Fore Play - If Frankie gets fired...

Episode Date: August 27, 2019

Rory McIlroy wins the TOUR Championship and we react to it all from the format, to Koepka's performance, to JT's comments and more. We also dissect an interesting rules dispute we had over the weekend, and Frankie goes through a horrible professional debacle live on the show!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

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Gentlemen, hello. How are you guys weekends? They were good. I golfed twice. Wow. I did see you. I saw you, you know, you're out there. You're putting up some, some, some,

some picks of you at some nice places there, Fred. Yeah, no, I played Cherry Valley Club with my, my good pal here, Trent, brought him out to Long Island. Now, did Trent's Aaron Hill's game carry over to Cherry Hill? In some ways, it did. Off the T, for sure. Trent's just a good...

I heard a whisper of no. Well, scoring-wise, no, but off the T, Trent is just a very good player. At some point, when I was playing Aaron Hills, I captured lightning in a bottle where I could hit my irons, which is just something I can't do. And on our four-play verse video, that's one example there. Where, like, I don't think I could hit that shot again. It might be you, but, you know, I was still pretty good off the T, at least on the front nine.

Kind of lost the driver on the back nine at Cherry Valley. Irons weren't really there. So I didn't score great. But I had a great time. Cherry Valley is a great track. Our guy Matt brought us out. I don't Frank. He's more familiar with him than I am.

He's the nicest guy in the world. He really is no other way to describe it. In the world. That's great. It's right up there. He really is a very nice guy. Everything that comes out of his mouth is nicer than the last thing. Jesus.

And he's a great golfer. and it's just fun to play around. He doesn't, he's just, I don't know, his parents raised him right or something. He's just a very nice guy. We had a very good day. Didn't play as well as I wanted to, but it was fun nonetheless. I flipped a boat this weekend. Yeah, Lord's lost of the phone.

We were having just a beautiful time in Pennsylvania, so I went to my buddy's lakehouse, and I played a great round with Riggs on Sunday with some great guys out at Rockaway Hunting Club. But, yeah, it was a beautiful day Saturday. We're day drinking, having a great time by the lake. Couldn't stop. And I was like, hey, let's just go out for one more, like a couple beers out in this little rowboat. You and a rowboat? Yeah.

Yeah. It probably wasn't the best decision, but it was perfect. We loaded up a row boat with a bunch of beers. Bodies popped in. And it was so gorgeous. We threw some lines in the water. So I was like, I said to my buddy, I was like, hey, let's take a selfie. Like, it's so pretty.

So I scooted to the left of like this little maybe 10 foot aluminum boat. He sat down next to me, took a selfie. As soon as he stood up, the phone just, or the boat. completely capsized phone went to the bottom of the lake. Tough. That's tough. Real tough. People in the docks just laughing at us had to flip it back over and then swim it all over.

So it just flipped over? Flipped instantly over. Because the weight was just like. The weight was just. It was displaced as soon as he stood up. It's tough. Sucked. Humbling day, but fun nonetheless.

Didn't stop the fun of the weekend. That's tough. I mean, how was golf on Sunday? Great. So we, uh, there's this place, Rockaway, Hunting Club. It's, it's a, about four miles away from JFK. It's on, you know, the southern coast of Long Island.

I didn't really know anything about it. My guy, Joe Horowitz, who's a great musician, you can actually check out his stuff on Spotify. He's got a new album out. He's the man. He's a great, great guys. He's a really good player. He's like a plus two. He's a super nice guy, and he's been saying, you know, you've got to come out.

You got to come out. You got to come out. I live right in a course. He'll have a couple drinks. He'll play a little golf. It'll be fun. Well, Lurch and I go out there. him and his buddy Andrew he throw balls up on the first tee it's me and joe against lurch and this guy

andrew andrew kills the wall by the way rips it absolutely kills short little john rom swing and just rips them yeah it's one of those it's so bizarre you know it feels like he doesn't even take it back and then he just fires through that thing you look up and the ball is in the air for a mile he was like a three joe like it says like a plus two and lurch and i both actually playing to hit the ball pretty well so he had a really good match um this course it's got anybody who knows kind of Long Island golf, it's got Maidstone vibes, which Maidstone has like this whole beach club, and it's got those holes that are kind of like right on the ocean with like, you know, some, some different looks and whatnot.

And it just had such a like a relaxed, casual, beachy type vibe. There's literally a beach club, like a surfing club that's not far away that's like part of the Rockaway Hunting Club and all that. So it had an incredible, incredible vibe to it. We teed off at like 3.30 or 3.45 on Sunday afternoon. We were kind of following the golf a little bit. At that point, Rory was up by like four or five shots, and we were like, whatever. Let's just, I'd rather go play a sick course in the water than have to grind over the FedEx Cup, which, but we will get to the FedEx Cup. But anyways, we had a great little match, a little bit of controversy, a big point of controversy.

At one point, Frankie's coming back into the room now. Big point of controversy, which I did feel bad about and tried to express alerts that I was like, I think he kind of got screwed up. a little bit. I said that to you like three times. Yeah. I literally said to you. Well, explain it. Explain it.

So we're on what? I think it's a 13th, 14th hole. Yeah, I think something like that. Something like that. And it's part three. We're one down at the time. And Lurch is getting 10 shots. I was getting eight shots because the guy's a plus two.

The other guy's getting like five. And so my boy, Joe, hits it on the green. Just short of the green. Just short of the green. He's the last one to pull. Putt. Benny hits it just left to the green. Good shots. Really tough part. It's a really, really tough part three over the water. And Benny hits one in the left rough. Chips one that lips out. Great chip.

Rolls like, what, four and a half feet by, four feet by. His partner, Andrew Putts went up there to maybe three feet. And Joe, who's my guy's got like 30 or 40 feet for Bertie. And he goes, hey, you guys aren't both going to miss that. Those are good. So then Joe lags his up to give me range. Yep. We gave it to him? Give it to him.

We're like, all right, all good. We go to the next hole. While when we get in the cart, we look and Lurch stroked there. Oh, no. Which would be like a three net two. Right. And we find this out as we're driving. And he obviously never would have given it to you.

No, never. So we're driving to the next T as we find this out. So we get to the next T and I just say, hey, like, Lurch stroked there. And Joe, who's like our host member is like. You said Lertch stroked there. We can't keep giving him these pots. is how the interaction fired up now

re-listening to this Okay Okay Does that change anything Just a little bit Keep going It's a little bit more information Keep going

So then So Joe's like There's a little bit of back There's just back and forth Of like What are we going to do I don't know if you remember that Better than I do

But it was kind of like It was disgust on the team Because you were part of the negotiation Or whatever About the stroke on the next hole That I wasn't a part of So at this point the conversation is around and we're guests there to to take away the

gimmee on the last hole okay and i mean we kind of played sending him back out i'm which i would have been fine with i would have done that however the other little stipulation omar our caddy unbelievable caddy is already in the fairway about 200 yards up so he's got my putter up there he keeps your putters with you so he already went out to the fairway on the next hole right okay so we don't have his putter so then the discussion is Just dealing with bombs over there. So at this point, yeah, the putters are up there.

The discussion now changes to, okay, we're just going to play that hole as even. So we're going to forgive that you got a stroke there. And then we're going to give you a stroke on the next hole. Okay. I wasn't going to argue this at all. I'm in the 100% camp that once a shot is given, it's over. You can't go back.

It's your fault. You should have known. You should have looked at the scorecard. Not the teams that received its stroke. Right. But you didn't say this in real time. Well, I mean, we're a guest. I like to be out back.

I agree, but I'm just saying you didn't say it in real time. I also was tired. I was not going to put up a stink at that moment. My game proceeded to fall apart after that. I was very pissed off to the point that I was, well, I guess it continued. So we made a decision at this point that, okay, the stroke will be forgiven. We're going to go on to the next poll. I'll just get a stroke on the next hole.

However, best case scenario is I have another four footer to win the hole. So, like, taking that out of my hand. Well, it was like a 300-yard par four. We go to the next hole. It's a tight little 300 and probably 40-yard par four that goes down kind of the works to the left. I'm pissed on the T-box. Can't believe that it went this way. Proceed to push it OB right.

And now I'm out of the hole. I'm fucking livid. But, again, I'm trying to mask my emotions. Then we play out the hole. My partner has a three and a half four footer to have the hole. Riggs actually makes a great, I don't know, six footer or something like that. My partner now is a three and a half footer to have the hole. So after everything that's ensued on the last hole and the, you know,

the gentleman that I think I'll call myself by allowing that to take place, these scumbags don't give him the putt. They make him putt the three and a half footer. He misses it. Now I can't control my emotions. to the point that I walk off the green and I'm just yelling scumbags. I'm going, these guys are scumbags, Andrew, scumbags.

I cannot believe it. So that ensued. I continue to play horrible for the last four holes because I couldn't believe it. Oh, my God. That's outrageous. And it's just flat out wrong. It's wrong. If you give a punt, that sucks for you.

You miscounted. You got to know the score. That's on your fault. Like, that's just, it's wrong. No, you cannot go back. We went back at that point, I think it was actually 15, because we should have been going up to going into 16. It wasn't that late because there was still, we had four holes left because we had that

par four that you hit it, O.B., right, where we gave you the stroke. We had that short par three after it. Then we had that next par four where you guys won that hole, where Andrew won it, and then we had the par four 18th. So there's four holes left. Okay. All right. I thought it was 15, because I thought the par four, okay, there was a part three.

So you would have been two up. You would have been two up with four to play. And so anyways, that's how it played out. It was what it was. I mean, they were great guys. We had like drinks with them after. It took me a while to settle down. I was still a little bit pissed off.

It did go to 18. They were all square. They got it to all square on 18T. If it was for a bigger match outcome, I would have said something about it. We were just playing for a round of drink. So it's a good way either. Yeah.

Like it doesn't fully matter except winning's winning. You know, love to win. Buddy, you're talking to a guy who, If we're playing for 50 cents, I don't care. It's all about principle. So my knock on you was that when we drove from green to T-box, you were telling Joe, you were like, we can't keep giving them, and you kind of brought up the argument to get that stroke back.

And then it happened. I'm the one that noticed the stroke and brought it up. Otherwise, you would have never even noticed. I mean, we would have noticed when you did the scorecards. But what I'm saying is, like, the reason I brought it up in your case, I was the one that was like, oh, shit, We have a stroke. What should we do?

Yes. And then we had a discussion about what to do that you, what's crazy to me is how upset you were the rest of the time when like you weren't that upset on the tea. You could have made your stand on that tea, I thought. Yeah. I don't think it was my place to say like to overrule, to pick the ruling as a guest in just a friendly match.

Yeah, I would say it is. I think I was more disappointed that you didn't give the next three and a half footer in like after everything that took place. I can't believe that you didn't like, all right, that's good. Well, my argument against that was we can't give you two things. Like, we gave you the stroke of the next hole. No, no, no. How did you give me anything?

You actually took something away that I actually already earned. You took something away on the part three where I made a par that was a net two. And then when you took that away. But you had agreed in the negotiation that like you were evening it out. You would already agree. Listeners, feel free to make your pick. You can, you know. Sounds.

Look, it was a shitty. It was shitty. And I said, I tried to continue to say. Like, yeah, this doesn't feel right. the cart. And so, and then on 18, we were sharing a cart. I push another one to the right. Just, I'm pissed. I'm, you know, I've lost my control of my emotions. I push one into the driving range, OB right. And Riggs comes up to me, he's like, no, no, no, you can just hit that. Like, it's just fine. Like, he's just trying to get back on my good side. And I'm like,

you think, like, I'm going to let you out fucking now. Fuck off. No shot. I was like, no, no, I'll drop. If I have to go back to the T and take a 15, I'll take a 15. I'll take a 15. Yeah. It was like 10. That's a shitty situation, man. Like how often does that happen, number one, number two? I mean, it happens. I think everybody's been on the wrong side where you give something. You're like, shit, you had a stroke.

Right. That sucks for us, but we'll have to regroup. We'll have to regroup, yeah. I do think I internally combust. I do think had Omar had your putter stand right there, we would have just had you go out and putter. Which would have been fine. But you were also right that like neither you nor I wanted to like overrule our guys that were hosting us.

No. So we were kind of. like, and Joe's a beauty. Joe's sick. He's like a plus two. He's an unbelievable musician. He actually didn't play great for like the first six holes.

And then he put on his music and he was like lights out. Put on his own music. For five holes. He's absolutely terrific. And then I will say at one point I was just steamed. We were listening to music. It really was a great day having cocktails and everything. But at this point,

you've lost me. I'm pissed. He's doing like the kind of the rosy row after he just like hit another one. And he's like grabs, I think Riggs's arm or maybe Andrew's arm and he kind of gives him the spin. He like grabbed my arm and I just like, flailed it away. I was like, no shot.

Ooh, bad lurchy. I was pissed at that point. Look, I think overall, I think you got screwed a little bit. I've been very honest about that. I think you got screwed a little bit. That was an interesting, it was an interesting way it unfolded. Listen, I've been a part of some of those ruling disputes or things that were in my head, at least, with the good, good situation. It's not fun the rest of the, the rest of the holes going out.

You did. You had a heated good year. When you get into an argument like that on the golf course, especially with like with your buddies, You know, like, everyone's just going to keep going and no one's going to stop. For me, like, that's, there's no regrouping from that. So I can see where you came from. Yeah. Like, there's, yeah, it was hard.

Yeah. It was hard. No, there's no way. I mean, essentially what we did was we just took his stroke away from him and then just put it somewhere else where he had a horrible hole. Yes. That's literally what happened. You just got fuck.

That's really tough. You caught me on the end of a lake, lake trip where I flipped a boat. I was tired. I lost my cell phone. I didn't have a cell phone for like 36 hours. I was on the 15th tee with a couple of cocktails in me and I was starting to get even more tired, but still energy was high. And I just wasn't in the mood to throw hooks.

So I just kind of took it. I obliged and internally combust. Can't tell you the difference in feeling that Trent and I had walking off of Cherry Valley than you did walking off of your golf course. Like we felt like we had just exited heaven at Cherry Valley Country Club. Yep. And then, you know, it's just, that's just the difference right there. We both didn't shoot great.

I had one great chip that actually Phil Mickelson commented on. Did he? Well, he commented on someone commenting. Amazing. I had an incredible. incredible chip shot from what was that like you know 25 yards away yeah that was the one that was all over the internet all over the internet i got a nice little divvitt and have a phone got a nice little divot went right up in the air whoever uh i will say this whoever put the pins in at charry valley country club on saturday august what was that 24th 24th um either had a massive massive argument with someone like a significant other the night before or just going through a really tough time at one point like trin i were like let's talk to this guy he needs to be talked to yeah it's like we need to find this guy and sit him down and be like, what's going on? He needs to be putting that bad.

He needs to be putting time out. He needs to go to jail. Because there were some pin locations that the assistant pro and the club champion that afterwards were sitting in the bar being like, I've been playing here for 20 years and I've never seen the pin on seven different holes in. Yeah, he was going over. He was like three, four, five, nine, six, seven, eleven, twelve. Trent's just counting.

And this is a very, because that's what we were doing. This is a very different. You're just saying one, two, three, four, five. This is all the pins. Every last one. The type of golf course it is, it's kind of simple from T to green. Then once you get on the green, it's fairly difficult. Really fast greens, a lot of undulations and stuff.

So like the fact that he's putting these things in the, I'm talking, I know I'm not good with lengths or distances or anything. But he put these pins three feet away from the fringe in the back right corner of like a hundred foot green. And we're like, now what the fuck's going on here? I'm hitting like the front or middle of the green. and I have a 65 foot putt. And I'm three putting. I'm putting off the greens. It was insane.

Multiple times I put the ball and I had a wedge in my hand after that. Yeah. How'd you play, Fraggy? I shot a 90. All right. But I mean, I just couldn't get it done. I am fine. You hit the bow well?

No, I couldn't drive. Really? Three wood? Three wood, everything. Just taking them. Betrayed him. I was spanking it. I said, you, you little bitch.

That's why I said to my three wood. What the fuck's going on with you? I was talking to it. Yep. It didn't work, though. No. You know what it is, too? I was telling Trent, I'm a driving range golfer.

You watch me on the driving range. You're like, this guy can play the fucking game of golf. He can drive the ball. He can hit good irons. He's hitting him where he wants them. He can hit a three wood better than most people in this world can. I get up to the first tee. I'm topping the ball.

It's insane. Frankie, I had just a stunning range session yesterday. Yeah, he did. Good? He didn't eat iron and, like, shocked. He made a noise he's never made it with that car. Really? It was insane.

It took Ben off of his address on his range shot. Holy moly. He looked over me, he goes, what is that? Swimmers at the top, kind of flushed it. He absolutely did flush it. It made that just like pure crisp noise. And I was like, dude, you never make that noise with your irons. Your irons are you're horrid.

I said, I know. I know what happened. I was. I was like, I want to go on the golf course. Meanwhile, I clank like 15 before our round. About three holes in at Cherry Valley, Frankie said, I think I got to start using yellow balls. So I think I'm on the range. He's like, I'm going to have to start getting yellow balls to convince my brain that I'm on the range.

They have a nice range there. They have yellow balls. It looks like yellow tidalists. Pro vs, and I smoke these things. I look at them like the little candy. I'm like, I smack them away. I'm like, look at this. Look, it's not golf.

This is just a little activity I'm playing. I step up to the first tee. I get that brand new white ProVee, uh, ProVee and it's because it says pizza maker on the side. That thing's on the road. I think I'm almost done with all my pizza maker balls. I think I've gotten,

I think I had like, I think I had 17 sleeves of them and I think they're all gone. It's insane. I've lost to do a big order of balls. How about this? How about this, though? And I just, I went to go look it up. I'm so bad at my memory.

I don't know what hole it was. I played Mill River the next day. Really nice course. Really, really nice course. Second time playing there. Love this place. I hit the best golf shot I think of my life there. And I shot 91.

I shot 42, 49. Back night I exploded. Well, I went over. I shot 49 without even playing bad. I went OB three times on three different holes. That's playing bad. But like, I hit it. Correct.

I hit, all right, like, I hit a drive. It went perfectly straight. And then like, oh, they're like, oh, there's water over there. And I'm just gone. So I'm like, okay, now I'm just. dead and I made a seven there. And the next hole, I yank one just a little bit right and I'm in the festus. Whatever.

I still, I felt like I hit the ball well. But there was this hole and I can't fucking remember the whole number. But there's a, there's a tree in the middle of the fairway. You can hit it either to the right or to the left. You know, I was going to say remnants, remnants of Pebble Beach, 18. Oh, yeah. Is that the word? Remnants.

So Remnants of Pebble Beach, 18. Mm-hmm. I hit a nice three wood to the left of the tree. We're into the wind probably a 15 to 20 mile an hour wind gusts I'm one ninety one away I take a four iron So I'm like I'm gonna play this thing like 205 I'm gonna have to smoke this fucking thing I'm gonna have to get this ball on the on the whole on the on the on the green It's a two-tiered green the clubhouse is in the background it's got to be like the fifth or six all no That's wrong boy you're shot yeah

The story I can't tell you the story has just been derailed by yourself I don't know what whole it's got I don't know what fucking hole it is but listen to the this. People who play Mill River know exactly what I'm talking about. I hit this four and right when I made contact, my cartmate Andrew just goes, whoa. And this thing was a missile drawn in, lefty, nice swing. I'm holding the follow through. I know your left. And I go like this. I go to Andrew. I'm like, look at this. Look at this fucking thing. And it lands right on the up slope of the double tier green and checks up right next to the hole. I'm talking three feet. And I missed the birdie putt. Come on. Mr. Birdie putt. Man, I'm so bad at putting.

I pulled it. Never had a chance. Didn't even come close to the hole. Didn't even touch the rim of the hole. I missed it. Almost. Almost missed the par putt. It's the best shot of my life.

Almost missed a bar putt. Almost walked away with a bogey. I walked off that green. I go, holy fuck did I need that par? Holy fuck. The world needed that par. Good weekend. Great weekend.

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We just finished up the final stop. Final qualifier today, a pound ridge, Pete Dye track up in near like Westchester, kind of in the middle of nowhere, actually. We actually went, I went to try to get a bite to eat afterwards and there's just nothing was open. Went to this pizza place that Dave had given Donardo's, you know that place? DeNardo's. I think it's DeNardo's and he had given it a 7.2. I looked it up with my one bite out. Whoa.

I was like, we're going to find it good pizza. Where was this? Up by Pound Ridge in whatever town that's in. All right. Pound Ridge, New York. I think is where it's actually in. Talking pizza is like a. My heart's going to explode just because during this very podcast,

just to give people a little, just give people a little deep behind the curtain. I don't know if you can hear that my voice is still trembling a little bit. Well, we just heard you try to tell a story and it was all. It's, dude, my brain's fucked right now because I fucked up a pizza review. And it's live. We're recording this thing on Monday, 8 o'clock. The pizza review went live at 6.

We did this amazing pizza view with this guy, Guy Tano Ricardi. He's going through a lot of stuff with his heart and his liver. He's waiting for heart transplant, liver transplant. He's got an LVAD, the whole thing. his dream was to do a pizza view with Dave. All that stuff went great. But there was a funny little moment. It's a 12-second clip of the owner.

Basically, this girl who owns this place, Gino's in Long Beach, great place, great people, basically said to Dave, like, oh, you should go. She's like just talking to Dave, and I happen to get it on film. And she's like, you should go to SoulCycle. And Dave, like, look back at the camera. He's like, what? Soul Cycle?

And she's like, yeah, it's a great place. You love it. And then, like, the clip ends. And for some reason when I was editing it, it was a couple days ago. I just, that moment just evaded me just because of how great the Guy Tano stuff was. I didn't even think to look at him talking to the owner. And then you got roasted by day. So while we're, yeah, that's the biggest thing.

While we're recording this thing about 20 minutes ago, I got a text, like how the fuck, like, where is that part of that clip? And I legitimately ran out of the studio to go get the clip because hopefully he'll tweet it out. In the middle of my story about me and lurched putting issues. I'm just, it's crazy, man. It's a mistake. Like, it's just a mistake. I didn't want to not put it in. DeNardo's Pizza.

Jesus. DeNardo's pizza, Poundridge, New York. We go, yeah, I look it up on the one-by-dap and I'm that's 7.2. It's four minutes away from the course gravy, you know, place is just closed. Wow. For the whole day. I mean, we were there at like 5 o'clock. It was just closed. Yeah, pizza places closed on Mondays.

It's crazy. It's like a pretty common thing. Raleigh used to be closed for like 55 years on Mondays, and then my dad opened it up like 10 years ago. Isn't that nuts? Yeah, they need a family day. And Sunday's not going to be it because it's a big. It's a big restaurant.

Yeah. Yeah, so I didn't really know that either, but it made sense. Most of the best places in the world are closed like Monday, Tuesday, and it'll open up like Wednesday through Sunday. You need a family day. Family, family day. Well, I guess they're having a fucking family day because I couldn't find any pizza. Yeah, they need a day off.

It was devastating. Anyway, Barstow Classic, pound rage, last stop, six spots left for the championship at Liberty National. Jeff McNeil from the Mets, currently with the highest batting average in the major leagues, played and won. That's insane. What is going on? Him and his partner finished, Bertie Birdie, Birdie. to post 7 under 65 at Pound Ridge and won.

They were the low medalist winners. His partner, he flew in, his good buddy who he played high school golf with. He flew in from California for the weekend. They made a little weekend out of it and then finished the weekend. He watched the Brave Series, which didn't go their way. Nope. Watch the Brave series and then played with him today. And they were the nicest fucking guys ever.

And Jeff McNeil, I love because he was chipping around on the chipping green beforehand. And a couple guys are whispering to me. They're like, hey, Riggs, I heard there's like a baseball player here. Like, what's, I was like, yeah, yeah. Oh, where is he? I was like, he's literally right next to you. And there's his turn. He looks like so unassuming.

Baseball players have-in-up. His Wikipedia page, Jeff McNeil, nicknamed Squirrel, is an American professional baseball player. Yeah, squirrel. And Pete Alonzo is the polar bear. Pete Alonzo is the polar bear. They have this whole little animal thing going on with the Mets. Okay. Dude, he's got a great.

swing. He's a South Paul. He said he played high school golf. He didn't play baseball until his senior year of high school, which is crazy town. Didn't play baseball until a senior year high school, played golf because, yeah, our baseball team was horrible. So I didn't play baseball, and our golf team was awesome. He's like, we had five, we had four or five guys in our team that would shoot in the 60s consistently on our high school golf team. I was like, oh, wait, what? And his buddy was one of them. So the two of them played together. They played great. They played lights out. They won. So unless the Mets are still playing on October 15th, he will be at Liberty National competing for the Barstool Classic title.

I will say he and his partner have a really good shot of winning because they are phenomenal players. Really nice dudes. It was great to see them out there. Daniela Katnachi, who is our girl, our executive assistant here at Barstool, who also is a huge part of the Barstow Classic, does a bunch of the behind-the-scenes stuff, gets up at like 3 a.m. to go out there and set up all the signage, all the dude wipe stuff, all the truly stuff, everything that people see. Her dad played. Her dad made the put in the putting contest and then lost in a playoff, unfortunately. And now I felt really bad.

Him and his partner were beauties. They're having a great time. What was the cut? So the cut was four under got into a playoff. Nice. And we had seven teams for two spots. Went to a playoff. So what we did was, last time we did a playoff if you remember, we got all excited.

We had five teams for one spot. We got all excited. We did this part 3, 18th hole at Forest Hill Field Club, and it just took forever. We did just best ball, straight up format. It was a part of three. People just kept making pars, kept making pars, and we just could never get through. So this time, we picked the second hole, which is like the hardest hole in the course. We did pure alternate shot with no strokes, just pure alternate shot, and it took one hole.

That's it. We had two teams made a bogey, and everyone else made double or worse. Wow. Isn't that ridiculous? That is ridiculous. Alternate shot's hard, man. Yeah. Really hard.

There's water like down the right all the way up, like basically where your t-balls land all the way up to the green. It was windy and then everybody's sitting up there watching by the clubhouse and it's alternate shot. So it was like a struggle. I know you don't have the choice, but if you, would you rather hit the final putt or hit the T shot for your group? I'd rather hit the final putt, but that's because putting, I'm usually pretty good putter. Yeah. I agree. I think there's just as much pressure on both sides.

I was in an epic member guest alternate shot playoff. We made it to the final hole. one one the first advance the second in a chip off i hit a chip to literally a foot after tying the same score i was like let's go alternate shot unbelievable due process member guests could not be luckier to be playing in the thing buddy absolutely uncorks the drive we're playing a team that's like they're not the strongest of handicapped players they take two shots to get to us we're in full go zone i got like 200 yards uh par five i was like all right i'm just going to kind of rip i think i chose to hit a five irons and just hope to like kind of keep it up to the right hand side because there's

water left no joke hit it off the toe of my club lost ball right I literally just took a knee and was like I couldn't breathe lost the member guest just because of me I think about that at least once a week and that happened two years ago that's devastating yeah I've heard that story a lot and it's it kills me it kills me so we had a seven team alternate shot is the way we decided to do it. It worked out great. Like I said, just one hole, boom. We were done.

Nardini, Erica Nardini played. She played with her hockey coaches. So for anybody who doesn't know, our CEO. What's going on there? Yeah, what is that for sure? She's been playing a lot of hockey. Our Cee. Her little glimpses of her skating around.

Our CEO, Erica Nardini is very much into hockey nowadays. She's starting to skate, and she's starting to just get really into it. She loves it. And her coaches, she, you know, she's like, hey, I'm going to play. I need to force them. The people she brought were her, like, young, like, 20-something hockey coaches who were total beautiful. beauties and we're drinking, chatting up a storm.

That was like her crew that she played with in the barstow class. Coaches for what, like, what kind of team is this? Power stadium. It's like, yeah, they like, they like teach her how to play hockey, you know, like, I don't, I don't know. That's insane. She got a shooting coach, a skating coach. I don't know. She actually, psychological coach.

She got a great stride. Yeah, she does. She does. And on the par three closes the pinhole, you know, she comes up and she plays from the men's tees, which it was playing, it was like 120 and it was playing probably 1.30 or 135 a little into the wind and she steps up there with the three wood the first time rips one that goes just a little short right but like ripped it pretty good and we're like hit another one come on she's like okay you fuckers like blah blah blah gets up next one rips it on the green with no way

it was insane wow it was absolutely insane she had like 20 feet with a three wood it was awesome uh so barstow classic pound ridge we're all set we have a full roster a full field for the Barstool Classic Championship at Liberty National, October 15th. That's going to be a scene. It's going to have Jake Owen, who told maybe the most epic story in the history of foreplay about...

Jake Owen's playing at Liberty National? Yep, he's playing at Liberty National. Wow. We got Jeff McNeil's playing there, so we got some big names playing there, and then obviously everybody who qualified along the way. So it's going to be... It's exciting.

I can't believe we've already done eight golf tournaments. It's a lot, man. It's insane. The last month has been nuts. Jake's over there shaking his head because he runs around the whole day with a camera the entire day and films everything. And then he has to come back and do the podcast. It sucks.

We've been up since like 5 a.m. this morning. So it's been a long day. It's 8.15. I can't wait to go home. Phil Mickelson, Twitter, just continues, man. He continues to be all over it, chirping, liking stuff, responding to stuff. We've made contact. We are very much in contact with Phil Nicholson in a couple different ways.

We'll share a lot of that after we, you know, hopefully bagged this thing. and get Phil Mickelson on the podcast. We want to do like, we want to bring like four bottles of wine, post up and do like two hours. Or we just sit down with Phil, drink wine, shoot the shit, tell stories and release it as like a two part, you know, two out, two different hour podcast is what we want to do. Again, we've made contact. He knows who we are. He loves it. He's obviously very much into the social media and all that.

So hopefully we can get that to work out. Yeah. When I had that chip and I actually fucking didn't blade it, someone wrote, someone wrote underneath, talks to things. Phil Mickelson one time becomes like the best short game player of all time and he responded, I didn't think it'd be that easy. And then he also wrote to another person like like, like, yeah, like very Phil-esque and he wrote, love it. Like Phil is just all over the place.

He's all over it. I was on the golf course at that point. I'm like, Phil Miclinson just watched me hit a wed shot. Arguably the best short game player of all the time just watching me hit a wed shot. Isn't it? And commented on it. Yep. He's just sitting, he's sitting wherever the hell he is in his house in like California or in Scottsdale.

And he's just sitting there scrolling through Twitter. That's what he does every night. He just does it for a couple hours. Social media. He just rips through it. He loves it. Where does Phil Rankin, like, just names of golf? Like, throw out, like, his achievements and all that stuff.

Like, if you're just like he's the top five most famous golfer of all time, is that, is that correct? Top five? Let's see. Let's go Tiger Woods, Jack Nicholas, Arnold Palmer, Gary Player. Is Phil Miclinson more popular across the world than Gary Player? It's tough to go cross eras because, like, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it. It's tough, you know, and people are now going to chirp, right? But, like, Samson needs nowhere near as famous.

I know. And, yes, you can say, like, the social media era, but that is in account. Like, you take that into account. Right. You just grew up in a better era. Right. The digital media, like, there's just more exposure to the best guys. So, therefore, if you're one of the most famous guys now, you're more famous than anyone's ever been in golf.

Yep. Rory or Mickelson. Mickelson, by a fucking long shout. What's with you? Your gauge is off. Oh, no. I mean, I got ripped on Twitter for the background. I was just driving it back.

Barstle Lurch out here tried to do his first poll on Twitter the other day. Yeah, I did. Got like 100 people. Dude, yeah, but still, like I've never seen a poll that, that lot side. It's almost always 50-50. I think 70. That's insane. 72 something.

That's not good. Dude, 72% on one side of a Twitter poll is astronomical. That's unheard of. It's usually 51-49 every single time. Every single time. You could literally. Well, that's because you guys get huge sample size. So it's going to work back.

Dude, I don't care if three people did it. 72% saying that you're wrong. 72% is ridiculous. Yeah. That's unheard of it. I mean, you got killed. You got killed. You got killed.

You got killed. You're trying to deny that you got killed. That's still ridiculous. How many votes? A thousand. That's it. A thousand eighty three. You're pretty strong sample size.

I mean, I was wrong. I was wrong on that one. Incredibly wrong. Potentially wrong. Potentially wrong. Potentially. Why do you have to change it to potentially wrong? You're super wrong.

In their eyes. People are coming up to me stunned. I just asked the wrong. wrong thousand people that's all i think you're any thousand people's going to be the same you're not admitting that you were wrong i just haven't seen the facts yet i've only seen opinions it's pathetic phil michelson is very famous i think he's you know i think he might be the second like i don't know it's so much more exposure now that phil meccleson could you could argue i think that he could be the second most famous golfer of all time i think that's right you know like more people have

opposed to Phil than any other golfer in history outside of Tuggett. And I'd get their own Palmer was massive. Jack Nichols, massive. Maybe they're there, but I think Phil is in the conversation. Yeah, I agree with that.

Jack Nichols had a weird Twitter weekend. Did you guys see that at all? No, he's basically talking about how crazy it is, how, you know, back in his day, you would make this much money. I did see that. And then nowadays you can become a millionaire in one week.

He's listing all these things. Saltie. It's so crazy. PJ Tour. Shout to the commissioner. It's crazy how the game is exploded in this way. Three tweets in a row being, being like, it's crazy how much money you can make these days.

Not one mention of Tiger Woods. He's like, I can't believe this has happened. I don't know why this has happened like this over the last couple, like last couple decades. He's like, boy, but is it great for the sport. I love it. Nothing about Tiger Woods. What a miracle that this thing just happened. Like right around 1996, 1996, 1997.

It just went crazy. What happened? He wasn't even specifically talking about the game of golf. He was talking about specifically the money in golf. And he's like, I can't believe it's exploded in this way. No mention of Tiger. Which is a thing that. He had three tweets to say.

that stayed consistent. It's Tiger. Because it is. It is. And he's just like, shout to the commissioners. That's a thing Phil Mickelson has gone out of his way to be like, oh, I thank Tiger Woods every day for how much money I've made. Right. And Jack Nichols couldn't say it.

This guy, Joe Horwitz, we played with this weekend turned pro. And he was playing like the Edmonton Open. He got a chance to thank Tiger because there was like more money in that because of Tiger Woods was literally a lie, as he kept saying. Yeah, he did say he's like, we were talking the tour all the time about somehow there's like 50 grand in our stupid tournament's prize pool. And none of that would exist if Tiger Woods just was never bored. This was one of the tweets. He said 50 years ago you played golf to earn a living off course. Today you can become a millionaire in a week.

And I love it. Great's like Sneeden Hogan, Late Foundation, hopefully Arnold Palmer, Gary Player and I help with Building Box. Very proud of the PJ Tour. Keep Up Good Work Commissioner. Come on. That's amazing. Unreal.

It's amazing what you miss without a phone for a whole weekend. It's just, it was so funny. And every comment under it was like, I think you forgot something. I think you forgot something. Anybody, Tiger? Tiger Woods? Nothing.

No? Jack Nicholas, Salty. I mean, I almost respect how salty is. Like, I've said it forever. He is a competitive savage. He wouldn't be the greatest of all time. He wouldn't have 18 majors.

He wouldn't be that guy if he wasn't a competitive savage. Even one of his tweets has got a picture of him reading an old PJ championship program. Just like, what is going on, Jack? He spanned it over three tweets. Like I said, just nothing. Jack versus Tiger. God, he wants Tiger. He hates Tiger.

It's just so obvious. obvious. Okay. It really is. Okay. Phil Mickelson. Anyway, that's the update with Phil. Love that he's all over social. Hopefully he's going to be all over the Fourplay podcast. Labor Day weekend, ladies and gentlemen, it's coming up, which means you've got an extra day to play 18, but don't let all that extra effort slow you down on Tuesday morning. Whether you need a pick-me-up at the turn or something to help you recover after a full 18 topical products from CBDMD provides the natural support you need to relax, regroup, and

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Someone was going to start the damn tournament 10 under par. That person was Justin Thomas. And then they were going to kind of scale it from there, eight under, 600, 400, 400, whatever, all the way down until, you know, you get to the guys that started even par who were last in the FedEx Cup standings going in. Well, it turns out that Rory wins the whole damn thing. He would have won it anyways. Lurge is very distracting looking at you to do that while I'm trying to read this.

So if you can just stop doing that, that would be awesome. I just saw how much Rory's made over the year. I was trying to find it again. So anyways, Rory had an awesome week. There's a lot to break down because it came down to Rory against Brooks Kepka and the final pairing, something that we've seen and we have not seen Rory come out on the good end of. This was shocking that Rory kind of dominated him this much. of their history in Memphis when Brooks Kevka took them down.

Just the general fact that over the last couple years, Rory has been in this type of position many different times at huge tournaments and just hasn't delivered at the rate that you would think and even had some pretty god-offer performances. You think of being in the final group of the Masters. You think about when he got kind of stomped by Brooks Kebke like a month ago. You think about a couple of these different instances. And Rory came up and really just didn't even make it very close.

He won by, I think, what, he ended up winning by four, wins his second FedEx Cup title. This year he's got a Players Championship, RBC Canadian Open win, some of the best statistical achievements of his entire career. This is the second time that he's won the FedEx Cup, which makes he and Tiger Woods the only players with two FedEx Cup titles in the 13-year history of the whole thing. So all of a sudden now we've got everyone dropping the Brooks Kevka,

Roy McElroy, you know, rivalry. Yeah. rivalry. That's what all they talk about in golf rivalry, which is really one of the dumbest conversations in the history of sports because no matter what, no matter who you are, you almost never get or very, very rarely do you get guys playing one on one? And we've gotten, okay, these guys twice, neither one in a major, neither time in a major championship playing like in the final group together. And they're trying to already paint it as a rivalry like they tried to force with Phil and Tiger forever. Yeah, people just love rivalries. They love, we're pattern seeking human beings. And we just like, for some reason, rivalries are right up there with that.

We want to see a rivalry two guys like Rory and Brooks. Obviously, it would be great if they would play consistently one-on-one, like if they would end up in final pairings all the time, it's just not going to happen that way. But if people want to spend a narrative of like Rory versus Brooks, that makes golf more interesting, but it's just not going to be the payoff that people want all the time. Never.

And, you know, and doing it, you're just missing. so many other people. I mean, Justin, think about how good Justin Thomas is. Dustin Johnson, Justin Rose. Like, these guys, Tigers still, like, one of the top ranked players in the world. Like, think about how good these players are and you're trying to boil it down to one guy against the other. It's crazy town that they try to do that. They try to force that down our throats. It drives me crazy. Rory's always going to, always going to contend at Eastlake because he drives the ball so well. One thing that was cool about Eastlake, I saw Billy Horsal, that loser. I saw Billy Orssel out there tweeting about the course and basically how much he loved it, which I actually

agree with him on this, and that it just punished the shit out of guys for not driving the ball straight. And one of the biggest complaints right now on tour or about the PGA tour golf product is that if there's just not, the roughs just not punishing enough. If guys miss fairways, it doesn't matter, they hit the ball so far that they'll have wedges or short irons in. They're so strong now and they can hit the ball so high that they can just hit it out of the rough once they've bombed it way down there, even if they missed the fairway, they can hit out of the rough, onto the green, close to pins,

make a bunch of birdies, and it becomes a putting fest in a putting competition, not a ball striking competition. So what they were saying about this, Eastlake and why Rory's always in the mix at Eastlake, he was in the final group of Tiger last year, if you remember, is that he just is the best driver of the golf ball probably in the history of the world, and he's always going to contend it Eastlake. And Eastlake, it's just, it produces, like, really fucking good winners, I feel like all the time.

Boy, when they had the weather delay and they showed just Tiger Woods's run on Saturday. And then on Sunday watching Rory win. And like you're saying, this golf course just produces. And it produces good moments. And it produces – Rory McElroy coming down on 18 just felt right for some reason. Then you knew he was going to win. He's had such a good year. It's really wild.

Like, you know, we make fun of a while. We always say, like, when they cut to him putting, it's just the most uncomfortable feeling in the world because you know he's not going to make it and all that. And meanwhile, he has had statistically an insane view. He's just been in the mix. He's always right there. I mean, you know, he had a few instances where he wasn't,

like Royal Port Rush where he just had that first round where he couldn't even play golf. But even then he still almost made the cut. It came like a short putt away from making the cut. And he just is right there all the time. He won the players, which is the fifth biggest tournament in the world. He won that thing. He won the entire FedEx Cup.

He barely got beat out by Brooks Kevka in the player of the year that was given by the PJ America. And that was, I mean, against a guy who Brooks Kebka, who I think his total number was nine finishes in the four majors. And he won one of them. So it's like, you know, it's that good of a year that Rory had. We've talked to, it's really wild to think that Rory McElroy hasn't won a. major championships since 2014. It just doesn't make sense. 2014.

It doesn't compute. No, it doesn't. I don't know how. Especially when he has the ability to win $15 million in one tournament. The thing that was distracting in the rigs, I just read that he won over $24 million this year on the golf course. Yep. 24.3.

19 starts, what, three wins, 14 top 10, 16 top 25s. Just one of the best years you can have, really. I mean, didn't win a major, obviously. It is funny, too, the guy that was making the comments before I ended about like, yeah, They need prestige. It's not about the money. It's never going to do it. And then he just cleans up $15 million.

Yeah. Beginning the weekend, we said it last podcast, he's like, boy, is it great to have a lot of money spread it around everybody. He's got so much more now. So much more. Just way more. $15 million is an incredible amount of money. Just I know that's an obvious thing to say. But like, obviously when you win terms on the PJ tour, now it's averaging about a million bucks.

That's good. But then $15 million. I just get that. I saw something on. Second place gets what? Five million. Think about how. Think about how big and, like, rich we consider Dave Portnoy.

Yeah. I don't think he's ever gotten $15 million. No. I just read something on Twitter that said that he made $17,000 a hole. A hole. A hole. $1,000 this year. $17,000 a hole.

Miss cut or made cut. Regardless of how he played. Birdie, bogey, nothing. Just $17,000. Oh, like, obviously. Dude, I love when they do those stats, like, of, like, home runs that they hit or something. I remember when DJ won the U.S. Open or whatever, they released a statement of, like,

he made like six grand a golf shot this weekend. Every time he hit the golf ball, he made six grand. It was like this guy, Carl Pavano on the Yankee. Yeah. He signed a huge contract. And I remember them saying, like, he made X amount of dollars every pitch because he didn't play any of the game. It's just great having Rory back in the mix all the time.

Like, 2014 when he won two majors, like that was seeing Rory have that kind of swagger. the way he walks around, of course. I know we talk about all the time. He walks around like he's got a baseball bat between his knees. And he's just when he's feeling it, when he's feeling it, it's just a different feeling. Even what Brooks Kepka has accomplished the last couple of years,

that's been really cool to watch. But Brooks is kind of like, he keeps everybody at arm's length. And it's kind of like, he's like, yeah, I guess I'm really good at golf. It's cool. Roy's like, I'm awesome at golf, and I like that you guys like me. I like making a bunch of money. I'm going to be super candid in interviews. He is the golf superstar that we all want.

And he delivers, when he delivers, there's nothing like it. He also has like, if I have the least aesthetically pleasing golf swing in the world, he has the most aesthetically pleasing golf swing in the world. Just like watching him hit the ball is honestly a beautiful thing. Yeah, it's so beer. It's a beautiful thing to witness on television when they cut to Rory McElroy and he's just standing up there with his perfect address, his perfect posture, and he's ready to just fucking rip a golf ball with his driver.

It's just exciting. It's like, oh, I have to. to tune into this. So him in there, him playing well, is great. He's also, he's just a cool, he's a cool guy and I think golf is, I'm gushing a little bit on Roaring here, but it's like, oh, you earned it, man. He's a cool guy and it's cool that he is, he's happy to be associated with the game of golf. You know what I was thinking about it?

I was thinking about, you know, Caleb Presley walks around this office and it's like, that's just a cool guy. It makes Barstool cool that he is like, I can do this. I'll hang around you guys. That's how I feel about Rory and golf. He's like, yeah, I'm going to hang around golf. I think it makes it seem more important. It makes, he makes golf a little cooler.

Yeah. Because people are like, oh, that Rory guy, that's a cool cat. And he's one of the golf guys. And it almost feel like he doesn't need it. It's like, yeah. But so it's cool that he's like, I'm into golf. I'm into golf. That cool motherfucker who walks like he has a 30-inch dick.

Yeah. He loves golf. That's great for golf. That's great for golf. He does it super naturally too. Yeah. And I don't want to turn this into like anyone thinking I'm hating on Brooks. But, I mean, a little bit of Brooks right now is a little too tryhard.

The off white Nike's with the zip tie coming off of it. Like I can't bring it every day bra like all that shit like Rory just walks down a fair room We're like that dude's cool I don't need to see like his Brinks truck's tweets and I know everyone's gonna think I'm hating on Brooks but he's been getting on my I mean you have a you know you have a tendency to have a little bit of an anti something just throwing you know they do handle the fame and the trappings that come with being a very good golfer very differently very differently I'd say almost it ends of the spectrum Brooks tries to like act like he's the only person to ever be cool to play the game of golf and he's like paving the way for new cool people. Meanwhile, Rory's been like walking that big dick down the fairway for years. Yeah.

Years before Brooks was even anybody. Brooks does very much give off like, oh, golf is totally just not cool. It's full of all like nerds and dweaves and I'm kind of the only really cool thing about it. He said that to that reporter this weekend. Yes. With the off whites. Whereas Rory doesn't give that off at all.

Rory's more like, no, I'm a part of all this. This is really cool. But he's still cool. He's very cool. Oh, Rory? He's cool. That's a cool guy. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah, Brooks seems like sometimes he doesn't want to be a part of it. Roy's like, no, this is like, this gave me a whole life. I think Brooks Kevkevke would agree with that. Yeah, no, he won't. I, there are times where I just don't want to be a part of this, this aspect. He's nerds. Yeah.

Brooks did say, I mean, I can't bring it every day is what his response was to, you know, not playing well yesterday. Had he won, he wouldn't have said that, but whatever. Well, right, because then it would have been, like, he could bring it because he would have won. Yeah, but, like, he was in the lead and he just, like, he was like, plus three at one point. He just played poorly, and, like, that's why he can't bring it. But, like, had he just had one more better day, he wouldn't have ever said that. Do you feel like yesterday was a little bit of, like, kind of what you've been, what Frankie Borelli's been preaching? Yeah, like, if he performs, he doesn't say anything about how he doesn't like the game of golf, but if he doesn't, he's like, well, you know, it's just, it's not a major.

And I would have, I mean, he didn't say that. Right. He didn't say it's not a major. But that's the vibe he's giving it off, you know, whatever. It is what it is. I like having Rory be the first. face. I will say that. Yeah, me too.

Because he likes it. Unless he's making the face when he's holding the trophy, because that's not a good face. We got the picture up right now. He could barely hold that thing. How heavy is that thing? It has to be super heavy. Rory is a very in-shaped person.

He's got big muscles. Couldn't hold it. Could not hold that trophy yesterday. I bet it's not heavier in the Barstow Classic Trophy. That is pretty heavy. This guy couldn't hold it for his little life. Have you ever seen something like that? I bet my life that it's not heavier than that thing.

Really? Yeah. Wow. Wow. That's the only time I've ever seen. The Barstor Classic trophy is heavy. It's heavy. I think it's pure iron.

I have a question. Steve, who played with us in Aaron Hills, actually messaged me and asked me, did Rory's caddy just make $1.5 million? So they asked Bones during the broadcast about that. I think Faraddy asked him, like, how much does, like, what's the going rate for a caddy in an event like this? And he said it's not 10%. Like, it's not the same. Yeah, they all have different arrangements.

Yeah. He said 10% is obviously the norm for. normal win and all that, but they say it's a little less for this. Yeah, there's more discussions to be had than just, like, clean 1.5. It's yours. I mean, it's a big day for the cat. We're going to be a huge day for the guys. Even if it's 5%.

Exactly. 750,000 is pretty good. Pretty fucking good. He gets taken care of, I would imagine. Totally. Because Roury's catty's his buddy, so I'm sure that it's, you know, pretty childhood friend. Yeah, so life's good.

They met on a putting green in like Port Rush. It's crazy. That's cool. What a good meat for his caddy. How cool was that? time to be Roeerick. When they were like fucking eight. Didn't know that shake hand was going to,

that handshake was going to put. He could have went to any green. He could have went to any green. Anywhere. Could have showed up a half hour late. Could it didn't, like he could have smelt and like where we walked away or something. I don't think you show up anywhere when you're eight.

You kind of just go wherever you're supposed, you know. True. Yeah. You kind of just think he was 13. Could be different in Ireland. Yeah. That's true. Not from there.

Yeah. Not familiar with that place at all. I would like to get there. Goats and stuff like walking around. Then like he just ends up on a green. The goat? the guy. Just the guy. Even if you're seven or eight, I don't know.

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Do the right thing. Don't get drunk and drive. Drive sober. Ride sober. Have a great weekend. Justin Thomas, he said it was really weird and hard teeing off on Thursday ahead of everybody. I don't know how everybody else feels, but I had a pretty hard time playing the normal way that I play. It's hard to just imagine everybody starts at zero when you don't.

So that was tough. I imagine it is. I mean, I imagine that is a very, very unfamiliar and bizarre feeling teeing off on Thursday. I bet even a part of them thought, like, is this like fair? This is stupid? like in anything creeping into your head like that with golf with such a mental game your emotional state all that needs to be strong to win it somewhere like east lake with that kind of pressure all that money on the line i kind of get what he's saying i mean you know teeing literally teeing off the 10 under bar i'm sure it was such a different mindset of like am i trying to protect because how often do you see someone go into a sunday round with like a two stroke lead and they don't play as well as they played saturday friday thursday like it's just different it's you're clinging you're hanging you're hanging Right? You're trying to, like, keep it together and get to the finish line is so much different than just being out there and like freewheel and and T and off even bar being like, all right, we'll just kind of see where I end up on Sunday morning.

And when you start the week like that, I'm sure it's a very bizarre feeling. Yeah. Totally great. Totally great. I think that comment or some of that comment plays better on if he said that last Tuesday or Wednesday. But I totally agree with them because it is so mental. And you see that all the time with guys try to hold the lead. You play more conservative and golf is so mental, so many small mistakes.

Yeah. And then even like staying even or maybe plus one on the first day and other guys are going low like Xander. Yeah. Like at that point, it's slipping away on something that I'm supposed to be leading. Right. That's why the worst. Absolutely.

Everyone talked all week about how I'm 10 under and now all of a sudden I'm like two shots back. And you feel like you've had the worst day of all time. And meanwhile, I know I had like a middle of the road round and I'm still like one back in the tournament. What's the issue? Yeah. People like you should be blowing these people out of the water. You got a head start. He's like, well, it's not how I feel.

It's not I've never felt this way before. But then you can all, I mean, obviously you can take it one way or the other, but then you could say, like, all right, I just had a mediocre day and I'm in second place. Like, I'm, like, usually I'd be seven back right now. Let's reset. I'm going to win this fucking thing. Like, he could have taken it either way. But it's like when you, you know, like for us, right, we're always like if, if we're playing really, like, really well, you're trying to shoot like 70, something like that. And you're like, if you get to, if you're playing lights out and you get to like the 15th hole and you're only, you know, three. over par and you make like a sloppy double you are devastated yet you very easily could also be five over after 15 and had just made like a six foot slider for par on 15 and you'd be like on cloud a million as right like the mindset despite being at the same place can be so dramatically different in golf and so I'm sure he was trying to remind himself of that but it was I just thought

it was cool to see kind of some honesty being like hey dude it was just really hard and weird D-N-off Thursday in the lead because I think that's probably pretty relatable. Going through some of these finishes and the money that's tearing, shout to our guy, Kiz. Outrageous numbers for all these guys. Tied for ninth place, $950,000. Not a bad payday for that guy, man. Kiz did chirp me last week in that text that I posted and said it'll still be more than you make all year. Kiz will, that's just more.

That's more. I think he's right. I mean, I don't know the specifics of everyone's deal, but I think he's, think he's right that's i appreciate you being very respectful trent daddy and it's true i'm not going to disclose all my financial and contractual um details but i will say that that is more kevin kisner made more this week than i will make so congratulations to kids he also took a photo with a bunch of people go dog's photo where he looked like he's maybe two feet tall i couldn't believe that photo shortly the world shortest guy in the world he's taller in you no he's not how tall

I don't think so. What the fuck does that mean? It's exactly what the outcome that I wanted with your response. He's 5'10. And that's like a generous 5'10. All right. Well, I mean, there you go. How tall are you?

Look at this. Just one number. I mean, he looks like an 11-year-old. Yeah. It's like they brought their little brother. Now, I assume these guys are all like football guys or something, especially these guys on his left here. But he looks so small in this picture, I gas when I saw it.

I absolutely gasped regardless. Kiz. $950,000 will make you feel a little bit better. $950,000 day. JT came in with, what did J.T. come in with? Like $3 or $4 million. So that's a good week for him. $5 million for Zander Shafley,

finished in second place. How about Zander Shafley making the first hole in one of his life on Saturday? And he was like, he pulled it and didn't even watch it after it landed on the green. Yeah. It was a bomb of a hole. I guess it was like 2.40 or Sunday? It was Sunday morning, but it was the end of the third round. That's what it was.

Yeah. He's like, it was my first one ever. Unbelievable. He didn't, yeah, he didn't even watch it. One of the worst celebration he didn't even care.

It felt like. No. First whole one he's ever had. So what happens with the tie? So what you tie for third and fourth? You just split them. You just split them. So then three and a half.

So then, yeah, the 9, 10, 11, you'd all just split those. Okay. Yeah, we're kind of looking at the payouts right now.

I guess the website that I copy paste them wasn't the most clear. Everybody's making money. That was my research was the copy paste from a website. Fair. And it's kind of shit because it just says Justin Thomas slash Brooks Kepka, Justin Thomas slash Brooks Kepka. I'm trying to see if like does Kisner end up making more by splitting it three ways? No.

Because 950 is nine. So then you split it with 950, 8.30, 7.50. So it's somewhere. 8.43. 8.43. Yeah. So yeah. So yeah.

Because it was the 750, 830 and 950 that they split three ways between them. So right. Regardless. this. Yep. I will confirm that's still more. That's still more. Getting closer.

You almost have to take most of the room in here to get through a number like that. Imagine there if I was just like, oh, wait, actually now. No, that'd be sweet, but not. Nope. So kids. And we say it's all in one four round span, but like these guys performed for an entire season to get to this part. It's a whole year.

Yeah. I mean, kids finished tied for the ninth best year on the PGA tour. Yeah. I mean, really in terms of consistency throughout the whole year. Getting to East Lake. playing that well there, finishing, getting inside the top 10. And when you think about it also, I know it's just golf and it's a lot easier and less stressful of a life than most athletes.

But like when you're the ninth, when you're the ninth best performing athlete in a sport, like you're usually making, you know, these guys in baseball and stuff are making 25, 30 million a year. So it's like making 900 grand at that point. Like it seems like a lot, but only just because it's a game of golf to us. Like, you know what I mean? Yeah, but he also just made that this week. Yeah, but it's a season long. Yeah, but still, like,

what I'm saying, 24 million this year, and that's an outrageously high number with a 15. Like, I don't know what his career. If you're ninth in the NBA, you're making a max contract of 20 million in year, but I don't know if I feel like

endorsement dollars would be better for golfers than it would be for just a player on an NBA team, but I don't, that could be way off. I probably agree with that, though. I don't know. Advertising seems to be a lot bigger for the personal,

well, obviously, but then you see those shoe deals in basketball. Yeah, top nine, I think you're still. Yeah, and George deals are huge. Yeah. For basketball. To me, like an advertisement would be for the team, right?

But like, like, Sanders Shafley walking around with whatever advertisement he has on, he's just straight up collecting that money as opposed to, like, the Knicks having a deal with, like, Nike or whatever. Kis made $3.4 million this year. Pretty good. That's good. It's really good. Again, more than everybody's room combined times five, bates. Yeah.

Yeah, no, that's a good year for kids. And, kids, you know, look, we talk, we laugh. We call him a clown all the time. Kiz, man, he grinds. He knows more about the game of golf and the swing in his body than you could possibly imagine. When Lurch and I got dinner with him, then we took us out for helping him win the MetLife matchup. He was telling, he's like, you know, what people don't see is like, I'm in the gym for like an hour and a half before I even show up to the course when you guys finally see me on the range where I'm there for an hour and a half before at Tia.

So he's like, yeah, it's all fun and games. he's like, he's like, there's a reason I say ain't no hobby, fellas. Like, I take this fucking shit. Really seriously, he does have the trainer. He gets his body right so that when he shows up to the course, you know, his body is like biomechanically perfect. And that's like goes out and he puts a lot of work in. You can see in his eyes too. Yeah.

Like you just, you know, people that are competitive that are like, when you look in their eyes, you're like, oh, yeah, I believe that for sure. Right. And the way he was talking about it was like, yeah, that's no joke. Like you do put in all the time. Like people know that you're, you know, I don't know, using like the guns. on your hips to loosen yourself up, getting ready pre-round, and he does it all for sure. So good for kids.

Pumped. That's our boy. Kevin Kisner, you know, $8,900,000 he took home yesterday. Strong, strong, strong week, strong year. Way to go, Kiz. He better get on that goddamn President's Cup team. He's got to be on that guy. He says they actually get into your bank account the Tuesday after.

So when this thing goes live, these guys are getting rich. Then when that hits, it's nice. What a good night rest for those to go off from him. He also, it's great. He gets a text. You get a text on Sunday night once they've like officialized the payouts and the place. And the text is from the PGA tour. And it just says your place finish and how much money you made that week.

So he'll just get a text that says like T9, 830,000 up. Better text than I'm getting right now. His and I are having a different night's sleep tonight for sure. Damn. What a life. That's awesome. Isn't that something? Yeah.

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He is our Euro. Matthew Fitzpatrick really got fucked on the European Tour, Scandinavian Invitational. Did you guys see this bounce? No. Yeah, it went right off the fucking flag stick. Yeah, he's on the back nine, he's right there. He ends up losing by one stroke. He hits this iron that he just, he's like chasing it.

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Connor says, if the PGA really wants to speed up play, just let caddies use range fighters. We'd save a lot of time pacing off from markings on the course. could sign a deal with a range fighter company so all the players in the Tor could use the same one I like that you're giving them a little bit of business advice I don't think that'll be a problem for them

I saw a lot of people suggesting this one it's hard to really deny it or really go against it you know I don't know I mean I guess there's an you know that is like a skill and like a teamwork thing finding the yardage versus like just walking straight to your

like watching guys on tour walk straight to their ball imagine guys in Augusta walk straight to like their ball on 18 and he just pulls on a rangefinder, like, gets the right. Yeah, I guess that wouldn't necessarily feel right. Yeah, it doesn't. You know? It just looks bad visually.

Yeah. Yeah, this part of the game to me feels like. No, that's like part of the art. It's just part of the art. And I feel like an asshole saying that, but it does feel like it. It works so well for like the time saver when you see Bryson, like, do the walk off and everything. Yeah. But then again, that's part of the art for him to hit that shot, you know, without the distances,

without actually knowing because you hit it offline. So I'm against it, but I do understand a little point of it, but it just visually feels way off. Certainly I understand it, but it takes a little something away. Let me tell you this. If you want to use range fighters at like the John Deer Classic, fine. I agree with that. I do agree with that. I mean, not a top 50 player in sight.

If we're throwing a jabs or late on the Monday night, yeah, I agree with that. No, I'm just saying. That would be fine. It's been a couple weeks since you guys got your shots in. I just don't think anybody would give a fuck about that. No. No. Augusta.

Dude, they're this. They're all the same, all the same. Regardless of who's playing in it. I think you let them use range finders everywhere. Just across the board? Who gives a fuck? They're doing it anyway. They're in the practice rounds.

Are they not? No, they pretty much are. So, and they're writing it down. They know exactly how far they are no matter what. Who cares? I think this is completely on. I know it's taken away from the art, but it's not really art. You ever see those yard books?

There's so much fucking writing in there. Have you seen one of those yards? Yes. How did you get your hands? I just know what a yard book looks like. I mean, it's not that hard. I got a lot of numbers. You're right.

ton of numbers every single fucking step so you gotta take it they know it to the back they know it to the front they know it to the to the side yeah but then it's different because you hit you're not gonna hit your drive 308 or 350 they know anyway they're a little bit different potentially large we talk to these guys in the pocket they know exactly how far their seven iron goes and how far they have to hit it you know what they talk about most when yeah they do but I'm just saying they know the ar that actually helps frankie's argument right they know the arduge anyway right they're

going to know exactly how far to hit it regardless every time every single so just fucking use a range finder anyway they're using it the day before. If you want to speed up the pace of play, do it. I like it. I like this guy. I like you, Connor. I'm no.

Yeah, the art form, whatever. I'm gonna know. What are your final votes? No, I felt like I'm gonna ask him when I said it. In baseball, they took away the fucking bang, bang, bang play at first place. That's like more of an art form and like, that's the game of baseball. And like, you know what? It's sped up the game.

Or not really spout up the game. Actually slowed down the game. But what it did was it like it just got it right. It's like they saw something that they wanted to do. Got it right. Now no play at first place or home plate is ever wrong. and they just did it. Now in golf, if you see something that may be able to make a change, just do it.

I will say that the big argument was about leaving the flags in was like, are guys going to be putting to win the masters and the pins is going to be in? And then it just like was and nobody cared. Doesn't matter. So it would probably be the same way with range miners. You wouldn't even notice, man. Right, because like what are they going to, like, how often are they going to show Joey La Cava walking up the fairway with like a laser? Like never.

They'll just cut to Tiger having the same yard he had the year before when that wasn't the rule. Like hitting a shot. And to be fair, too, they'll probably range it and then just look at their book again and then have more of a conversation. So actually, it may. Like, you think they're just going to be like adding information. Yeah, you're actually adding time. Might slow things down. I hate it.

I like the art form. I like the preparation that you have to do prior to get it right or get somewhere in the vicinity and be, have a little miss of two to three yards. I'm sure it's still very close, but I still. It is just so outrageous how the everyday golfer uses this. Every single shot. Every shot. Every shot. doesn't.

Yeah, and the professional uses every shot outside of competitive play. Yeah. You know? It's just a small time that they have. It's like the time it matters most is the only time they don't use it. It seems kind of stupid. It kind of does. I agree.

I would say if I had to vote one way or the other, I would vote range finders. Imagine those augustic green range fires and like you couldn't use any sponsored ones and they would like they hand it out. That's exactly what they would do. That'd be great. They would totally do that. Yeah. That'd be great. I need one of those.

Or they'd make it all white with like the little rubber part around the eye just being perfect green. I was mad about what you said about the Johnny Classic earlier, but that should be just a testing ground for new ideas. That's just like four-legged children running around. You know what I mean? Yes. All these lab. That's your jump-off platform. That's how JDC goes forward by just being the innovation lab.

I love that. I actually think that's a great idea. Shot clock, range find. Do it all. It'll be our own little European tour. where we just try things. Rangefinders. See what happens.

I actually agree with that. Just see what happens. The John Deer Classic should look like Sid's backyard in Toy Story. We should just become like the testing ground. He like takes all the fucking toys together and sticks them on different things and they're running around. They look horrified. You turn it into the John Deer Classic Tigers playing like left-handed. I think we're on to something there.

If we want to get some cash and some grab some headlines, let's be the testing ground. You want to get a top 50 player. do they come down? Yeah, like, Bryce would be like, I want to try that. What's the girl's name during the Asian girl during the half time? What's her name? Oh. With the bowls?

Red panda. Just get her out there behind a green, just fucking flipping bowls and shit. Let's just do it. It's a circus. I don't hate it. I think we're on something. People would go. If you told me Red Panda was flipping bowls behind the 14th green at the John Deer Classic.

I hope we're there either way. That's a massive cell. I think we'll be a dime. Imagine she has to do it while they're putting. and if she drops it, like, ruins there. Everything. Let's do it all. It's a little marketing idea for the JDC.

Let me tell you this. Let me tell you this. Unless there's a giant scheduling conflict, the four-play crew will be at the job. As a force. Yep. We will not. I won't wear green.

Put a ride in on a massive tractor. What's the opposite? We don't. I'm going to be pissed. What's the opposite of Iowa? Are we in it right now? Is it New York City? Yes.

I think that's actually pretty good. I have to wear to like look like an asshole. I mean, maybe Tokyo. You wear like you wear like. You can wear... You can wear... Should I wear, like, a pinned suit? Like, I just came from Wall Street.

Oh, you're going to dress up real night. Like, to show them, like, I'm better than them. You're going to, like, spit on my people. Like, no, like, not better than them, but like... That's a little. Relax. I meant, like... I meant, like, I want to be...

I meant, like, I want to be, like, the opposite of the John D. I want to walk in, like, I'm the bad guy. I don't want to fit in. I don't want to fit in. You got to wear, like, an Armani suit or something. I don't want to fit in. Well, if you just wore, like, Ohio State clothes. Like, if it's, like, who's there?

Nebraska. Nebraska. Oh. Come as a corn husker. Okay. They'll hate that. I want to be hated there. That's my point.

I want to be hated there. Grab some corn, be a corn husker. You'll be hated. I want people to boo me. I mean, they might boo you either way. Boo. We'll get them to boo you for sure. Go eat a fucking.

I'll boo. What's the thing of corn? Boose. Let's get to the next guy. Stock? Go eat a stock of corn. Ear, a corn. Ear?

Or an ear? You don't even know? Well, I didn't know what you were you at. Come on, corn boy. I can't wait until you can sit on your porch and just say the weather's moving in. His dream. Just a morning cup of coffee. In my soft clothes, yeah?

Oh, yeah, soft clothes. Morning cup. I'll be in a rope. You'd be in a towel. I'll be in a towel or a rope. Some people, I'll say some people have such a negative reaction to the word soft clothes, the phrase soft clothes. Really? Yeah.

Yeah, those people are, they're probably bad people. You need the tonality. I was going to say they're racist. I don't know what. I just want to put that on them. I just would be like, you don't like soft coast? You're racist. What's the most derogatory term for Iowans?

Cornboy. Is that a bad one? I mean, I've gotten it all over the years now. It all bounces off me like nothing. I don't even know what the derogatory terms are because I don't think that way. Flatlander? That sounds, that felt wrong. They say that up in Maine.

Flatlander? Yeah. You might need to take that back. That's felt. I don't like when we get called Flyover States. I don't love that. Yeah, that's rude. Missouri, we get looped into that.

Yeah. That's just all. Anything that's not California or New York. I called Jersey, we called like the dumpster. I think we were at, well, yeah,

it's because New Jersey is gross. We had at Cherry Valley, and I called someone, someone brought up the John Deere. I think it may have been calves. We play with calves. This kid has huge calves. Great little head of hairs.

Kid Kyle. Yeah. Outrageous golfer. We were telling he hit this one fucking drive. He hit this one drive. He's like, he has a professional swing and he attacks a ball.

And this one drive, I'm like, man, you just put that ball in time out. Like, you, you just hit that ball. He's like, You gave that ball of spanking. You gave that ball of spanking.

You put that thing in the fucking corner, and you made it count to 10. You know? You know what he did? He hit this bunker shot where when you watch a pro do it in slow motion, you can't believe they get their arms so high and then attack the ball so much. And I watched him do it in real time. I was like, I just watch a professional bunker shit. I watched him.

What's his handicap? Did he say? Yeah, he played golf at Hofstra. I don't know why I said Hofstra like you did. That was weird. Hofstra. Yeah. What's the word I can't say, right?

You guys always make fun of me for? Mooserella. No. But anyway, he played golf at Hasha, and he's a really fucking fine golfer. I'd say he's probably, what, like a one or a scratch? Yeah, got to be. He hit this ball out of a plugged bunker that I just still can't believe he did it. He's still trying to think of that word, huh?

Yeah, it's doing it on radio. He's making fun. He's throwing his hands for it. Like, he's about to say somebody's just firing blanks. He's just nothing's coming to the top. What is it? Insurance. Oh, yeah.

You really hit the. In. Yeah. Insurance. Yeah, I just can't say it right, I guess. Insurance. I just separate it wrong. Insurance.

Insurance. He says insurance. Yeah. Like it's where it's in versus out insurance. Insurance. Yes. My brain isn't working today and half of it is because Dave Portn and I just tweeted out. Should Frankie Borelli be fired for not including this clip in today's pizza review?

Keep in mind. We talked about it for 20 minutes about how perfect it was. That's true. We did. We talked about the whole ride home. You knew this was coming. Yeah. You knew this sweet was coming.

It's already got 2.1,000 likes and a moment. a shit ton of messages saying yes fire it's almost like you got too much too many things going on in your life you know too many jobs boy my heart is just pounding right now pure stress pure stress your heart's just pumping stress this is pure stress what I felt when I when I realized I didn't put that clip in 2.2,000 likes pure stress man I felt it those 2.2,000 people want you fired frank

I don't know if it's also because it's just a funny clip and they're liking it but it's a good way to just find that what you're cleaning to it's funny too is Dave Roe, what should I write? He definitely did that on purpose. He goes, what should I write now when I release this? And I was like, I don't know something about how it's like a bonus clip from today's pizza review. Nothing about me or maybe.

And his response was, should Frankie Brelly be fired? Which, you know what, fair? If I'm fired tomorrow, it was been a good run. It's because you didn't put that clip in the pizza review. Pure stress, man. I can feel it. Pumping through your brain. If you're fired tomorrow, what do we do?

Do you think we try to like, do we put our jerseys? Do we put our jerseys on day's death? If I'm fired tomorrow for not putting a... But Rudy doesn't know on his desk. What is this? I don't know what happens. Do I just go back to Borrellas? No, I think you got to...

Do you fight it? No, we're saying doing like the locker room thing, wherever he puts the jersey on the desk. Rudy. Solidarity. Like just for Blive. We just put our jerseys on the desk. I would definitely...

I would take a knee in Dave's office. He wouldn't. You'd be too afraid. He wouldn't know who I am. If he went nuclear to the point of firing me, that means that there is no one that's... no one's safe, I feel like at that point. True.

Correct. Not saying that I'm like at a level where what if we just put like, I've been his guy for three years. If he just one day fires me for a 15 second clip and like you walk in, you're fired too. You're also. I'll be honest, if that happens.

I think we just do the podcast, pretend like nothing happens. That's great. Damn, that's mean. I won't let's sleep tonight. No, I'm just saying because what you were just saying.

Yeah. I'd be too risky. Where am I going to go in there and get fired myself? Then we have no podcast. Yeah. I'll just do it. I might. I'd take a need as well.

I wish that what I, one of these days I would love to be hooked up to a machine and like and make a genuine mistake like this and like have it happen like just like how it did now and watch what happens to my body on like data scale

I would love to see the numbers it's like an earthquake dude what happened to me just now couldn't be healthy what I felt I felt a rush of blood in my neck literally a pounding headache immediately and my heart was running at like 190 beats per second

You did the whole podcast that way? Dude, in the beginning, I was like shaking. The way he told that one story. Because when I was telling the story about my shot going 200 and whatever yards, I can't remember talking about it. This moment right now, so this podcast will live on forever. We're going to do it for years and years and years on. But even after we are done doing content, even when we are done doing content,

this podcast will still be in the universe. Look back on this moment when I eventually do die. This moment took off some of my life. So I want people to know that when I did die, I could have had a little bit longer. But this audio right now, and we live in such a fucked up social media world that this clip could be played at my dad. Yeah, let's, I'm going to find it when you die. You know what, Jake, you got to, when you do find it, you got to, you got to put like, like, the chalk man type or the mannequin style of Frankie and then put, like, different, like, red, like, heat map on Frankie as he's talking through. whole thing about how this is what killed him.

What are those dolls that, like, torture dolls that if you have them, voodoo. Voodoo. Voodoo. Dals. Dave should have a voodoo doll of your body. He does. It's called text messaging. I've been voodooed, though.

Rhone. You haven't been voodooed. Yeah, he was voodied. Rhone voodied me. Who Rone is a wizard, a legitimate one. I don't even know where it was. So, like, Villanova was playing Michigan. Is that how the whole thing?

Oh, no. So, Roan basically, this is very inside bars and stuff. But anyway, Roan is an Eagles fan. Dave's a Patriots fan. They were playing each other. or potentially playing each. No, they were playing each other in Super Bowl.

And Dave was like voodooing or something. Dave voodued an Eagles thing, Eagles voodoo. What do you just establish I'm voodoo and you? Yeah. We got it from like a voodoo company with needles in it.

It looked like Roan. And then Roan tried to get us back and he put needles in my chair to voodoo me. You know, dude, he fucking put needles sticking up in my chair where I sit down for work. And I caught it before I sat down. One was sitting, one, no joke, dude, would have went right up my ball sack.

And another one would have went through my asshole. Dude, a pin, a fucking needle. And I caught this shit. And I freaked out. It was a crazy guy. Dave, like, almost fired. Roan. He goes, you're a fucking crazy person.

That is. And I love Roan. Roan is one of my favorite people. You guys are bandmakes. I still hold, I hold no grudge about that. No. I'm just glad I found it. I would have ripped everything.

Now, were the needles obvious? So was it like a joke because the needles were so obvious? The ones that were on the seat were not obvious at all. The ones that were obvious were he had about a hundred of them sticking out of the armrest. Okay. So then you deeper inspected the chair after. Yeah, but like I inspected it. And then like when I thought I had it all done, there was one sticking in the middle that just like, it's a black chair.

It wasn't like very easy to see. Yeah, Jesus is fucking right. So, you know, things could be worse. Yeah, I messed up this fucking pizza review, but I could have gotten needleed in the ass, man. Not just the cheek. What's worse? The hole. Would you rather take the needles or be dealing with a situation?

Physical or emotional pain? No, man. I could take the emotional. I could take this because the clip's still out. People are seeing it. I can't get my asshole back. I just do not disturb a group text and it's awesome. You ever do that?

I'd do it all the time. Yeah, just do it. Oh, man. I just kept coming in. I kept being. When you make these big group texts for the Barso Classic, I can't tell you how fast I put that thing on fucking do not disturb. I don't make them

Well someone does There's like 85 people on these things And everyone's like come on team When I see that I'm out Or everybody's like good morning Good morning Three o'clock in the morning I'm fucking out

The reason we do is we have I know that I know that I know that Hey it's great work And everyone That's how these things go so seamlessly I'm just saying

And I still read the messages I just don't like the dings And the buzzes I completely agree Yeah I do the same thing I check my phone every two seconds. I don't need to be notified. Same. Like, you know what I mean? I don't need any notification. I'm going to see it anyway. I'll see it. I need the number like one, two, three,

or whatever. I don't need the buzz. Whatever. The buzz does nothing for me. What the fuck are we talking about it? We got to go on to our second. I don't know. Oh, second from the gallery. This will be our last one because we've been going for a long time. Jake, how long have we been talking right now? Not including me running out of the hour and 20. Without the Frankie running out? Unbelievable. We're going to keep this part in, too. This is just interesting.

I can't tell you how fucking long of a day we've had. We've been up since 5 a.m. And Lurch and I were out drinking until like 11 last night at Rockaway. That was stupid. That was great fun. It was a great time. I actually felt more obligated to sit there because I wanted Ben to have so much fun after how bad his last four holes were. Honestly, blow me.

I mean, I don't want to punch you. If I wasn't so tired right now from the weekend and everything and moving my car around the city this and now going to work and being here, I'd punch. You're bigger than I am too. I know. Last night I finished my round at Mill River. We went to the club. We had a transfusion.

We had a transfusion. He was aimlessly talking. And he goes, our guy Joey, goes, why don't we sit out on the fucking deck and eat a dinner? I said, let's go do that. We sat on the deck. We sat down on the deck at Mill River Country Club in Old Brookville. One of the nicest views I've had, overlooking a nice North Shore golf course with all the hills.

I had a filet mignon. medium rare, crispy on the outside, mashed potatoes, string beans. I finish it off. I started with a Caesar salad. I finished it off with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. Oh my God. I drank an ice cold Coca-Cola with the meal,

finish it off with a beer. Boy, oh boy. Overlooking a crisp, overlooking a crisp North Shore Long Island evening. It was like 60 degrees. You're describing my favorite meal right now. And I'm not kidding. My favorite meal in the world starts with a Caesar salad.

It goes mass potatoes with a crispy filet mignon. You, Philadelphia? Preferably Pittsburgh. Preferably Pittsburghed, which that's crispy on the outside, raw on the inside. And then my favorite dessert in the world is I get two scoops of plain vanilla ice cream. That's what I had last night. I just love it. I had your meal last night.

So, hold on. You sell the bit of truble. In a transfusion? Hot dog. My only qualm was that is you had a Coca-Cola with a filet mignon steak? Here's my thing with that. That ruins the whole meal. You fucking does it.

you hard of you oh i got a drink go go i got a drink out of you don't listen just would never have a Coca-Cola classic with it i'd have a water something like that i had water something like that red wine or anything not taking that stance i love the taste of coke dude i love my favorite more than anything in the world but listen to me my favorite days is an italian sub extra oil and vinegar large with a cocoa classic that's the best that's my favorite drink and that's one of my favorite meals and i like to i like the combo i don't want to drink something just to drink it i want to drink what tastes good to me if i'm in that mode. But does that, I'm trying to like...

It tastes good. You think he's going to drink it if he doesn't taste? Dude, like meat and soda goes well. Just like a burger. Yeah, I mean, yeah. You can't argue with some of what tastes good to them. No, I know. I just asked him if it tastes good to him.

And he said, yeah. You think he was going to say no? No, I had it because I don't like it. Well, he could have said it tastes like a little funky, so I had it with a Caesar salad instead of the steak. Like, he could have said that. I'm always against the things where it's like try it. Like, when I go to a restaurant, someone's like, oh, try this.

Why don't I not? And why don't I? eat the thing I know I like. I agree with a lot of that. Like if I'm going to a nice restaurant, they're like, oh, try the cod. I don't eat cod. So, so why, like, why should I fucking try the cut? Let me eat the thing that I know I like. I do some of my mom all the time. Oh, I come home, I come home for the first time in a month. What are we making? Oh, we're trying cod. Well, why aren't we eating like chicken parm? Because you know I love chicken parm? Like, you know what I mean?

Totally. Let's do the thing I like. Oh, we always have chicken farm because I like it. Lurks, you do this. You try things when you order. You're like, oh, I tried to order this thing, and it sucked. Yeah, because I'll eat out of everything. But do that at your own home. But a meal is a meal. I'm just trying to get full.

So I'm going to eat this thing regardless. That's a weird way to look at dinner, man. Whereas me, man, I'm trying to enjoy my meal. I'll definitely enjoy it. Like, the places that I know and I know like that, I'll do that. But if I go to a place because I like everything and if they're like, oh, the cod's really good, like, I'll just have the cot. That sounds great. But see, I like everything.

Like, I can pretty much eat any meal you put in front of me. Right. My thing is, like, I have three places that I order from that I know are just delicious. And you know those things will work. I'm just going to order from those three places every time. Yep. Because I just know it's going to be awesome. Yep.

Couldn't agree more. Why the fuck would I need to try something that might not be awesome? Might open your eyes is something even better. But I already have something that's great. So you're telling me that nothing ever is going to be better than the last thing that you've had? No, but I'm saying that the risk is not worth. What I'm having is already so good that I don't want a risk. Chris, I might have to try 30 meals that I don't like and aren't as good to get to water.

That's 30. That's 30 I could be eating and joy. Correct. That's just, it's just the math doesn't out of it. I'll try something new. We go to the same restaurant all the time, me and my girlfriend, and she goes, you order the same thing every time. I said, because I fucking love this meal.

I love this meal. When I go to places and I know the meal that I like, I just order that meal without even listening. But if I go to a new place and they're like, oh, this is really good or whatever, I'll just have that. You know what I get at Borrellys every time? Lobster ravioli. Yep. Because you know why? Because I know it's fucking delicious.

I don't know if I ever said this, but after the PGA championship at Beth Page, we sold out. My dad just couldn't produce any more lobster raviolis because of how much you guys talked about it. I mean, they are good. It lines out the door for lobster ravioli. I'm really good.

I'm sorry about that, Mr. Berlin. He loved it. Yeah. He just couldn't believe that like that. Out of all the things, out of all the things to like sell out of like lobster ravioli. He's like, man, he goes, we must have done 10 times the amount of lobster ravioli that we did that week.

sells like five, five a week usually all of a sudden. Fuck, can we talk about a podcast? Yeah, I'm selling fucking dozens. A lobster raviol. It is really good. That's what I get every time there at Brelies. All right, folks. We're going to save these other from the galleries for the next show because we are.

We just spiraled right off the planet. I hope I still work here tomorrow. I would be sick. I would like that. I would all like that if you would work here tomorrow. And I will take back what I said, Brankin, we will not just do the podcast like you're not here. We will do a Jersey thing.

That would be so nice. I feel like my heart was pumping. acid into my long like into everything yeah but i will say if we do the jersey thing and then dave says at some point during it you better fucking stop doing this or you're fired you're gonna stop we're gonna stop i would stop too pretty good dig and with that we're done for the the day hit it hard hit it hard hit it hard and don't mess up pizza reviews anymore hit it hard