Scott Van Pelt
Appearances
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
Let me call a golf shot real quick.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
You don't know anything.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
I have the Genghis Khan stat.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
Yeah, baby.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
You know, we're an area where not a ton of people have made it to the big time as evidenced by the fact that they were like, who can we put in? Like Van Pelt? Yeah. He threw like 75 when he was in high school. We don't have a ton of people from around here that have made it. But what makes it cool is the people that have that have made it to the league or wherever. Those folks are a big deal.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
And it was really it was it was an honor that they thought this is all just the broadcasting piece of it. And it was it's flattering. It was not for my sports prowess. Yeah, I mean, I was, you know, I was like the classic high school guy. I was a good basketball player. I was a good pitcher. But that was that was the extent of it.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
I'd say hoops. Before the age when people started redshirting their children in elementary school, I would have really benefited from one more year. I'm not kidding. I'm not kidding. In the area where I'm at, there's 20-year-old high school seniors that have been held back a few years, and then they end up getting...
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
for sure scholarships to go play lacrosse at an ivy league and you're like you know there was a there was a method to the madness but i was i was like a 17 year old high school senior my nickname was fungo i was 6 4 170 and by my freshman year in maryland i'm 6 6 205 like i'd have been i'd probably had a chance somewhere just because my i was just physically completely you know what i mean for sure
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
whatever i was a decent hoop player so i mean at maryland like there were a bunch of people in like the intramural system that were like could have played college somewhere but just you know whatever but i was that's it i was you know frustrated thought when i was little i thought i would be the guy people were talking about but as it works out i get to be the person talking about the people and that that career lasts a hell of a lot longer thankfully as as we sit here now much you're one of the best man you're one of the best one of the icons i appreciate that
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
It was a big bummer.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
They were looking – Had a chance, but Florida's really good. And then the end coincided with the coach leaving, and we talked about that on the pod just because Kevin Willard went to go to Villanova, which is a great job, and I think totally get why – that job would be appealing. It's just the way it ended, like there's a way to go. And it got really sticky.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
And so the Maryland folks were really bummed about that. But the good news, the really good news in our household is my wife is a gator. And this was the coolest thing on SportsCenter. We had Coach Golden on. in advance of it. And I'm like, look, I got a problem in my house. If Maryland plays Florida, my kids are just, they're really stuck because they love the Gators and they love the Terps.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
What do I do? And he had this great answer about being a supportive husband and tell them that it's, you know, you support mom and you're just going to be happy for the Gators. And if Maryland loses, it's fine, blah, blah, blah. I'm like,
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
that's a bullshit that's wrong that's not true what you just said it was a lie to my kids right it was a great answer it was a great answer but it was wrong and then we had just gone on a trip we come home and the gators they sent a box fellas and i believe that my name image and likeness of my children belongs to the gators because they got more swag from gainesville than they knew what to do with and so
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
To 14.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
I believe that the combination of Florida winning that game and the swag that was sent from down in Gainesville to my kiddos, I believe they belong to the Gators. So we're all good, man. It was a fun run. The end got real bumpy. That's how the SEC gets you. That's how they get boxes.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
Oh, hell yeah. Bro, he had on a Gator headband. He's like, Dad, look at this, man. I'm like, you want to go to the closet. We got plenty of Terps gear. But the Gators represented in a SEC level, Trav. You called it, man.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
Oh, man.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
Well, we started off with a bang. I believe the first on camera he said his tits were out.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
It was early. Just lost them out.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
Just set the expectation. I think in life, most of life is managing expectations. No. Listen, I'm interested in his perspective because it was right around now, it was last spring when you had made the official decision that you were going to head into our world on the TV side. And you were coveted by everybody. And I mean, I've sort of shared this backstory.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
I reached out and I was like, look, man, I appreciate your space. I'm not trying to get in it and
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
try to bother you but i also wanted to represent that i knew espn was interested in having your brother and and uh in whatever capacity it was going to be and so i tried to be as honest as i could about what i thought our place was and now he comes in and the thing about the business is there's a million things about this is where i'm going to talk about you jay like you're not there okay okay cool there's a million things about your brother that make him perfect 14 they can keep the keep the cans on
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
Perfect for TV, but you still, there's a process of learning the mechanics of TV that it's not innate. He's innately entertaining and engaging and people love him, but learning how to, okay, when's it my turn? And what I would try to tell him is, look, man, your mic's always on. You don't need me to ask you to go. When you're ready to go, go.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
but there's a couple of guys in swag and RC that, that we have a built in kind of chemistry. We know how it goes and swag can get going on a tangent and like, you just got to let them go. And so it's, it's a challenge when it's for people that are talking to figure out, you know, how to get in where you fit in.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
And it was a blast because the things, um, about, you know, the stories and what's genuine about him, what's authentic about him is all right in front of you. And then seeing it get better and better where you're like, okay, you can tell, um, that he's more comfortable. And by the way, you're more comfortable by the end of the year than you are at the beginning, obviously.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
And he'll get only more and more comfortable as time goes on. So I had a blast. We blew out a port. My guy Dumpf blew his ACL out week two in Philadelphia.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
We were sure that his knee, ACL, PCL, MCL, all blown out. Somehow they were intact. No, we had fun. But the TV piece, it's a different kind of grind, man. You don't get a tour at all to be on, but you're on planes and you're trying to figure out how to bring entertainment to the masses. But again, what he's innately great at, you can't learn how to do. And so we were thrilled with it all.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
I'm curious what your assessment of it was.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
You can't watch the all 22 of every game by the time you get to the Monday because we're not going to break down all of it. But if there's something, because what we try to do is talk ball. And Trav, you've been kind about that. What's the role of a show? And I think if you can educate and entertain, I mean, everyone's going to say some version of that.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
But I think that's really the core of what we're trying to do. And I think what we had Jason do is break stuff down. You don't want to limit it to just tackle the tackle, but I think you can help people understand why something works, why a team's really good at it. And I thought that you brought a lot of that to the table and the personality as well.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
But it's interesting to hear you talk about it because it's probably not unlike learning a teammate, right? For sure. If you've got, you know, a guard to your left that you know is really good at this but maybe not as good at that, you've got to figure out how to help him be good at the thing he's not as good at.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
And that's really what the TV piece is about, like just figuring out how to make – put everybody – my job, try to put everybody in the best lane to do what they're great at even better. You know what I mean? Yeah, for sure. It's – I don't know. We had a blast doing it for sure because it's big, man. Monday Night Football, I mean –
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
it's a it feels like a thing yeah it feels like a thing and you hear that thing in your in your ear and like i mean you guys lived it where you were the guys in the arena i i wasn't but for me monday night football as you're watching back in the day howard coso whatever there was nothing bigger than that and like you hear that music and you're the one sitting there you're going to talk and you're like you know this is an event man it's it's it's a blast i love it man
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
I think the one thing that has happened for me throughout my career, and I'm grateful, grateful, grateful, grateful, is I've never been a guy that was playing chess. I was never planning three or four moves ahead. I didn't have my eye on anything as much as my eye on right now.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
I think I've been really good at that, being present in my present, appreciative of this moment, try to be as good as I can be at what I do. and trust that if you do that, then you'll get another shot at it tomorrow in some other role. Yeah. I've told the story before, but it's true.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
I have a Post-it note that's in a little window box frame that sits on my desk, and it says, I will never work at ESPN. And when I was at the Golf Channel, which is where I started way back in the day, Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
Thank you.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
Thank you.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
The masters is a completely different level of lunacy. Like when you know that it comes on the air and it's a picture and it's whatever it is, it's the Hogan bridge or it's, it's the 13th and it's that, that like the iconic shots that you can go into that corner. Right.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
You can close your eyes and see him in corner and you hear that, that, that sort of melodic piano and you're the voice that says whatever it is that you have to say. And the masters begins and you're the one doing it. there's no way I can explain the depth of appreciation for the fact that I'm the person sitting in that chair. It's something I share with my pop.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
My, my pop died when I was in college and, um, I'm going to tell you a quick one about like, so it'll be Thursday at three Eastern. We'll come on the air.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
Yeah.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
You know, you start, you rehearse a little bit. All right. We're going to show these highlights. Sheffler on six and Rory on 10. Okay. We just make, all right. I know how we're going to come on the air here. And at some point in the last minute, all right. I'm sitting there and I'm getting ready.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
And then there'll be about a 30 second bit where I just sort of get into this Zen sort of place where I'm just... My mind is still... My heart is grateful and I think of my father. And I think... Pop, it's like I don't say it out loud. I just think, let me be calm. Let me do my job well. Let me speak slowly and clearly and let me do my job well.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
And I think of him and I think, man, if my father were here, they say a young man that loses his dad early in life spends the rest of his life trying to make him proud. And I know damn sure sitting in that chair that my pop is, is proud of his boy. And then we come on the air and that last little five seconds, it's like, I swear to God, it's like time stops for just a second.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
And I'm like, we good. Here we go. And then off you go and you do your job. But I give, I give myself like that very focused attention to that feeling, like what you feel in that moment. And, and, it's just gratitude just exploding in your soul. Uh, I don't mean for this to sound over right now, man. I don't mean for it to sound too goofy or heavy, but it's sincere. It's sincere.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
And so I'm here and you know, Jim Nance is there and you know, Jim, it's his show. I'm just there to sort of welcome people on. I don't do a hell of a lot of heavy lifting, but that's, that's the gig for the week. Um, that's the main focus of it. Wednesday's my favorite day. I'm doing the par three, the contest this year, which is a blast.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
It's like, you know, the kids are caddying for their, for their dad. And it's just this beautiful day. And it's this minute, this par three course is sort of a miniature version of the big course. It's incredible. The whole thing's incredible, but there's a lot wrapped up into that week, as you can tell from what I'm sort of saying here. Heck yeah, man.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
I think, I think Travis, that, that, I don't know. I don't know what the timeframe is. I think that they'll sort that out. I think we'll get back to a little bit.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
Well, I mean, the whole thing got real sideways where dudes took money and the PGA tour is like, that's don't do that. And then the PGA tour was like, well, maybe we'll do that too. Yeah. That's a funny game. Oh, well, we got to compete. Yeah. Yeah, that's an interesting trick. I mean, imagine being like Rory and you passed on God only knows how many hundred millions of dollars.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
Yeah, right. I heard numbers. I don't know what the truth is, but I'm surprised. Certain that there were nine figures involved. That much I know. But the point you make about just not seeing them compete that often, that does make the majors feel a little bit different. But honestly, we do the PGA Championship on ESPN. We'll be down at Quail Hollow in Charlotte in May.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
And that's a great field too. But to me, the star of the Masters Week is not even the players. It's the stage. It's the venue and the feelings associated with the venue. It's going back there every spring. It's the friendships that get rekindled like among – You know, patrons and people that work there. And, you know, it's just the whole week is so, so special.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
So you're right that those events have added significance. But the Masters is just feels like what it feels like because of the place more than who's competing in it.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
Agreed. And I've been so lucky going there through through the years that the people that you walk past. Well, you know, I talk about my friend, Miss Nadine. She's she's a security. And years ago, I walked past her in her station by the par three course. And I hear this voice say, you look nice. And I stop and I look and that's Miss Nadine.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
And so I walk over to Miss Nadine and she said, let me see that tie. And I looked at it. I'm like, OK. And she said, I'm Nadine. I'm Scott. I walk by the next day. She said, come over here. OK. She's like, I don't like that tie. Like, who asked you? And she's like, okay. So, like, it became that week. Every day I go by. And by the end of that week, me and Miss Nadine were like this.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
I get Christmas cards from her. She gets Christmas cards from me. We see each other and we hug. Like, every single day I give her a hug. That's my girl, Miss Nadine. Like, we've been friends for 20 years. And this is a place where there's this –
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
grill where we're allowed to eat this room that you know it's the greatest sandwich and fries on a china plate you've ever had in your life okay and years ago is it pimento cheese or what well yes that that is part of the lore of the place for sure but one year i ordered a grilled cheese and bacon with tomato wasn't on the they just made it
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
And if I walk in there now, my guy Tony will just give me a nod, and they'll just bring it to me. They know I'm not a member at Augusta National. I'm just some bozo that's been coming for a few years, but these are my friends. That's so awesome, man. They know what to bring me. You know what I'm saying? Yes. That's so cool. That's the level of attention to detail and the friendships that you –
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
that you revisit every year. And my wife may come down this year. And I said, I don't care if you see the golf course. I just want you to get to hug Miss Nadine. I just, you know, because she knows my family. Like, again, like Christmas cards with each other every year. So, like, those are the people that are part of it. And then, as you say, the history of it, the actual golf. Every hole, right?
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
Like 13, you remember when Phil hit it off the pine straw past a tree. And 16, you remember Tiger hits it up and it rolls down the hill. And Vern, have you ever in your life? And 17, again, Vern, Jack Nicklaus, maybe. Yes, sir. I mean, every hole has a picture and a moment in time. I mean, I could keep going. The 10th hole, Bubba and a playoff.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
Bubba can't see a straight shot in his mind. That's right.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
He prefers to have an angle on it. Exactly.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
It's actually better for him to be in there in a tree and go, all right, if I hook this sumbitch 90 yards around a tree, I can, you know what I mean? And so everybody has their shots and their moments. And that to me is what makes, you know, that's what makes it,
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
Oh no, I went 97 and I was covering it for, I worked for the golf channel at the time. And, um, you know, you'd never, and it's amazing. It's amazing traffic, how much it's changed. I mean, and, and yet it has this incredible ability to evolve and, And that and yet stay timeless. It's impossible. It's a trick you can't pull off.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
And yet they do where everything about it every year feels like it's been this way forever. And yet so much of it has changed in terms of the golf course, how they stretched it out, made holes longer, tougher, change this undulation, that undulation, whatever. So, I mean, like the snapshot of 97 in my mind, it feels like the same place, and yet it's so very different.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
But they get everything exactly right. Every detail is just perfect. And I haven't been to every one since 97, but, I mean, there's similarities for you guys maybe with seasons, with football, right? When you're in a sport, and you do something every year and then like you, there's a, there's a pace to the season and then there's your off season.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
And then the next thing you know, it's like, all right, we're back at OTAs and then we're in camp. And then the season starts again. And it's like, it feels like time's not passing in some ways. And so like I was just at Augusta in my mind, only I wasn't, I mean, it was a year ago and I'll be back there and it'll be master's week.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
And you think to yourself, Oh, it's probably been three or four years since that. And then you go, Oh shit. That was 15 years ago. You know what I'm saying? Like I, it can't possibly be almost 30 years since I was there with tiger in 97, but we're damn near there. And that's where I, that's where I just look at myself and go, good Lord. Like how, how lucky are you to be able to keep doing this?
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
And so it's a, it's crazy how, again, how time passes. And yet when you're there, it feels like time hasn't moved.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
All right now. All right. All right now. Come on now. Come on now. I know some people that know some people. If you left your boy at home, he would not be pleased with that, would he?
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
I cannot offer anything to that baby. How's that go? Let's just workshop this. Let's workshop this conversation, boys. We're three semi-smart people. How do we play that? How do we say, hey, listen, we're just going to leave you alone. Just mosey down there.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
Mosey. I think mosey's the key. I think it's not – I'm not going.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
And then I'll zip right back. Mosey and zip. It's a mosey and zip scenario.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
We know folks – A few pimentos.
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
Scott Van Pelt on Favorite ESPN Stories, Calling the Masters, Torpedo Bats and New Nieces | EP 132
A few eagleness. What are they? The beers? Are they eagleness? I forget what it's called. Azalea. People enjoying azalea. There you go, an azalea.
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Scott needs help for the par three. Scott's doing the par three. He can't do it by himself. That's right. That's right. You've seen him on TV. He can barely form a sentence. He can barely speak coherently. We need him. Come on.
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Yeah. That's... Sometimes you got to just know what you can and can't pull off. Hey, by the way, he mentioned just as in passing, we play golf. Your brother, his practice swing, like the divot pattern. Are you familiar with the flank steak size divots this man takes out of the earth?
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Ridiculous.
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Why are you doing that on the tee box on a par five, Jason? And we played on a day where it rained really heavily, and so the ground was super sort of – Oh, yeah. It was not firm. And so those practice swings, you'd look up and be like, this is like a full yard of sod in the air. And that's just a practice swing. I'm like, well, you're going to have to hit the ball here.
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We're going to have a trench here where we can bury a squirrel, man. He's got a nice swing, though. Obviously, a lot of power involved.
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Well, getting that left shoulder behind the ball, that's important. It's hard when you have that. It's all fused together. Your tempo, though, you can really swing at it, Trav. Trav's talented.
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Agreed. And the key for the big guy is to recognize that if you draw a line from the ball back to the top, back to the bottom, for a tall guy, it's a mile long. So I think – I always think Jon Rahm – and it doesn't need to be as abbreviated as Jon Rahm, but you also don't need to wrap that son of a gun around your neck because – John Daly. Really difficult.
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But if you just turn to the point, if your shoulder's behind it, all you got to do is get back to the bottom and you're going to be, you're going to knock it a long way. Your swing's really good though. I appreciate that. What's your handicap?
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But you could, if you got a cook and you're like, you're thinking I might, maybe I might could shoot something that started with a seven, right? Yeah. All right. That's what I thought.
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No, you're 99th percentile.
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Seriously. Yeah. I always get a kick out of people that like reverse sandbaggers. Like people that sandbag that say, I'm probably like a 12 and then they shoot 75. You're like, that's bullshit.
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Yeah.
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But people that say, oh, no, I'm like a 9. And then they go shoot a 100. You're like, a 9 what?
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That's a good question. That's actually a really good question. But the guy that says he's a 14 that goes to some member guest and shoots 75, that's very, very poorly looked upon.
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Right. So I think –
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I think the person that says that they're a 12 that shoots 108, you could live with that. Like, yo, I just had a bad day. Well, no, you actually, you have a bullshit 12 is what you're having. And there are a lot of those. But don't be the sandbagger. Don't be a sandbagger. That's bad luck. Bad luck, man.
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I'm happy to do it.
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Well, let's do the math. I'm 58. So what did that put me at 2001? I'm not good at math. I was 20, 35-ish. Yeah, 35-ish, mid-30s. Nice. And you were with Golf Channel up until that? I was. I was. I mean, I told you the story about having the note. I wouldn't work at ESPN, but it was kind of...
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a lot of life is this right sort of serendipitous like a guy named jimmy roberts who actually is a maryland guy and was at espn covering golf left to go to nbc and that was in the middle of tiger woods just laying waste to all humanity in the game i mean he was breaking records you know winning every major and espn really kind of needed a guy that had an in with tiger sure I was that guy.
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Yeah. I mean, literally, my entire career exists because of Tiger Woods. That is a fact. And maybe I could have found some of this without him, but almost certainly not. And so I went in 2001 because ESPN really kind of needed a golf guy. And I lived down in Orlando at the time. And I stayed in Orlando and I was covering golf and a little bit of this, that and the other thing.
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So that was when it started. That's so cool.
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Oh, yeah. I remember it vividly because we were in Australia to cover a golf tournament. It was the world match play, and we're in Australia. This is actually cool. I can picture it as clear as day. We were going to follow a Syracuse basketball game, and we're just waiting for it to end. And I'm sitting in like this, it's like a tent.
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When you cover, when you're doing a golf event, you know, they build these little, you've seen them. If you go to like a major or whatever, like it's a TV compound with, you know, you're outdoors, but there's a tent over the top of it. And I'm sitting there with my guy, Andy North. And when the game ends, there used to be this like, and you guys are ESPN heads.
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Like there was this animation that like, it was like sort of a circle and it says ESPN. And there's this voice that says ESPN. This is a presentation of ESPN, the worldwide leader in sports. And that's, like I told you about the Masters moment where I'm waiting to talk. Well, this is 2001, and I've never done it, and I'm like, oh, shit, I have to talk, and it's me, and I'm on ESPN.
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Ah!
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You know what I'm saying? It got as real as it could get. And I'm just like, don't talk fast. Don't freak out. This is what you do. You can do it. Only I got news for you, boys. I kind of couldn't do it like that at that point. And yeah, so I'm in a tent in Australia with Andy North at the World Match Play. And that's the first event I did. And then the next...
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It was a two-week thing because we went from there to Kapalua to do what used to be the Mercedes. And I'm doing a two-week junket in Australia and Hawaii. And I'm like, bro, your boy's on ESPN and I am living right. You know what I'm saying? Yeah.
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No, this is a good introduction.
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It's Australia. It's Maui. And it's like life is good. I am wavy, bro. And this is real real good look at your boy um then that's how that's how it started and then it was actually a really unfortunately sobering moment because i it's i come home and i'm sitting at my house one day it's february and it was the daytona 500 and i get a phone call
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from ESPN that says, Hey Scott, we were, uh, we're getting word that Dale Earnhardt might've died in this crash. And I'm like, Oh, that's awful. And then they said, I'm, I'm not processing this. Right. And there's, we need you to go there. And I'm thinking, well,
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wow i mean i had only done golf right and so i had just done these golf events which was a very familiar space for me and now all of a sudden i'm hopping in the car driving up to daytona to cover as big a story as there could be in the sports world and that's where it was a real reality check of the, like you're in the deep end of the pool, man.
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And, and, and I, I remember vividly sports center started that night with a report from me at Daytona, given the news that Dale Earnhardt had died. And it was, it went from like everything's whatever to the reality of what the stage you were on and, and the fact that you were covering everything. And then,
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Obviously, from there, there's far less serious stories, but you added more to the plate as time went on.
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Yeah.
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And now Dale Earnhardt is gone. But from my perspective as, all right, can I do this? It was, you're not going to be asked to cover something more significant than that. And I was able to do it. And then it was just the recognition of, all right, you're, you're in a different place now than at the golf channel where you just go on to the next, you know, tour stop and
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That was all that we were going to do. And then, as I say, it was more used to do some NBA things like Tracy McGrady and Shaq and people like that were the magic at the time. You do some of that. And it was just around that summer was when they said, hey, we want you to come up and maybe do some SportsCenter. And I'm like, all right, I can do that.
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And then the next thing you know, it's like, hey, we want you to move up here. and do it. And I'm, I mean, leaving Orlando where it was 75 and sunny every day for Bristol was, that was, that was a different kind of reality check. Like who, what am I doing? Sure. Sure. That was a rough adjustment initially.
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I mean, I don't think I had... as much of a sort of a, of a guide, as much as I just, there's, there's a person and you would know this name cause you know him. And he's the guy that's now in charge of, of all things at ESPN, a guy named Mike McQuaid. He's a behind the scenes guy who's has been as instrumental in helping me get where I am as anyone.
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Just what he did, what he did, Jason was, he basically just said, you know what to do, just go do it. And, and was great with feedback. Um, You told me something when we played golf that day. You said, I like being coached. And I thought, that's great news. Because not everybody does. Everyone says they want feedback. You know what feedback they want? They want grab ass, you're awesome, attaboy.
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They don't want, hey, that's bullshit. You can't do this. That was bad. Here's why this sucked. But that's what you need. And having a guy like that that was really helpful and just trusted that I would do the work and put in the work and wherever the bumpy spots were, I'd figure him out. He was great from a behind-the-scenes standpoint. But then, as I mentioned, Stuart Scott was awesome.
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And we had this... we had this kind of admiration from afar because he and Tiger were boys and I was as well. And so we had kind of seen each other from across the aisle. And then when I came, I had kind of the endorsement from Tiger with Stewart. And then I was an ACC guy from Maryland. He was a Carolina guy. And we had that kind of common thing.
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And then he and I just found this rhythm with one another that was really helpful from a sports center standpoint. But I mean, I've been so lucky with people that I worked with from like And if I start naming people, I'll leave them off. But like Stuart was big. Neil Everett was a partner of mine that I worked with a ton. And he's just like, that's my brother forever.
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So I've just been so lucky that the people that I've sort of shared the set with and, you know, traveled with and worked with were all great teammates that helped elevate me that hopefully I helped... make them the best version of them and you kind of ham and egg it. But, you know, it wasn't like we had a, you know, sit down and here's this and here's that and here's the other.
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They just kind of trust you to figure stuff out. And what you don't, you know, they're going to help nudge you back towards the center.
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Yeah.
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Right. And I mean, I... Dan and Keith made SportsCenter something different. They took it to a different place, I think. Berman's the godfather. Bob Lee as well, obviously. But then Dan and Keith took it to a thing where it was different. And then Stuart and Rich were a big-time team. They had a lot of us that kind of worked together. And you, you team up with different people at different times.
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But then the idea was if you could create, you know, people that work together quite a bit, then you create chemistry, which makes a ton of sense, right? Like you become like an old line. There's this energy and Hey, I could slide out the tackle if I need to, but if we can get some reps together, we can make this a thing. And so honestly, I mean, and it's still like that and it's different.
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I'm down in DC and I'm not in a cubicle and you know, sitting, next to Rich or Stuart or whomever back in the day. But it's the same idea. I'm going to go in and watch games and then I do a show. It's a joke. My dad worked for a plumbing company. I always say this. He wore boots to work. I wear Ferragamo's and a little light dusting of powder on the head. I mean, that's what I wear to work.
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And I just watch games all night. It's absurd. And so I think what the genius of those ads kind of captured was that. People are like, this is what it's like? Well, yeah. I'm not actually sitting in LeBron's chair in a throne, but it's like that. And the cool thing about that spot is it's – and he was on me recently. It's like still a joke that we go back to. Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Like I saw when he was on with you about, you know, he's about when he, this fuckery won't continue. And then now he's 40 and he's like, when I'm 50, like, I mean, I saw him reference that, like the idea that, holy smokes, like he's still doing this at that age. He was a baby when he did that ad with me. And so now we can kind of still reference it.
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And, you know, I got a note from his folks, like, you know, clutch fuck, like I was texting back and forth with Rich Paul about, I said, you know, what's cool is like, We've both been doing this for 20 some odd years and can still kind of do it. I'm not comparing myself as an anchor to LeBron James. But we're still in that respective place and we can still play at a certain level.
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You're still in the biggest spots of TV.
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Going back to who he was as a 21, 2-year-old, maybe at the time when we did. He might have just been 20. When we did that spot, because I joked to them, I said, you know, I think when you and I did that ad, I might have been around 40. And that was right around the age when I realized there was stuff physically I kind of couldn't do. And you're 40 and there's nothing like what is it you're doing?
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You know what I mean? Like, how are you still this guy? He's not human. The freaking nature. My favorite one, other than the LeBron one, was me and Stewart. We're with Arnold Palmer and all the, the ad is 15 seconds and it's Arnold in the cafeteria and Arnold Palmer makes an Arnold Palmer, a little iced tea, a little splash of lemonade. No words are said.
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Then he walks off and it's me and Stuart Scott. And all we say is that was awesome.
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Yeah.
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And Stuart's like, I know. Yeah. And it's a 15-second spot. And that's it. And so it's like, is this what ESPN was like? I'm like, yeah, kind of. We just kind of sit in our cubes, go to the cafeteria. Again, Arnold's not there making an Arnold Palmer. But that ad was just what I thought was just genius.
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So simple. Yep.
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It's interesting that you guys doing this and, you know, you were straddling the back end of your career, Jason Trav, thankfully. Run it back. I like that. That's great news. Still in it. Let's do it. There's a clear understanding among athletes that you own your voice. And you are in charge of your voice. And you have agency over yourselves to share that voice the way you want to.
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And I think it's been great for people to learn about athletes in a different way. share your lives as much as you're willing to share, share your lives with the public. And that's tricky, right? You got to pick how much of it, how much of them do you want to know about your new baby? By the way, I hadn't said congrats and I didn't.
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Thank you.
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God bless you. That's awesome. But that, that's a tricky thing. And it's, it's up to you to decide how much you want to share it with people because athletes have a space that, that they control the, not the narrative, but what it is, the narrative, it's their narrative and, It's it's very different. And you guys joked about it a couple of years ago. Jason, you're still playing for Philly.
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And we I thought we're going to talk to you. And then you had cramps and they sent somebody else out. And I think I said on SportsCenter, I thought we were talking to Kelsey, but I guess he wants to save the content for the podcast. And I was just joking. But then you guys covered it. Trav had my back. It's like, how are you going to blow up SVP like that? Which you didn't.
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No, you don't ever do that. Which you didn't. But I think what I'm saying is I think that it is interesting that if you have something impactful and important that you want to say, you want to say it on your platform the way you want to say it. But I do think what I have with athletes –
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is a a trust i think people respect that i respect them and know that i'm not trying to you know you're not going to get got like it's not what that's about i'm trying to have a genuine conversation and i'm interested in in the things that are related to the competition
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And I think I'm good at having conversations that can pull out the, the emotions and the answers that are related to that, that are interesting to me in the audience. I still think we can have those conversations. Even if you have a lane that you want to be the driver of that content, I get it. So it's different. But I also think it's made guys and men and women more comfortable with
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And talking about themselves in a way that it's maybe less guarded when you do have the conversations. Does that make sense? For sure. There's a tonnage of voices and content out there these days. And so I've done it long enough that I don't meet strangers, if that makes sense. Even if we haven't talked, I've done it long enough that... I'm not saying this to be an ass, but I mean, you probably...
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have some idea who i am and i know who you are so we're not even if we've never talked we're familiar with each other and hopefully you're familiar with the way i approach things
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Absolutely.
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I think hockey guys. There's a sincerity to hockey guys. And they fascinate me because I can't skate. These guys will play through like a severed limb. What they're willing to go through is... is beyond my comprehension. Like I get, you know, dude's got to take a shot to be available and your availability is your best ability.
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I appreciate what you guys put through yourselves through rather, but hockey guys just totally fascinate me. Like there's guys whose mouths, their teeth, it looks, look like they ate a fucking grenade and they're still playing. Like,
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It's a rite of passage. They brag about it. Right. What are you doing? If that happened to me, I'd be incapacitated for a week.
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And they're, like, out there for the next shift. So there's a curiosity I have about them. And I'm not talking about them like they're zoo animals. Like, what are you? No, they are. They are. They're zoo animals, for sure. They're zoo animals. I played golf once with Oshie and Carlson, a couple of capitals here in town. Oh, my gosh. Yeah. You can play, man.
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He had literally just had surgery on like a sports hernia a week before. And him and Carlson are talking about that moment when you're passing out from the anesthesia about like that last couple of seconds. And they were talking about it with joy in their eyes before they go under for surgery. And I couldn't get over just how those dudes are wired, man. So I – hockey guys –
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Hockey guys fascinate me. Those are the guys I enjoy the most because I have the least understanding of them.
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And everybody's got a Nick, you know, everybody's it's no, one's just Jason or Travis. It's, you know, it's a J-Bow and Jen, you know, everyone's, you gotta, I'm doing a shitty job of what they call Wayne. Oh, way. No, that's what me and Steve, every time we bring up way. No, Like this is the greatest player that's ever played.
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And the Canadian guys talk about skating down the ice side by each, like side by each. Okay. I get it. You're, you're next to each other. And there's, it is, there's a different language and the boys and the room, the way they talk about the room. I, that's my favorite thing. Uh, the, the, It's the locker room, but the room, the way they talk about it, it's like a sacred place. Oh, yeah.
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And you guys know it because you live it, but the hockey guy's room is a whole other level. There's nothing like it. Last year, I talked to Paul Maurice after they won, the Florida Panthers won, and he gave the greatest answer ever. I ask, you know, you've spent your life in pursuit of this thing and now you've done it. And in what way does that change your life?
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He took this really deep pause and then he gave this sincere thing. He said, I hope it doesn't. I hope I've lived my life in a way where it won't change me. And then he says, but next year when we go to camp, I'm going to skate the hell out of the boys because I got carte blanche. You know, it was like it was this surreal, sincere moment. But then right back to the way Thank you.
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Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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Thank you. Thank you.
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Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
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Thank you.
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The one coach missing.
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Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. P P P P gener gener gener gener P P P P P P I said, well, just tell him I'll just do it. Whatever it is, it's fine. It's a cameo. No big deal. No, he really wants to talk to you. Okay. So I end up on the phone with Sudeikis.
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God, damn it.
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And we end up talking for like an hour about life and how we held a lot of similar views about gratitude and all the stuff I was kind of talking about. And what a cool man. What a great dude. What a fun guy to talk to. And he just wanted me.
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It was really important to him that I understood what this guy was about and then how much they wanted me to be sort of the guy that set the tone in that very first episode with the SportsCenter thing about this coach that's going to go over. And I'm like, sure, of course.
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But what I got out of it was this really, really meaningful conversation with this guy right before this thing became this phenomenon. And so it was really neat because – Jason, you mentioned when you brought me on, it was nice. I've been nominated a lot. I've been nominated eight times for an Emmy. I've never won one. Well, when they won everything, I'm like, hey, man, I was in an episode.
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Do I get a trophy?
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How's this work?
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You told me how important it was for me to be part of it. I was in one. How far down the line of credits do we go? Yeah. I was kidding.
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I didn't really want one.
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Whatever is on. Well, I wouldn't say that. I love college basketball. I love the tournament. When the Stanley Cup is on, I'm mesmerized by that. Playoff hockey overtime is the most tense thing there is because at any moment, the game just ends. And then when I'm watching that, I'm like, there's nothing that's cooler than this.
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But then like, look, college football, you turn it on if it's a big, big 10 game, a big SEC game, whatever, whatever league, I don't care. But then like when we're at Monday Night Football and it's, you know, a couple of years ago when, you know, When Philly came to Arrowhead, you knew the stakes were high for a regular season night. There was juice that was real that's hard to manufacture.
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So I guess what I'm saying is I'm real whichever way the wind blows. The place that I'm at right now, I love that. And I love baseball. It's just that it gets by August and we're dragging. You're just waiting for football to kick at that point. But then when we get to the playoffs, man, playoff baseball is incredibly intense, too. So I I'm like you all, man. I grew up with it. I love it.
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And whatever we got tonight, I'm excited because something will happen that I don't know is going to happen.
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For me?
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Things that happened to me or things I did on SportsCenter?
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Bro, your boy's done. Just tell us to fuck off.
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I'm old and feeble. This brain is mush. And I've done a lot of shows, man. I, you know, I don't know. I don't know.
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Hey, listen, continued success in all things, boys. You guys, you know it. Yeah, be grateful for what we get to do. I know you guys are and do, but I think it's important that people hear that. That Edinburgh story I told, I'm sincere about it. Going to the Masters, being present, being grateful, I just think that's a great sort of place to stay. I try my best. I love what you guys have.
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I love the bond. I love you guys sharing your lives with people because they're interested. It's fun to stop in and say hello, so keep doing what you guys are doing. You're the best, brother.
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Thank you, dude.
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All right. Fuck off.
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That's so good.
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There's one coach not there. Could not make it.
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What question would you like me to ask the machine real quick? I'll do it. I'll do it for you, Jason. What is? What is? What is?
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okay we'll see where this goes what is the best body part to make appendix boring tonsils boring gallbladder oh oh arm hand legs head head you can make that's like uh
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Mm-hmm. Get a new body. Just get a whole new body.
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Okay.
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Because he asked me to. My job is to do what you guys asked me to do. I don't.
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Every time. Can you imagine coat checking your dick?
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Jason, you of all people, your dick would be like in the car in a sock.
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You need to keep that attached.
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Jake, Jake, you're always like, what do I make quote cards? What do I make quote cards? There's your quote card for the week, Jake. Make that a graphic. Put it out immediately. Jesus Christ. Let's hit the brackets. Let's get out of here. God damn it.
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You won.
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Maybe the most pointless game we've ever played. Congrats, Jason. What a big weekend for you. New baby, winner of Guess the Coach game.
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It's kind of like when you give yourself your own nickname and you try to, like, get other people to do it.
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Everyone celebrated.
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Yes, I saw that.
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Did you really just say walk us through your emotions?
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What are we doing with this? Fanta nailed it the other night. This tournament has largely lacked those moments that make the tournament the tournament. Then we get one, but because we live in this space now where we can't exist unless we're pissed at everything, oh, he walked. Yeah. Okay, well, Sterritory said he didn't. I could show you a video of a Colorado State guy doing the exact same thing.
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Oh, that happened earlier in the game. Well, they got two points and no one gave a shit because that's just basketball in the modern era. Anyway, the emotions were insane. I am, look, I thought as I got older, I'd, grow away from this. That's not been the case. I really, really like Maryland basketball. I have a lot of fun with it. This team's been fun.
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Queen was a kid that they hoped they'd keep in Maryland, and he stayed. He could have gone anywhere. Five-star guy, lottery guy, and then he has an incredible moment. And I talked about this with Stanford Steve on our pod, and Big Ken, I look forward to the days when you're telling me this version of your story. I'm out with my youngest kid, and he's very, very zen. He's very stoic.
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He's like, we're good. We're going to take it home. Colorado State makes it three. He's like, Dad, I don't think we're going to win. And I said, buddy, you got to stay in the fight, man. And then they make it and it's just absolute chaos. The family jumping around. It was, it was, it was unreal. I mean, like Maryland's lost a lot of heartbreaking games this year at the buzzer.
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I thought it was going to be another one. And then it wasn't.
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Well, I mean, old school off glass. And I mean, in real time, it's like it's like happening in slow motion. And I'm like, oh, that's so far off. And then it's no, it's actually not. It's perfect off glass. And yeah, I mean, it was it's like, you know, it's a Hoosiers moment. I'll make it Jimmy Chitwood. And, you know, I did an interview with the Baltimore Sun last week.
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And the legend goes, when he was, you know, coming up in Baltimore, they called him Black Baby Jokic. And, you know, he's He's not the most fast-twitch, put-your-elbow-above-the-square dude. He's not muscle-bound, but Jokic has changed the entire paradigm of what you're supposed to look like.
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You can look like whatever if you've got high IQ and a ton of talent and big balls, and Derek's got all that.
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If for no other reason than the back of his triceps or where his triceps would be if he had them to look like they've been ginsued. I mean, every year it's like, what happened to this dude, man? It's crazy. You're right. I think the long sleeves is the play. Yeah.
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I really don't.
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I was trying to be polite and answer the question.
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No, I said it. I believe I started by saying, I know you're wildly unimpressed by yourself, but what you just did, no one's ever done. And I thought that was an on-ramp to maybe invite the guy to think about it. Now, supposedly, later in the locker room, I saw Malone said that he was busting Westbrook's balls, like, you never got a 30-20-20 game? Like, he didn't know. Yeah.
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And the thing I wished I did, if I was a real J journalist, what I would have done is I would have asked him this question. What would you have to do for you to right now say, holy shit, I played quite a game? Like, I don't know the answer to that because I don't I don't know that it's possible that he could do something where he would be like, yeah, that was pretty good. It's an impossible task.
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So you go into it knowing that. And I tried to open the door. He just didn't walk through it.
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I have talked to LeBron very few times, but when he came on after they beat the Clippers, I got a bunch of notes from people, just industry people, sports people. They're like, it's clear that you guys have this respect. There's a way that an interview subject can show kind of an appreciation.
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If they just refer to you by name because they know who you are, and then they give you a depth of an answer that's more than just like, The sort of obvious, yeah, we played great, you know, blob on to the next one. And LeBron's always been really gracious in that way. We haven't done it a lot, but I got from his camp to me, like just an appreciation for how I do my job.
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And there's kind of this goofy thing that goes back to the chair that I always bring up because we did a commercial a hundred years ago. So I'd say him. I appreciate the times that we talk where I think he gives you more than just the garden variety. Guys like Jeter, Tiger, LeBron, people that you've known for 20 years, they've been interviewed a billion times.
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So when they seem like they're invested and actually present in a way that they're, I don't want to say into it, but that it isn't a chore, that's the best you can hope for if you're me. So that's a long-winded answer, but I feel like LeBron's always been really cool in that way.
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Uh, I can't think of a, I can't think of anyone that wept. I know one time we talked, we talked to Dabo Sweeney after they won the title and we weren't on the air, but we were, it was like in a commercial break, like before we come on with you and you're like, all right, here we go. And I saw him kind of put his head down and sort of shake his head. He was sitting by himself.
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And I said, and I saw him and I said, it just hits you, didn't it? And he looked up. And he shook his head. He goes, man, he goes, I said, yeah, you just beat Alabama. You're the national champs. And he wasn't in tears, but I saw a guy in real time feel that thing like, holy shit, we did it. And that was really cool.
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Well, look, it's guys standing on a corner in Winslow, Arizona. I don't know what I'm doing right now. That was pretty good. No, that was good. No, but what I love, you guys show him respect and love, which is cool. And the coolest thing about Boom is that he's a legend, but he appreciates people still caring. You know what I'm saying? It's like...
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You're Chris Berman, and you're always going to be Chris Berman. I don't know. But I love how much respect you show that guy.
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I love how honest and vulnerable he is. You know, he he's talked openly with me about imposter syndrome, which imagine that you're the son of you're the son of that guy and you're the brother of the other guy. It's a lot. And he had this imposter syndrome. But now he's shared how his egos, you know, it's hard to fight. And he's talked about being an a-hole like I love all of that.
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But you also just have to be honest about the parts that you don't love. And if he's going to act like that. and you're a UConn fan, then you've got to just say, well, yeah, that could be better. Two things can be true at once. You can love the vulnerability. You can love that edge. And you can also say that there's times that that goes too far, and you should correct that.
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There's an out-of-bounds, and if you step on it, then you're out-of-bounds. And if somebody says you're out-of-bounds, they're not being an asshole for saying you're out-of-bounds. So I'm with you. I used to be real anti-Hurley. When he was at Rhodey, I'm like, this guy's out of his mind. He should... Take a hike.
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And then he evolved and became, I think, a better guy, an incredible coach, a thoughtful guy. And this year was a lot for him. So I don't know. I mean, I think he's on a journey and he's just sharing it. I appreciate the vulnerability more than any of it.
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Agreed. And can't we at least me, I can relate way more to that guy because I know people like that. Right. You know, I have friends like that. I love them. But then there's times but there's times that you just got to have somebody in your life that can sit you down and go, shut the fuck up. Right. I don't mean him. I mean, I mean, me or my friend. You're like, enough, enough.
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And, you know, whoever that person is with him, I'm sure, you know. He'll find him.
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Couldn't agree. You were asking about that earlier, like when you interview somebody, like if somebody would just give you something that's true and honest and real, then that's all you can ask for.
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Hello, friends. I was worried about this. Like, this is way out of character for us. Does this mean that postmasters, when my house may or may not be on fire, am I allowed back in? Is that too close a revisit?
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like that he's actually mad at you he's mad at you i know i know that was bad there's a little hanging fruit i took it asshole move that was my danny hurley moment sometimes i cross the line i've learned from it i'm gonna move on you're not you're not wrong i mean you're not wrong it's the first time in a long time so i'm happy to come on anytime and if it's postmasters uh i mean i i always just pencil it in mentally
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I have absolutely no idea.
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My phone?
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I don't know. I always just had a sticker, and I was allowed to have one on the low low. So I don't know. Are you allowed to have them?
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It would be shocking because that would be such a 180, but who told you this? Someone named Beef?
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Oh, Beef. Your guy, Beef. Yeah, yeah. It's our guy, Beef. I mean, Beef knows stuff, so it could be.
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Beef is a gem. Hey, I got one for you. I'm thinking. I'm thinking. I got a name. He's not, like, way off the grid, but no one's going to say Sepp Straka. Sepp Straka, Georgia Bulldog. I like that. Take a nibble on Sepp. Okay. All right, I'm in.
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Yeah, that's Beef. I saw that video. That's Beef. And Beef's from somewhere in the south, clearly.
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So, yeah, he's a club pro. That's a very southern play, hat off, handshake. Yeah.
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Yeah. So, on balance, beef, good on the hat, takeoff, very polite, bad on the info regarding Masters technology.
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OK, confidence level is five because you it's I always say be optimistic because it costs the same. I'm also realistic. So five. I don't think they haven't gotten crushed all year. I don't think they'll get crushed, but it's going to take a great game to beat a great team. The problem with when will I tell my family to leave me alone? My wife is a gator and my children are in the crossfire.
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And at some point in the day, Big Cat, what I'll make them do is I'll make them make a life choice. You're either riding with me or you're riding with mom.
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You know, at night. Choices have consequences, kids. Choices have consequences. Think about it.
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No, it's funny. Our kids are all mortified. I think they're taking it very seriously. Like, this is like, I either have to ride with mom or ride with dad. They had Golden on last week. I asked him, he gave an incredible answer. I'm like, what am I supposed to tell the kids?
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And he's like, you tell the kids you're here to be a great dad and you support mom and you're thrilled to see the Gators do so well. He gave an amazing answer. It was wrong. Again, the right answer is you better buckle up and ride with that here. But no, I don't. I wish it were later. I got to go, and I know you do too.
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But are you the guy like me where I just want to kick the can down the road as far as possible? I wish the game started at 10 so I had more time for it not to be happening. Yes. Because the longer in the future it is, the better. Is that weird?
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Right, and the fact that this was a Sunday game and then it's like they're playing on Thursday. I'm like, what is this? I want another day of the... Because the end is coming. Even if you win it all, the end is coming. So the longer into the future something is... For some reason, I think I find it's better. I think we agree, but I don't understand what that's... There's some psychology of that.
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I don't know what it is. I'm just odd, I'm sure.
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Stress-free. stress-free, and it's somebody else's, like, honestly, and this is true, like, watching Wisconsin, and of course, it's not just you, Big Cat, it's Andy North, who's like a, you know, like a family member, and I'm in agony watching that end, because I'm like, that sucks, and, but I'm like, well, at least we don't have to deal with that for another day because we were the next day.
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You know what I mean? That's really what it comes down to.
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And the way the world works, it'll be – but Gardo, I was just giving Gardo credit for reinventing the team. They played a very fun style, and they got a bunch of dudes that changed the team in one year. So they can do it again, but it'll be a brand-new team. That's just – that's the world we live in now. Like, there's no – very rare to have four-year guys. So if you get some, you enjoy them, so –
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All right, Scott. We'll root for the Terps. We'll hope the kids make good choices, and we hope the family isn't just horribly, irreparably fractured after Thursday night.
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Yeah, do that. Happier than anything in the whole world.
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All right, fellas, I appreciate you.
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63.
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Scott Van Pelt Live From Augusta, Rory Wins An Incredible Masters, NBA Playoffs Set, Who's Back And Monday Reading
Perfectly said. Did you feel like you were going to vomit? I did.
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Well, look, you said it correctly. I mean, it was a roller coaster, as he described it. And the thing that was nuts, and you try to put it in context, like for SportsCenter, our highlight, like our first pass at the highlight was 11 and a half minutes long. And that's to tell the story... like I think accurately and, and thoroughly right. Where it's the DeChambeau Rory bit.
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And like, by the time it's over, like you forget that even happened. Right. DeChambeau is just kind of out there. And it started with like, he throws up on himself in the first hole and he's behind after the second hole. And you're like, this is nuts. He's going to lose to this guy again. He's going to have to walk with him for five hours. This is going to be brutal.
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But then immediately he's back ahead and you're like, okay, here we go. But it just, it almost felt like with Rory for him to do it, that it was going to have to be this excruciating exercise where he would hit, like, the shot on 15, which is like the Sam Cassell meme, right? I mean, big, brave bowls, and he swoops it around. But then you've got to make that putt for eagle.
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Like, Tiger makes that putt for eagle 100 times out of 100. Mm-hmm. Yeah, he doesn't. He just doesn't. And then you're like, wait, Rose is. Oh, shit. Rose has a birdie. Oh, my God. They're tied again. And now he hits the shot on 17, which is incredible. No one ever hits it close on 17 when they have to make birdie to take the lead. He does.
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Then he hits a perfect drive, and then that wedge on 18 is just, you can't do that. And he does, and then there's that putt, and you just, I didn't think he'd make it, and he didn't. And at that point, I'm thinking, this poor guy is going to have to live with this, and he's going to become Greg Norman.
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And someday he's going to be 50-something years old, and he won't be here, and we're going to wonder how that happened. But then he hits the wedge in the playoff that's a forever shot. It's a shot of a lifetime.
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I think what he was feeling, Patrick, was relief. I'm sorry.
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I've been waiting for weeks to say that. He said it. It was almost all relief. And the thing that Andy North described to me that I find amazing, but I guess I get it, is that when you do it, And Andy didn't win the Grand Slam, obviously, but he won a couple of majors. And he's like, you feel so much more relief than joy.
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And when you saw him fall to his knees, and you saw him walking, it looked like he was... I've seen that look before, but it was... PFT, it was you handing me mushrooms in the wind. He's just like... And you're thinking, man...
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i just can't imagine what he's trying to process in real time and he admitted that this was a burden this was a lot he was carrying this around for more than for 14 years and everyone's asking what are you going to do and every year he's got to come put on a brave face and say well i feel like i'm ready and then You know, it looks like it's his time. And then all of a sudden it's not.
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And then it is. And then it's not. And so, you know, I'm waiting to see if I can if I hear from Marty Smith, who's going to do the Sunday conversation with him tonight to get any insight. Like, you know, is there any sort of home run soundbite that he gave Marty? Because they have got a great relationship. But I just I thought that it was so obvious.
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that sure, there's joy in there and they're going to get to it. But clearly, it was like, just thank God I did it. Because if he didn't today, then it would have reasonably been like, it's just not meant to be.
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Oh, I mean, I said it on SportsCenter, like you're in a group with people that are in black and white pictures that are gone from this earth. Not forgotten, obviously, because the club is small. And it was really like one of the really cool things about this week is the people you cross paths with. And I actually got to spend some time Saturday night with Roger Federer.
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who is just couldn't be, he's couldn't be a greater guy. And I, I asked him and I said, this is really wild to me. Like when you won in 2009, uh, to beat, to win the French Open, to win the Grand Slam. It was the sixth guy, just like Rory. And Nadal had been beaten. That's the guy no one could beat. And he got beaten by some guy named Robin Soderling.
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All due respect to Robin, could be an AWL, I don't know. I just don't know a lot about him. But that's the time where you have to do this or it's not going to happen. And Fed said, yeah, man. I call him Fed. We're like that. Yeah. He's like, yeah, he's like, but you just have to remind yourself that this is what you do. This is I've done this and just trust.
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I was like, yeah, but how do you sleep that night? He's like, not well, you know, it's a lot. And Rory admitted he was nervous as hell this morning. And so to join this club, you're not just like when CBS put the graphic up, I'm like, oh, yeah, right. It did. It doesn't say to win the Masters. It says to win the career Grand Slam. And he knows that.
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And that's why I think that's why he didn't hit the hole the first time, because the weight of that is just so immense.
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No, I mean, he did the thing and he didn't say this, but but Andy did. Andy said, I think actually he did say he said he said it almost was like a jolt that woke me up and All of a sudden, the weird thing about golf, I think we might have talked about this through the years, is that for whatever reason, leading is just not what anyone wants to do. It's almost like NASCAR.
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You'd rather draft off whoever until the last turn and then take the lead when it's over because it's a lot to carry the lead. And the thing about the, the, the sleep that I get, I'm sure it wasn't easy, but the bigger issue is that it's such a long wait. You don't go off until two 30 in the afternoon. It's like, what do you do all day? You got a little, you got a young daughter. She's up early.
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I'm sure like you're, you get up, do what? Hang out. Like, Wait. You could have breakfast, take a nap, work out, have lunch, and you still have two hours until you play. And all you can do is think about the end and what happens at the end and how do you get to that. And it takes all day to get there. And all you're doing is thinking. And so him falling behind after the second hole –
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you immediately saw what happens. He birdies three DeChambeau bogeys. He birdies four DeChambeau bogeys. And then you're like, okay, cool. He's got a little bit of a gap here. And then he birdies nine and 10 and you're like, we're off to the races. No, it was just never going to be easy. So, um, I mean, but I don't know. The days here tend to always be memorable.
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But, like, the back and forth and the playoff and the fact that it's Rose, I mean, the whole thing is just an incredible, incredible day of drama here. And I don't know. I'm still trying to make sense of it all.
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Um, he just, the card was a disaster. There's just squares, circles, like it doesn't look like it does not look like a winning scorecard.
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It, I did because it felt like it was that distance and like the shadows show you every little bump and imperfection in these grains, which are basically perfect. And I'm sure that it must have looked a mile long. And the reason I thought that. is because, not because I didn't think he was capable, it's just the weight of what it was. And he admitted it.
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And then you saw it with how he reacted after the fact. I mean, it was just this boulder on his back. And so, and that putt, like, as we're looking at it, and again, it's fun to watch with Andy because he's like, this is actually, it's an easier bunker shot because it's on an upslope. And like, this is, you get this up and down seven or eight out of 10 times for sure. Like he should be close.
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And then as it's, as it runs out of steam, we both look at each other and are like, Oh, this is in that range where, I mean, a normal human would poop their pants, but like full on poop pants. But I, you know, he didn't, he didn't poop his pants, but he didn't hit the hole much either. And you're like, Oh my God.
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But to his credit, you know, he said his cat, he just said to him going back to the T, um, You'd have taken this on Monday. If I told you Monday, we'd be going back to the playoff on Sunday. And by the way, that's somebody that you want, and that's Foxhole guy right there. Right.
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Yeah. Big-time Foxhole guy there would be like, hey, we'd have taken the – As opposed to, hey, Bozo, we should be putting a jacket on right now. And you should be in the Butler cabin with Jim and Scotty and Chairman Ridley. Instead of that, like you give him an attaboy and say, look, we're good. And then he was. Yeah. So, I mean, in the end, I suppose in some ways it just makes it more dramatic.
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Maybe it makes it more dramatic. fulfilling, cathartic, I don't know. But he was an all-time player forever. But again, you join pictures, it's guys that aren't alive anymore in black and white pictures, Jack, Tiger, and me. Like, that's the club.
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Hold on. Let me get it. Is that it? Yeah, there we go.
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There you go. W for Wisconsin. Yeah, it's a shot of a lifetime. But again, for it to be like the shot we talk about forever, you got to make the eagle and then you don't go to a playoff. And then that's the shot we put on video and roll forever. Instead, it'll be him on his knees just sobbing. But... I thought he hit it too far left, but all that did, and again, Andy just gives such great context.
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He said, when you're hitting a hook, it actually puts you in a position to, as he described, you're going to release the club because you're, I can't technically describe it, but he just said that it benefited him to be hitting a hook. And as soon as he hit it, he's walking after it like he did yesterday. Right.
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And when Rory starts bouncing and the shoulders start bouncing down the fairway, that's when you know, like, oh, shit, here we go. And, I mean, when he stuffs it in there like that, make the putt and it's curtains. It wasn't. But then the shot on 17 was just as good. Yeah. But then on 18. This is the roller coaster and, you know, it's sort of what he does.
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And as bad as the wedge on 18 was in regulation – The wedge in the playoff was, you know, right up on the little slope there, pulls it back. And, you know, if Rose makes the putt, do you think he makes the second one? I don't know. I don't think so.
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And it's kind of, PT, the distance that... They can't even deliver the line without laughing. That's how you know you're a dumbass, when you laugh at your own stupid joke. No, it's good. It's good.
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That was going to be my last one, but I'm punting on the bit. I'm punting on the bit. You're 100% right, because it was like the distance at Pinehurst, and it's different, because the last one on Pinehurst was downhill, and it breaks left to right for a right-hander. That's the worst putt, because you just... But it was in that distance where it was uncomfortable.
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And like the Rose putt is the perfect length because you've got to hit it. And the birdie putt he made, I'm talking in regulation, like you've got to hit it. And he let it go. And by the way, he knew it was in. He had his hat off early and looked. That was a confident look from Rose. And he's an awesome guy who at 44 lost in a playoff twice here.
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And if he would have won, it would have been an incredible story. But there wasn't one human rooting for him because everyone here just wanted to see – except the haters. Yep. Did you have a Rose future? No, we didn't.
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I think everyone's just like, oh, we get to stay and we get to watch more. And I think there's something to... It'll be cool to see a playoff because you just take what's the drama of the day and you add another layer we didn't know we were going to get. So that I'll give you.
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But every time, and CBS did an awesome job showing it, every time they would post on the leaderboard the score and you saw Rory double 13 and everyone's like... You saw, like, Surrender Cobra, hands on head, like, oh, no. And then when they post the birdie on 17, everyone goes nuts because they know he's coming to this hole, and we get to welcome him home, and it's going to be great.
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And then he puts it in the bunker, and then they're like, you've got to be kidding me, right? I mean, so the back and forth was – like, the drama builds, but – There was a lot of Rory, Rory, Rory chants, and they were wanting to see it. And then in the end, they did. And again, I think it's not just somebody wins the Masters every year.
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No one's won the Grand Slam since Tiger, and that's been a long time. All stacked on top of another, and who it was, and because he'd been through all these things. This is the guy that more people than not on the grounds were absolutely behind.
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100%. And I mean, I'm sure that he would say, well, I mean, I won at Pebble and I won the players this year already. I won the players before. But the counter to that is, cool, you've got more money than you need anyway. And those tournaments ultimately in the grand scheme don't matter. And we count majors among the very best.
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And so what... while the wins before were great, this is, this is the damn burst that now frees them up to be truly like, fuck it. I'm going to go do like, I mean, think about it in a way where now no one can say anything to you. And someone says, Hey, Roy, shut your mouth. You're coming off stupid. I just won the Masters, and I'm good. House money? No, he's got a ton of runway in front of him.
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He could stack three or four more of these. Quail Holloway's won four times, which is where they go next. So I think we tend to have this recency bias where whoever wins, we say, they might win a few more. But in Rory's case, unburdened from this... He could just let it rip forever. He's got nothing. What's the Joker line in The Dark Knight? You have nothing to threaten me with.
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I do think there's something to that. It'd be like if someone had a lead in a Super Bowl and then they blew it, but then they won it in overtime. It'd be like, it's almost like you won it twice. You know what I mean? Right. And then with Roy, it almost feels like you won it three times. I know. It's just like he had it, then he blew it, then he takes the lead on 15, then he's... Makes it on 17.
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It's almost like four times, whatever it is. All he needed was one. He did it. And I don't know. I'm happy for him. I get the haters.
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And he said I was one of his favorites. I said, who do you like more? And he's like, Big Cat and PFT. I'm like, all right, go third.
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Yeah, he's the – McDermott? Yeah, he's a friend of mine.
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He's a fantastic guy. He's very, very understated. And I know that he enjoyed himself. And it was a cool weekend for him.
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Oh. There was no interview. I just know him.
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It's actually kind of a fascinating concept. The story goes back, ironically enough, about the guy Jeff Knox that was the marker. before the current guy that does it. And I, I believe that Google check fact, check me on this. Cause I believe that he played with Rory one year and the story went that they were like, all right, let's play it and see how it goes. And he beat Rory. Yeah.
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And, and, but the, the markers there to just be like, look, I'm here to keep pace. If you want me to put out, I will. If you don't, I won't like whatever. I'm just here so that you, and it's actually Augusta national thinks of everything and they don't want the player to be in a gigantic rush or feel compelled to have to hurry, take your time.
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And so that's the, the job of the marker who obviously is also a really good player. Um, But again, the story goes that like Knox and Rory played and I think he beat him. Yeah. And so, you know, worked out OK for Rory because I don't think I don't think the marker never won the Masters. And today Rory did. But yeah, yeah, I know he's he's an awesome dude. Awesome, awesome guy. He.
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Scott Van Pelt Live From Augusta, Rory Wins An Incredible Masters, NBA Playoffs Set, Who's Back And Monday Reading
I don't, I'm not sure what happened there. I think that there was a, he thought he had cover. And then there was applause at the conclusion. And I mean, I, I don't know, but I would guess that maybe you just say, hey, just so you know, there's actually – there's a bathroom there on 13 right behind that tee. Yeah. So maybe next time, maybe try that. Yeah.
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Scott Van Pelt Live From Augusta, Rory Wins An Incredible Masters, NBA Playoffs Set, Who's Back And Monday Reading
That's a new – like a lot of – Last couple of years, the cool clubs started doing the hats with the big, whatever the word is, big word for your club. But the new thing is the upside down hats. I'm old and I'm out of it. I don't know what the trends are, but apparently that's the new one. It's a Jeep thing. You wouldn't understand.
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Scott Van Pelt Live From Augusta, Rory Wins An Incredible Masters, NBA Playoffs Set, Who's Back And Monday Reading
I think this is the thing about Scott. And I did a bad job today because I thought when DeChambeau hit it in the water on 11, I'm like, oh, we're done here. I lost track of Oberg and Rose and didn't even realize that they were had a chance to do what they did, and all of a sudden here they came. Scheffler felt like he didn't play great, right? Fourth. Right. Like, that's how good that guy is.
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Scott Van Pelt Live From Augusta, Rory Wins An Incredible Masters, NBA Playoffs Set, Who's Back And Monday Reading
Didn't really feel like – it felt a little bit off – Still finished fourth. Revenge tour. I mean, Scottie's good. I don't think he's not the sort of dude that's wired for revenge, but probably will win a bunch of tournaments between now and the end of the year for sure.
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Scott Van Pelt Live From Augusta, Rory Wins An Incredible Masters, NBA Playoffs Set, Who's Back And Monday Reading
But I think like the guy that doesn't win, you just want to get the hell out of the way and let whoever has his moment, particularly when it's Rory, like have the moment to himself.
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Scott Van Pelt Live From Augusta, Rory Wins An Incredible Masters, NBA Playoffs Set, Who's Back And Monday Reading
you can't do it. Can't miss like that. Like I hated the layup. And the re the reason I hated the layup, even though he executed the layup, obviously perfect until he hit it in the water is that like, there's, there's a saying that I've heard coaches. And I always go back to Gary Williams at Maryland.
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Scott Van Pelt Live From Augusta, Rory Wins An Incredible Masters, NBA Playoffs Set, Who's Back And Monday Reading
And he said, like, if you play a certain way to build a lead and then you play completely different to protect the lead, you end up often giving up your lead because you played a certain way. There's a certain level of aggression. Rory hit a really nice drive on 13, and I get it.
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Scott Van Pelt Live From Augusta, Rory Wins An Incredible Masters, NBA Playoffs Set, Who's Back And Monday Reading
You don't want to bring a big number into play with a second shot to try to get to the green, but he could have gotten to the green. And obviously, in retrospect, if you know you're going to hit it in the water, you would have tried to go for the green in two anyway. But the wedge game has always been Rory's weakest part of his game. You saw it on 18 in regulation. And he had 82 yards.
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Scott Van Pelt Live From Augusta, Rory Wins An Incredible Masters, NBA Playoffs Set, Who's Back And Monday Reading
Like, that's a pitching putt swing for anyone. And he managed to let it leak right and make the one mistake he couldn't make. But, I mean, it didn't kill him in the end. I mean, he made four doubles. That's the most anyone's ever made to win the Masters. But that swing, the swing on 18 in regulation, those are the moments that you're like, I can't believe he's going to do this again.
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Scott Van Pelt Live From Augusta, Rory Wins An Incredible Masters, NBA Playoffs Set, Who's Back And Monday Reading
But then he goes in the bag and pulls out magic time and time again.
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Scott Van Pelt Live From Augusta, Rory Wins An Incredible Masters, NBA Playoffs Set, Who's Back And Monday Reading
You went piss dogs? I went piss dogs.
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Scott Van Pelt Live From Augusta, Rory Wins An Incredible Masters, NBA Playoffs Set, Who's Back And Monday Reading
I'm just genuinely curious. You guys know I've told you this. I said it with Russillo this week. This is my favorite week of the year. I love it. Being here for a million reasons. This weekend was incredible. The weather's perfect. The people here are awesome. The story today was awesome. Do you guys... Today was great, but is this... An event you guys like?
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Scott Van Pelt Live From Augusta, Rory Wins An Incredible Masters, NBA Playoffs Set, Who's Back And Monday Reading
I mean, is it something you guys look forward to? I love Masters Week.
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Scott Van Pelt Live From Augusta, Rory Wins An Incredible Masters, NBA Playoffs Set, Who's Back And Monday Reading
Sports Draft. What's that on it? Oh, yeah.
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Scott Van Pelt Live From Augusta, Rory Wins An Incredible Masters, NBA Playoffs Set, Who's Back And Monday Reading
That's a good one. You know what everyone asked me about all week long? we got to take a walk, boys. Let's do it.
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Scott Van Pelt Live From Augusta, Rory Wins An Incredible Masters, NBA Playoffs Set, Who's Back And Monday Reading
No, no, no.
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Scott Van Pelt Live From Augusta, Rory Wins An Incredible Masters, NBA Playoffs Set, Who's Back And Monday Reading
All right, I waited. Hold on. I need to tell you where I was first because I didn't think it. I've been greeting you from the Pop Newman conference room here in Augusta. Now I'm going to stroll down and let's see it. All right. Great disappointment. Oh, no.
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Scott Van Pelt Live From Augusta, Rory Wins An Incredible Masters, NBA Playoffs Set, Who's Back And Monday Reading
Oh.
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Scott Van Pelt Live From Augusta, Rory Wins An Incredible Masters, NBA Playoffs Set, Who's Back And Monday Reading
Ruger.
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Scott Van Pelt Live From Augusta, Rory Wins An Incredible Masters, NBA Playoffs Set, Who's Back And Monday Reading
I don't even know what that is. Scott, maybe next year. Apparently it's a delicious vanilla wafer. We got the jumbo honey buns, and we got the Mrs. Freshly's donut sticks. But there's no Big Texas. But there is my guy here who – I don't want to rub it in, Scott.
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Scott Van Pelt Live From Augusta, Rory Wins An Incredible Masters, NBA Playoffs Set, Who's Back And Monday Reading
Oh, there we go.
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Scott Van Pelt Live From Augusta, Rory Wins An Incredible Masters, NBA Playoffs Set, Who's Back And Monday Reading
We got a whole box of them. We got too many of them. We'll probably throw them out.
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Scott Van Pelt Live From Augusta, Rory Wins An Incredible Masters, NBA Playoffs Set, Who's Back And Monday Reading
That is so good. How would you describe the density of that?
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Scott Van Pelt Live From Augusta, Rory Wins An Incredible Masters, NBA Playoffs Set, Who's Back And Monday Reading
It's very dense.
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Scott Van Pelt Live From Augusta, Rory Wins An Incredible Masters, NBA Playoffs Set, Who's Back And Monday Reading
Enjoy. And that's just what you – the density is what you want to put in your stomach. Look at this.
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Scott Van Pelt Live From Augusta, Rory Wins An Incredible Masters, NBA Playoffs Set, Who's Back And Monday Reading
Hey, Max, enjoy our basketball coach, buddy.
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Scott Van Pelt Live From Augusta, Rory Wins An Incredible Masters, NBA Playoffs Set, Who's Back And Monday Reading
you got buzz. No, it's fine. I, I, again, we're, we're, we're good. I, I'm, I'm sure.
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Scott Van Pelt Live From Augusta, Rory Wins An Incredible Masters, NBA Playoffs Set, Who's Back And Monday Reading
So do we. Oh, I love it.
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Scott Van Pelt Live From Augusta, Rory Wins An Incredible Masters, NBA Playoffs Set, Who's Back And Monday Reading
Because that's hurtful. No, I want him here. The people want him here. I'm going to build a groundswell to have him here. This is not real.
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Scott Van Pelt Live From Augusta, Rory Wins An Incredible Masters, NBA Playoffs Set, Who's Back And Monday Reading
Why are you trying to drive away? He asked me. He literally texted me. I missed him. I missed him.
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Scott Van Pelt Live From Augusta, Rory Wins An Incredible Masters, NBA Playoffs Set, Who's Back And Monday Reading
he's my favorite human and uh i want him to come here because he's he's become like mr golf when we go to quail hollow next month we're going to be wandering fairways he's going to have a sweat towel cooking and he should be here he would love it he would love everything about this week steve would do some damage on the barbecue sandwiches and two dollar like yeah he would yeah absolute carnage and there's
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Scott Van Pelt Live From Augusta, Rory Wins An Incredible Masters, NBA Playoffs Set, Who's Back And Monday Reading
I mean, yes, we have to fix that. Look, the work starts right now. The work starts today.
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Scott Van Pelt Live From Augusta, Rory Wins An Incredible Masters, NBA Playoffs Set, Who's Back And Monday Reading
What is that about? I love him. Hey, listen, he's the one that graduated to game day and like we got to. Oh, there we go. Yeah. Oh, I like this. Somebody's hanging with Coach Saban and, you know, Pat and Herbie and Reese and can't be bothered to hang out with little old me. I'm only on at midnight. You know, I'm not kicking it off at noon.
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Scott Van Pelt Live From Augusta, Rory Wins An Incredible Masters, NBA Playoffs Set, Who's Back And Monday Reading
Well, I'm going to hop on a plane and go home, and I believe Steve's on vacation, so he doesn't miss me that bad because he's not going to be there when we get back.
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Scott Van Pelt Live From Augusta, Rory Wins An Incredible Masters, NBA Playoffs Set, Who's Back And Monday Reading
Rack it. All right, that's fine. I hope he has fun. All right. Are we good?
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Scott Van Pelt Live From Augusta, Rory Wins An Incredible Masters, NBA Playoffs Set, Who's Back And Monday Reading
I want to tell you this. Thank you to you guys for having me on. You know how much I love it. And it should warm all of our hearts how many people I see out here at Augusta National who only say, I can't wait to see you on with the boys tonight. Big Texas, blah, blah, blah. So this is on the long list of traditions, like, This became one, so I look forward to it.
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Scott Van Pelt Live From Augusta, Rory Wins An Incredible Masters, NBA Playoffs Set, Who's Back And Monday Reading
Yeah.
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Scott Van Pelt Live From Augusta, Rory Wins An Incredible Masters, NBA Playoffs Set, Who's Back And Monday Reading
You should. It'd be a blast, and a lot of people coming through. No, you should come to the tournament, though. It's worth seeing. Yeah. And you can come with Steve and we can eat barbecue sandwiches. That sounds good.
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Scott Van Pelt Live From Augusta, Rory Wins An Incredible Masters, NBA Playoffs Set, Who's Back And Monday Reading
A lot of birds. Not a lot of squirrels, though. Don't see too many squirrels.
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Scott Van Pelt Live From Augusta, Rory Wins An Incredible Masters, NBA Playoffs Set, Who's Back And Monday Reading
Love you, boys. Be good until next time. Thanks, Scott.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Postgame Show: Scott Van Pelt Responds To Line Skipping Allegations (feat. SVP and JuJu Gotti)
Yeah, somebody, a politician or somebody.
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Postgame Show: Scott Van Pelt Responds To Line Skipping Allegations (feat. SVP and JuJu Gotti)
It's not that tough a word to spell.
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Postgame Show: Scott Van Pelt Responds To Line Skipping Allegations (feat. SVP and JuJu Gotti)
Okay, let's all ride those bets, I'll tell you that. All of them sound great to me. I'm on it. This is what it sounds like, Greg Cody steering the ship.
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Postgame Show: Scott Van Pelt Responds To Line Skipping Allegations (feat. SVP and JuJu Gotti)
It is an awkward transition.
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Postgame Show: Scott Van Pelt Responds To Line Skipping Allegations (feat. SVP and JuJu Gotti)
I don't know. What? I'm a professional broadcaster.
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Postgame Show: Scott Van Pelt Responds To Line Skipping Allegations (feat. SVP and JuJu Gotti)
Okay, I need a referendum on today's show. What people loved and didn't love. Because when I hear... the UFO guy introduced as the most popular guest in the history of the show. I'm going to have to doubt that a little bit.
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Postgame Show: Scott Van Pelt Responds To Line Skipping Allegations (feat. SVP and JuJu Gotti)
Yeah, most people are crackpots. What did you learn, Juju, from this guy's appearance?
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Postgame Show: Scott Van Pelt Responds To Line Skipping Allegations (feat. SVP and JuJu Gotti)
As far as I'm concerned, there are friends that we haven't met yet.
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Postgame Show: Scott Van Pelt Responds To Line Skipping Allegations (feat. SVP and JuJu Gotti)
If I see a UFO, if I see a guy with a big giant green head, I'm going to invite him out to lunch. We're going to have a relationship.
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Postgame Show: Scott Van Pelt Responds To Line Skipping Allegations (feat. SVP and JuJu Gotti)
Exactly.
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Postgame Show: Scott Van Pelt Responds To Line Skipping Allegations (feat. SVP and JuJu Gotti)
I have to know whether the Ford Tagliabue was the winning poll answer.
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Postgame Show: Scott Van Pelt Responds To Line Skipping Allegations (feat. SVP and JuJu Gotti)
All right. I betted Betty.
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Postgame Show: Scott Van Pelt Responds To Line Skipping Allegations (feat. SVP and JuJu Gotti)
I like that. I think he's like a faux formal, like Mr. Levitard. I think he might just give you a, yo.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Postgame Show: Scott Van Pelt Responds To Line Skipping Allegations (feat. SVP and JuJu Gotti)
Uh-huh. Let me tell you something, Dan. There was no line. All there was was mayhem and lawlessness and chaos for the survival of the fittest. It was kill or be killed. And did we break the line? Allegedly. I popped to all of this on the podcast that we did. We came in. Yes, we did. We came in at the door.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Postgame Show: Scott Van Pelt Responds To Line Skipping Allegations (feat. SVP and JuJu Gotti)
I know where to go. There's nowhere to go. So I'm standing there and there's no, no one's helping. No red jackets helping. And we look and we said, this isn't going to work. And I'm like, wait, is this even a line? Let's go down there and see. So we wandered down towards a different door where if you came in that door, you just blended into the line because there wasn't a line.
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Postgame Show: Scott Van Pelt Responds To Line Skipping Allegations (feat. SVP and JuJu Gotti)
So that's what we did. And if that's against the law, then I am guilty as charged.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
Michael Malone Out in Denver. Plus, Florida’s National Championship Comeback and a Masters Preview With Scott Van Pelt.
And for as much, Ryan, as we talk about the toughness, the defense, and the rebounding of Houston, Florida won that basketball game because they were tough. They guarded and they rebound. They outright, they out rebounded Houston, which I don't know how they did it. Cause the length of Houston at the rims insane. Um, so in retrospect, like Florida was that team. They really were all year.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
Michael Malone Out in Denver. Plus, Florida’s National Championship Comeback and a Masters Preview With Scott Van Pelt.
They, they, that's who they were. They've been as good as anyone and them winning feels like appropriate. But if you tell me they're down a dozen and, and, um, They're just, they're not going to get any points from number one. If Clayton's not going to make a basket, like, well, it's probably going to lose. And somehow, you know, they're in the Riverwalk.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
Michael Malone Out in Denver. Plus, Florida’s National Championship Comeback and a Masters Preview With Scott Van Pelt.
My wife and kids were there, by the way, which is a fun story. They rolled the dice and went. and got a picture of my little guy at 12.50 asleep on the Riverwalk. She's like, little guy left it all in the field. I'm like, what a memory, man, for life. They were in the building, but I didn't see that path being how they got there.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
Michael Malone Out in Denver. Plus, Florida’s National Championship Comeback and a Masters Preview With Scott Van Pelt.
I thought they would make a shit ton of threes and just be who they were, and that's how they'd win that. That was not the script I saw being how Florida got to have a parade.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
Michael Malone Out in Denver. Plus, Florida’s National Championship Comeback and a Masters Preview With Scott Van Pelt.
Yeah, and John notes down that his first bucket was an and one that tied. It was like eight minutes to go. His first three was in three minutes to go on the game. And this is a guy was had 30 plus in his last two games. I mean, that's just not the game script for Florida to win this. There's no chance. And they tough rebounds.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
Michael Malone Out in Denver. Plus, Florida’s National Championship Comeback and a Masters Preview With Scott Van Pelt.
And I just, again, I give him credit for just having that sort of chameleon quality. Just, I didn't think they were winning a game in the sixties against Houston. No, I just, no way I thought that would happen.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
Michael Malone Out in Denver. Plus, Florida’s National Championship Comeback and a Masters Preview With Scott Van Pelt.
Yeah, I just, the Condon, his, and I get it because Robert's got him a couple of times. And then there's like, they've got seven dudes with length that are going to challenge every shot. And I understand that after a couple come back, you're like, all right, enough of this. But truly, in a game where a bucket I understand threes, we value them more than twos. I can do the math.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
Michael Malone Out in Denver. Plus, Florida’s National Championship Comeback and a Masters Preview With Scott Van Pelt.
But a bucket and a one-point game where Houston's having a hard time scoring, let's take that. And you just saw him, no thanks, no bid on this shot that seemed like point blank. But you know what? On the other end, Ryan, Houston couldn't run anything for the last five minutes. They just looked so bogged down. And again, Florida's got a shit ton of length too.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
Michael Malone Out in Denver. Plus, Florida’s National Championship Comeback and a Masters Preview With Scott Van Pelt.
And they got four or five guys that they just, you know, run them in. So, I mean, I loved it. There was somebody at some point made about like the number of five stars on the floor, which was zero. And, you know, Florida's found guys from all over the place, some from the portal, some internationally, this and that. Famously, we know that Clayton, he was heavy at Iona and blah, blah, blah.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
Michael Malone Out in Denver. Plus, Florida’s National Championship Comeback and a Masters Preview With Scott Van Pelt.
He's turned into something different. But Houston, Roberts is a sixth-year guy, and the line from that Duke game about what Sampson said is, we trusted our grown-up against their teenager. And that wasn't being disrespectful. That's what it was. This is an adult. He's a 24-year-old man. And Cooper Flagg's the number one pick, and he's awesome.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
Michael Malone Out in Denver. Plus, Florida’s National Championship Comeback and a Masters Preview With Scott Van Pelt.
But in a gotta-have-it moment, we're like, we're going to trust this man. And it felt like it was all men out there last night. And it wasn't pretty necessarily. And again, I think you feel cheated as a fan. You just want to see the ball in the air. And I feel so bad for Sharp because he was great for them all year. He hit the biggest shot of that Duke game, I thought, down six.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
Michael Malone Out in Denver. Plus, Florida’s National Championship Comeback and a Masters Preview With Scott Van Pelt.
He had to hit a three and he had the patience to find the window to shoot it. But man, he turned it over twice in the last 30 seconds. It's like, I don't know, man. I imagine that'll stick with a young man until he's an old man.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
Michael Malone Out in Denver. Plus, Florida’s National Championship Comeback and a Masters Preview With Scott Van Pelt.
He's like in Bar Harbor. Somebody comes up to him.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
Michael Malone Out in Denver. Plus, Florida’s National Championship Comeback and a Masters Preview With Scott Van Pelt.
Yeah, man. I've talked about that through the years here about like, there's a guy, Scott Hoke, that missed a putt. And Scott Hoke had a tremendous career, won a ton, made a lot of money, but he missed like a two-foot putt to beat Nick Faldo. And the rest of his life is different if he makes it because he's a master champion for the rest of his life. And he missed it. And so he's not.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
Michael Malone Out in Denver. Plus, Florida’s National Championship Comeback and a Masters Preview With Scott Van Pelt.
And one year I was standing here and he was on the other side of the ropes with all these other folks. And it's like, if you make that putt, you're over here wearing a green jacket for the rest of your life. And I'm not trying to be dramatic, but like if Sharp takes that shot,
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
Michael Malone Out in Denver. Plus, Florida’s National Championship Comeback and a Masters Preview With Scott Van Pelt.
All right, so Chris Jenkins, he's a forever guy because he gets that incredible, Archie Diacono flips it back, ball in the air, Jay Wright, bang, title, confetti the whole bit. Like if Sharp makes that shot, you become a forever guy. And instead he gets caught in the air and I'm with you. I don't, obviously I haven't met him, don't know him.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
Michael Malone Out in Denver. Plus, Florida’s National Championship Comeback and a Masters Preview With Scott Van Pelt.
but I just, you see the guy just crouched down and I can't fathom what you're trying to process in that moment. And so like, I don't know what flag did wrong. He just took a shot. They ran an ISO and, and, and Roberts challenged him, made him shoot it shorter than he wanted to. I don't feel like he did anything drastically wrong in the end. I mean, Proctor missed a free throw.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
Michael Malone Out in Denver. Plus, Florida’s National Championship Comeback and a Masters Preview With Scott Van Pelt.
They couldn't get the ball in bounds. There was a call, which I get that people don't love it. My point on that, And I'm curious where you land with this. If you stop the world from spinning at that moment and you let Duke analytically look at this moment and say, all right, that was probably a shitty call. Yeah. But you can send a 62% free throw shooter to the line for one and one.
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Michael Malone Out in Denver. Plus, Florida’s National Championship Comeback and a Masters Preview With Scott Van Pelt.
Or Cryer has the ball in his hands and Houston can run clock and shoot a shot to beat you and you'll never touch it again. Which would you prefer? And if I'm Duke, I'm saying, let the guy go to the line. You think he's making two? I don't. And he did. Okay. Even with that, we got 19 seconds and we got the ball. Give it to the number one pick. I'll take my chances with that.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
Michael Malone Out in Denver. Plus, Florida’s National Championship Comeback and a Masters Preview With Scott Van Pelt.
You know, does that make sense? Like the way people turn it into that decided the game. I'm like, no, it didn't. Robert's making two free throws, playing great defense, challenging and And Cryer making two free throws. And then them, I saw you tweet it, decided to throw a football pass or whatever that was. That decided the game. I don't want to hear that it was the call.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
Michael Malone Out in Denver. Plus, Florida’s National Championship Comeback and a Masters Preview With Scott Van Pelt.
It was a bad call, but that's not why they lost. They still had an opportunity to win it. That's just how I saw that last chunk of time.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
Michael Malone Out in Denver. Plus, Florida’s National Championship Comeback and a Masters Preview With Scott Van Pelt.
When he made that first one, you saw him. Like, he was like... I was like, okay, like, he... It's the old Shaq line. I make them, I make them when they matter. Or like it, you just, after he made the first, I'm like, damn, he's going to make them both. And he did. And then, but then you still have to stop Duke.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
Michael Malone Out in Denver. Plus, Florida’s National Championship Comeback and a Masters Preview With Scott Van Pelt.
And it's, they kind of reverted to a couple of plays early in the year when they lost, they didn't lose much, but when they lost, it was sort of ended up in flags hands and you're asking them to make something happen in a moment. And then it becomes, well, they didn't have any close games and they mostly didn't. Or you're on the floor with a team full of adults that just don't blink much either.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
Michael Malone Out in Denver. Plus, Florida’s National Championship Comeback and a Masters Preview With Scott Van Pelt.
And you missed a shot, you know, and then it becomes, that's what your legacy is forever. Duke was awesome. Flag's awesome. They lost just part of that happens, man.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
Michael Malone Out in Denver. Plus, Florida’s National Championship Comeback and a Masters Preview With Scott Van Pelt.
because you obviously consume and know so much about the league. What guy on the floor last night does the league look at and go, him? It's like a stock you could buy in the NBA. I get that we don't see stars. I think Houck is pretty compelling given the way the league plays and what he can do.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
Michael Malone Out in Denver. Plus, Florida’s National Championship Comeback and a Masters Preview With Scott Van Pelt.
Like off the wrong foot, that one, the one where it looked like that, not that one.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
Michael Malone Out in Denver. Plus, Florida’s National Championship Comeback and a Masters Preview With Scott Van Pelt.
I hear you. I just, I think, I don't know. Anytime there's a smallish guard that I kind of have to squint to see what, what other people see, or I don't see it at all. Like I, I feel like, well, I didn't know Brunson was going to be this either.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
Michael Malone Out in Denver. Plus, Florida’s National Championship Comeback and a Masters Preview With Scott Van Pelt.
And I don't, I don't think anybody did, but then to, to just compare them to a guy that becomes a true all-star and a, and a face of a franchise in New York city, that's a big stretch too. I just, I just like watching the game. I thought I love college basketball and, And I love this final four because these teams felt worthy.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
Michael Malone Out in Denver. Plus, Florida’s National Championship Comeback and a Masters Preview With Scott Van Pelt.
And then the games kind of lived up to it, but I don't, it doesn't trouble me if these guys don't translate to the next level because they're that sometimes those can be different things. Often they're different things, but I, I don't know.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
Michael Malone Out in Denver. Plus, Florida’s National Championship Comeback and a Masters Preview With Scott Van Pelt.
I just was curious what you thought, like the, the how kids a fun story just because I happened and he was on my radar several years ago, just because he was this guy that Northwestern was looking at. And then he visited marital visited Maryland and, And they thought maybe they were going to get him. But then he had this affinity for Florida and they called. That was the end of that.
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Michael Malone Out in Denver. Plus, Florida’s National Championship Comeback and a Masters Preview With Scott Van Pelt.
But I didn't... Look, two years ago, I don't think Golden knew he was going to become a guy that had... the ability to really floor it, get to the rim and score, obviously shoot threes, but then play defense and challenge. I mean, he had some big time block that turned into an and one when the game really started to swing. I don't know.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
Michael Malone Out in Denver. Plus, Florida’s National Championship Comeback and a Masters Preview With Scott Van Pelt.
I just, he looks like, I think he's a guy like if he were, like I said, if we're stocks, you'd say you'd want as much of that as you could get from the guys out there yesterday.
The Ryen Russillo Podcast
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the composure to go you know what i i like this look sprint out to the three-point line turn around hits the three and it's game that's the key it was it was it wasn't just the stones it was just how casual and like assured he was that this was the play to make at that moment so
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I think there's certain people through the years when you'd come here, obviously Tiger was the one that most people would identify and go, of course. And Scheffler's joined that group where it really is irrelevant. if you've played well or not. Mostly he plays pretty well. And for him, when he doesn't win, I almost wonder now if he's reached that place.
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Kepka's lived in this place his whole career where it's like, yeah, if I win, cool. But there's four a year that I'm really kind of ginned up to try to win. And Sheffield played pretty well recently in Texas where he was right there in the mix early and then didn't win. But I don't think he cares. It's just, let's knock the rust off whatever's not quite right.
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Because when he comes here, he knows what it is to win. He knows what it feels like to win. And so I just will, as long as he's playing, I'm going to have him on that list of people that when he's on the first page on Sunday, you just go, well, right. Why wouldn't he be? You know what I mean? He does everything this place asks you to do. And knowing how, knowing...
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that you've done it is just got so much weight here. Um, and because you come back every year, unlike the other majors. So I think form for him coming in truly doesn't matter at all.
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Of course. Tiger was singular, right? And at some point, you know, he'll be... 53 coming off. God knows what other surgery. Unfortunately, he's just had so many of them that at some point we'll finally just go, you know what? It was a hell of a run. We're not going to use him as the yardstick. Um, cause it's unfair to him and everyone else.
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What, what's different about Scheffler is that he's just this incredibly, um, he's so content with who he is and doesn't give a shit about the, any of the rest and truly doesn't. A not had, had lunch with television, Steve Sands, uh, dear friend and Justin Thomas during the rain out yesterday. And we just started talking about him.
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And I think Justin looks at a guy that's appear and just was sharing how there's a certain, um, it's, I think people marvel at someone that can wake up every day and do the same thing. Even after you got great at it, like it takes a discipline to just, I'm just going to go hit balls. I'm not going to change what I do because what I do is really good. Tiger changed it a million different times.
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And I would always wonder, dude, why do you mess around? All you got to do is wake up and do what you do, right? Sheffield does that. And what he does is he drives it great. He hits his irons close. He makes putts. When he misses greens, he gets up and down. He knows how to win. And when he's close, he does. And that sounds really simple, but it's really fucking hard to do in this sport.
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And he checks every box and he wakes up the next day and he does it again. And this is a sport where everybody's always chasing. If you're top 20, you're trying to catch the 19 guys in front of you. And then if you get to top 10, you're trying to catch the nine guys.
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And sometimes you can open the door and let everybody else catch you because you stopped doing the thing that made you top 10, if that makes sense. I think Scheffler just has the genius of that guy is he does what he has always done. And I think he'll continue to always do it. I don't think he's going to wake up someday and want to be some new version of himself.
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And there's a lot of that's just there's a secret in that I think applies to anybody that's good at what they do in life.
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I picked him. Every year, we're just asked to pick a player, which is always fun, right? Hey, who's going to win the Super Bowl? All right, I got the Chiefs and the Eagles. You want me to pick one of... I mean, and this field's smaller than the other majors, but I got to pick one out of all these singular people? It's a difficult thing to do.
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Last year, I picked Sheffler because I said, I don't want to be sitting there Sunday when he wins and go, why didn't I just pick him? And the reason I picked Rory this year, Ryan, is I just... And I don't mean it to sound like some horrible cliche, but I truly believe in life that there's a time that it's someone's time. And it feels like it's his.
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And I think it's a combination of how he has played, how his prep has worked, and just at some point, a guy as good as him flushes whatever's happened here, good, bad, or indifferent, and just goes out and plays to his ceiling. And I don't know why I think it's this week, other than what I just said, but I really, I like him. He played great last year.
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Should have won, could have won, I should say, not should have. DeChambeau was excellent at Pinehurst, but could have won Pinehurst. Missed a couple of close ones. And that was gutting. And he's had a number of close calls. It could have won, should have won at St. Andrews a couple of years ago. Had the lead. It was gutting. This guy's got scar tissue. He's a thinker, but he's open about it.
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I appreciate that there's a combination of just absolute badass and then the vulnerability of just like, fuck, this hurt, man. Like I got knocked down. but I'm going to get up and keep swinging. Um, so I don't know, rooting for Eleanor to overstate it. I just think if he won, I think a lot of people would just go right on. Good for that dude. You know what I mean?
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You finish the slam and finishing the slam. Here's the hardest one. Cause you're going to come every year and you're going to get asked every year about, and every year you don't do it. It's like you add a pebble to the scale and it gets heavier, right? Cause you're, I only got so many chances, man. So I don't know. I just have this odd sense that it's his turn and his turn, his turn in his time.
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He just needs to play well starting out. I'm sorry. I'm rambling. It's just that he he's, he's put himself out of position so often early shoot 74 on Thursday, and then you're screwed because there's too many good people between you and the lead. So for him, I feel like it's just start well, and then you give yourself a great chance to do it.
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That's always fun, right? You hit two or three good shots in a row and they're like, you're a sandbag. You're like, stick around.
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You got tour blades out there? Those things are hard to hit. There's like a sweet spot the size of a peat.
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Can I say something real quick on that note? I'm at the airport. I'm at National Airport Sunday and I'm sitting there and we got a delay and I just end up holding court with like this one guy said hello and then some other people straggled up and then it ended up, it ended up with this group of people.
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They're like five or six people and we're just talking and we weren't talking about show I do or the show you do. They were talking about the show we did and I told them the line. Remember the research group where they came back and they said about you and me our show rather that it's not the biggest church, but it's always full. Remember that line? Yeah. And that stuck with me.
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And I was like, it was, I, I, we always end up doing some version of this anytime we talk, but I think it's basically just what I'm saying is to those people in the airport and to the people that you're talking to at Pinehurst, it's just really cool that they enjoyed obviously what you're doing on your own, but what we did a long time ago, it's just, it's really, really,
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one of the treasures of this career of mine is that thing, that space that you and I had for them to still talk about it. It's like a TV show that, you know, had a limited run, but people are still fans of it. That's really, really fucking cool.
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It's the native area, I believe they called it.
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No, I know what you mean. No, it's the genius of the place is, and you've been here so you can speak to it, just it's immaculate, it's perfect, it's pristine. Everything feels almost make-believe. But the thing that I've heard going back to...
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way back when I started with players from like literally at this point, another generation and then to Tiger and then all the guys that have chased Tiger is that if you understand how to play it, it's very playable. But if you're fractionally off and if you don't know where to miss and you miss in the places where you can't miss, you're doomed.
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And so it's a process of learning what to do and how to do it. And then it's a matter of executing. Rory McIlroy arrives, as you and I talk early week, he knows exactly what he can and cannot do. The question then is, can he do it? And I think that it's the ultimate kingmaker course because you're a forever player. Like I was talking about Jenkins as a forever player in the tournament, right?
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And Sharp had a chance to maybe be one. You win here and you're a forever guy. And it's because of what it asks of you. And you can't kind of fake your way to it. And yet there have been guys that have one incredible moment. Charles Schwartzel goes bananas on the second nine. Danny Willett goes bananas on the second nine. And it's a place where those guys have...
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a two-hour window of time where they executed. They knew where to hit it. They catch the right slope on 16, and now it's close, and all of a sudden, holy crap, they string the birdies together, and they get to come back here for the rest of their life. It's that, too. It's that carrot at the end of it. Knowing that Sunday, you know... The great Wright Thompson.
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And I can only hear his words and his voice about talking about putting on a green jacket that reminds a man of who he was all those years ago. And you're like, get goosebumps, right? Like when you were the best version of yourself. And that's what this place does. So it's the course, yes. Yellowstone season eight. Huh? Yellowstone season eight. Yeah, it's along those lines.
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He's up there on the gulch, right? What'd you say? Some line about some shooter. I remember some of them.
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Anyway, that's right, Thompson, talking about the mythology of the place. So, yeah, it's the course. Yeah, it's the fact that you can, right now, if you've watched this at all, and I say, ninth hole, and you go, yeah, you got to hit it down there at the bottom of the hill, then you hit it, and then there's the, that hole's got like three different, distinct tiers.
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And if you're short, you're going to roll back down the hill and you're kind of screwed. Like you just know the holes and in ways you probably don't about other golf courses. So I don't know. Maybe I'm overstating it because I've been here so much, but I don't think so.
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I think there's probably plenty of people listening that they just nod their head and go, yep, I know what every hole out there looks like.
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I think probably Rory for the reasons that I spoke to earlier. There's plenty of guys. Justin Rose is a guy that could have slash should have won here, who's an awesome, awesome human. And I've said often that when your chance presents itself here, you better take it. Because if you don't, then you're Scott Hoke on the other side of the ropes. You're Ernie Els that had a chance.
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You're David Duvall who was sitting in the Butler cabin watching and they said, oh, don't worry, nobody ever makes this putt when Marco Mera was on 18 because they think it's going to be a playoff. Then he buries it like, sorry, we're going to need to have you go because Mark's going to come in here and put the jacket on. The chance when the window's there,
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you just have to hope that you can slip both arms in it because if you don't, you have no idea if the opportunity presents itself again. And Rory's never been that close. You know, he stood on the tee on 10 famously, and then it all went wrong. Uh, I just think in the sport for who he has been to the sport, um, to win would be, it just would feel entirely appropriate.
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And it would feel like the end of a chapter in the book that would allow him the ability to put that book up and then just work on the rest of another book, a different book that doesn't include chasing this. So that would be, that'd be my guy. I'd like to see Rory for that reason.
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I think it's probably tempo, Ryan. I think it's tempo, and then you really want to dig that left heel in. You tell me, what did you learn at Pinehurst?
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It's a fascinating sport. I'm looking at tee times, which are embargoed. So I can't, I can't, this is, this is high level. All right.
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Just like, but. We're going to Scott.
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I've been in this sport for so long that there's really no one I don't root for because it could be a player or it could be a caddy or it could be some combination of both. And there's always, you know, this is crunchy Dave from whatever. Like these guys have got stories, sleeping cars, like people to travel in circus. And it's a hard fucking sport to play well. It's so difficult. It's just you.
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And, and when I like Max Homa, who, you know, is such an interesting and thoughtful guy who I think so many people have come to know, cause he's been so open about the struggle and he got to like a great place. And now he's currently in the midst of a, of a tough stretch. And it's like, I'm rooting for the next part where it's like the light comes on again for him because it will.
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But when it's out and they're really no different than you on two in the sense that you're like, I don't know what the I'm doing or why, or why isn't, I'm the same guy that did that. And right now it's just not happening. And that fascinates me. So I root for the player over the course always because it's such a temporary thing when it's going well.
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And for those really rare people that only exist in that Scheffler space, I just, it's impossible to comprehend. And that's like you mentioned the guy in the NBA, like Bert LeBron, whatever people, if they love him, if they don't like to root for him, if they're sick of him, whatever, he's 40 years old at the level he's at. It's impossible. Makes no sense.
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People that only live in that space, in the penthouse, forever, they're the true outliers. And so this sport has the guys that go, you know, they bought the great house and then they kind of got overextended because they leased a second vehicle for no good reason. And they probably had to trade it in, got it downsized, maybe had to move into an apartment with a buddy because things got sideways.
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I root for them to buy that house again, you know?
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There was a utility vehicle, I think, and a sports car, right?
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Now we're in boats and we've got this, we've got real estate. He's a magnate and things have changed things. But there was a window there. I just, I just, cause I was, I always felt like you were living in the space because I'm a decade older where I remember coming to the place where I was like, hell yeah.
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And I think maybe when it came to the two car thing, I think maybe I was just a little jealous. I think that's what that was. I wasn't trying to big brother you. I wasn't trying to son you. I think I was just pissed because I'm like, fuck, I want another car.
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Now look at you. How's the view? How's the view where you're living now? How's the HOA doing, kid? I think things, who won this game? Rosillo did.
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And bilge management is really something I have never had to consider.
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Yeah.
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Part three is Wednesday, 2 Eastern. Then we'll see you from the Butler Cabin Thursday and Friday. I'm doing the part three this year. Homer's going to be with us. Wyndham Clark's going to be with us. A little ESPN Plus just getting things going early noon-ish East Coast. So it's actually a fun day. Part three is a cool deal. Gives you a little shot at the...
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adrenaline of what's coming but it's also like you know it's a wild deal where everybody just sort of enjoys it and it's then you get going i don't know it's it you don't do this anywhere else you know what i mean like have this kind of fun uber relaxed day in advance of the first of the most important rounds of the year so always enjoy wednesday's my favorite day so i look forward to that and this but i look forward to this i'm psyched that we could catch up and uh always happy to do it
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Yeah, we're going to bang that. I'm going to knock that out right now. I think I used all the good stuff. That's fine.
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Well, we normally on Mondays just sort of, you know, post whatever went on on the weekend. We normally do that. And then during college football, we were doing those late night wins. And then you and McShay came put together a great one, too. I just think that's a fun time to be on.
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It's better for you on the West Coast if you're on the West Coast because you don't have to do it at 2.30 in the morning waiting for BYU-Iowa State to finish football. We had a BYU-Utah one that was a little later than some. But no, typically it's Monday.
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It was on the list. We're thinking about it. Thinking about it.
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You're way more successful and accomplished in the podcast space, so I defer to whatever you think makes sense. Yeah, well, table that.
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I'm good. I'm psyched to talk to you. It's been too long. This week, as you know, is the work week that I look forward to the most. It was lousy Monday, rain kind of rained out and sun's out. It's supposed to be awesome this week and, you know, fun time of year. So I'm in a good space. You're catching me in a really good headspace right now.
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And I think that's because we've seen it. Like if it's really good, we'll be, we'll tell you it's really good, but then you'll, people will be like, ah, this is something. And you see it and you're like, it was good. But, but then this place, And I try to explain it like it will exceed your expectations in a way really nothing else does in the sports space that I've seen.
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So, you know, coming back, even, you know, coming back here, like, dude, it's been a long time. Christ's about 30 years for God's sake. Uh, like not quite, but almost. And then you start doing the math. You're like, good God, you wake up one day and, and, you know, you're the old cat, but whatever, here I am.
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And it's, it's, it even, however many years in, you don't come and go, eh, you're like, Holy smokes, this place is something.
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Yeah, somebody I saw made the point that you get what they're saying, that being down a dozen to Houston is like being down 50 to another team, right? Like you see, the Alabama, Auburn, Kentucky, those SEC teams that are like up 15, down 15, we don't care. We're just going to keep playing like we play, and we're going to score in the 90s, and double-digit leads, kind of like the NBA.
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They can evaporate quickly. Against Houston, that's just not how it goes. And so I give Florida a ton of credit for just staying in the fight. Now, a lot of that probably, Ryan, comes from the fact that they don't have to go back too far on the mental Rolodex to go, we're down nine with 251 to go against A&M, right? Auburn had us down a pretty decent number just Keep plugging away.
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And you had to think at some point, Clayton's going to score buckets. I believe he didn't make his first basket till there were eight minutes left in the game. And it was an and one. And then he hits a three and like they're chipping away and they're chipping away. And then the thing that really bums me out about it, I love Calvin Sampson.
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I love the whole idea of the program and what it's about toughness, the DNA of that. I hate for them that the last three times they had a basketball, they didn't take a shot. That's really going to be hard to live with. You don't get the ball on the rim. For a team, it's as offensive rebounding centric as anyone. They just turned it over three straight times.