Fore Play - Rory’s Weird Year, Copycats, and the Brooks Koepka of Fore Play

Episode Date: April 13, 2023

A designated event this week after the Masters - how long will that last? Sir Nick Faldo takes shots at Riggs on Twitter. A competitor steals our blueprint to the Barstool Classic. Willy Z is out for the year. Frankie’s going through it amid the Isles playoff race. Is Dan Rapaport the Brooks Koepka of Fore Play? And as always, much more.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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We're coming off the masters. We're coming off the highest rated masters or any golf tournament, according to the ratings from Sunday, highest rated final round in five years since Patrick Reed. At first, I was like, more than Tiger Woods. You forget Tiger Woods had to tee off at like 9 a.m.

when he won in 2019 because the weather delays. So for that time slot and everything, those ratings were crazy. But clearly finishing at one or two in the afternoon on a Sunday versus finishing at 7 p.m. prime time when the Masters always finishes is not going to deliver the same. It did this last weekend on Sunday. They played a bunch of goals.

golf because they had to finish the third round. He had kind of Live versus PGA tour. He had ROM and Kepka. You had Phil made a charge, all kinds of stuff going on. So we could talk a ton about that. But a big thing I want to talk about is next week, Zurich Classic, we're going to be there. We're going to be there throughout the middle part of the week,

throughout pretty much most of the entire week because the Barstville Sportsbook is the official sponsor of the Zurich Classic last year. We had a presence there. You guys were there. Frankie hit an unbelievable shot. you got like an iconic moment with Chris Bourbon, which was insane. So we're going to be there in New Orleans all week next week, promoting the Barstall's sports book, the official sports book sponsor of Missouri Classic, the team event.

Ironically enough, that's where Trent and myself got into a little skirmish with the PGA tour six years ago now. We're doing a little trust falls with a couple of the fellows trying to build this team environment. That was the first time there'd been a team event. on the tour, I believe, since the early 80s. And now here we are six years later, Barstles Sports books the official sponsor of the event. So, uh, so yeah, we'll see people down south next week. I love New Orleans. I love the Zurich and I love New Orleans. New Orleans is one of

my favorite cities in the country. I think it's, you know, if I'm asking myself right now to rank them, I would put Boston number one in New Orleans number two, but it's a, it's a heavyweight fight. So I'm very excited to go back to the Zirk. Yeah, it's a fun place. It's really a great tournament. And, you know, we got the king of the south. Mincy's going to be there. We're going to have a huge setup last year we had like it kind of came together pretty quickly our setup i think that was on like the ninth hole um right was it the ninth yeah what's that par three i think it's nine um i think that's right i could be wrong but i'm pretty sure it's nine and uh this year i heard the the the it's been blown out we have a huge simulator in there full swing simulator in there we've got the whole VIP experience in

there you can come in get drinks you can meet all the guys you can sign for the barstles sports but we'll be betting we'll be making sure that we have some fun stuff to go on so it's going to be a great week. Zyr Classic is turning into a must-attend event if you're in the New Orleans area because it is a great. The players are into it too with the team aspect. Team Fitzpatrick. Team Fitzpatrick this week. Matt is right. His younger brother, Alex is getting, and I think if they win the tournament, I think Alex like becomes gets his PJ tour card. So no pressure. No pressure on Matt. You also have, uh, merch. Have we talked about that? Oh, shit. We do have merch. Custom

merchandise. We are in the tent. So we've been in the waste management. We've been at the Players Championship and now we're at the Zurich. The Zurich is going to have a New Orleans kind of feel to it. We have a bunch of cool t-shirts in there, hoodies, hats, the whole deal. It's really cool that we're just rolling with all these PG tour events now where they see how well that they do in the other tents and they're like, we want to re-up for the next one.

So this is, if you're at the Zurich Classic, if you're at TPC, Louisiana, you're going to want to go and make sure that you check out our merchandise tent or our merchandise set up in the tent. We'll be there meeting you when you get the shirt too. So that'll be cool. It'll be cool or suck for you. Either one. You don't have to meet us.

You can just get the shirts and walk right past us. That's fine too. It doesn't really matter. Yeah. Zer classic. So yeah, next week's a big week. Obviously, RBC Heritage, Hilton Head. This week, the lighthouse, beautiful lighthouse.

That's where I always think of 18 coming down there. Fine. It's always a let down a little bit. Speed one last year after missing the cut, I believe, at the Masters Tournament, and then he came out in one. That 18th hole usually does deliver some heroics. I feel like it goes to a playoff all the time or people hole out there a lot. So it's, you know, if you're still into golf, you can handle coming down from watching Thursday, Friday.

You got 15 screens going on like it's Thursday in March Madness, Masters Tournament, too. You know, they're kind of laying up at Hilton Head because it's a Pete die with all kinds of dog legs. Fine, go for it. If you're that big of a golf nut, maybe you don't have great weather or not outside, golf continues to roll. along the tour just hammers go, go, go. It's a designated event, which is preposterous. Yeah, that's what I wanted to get at is just that's, it's an unhinged decision, really. And I mean, it's stunning.

It's stunning. All the guys are, except for Rory, Rory withdrew, not entirely sure how that works because there was a rule that you could only miss one designated event. He missed Hawaii. I don't know. Maybe it's an injury and maybe that's different. We don't know until we hear from Rory. But I think these guys all want to go back to their, I mean, Masters week, it isn't just

the most taxing week for us. It's the most taxing week for them, too, because. they want it more than any other tournament. They show up there early. They're so focused for Monday through Sunday. They also, a lot of them have to do some corporate stuff. You know, it's kind of the Super Bowl of golf. So it's a very taxing week for them to have to now go, at least it's close by,

but to play another designated event for $20 million. I mean, this is, they're going to be running out empty. And you heard Jordan Speeth say already that he felt like his decision making was poor this week because he played too much golf coming in. So I think it's pretty safe to assume that the schedule is going to look a lot different than it does this year. And I don't, it would be surprising to me if there's another designated event the week after the Masters. You can't. That's just too much. And Rory, injury or whatever, it's going to end up being like, that's a pretty good indicator that they should

probably change the schedule. I am curious to see if it's not injury related with him, like, what the penalty is going to be because like, you have to make it somewhat substantial for these guys to be like, oh, I don't want to miss two designated events in a season. I think technically it's supposed to be you don't get your pit money. I think you don't get your pit money. You're not supposed to get your pit money, but he finished second in the pit, which was like 10 million. He's going to get that $10 million. I think Alan Shipnuck, I know he's come up a few times on the show, tweeted something where it's like the commissioner has complete say.

All of these rules are what they are. Then the commissioner can come in and do whatever he wants. Is that right? Because is that true? Isn't the torment? Like, isn't the board, which made up of the players and all that? Like, don't they make the decisions? He can't really just like make calls, right?

I think there's probably a set of rules that the, that the, and there's probably some clause. It's like the commissioner has final discretion. That's, and that's been something that is ticked off players in the past is that they have all these rules on the board, but then the commissioner kind of calls the shots when the commissioner wants to call the shots. Yeah, I guess they could just vote them out if they really wanted to. Right.

You got to think, like, did they just make this a designated event this week so that no one wouldn't play? Like, if they didn't, nobody would play. Is that, do you think that's the case? I think it's RBC has been a big, big sponsor of the tour for a long time. and they have two events. One of them is the week after the Masters, and one of them is the Canadian Open,

which is the week before the U.S. Open. And for whatever reason, this year, the Heritage gets it. I would hope they would be Canadian. It's fine to have a designated event, I think, the week before, because you know, you're building up. It's more just like the letdown

that is just a tough aesthetic. Yeah. Yep. No, I agree. But anyways, if you want to get your fix, you can obviously watch this week. It's a beautiful track. It's hard.

It's Pete die. It's more of, you know, like I said, You hit irons off the tea or three woods or whatever. Lay it up, get it to the right spots. Everybody kind of second shot course, the whole deal. And it is stunning. It looks really, really hard for players like us that have to hit it pretty much straight all day. Really, really hard.

So yeah, you can get your fix this weekend if you would like. We do have the for the cut bet up on the Barcelona Sportsbook. So if you're listening to this very late on Wednesday night or very early on Thursday, go check out the for the cut bet. What do we come in at on the odds on that? Plus 3.85. Wow. Okay, we're back a little bit. I feel like that's our sweet spot. We got Tom Kim, Keegan, Minwoo Lee, and Ricky Fowler all to make the cut at the 2003 RBC Heritage. Ricky's back plus 325. Oddly, I think, be it at Kirk, we're texted about this. If Ricky Fowler was in the Masters, I feel like he would have finished top 10 last week. Right. And he's got motivation from watching it and not being there. Like, you know, he's definitely watching. He's watching all his buddies play. He's playing really good golf.

And he's played great at the Masters in the past. Ricky continues to. ascend. This is a great week for him. He's fresher than the other guys. Last week, Rory screwed us, huh? With the for the cup bet. Crazy. That was mine. That was, that was, that was mine and I apologize, you know, Roy screwed us. He, what a weird year for him. What a weird year. It's so, it really just speaks to how, uh, current form can change quickly and how really, right? Because it, it, the tour championship last year, when Rory takes down Scott, he wins, he's on top of the world. He's the guy.

It was the year where he was the face of the PGA tour. He was kind of their spokesperson. He was their prince. He won the Canadian Open. He wins the tour championship, all that. People were thinking, God, the masters can't come soon enough. August or whatever the hell that was, August to, like, April is, you know, he might, at that point, he might not be the top 30th player in the world, like rankings-wise he will be,

but, like, realistically going in, misses the cut by a thousand of the players. Yeah, he played well in Austin. and nearly got into the final match. But that's a quirky course, whatever. I guess people could look now. You just kind of throw that out. And then missed the cut by a million at the Masters is very, very bizarre, really, where Rory's at right now and changing the driver's shaft.

And people panicking about a bunch of comments he had about the driver, the putter going to, you know, the whole thing has just been, it's been kind of a bizarre month or two, I feel like, for Rory. Brandl had an unbelievable line. on live from i'm not sure if you heard it but he he was talking about sensory blitzkriek and he said something about this he said that rory mackleroy has sensory blitzkriek between which what does that mean blitzkrieg is like the is like the is like the german nazis bombing people i know what is what how does it i think he's i think he's talking about you know he's he's in all these meetings and he's trying to be

one of the best players in the world and he's talking about all this equipment stuff and he's you know talking about the rollback and he's bringing him Bob Ritella and, you know, his mental coach the week before. And it just feels like there's just so much going on. Just sensory blitzkrieg. It feels like overload. I don't know. I feel like that's been Roy's life for at least two years. Like he's always kind of in the mix, especially the last 18 months.

I don't know. I don't know if sensory blitzkrieg is, is the reason that he's not playing well. It might just be that he's not playing well. When he won the tour championship, that was like as much sensory overload as someone could possibly have. He was like the voice of the PGA tour coming up, beating Scotty Sheffler like that. If he couldn't handle that. If he could handle that, he can handle anything.

I also get that. I also get that it's Rory, but this is more common than watching a guy like Rahm and Scotty consistently be awesome all the time. Like he is Rory, but that's what happens in golf. You just don't play well sometimes. Yeah. And I would say, I mean, if you look at an example of a guy who played extremely well throughout the mid and early 2000s who had a lot going on all over the.

place. That was probably what he played his best. Well, I'm not going to say it happened too much. Nuclear bomb. That was like, totally. It's almost like you need chaos a little bit. It's like, like Dave talks about with his desk where he's like, I need chaos on my desk in order to have like the right proper amount of chaos going on in my life that drives me to figure it out and be on top of shit. It's almost like certain people need that.

Now, Scotty and John Rom are a little different where they're pretty simple and like keep things that way. But Rory and Tiger might be a little different. There are people who need that. I remember reading the Barry Bond's book that I cannot think of the name right now. The Balco one? Yeah, the Balco one. And they were saying like Barry Bonds had stuff going on in his personal life.

He obviously had things going on in his professional life where he's kind of ducking and diving and like trying to avoid certain things. And people in his life were like, how is he able to keep it together? And he's one of those guys who just needs chaos and entropy. And he just thrives in all of that. And other people it would completely fall apart. Game of Shadows. That's what it was. It's those two San Francisco journals.

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go listen to it. He threw his driver in the trash can, I believe after the 10th hole in the final round, which I didn't know any of that. I just saw that quote come across. Through his driver in the trash can, I think after he duck hooked one on 10 and then used his three wood the rest of the way

into the final round and parred every hole coming in. So shout out to Thomas Peters. Shout out. just threw it in the old trash can. I'm coming straight from the doctor. I haven't been to the doctor in probably four years. Had a physical this morning. When's last time you guys got a physical?

I usually get one once a year. Yeah. Having a lady in your life, I feel like helps you get a physical. I didn't have one this year. I probably should go. Or I feel like living at or near your home helps too. It's like we just have kind of a primary care doctor your whole life.

It's like I moved here two and a half years ago and just forgot to get a doctor. Yeah, I'm probably at once every four year clip at this point. I like getting blood work done. It feels like you're fine. you're like getting a nice checkup on exactly what's going on. You know what I mean? Yeah.

Blood work is really interesting how it makes sense. It's going to sound obvious, but it's just like your oil. They take the oil out of you and they run it and they're like, this is what's going on with this car right now. It's crazy how much it tells you. Yeah. I'm going through something right now.

I got some sort of stomach virus or food poisoning. I had a bad chicken Caesar rat yesterday or something. Something happened to me. I've been shitting like crazy. It's just not a good feeling like where you just can't, You can't shake it. Because whenever you have like a tummy ache, you just run to the bathroom, you go. And then it's like over.

And then you're just like, all right, I feel better. Move on with my day. And then like with something like this, you like go, you lay down. And then you're just like, I got to go again. Like I have to go again. And then you start getting like a lightheaded. And then you start getting like a light. I'm like, what's happening?

I'm drinking biolite. I'm drinking all this stuff. It's crazy. I can't. I can't even. I can't catch up. Dude, you can't. You can become so.

Like I feel like I'm drained. You're gone. become, well, yeah, you become so dehydrated because you're just putting everything that goes through you, it comes right out the bottom of you. And then when you try to, like, rehydrate, it just comes out the bottom of it. And it's my mom's birthday today and they're going to habachi. And I'm like, thinking, I'm like how am I going to make that, ma. Like, you know, how am I going to make? You can't combine this foot out. Can you combine like a stomach virus and a worse, a worse dinner choice. It's Indian food. Indian food or Indian food or. dude habachi like wow i never one of my favorite memories as a family we would go to this place shiro japan and we would all in the car home we'd all pick which like bathroom i'm gonna go to the upstairs bathroom you go to the middle bathroom someone goes in the basement we would like call our bathrooms on the way home because you just had to go after you go to apache you can't even make it the 20 minute ride home you can't did you guys have hu hot restaurants around you at all

who who who what you know h h o t all one word it's like a mongolian they make it in front of you, you get in line and you pick all your ingredients and then you take it to the guy and he makes it in front of you. That was the one for our family where if you ate it, nobody made it home. It was like a 15 minute drive home and no, you had to stop at a gas station and be like, I got to take a shit. I have to say too last night, I did another Boston market run. And now all of a sudden they've stopped. They don't even, they don't even give you the thing anymore, which is bizarre. And somebody was a bunch of people mess with me, but somebody was like, that's from the processors. It doesn't even come from the restaurant. It's like just for the

processors or something where they do the tip thing now they're not even doing it which i don't understand and i could understand if it was the same people being like this fucking asshole is not going to tip us but it's completely different people and they just stopped doing it but went to boston market last night at like 630 or something to pick up dinner and the boston market over here is right next to the taco bell not a single car in sight at boston market and i mean 12 cars maybe in the taco bell drive-thru line taco bell's legit man it just gave me a quick like that sums up America like so perfectly right there. Tacos are fucking awesome and they've perfected it to be like that fast food

addicting taste. They've somehow made tacos better. Like they made it they make them more they make them more addicting than they should be something about the sour cream. Something about the crunch wrap Supreme. Something about the way they do it. It's just fucking perfect. I got it the other night and it's so good. And not only do they make the chocolate. Cheez-y guess of potatoes. I love the chalupa supreme. I love the chalupa supreme. I love. I love the cheesy gordita crunch. But then when you're really just in it and you're like, I'm doing it. So I might as well do it to its maximum is when you get the cinnabund delights.

And they're just the little poppers that you just boom, boom, boom. Yeah. No, Taco Bell is great. You know what a new trend is? And I tried it the other day. And it's really good is if you get a crunch rap supreme, but you make the hard shell on the inside, the Doritos Loco's Taco. Or is that the cheesy or did you do that with? No, I did this with a crunch wrap.

Really? Yeah, because the cruncheraps got the soft tortilla on the outside. cheese in between that and the and the hard shell it's basically a hard shell in between a sauce shell but that hard shell is now you can make that a Doritos locos taco because I do that with the crunch wrap or the cheesy gordita crunch you put the Doritos locus in there I have not done that with the crunch wrap it's extra cheesy it's extra delicious I'm in tell me twice I shouldn't be talking about there right now I'm going to run to the bathroom I have to say on the physical front never been happier in my life to be a little bit sick because

uh you're you go in there and he's doing the whole deal and first of all the obviously the questions about the alcohol which i'm happy to be like use a smoker at all nope don't smoke anything great um you have any like family history of like this or can't nope nothing good and it's like alcohol like yep and then they hit you with like the you know the like how often you drink alcohol it's like uh like the standard social amount they're like okay like how often did you say you have like six or more drinks in like a sitting and I'm like and they and then they they lead you with like would you say like monthly or so I'm like no it's like like like weekly like okay so just like weekly I'm like yeah like what do you want me what do you want to do here you're just playing this game of like I don't

there's this is the one time I don't actually I want to tell you the truth that's what you always say and you're right about that if you're like the doctor he's seen it all and he's the guy if there's no reason to lie to him. Just tell him what you're doing because he's the guy who's going to be actually looking at what's healthy and if you're going to die soon. Totally. So I'm trying to be honest. But then the nurse, it was different because the doctor and the nurse both kind of ask you a little bit. The nurse comes in person. I could tell the nurse was definitely not, we weren't in sync on like our social lives and what we like to do. So she was kind of leading me with like, oh yeah, once like a month. Like that seems like a lot. And I'm like,

yeah, okay. And the doctor is much more of a bro. Like we sit and he's kind of like, what do you do for work? I'm like, I do podcasts and stuff for company Barstall Sports. Like, oh, I saw like, I like, I like that new bar down at Scottsdale. I'm like, yeah. So he was like, my guy. So he's like, how off you drink? I'm like all the time. You know, like, whatever that guy's.

But the nurse, she was just not into it. She thought six or more drinks in one setting a month was like, I need to go into a new room and get screen. And I was like, no, it's, you know, whatever. So you go through that heart. But then he's doing the whole physical. Everything is going great. And he's rubbing his hands around my neck. He's like, yeah, let's see.

And then he stops right here. He goes, ooh, what was that? I'm like, ooh, that's not good. I got a swollen lip node right here. And he's like, you've been sick at all lately? And I'm like, yes. Last night, I started noticing like a sore throat. I'm fighting off an infection.

He's like, ooh, okay, good. That's most likely it. But if not, then in a couple weeks, if that stays swollen there, I need you to come in and get an ultrasound. So you're either totally fine. I'm fighting off like a sore throat or the first thing you Google is it's just like cancer. And it's over. Yep. So that's the first thing you Google.

luckily I think I'm okay I think I'm just fighting off a sore throat and it should go away in a few days But like he said like oh yeah if it doesn't just come back in a couple weeks you're gonna need to get ultra So and he says it casually and then just walks out of the room so then you're left with your phone and you're just pulled up You're like swollen live go okay okay and you turn it into georgasca stands and think you're gonna die all of a sudden But huge moment that I was started being sick last night otherwise we'd be in panic city overall I think we're in pretty good shape going forward and it might not be another four years or so until I see you the doctor. So I think we're in good shape. How what was the what type of scale was it? Was it a new one? Or was it a, with the, with the weights? It was a new one. It was like a, it was like a, it was like a, for you. I know. They don't have, they don't have the one where you, you, you touch it over just a little

little bit. I talked about that when I last went to the doctor a few months ago where I mean, I'm, I don't, I'm huge, but I don't, I look okay, but I'm big and I'm bigger than people expect and the nurses don't expect it. So they're always pushing it. They peg me for like two 15 and I'm like, no, no, no, move that big one. We got to move that big one over because it's going to take before it gets to even out. So, but rigs is skinnier than I am. So it's probably not that big of a deal. I will say on the on the weighing thing, I really regret they like again, nurse was a little bit awkward. So she like, I didn't really know where we're going.

She like, oh, step on the scale real quick. I'm like what. And I just, I should have taken my keys and my wallet out. I think that dogged me a little bit like on. Oh, leave a man. Then you got an excuse. I guess so. But I just, I don't know.

Where a body, wear a weighted body. Just one of those numbers to be lower, I guess. I wanted the number to be lower. I came in a little heavier than I expected to be. I was like 208, which I think I should be closer to like 200 or something. So that was a little surprising to me. I think the keys fucked me. But anyways, a lot of sports team talk on this show.

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Your health seems good, but how is your mentals after Sir Nick Faldo bodyed you on Twitter yesterday saying that you have no idea what it takes to win and that your take about Brooks Keppico's hashtag ridiculous. I didn't see that. Sir Nick said that? I didn't even see that either. Sir Nick Faldo of six majors. unquote he had no stress whatsoever so shows you have no idea what it takes to win whatsoever hashtag

ridiculous comment well dan just to catch dan up quickly riggs and sir nick faldo have a very strange internet rivalry this one felt this one felt less bigsby and like trying to troll this one was mean yeah he would he would comment on a lot of the early daily nines and like it's a very interesting relationship well probably with trevor it doesn't help now to that that's a little bit of like people getting all hot and bothered when Dave like tweets like get pucks on net or hockey and stuff. It's like, yeah, my take was like Brooks Kepka ruin the masters. Well, clearly if you listen to the context of the show, which I don't expect people to do, like we were anti-Brooks Kepka.

We were very much like Brooks Kepka fucked over Barstual Sports. So then I lead the show with like Brooks Kepka ruin the masters, blah, blah, but clearly there's a facetious nature to that of like Brooks Kepka had a hell of her performance. It would have been nice if the last five or six holes, it wasn't the same way it's been the last four years where it was basically to coronation. I get that he had to play well. I'm not saying there was zero stress whatsoever. Clearly, if you take that all literally, then you're going to bitch. But guess what? That's actually right in the line that I wanted to live at. I saw people getting all hot and or rattled about that clip. That's totally fine by me. I have no issues with that. And if Sir Nick's

going to comment on stuff, that's only going to help us out. So I really don't care on that front. But I, as someone who said this three weeks before the Masters, I would prefer if John Rahm had to make a feel like put in 2004 to which. win the Masters yesterday or Sunday. That would have been fucking great. Instead, we had DJ and then Hedecki and then Scotty and then John Rom, who for the last six holes in the Masters, which is usually the fucking best, you get fireworks, you get balls on the water, you get meltdowns, you get all kinds of shit.

We really didn't get any of that drama, which I thought sucked. We haven't had any doubt as to who's going to win the Masters even on 17 for since Tiger. Because remember I remember when the year Hadeki won, Sander was kind of making a charge. And then I think he hit it in the water on 16. He made a double on 16 and it was over. And Hadecki was behind him. So it's, yeah, it's been the last 45 minutes of the master's broadcast, the last four years has just been, okay, we know who's going to win. Let's just have, you know, Jim Nance tell us sappy stories about this guy.

Did we know who's going to win because John Rom just didn't hit it in the water on 16, though? Like, did he just execute correctly? Yes, totally. Okay. Absolutely. But, I mean, Brooks can have just shot 75. If he shoots 70, you know, then like it's a fucking golf tournament. So clearly my thing was like he ruined the masters by just not shooting 70.

So if you're going to take that super literally fine. But overall, I would just have liked to see a little bit more of a fight down the stretch instead of one guy relative to how we was playing the rest of the week, roll over. And the other guy, John Rom, play great, super impressive, doesn't diminish his win at all. It's just from a pure entertainment factor. Give me some fucking juice down the stretch. and we really didn't get any. For a Masters, that was fucking awesome, start to finish,

or I guess start until, you know, once Rahm kind of hit the ball on the green in the 12th hole, it really felt like, okay, he's going to just win now, right? And that thought never really changed. And I, even the Hadecki year, if you remember, he pretty much had everything in control. And then I think Zander made what, like an eagle or something or went birdie, birdie, birdie.

I think he eagled 15 and then he doubled 16 or something. Well, yeah, I know that. But to get within a couple, that was like the first. time that somebody got within one or two. So it was never even really that close. And then I think Hedecki's ball on 15, didn't he hit the down so, but he kind of went into the water maybe across the way. So there was like a brief moment where it was like, oh, it might get a little bit close. And then 14 seconds later, Zander hits one in the water on 16. I think he actually made triple and took himself completely out of the tournament. So I'm just saying it's been

since Tiger on the second nine in Augusta, where it was like it took a shot on 16 before we really knew like who was going to win it felt like um so that's been four fucking years i would just like a little bit more back and forth the stage was set for a live versus tour we're going to have a couple iconic putts and really all that kind of happened on the front nine slowly where like brooks just kind of leaked a little bit he lipped out on two he made a couple bogeys rom made a couple birdies the next thing you know it took like an hour and a half but rom has like a two or three shot lead uh and there was a little bit of excitement with phil post in the 65 um but with, I don't know, two hours left in the broadcast.

I think everyone was like, oh, it looks like John Rob's going to win, and then John Rob just won. So I would have liked it to be a little bit more exciting. That's all I'm saying. Yeah, I mean, Brooks, if you just zoom out a little bit, he shot 12 over the first two rounds and 148 over the weekend. It's a 16 shot difference from his first two rounds. God, yeah, he did.

Yeah, he just didn't play nearly as well. It would have been nice for sure. So in your face, Nickfeldo, there you go. Yeah, you know, whatever, Sir Nick. He wants you on a Montana ranch. his fucking pictures that he tweets out from his ranch he's that. I don't know if I follow. Do I follow him? He was back

at the Masters this week doing some stuff for Sky Sports. That's probably why he was more locked in on it. Ah, that's right. He's waltzing around. He's an interesting cat. McFaldo, right? Isn't he a fucking interesting cat there? Well, I mean, we interviewed him. He's he's, I called me a delicate little flower.

I guess the word is aloof. Yeah, he's a loof. He would, he's just like, when we interviewed him and we interviewed him, And we interviewed Maparelli's, which was pretty cool. And he would tell stories and the stories were incredible because the guy obviously had an incredible career. But you'd be 10 minutes into a story and everyone, including Nick Fowlo, would forget what the original question was. And we're just like, damn, these stories are great, but I don't know what we were talking about. I felt stone the whole time.

Yep. And I was. Yeah. So then for me, the thought of him getting like a little bothered about being like, his guy has no idea what it takes to win the masters. Seeing something on Twitter. So, well, no shit. I don't have any idea what it takes to win the master. I'm trying to break fucking 85.

It's hard to argue with a guy like Nick Faldo who's had just an incredible amount of success. Well, that's always the kill shot. That's always been the kill shot when Whitney and Biz go after me on Twitter where they'll say something. And like, you can't say anything back to them. They have the upper hand. They played in the NHL. What are you supposed to argue with them about like you don't know what you're talking about? The guy, Whitney was on like an Olympic team.

It's like great. I mean, come on. It's insane. You can't, you can't, you can't fuck around with that. So they owe. what comes with being a professional athlete is the ability to make a ton of money and be famous. And then you also get to dominate every single argument in that sport with just regular people. Yeah.

It's like I work my whole career to be like a golf like commentator or whatever. But one of these big networks are just, they're just going to hire like a former PJ tour player at the end of the day. Like we both know where that where that's going. So if the Nick Faldo thing didn't really piss you off, I feel like something else that came across all of our collective desks might might have caught your eye. and it's my former employer taking a page out of out of your playbook yeah only former employer it's like one of our former like friends yeah this part this part i'll recuse myself from well i you know

the golf digest open i believe is what they're calling it that they launched that i will say got like i don't know negative four likes it looked like on twitter 14 likes on a major major announcement tweet now there there's a lot of stuff that goes on to the content world copycat and and to a degree you let most of it go. It's fine. What Golf Digest did here is they literally copied our format, copied our exact blueprint for the Bars to a classic, which is five years running sold out in about two and a half minutes this year, which I think is literally less time than it takes to fill out the fucking site that you have to do to sign up. 25 stops around the whole country, $1,000 per team signed up two seconds. They copied the entire game plan.

But not only do they do that, they took our phone. fucking guy, Ian Solomon, who was full-time Barstool Classic employee, basically. Like, yeah, he did a bunch of stuff with branding and marketing. Awesome guy. Great friend of ours went to all these different stops throughout years of the Barstow Classic, played golf together, hung out. He took a new gig over at Golf Digest, good for him, got married lately, living the dream.

But then I see him tweeting about like, oh, look at that. At that point, what the fuck are we doing here? You're just taking you literally took someone from the inside, brought them over to golf digest and then are just trying to create the same thing that we're doing. Now, am I, there's a little bit of like, you don't want to punch down on this. Like our rabbit following, you can't, first of all, you can't call something the golf digest open when you have no brand. Like, you can't name it after your brand when you have no brand. There's no one out there rocking a golf digest shirt. They're not slinging fucking golf digest hoodies.

So you got to call it something else. I'll give them a little, this is a little bit of advice. You got to get, you got to call it something else. You got to come up with some cool kind of name. Even when the knowing up crew or when the fried egg crew or the good, good or when they do something, they have a brand. They have like a legitimate brand that they can name an event after themselves because they have a fucking brand. Nobody gives a flying fuck about golf digest. They're going to read some of your stuff and your journalistic stuff, but nobody's got some allegiance to golf digets except the fucking doctor's office where the things on the coffee table in the morning or something. So you can't name it the golf digest open.

It's preposterous clearly that people just copy the. exact same thing down to the format and all of that. But what really just grind my gears was that it's our boy, Ian, that's just a little snakeish going in there and just announcing the same thing and tweeting about them doing the exact same thing when he was basically the right-hand man or one of the right-hand men in the Barstall Classic for a couple years. A bunch of people that played in the Classic have met Ian. He's an incredibly nice guy.

He just goes to digest. and then a few months later, a year later, they just launch the identical thing. And I actually think the first year that we announced the Barso Classic, like year one, I think we announced it like the day or two after the Masters. I think we literally did the exact same fucking thing that they're doing. So that fucking pisses me off when someone goes somewhere else

after, you know, we weren't close. We have a great time. They're in the inner workings. They're in all the meetings. All the meetings around. And then they just take it to somebody else. That fucking pisses me off. Yeah.

In Barstool culture, it's like Bubly Gang 2.0. You like watch the way it all happened. Then you went to another company and literally built it. But there's always going to be people that pop up in competition. There is. To your point, Riggs, like, we like when the other stuff happens because like they did the same thing that we did. They built up a brand.

They figured out how to do it on their own. They have their own franchise. They have their own logos that people sport on their chest and on their heads. And they listen to every episode and they watch every episode. Like about the sports guys, they do. They grind it from the bottom of. up literally from nothing. So I mean, that stuff is way more admirable than just someone from our own team, our own team, where the Barstam Classic was the first of its kind. It was legitimately the

first of its kind. There was always these like huge sanctioned events that you'd have to join. This is the first 24 city amateur tour that would that would sell out in four minutes. And, and Ian just went and is trying to do it off digest. It's crazy to me. And we love it. I wish you would come back. I want him back on the team. We talked about. at all time. Like, let's bring them back. Yeah, it's sort of. I mean, it's like an imitation is the most sincere form of flattery type deal as well.

And, you know, I would say the demographics of who would sign up for a Barstle classic and the demographics of who would sign up for a golf digest open, maybe not a ton of overlap. So I don't know if we're going to lose too many people to that tournament. No, and you can play in both. And I, you know, I've floated to you guys the thought of banning everyone that, uh, for life of anyone that plays in the golf digest open, uh, I was going to just go through their whole manifest of every person and just ban them for life from the Barstall Classic. That would be a little bit bad for golf.

I thought about just like in theory, if we're trying to grow golf, you should be able to play it both and have yourself a good time. But with everything going on in the golf culture, I was going to tweet out a statement that was word for word what Jay Monahan said last year and just sub out Barstow Classic and golf digest open. Then I got the lymph node thing and I started to worry about other stuff. So I don't think we're going to do that. But anyways, it'd be remiss if I didn't talk about that, how preposterous that is.

And the other thing, it's like, I think that somebody in their shoes, who they just know that they're copying something that was successful. So I don't blame them for that. If you're uncreative and you're trying to continue to not get fired from your job, you just steal what somebody else is doing that successful, fine. But what drives me nuts with that is that I know that their biggest concern is probably like, wow, we might get roast. Bless you.

We might get roasted for just copying these guys. And so if their biggest concern is that, then like we should probably roast them for copying us. This is sort of part of the mindset that I come from. I would say the thing that would be concerning if I were in their shoes would be that that tweet came out at 8 p.m. last night. And I didn't see it until someone threw it in our chat this morning. Oh, I did. Oh, no. Someone did.

Someone else. It had 15 likes. And it's like like when the bar. If you go back in history, if you look when the bar. Barcelona Class was announced, that tweet was massive. I didn't even go back and look, but it was a huge watershed moment. It's like, holy shit, this blog, the thing that used to be a blog is now putting on a golf tournament with 20 cities.

And like, for Golf Digest, it was a, the tweet was a fart in the wind. And that would be a concern if I were on there. I've got breaking news that, um, Ian may not have been involved in it at all. So I just, I just saw his tweet. We did just see a tweet. No, I, I've asked around because, you know, this guy was an integral, heart to the Barstow Classic. So I message some of his old co-workers, people that we now are continuously working with the Barstow Classic. And I said, is Ian Solomon bubbly gang 2.0?

And I was told that he did not know anything about this and had nothing to do with it. So we'll see. I don't find that hard to believe, but we'll say we're going to file that under hard to believe. Give me the receipts. I do file that under fucking impossible to believe. I mean, he tweeted out the inaugural golf digest open, all capitals on that, by the way, is here with a national championship, all capitals, at the brand new Fields Ranch at PGA Frisco. He quote tweeted the golf digest tweet. He borderline has more action on his quote tweet of the golf digest tweet than the golf digest tweet originally has. So we find ourselves in an interesting position here. And Dan, you can say nothing if you want. You can plead the fifth, but they have one

of our guys over there talking in their rooms with stuff. We've got one of their guys now in our room. Like what do you, what do you think is going on over there? Like what shit? That's right. You know what I mean? What's the, Can you steal something from them? Yeah, what do you got on them? You don't have anything. You can say whatever you want here, but this is a puts me in a really tricky position, obviously.

We took the blogs basically. We took their best written content and we put them on barstlesports.com. We could argue that is this a fair trade? They get to do their open. We get the best blogs written in golf on our website. Highway robbery. Highway robbery, by it. I think that's highway robbery.

I think we let them just, who cares? It's not going to do well. And even if it does good. it on them. They get to do it. I mean, we don't want to see anyone fail. It's just funny the way it it happened. If nobody signed up for that tournament, I wouldn't hate that. You can go shit. It's fine. Oh, God, I don't want to. I think, I think, look, I think the Barstel classic has been, has been, has been, um, it's a, it's a, it's a, an unbelievable undertaking that you guys have been able to put together. And I think, you know, a company like Golf Digest is looking for new revenue streams and you got to

try things. Um, You know, I think probably I don't know this for a fact. And maybe me leaving was was sort of like a kick in the ass. I don't know. It's possible. But, but yeah, I, you know, I have a lot of good friends over there. But it is, I will say the 50 man. I think it's the same price.

There are a lot of similarities. Well, and if anybody thinks I'm overreacting, let me be clear. This is my baby. This is what pays the fucking bills. I've flown to over 80 stops around this fucking country in North America for the last five years. This is meeting after meeting. working with partners going to meeting partners for drinks for lunch trying to get them to come on with the barstool classic going and shaking hands day after day after day with all the stoolies out

there you're out in the sun and putting on sunscreen the whole fucking deal and like for four or five years building this thing and then getting all the fellas involved and now all you guys are involved in the classic and like this is something that that we take incredibly seriously and again this is what pays our fucking salaries this is what pays for our our families our golf trips our utility bills, whatever is like a big part, big part of that, that's a martial classic. So when somebody, you know, tries to kind of steal part of it, that fucking drives me crazy. So I don't want to overreact to the whole thing, but it's like, Jesus,

fucking Christ here. It's got to, you got to defend ourselves a little bit, I feel like. No, I think, I think you are well within your rights to be saying the things that you are saying, for sure. And, you know, who knows how it's actually going to turn out for them. I don't know, you know, like I said, I mean this about the demographic thing. Like, I think the gall, Dan could speak to that as well, but like, I feel like the demographic for them is shift that's why we grab dan we're like we want him for us because

he speaks to a younger demographic their demographic is older than ours and there's definitely older people that go to the classic and i've met a bunch of them and they're great uh we'll take any fans that we can get but i do think the golf digest audience skews older than our stuff there are different niches of golf audiences right like the friday egg has their audience and they have events and and you know those guys are more architecture wongs they're more hardcore fans so there's definitely room but again it's just a similar, you know, because these other, these other companies have events. Knowing Up has events. Friday has events.

It's a one-off events that caters to your audience. Like, of course, that's a part of any brand. It's just when it hits the exact same. And I heard about this last week, Riggs. And I think we thought, I was like, this is, this is the exact, the exact same thing. It's not just like, oh, we're going to have a, we're going to have a tournament. We're going to have, you know, name it, whatever. We're going to name it.

And, you know, people are going to sign up. It's like, we're going to do the exact same thing. My, my, my, my, um, my grudges, they stop at professionalism. So Ian Solomon. I would go get drinks, have a great time. Professionally, unless he could prove to me, he didn't know about this thing or have any input on this thing, I will professionally be officially holding a grudge against Ian Solomon. Fair.

Totally fair. A good personal friend would play golf with him. Professionally, we're in the middle of a grudge right now. All fair. Big time. Can't take it from the inside and bring it somewhere else. Frankie, how are you doing it? How's your visit to the rest of the thing?

See how fast that was? It's just there's nothing, there's nothing of substance. It's just a fucking hose. It's a hose. Not to get too crazy. I know people listen to this. they might be eating lunch they might be i'm in a bad spot right now i don't know if i'm gonna make a it was funny watching you walk your outfit speaks volumes you're just a guy it's my period out

sweat i was gonna say that i didn't end up saying it but you did and that's what you look like a guy who's just been hugging a pillow for 24 hours you know i'm just get me my you know that's no disrespect to women or whatever you just need the giant sunglasses it's a real struggle you need the giant sunglasses i'm i'm eating fucking ice cream and i'm holding on to my tummy and I'm just, dude, I'm in a bad spot. I'm in a bad spot. I'm watching daytime soap operas. I'm just fucking, and this is all real.

I'm wearing a triple XL sweater. I knew that thing looked huge on you. Dude, I'm wearing a triple XL sweater and I'm wearing double X. Can you just back up from the camera and show off your outfit? I'm wearing double XL pants. I'm just fucking, you know. There's something about the white shirt under the crew neck is making me laugh. I'm in my, I'm sick clothes.

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I don't care what shoe you show me. I'm never going to wear another one. They are so damn comfortable. Long gone are the days where you would. put on a golf shoe and you would feel that tightness around this bottom soul or the heel of your shoe or your foot walking a golf course is supposed to be comfortable it's supposed to be an enjoyment it's supposed to be a workout it's supposed to be you're playing a sport your feet are a massive part of that go to a store go to pj super store go wherever and try them on you're going

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that little, the bubble bottom, soft, comfortable, most comfortable shoe in the world. That g4.com slash four for 10% off your first order. Willie Z out for the season with the back surgery. Shucks. We talked a lot on the last show about how you miss guys,

you know, from having the live guys out there with the master. You just miss guys. You miss them being in the mix. You miss them in the pressers. You miss watching them play golf. Willie Z is one of those guys. Going to miss them. Going to miss them for the whole year.

Incredibly nice guy. He almost got killed saying, hide a lurch and the crew at the old course of St. Andrews just running right across the fairway. sneaky, sneaky big fan of barstool and of everything, really, because me and Frankie saw him last year at the Masters. He was in the middle of Fairway and he like yelled at us. We were just normal patrons out there walking outside the ropes. So at the president's cup, at the president's cup when he was just there like because he had withdrawn from that, right?

He was injured. And then Kisner got in because like the only reason I'm on this team is because this guy's back sucks. Which is insane. He was like, oh, just like, I'm halfway done. with your guys mini golf tournament like who ends up winning actually don't tell me like i don't i'm gonna watch it later like after the president's cup i was like all right i thought he hated me because of the u.s open situation because it was obviously him against fits and he misses the pot and i'm like celebrating like crazy and then i saw him at uh in hawaii this year and he walks up to me

and he goes dude i'm super happy that you're doing what you're doing now under like for barstool like that's that's awesome so he's a super super super nice guy and uh and and i feel bad for him because he just missed the 2021 Rider Cup team at Whistling Straits. He had to obviously pull out of the President's Cup last year, like you said, with the back injury. He's going to miss the Ryder Cup again this year. So he's going to have to wait until at least 2024 to make his first team USA appearance. The guy's finished in the top, uh, T8 or better in six of the 10 majors that he's played in.

So like he's a big time player and he's not really getting an opportunity to show it on that team, that team stage. And it's, it's shitty. Like, you know, it's anytime a guy is 20, I think he's 26, anytime you're having back surgery at 26. That's, that's not ideal. What kind of surgery is this? Is this Tiger? It's the one that it's the one that Tiger had. Remember when he did that interview with Jim Nance? It was right before the accident when he was not looking good. Yeah.

That was when he was recovering for microdicectomy surgery. Damn, he's young man. The fusion. It's not the fusion. It's not the fusion. But it's, you know, I mean, it's back surgery. Back surgery. No, boy, I know. Have you guys watched the Tiger Woods video? I think it's, is it on HBO or it's that new show. You're talking about the sentinel spine one, the like when the doctor's. No, him with, um, him with, uh, oh, um, with Dwayne Wade and. Dude, that was the, that was where he got, that was the, where he was the, where he was the, where he was there that day.

I know, but it's like on, I think it's on HBO. I, I, I can't remember which. I think it's on YouTube. I think it might be on YouTube. It's like David Spade and it's, um, Dwayne Wade. Like, that was the day before. Yeah. And Jane is, I know is one of these, one of these streaming networks has like golfing

with Tiger or something, around with Tiger. And I saw it the other day. I never watched it on YouTube. I can't bring myself to watch it, knowing that that's like the mental state he was in and what he was about to do. Like I legit cannot watch it. It's way too awkward for me. It makes me feel uncomfortable.

He's like messing around with Dwayne Wade about like ball position height on a drive. I saw a clip and I'm just like I can't because like he's just out of it in those clips. I can't. It's like watching like leading up to a disaster. I just don't want to see it. I was surprised they released it honestly. Honestly, yeah.

Given like how. you know, infamous that shoot is. But I guess you paid all that money. I also think people like the general public. I think probably might know. Like they might not connect the dots like, oh, this is where he was and this was right before. But it's very clearly right before.

Tell you what, if we filmed Tiger Woods content around those two days, we would be putting it out. We're putting it out. Yeah. You know, that's that shit's going out. Tiger Woods puts asses in the seats. He puts clicks on fucking videos.

Willie Z. Oh, I was just saying my, it's good for my. mentions when Willie Z's not playing because every time he does one of those squiggly backstrokes short putt things my mentions is it's just a dumpster fire for about a day straight so it's good for my but also just two pretty good putters like yeah yeah that's what people don't much better don't matter what it looks like really it is funny like all those squiggly ones that everybody like tweets out like they like go in every time they do he's a good putter gonna miss Willie Z out there I love that little wiry fuck just smoking the golf ball his his swing is fantastic so

speedy recovery rooting for for him. And I'm not to go back to the Golf Digest. I'm not sharing them. I actually got that little topic from before we do the show. I usually go to Golf Digest website and I just scroll through the top like five news stories. Make sure I don't miss anything. So they're good at what they do. That's great.

I just don't know. I have some big brand that's going to deliver some worldwide golf amateur tour. Anyways, from the gallery. We haven't done from the gallery in a while. I scooped up a handful, boys. Email for playup parcel sports.com from the gallery's subject line. Make it short and sweet. If it's not, I won't read it.

We've got Doug. So if you recall, this is from when we were talking about the golf ball like a month or so ago, if it really matters. I'm a club fitter in Denver, Colorado. The issue with balls isn't buying the best one. It's that you need to buy the same one over and over. It doesn't matter what style it necessarily is. The better you are, the more it matters which one you choose.

But the underlying theme in golf and with the golf ball is just to have less variable in your game. This actually, to me, made more sense than anything else on the golf ball front. I know we had Adrian on. He spoke a lot about the golf balls. And Frankie, you had probably the most revealing stats from when we were at the kingdom of using one ball versus the other and how it's much more optimal for you. This part, though, I can really get behind. It's like, even if we're not using the most expensive golf ball, you use the same one over and over again, then if your ball, when you chip, for example, doesn't necessarily check like Tiger Woods's ball when he chips it up there. Well, guess what? After weeks and weeks,

you're used to that. So you know it's going to just roll out. And that's just how your golf ball plays. So that from Doug, I thought actually made a lot of sense on the golf ball front. Yeah, consistency is key in everything in golf. And I think you have to try and keep it.

You're never going to know. You have to have some sort of, man, what's like the scientific term? Like a test case? Yeah. Or like a, oh, what is it? It's called control group. Control.

You need some sort of control to be able to base these things or base facts off of these things. I don't know. I'm fucking. You talk about in the scientific experiment where you control a bunch of variables, and then you leave one changing, and that's how you determine which one's actually affecting things. I don't know what you call that, but we just described it. I also think there, in my head, there's like 50 people on planet Earth who know what they're talking about when it comes to golf balls, and none of them are on this show.

Like, I just don't think we have any idea. I don't think, I'll do respect to Doug and thank you for emailing in, and he makes a decent point. I just don't think anybody knows what the fuck they're talking about. I don't either. Let's go to Matt from London, England. And I have to give a shout out to Matt because he wrote in parentheses, no favorite truly flavor, don't drink. But he wrote favorite with a you and flavor with a you. So he wrote it in proper, you know, little English. Oh, London. Delightful. No favor. It truly flavor, which I like that. He wrote, he's curious all the way from London, England. You talk like y'all from London. Did Frankie's couch ever arrive? And if so, does it live up to the high? hype. Wow. Yeah, it's been here for like a year, which is great. I mean, it took like, it took like eight or 12 months, like eight or 12 weeks, like way longer than we thought it would. We were sitting on folding chairs for two to three months. It was crazy. Well, then I remember going over to your house and you would get pieces of it. I would go into your, I would see your living

room and there would be only parts of a couch in there. Yep. And yeah, it came. It's very nice. It's a, it's a great couch. I found like my spot in. it that I can sleep in the second I sit down in it, which is great. I think that's everyone's number one goal when you find a couch is, um, like how well can you just like crash on it? And there's a spot like if I sit basically sideways on it on the chase and then like extend my legs on where the recliner is. I basically have like a bed and I just nestle in that corner with a pillow and it's over. I'm talking the other day during an Islander game, I started to like doze off and I finally slap myself and I was like, you got to get out of here. You got to get up.

we're not going to talk about the islanders because that that was just i i can't probably better for your mindset to doze off during that game seasons might be over uh when this podcast comes out so yeah they're in like a must win now they got to win every they're they're not so much they're in such a must win that they need another team to lose now so that's just and pettsberg's playing the two worst teams in league literally never one and two playing the black hawks and the blue jacket so they're going to win bull and then we need the carolina hurricanes to somehow beat in any fashion, whether it's shootout regulation or overtime, the Florida

Panthers in the last game of the season. And that will happen after the Islanders play Wednesday. So there will be a scenario in which the Islanders will hopefully win Wednesday against Montreal. And then we have to all watch Thursday night against the the Panthers and Hurricanes game.

Wow. That's just not having the fate in your own hands. Yeah, they just, last night, I was so hyped up for that game against the fucking Washington Capitals. And I told you guys it was a trap game. I told you guys no Ovi, no Oshi, all these guys, it's going to be tracking. With 18 minutes and 54 seconds remaining in the first period, the Islanders are down to nothing.

They gave up two goals in the first minute and like eight seconds. I literally was like, I almost missed both goals. I was like in the bathroom. I was like washing my hands. I'm like, is that a fucking goal horn? And then I walked down like, what's happening? Sorry to hear that, Frank. Whatever.

I'm sorry, Frank. you might get some help you never know i remember one year god 15 17 years ago maybe that the uh st louis rams back when they were the st louis rams needed a miracle in another game like a bad team to beat a good team

for the rams to sneak into the playoffs and the kicker god i can't remember which fucking team was but kicker makes a game winning field goal and we all like wrote letters to them thanking them for making the kick and how excited Amazing. So you might need something like that on Thursday night, Frankie. You might need a little love. Are only one of those two teams to lose or both?

One of them has to lose. We need Carolina to like try and play for the number one team in the division spot. So they actually have something to play for. That's all thanks to Toronto Maple Leafs last night. All right. It's spring golf season, which means inconsistent temperatures, sometimes especially up there where you guys live. It might be 72. it might be 32.

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But when you said St. Louis Rams there, I thought, boy, that sounds like an old team. It's fucking crazy, dude. Yeah, that was like right when I got hired at Barstool in 2016 was the year when the Rams moved. And I remember we did Larry the goldfish picked my new favorite team and he picked the New Orleans Saints. So in theory, I'm a Saints fan. And that's, that was all Stan Cronkey's fault. Yep. That's scumbag. So the issue was that in order for him to get approval from the league to move the Rams from St. Louis to L.A., he had to submit, like, a hundred page proposal. And in that proposal, he just shit on the city of St. Louis. Oh, yeah. I remember that the whole city. It's, it's, there's been, there have been teams before that move and you stay. You kind of keep your allegiance to that team. You like the owner, whatever they did it for like understandable reasons, whatever. This one was not the case. People already kind of hated Stan cranky and a lot of different people do. He's the Arsenal guy. too, I believe. And like Zah fucking hates him.

Yeah. And he's Walmart. He married into the Walmart family. Yeah. Married into the family. Um, had George Washington married into some money too. So it's not the worst thing in the war. But anyways, he, uh, shit all over St. Louis in his efforts to move it.

Like dozens of pages just shitting on the city of St. Louis. So we hate them and we instantly were out on the Rams at that point. Was there ever a point even at the, at the height where the Rams with the number one team in St. Louis? I feel like that's such a baseball town. And almost in every other situation. where there's an NFL team, it's always the NFL team. Regardless of how bad or how good the other teams are,

it's always going to be an NFL town. But I feel like St. Louis is the one where that's a Cardinals town. Dude, the thing was the timing wise was there was a stretch. The answer is yes. The Rams were the thing. And it was because they were still pretty new. It was because of how shocking it was because, uh, what's his face went down injured. Um, fuck is it.

What was our quarter? Trent Green. Trent Green. I think it was Trent Green, who was supposed to be like, dude, we have a pretty good team. We got martial football. We got these guys. The Rams weren't really that good leading up to that,

but this was like a lot of hype. Trent Green was kind of the guy. And then he goes down, hurt out for the season. Everyone's like, motherfucker. And then they started like 6 and 0 with Kurt Warner. It was the Arena League quarterback,

greatest show on turf and won the Super Bowl that year. So the hype was so great. And then also around that time, the St. Louis Blues were really good. And the Cardinals are always good. So St. Louis, I think during that point, too, was listed on like, you know, whatever magazine is like, is St. Louis like the top sports city in the country right now? So there was hype for everything. People had those flags in their car that go into like the window, you know, the Rams flags. They were selling those at like every shopping mark. So everybody had Rams flags. It was all about. And they were such an exciting style.

It's like when your team is not only winning, but they just score the most points all the time. I was like, yeah, it was like that Marshall Falk, Isaac. Bruce, Tori Horner, Tori Holt. They were studs. Total studs. They scored all the time. And then how dramatic the Super Bowl was. They had the game, the NFC championship against the Buccaneers, too, came down to the wire.

I think it was Tori Holt who caught like an insane pass late, late in the game to barely get them to the Super Bowl. And then obviously stopping the Titans on the one yard line to win the Super Bowl that year. It just all kind of added up. It was sick. And then two years later, they go back to the Super Bowl as like double digit favorites. And then Tom Brady became a person and embarrassed the Rams. They came out as a team, which is fucking lame. But they did it and they won and whatever.

Yeah, that was kind of the start of that whole thing. Yeah. No, the Patriots will be introduced as a team. I remember that came out like that. We were like, all right. Oh, I don't remember that. Yeah, that was like a whole thing. Because they would, you know, arm out.

Yeah, they like, you know, they kind of do introductions of like starters and the coach and like people come out. It's a fucking super. Super Bowl. This is like 2000. And the Rams did that. I think it did the whole hoopla and the greatest show on turf and there's fucking lights.

They'd won the Super Bowl two years prior. And then they were like, the New England Patriots have chosen to be introduced as a team. And they just came out as a team like with Bill Belichaget came from. Is that the original spy gate? That was way later. I think that was several, several years later.

This was early. You, Tom Brady looked like he was like 11 at the time. And he was the same, he was the same deal where he was like Kurt Warner Eska, at the time where he wasn't even supposed to necessarily be the guy, obviously. And then here they were kind of this miracle. They had the, that was the year of the Raiders of the, uh, uh, uh, uh, tuck rule, right? Yeah.

I think that was that was that. I was that year. So this is when I was still obviously really into football because the Rams. And then as soon as you lose your team, you don't really get that into it, which stinks. So that's one of my great, one of my great gripes with life right now is that people ask me all the time. Who's your football deal? I don't have one because I hate fucking Stan Krakie.

I don't have one either, dude. And mine isn't because, I mean, I grew up in Cedar Rapids and I just never had one. but I was a Cowboys fan as a kid. I was a diehard Cowboys fan. I was Big Emmett Smith fan, Michael Irvin, Dion Sanders, which is a weird one now because he's technically a coworker. He was a stud, Troy Aikman, all those guys. And then when you're not from, when you don't have a team that was from your hometown,

it's harder to stick with it as you get older because it's just not, it's not the same. Like I don't have a Cedar Rapids professional football. Not surrounded by fans. No. And there's no community. Yeah, because like even in your own family, you got Packer fans. Bears fans, Chiefs fans, and everybody's just kind of like, it's not a bonding experience the way it is if you grow up with, you know, a Rams team or an Islander's team or wherever you're from. So it's, yeah, I get asked that question all the time too. Like, what are your professional teams? And as it goes right now, I've just kind of let a lot of them go because I don't feel that same connection. As a kid, you just want to get into sports. So you're like, oh, I want to be a fan of the Cubs and the Bulls and the Cowboys and whoever. And then as you get older, you're like, I don't really have a connection to those teams for whatever reason. And I think, just because they're not from my hometown.

Dude, it does stink and there's really no way to like, there's no way to achieve it. Like you can't, you know, I don't think you can like fabric. Right, like what am I now going to become like a diehard like Jets fan? Like, all right, I love the Jets now. And they're like, why it's like, I don't know. I'm 305.

Do the Cardinals have a good fan base rigs? Like are they big deal down there? Uh, not really. There's just a lot of in like a lot of implants down here. You know, people move here from a lot of places. So like when we, I went to, I've been to a few Cardinals games and they're fun.

The stadium's sick, but like there were more Eagles fans there when they played the Eagles this year than there were cards fans, which it's like, it's not that they don't have. There are definitely Phoenix locals and stuff that are kind of into it. But it ain't the same thing because also as Dave's talked about a lot, when you're from these hardened cities, like your passion sports is higher because it's kind of all you got for half the year or whatever. It's got to be cold. Yeah. People are fucking floundering around. I guess we'll play golf today unless the Cardinals on. Like, I'm going to go to the pool.

It's not the same as when you live in fucking Philly, Pittsburgh, Boston, Long Island, whatever. And you're grinding through certain times of the year. And you're one thing that you got like to cling to and to be happy about or one of the few things is like watching your, your squad. And here it's just kind of like whatever. There's so many other things to do. Well, Dan, you're an L.A. guy. What's your perspective on that?

Yeah, I'm a Denver Bronco fan because my mom grew up in Denver. And when I was growing up, they had no, yeah, they had no team. I'd left for college before the Rams and the Chargers got there. But now with gambling, I don't, I don't really care about the Broncos that much. I bet against them all the time. It's whoever I'm betting on is who I'm rooting for. Gambling helps. Yeah.

In terms of something to root for. It is crazy. We got a podcast of four sport watchers and we don't have many professional sport fans on this podcast. I mean, obviously, Rich has the Blues and the Cardinals. But, like, at the end of the end, like, Trent doesn't have like a team to end, like barely has a team. like it's fucking weird to me because I'm in that world so deep. And I'm so interesting that deep. You're a super fan.

You're like a legitimate super fan. Yes. It's Yankees. It's Islanders. It's jets. It's like every night I got something going on. And I just like can't even fathom not having that. It's like I can't I can't imagine not having that.

Turn back the clock 10 years and I was the biggest Chicago Cubs fan in the world. I loved it. Oh yeah. I watched every game. I knew everything about them. And then I really do. think there's something to just you could have got like if if if you went to more islander games with me if you start to like go you definitely would start to feel it doesn't have to be from your home

like that means nothing though like does though dude there's one of my buddies my future brother in law like wasn't the biggest hockey fan i took him to like 10 games this year he knows every single fucking player on the roster every number he's like so dialed in watching every single game he's 30 it's like you can just become you just like you get hooked you just like pick up golf or whatever. You just get hooked. You're like, I care about this. So you're into, now you're in an Islander circle. That guy's a huge diary.

He knows everything about the current team. And then someone's like, remember that 2008 team? And he's like, what are you talking about? I think there's something about knowing all of it. Yeah, I guess so. I don't watch every game, Trent. I just think, I think that you're, it's not an excuse, but like your reasoning for not being able to pick up a team at the age of 35 is soft.

I think you're able to do it. I do. People move all the time. They just like, they get like season tickets or they, They just like subscribe to like the TV channel. And like, let's say you move to Denver. You just become a Broncos fan.

Like it's just like what they do. I mean, I think that's pretty normal. It's obviously not as like in it. It's not like, like I have it. Mine's been. Your face.

Your face. You couldn't even get my words. Because I'm picturing someone being held down with like, like, like they're getting fucking like, they're getting like branded. You know what I mean? Like I'm just like like my chest has been fucking opened and they,

they stuck fucking blue and orange paint inside there. It's just. fucking I'm in there. Maybe you don't have that, but I think you can still, you can still have it. You can still have a piece, man. Don't have nothing. I still love all of the sports. I watch a lot of football. I watch a ton of baseball. Get back into the Cubs. Get back into the fucking bowls, dude. Get back into it. It's just watch day game baseball. It's fun. No, I want, again, I watch all these sports. Do you think you can become like a huge fan of a college football team at this point in your life? I think I could. I definitely could. I, the, when we kept going. I went. I went. I,

I wish I could. When we kept going to different college football stadiums with Dave and I went on like that tour of three years in a row college football show, we went to Michigan games. We went to five Michigan games in a span of two years. We went to two Michigan State games, Michigan at Michigan and then Michigan State at Michigan in the rain. Fucking awesome games. I was decked out in Michigan year. I got Michigan shoes that the team gave us. I was fucking into it.

And for those, for that year, I really did get into it. And if I would have just cared about it, a little. little bit more. And if I, like, joined my buddy's college football group chat, I would have, but somehow, some way I just didn't, like, get included in that. Like, I just wasn't, no one in my circle respected me as a college football fan, which was weird. Because in New York, you have to, if you're like, New York's a different animal. I think if you're not, like, organically that guy and if you're not been that guy forever, you're exposed. But I think if you're from another state where you're, like, always going to be a transplant, like, like, Trent's a transplant from Iowa and New York. I think it's more acceptable. transplant. That's what I was trying to say earlier. I think I said. I don't know. It's something weird. I just like didn't. I wish I would have gotten in. There is a cry for help with my buddies. I wish they would include me. Unless you're from like where I'm from, I'm a huge Hawkeye fan. But you inherently have to pick them later because you pick the college that you go to when you're 18 or 19. So you're kind of taking that on later anyway. College is weird. Like my buddy's an Alabama fan because like his uncle went there. Like he didn't he went to fucking Cortland. Like he didn't have a huge college football team. But now he's die hard. Alabama. See, I like that.

I got no issue with that. I'm Rob Lowe. I'm Rob Lowe with all these professionals. Just fucking sport. I'm wearing the logo. I'm wearing the shield. You know what I mean? Put that MLB hat on me.

Put the NFL hat on me. I think that sucks. I'm a bigger fan. I'm a bigger fan of you than hockey because I'm a fan of all the teams. You know what I mean? I like all of the teams. You only like what a sad existence. Dude, I know you're,

now you're kind of really shitting on me for not doing it. No, I just like don't have it. Just I know. I know. I got a Brock Nelson jersey in my closet. I know. He texted me yesterday. There was a clip.

There was a clip. I'm a Brock Nelson fan. There was a clip of you from like a couple months ago wearing that jersey and it went out pretty recently. Oh, it was how close do you have to be to the hole to win the masters? And you were wearing the Brock Nelson jersey in that clip. And we just posted on Barstool Sports Instagram. We posted everywhere like three days ago.

And he texted me. He goes, tell me Taddy's still rocking the 29 three months later. I'm like, I was like, yeah, he wears it like every day. I'm like he's wearing a jersey all the time. So like you definitely had that you had the door open for you. The door open for you. We went to an Islander's game and we sat like five rows off the glass and the team was staring at Trent from the bench. I got three messages, two on Instagram and one text being like, was Trent Daddy with you tonight?

Like we were we were all talking about it on the bench. This guy had a door opening to really find some love for this team because they love him. They do love him. Yeah. I mean, listen, I'm going to. Big Brock Nelson guy. I have that jersey and I love that jersey. There's just something about it that I can't go all the way into it,

especially what am I going to go all the way into it when I got you? You're the psycho Islander fan. That's the perfect time, dude. Let's go. I'm constantly doing shit with Islanders. I can just bring you along. I'll come over, watch the games. Let's get crazy.

Let's throw popcorn around the place. All right. We'll watch those playoff games. That's what we're going to watch. Oh, shut the fuck out, dude. Nice. That was me. You fellas see this right here?

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I've always said that a Rangers loss is better than an Islanders win. I genuinely believe that. I genuinely believe that. I placed a $2,000 future on the Rangers on the Barstall Sportsbook, on the Barstall Sportsbook app for the New York Rangers to win the Stanley Cup this year to win $26,000 just in case they do do it. That it's a hedging your happiness moment where it's like, if they do somehow win the cup,

I'm making $26. okay because I can't handle it without I'm not like rooting for it I'm not rooting for it I hope I lose it I hope it was I sat down at the dinner table and I said what's the price that I'm willing to pay for this team to lose in the playoffs I'm basically purchasing a loss and then it came down to like around $2,000 I said I can I think I can swallow that if I lose that money it was worth it that's how crazy that's a lot of money it was worth it it was worth it for them to lose if I if they win I'll be the the worst shell of a human of my of you've you've ever, I won't come on the podcast for months, months and people are probably cheering right now listening to that. I won't come to the podcast from months. We'll force you to, but that will be the worst thing that could happen to you. The worst thing that could happen to Frankie Brello would be the New York Rangers winning the Stanley Cup. By far the worst thing. But the point is my whole life. It's like my, it's everything. It's like my father-in-law. It's everything. It's everything. It's everything. It's everything around

me. Out of a group chat of 10 buddies, I got nine of them a Ranger fan. It's crazy. I can't get away from it. But the point that he's making goes against my ultimate fandom because when people shit on Long Island, I've been here eight months. I don't, I don't feel anything. I feel nothing. Yeah. I think you need to go back to the teams that you had a love for. Be a cowboys guy, you know?

Like, just go all in on the cowboys. They're getting rid of Zeke. It's the whole deal. Ah, dang it. Come on. Rats. You know? Maybe.

What are you afraid of? I'm not afraid of anything. You're acting like, like, like you being a. The huge Islander fan is super noble and like the reason. No, I'm just, I think that, I think that you're, I can enjoy sports. You've laid out, you've laid out things that make you seem like afraid to be able to do it because of your age and location. You're like tiptoeing around the fact that you can't be a fan. That's crazy to me.

I think you can absolutely be a fan. There's no rules and regulations. But I felt it. Like when I was a kid, I felt what it was like and I don't think it'll be the same feeling. Yeah. I guess we disagree. I think you could jump right in. I really do.

I think with the access you have now, you can watch every game, you can watch practices. It's like you can sit on your couch and see every single fucking snap, every single moment. I got to be real, though. It's got to be real. You got to make it real. My guess. I just got to, I'm, again, I'm Roblo. What are their chances to make the playoffs right now, percentage rise?

It's got to, it had to, it was like 92% like two weeks ago. Then they lost two games in a row of the lightning and the hurricanes. And now I think it's like probably way below 50, probably 35, 40%. Oh, come on. I need that. I need that in my life. Yeah, I mean, I will say when the Blackhawks were winning cups all the time and they had Taze and Kane and they were like doing the parade, that was like the worst as a sports fan.

That's just the grossest thing on the on earth and how and what sucks now is or what sucked in. Patrick Kane is probably my favorite player to watch the NHL. He's unbelievable. I love what that dude does. He's not one of these guys that's gifted with like he's just bigger and fast and everybody. He's just skilled and create space and he's shifting. He's fucking awesome to watch. So I'm excited of these on the Rangers.

But boy, when he was on the Black Hawk scoring fucking O.T. winners and him and Taser, it was the worst thing of the world. So I'm happy that's over. I'm happy to lose one of more recent Stanley Cup. They did. Now the Rangers have Kane and Tarasenko.

It's a fucking nightmare. Are they playing well? Yeah. They're proud. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. They can win it.

It's amazing. They're still plus 1,200 or whatever on the fucking. Well, that conference, dude, the Eastern conference is insane. I know. They got to go through Tampa. You got through Boston. Historically, the best team. of all time, 63 wins, right, at this point.

So yeah, it's not going to be easy. I mean, no matter what team you play in the East, Toronto's awesome. Toronto's really good. So whatever, man, it doesn't matter. Are we are far more interesting when the islanders are in the playoffs as a group. Because if we get to watch Frankie Borrelli, watch the game. Maybe I have it all wrong.

Maybe this is not important. Maybe I should just go to like, no, no, not care about sports. No, it's just like, I sometimes, I guess grass is greener on the other side. I sometimes wish that like when the, the season ended. It's just like, we'll get them next year. And I just can't do that. I got like another team that I need to lose now. And I'm going to watch that every, I'm going to watch that so intently that my life's going to depend on it. And like, I wish that that wasn't the case sometimes. But then I sit back. I'm like, it's fun. It's fun to be in that mix. Definitely. It's fun to care about something.

It gives you something to live for. It really does, you know? On a Tuesday night, if I know that game is at 730, I'm like, what else would I care about like ever if that wasn't happening? Like from at 2 o'clock, of the afternoon when I know that that's coming on in five hours that's like what I'm living for you know what I mean that's like no I think and what you're saying is definitely true to I would say 99% of our listenership I have that with Manchester United the soccer team but also soccer with being a soccer fan you kind of like a like a like a little in America for sure it's a little raw you guys are fighting right yeah yeah you guys should get a half it's just a soccer ball on it yeah just the EPL the I'll say you're tweeting about soccer all the time you get yeah you're

you're in the mix I love Of soccer. Soccer's, soccer is the best. And never stopped. You're like talking a soccer? Yeah, definitely. It never stopped. The best part about soccer is that it never stops. It's like you got the league season and then you got the international competitions in the summer and then it's the league seasons right again.

There's basically no off season. By the way, speaking of soccer in St. Louis in sports, the St. Louis soccer team, city is they had like, they tied the best start in the history of MLS.S. They're brand new team. They're selling out every game. That's like taking over a bunch of my buddies in the group techs. People were going fucking bananas about St. Louis City's MLS soccer team. So that might be something has to pop up on my radar. Some of these soccer teams like go to not as big city, like, you know, like Portland.

Like they get really, really when there's no football team. Yeah. They get like a big, big fan base. Is MLS like doing all right right now? Because I feel like when like Philly was in the championship last year, that got a lot of buzz because Philly had a chance to like win all the major sports and even like the MLS. Like they lost. Didn't they lose like three.

championships in one year. The Phillies, the Eagles and the MLS team all lost in the same calendar year. It's just tough. But I remember seeing videos of that of like stadiums filled to watch away games. Yeah, I don't watch MLS, to be honest with you, because I only watch European soccer because it's not the best. But I know they're the first league. I think that's like all on Apple TV.

So it's like they went fully behind the paywall. There's like 30 teams, which is crazy because no other soccer league in the world is that many teams and it definitely like waters down the talent level. But obviously if they're like expansion franchises are popping up left and right, it must be in a, this league must be in a decent spot financially. St. Louis is second in the Western Conference. They started five and I think they've lost a couple games in a row. They're five and two now, but they're building a ridiculous arena here for the New York

football club, the NYU, whatever. NYC, FC, yeah. Yeah, because they were playing at Yankee Stadium and now they're building like a legit one. I'm pretty sure in Queens, like right next to where the city field is. So it's got to be doing well if you're building a fucking billion dollar stadium or whatever it's going to end up being. Billions. All these stadiums are so fucking expensive and so crazy. Oh, yeah.

I remember hearing that number about the New Islanders one. It was like $2 billion. I was like, where's that coming from? What? Is that where your taxes are going? How'd they pay for that? I don't want to talk about taxes. It's really going to that library by my old house.

I can't believe that shit. Are you on a tax kick right now? You're a little rattle about taxes. It's always like sometimes you see these things pop up. Like they put a fucking new library in my old town. And like I just think about like with physical books. Just Google it. Frankie hates books.

It's just like $15 million went. 15 million dollars went to renovate this library. It was a, it was a decent library. The books didn't change. It was just shelves and shelves and fucking computers. And it's just like they like gave it a ridiculously modern look on the outside and the floors are all fucking tile. It's just like who is that really for? You know what I mean?

Like there was already a library there. It's not like, why did it have to be renovated? And I just know someone had their hands. You think it's saying about the Coliseum. Someone had their hands in their pockets for that one where it's like, oh, you're going to do this construction. And we're going to, we're going to rev it up to $15 million. And we're all going to make a fucking payday off this. 80% of people on, on this continent, on this planet on, well, especially United States of America,

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It's like $1,000, too. Oh, so expensive. Yeah, it's crazy. You don't need that because biolite. like exists. Biolite has six and a half times the electrolytes, then sports drinks. So you can imagine drinking six sugar-filled sports drinks before you teed off. You'd be a problem the entire day like Frankie is right now. You just need a bio. I'm dehydrated. I'm dehydrated today. Everything that goes in me is coming out of me. I've got something going on, whether it's food poisoning or

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and communities around America. Those libraries were like the way to access information. Listen, I'm sure there's an argument to be made that it like helps progress society. And people that don't, people that like don't have the means to have like all the access to the information at their homes, they have to go to a public library. I get that.

But I also think that, like, at some point in this day and age, if you crunch the numbers, I think that you could probably save some money on renovating them to $15 million. I think every school they go to probably has like a MacBook or if you really wanted to try, you could figure out how to get that access. I'm just, I think it was a crock of shit. The reason I know that, Trent, is, I don't know if I brought this up yet, but, you know, we're always looking for new docu series that are similar to the Roman Empire and all that stuff. The newest one that I came across is called The Men Who Built America.

And I think I brought this up at some point. I can't remember exactly where that sounds cool. The men who built America. And there's like 10 or 12 episodes on YouTube. And they've got the, I don't think they're necessarily always history channel, but they're on YouTube and they're under the history channel on YouTube. And dude, they go from like basically the end of the American Civil War up until like World War II of how America transitioned from basically like the stone ages of the Civil War to. the biggest superpower in the history of the earth and how, you know,

the bigwigs did it, Rockefeller, Carnegie, all these just, Henry Ford, all these badasses. And boy, is it fantastic. And then towards the end of it, they talk a lot about how these guys raced out to be like the richest people in the history of the earth. And then towards the end of their lives, they raced each other to be like the guy that gave more money than everybody else. And I was, and I was, and I took me a while because I was like, Andrew Carni,

I've obviously heard the Carnegie. And then I realized, dude, like in New York, like Carnegie Hall at Carnegie Library, like, you hear and see that at University. Yes. Yes. And you're like, holy fuck. And then they go through these guys whole history of just battling each other on, on railroads, on oil, on electric on. Oh, JP Morgan's a big part of like just these titans of like industry in the late 1800s through the early 1900s.

And it's a very similar style of the shows that we like. where they've got actors that play out the roles, but they also kind of narrate it with some of these like historians and stuff. The only thing you have to understand is that the show is on YouTube and it's, it was clearly created to be on television. And you got to have the fast forward button ready at all times

because when they go to what should be a commercial break, but it's just not. They come back and they do like a recap every time for like a minute. And that'll drive you fucking insane. You're like, no, no, I know. I just saw that. Like I just saw that. I don't need you to tell me about it.

So you got to be ready with a fast forward button. But it's excellent. You're going to enjoy it. The men who built America, is that what it was? The men who built America. What's interesting about being in this part of the world, specifically like around New York City, is when you go to these golf clubs,

like a place like Nassau Country Club and all these old school golf clubs in New York, you see in the clubhouses all of this history of guys like that, like Carnegie and Rockefeller and all of that. Like I know at Nassau, all these like big wig billionaires, they made that their country club. That's actually where the origination of the Nassau came.

Because they would see in like their newspaper that another club was putting up better scores than them. Then they came up with a system on how to like beat them and there was the Nassau. So I remember we were supposed to do it behind the greens that Nassau. And they have this fucking historical book of just every like fucking person that basically built America that like at that time was like coming through playing golf. There was a railroad that went through there. Then they would take them from the city to there to the golf course.

So it was really, really cool. If you go to some of these old school in New York around New York City golf clubs, you can see all these score cards signed by them. It's really cool. Well, that was the old like Hamptons. That's where people used to go to vacation because it was before they developed all of Long Island. So like the Great Gatsby, the 1920s like the East Egg. I think it's like great neck. So it's like it used to be like that's all they had to go to get out there to the country. That's exactly. Yeah. Vanderbilt. You just mentioned like railroad.

Cornelius. It's another one. Yep. He's another one that is a huge like. like figure in this whole series. And dude, it is all of what you're talking about is is they just basically talk about all that except in the context of like the business titans at the time and new innovations technologically are coming out like all the time and how they would just pivot and then destroy other. It's fucking crazy town like how good it is.

So I think you guys will enjoy that. The men who built. All right. All right. RBC heritage this week on our YouTube channel. A little update. We've got Thursday now. We've got down the clown with our boy.

trotty we haven't seen how you heard from trotty so trote um indian food connoisseur if you're over in europe is back with us we do this down the clown video we're basically trying to hit hard stingers at this giant contraption that taylor made came up with really cool very very cool video it's like a carnival game you've ever been to a carnival you yeah throw balls at a at a clown we did it with golf balls and golf clubs it was really fun it was really fun so that video's coming out on our youtube on thursday and And then Monday now we're going to have our master's week vlog. So we did a live show. We were around Augusta.

We had Niall Horan came into our Airbnb and did an interview with us. And we were just in and around the buzz at Augusta National. So a little behind the scenes, a little bit of stool scenes-esque. It's a vlog. So we're not necessarily vloggy people. I guess we kind of vlog our golf rounds. This is us vlogging our little week in Augusta for three or four days. So that's coming out on Monday.

So go subscribe, four play golf on YouTube. We obviously put a lot of stuff on YouTube. It matters to us if you watch stuff on YouTube. Subscribe on YouTube. Those are our next two videos coming out on YouTube. Yeah. Fun time. Fun time to subscribe.

And obviously, thank you to everyone that played with our characters and watched a live stream yesterday. But yeah, what was the, what was the takeaway from your, you know, giving the brief takeaway from playing as yourself in a video game? It's wild.

It's bizarre. And awesome. It's really cool. Really, really, really cool. Just having your guy pretty blown away at how realistic the guys are and how they look.

I'm also pretty blown away at just how inherently funny it is when you're in a bad spot or you hit a horrific shot with a character that's just you. It was very fun. Yeah. We say we're in a simulation all the time,

but this is actually factual. You're a simulator. We actually are in simulation. Yeah, no, the response has been great. For my guy, I know people are trying to break 90 on legend mode. They're struggling. Some guys are doing it.

Some guys are not doing it. I've been called, I called myself this, but the virtual bat donut, because if you play with my guy and then you play with somebody who's way better than I am, like a professional golfer of Tiger Woods on the video game, it's way easier. So if you play with my guy, if you want to get really good at the game, just play with my guy on legend mode. And it's going to be so difficult that when you play with someone who's a higher level than I am,

like a professional golfer, it's going to be way easier for you. So that's something you can do if you want to get really good at PJ2 or 2K23. All right. Yeah. Big thanks to 2K, PJ 2K, PGA 2K 23. It's insane that we're in the game. we're right next to Tiger Woods. The courses are so realistic.

It was, I'm, I'm chomping at the bit to get onto our next live stream because I found something. The last five holes in a couple each. I found something. Found my rhythm, found my swing a little bit. So I'm chomper to the bit to get back out there. Frankie took us down handedly, beat us by like 10 shots.

So congratulations to Frankie. Thank you. And I shot an 86. You shot at what, like a 94 and then something like that. 105. Yeah. Yeah. So it was real golf.

I mean, it's, when you play with our characters, were like at best. Me and Riggs might be like a 70 overall at best if you take all the attributes and Trent's like a 47. So I mean, it's really, really hard to play well. I just saw Trevor Emelman just texted us the picture or the tweet from Sir Nick Fowler.

So it came across. Hey, Riggs, the knight is throwing shots at you and he sends the tweet of Sir Nick Faldo going ahead. Yeah. It came across my desk and I was taking it back. I was like, wow.

And the way he tweeted it, he just, tweeted he basically retweeted some random person making a comment about it. Did you notice that? No, that's that's that guy who made a comment is this guy, Jamie Corrigan, who's a British golf writer who's, who's, yeah, he's like one of the old school golf writers. Oh, I didn't even click on him because I saw he wasn't verified. I missed it completely.

The whole thing. Yeah, I missed that too. But this guy whose name is literally Joe Schmogos, the bar stulification of golf continues. Those guys suck. Those guys fucking. Someone called me the Brooks Kepka. of Barstle. Did you guys see that?

I saw that. That was fucking hilarious. They're like, because they were asking about like, why does, why does Lurch play in the scrambles instead of Danny? Which, by the way, the answer is pretty obvious.

And I think we've probably talked about it where Danny's really, really, really good. Also, you guys, also you guys have more chemistry with, like, I know what this is.

Like, we're not, we're past that. Right. And that guy was like, he was, he had thought about it a lot being like, I think,

you know, now that I'm starting to think about it, I think he's the Brooks Kepego four play. He regrets his decision. Yep. And this is just what we're living in. It's like, wow. Brooks Capka for play.

That's me. People think a lot about that stuff apparently. It's pretty wild. It is wild. I got people going. I got people going. All right. We'll be back next week live from Zurich Classic.

We'll be down there. So hope if you're going to be in the area in Nalans, come out to the tournament, TPC, Louisiana, check it out, Barcelona, personal sports books, Zirut Classic. on merchandise there we're going to be hanging with people uh other than that have a great weekend hit it hard hit it hard hit it hard