Fore Play - Eventually, We All Exit Stage Left

Episode Date: November 17, 2022

Rory says Greg Norman should step aside. We have thoughts. Jon Rahm weighs in on world ranking points, bluntly. Also: Will Riggs crowd surf at the opening of Barstool Scottsdale? Are we becoming a geriatric podcast? Frankie invents a brand new scope which allows one to see into the cosmic world from earth. Are we currently in an ice age? How different is earth’s temperature during an ice age? Why is your brain passive-aggressive about telling you something is wrong? We wrap up with Dadbod Classic news.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. Oh, Rick! What's up my brother? I got a buddy who struggles with that shot. A lot, his name's Frankie Burrilli. So the guys actually gave him a nickname of Butternives because he's always nice to the cross the green. Nice to be here, boys.

Congratulations on all that you're doing is as mediocre as a lot of. It is. Bro your 100. Now you've got to break 90. We appreciate what you guys do for golf. It's been really cool. Thank you. You're making it cool.

We appreciate it. After watching you this year, I'm very much thinking about getting, so I have a fusion surgery. Skip that. I was like, hey, Phil, you only fucking 2999. And he grabs 100. He's like, yeah, I won 90,000 beats yesterday. Oh, my God.

Take 100 and go fuck yourself. What? What are you guys taking with that? Um, it's a hobby. Foreplay, brought to you by Barcelona. Sports presented as always by Chevy. Man, you really just took the wind out of Trent sales there, I feel like, right out of the gate.

Well, yeah. Before the gate. Pre-show, every single show for 520-something shows, Trent has clapped prior to starting the podcast. We've done it with guests. We've done it with all these things. When Trent claps, we start the show. And it just got me thinking like, all right, obviously it started with some sort of like reasoning

behind clapping. You have to sync the audio to. the visuals. Whenever we were in the office, you would clap and it would allow them to sync it it when they're editing. We've gone over Zoom. We're on Riverside. We're on all these different platforms. When he claps, it started getting me thinking he's literally doing it for no actual technical reason. Like they can't, when Trent claps and they look at my audio levels, they don't see a spike in his clap from his mic. Like nothing, nothing changes. It's just going into his one microphone. So I was just thinking technically, it's doing literally nothing. But, well,

it has to do. You have to start the show somehow. So. You know what? I want you to keep that same energy for Big Cat when he does the Zoom run downs. He's been clapping at the beginning of those since the beginning of this company. You know, it's just what it is. You have to clap. And yeah, it might not mean anything, you know, technically, Frankie, but it means something to us. It does mean something. It's a trigger.

It's a trigger to start the show. It's like in golf when some guy does some, you know, Matt Wolf does his little trigger. It's like, all right, show started. So when we do the ads, Rick says he can't do an ad unless you clap. It's like that literally means nothing. but he just needs to see you clap to just start reading the end. You know what I mean? Yeah, I think it's almost like on a technical level to me as a human.

I think it's everything. Like it calibrates my brain. Like it's go time. Yeah. That's go time. That's because we bullshit and we're fucking talking about this. We're bitching about that. When Trent claps, it's like everything aligns.

It's time we go. It's got meaning. My life has meaning. Now we go. Speaking of a go. We go to Katynaste. Tonight. Today, what time are we putting this out?

Anybody know? Tonight. Tonight. Tonight. Do we have a time? No, yeah. Probably seven or eight. Okay.

Carnustis. It's tough. It's tough. You know, we're trying to recoup this. Should we just like decide a time? Right. Let's do seven. I like seven.

All right. We do 12. You know, can we do during, is not going to be ready during the day? Probably not by 12. Okay. So we'll do it tonight. We're going to do it at 7 p.m. 7 p.

I am car or eight or nine, you know, just like whenever. Seven o'clock, Alex, we had a huge meeting last week. Last show, we had a huge fucking meeting. No, let's not do this again. I know. I'm not going to do it again. I don't want to do that at all.

We literally said that we were going to, we were going to revamp our YouTube page. People are going to be jacked up to watch this carnoosey video. And then we said, what time is it coming out? He goes, I don't know, sometimes tonight. You pretty much have to take the day off work and just watch YouTube all day and wait for the video to drop. That's really the only way to watch it. I mean, I said seven or eight. It's really, you know, not that different.

Oh, my, dude, stop. Just stop because I, not because I don't love you, Alex, but we just can't do this again. We can't. I went into the office yesterday or on Monday after, after we had that live meeting. And it was like legitimately a little, a little bit awkward. I felt like I was in the middle of like the producers and the behind the scenes guys were like, oh, fucking just did that in public. And I was like, yeah, I guess. No, I like, Barstall's sports.

This is not like, what are we going to. You can't handle that. I'm going to work for deadspin. Who cares? People love golf digest. People follow us because this is the, you know, it's from the ground up. It's grassroots day one shit.

The fact that we actually have producers and stuff that we can like or not like how things are going is amazing. So people enjoy that. 7 o'clock Eastern standard time. Carnuces is going out. Yep. Okay. Amazing. One of the more famous golf courses in the world.

The whole collapse in, what was that? 1999 with Jean Van de Vandeveld. B, baby. Triple bogey on the 72nd hole of the tournament. gets into a playoff actually made like a 10-footer uh tiger woods almost won there when he went up against francesco molanari tiger wood less than a year later basically in molari's career um but carnusti it's got the whole goddamn deal the whole history the closing stretch tom watson on the 16th there's plaques all over the place hogan's alley i believe is like the fifth hole it's got all kinds

of good stuff one of the hardest courses in the world um we play it at like five six p m we teed off so very cool kind of a the whole round was like a golden hour type of round very minimal win we have a huge match i think it's like a must win for trent and myself at this point we're kind of up against it so carnusty 7 p.m eastern standard time hopefully is what time it's going to go out on our youtube page thinking back on that round if you've been watching the scotland travel series you know that in each of these videos we all have a caddy and they help us through the whole thing the guys have been great they showed us the lines they showed us you know where to put it all that stuff.

And I remember at Carnusti, because we teed, it was like a last second thing that we put it together. And we were the last group to tee off. And we didn't have caddies. And I remember teeing off. I sprayed it left. Spoiler alert. And then, um, standing in the rough on the left side without a caddy and being like, I'm fucked.

Like, so you get, you're going to watch four guys who are playing Carnusty. One of the hardest golf courses on planet earth without caddies. And it is, it is, it is. quite an experience and quite a ride. It was a golf round that I've never played before. I feel like I didn't know how to accomplish the goal. I didn't know how to get the ball in the hole without a guy that was telling me where to put it, where to hit it.

Because there's so many blind shots that you have to hit towards. Like not in the sense that you can't see the target, but like that carnusty with everything is so hard pan, you have to hit it like 50 yards in front of the green and run it up past this bunker. And we're just flying things onto greens. They're bouncing like they're coming off concrete. And I'm like, where's that golf ball going? But if we had a caddy, he'd be like, no, you're just an idiot.

And when I say no wind, I mean, it was blowing probably 15, but compared to the rest of the trip. You know, we had 20, 25, 30 mile an hour winds a lot of the trip. So it was definitely windy, but it just wasn't as windy and windy as the rest of the time. I was kind of thinking the tiger, the tiger let down there sort of got lost in history a little bit because he won the masters less than a year later. Like, dude, when we were at that bar where we had like the Ainsworth and New York, city yeah i think yes we were there we had a bunch of our fans there we were ready to go there there were a bunch of guys kids kevin chapel was up there spieth was up there tiger and then tiger took the fucking lead he had like the solo lead on the back nine he hit that wedge out of the bunker on

the 10thal onto the green and you're thinking holy fuck he's gonna like we were we were ready for what happened at 2019 masters for the next hour and a half we were like this is happening holy fuck i remember that that wedge shot i think the announcer i don't i think it was still johnny miller at the time i think it was like this is a moment we're like this is a moment like you know he's going to try he's going to go for the green out of this bunker and he's either going to pull it off and he's going to be in a great position to win the tournament or it's going to end and he hits it right to the front edge of the green and i remember you start to think like oh my goodness this might actually happen how about francesco molinar you guys played that golf course and how hard it is not a single boge over the weekend to win that's that right

that that's right no boge saturday or sunday to win that's just nuts i remember that I remember when he stuffed one on the 72nd hole right in Tiger's face and then made it. And you're like, oh, man, this is not how this was supposed to go. What a let down that was. The guy was a machine for like an 18 month period there. And then like you said, April of 2019, when Tiger decided to stand on that green while he was still hitting his third shot on 12, that's when that's when everything changed. God, we played this call. We played that course at like 11 o'clock and it was still bright out.

Yeah. It was not fucking weird that was. I think I have a photo on my phone of us going up 18. it was like 1112 p.m. And we can see the ball. We can just see the golf balls in the sky. Yeah. So Carnusti, wow, I can't believe we got to play.

It was sort of a late addition to the itinerary and everything. So we didn't really fully expect it. Got to get out there. Big shout out to their crew, their staff. They actually reached out. We're like, are you guys really doing your trip and you're not going to come here and play? And so they found that's why we teed off so late. They found some times for us, took care of us.

Us and Taylor made, we had a couple of different groups. shout out to Dane and Essie who were in the group behind us who had or maybe in front of us who had a knockdown dragout singles match and I want to say Dane had like a put on 13 to win his singles match against Sesse these are Taylor May guys that we and they ended up tying the match I think it was vice versa yeah I think Essie blew the lead yeah unbelievable dude just a collapse of Carnucci from S from Mike Essie. You're like, A touching tribute to Vandeville.

And you got a put to win and you lose every hole coming in. It's fucking amazing. So tough. Really tough. I love that place. Carnusty's great. So yeah, that video's out. YouTube 7 p.m.

Easter stand time tonight.