Fore Play - Aces, Statues, and the U.S. Open hops back in bed with NBC

Episode Date: June 30, 2020

A great throwback episode as we chop it up amongst ourselves. We react to Dustin Johnson having TWENTY ONE wins, the TOUR logging another positive COVID-19 test, the U.S. Open going back to NBC and dropping Fox, the Barstool Classic controversy and much more. In From The Gallery, what statue of each of us would be created and where would it be located???You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/foreplaypod

Hey, 4Play listeners, you can find us every Tuesday and Thursday on Apple Podcast, Spotify, or YouTube. Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. It is June 30th when this podcast comes out. June 29th, it's late at night. Frankie and myself, we're in Minnesota. We're in Minneapolis. People are super nice out here, I have to say, which is not surprising, right? It's like I think everybody kind of knows Minnesota nice.

Barstall Classic at Hazeltine today. win extremely well. We've had two now in the last, well, we've had three in the last week. We had Pyehurst number six, and then we had Cog Hill where we did two courses at the same time. And then today we did Hazantine, which had the 2016 Rider Cup, 2009 PGA Championship, several other major championships and huge tournaments. The women's PGA championship was here very recently. So a lot of pedigree to this course.

It is sweet. The 16th hole down there is. is the one with the little peninsula green that is, you know, we were out there kind of tonight, right as the sun was setting over the lake. I think it is Lake Hazeltine, and it was just gorgeous. The clubhouse, they've got all the trophies. There's laugh out loud, funniest. I think Frankie tweeted, like, walking in and turning to the right, and there's like the U.S. Open trophy, the PGA Championship trophy, the Rider Cup trophy, and like the Barstow Classic trophy, it looks like a Weber Grill, just sitting right next to each other at the Hazeltine Clubhouse. But overall today, it was,

fantastic. It was an excellent experience. We had about a four or five hour weather delay. And I think that actually made it better for people because we just opened the bar. And Hazeltine brought out a ton of food and they set up like a chipping mat so people could hit to the, I think the ninth green. They were just hitting chips to the ninth green. Everybody had a great time and basically didn't want that part of the day to end. So it was great. It rolled right along. Frank. He was out there chipping yet again, doing his thing, made a long putt, had a ridiculous reaction to making a long putt. Frankie? I mean, I've never seen a move like that.

I'm not sure why. It's a little to the last reaction. Now the big stomp? Yeah, I'm not sure why the stomp is coming out when I hit these putts. And to anyone that's watching these videos, I'm wearing spikeless shoes out there. So you can talk to me about like ruining people's lines. Like you can shove that up your arse, as the English say. Those joints were loose. Those joints were loose. I'm hitting bombs and I'm swaying my hips and I'm loose. You know, I'm just having a good time out there. I'm not trying to, you know, I'm just trying to be like a free swinging, you know,

I'm not trying to be too tense up there. Why should I hit an 80-foot absolute bomb for the truly putting contest and just walk around like I've been there before? Someone's like act like you've been there before. Sorry, pal. I don't go from city to city most of the time and hit 80-foot bombs on sliders during contest. So it's like, I'm, you know, I'm feeling myself a little bit right now.

But yeah, Hazel team was awesome. Was that your first whack again? Yeah, absolutely. I'm one for two for two. that's amazing good for you crazy how that works I don't really know what I'm supposed to say but the big thing here is that

what a pot is that Hazeltine yeah it's a great yeah it's a great pot hazeltine reminds me a lot like Beth Page Black where it has like all that tournament history and it's like got that large golf course vibe to it where a lot of the

holes just feel really big so it's completely different than your average fun track like where you're like playing kind of target golf you can hit hybrids off T's and there's, you know, you can maybe hit irons off T's and, and getting into the greens are kind of simple. Hazeltine is a lot of big swings, it felt like. And I didn't play, I dropped the ball around a couple times just to like, you know,

hit some good shots and I didn't hit any good shots. I didn't hit the ball pure once today. I hit about four, took about four or five swings today. All of them just felt like, like, like they made the noise of a duck. They were just like quacking. Never once sounded good. Everyone that watched my swings today, like, had a reaction, like, ugh. It was just gross, made people feel bad, almost wanted to give them a refund for like their experience watching me.

He takes some swings. Dude, I saw you try to hit another flop shot and you just rammed it into the Trilly cart. I thought that was going to put a hole in the Trulley container. I couldn't tell you how confident I was because I had taken one right before that a little bit further and I cleared it like no problem. So I'm like, let me, I was like, all right, Jake, like get the camera on. Let's move this thing like to a club's length. So when I was looking at it, I was like, does he think he's so cocky that he can get it over the cooler and under the tent? Because you were so close to it that I was like, it's physically impossible to get it over the tent.

So like what is his game plan? And so I was so captivated. And then when you took the club back. Yeah. It was like, dude, wait until Phil Mickelson sees that one. Yeah, that's a good. Yeah, it was because like you're so trained now to like, all. all the people that, you know, posts on trick shot or like, that like, you're so trained to believe

that they do it. And then so I was like, oh, Frankie did this. And then you just weren't even fucking close. It was great. No. There was a whole thing. It was like a 40 second spiel before that where I'm like, I'm going to do this. I just cut all that out.

And I'm just like, I just want people to see that. I didn't do it. So it's just a quick seven seconds clip. And it's a drawing noise. So sorry to truly for however much money they spent on that thing. There's for sure dent in it. But Hazel Tee was awesome. It's one of those golf courses that.

just rolls off the tongue with just class, right? You say Hazeltine, you're like, whoa, you went to Hazeltine. So it was really cool to be able to see that golf course. Crazy wind in the beginning of the day. Lightning everywhere. At one point, someone's, you know, we had a five-hour delay, and then we had everyone on the range, and everyone was going on to the holes.

And I saw lightning just like in the distance. I'm like, I'm pointing. I'm like, hello, like lightning. And the guy turned in me, and he just goes, son, you're in the Midwest now. he goes, that's 42 miles away. I was like, what do you mean 42? What are you talking about, 42 miles away?

That's the Midwest, dude. They know, they know their storms. They know how far. You guys just like sea lightning and you just know it's in the distance because everything's so flat here you can just see from miles and miles of miles. That's right. Yeah, you just close one eye and you eyeball it. There's been great weather.

42 miles. Great weather in Jersey. The, yeah, Hazeltine's a big ballpark. It's, it was, it is. You can tell you, there are some of the T-boxes. you know, where the pros play are just way back there. And then you have to bomb a drive. And then you even have, you know, it's one of those where like 30 or 40 yards,

like right of the right bunker is just endless terrain way before you even get to what you would consider something even close to another hole. So there's just like territory everywhere, territory, all of the place on this golf course. The Ted Pro here, Chandler, who was really, really cool, was a big storyteller and telling stories about Tiger and Davis Love the Third. when they were, you know, kind of running the U.S. team and the Ryder Cup in 2016 and how involved they were and kind of the process for how they wanted to set the golf course up.

He was talking about Tiger, like, around that time had pretty much nothing to do because he's injured. And so he said Tiger was like contacting him, emailing him all the time about like course conditions, course set up where the pins were. And so he was like telling all these stories about the Ryder Cup. They're having the Ryder Cup that's coming back. I think it's like 2028 and it's going back to Hazeltine. So clearly PGA of America, Rider Cup, Hazeltine have this phenomenal relationship.

And the place is just, it was pristine. It was firm despite the fact that they had so much rain. People's balls when they're hitting them into greens, when they're bouncing in fairways. I mean, they got like two and a half inches of rain. And the course was still in phenomenal condition. So Hazeltine was great. Their staff, again, could have easily just been like, well, there's lightning. So you guys are fucked until one or two o'clock in the afternoon.

And instead, they were just thinking. on the balls of their feet and they were coming up with ideas and they were entertaining people and they were bringing out food and they didn't have to bring out food. They opened the bar and were like serving people non-stop. So they just did an amazing job kind of making sure everybody at the bar so class I got a good time. And we had two aces. I mean, we haven't had a single ace. We haven't had single ace yet, not even close to a single ace. We get one on like the third group through this morning and then like the third to last group through. We got two different aces today. So I don't know where the hell like.

On 13 again? No, the eighth hole, which was closest to the pin. Some guy hit it to two feet nine inches, was leading all day. He came in after. He goes, hey, did my ball hold up? I go, no, the guy hit it closer. He's like, how close? It was like zero feet, zero inches.

In the hole. It went into the hole. That eighth hole is no joke because I hit, I went up there and did a little like buffet of bits. I'm like, it's the dude wipes closest to the pin. These four guys that just went before me aren't even athletes. They all missed the green. Two of them in the day.

drink and two of them in the sand. And I did like the whole thing. I went up there. I was like my shoulders were feeling loose. My leg was waggling. You really get to be, you really get to be your father's son at these events. Yeah, exactly. Everywhere else you're editing pizza reviews. You're behind the camera. You're doing a podcast. When you go to these things, you turn into Frank Borelli's scene. Yeah. And also, before I get to the whole, I just keep repeating the same joke to people. If I find something that latches on, maybe I get like a courtesy laugh from one group, I'll I'll repeat that from day to, like from group to group to group. So this one line I said today maybe 11 times and like M.B. was with me.

One of like, she's in our sales department, one of the heads of our sales department. She was laughing at how many times I kept repeating myself. Like these guys are going pants today, huh, Frankie? And I said, you got to pay to see these legs. At one point, I'm just like, I got to find a new one because now we're three groups in. Those guys didn't really laugh. but on the eighth hole man that that's no joke because you got some water in the front it goes all the way to the right it's like a little pond and that the wind kind of catches it off that

little pond in front like it's no like it plays maybe 165 or whatever was playing but like you got to play that thing like 175 and it gets hung up there that's a good golf shot that's a really good golf shot because i did my whole little buffet a bit and i pulled mine onto the two t-box i i cleared the water i hit it so right yeah i heard that roar that kind of um that gas from the crowd when you did that. You did that. You're like, whoa, what the hell was that? Where that ball come from?

I pulled it really right. That was bad. But that was a back pin. So it was. If people hit it like a yard too far, it hangs up and you have a really brutal chip. Or if you hit it perfectly, you can kind of spin it off that hill a little bit. And I guess that's what the guy did. And it spun a little bit right.

Went in the jar for an ace. My big one, Frankie, I do the same thing. And it's like the same. I think like Ebug and Jake have heard it a million times. But every time, because I drive around with my golf clubs in my cart. And it's just in case we do our little buffet. a bit or we play a hole or we try to do closest to Pimp. So everyone always goes, oh, commish, like, Riggs, are you playing today?

And I always go, does Roger Goodell play in the Super Bowl? And it gets, we'll just laugh every single time. That's good. But I do, I feel bad for Jake and E-Bug because they're like this fucking joke every goddamn time. Here it comes. Here it comes. The guy teased them up.

Here it comes. It's like Disney World. It's like Disney World. You got to act like it's every, everyone's first time. Yeah, that's right. And I got to admit, I don't think that's Disney Lines Tech, Disney World's tagline, but I think I've watched a documentary in which that is the way that they go about their business. Yeah, I could see that. That's like their little banner before they go out,

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Finally, a big controversy. after Friday's event where I had to disqualify somebody who was the winner of the event. I put out a video that kind of explained it as best as I could, but what really happened was we have these guys win at 10 under par. I'm going to give it to you real quick because people love Contrauss. We had these guys win on the ravines course at Cog Hill. They post 10 under par. It's net 50% handicap team to two man best ball.

That's the team. That's the format. They post 10 under par. They win. They're going to pioneers. Well, another team reaches out and says, hey, you know, we know that name and we actually just kind of cross-reference the name because the handicap didn't make sense. So we just wanted to put this on your radar, you know, in case you guys know more about it than we do or maybe this isn't the right person. But like, we know that that person doesn't play as that handicap typically.

So we just want to throw it at you. Well, Lisa, Trisha, work on our team who deal with handicaps all the time, who are saints and dealing with handicaps sucks. You got to deal with people that want the grint or they want their local, you know, Massachusetts or Illinois or whatever handicapped account. You got to figure out how to go into that website, that system, and cross-reference it and confirm it and check it. When did they start posting scores of pain in the ass? They work their asses off to get it right. They said, you know, not on our watch. We put too much time into this.

Go in, end up finding that there's two people with the same name who seem to be the same person with two different handicaps. One is a plus 1.5, so clearly a stick. And the other one is like a six or a seven. And the one that played in the Barstool Classic was like a six or a seven and had created this handicap on June 17th, I think it was for a June 25th event and had gone in and posted retroactively 30 scores or so to create that handicap. So we said, you know, no, like this person also played like college golf to some degree. So we said, look, if this is really the same person, that's clearly not allowed.

You can't have two handicaps. You can't choose when to use a lower handicap or when to use a hierarchy handicap. That ain't the deal, brother. So email the guy and said you got one hour to respond. Did you guys cheat your handicaps? He sent this long thing back. We didn't cheat. You can ask our playing partners.

I responded. Said clearly this is the same person. You are this human being. Correct? He said, well, that is me. But I actually just use that handicap, which is not as good as I am now. I just use that handicap because to get into certain qualifiers, you have to be like below a three or below a 1.2 or whatever it is to play in like U.S. Open qualifiers and stuff.

And I like to get my competitive fix still, but I'm not that. And I said, well, that's all I needed to hear. If you're really the same person, you're out. Now, I don't know that you're necessarily some cheater. I don't know that you're trying to screw everyone on the entire field, but you can't have two fucking handicaps. You get one handicap. That's the deal.

Disqualified, gone. I don't think anybody has any issue with the decision, but we did have a controversy. And as the commissioner, I mean, you're looking for controversy all the time. So when I got these emails from Lisa and this, I was like, let's go. This is great news. And we had a big DQ, but again, I think it was kind of a no-brainer. I don't know if anybody has any other thoughts on the whole.

Fan for life? I don't know yet. That's a great question, Trent. That is a great question. I don't think you're going to. I don't think you ban for them. I think he learned his lesson, right? Like, I think he played a good round of guy.

You don't know this guy. Why are you at this guy? My point being is that he already got reprimanded, you know? Not really, though. I mean, like, we got a... He's kicked out of the Barso Classic. He's on his way to Pinehurst. You need to make sure that people don't do this in the future.

If he gets to, if he is a... People won't do us in the future now. What? My point is that it's like, you kick them out, and now you're burying him even more. You already, you already got one lashing. The only reason we caught him, he, like, he, like, DM'd or one of his friends,

DM'd, Instagram to all of us. Or at least that's how, like, I saw. And then I saw Riggs's, like, video to the whole thing. I mean, I think I'm with Trent. Like we, you know, I think the, I think the pain goes a little bit deeper than just this. And sure, maybe I'm just obsessed with like banning someone from something and that's part of the lure. Or like a three-year ban. You're also saying, Frankie, that he already got his punishment.

This could have easily been the first punishment right out of the gate. Ban them. That's what I would do. You know, look, I considered it. I thought about it in the shower this morning actually for quite a while, Trent Day. I was like, you know, do I bring the hammer down? and I thought about it Friday night when I was really getting ready to put out the video and kind of let everyone know what was going on.

And I didn't get the vibe that this was some bad person. I think he was very conscious too of like, you know, I'm getting kind of roasted and trashed for this and like my reputation, which self-deserving, no doubt about that to some degree. But to ban him from the Barstall Classic forever, he said, I love the classic. We had so much fun. We met a lot of great people. so to like ban him forever. Maybe I'm like a soft commissioner,

but I did disqualify. I mean, he's disqualified. Everything that he was playing for is just ripped out of his height. He can't, he can't do it. He just played, you know, paid his money and he's just out. You're out of the tournament. Banned forever. I don't, I don't know.

I don't know if I'm a band, you know, like casinos band guys when they're like real drunk assholes or some. I don't know that I like ban a guy from my golf to, I don't know. I, listen, I, I, I, um, I'm not. saying he's a bad guy. I'm not saying I don't know who this person is. He definitely tried to skirt the rules with two handicaps. What I'm most concerned about is people doing this in the future. That's what you have to think about. I mean, how many people, though, have two handicaps? Like, I don't know anybody in any of my friends that have two handicaps. Yeah, you're right.

And to say that, like, one is, like, you're competitive and now non-competitive and that he backdated 30 scores in, like, three days to then have a handicap for this event is, like, you're You actually have one handicap and you just made another one up for this event. Trent, you're right. It is. It's, it's, it's putting his head on a stake and planting it all along the road so that future enemies know, you know, what they could be up against. That's what the move would be.

And I don't know that, that I'm there yet. Now, I've, I've thought about it. And I do, I do think that would be a big deterrent from people doing it in the future, because you're right. Like the, the real, the only real deterrent now is like, well, I could potentially get caught and then Commissioner Riggs will just not let me win the thing that I shouldn't have won anyways. Right. So, again, obviously, it's your call.

I think we're just acting as your counsel right now. Just give you a couple different opinions, a couple different options. And like I said before, I think you'll lure of like a red stamp coming down that says ban. Like, that's kind of what's my motivating factor. I don't think this guy's a bad guy. I'm just obsessed with banning people. Yeah. I'll let you do it.

If we ban him, I will print up his photo and, like, maybe his gin ID, and you can just stamp band on it, Trent. Nothing would make me happier. Now I'm just thinking you go to barstool Classic.com, and then there's just a tab that says, like, band players, and Trent just stamps their face. Like, when they take your fake ID at the gas station and they put it behind the guy?

Yes. Exactly. Speaking of IDs, you guys met the John Deere. Oh, man. Crazy. Oh, this guy is John. This guy comes up to do the chip and they're a guy. They keep asking last names.

What's your last name? The guy goes dear. And so naturally like 50% of the people in the room are like, John. And he's like, well, yeah, like my middle name's John. Come on. Like, show us your fucking ID. Pulls his ID out shirt up right there.

John Deere. It was unbelievable. But his middle name was John. He said like his cousin's name is John Deere, first name. He's got a bunch of John Deere. Welcome to the Midwest. You got guys eyeball and thunderstorms, and you got John Deere in the chipping contest. That's what you get.

It was. There were quite a few people from the Midwest. And those guys said, they were like, hey, he's Trent here. And I was like, no, and they're like, he's our favorite. I was like, yeah, no, John Deere, I know. We know that Trent's clearly your favorite. But they did. They missed you out there, Trent, Daddy.

Yeah, I missed them. I, you know, anytime I can be with my Midwestern brethren, I love to do it, but yeah, I didn't make the trip this time. But shout out to all those guys. Shout out to John Deere specifically. Hazeltine had a pizza golf cart that they were cooking up pizzas on, and they also had crab cakes on the golf course. So shout out to Hazeltine for some of the best on-course amenities I've ever seen in my entire life.

It was a stunning machine that they had on the first team. The fact that they have that at their disposal is insane. They have this like, they have a golf cart. They have a golf cart that's used for just like the, like, the, utility golf cart, so it's not a regular golf cart. It doesn't have the top to it. And they rigged the back where it's like a one chimney type, like, just fits like one or two pizzas inside, wood-fired oven,

and they rigged it to this thing so that it actually goes on hydraulics and moves down into the golf cart so they can drive it. And then when, like, the chef wants to make the pizzas, it zooms up towards him. And it's like a whole station that, like, comes out. They put the pizzas on and everything. It's crazy. Cook the pizza to perfection.

and they had breakfast pizzas with sausage and gravy on it. And then they made regular pizzas with pepperonies and regular cheese. And I found it to be really good pizza. Like Dave would call it fancy pizza because it was like kind of like that neapolitan type crust. But I found it to be super good, really, really good ingredients and really, really tasty. Yeah, it was. It was shocking. I mean, everyone had to go look at this contraption and ask the guy.

Okay. So, like, tell me what I'm looking at right here is real. Like, this is a whole, this is a thing. It sounds like a willi, like a Willy Wonka car. It was, and then it just, it just moved. Someone said I was Willie Wonka walking after my putt. You know how Willy Wonka, like, rolls out of, yeah, he, like, he pretends to fall over and rolls.

I've never seen, I've never seen any of those moves from you at all. do you have you done those alone no man that's that's the skip thing I've never never even thought the skip thing I've never thought that was like a Mick Jagger like oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh it's really something i can't you really you know what you're doing though you're setting the bar too high for yourself like the next time you're on a classic and you make one of those butts i don't know what you're going to have to be on a tricycle or something

but i don't know what you're going to do All right. All right. Headlines. DJ, DJ back in the winner circle, 21st PGA Tour win, Travelers Championship up in Connecticut.

Made it pretty interesting. I mean, it was looking like kind of, it was going into the final round. Like, oh, DJ's coming off a great Saturday. Brenta, like he's good and he's won a few times,

but like going up against DJ, what's going to? Then DJ made that point very clear early. It's like, oh, he's going to win this tournament. And then he hits one OB, and then he hits one what should have gone in the water, but doesn't go in the water. And then steps up, and he rips one and ends up winning the golf race. Drama is clearly what you want, which is great.

And he delivered, but it was interesting in that it was like, oh, it's going to be clinical, the guy that's supposed to win and the big star power and he's going to be a hallfamer is going to win. And then it went to like, oh, my God, he's going to kind of blow it. So it's been a little bit of a weird start in general. and this kind of delivered more weirdness, yet the guy that you thought was probably going to win one. So, I don't know, it was interesting. And DJ won, and he's got 21 fucking wins,

which is a lot of wins. Not only did he go OB and then almost hit in the water, but that was after Brendan Todd made a seven. And, like, completely melted down, which I don't know if that clip is, like, haunting, but also incredibly relatable because he just, it was, it's, just couldn't get the ball on the hall. He couldn't do it.

That's exactly right. She just couldn't get that ball in the hole or couldn't even get it close to the hole. The blade was like relatable, but then the most relatable one was when he he screwed the fucking wedge and put up the hill, it stopped. And then the next one was the overcorrection, just absolute missile where he juiced it by the hole and everyone's been there. Now, fortunately for him, he was able to make that comeback here. But for me and everyone else in this room, it's a mess.

That's an eight or nine because no chance are we making that comebacker. And to be honest, it's rimming out and maybe going back to where the chip was. So I was watching. And then so I put money on Todd pre-round because he was two strokes in the lead. And he was plus 175. So I was like, that's pretty good value. And he's two strokes in front of DJ. So I was like, he's going to have a real chance at this thing.

So I'm watching it. And then as soon as he makes that seven, I was like, I'm going to go jump in the ocean. I'll be back in 15 this thing's open. He too, like that whole clip, it was rare because like PJ tour guys, he didn't for like five consecutive shots, he didn't hit the shot he was trying to hit. And like on the tour, they miss a drive, then they hit like their recovery shot perfect. Or like if they lay up, like they hit their wedge perfectly or they hit their bunker shot perfectly, even if it rolls out eight feet, that's like the uphill pot that they wanted.

Like he just for five consecutive attempts just like couldn't do. what he was trying to do. Like DJ, when he almost hit that ball in the water, he duff the next chip when his feet in the water, and then his next one, he stuffs it to three feet and makes the pot and he makes a part and he leaves it. Like he literally couldn't, he couldn't hit any of the shots he needed to,

and I just saw, like, DJ had already, whatever, I don't know where the score was at that point, but he had already, like, tied it up or was, you know, taking it away. He was not, he was up by two. Okay. Yeah, 21 wins for Dustin Johnson. Yeah.

13 years in a row. Oh, we lost them. Did Frankie freeze? No, you froze for a second, but you're back. 21 wins on tour may be the most underrated or surprising number on tour because I think you ask a wide variety of all just like casual fans of the PGA tour. And you just ask them, how many wins is Dustin Johnson have a tour? I think that the answer would vary from 8 to like 15. I don't think anyone would shoot out 21.

Like if you asked me just right up the top of my head, I'd be like, 4.15. 21 is a huge number. That's a huge, where does he rank amongst, like, active players? Guess what his career earnings are on tour? I know what it is. I saw it, so I won't guess. You're taking yourself out.

I didn't want to be put in this position because if you asked him in a windy, I would have said 15. Holy shit. What is his career earnings? All right. So if Kiz is at like 20 million, 21 million. I'm going to say, don't say a number because I could be way off.

Should we say it on the count of three? Trent, you've already seen it. So on the count of three, we both give one. Okay, ready? Yep. You count it off. On three? No, after three.

After three. After three. One, two, three, then number. 82 million. No, no. All right. I was going to say 111. Wow.

Really? 63 million. Oh, yeah, I don't know. It's one of the same. Dude, I hate, I hate that. 20 years. So then I was thinking almost 40, just on way. Yeah, I guess like when you know 21, you can get there, you know, you can get to a pretty high number.

That situation, rigs was just in, it makes you feel like such less of a little person. When you're like, you guys won't believe what this number is. And then they're like, oh, 197. No, it's actually 80. But, you know, you guys are way over. I guess I must have ruined it and hyped it up too much. No, it's crazy if you really know. I started at 80 and then I just was like, no, way more.

It's got to be like 100 plus and then I got to... That happened to me. Like when somebody, when you're getting drinks, one time somebody came over like, you just bought this round of drinks, you won't, like guess how much these costs? And I'm like, $80. And they're like, well, no, it was like, it was like 33.

Well, I'm sorry. Yeah, that's exactly what you said. That's crazy, man. And DJ's a stone cold killer when he's in those situations. Like, I know he has his ups and downs and it looks like, you know, sometimes it comes out of the wire, but he, for as non-focused that you would think his brain is, he ends up being so dialed in in certain moments. It's crazy.

Like you think of him as this like, like there's nothing going on in his brain. You picture nothingness, just a tumbleweed going in between ear and ear to ear. But somehow he's got that killer instinct of like that winning professional athlete, 21 wins on Thor fucking Dustin Johnson drilling drives towards the end of this round to secure the victory. it's awesome. There's no one in the history of sports that media calls dumb in a longer-winded way than Dustin Johnson. The way his spin zone, the spin zone that has gone through, his demeanor has gone through since the beginning of his career to now is, is exactly what you're saying. Riggs, incredible. They had, they ran a clip the other day where they said he is, and it was a positive,

they said, he is the only guy on tour who can literally forget what Justin. happened. Like if it's a bad thing, like, if a bad thing just happened to him on the course, they're like, he can literally forget what just happened. And they're like, that's amazing. It's like, okay. Yes, now that he's 121 times, we can spin it that way. But before you were like, he's unfocused, he's lazy, he doesn't care. Now, since his demeanor hasn't changed, it's like, he just has a short term memory and he just keep moving forward. Yeah, they'll do a segment with like, like, you know, he was one of those guys who he just, you could tell, he didn't really take a liking to to the academic part of it at all, but he, he was really into the,

into the athletics and they just keep hammering that point home. You're like, no, yeah, you're saying he's a fucking idiot. That's like what you're saying right now. And they do it on the coverage. They do it all the time. We're like, you know, it is, he does have kind of this ability to not overthink things. And you're like, no, you're saying he's fucking dumb. That's like what people are saying. We know what you're saying. They do it all the time. And does work. Like if that's what it works, he's just, he's borderline to sleep out there all the time. He's just like, like a couple seconds of silence, which is, there's no crowd out there. So I'm surprised it doesn't happen for him just to be sleeping on the farewell. But it's a form of,

that's his form of being locked in though. Yeah, I know. I would love if it came out as like, he's like a methodic brain surgeon, but just shows no emotion. And then all these people are like backpedaling because he's got something. You know, whatever it is, it's like he's the guy out they're hitting the golf ball and you're the idiot in the booth being like well this is how he does it. Yeah. And I don't know. I'm not even convinced that DJ's like a moron. Like he might just be that, but it is so obvious that that's what people want to say and they just like they just don't say it. It makes me laugh every fucking time. It is true. It does. It's not a short like he's done. It's this like three sentence ordeal of why he's doing what he's doing. Every time with that guy. So,

But DJ, I mean, 21st win. He's got obviously the U.S. Open and Oakmont, so he's building a Hall of Fame-type career. So good on DJ. He's fun to watch. He pounds the driver. He's got that unique swing, the boat wrists and how different it is. So he's fun to watch. But all right, we got more to get into.

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GA Tours since June 11th. Are we concerned? What do we think? You got to be concerned. I mean, you have to be concerned. If you're crazy not to do. It's, if you're a player, I think I did see something, though, that the one thing that holds true

throughout all of them is that all of those guys have missed the cut, which is kind of interesting. It's all players that have made the cut have been kind of like remained healthier or whatever their approach and maybe take less risk on, which is kind of interesting, but I mean, there's only so many, like, you know, straws that can keep this whole thing together. And if you start pulling them apart, it's going to fade.

And that would just be a nightmare. So I'm definitely concerned. If I'm a player, am I concerned about getting it? Yeah, because it is happening more and more. Am I, as a fan, am I concerned that they're going to cancel the tour and shut it down? I think a week ago, I was on this very podcast, singing a very different tune that I'm going to sing right now, and it was one of Doomsday,

and like they're going to shut this fucking thing down, and we're all screwed and we're not going to have golf. But after listening to Jay Monaghan talk about it and just sort of the tweaking of the protocols, I feel better about it. And it still is a very low percentage of people that are getting it inside the PJ Tour bubble. So I'm not as concerned that they're going to shut the whole thing down as I was a week ago. But as the more people get it, and Harris English, like you said, Dylan Fratelli, these are the ladies. latest ones. But the thing is, is it's never not going to happen. Like, they're never, it's never going to be perfect. So, right. People are going to be testing positive. And that can't,

we can't, like, ring a red alarm every time that happens. And, like, what other group can you think of where they are testing 100% of the people multiple times a week? So, like, you know, like that, that is one thing that a lot of people tout, which is that, well, when testing goes way up, the positive cases go up. So like, if they're testing every single person, which is hundreds of people, you've got hundreds of players, hundreds of caddies, hundreds of like small groups. So several hundred people are being tested multiple times a week. And you get like one positive case.

You're right, Trent. They're like, if I'm a player, I'm like, well, it's more likely. I'm going to get, I'm not just quarantined. Anytime you're not just quarantining in your home, you're more likely to get it. And they're clearly not doing that. They're traveling and all of that. But I guess I didn't, when I saw the one, I was like, okay, it's fine. It's fine. It's not like a huge change to me that there's one

additional COVID case and that he wasn't even at the tournament last week. So I agree with you. I don't think it really has any impact on the future of them continuing to play, in my opinion. Do you get against the 12, though? There's no, like you're, you think it continues on? I would love to know the number that they have in their head because the PJ Tour definitely has a number in their head. they won't tell anybody, I'm sure. But like I would love to know what that number is. I don't know if it's 12. I don't know if it's 20.

I don't know if it's 25. But there's got to be a threshold where they're like, all right, we got to rethink this whole thing. And I think it's important of like week by week. If it's like 12 people test positive this week for COVID, then I think it's like, oh shit. But if it's like, hey, three people test positive this week, which brings the total number to 12, I still don't think they panic. So they're moving in packs, right? They're all taking the same plane. they're all going to the same locations.

They're all playing the same golf course. But like are their families quarantined from them? Are there, is, like, does Pauline and Gretsky going get groceries or, like, is the mother-in-law there and, like, coming in and staying at the hotel? Like, at what level are these guys, like quarantined for six months during this tour? Trent, is Paulina getting the grocery? I don't know. I don't have an answer.

I looked right at Trent when I said that because you usually have Pauline all over. But, like, is like, is a guy's brother-in-law coming over to stay? Like, you know what I mean? At what level do these people have? like realized because like it's always going to happen then this they're never going to be able to stop this because you can be in with someone and you can you can go get tested and you can be negative before the tournament and then you get in contact with someone you don't even realize for the next two weeks but within those two weeks as you're playing on the tour and you're going to the

fucking practice range and you're dapping people up you're infecting other people it's just never going to end so I just don't know what they were expecting by coming back like obviously this was going to happen so it actually is going to happen so it actually actually pisses me off how big of a story it is every single time someone gets it it's like hey guys the whole world's getting it we literally shut the country down we shut the world down for four months you're fucking it's a headline when this guy when this guy gets COVID I mean what have you been looking around he's going to get it the odds are he was going to get it anyway it's just making me anger and it's like Zimmerman Zimmerman in baseball just said he's not going to come back he's like

I have three kids I have a wife and my mother is extremely um you know risk she she has a high risk of getting it and she could die if she gets it. I'm not going back to play baseball. So it's like, I think this is going to happen across all different sports. I really do. Let me ask you this. Then what side of it are you on? Are you on? We should be doing this because it was going to happen anyway or we shouldn't be doing this because it was going to happen anyway. I think you either go all in on the fact that like, you know what, Trent? I don't know the answer. I'm frustrated. I agree with you. I'm actually. Yeah. I want to be able to watch golf, but I also don't want to have to sit here and talk every single time now. Someone has a co. Has

COVID because it's going to happen every single week and it's going to get worse and worse and work. So if it's that much of like a storyline, just cancel the tour, Doug. Just kick them all off. Just end it. Let's come back next year. I don't want to deal with this all year. I'm fine with Zimmerman saying that and not being like, I'm out. I mean, he's also like, I don't know, a 15 year vet. So he's got tons of money. There's really no reason for him to play. Now, if you're like a AAA player trying to make it on, then I get like trying to force the needle and getting on and making sure that like you get your break. But, um, um, Yeah, I mean, I think that's why I tried to, I asked Pat Perez a couple of weeks ago being like, what percentage of new people come in?

Because I think he said like, 450 people make up the tour and all its components. And I was like, what percentage of those people are new each week? Is it like 30%? 40%. Because if that's the case, then yes, it's just going to flood in here. And as soon as one person gets it. Huge data guy. Huge data. Yeah, huge data go.

Try to just try to figure out the number. They tweak the one of the latest protocol tweaks that they had, which I think probably should, should have been right from the jump is that you you can't come on site or be on site at the wherever the tournament is without uh taking a test and testing negative like i thought that should have been number one on the list of protocols otherwise what are we doing this it's like i don't know what they were doing before but that should have been the first thing they were doing yes that's correct just pisses me off it's like that'd be like if um if at like airport security they didn't give you results of the until you're like mid-flight you're like well

I mean, the guy's got a gun. It's over at this point. It doesn't matter now. So it's on some level, it's just like, no, it didn't make sense. So clearly them refining that makes a lot more sense. But yeah, I mean, I don't know. I think it's always going to be a big story because people are fascinated to see what is going to come from it. Right. Like it's not a big story because everyone's saying, oh, my God, this is a disaster.

It's a big story because everyone's saying, like, oh, wow, what is the tour going to do now? like how are they going to handle it now? And so I think that that's what always makes it a big story. But if they keep testing people when it's one or two or three a week and then it becomes a story, but we still get to watch golf and bet on golf, like, fine. I'm in on that. The other interesting part was Cameron Champ put out a statement that he's been tested three consecutive times since testing positive.

And he's tested negative all three times. So what the fuck does that mean? Yeah, not a scientist. I don't know. That's a tough one. You know? It means the test are inaccurate. I don't know.

I think that you're right. Yeah. I think that's right. You can get tested. You can get tested and, but if you came into contact with a person like the day before, it won't show up until like the, like the three or four days later. So you'd have to get tested again. They could be negative one day.

But his was the opposite. Yeah, his was the opposite. He tested positive and then tested negative. That's where you're just like, well, then we've got to get better tests. Right. I think the tests are just not. Right. How about our.

How about our friends that whoop? Like, we're all rocking our whoop bands now. I'm charging up right now. This thing's so good for society that they're like making everyone on the tour wear one because it can just predict COVID-19. Like that's- So, what's-wit-law and a little bit. So Wooten is finding inconsistencies in your respiratory rate while you're sleeping.

And someone like Watney, right? Was Watney the first one that happened? Yeah, I think it was Nick Waddy. So his, let's say like his respiratory rate, and I'm going to go off my numbers, which are just, I mean, almost deadly. It should be good. So let's say mine was like a 15.1, right?

Like my respiratory rate, my average. He woke up the next day and his was like a 19. It was something crazy, like 18.5, 19. Now, I didn't read that until after I checked my difference in respiratory rate. So when I woke up the next day, when I got this thing charged up, I didn't have this in Pinehurst. So I just got charged up a couple days ago. So I've gotten my data back on track.

And I woke up, I was like 15.1 and 15.1 and 15.2, the next thing like 50.8 and I was like it's over it's done. I got this is it that's a huge spike like what happened last night but then I read up I'm like all right it's got to be a massive spike your body's really working on overtime and overdrive and really really really trying to pump out whatever fucking virus you have into

so good on whoop for like I mean dude whoop knows like if the blood vessels in your heart are like shrinking or expanding to the point where like the blood flow is coming through now how the fuck does that happen I'm wearing this thing on my wrist it's getting caught on my wrist hair. How does it know what's going on inside my

inside my vessel? I'm going through a thing with whoop right now where I can't decide like we put these things on, right? And then they became like the number one tour where I can't decide if I'm paying more attention to whoop because I'm wearing one now or they've just solved coronavirus because they can detect it.

It'll Nick Watney. Like it's crazy that as soon as we put these things on, they now give them to everybody on tour because they can predict if you have coronavirus or that. The next fucking day. The next day. I mean, people, we had a call right, with the people and they're like, hey, this is our partnership. You guys are going to love it.

Here's what you need to know. The next day, they're saving the world from this global pandemic. They're like alerting people to the fact that they might have this thing that everybody talks about testing is the most point. It's crazy. This little band. How does it work? People ask me that.

They go, hey, got the whoop thing. So it gives you all this information. How does it? I go, you know how it does it? I strap it on my fucking wrist and then it just does it. That's like,

that's the best I got. I don't know anything else about it. How often do you guys look at your heart rate? Oh, I'm looking at everything right now. The other thing that's laugh out funny stat to me is the sleep actual and the sleep needed. Oh, right now I need 10 hours. And I'm at like, I'm getting like 6.30, 6.15.

Also, when I wake up the morning in the morning, I get so excited to just check my recovery. Because it tells you like how healthy you are. And dude, the other day I got 7% recovery. Yes. Then I got 44. And then I got now yesterday, I'm on 19. and I'm waking up at 4 a.m. tomorrow, so I'm getting nothing. That means your body is just not ready for whatever you're about to do to it.

Zero, zero ready. So the other day I was at, I walked a golf course here. I played Wysette a country club. Awesome local country club here. It was awesome. A bunch of hockey guys along there. Kyle Rudolph is over there all the time. So it was a really fun day, but I also was coming off a 21 recovery type day on my

Woot Band, and then I got hit with a 17 strain. The Woot Band had no idea how my body got through it. I was getting alerts. I was getting notifications. It was like let at one point take a break. Sit down. Take a break. Like you need a nap right now.

Like so that because we walked it. So like it didn't know what was going on. I was checking my heart rate at one point walking up to one of the T's. There was a straight incline to the T. I pulled out the loop in. I was at 158. I'm like this thing's about the burst. I'm like guys,

I need a water and I need a wet towel around my neck because I'm going down. I'm walking with these guys. They're walking at like a nice, like you said, Lance Armstrong. These guys were probably fucking out of 26. Just pumping blood all the way, all the way around there, by it with just one big pump. My thing was bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, bo, at one point, it's just going to fizzle out.

I know it. I'm going to be one of those guys that I'm going to check this thing 24-7. It's going to actually get in my head. I'm going to start hearing my heartbeat. I left my charger piner's like an asshole. Yeah, can someone get me into charge? I've emailed 15 people. No one's answering me about the whoop band.

Who do I got to talk to? Cammy can. This is a very funny part of our group tax when, where it's like, yeah, I actually haven't been able to update my whoop. in two weeks I lost the charger and then everyone else on the list. Like, why I left mine at Pioneers? Why I left mine there? I finally have another one.

Thanks to my guy, Steve, um, Steve Peace at Aaron Hills, actually who gave me. He's like, hey, I actually have an extra charger from my woof band and gave me this. Um,

and I have to shout out Aaron Hills because I went back there, did a quick stop because we were obviously Chicago and then went up to, um, Minnesota, Minneapolis where we're at now. I decided let's just rent a car and go up for the weekend and hit Aaron Hills. And it was as good as I could have,

possibly remember hanky panky was there i sent you guys a picture of uh with hanky at the bar tally ho the local spot mikey was on the bag for us and it was just as delightful as i remembered i finally got to spend a little bit of like extended time there we just took in all the amenities and um and it was as awesome as i remember the the hospitality is off the charts the course was in perfect condition it was playing firm it was playing fast i finally shot at least a respectable score out there for the first time playing that course four times. So it was just delightful. I love everything about Aaron Hills.

I think it's a must, must, must play. If you're doing anywhere, anywhere close to the Wisconsin loop, that kind of Midwestern loop that people talk about where you can do whistling, you can do Sanford Valley, you can do Aaron, you can do Lysonia, also known as Cuxonia links. You can do a lot of different places. Aaron Hills is such a must play. And you guys have all been there. Trent shot the career around, the round of his life there.

except for the last two holes. Can you show on the last hole? I went, I went 7-8, or 8-7. Yikes. For a 102. What did I say on 16? I was like, you're definitely going to do this. Well, you, and people give you shit for that,

but you were just being a good pal, being like, you got it. I was rooting you on. I was wearing the John Deere shirt, and I fucking blew it. When we got in that trap, just short right of the green, I knew I was like, just standing where about that trap. That trap, that trap. And I love hanky, panky, and I was jealous for you got to hang out with them, and I didn't. But on my approach shot on 18, when I was trying to break 100, I thought I hit a great fucking hybrid.

I thought it was going to run up right to the green. And he turned to me and said, oh, it's no problem. It's just in the bunker. And I was like, you don't even know, bro. You don't know how bad that is for me. At the end of my days. Yeah. I played a fun game this weekend.

Is this weekend? Yeah, it was Saturday, Sunday, yesterday. I played a fun game where it was like high, low, and then, like, neat. nears to the pin and then roll and re-roll. I don't know the name of this game on the golf course, but basically you're getting points for the high numbers in the group. You're getting it for the low. Is it like cube or is it a cube?

Yeah, I don't know the name of it. I think they were calling it like rolling, whatever. I was whatever. All I know is I was going with it and it was a lot of fun because the aspect of being able to call out, we're going to roll you after someone hits a bad drive is one of the funnest things I've ever been a part of. So basically whoever's up in points drive. whoever's up and drives,

and points drives first. So, like, let's say, these guys are up maybe 14 points. You play a dollar point. And the guy hits it way right. You and your partner look at each other, and we're like, we're going to roll you.

Like, we're going to roll you real quick. So now everything's times two. And then, like, you guys step up, they're feeling real confident. Like, let's go get them. And you guys duff two drives, and you hear it from the back going, we're going to re-roll that one.

And now it's worth four. So, like, you can re-roll the roll, and it's so much fun. And towards the end, it really gets up to, like you're hitting 16, 16, 16, 32, and, like, drives towards the end, start being so, so intense to the point where I got up to 18. I was playing a great round. At one point, I was, I was three over on the, no, I was, I was on pace to shoot like an 81 or an 80. I ended up going OB on that next 17th T,

of course. Once someone told me, like, hey, man, you're only three over on the back. Next shot, OB into a house. Crazy to say that to me on the 17th day. But anyway, I step up to 18. I just had a horrible drive on 17 and I'm like, come on. We just got, we just got rolled. We just rolled. Someone's re-rolling us because my partner hit one like way right. And I'm like, Frankie, this is your chance to step up here, be a fucking athlete and drill one. It's a great 18th hole at why is that it goes up the hill, like a nice dog egg, right? And I absolutely piped one right down the middle. The guys that I'm playing against are like, holy fuck, that's a 62 point drive. Like can he finish it? I get up there with like a pitching wedge on my hand, hit it to 15 feet. They're like, this guy can't.

miss right now. And I know you think this oriented me drill on the birdie, but it doesn't because I left it short and I tapped in for a par because I'm a fucking pussy. And I can never make those puts ever. Ever, I can't make those puts to really stick it in them. I won on a tap in. It sucks.

But I won. It's a great game. That is a very, very fun game. It reminds me a little bit of Vegas, which Vegas is a game where a putt can like double or triple kind of the point totals in that whole. But it's a very good game. I can't we gotta figure out what the fucking name of that game is somebody will probably call it our own name the the uh I don't know who sings that song like rolling rolling

little biscuit yeah don't love that name biscuit just called biscuit biscuit biscuit I love I love it be on biscuits let's play biscuit let's play biscuit let's play biscuit oh baby that's good rolling rollin roll roll roll what um NBC back for the U S Open this was kind of stunning news last night. Fox is out. Joe Buck, out U.S. Open. USAGA have gone back to the, to NBC broadcasting effective immediately all of their championships through like 20, 26 or something like that. Fox had had this contract. They had won it over their first year doing it. It was reported to be around a billion dollars. I think it was like a 10-year deal, 12-year deal. So it was the NBC televised the U.S. Open from 1995 through 2014 before Fox won the rights with a 12-year deal that was reportedly

worth about $1 billion. Shout out to Dr. Evil, about $1 billion. And that contract is just out. And when Will Ferrell, when Will Ferrell gets dropped below. Austin Powers is so up in my alley in comedy. It's actually crazy. Awesome. power and you know some people find it very stupid that they can't get through it like a lot of people find it stupid i'm very badly burned yes you shot me you shot me in the arm and they were just sitting there just waiting for him to die hilarious that and napoleon dynamite right up my alley in comedy two things that are skewed wildly skewed though um go on sorry oh and also sorry joe buck see you later me and joe buck have a crazy history where he absolutely dummied me in the office, and I've never recovered since.

So it's nice to see him. I don't like the way you talk about my team. I don't think you cover my team. Big Cat heard that I didn't like Joe Buck because, I mean, any Yankee fan will attest to this. We just think that Joe Buck doesn't like the Yankees. I mean, he's called some of the biggest games in our lives, and it's just like Jorge Posada hits a game when he hit up the middle. Like Bernie Williams goes around, he's just like, and the Yankees win.

It's like he's so pissed. And Big Cat told him this. when he came in the office and of course joe buck came big cat was like hey joe this is the kid that hates you and he thinks that you're a bad announcer and pointed right at me and joe's like why why do you hate me frankie i said i don't know i think you you don't like the yankee and he immediately cut me off and goes why don't you like my team joe buck i'm a yankee's fan i get everything i want and you don't like the yankee you don't like my team he's like talking to me right in my face I'm just like fucking Joe Buck man

Imagine if you would murder Imagine if you would punch Joe Buck in the face in the moment I think when he started doing the lip quiver I think I was able to swing on it Yeah Because that's just emasculating someone in their place of work I mean I was around my co-workers I don't know

Back to what you were saying I don't know what's going on with this US Open NBC Fox thing Like I kept reading articles about it today, and no one could tell me why. Like, why? Yeah, like a contract's a contract. How are they just now out of the car? I don't.

And it's like everyone agreed to it. Even Fox. Fox was like, take this thing. NBC was like, I want that thing. And the USGA was like, okay, whoever wants it. And it just, I couldn't find a reasoning for it. Yeah. I agree with you, Trent.

It was weird. And, you know, we've seen a little bit of both ends. Some people bitch about the way Fox does it. Yeah. Some people despise Joe Buck and say that he shouldn't be covered. or it doesn't sound right covering golf. Other people love it. And they do get credit from almost everybody,

even people that hated the way that Fox did it for essentially driving change and innovation in golf coverage. They got drones. They had pro trace. They were the first guys to have ProTracer like everywhere. Remember when like ProTracer, Top Tracer wasn't everywhere and they just had it everywhere. It's great technology. Oh, it's so good.

And at Chambers Bay, you know, they got roasted for the way that they did Chambers Bay, which was also like, you know, people were bitching about the course and the broccoli greens. And then you also had the new coverage of it. The new broadcast partner was Joe Buck and it was Greg Norman. People hated Greg Norman. We love Greg Norman on this show. We're huge fans. So for them to come from that, right, where everybody despised them to like the next year at Oakmont where they were so much better and so much more innovative and they were trying new things.

And I think that they got to a point where I actually liked the Fox covered. I thought the Fox cover is pretty damn good. I thought, like, faxin is good, baking, who we've out of the show is good. I think Joe Buck's fine. He doesn't have a golf voice because we've been trained so long for him to be other sports and other people to be golf. But, like, it was fine. I could deal with it. I thought the other stuff was worth it.

And now all of a sudden we're going back to NBC for unknown reasons. So the whole thing was pretty bizarre, to be honest for them to announce that yesterday. If Fox likes to get a little wild with some of their innovations, I know baseball season playoff, they always get Twitter going with some sort of new box, a new strike zone box. People don't like the box if people don't like when they mess around with where the scoreboard is and where the strike zone is. Some people during football too,

it looks like the quarter is yellow. I keep thinking that the flag. Fox loves to throw shit in there. Was Fox first on the hockey puck tracker too? Was that then when they took over? Do you remember that? Was that ESPN or was it Fox? I forget, but that punk used to be like in the boards.

he used to be like lit up and you'd see it like ping pong around. May have been. Yeah, because if so, they've been huge on this tracker forever. Dude, they had a glow around the, around the pubs. Remember that thing? My dad called in and yelled, he hated it. He called in. It was like, that thing is ruining sports.

Did you remember this? Did you ever see this or no? That's something a casual fan like me who doesn't really watch hockey at all. It would have been like, well, that's kind of nice. Dude, so, Trent, if you passed it to someone, it'd be like green if you like kind of like past it but pretty hard it'd be like yellow if you look like a slap shot to be red. And the worst part.

I love it. I want to use it again. It would be on the bottom of the screen, you know, and the boards cover the pucks you can't see. So they would do the glow through the board so that you could see where the puck would potentially be. But they would be wrong all the time because they can't see the fucking puck board's either. We've gone.

So that technology is wrong, but it's also like on the right track. Like, have you guys heard what Vegas has? been doing it, and I'm sure other teams, like, and this isn't a hockey podcast, but with Vegas Golden Knights put a chip in their puck's and they were able to, they're able to get data to the point where if you're like up in the suites at Vegas Golden Knights game, they have iPad that you can follow the puck and you can also follow like how long guys been on the ice. And they were actually working on like for gambling and stuff. You can gamble on like hardest shot, fastest pat, how long guys are going to be on the ice, assist, all that stuff. And all the data is right there

in front of you in front of your seat. Crazy technology. But there was also one visual thing where you can like almost, you can see the ice on your iPad and you would see where the puck was going. So maybe you lose it or maybe you're like a casual fan. You can follow it on this iPad in front of your screen. So it's kind of like that box idea, but in 2020 version. Really cool.

Yeah. I just know my dad, man. You should have seen my dad. He'd be like one more week. If I turn the game on the Saturday and had fucking traceers on there, and he did. He's like, Gene, like, how do I get the number?

He called it and was like, you gotta get this thing off the screen. You fucking hated it. That's what happens though. Like with Fox and Chambers Bay and they do the shot tracer and they did a lot of things that people didn't like, but you pull pieces of that

and then people use it in the future. That's like how XFL was the same way. Like the XFL, the first iteration of it, was pretty shitty. It was entertaining. But they also had like the, cameras above and you just people are they don't get credit for it the first time to do it but people pull stuff from it and use it in the future right there's some bad things do you remember

Trent you yeah frankie's a little lee's okay thank you what's going on with you I'm excited I'm sorry I'm sorry about our fucking recovery level you got to be right honestly we don't we don't say it like we got to wrap this fucking thing up soon right I can't I legitimately can't like this is crazy man I'm getting all over the fucking world this is insane so one thing Hold on. The one thing, Trent, do you remember the coin flip in the XFL where the two guys and they'd roll the football out and whoever got the football won the coin toss? I don't remember that. No. Oh, my God. That was one of the best parts of the game. Instead of doing the coin toss, do you guys remember this? Instead of doing the coin toss to see who's going to receive it, they would literally just have two guys stand on the end line and roll the football out and the two guys would like tackle for it and fight for it and whoever won the football. Just the XFL? Yes. Would literally be like, right we're going to receive that.

I can't believe I don't remember. The worries I hear about the XFL where like it was, I don't know, like, like Roman days. They were throwing people into like lions dens and stuff. That was like the point. They were trying to think of something, something other than NFL. Gladiators and shit. Yeah.

Breaking some boundaries. Not everything's perfect. You got to figure out what works. Anyways, they're out. I do think that there's like a certain, you know, NBC is like the, the rightful, you know, broadcast partner for the U.S. Open.

I do think that people sort of believe that and have always thought that and have been probably chirping in the USDA for years to go back to them. So I'm sure it'll be great. I don't have necessarily an issue with it, but I do think it's sad to see it go because I thought Fox was being innovative and we took good things from it and all that. Joe Buck did tweet out, Nancy Hicks, Terrico, all better at calling golf than me, but I would put our production up against anybody's, our innovation and drone shots, an overall effort to try new things, push golf coverage forward.

and for that I am most proud our producer Mark Loomis was a master tutor so saying a lot of the things kind of that we said and and that's the news on that front we have to get to from the gallery and a couple really good ones then we are going to wrap it up as Frankie said you might be at home you might have been quarantined for a long time you might be out in your backyard it's summertime you're trying to figure out how do I keep my lawn in good shape it's getting beat up maybe it's brown maybe it's crunchy wear and tear from summer summer stresses, heat, drought. You got kids running all around the lawn. My brother's got two young kids. They're outside. He sending me videos. They're stomping over that lawn. They're throwing toys all over the place.

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Scott's turf builder lawn is the most beautiful it looks like Augusta type Greek it would be like comparing Augusta National to the biggest dog track shit public course terrain and conditioning that you've ever seen putting it right at TPC D run or something like that that's mean at this hour Like, it's a lot of the sense of Midwest goons to your hotel room. Let me tell you something. Let me tell you something about the Midwest, so I'm going to say something nice. I don't know where Scott sells its most product, but you got to think it's somewhere like here in Minnesota. The greenest place I've ever been to maybe in the Minnesota.

We've been out of Washington. Because I'm from Long Island. I see houses. I see concrete. I see sidewalks. You come out here, you drive on the highway. You take some of these exits. And it's just like you're, it almost feels like you're in Ireland where there's these green mounds.

It's the greenest green of all time. I had to FaceTime someone for a second while I was waiting at a red light to just show like, I'm like, look at where I am right now. It's like I'm not to find the yellow brick road. This is crazy how green it is. It's like you've seen a new green. It's like those commercials where they're like, oh, like you ever see those glasses for the people that are colorblind and then they put them on and like everything's like, holy shit. Those are very emotional videos, yeah. Very emotional, right?

And they're crying at the trees and the leaves. Oh, my God. That's what grass looks like. Not wrong with emotional. I'm not making fun of other people. I'm just saying that that's how I felt like, oh my God,

this is how grass. It was a condescending voice. Oh, my God. This is what grass looks like that's the other one. The point where I think that like the whole state of Minnesota uses Scots because it's just a different green. That's my point. And people out here,

they care about the nature more and I know that they put their products in. You know, think we can learn a thing or two from places like this. I'm going to take that back with me. I already used Scott, but, you know, I'm going to be an advocate for Scott. Let's make the world greener. Scott's turf builder. You're right, Frankie.

And it is like I was throwing the drone up and the greenness of this grass around this place in Minnesota. So green. Wisconsin is, it's stunning. And you can have that. Use Scots. Get yourself some greener, healthier lawn. You're going to love it. Greg says, if someone was creating a statue of you, what pose would you?

would you be doing and where would that statue be built? I want a statue of me and Frankie in Australia at that golf course when he jumped into my arms. I want that front and center at that golf course. Just Frankie jumping into my arms. That's what I would have. That's so good. That's a good one. Where would it be, though, Trent?

At that golf course. I think right in front of the club has. Yeah. Peninsula Kingswood. I think that's what that joint was. called, right? Such a random place in the world. What an amazing, what an amazing memory. I don't know, you know, like my life is centered around the New York Islanders in Borrellas and Barcell. So, like, I'm trying to think, like, it's got to be something where it's like in front of

the Coliseum, even though even if the Coliseum is not there anymore because like Dolman's coming, it's got to be something like just me sitting in a hockey seat. Like that's in a hockey arena seat. Just just a little scrawny looking femaleish boy just sitting in a seat with his dad, like maybe maybe his dad sitting next to him with like a bunch of like single dollar bills hanging out of his pocket like an Italian dad he doesn't have a wallet he's got a bunch of cash in his pocket that's what I would like I think that is my statue it's just like that's just my life like that's that's that's the peak of it is just sitting in a seat watching other people play sports large I'm thinking about mine that's a tough one really tough might just be in a

towel at Aaron Hills I had the nicest time when I was there just put me in a towel and put me like deep in the fescue overlooking the drumlin, which is the little nine-hole putting course or 18-hole putting course. I think that's where you put me, just way deep so you can kind of see me through the binoculars and I'm just standing there in a towel. You want your statue to be a creep in a towel. Staring at people play golf. Got it.

Okay, cool. I almost like your location of that statue being like, because when you're at Iron Hills, they have the whole golf course like in the backside. But then like there's this little cottage house area that feels like you're in fucking Harry Potter like that little town. Oh man, I can't believe I'm blanking on the town. Hogsmead. Hogsmead. What a fucking call.

And you're walking through. And you're walking through. And I think that you should be within maybe in between two of the cottages, right? So like when you finally make that exit out of the clubhouse and they're saying, oh, you're in cottage number three. You're walking through that little. It's a new land. And like, oh, shit. Look at this guy in the town.

towel. Like, is this what I'm, am I about to get into towel time? Like, is that what this area is about? Right? You have the range over here, the golf course over here. This is towel time area right here. I like that. I like that more than the golf course. If I did that, though, I'd like it to be like the Mona Lisa or it always felt like I was looking at it yet. You know when you see the Mona Lisa? Supposed it always feels like the eyes are on you. I'd want to lurch as the statue moves and you enter, he's always looking to do somehow. This might be a big question here. Well, you could put it in the back. Yeah.

That's, yeah. But that's a good place too. Maybe you could create like little shower handle, soap dispenser who squeezed me in like little lurch soap. Now, here's my question for Riggs. Is yours, because you have two options here, is yours on the 18th green at Pioneer's after you walked in the putt? Or do we turn you into a fountain and put you at the Carolina Hotel?

And the tears come out of your eyes. People maybe throw, maybe people throw pennies in there on their way into the fucking Carolina Hotel. Dude, if they don't turn you into a fucking fountain at the Carolina Hotel, they're not doing it right. Pash, I know you're listening to this. Turn them into a fountain, have the water coming out of his eyes,

and let people throw the little coins in there. And that's a good start to your day, man. That's a good start to your day. That is so much better than the statue. You're right. That would be. Because the actual PUT statue is too real. Like, that's too just like that's not a real thing.

So, yeah. I mean, that's a very funny fucking. Yeah, you're right. Yeah, I was going to say maybe holding that compass thing that you got or holding up your phone taking a picture of someone, something like that. Yeah. I like it.

Yeah. So, yeah. I would, I think the fountain, I think Pashry's going to do something with that fountain. There's got to be some sort of like customizable fountain, even if he can make a mini one. We need a fountain where he's crying.

It's so good. Okay, I think we're done here. I think we've had plenty. I think this was a lovely show. It was great catching up with you guys, but we're all. Great seeing you guys. Maybe the single digit, yeah, maybe the single digit recovery rate. So I think that we need to just call this thing and get the hell out of here and have ourselves a nice evening.

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I'm out of here. Hit it hard. Hit it hard. Hit it hard.