because it's getting awkward and uncomfortable. And I actually think the more regular she's in wins that you get without winning a major, it's almost becomes a little bit of a detriment. It's like, well, why can't you win in a major? Why can't you handle this pressure? And, you know, it's a little unfair because like a lot of crazy shit had to happen at Evian for her to not win that major. But it's still like she had some pretty good chances and didn't get it done. So I don't know. I mean, it's great. She's awesome. She's everything that she's an unbelievable iron player. She's a great putter. You know, I don't know what there is to say about her story now, unless it's like, well, can you win a major? Because obviously she's really good. And it was a bummer that Nelly didn't play in this one this week, because that would have been fun to see the two of them. You know, Nelly's obviously flashing right now and trending. And so it'd be great to see her, you know, block horns with them. We're just kind of have to kind of probably wait until the women's U.S. open for them to actually have this showdown between the two. Battle of the Titans. That's what we're looking for. We haven't seen, as Andy said this morning, we haven't seen Scotty versus Roy since the Masters. We're just, you know, that's what we need. We need the best players to show up and compete against each other on all tours. That's where we're at. On the champion's tour, speaking of the best players showing up to compete, the Inspirity Invitational, which Inspirity signs an endorsement deal with one Eldrick Woods at the end of last year, right around his 50th birthday. Smart people immediately, me, connected dots, this is a cat showing up to the woodlands. Like this is this is on the docket. You know, some things have happened in the interim between now and then. But let me tell you, who needs Tiger Woods when you got Boo Weekly's first win since 2013? Who needs it? Did you watch much of this? How did Boo, did he just ball strike his way to, to be Ernie Ernie Fincher? Second, did he not? He did. Only player in the field to not bogey all week. Boo Weekly. Just, you know, getting up and down, got up and down was quite frankly playing for the bogey on the final hole and managed to get up and down from, from his layup spot. There's water in front of the 18th green at this course there. So he laid up, was totally content, making a five. Nope, didn't need it, pitched it to like six feet, got up and down. Ernie went in the water. Ernie was a shot back, went in the water on, I believe it was 15. And that pretty much wrapped it up. That was, it was over from there. Boo opened up a four shot lead and, and, and didn't let it go away. I do have on Twitter tonight, Dale Earnhardt Jr. chimes in. Boo Weekly won a PGA Champions golf tournament today. I met Boo 20 years ago and we have been friends since. He hadn't won a tournament since 2013, exclamation point. He's worked hard just to get his card back. And now at 52 years old, he's a winner again. We are celebrating in our house today. Kind of a Magic Johnson tweet there from Dale Earnhardt Jr. just reporting the news. It is very exciting that Boo Weekly has won. What do you, is that, could you find a more kind of out there cross sport friendship maybe than Boo Weekly and Dale Earnhardt? Like if Magic was tweeting about, like if Magic dropped a Chris Wright and tweet today, would that be like kind of more insane? My dear friend, odd Wright and his grandson. I'm a grocer myself, a grocery magnet myself. And I love it when young men of privilege just get it across the line. Achieve their dreams. Yeah. That's a great question. I don't know if I can come up with a better comp than that. So there you go. Congrats to Boo. He beats Ernie L's. He beats Darren Clark, Stu Sink, still, still just in the mix every week. You think about why he got passed over for the Ryder Cup captaincy. The only logical conclusion at this point is because they didn't want another playing captain situation unfolding because that man is just an absolute animal right now. If you look at it statistically on the whole, not 12 better Americans on their respective tourists than Stu Sink right now. Are you excited? That's why Rick's going to make the freaking team. I'm telling you, go ahead. Well, you're going to see Stu this week in Philly. Can you do some recon for me about maybe how he feels Aronimic stacks up to the concession where he's already won this year or where they're having the U.S. senior open in Columbus? There are some, there are Firestone, obviously a place that Stu's played before. How is, how is prepping for a junior major impacting his sights on the senior majors this year? Well, if I just went up to Philly into daily Stu Sink newsletters, how long do you think that we could do that before I would get called into the the principal's office until, you know, I don't know. Dude, I think, I think the two of us could spin that for at least a couple of days. Like, I think we could get 48 hours out of me and you just spinning it. Like you write it and then I'll be the spin guy. It's like you're, you're on stage at the debate and I'm, I'm Josh Lyman in the back room being like, who needs spin? I can tell you. Who needs spin? We're getting ahead of this rider cup story right now. When he is going to have two captains on that team, essentially one in the front end with Furick and Stu at the back. Who needs spin? You dropped the, you dropped the news. Energy, their bald heads is going to reflect back and forth. It's going to be an incredible I'm on Twitter immediately. But like, who needs spin? I'll tell you why we're doing daily Stu. I just asked Rory and Scotty and JT and everybody like Stu sync questions. John, I know you've been on live for a while, but like, what does it like to play with Stu again? Like, you just, Bryson, what any thoughts on the kitchen? Like he unbelievable effort from him. Have you tried, is there a breaking 50 in the future with the greatest senior player of all time? You know what's awesome is that Bryson would, he never wants to like come out and be like, yeah, man, I don't know what you're talking about. Like he would absolutely lean into that. Well, you know, yeah, I mean, everything's possible. Like Stu sync great player. Like we, yeah, we can, there's some plans. I can't talk about it right now, but there's some plans to get him involved. God, I just hope, I hope when the pairings come out, I hope someone at the PGA of America is listening to this and has the bright idea to pair Bryson of the kitchen to get together this week. Because man, I mean, you look back last year due to the rain, Fagaisi, Equal, how they went out in threes on a, on Saturday and the pairing was Richard Bland, Bryson and Taylor Pendrith. And I thought that was the peak of my existence. You give me Bryson, the kitchen and like some other character. Sure. Could not be more in right now. I'm pushing all my chips to the middle of the table on that. So please, you know, if you see, if you're a Friday golf newsletter subscriber and you see hypothetically a daily Stu headline pop into your email, just know how fast are you opening that or open rates for the news that I would go would soar would go, I mean, go nuclear. It would, you are, you're covering the best player in the game right now. So that's again, I think we've spun this into success. Please let us know, tweet out as comments on YouTube, comments on Spotify, whatever. I don't usually try to get into the comments, but I'll read them to see how the daily Stu kind of drops in on everybody else here. We'll go to the DP World Tour where I would say I'm borderline calling it the golf story of the year this week. I might butcher this name. So please forgive me. I worked on this. You can confirm I worked on this. You did. You did try a couple of attempts at it. It's a good thing that we have such high standards when it comes to the correct pronunciations here. If you're looking for correct pronunciations on this podcast, I certainly can't help you. We all know that. That's your first time. Yeah. John Huston. That was a real banner moment in my existence. You're of Premlal. Wins. Got to get good job with it. Yeah. The Australia. Damn. Catalonia. Catalonia. Sorry to the Spaniards. We've already gotten a little John Rompopping today and I now I can't pronounce that. And on the anniversary of Sadist Passing. How dare you, PJ? The great man, Savi, would be so disappointed. That's, you know, that's on me. Hand up. Yurov wins this by 14 shots. 28 under, ties the all-time DP World Tour margin of win record. However, they're phrasing it. This guy had played in 12 events entering this week, missed the cut last week at the Turkish Open or in his last event at the Turkish Open. He had five missed cuts and seven made cuts going into this event. His prior finish, he finished T4 in his first event of the year on like the first week of January. So it's been a while. And the consensus odds board this week for Yurov Premlal was 1000 to one. And he wins by 14 shots. You know what this reminded me of? Sorry to say this to Yurov, but this is like when the Olympics would come around and then like, you know, one would like see the Irish swimmer would come out of nowhere and win by like 10 seconds. It was like 10, 10 weeks later, it was like, oh yeah, definitely drug test at that person. That was like, no, that is not, that is not a reality. Yeah. It's just like an absolutely outlandish. Somebody placed a bet on this person. Somebody like is collecting a bunch of Calci shares tonight. Probably, you know, some insider trading going on. It could be Bryson. Who's this guy? Yeah, it could be. Congrats to Yurov though. This is incredible. This is an unbelievable story. I mean, you're almost broke Tiger Woods record for biggest margin of victory on the DP World Tour. You're looking at the highlights this morning on the DP World Tour. It was all coming through as you guys were recording this morning. And it's just like he's chipping in from all over the place. Like it was just one of those rounds where he was absolutely unconscious today. I mean, it goes 70, 64, 63, 63. He was 18 under on the weekend alone, which was four shots better than the next guy for the entire week. Is Yurov going to be a problem? Do we need to worry about Yurov getting into the top 10 now? Does this get Yurov into the open championship? Probably, I would think. I don't think so. I mean, you can't win. What the, you're telling me the Australia, Catalonia championship does not give a birth into the open championship? I mean, I don't know what it seems like everything gives a birth into the open championship these days. But I do not see a picture of him holding the flag. So I cannot imagine that he's done this. His third round 63 broke the course record at Real Club de Golf El Prat, which he then tied again on Sunday. This is like incredible, a thousand to go, literally double up a field. So congrats to Yurov finally on results for this week. Hotel Planner Tour. Chris Wood, former European rider, wins on the Hotel Planner Tour. His first win that is not on the Mina tour. Remember the Mina tour? I remember that was the key to OWGR points for live for five seconds there. Well, Chris Wood apparently was cleaning up there for the last two years. Got a Hotel Planner Tour card. First win that is not on the Mina tour since 2016 when he played on the European rider cup team. If I'm remembering correctly, Jenna Kepke broke the Mina tour. Yes, I believe so. I believe that is what happened. She announced on some social media platform that live was getting world rankings points. Not wrong just early. That's right. And of course, the captain is never soured on the live experience at all whatsoever. So that. No. And you know, Brooks wasn't even really there to see the OWGR points, but never wrong just early on Jenna there. But this is just the cherry on top of the 2016 weekend. Ricky's back, Brant Snedeker's back. Here comes Chris Wood. Chris Wood is back. Wow. Who else could fit into this scenario? Who would shock you from that era if they came back and were relevant suddenly in golf? I mean, J.P. Holmes would definitely be high on my list. Calcutta or whatever that member gets. He used his legal name, John Holmes. John Bradley. Yeah. Who else? I mean, speaking in 2016, speaking of the PGA championship, like what if Jimmy Walker, I'm not saying Jimmy Walker wins, right? But what if Jimmy Walker is on the full screen leaderboard going to a commercial break on, I won't even say Saturday or Sunday. Let's just say like Saturday afternoon, CBS is going off air. Jimmy Walker is on the full screen. I don't know. I might have to just walk into a porter potty in Veterans Stadium or whatever, excuse me, in the whatever the Frickin' Philly Stadium is now and just dunk my head into it, because I could not do another Jimmy Walker major. That's the worst experience. You called it the worst major you've ever covered earlier today. Yeah. Very bleak. You're out. If that's the throwback to 2016 that we're getting, you're out on Jimmy Walker. Yeah. Billy Hurley, the third, David Lingmorth. Those are some other names. Yeah. I don't know. Vaughn Taylor. Well, you know, another 2016 Ryder Cup, Bumblebee gets mentioned on this podcast every week, seemingly at this point. Might get a tour card. So 2016, what's old might be new, kind of just across the board, apparently. Yeah. There was a Jason Duffner sighting on social media recently. I don't know what it was. It was just like some nostalgia bait, some throwback stuff. But hell yeah. Why not? I'm in. All right. You want to do a little bit of news cleanup. You mentioned it. Sure. The professional wrestling promotion, AW, which is owned by the cons who also own the Jacksonville Jaguars. As Tony Khan would show up to NFL owners meetings and just get hounded by beat writers wanting to talk about professional wrestling. That's a memory that I will not forget anytime soon. They had an event on Saturday night at one of the cathedrals of sport. Like I know that they've done, I did some research into this. They've done Arthur Ashe, the US Open Tennis Center around here before. They're going back there in a couple of weeks. I saw some advertising going to a Mech Game for it last week. They've done Wembley Stadium. So you're talking about like cathedrals of sport. They end up running a show at the SoFi Dome on Saturday night. Wait, if you had told me that they were going to be in the SoFi Dome, I would have assumed there would be like a ring like set up, you know, that there would be a normal professional wrestling outfitted. So there was, there was. The ring was right in front of the screen, like all the way in the front there. But the clips that have gone viral on Twitter are the the action spills out of the ring and guys are getting suplexed into the bunkers, which as we've heard 10 billion times, the sand is the same as a notable golf course in Georgia. I won't name which one. They won't name which one, but it's very similar sand. There were no rakes in sight. The Greens got to 10,000 pistons pumping up and down and these guys are just jumping around and suplexing. And there's a, for those of you that have not had the esteemed pleasure of going to the SoFi Dome, it's kind of two tiered horseshoe. So they're jumping through, they're jumping off the top tier into the bottom tier into the tunnel where they do the player introductions through tables. I mean, do you think when the bubble popped, popped, quote unquote, the heaviest, the heaviest scare quotes I could possibly use on popped? Do you think when the bubble popped, they envisioned, we're going to build a permanent structure and it's going to be used for professional wrestling? Do you think this was part of the business plan? I hope so. I hope this is the kind of innovative thinking that SSG is going to give us. Peech, if you were a 13 year old boy in South Florida and you kind of liked golf or, you know, or in, or in jupe speech, whatever it is, you would, you would be really pumped up if you, they, they spilled out of the ring and then suplexed into the bunker. That would make your night. That'd be the biggest part you would be talking about on the drive home with your obviously like step dad probably because that's this is great. The event was branded. It was called AEW fairway to hell. Okay. It's like hell. Yeah, dude. Let's let's turn it up, man. Like why not? This is, this is, this is great. There, you know, here's a headline. I just, I just Googled to make sure I had the name of the event right. Headline from golf magic. Tiger Woods and Rory McElroy's TGL venue descends into wrestling chaos. Did you think that was the next tiger headline we were going to get six weeks ago was Tiger Woods's TGL venue descends into wrestling chaos? Do you think you had to get tiger to green light this somewhere? Like, slip him a handwritten note under whatever is thing going on rehab and be like, Hey, you good with this wrestling match still? Like, you know what? You know what my big takeaway is? Please. I bet Bryson would be kill it in that scenario. Like participating in a professional wrestling match of some kind. He would be, he would be in heaven. I mean, he's next to Triple H and all these presidential is like him, Todd Golden and Triple H. He's already in. I know Triple H is WWE and not AEW, but like he's already tangentially around. I think that's the next step. I think that's great. I think we've pitched a lot of good ideas on this episode. People might have turned this off 30 seconds in when they heard my voice and your voice throwing it back and forth to each other. They missed out on sync digest. They missed out on Bryson. Presidential committee takes on, you know, Ellen the cell. It's like the gambling meme that goes on Twitter where the guy's digging and it's the guy that keeps gambling and he gets to the diamonds and it's the guy that gives up right before he's about to hit the diamonds. If you gave up at the 30 second mark, you missed, you missed out a lot of, even if you gave up at the 40 minute mark, you gave up on the good stuff down. Are I in question for you? Are the nicks like the dementors of the New York sports scene? Are they sucking all the energy out of all the other good teams and bringing themselves? Cause they look amazing. And on the flip side, I'm hearing the giants are like wanting to sign Odell Beckham and, you know, like, I mean, Bristol did get his contract. So that's a good sign for Jets fans. But maybe come on, come on. Is it really? Okay. But the nicks, they seem, they can do nothing wrong right now. So here's, here's, this is a very real thing. This is a real belief that people have myself included. There is a, there is a, what we like to call the law of the garden. Okay. Where the nicks and the Rangers cannot be good at the same time. It is, it is the edict of God that only one Madison Square Garden hosted team, Dolan owned franchise, can be competent, not even good, can be competent at the same time. Okay. And the Rangers, historically, my entire life have been mostly pretty good. By far the most successful team I root for, not more successful than like the Yankees and the giants, but I root for all the bad teams generally. So by far, you know, making it to the Eastern Conference finals three times, being the best team in the league multiple times, like that is a high bar of success for me, even without any championships. Within the last, they made the Eastern Conference finals two years ago. The last two years, the nicks make the Eastern Conference finals now. The Rangers have gone from in the decade of the 2010s, probably the one of the most competent franchises in the league. Top three, like one more games than anybody, like very, very consistently good. And the nicks were floundering with Mellow, getting the six seed, whatever, sucking with Phil Jackson, like whatever, like that Jeff Hornichick. Sorry about that. Jeff Hornichick. Wow. What a callback. David Fisdale. I mean, this is like, there was bleak shit going on. Yeah. And here we are. The Rangers have gone into the pit of despair. The most disappointing team in the league last year. This year were third in the lottery. These idiots figured out how to drop out of the top three. Was it the only team to have the worst possible outcome happen to them in the lottery that happened on Tuesday night? Because of course they were. And the nicks are just barnstorming across the country, taking it over, doing whatever they want. There's nothing like the next thing. I've tried to explain this to Andy that the nets are not real. They're not a thing. There's no fan base. There's nothing. I guess there is like the Jersey people probably still root for the nets, but I don't know any diehard nets. I don't know any net fans, but casual net fans. Sure. But this is like, the nicks are the only thing where there's no split. When the nicks are good, there is like a real energy, a real difference to like every everybody is watching. Everybody's tapped in. Everybody's exciting. It's the only thing that everybody wants to talk about, which is great when the Giants are going to sign out of Beckham and the Jets give their petulant child of running back $45 million. And the Mets are the most expensive team in the league and the worst team internationally at the same time. The Ankes are actually kind of good, which is, you know, terrible. But it is, I mean, it's amazing. I've had a lot of problems. I didn't love firing tibs, but now it's all worth it because you got back to the same spot. Like that was the thing. The whole time it's like, you got to get back. If you're going to fire them, you have to at least match last year. Here they are. They did that. I've had a lot of problems with Carl Anthony Towns. I've had no problems with Carl Anthony Towns since like mid-March when he decided to lock in. I think Jaylen Brunson is probably the best player that I'm ever going to see play for the nicks in my life, I would imagine. I have my problems with him from time to time, especially like even in the last couple of games, game two. Jaylen Brunson, nobody loves dribbling the air out of the ball more than Jaylen Brunson. But hey, it works. This is great. I'm excited for the next couple of weeks. I hope BP's calves can make it a series out in Detroit a little bit, give the nicks a little bit more rest. But calves nicks for the Eastern Conference would be just a boon for this podcast. It's going to be great. I'm excited for you. And if Bron decides to jump on this train next year and try to be part of this mess, you know, that's like the final piece. So this is just, we'll go off on this tangent because nothing matters at the end. No, no. The night the last half hour Saturday live, like this is where just shit gets experimental. The night of the decision. What, 11, 2010? Yeah, I'm 11. We have baseball practice, summer baseball practice. It's like a Tuesday or whatever. Summer baseball practice. And then we're going to walk across the street from the baseball field to our local like fireman's fair, like amusement park, whatever. And sports illustrated for kids in the week before they have this little thing, a cut out of LeBron and then like all of the possible jerseys. So it's like Miami, Nix, Bowls, Cleveland, like all the confirmed meetings. And I cut out this little LeBron. I stuck it on a popsicle stick and I put that Nix jersey on him and I carried it all day to whatever camp I was at. I carried it to baseball practice. I carried it to the fireman's fair. And somebody's dad gets a text on a phone that he signed it with the heat. And I just chucked this thing. I don't even remember. I'm on some ride. I'm on like the swings. I just chucked this thing. No. I just, you know, even then I knew it was like the most because they had already signed Bosch and Wade at this point. It was like this whole disaster. And, you know, that's the last like the final infinity stone. Is that like, oh, LeBron has always kind of circled the Nix and never been outright negative towards the Nix where like a lot of guys like KD in 2020 or 2019, whatever it was when the KD and Kyrie summer, when they went to Brooklyn, instead of the Nix, like that that was supposed to be us. And then KD like has never hesitated to criticize the Nix or like play coy about the whole thing. And it's like LeBron has never really done that. So it's like, I don't know if I want it. I don't know if they can make it happen. Honestly, after the last week, like maybe he stays in LA. I think he probably ends up going to Cleveland. But like if the opportunity presents itself, I think it'd be great for everybody. It would certainly be great for me and like kids my age who missed out on the decision. And like that was a, you know, a core sports memory for me growing up is like, oh my God, the Nix have a chance at this and then getting my heart broken. So that would be great. I do think he's going to go back to Cleveland. But God, if he wants to come, you know, be the sixth man, play second fiddle to OG next year, more power to your brother. We're happy to have you. That'd be great. Honestly, I like, I'm a Lakers fan, but kind of only like at this point, tendentially, because I have no emotional investment in Luca or LeBron. They're just kind of baggers. They're not Lakers. Yeah. They're not. Yeah. They're not Lakers to me. And so like, it is so weird that the Lakers are going to be LeBron's like team of record. He's played more games for the Lakers than anybody. Like that makes no sense to me. It does not. Well, no one will really think of him. I think as a Laker when it's all said, done, like, no. And the Lakers, will they even retire as Jersey in the one COVID championship out of it? I think you, I think you have to, like, I mean, he set the scoring record he wanted to. You kind of have to, but it's just like somebody, that was a tweet going around the other night. I was like, that can't be true. And I looked it up. I was like, what, like, it's not even close by the end of this year that he's going to be, he's going to play more games for the Lakers than anybody else. I hope someone will ask LeBron about Stu Sink this week, because all I can say is when they finally get eliminated, that, you know, he's got time to catch up on. I mean, he could pull up to Iran and make. I hope you get that exclusive. That'll be, that'll be a stew diaries drop. I talked to LeBron about the greatest living athlete. Stu Sink. I need to get one of our books. I might just put it in LeBron's hand. Like he, he might be really into it, you know? Oh man, I love these courses. I know all about these courses, man. This is, I'm dying to play these courses. Well, edgy with this, I wanted to hit this, this, uh, Aiman interview with Terry Clark, but there's going to be plenty of Terry Clark content this week. So I'll just, I'll leave you with this. Do you think LeBron James knows who Michael Block is? Yes, I do. I think LeBron is pretty online to the point where he will, uh, he will definitely be quoted at some point be like, oh man, I love, I love Blocky. He's, he just, Blocky's great, man. He's, I gotta get a lesson from that guy. He's, he's obviously doing it. He's doing it right. Oh my God. The bad thing is, is I think you're right, but you know, do you think Blocky will be able to make himself a story this week? Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. A thousand percent, whether it's like, you know what, you want to go be the muckraking journalist that, that you can be, you really want to get the fix here. Yeah. You, you ask Blocky about Don. Okay. You get Blocky's take on Don being silenced. The, our whole SGS universe might collapse within itself. That would be, I mean, that would be it. It's like crossing the streams and ghostbusters. I don't know. I mean, that, I think that might be it. And to allude to the Aemon article that, that we don't have to get into, but, uh, he was asked, upright, Aemon Lynch asked Terry Clark, new, new CEO of the PGA of America, asked, just blatantly asked, has Don been muzzled? Muzzled is the word that Aemon used. And the response from Terry, Don has been asked to specifically focus on those non-public facing membership responsibilities. So, yeah, pretty good. Non-denial denial there. However, as a PGA member, we should ask Blocky what those responsibilities might be. Has he heard from Don? What's Don up to? I have some sourcing of my own that may refute this, this interview in Golf Week for Aemon that Don believes it has been a muzzling. Don would describe it as a muzzling. I've heard from multiple people that Don is not happy about being muzzled, if that's the word we're using. So, do you think in the time that I don't do the daily sync that I could get Don to admit that he ordered the code red, that I could get, I could basically goad him into the Jack Nicholas role, and if you're a good man, just blow up and take down everyone with him. Basically be like, you know, of course I, you know, of course I've been muzzled. If you could track him down by all indications that I've heard, it seems like he wants to talk. Seems like he can't wait. Poblatory, I want to pull it to her this week. I'm a little jealous. So, it's time for me. Pobl and I were colleagues at ESP in the magazine. It's time for me to return serve here. I think getting Don to admit that he was muzzled might get the attention of that Columbia Journalism School. Let's go. I'm just saying. You know, the PGA of America might not call it a muzzling. I think Don, based on what I've heard, might have a different opinion. So, we'll even at that, we'll be back. Brandon and Andy will be back on Tuesday night. That's a promise. We will be going live 7, 8 p.m. Eastern, somewhere in that range. We'll tweet it. We'll socialize it. You're going to be on the ground at Aranamake. What are you going down there? I think Tuesday morning. All right. So, you'll be there for Tuesday. You'll pop on throughout the week. We're excited, even though this might feel like a juiceless major at the point. We'll get to Sunday morning and somebody's going to get a major tally, whether we want to count it or not. So, that's what matters at the end of the day. Kevin, thank you for joining me on this Sunday evening. Very haphazard recording here. Thanks, Paige. All right. We'll see you Tuesday night live on YouTube to preview the PGA. Andy and Brandon, we'll be back. Goodbye. This is an I Heart podcast. Guaranteed human.