Pardon My Take
Max Homa, Shane Bacon Previewing The Masters, Florida Wins The National Championship, Pardon Your Take And White Lotus Finale
Wed, 9 Apr 2025
Florida wins the National Championship and we talk about the Final game to cap off a subpar tournament but incredible Final Four (00:00:00-00:23:57). The Nuggets fire Michael Malone and their GM in a very strange move and more (00:23:57-00:40:40). Hot Seat/Cool Throne including the Dire Wolf and playing God with nature (00:40:40-00:53:55). Max Homa joins the show to catch up, talk about his golf game and recent struggles, pump him up before the Masters, and catch him up on what he’s missed since he quit Twitter (00:53:55-01:29:52). Shane Bacon joins the show to break down the Masters field, who’s going to win, long shots and more (01:29:52-02:04:17). We finish with listener submitted pardon your takes (02:04:17-02:11:53) and a recap of the White Lotus finale (02:11:53-02:31:31).You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/pardon-my-take
Chapter 1: What were the highlights of the Final Four and National Championship?
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On today's part in my take, it is Masters time, and we have our good friend Max Homa on the show. As is tradition, great catching up with him. He's about to turn the corner and maybe shock the world. We're going to shock the world. We're pumping up, Max. We have our good friend Shane Bacon breaking down the Masters, talking about best bets, what we expect from this weekend.
We're going to talk Florida Gators back on the top.
of the college basketball mountain we had some weird firings in denver we have hot seat cool throne and then we're going to finish with pardon your take listener submitted pardon your take and a white lotus recap for the finale hank has watched it that was the only episode he watched pft and i watched the whole season so if you are someone who has not watched it and you don't want to be spoiled the very end of the show will be white lotus we will not talk about it until then
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Chapter 2: What were the reasons behind Michael Malone's firing?
He can't. That was the big thing with Clayton should have had more assists because his passes were so good.
Great passing.
Yeah, the Florida big men, again, their hands didn't work except for Thomas Hawk, who that was the play of the game when he blocked the ball and then went for the and one. That was an incredible play. But yeah, Condon, I'll say it, he still is so important defensively, but offensively when he gets the ball, it's just nervousness.
I think there have been some games where he looks good offensively, but against Houston, he wanted no part of having that ball in the paint. Yeah, he would just he would like toss it around to himself, dribble it off his leg, get it stripped. I think he had like back to back traveling violations. Yeah, he was he was scared in the first half. But yeah, there were great passes by by Clayton.
And then the second half, they kind of figured out different ways that they could score completely different halves in terms of how it was officiated to.
Yeah, so the stats are insane. There were four fouls called in the first half, and there were 26 fouls called in the second half, two technicals. Also, Todd Golden probably deserves credit, and I hate that the refs became a part of the entire story here.
But his technical was maybe the most strategic technical of all time because after his technical foul, which was, I think, like three or four minutes into the second half, the fouls went 13-3 on Houston. Yeah, good move by him. Because remember, the second half started, I think Florida had five fouls in two and a half minutes.
Yeah, two of those fouls were phantom calls. Two were really, really bad. And then there was a bad no call that they had, too. And so I... After the first bad call, I could tell Golden's, he's going to get a technical here. Watch, he's like, he knows that he's out of the box. I love, by the way, I love the box that they put on coaches because no coach stays in the box ever.
It's just, if you get worn three times and you still, you go further outside the box, that's when they hit you with the tee.
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Chapter 3: What are the latest developments in the Masters preview?
You got to stay strong.
I wish someone had done... Next year we'll do it where it's just one shining moment, but it's just Gene Steratore's graphic popping up over and over.
It's like being the mayor of New York City. No matter what you do, everybody's going to hate you.
Yeah.
If you are the person who is in charge of busting in the broadcast like 20 times in three minutes to analyze if a ball hit off a guy's knee, when we can all see that it hit off his knee, and they're like, okay, let's get Gene Steratore in because he's the only guy that can tell us if this ball actually hit off the guy's knee or if we're just seeing things. Gene, what do you think?
It makes me hate you. I don't want to hate Gene.
I just missed him because he became such a big part of my life. It's like getting an office wife or an office husband. Gene Steratore, we watched so much basketball. He was kind of getting office hot to me.
Office hot?
I was kind of being like, Gene Steratore's doing it for me. When he pops in, he's like, I don't know. It could go either way. Thanks, Gene. Really needed that opinion. And he makes some little joke. I didn't like how jokey they got. They got really jokey.
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Chapter 4: How did Max Homa prepare for the Masters?
Yeah, a lot of choking. I think it'll be remembered as the final four of chokes. The chokes? Yeah.
Kelvin Sampson, I do feel bad. He was on win number 799. So this would have been 800. Brutal. He probably would have retired, right? I don't know. At 800? His son is coaching waiting, Kellen. Yeah, he's been right there. I'll say this about Kelvin Sampson, incredible coach, just needs to figure out how to get a little bit more moisture in his mouth.
yeah he is a big time dry mouth guy he is he is uh he also is a coach that every time i see him i think he's going to be fatter than he is yeah i think i think it's the name kelvin kelvin he like i i assume every time the camera pans so i'm like wow he's lost a lot of weight but i say that every time i see him adding an l to kevin makes you fatter yeah it should like when you close your eyes you say hey that's that's kelvin coming down the street i'm like whoa
That guy's a big boy. It's how you say Kevin while you're swallowing a bite of sandwich. Yeah, your mouth is full. Kelvin.
And then Florida, yeah, I mean, this Final Four or this championship game, for everyone who says that college basketball is dying, yes, obviously there's some issues with NIL and transfer, but there were no five-star recruits in this game, and there were no freshmen in this game. So maybe there was a freshman. I know Florida has a freshman player. Maybe it was the starters.
No five stars, no freshmen. So it's not just you could load the... Duke would have been the team. You're like, NIL has ruined it. They just paid $20 million for their roster.
That didn't happen. So it turns out that the only thing that we could say after the tournament was over, if Duke had won, NIL ruined college basketball. Correct. And since Florida won and they didn't have freshmen, it's college basketball alive and well. Alive and well. Although I...
I hate, after big games like this, seeing Olivier Roux go out on the court and cut down the nets and not have to jump at all. The 7'8 guy, 7'9 guy in Florida who doesn't play because he's a freshman. I just wish that we had seen him play.
Yeah, I agree. He'll play.
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Chapter 5: What are popular listener submitted 'pardon your takes'?
That was insane.
That was insane.
I woke up this morning and my first thought was, how did Florida win this game? Yeah. Like, it's crazy. It was a great comeback by Florida. They were nuts.
never in control of this game never not even for even at the end it's like oh here comes houston they're gonna either hit a three or get a rebound because that's what they always do like if you're trailing and what were they down by 12 points i think they're down 12 they were down 10 almost instantly in the second half yeah you're down 12 and you get two technicals yeah and you still come back and win that's crazy it was that thomas hawk block and and one was an incredible incredible play he played his balls off yep he was he was a dude
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Chapter 6: What happened in the White Lotus finale recap?
Okay. Denver has fired their head coach, our good friend, Michael Malone, and their GM.
What the fuck? Yeah, what the fuck? This is one of the craziest coach firings. Denver is in the fourth seed, I believe, right now, but all these teams in the West are within half game, so they could end up being the eighth seed. Memes had an interesting theory that he's been reading about online. I don't know.
Oh, you mean Luka Doncic? Uh, no, no. Yeah. Our guy memes decided to show up to work today dressed as Luka Doncic. I don't know. I've never seen it before. Um, he's wearing a Luka Doncic, uh, Mavericks, Mavericks, Luka Doncic hoodie. What is that? A sh...
it's a sweatshirt a heresy a heresy i think a sweatshirt jersey sweat sweat jersey and then matching sweatpants and then has his shoes and socks exactly like luca would wear yeah so he's just channeling luca on the maps and he's been drinking beers all day and he said uh he means what hookah and hookah memes was like is it sex trafficking that was his theory on michael yeah
I mean, the Denver Airport, weird shit goes on there.
Was it the Jokic brothers that just went into the Nuggets facilities like, fire him now?
I coach the team now.
No, I mean, I read who knows what actually happened. Apparently, the GM and Michael Malone did not speak, and they were not on good terms. So they're firing both of them? So they're like, fuck it, we'll fire both of them?
Me personally, I would keep the coach that won an NBA title.
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Chapter 7: What are the implications of Florida's national championship win?
But I want all of it. I want more. That's fair. I want everything. I don't care about golf except for the majors or if we have a bet on a guy that weekend. Just give you the golf. Give me the golf. Give me all of it. I agree. When I wake up on Saturday morning, it's like, oh, the Masters is on. Let me just throw this on my TV while I'm doing other things. Why can't I have that on my TV?
It is also the most peaceful tournament. So I don't even care. They don't even have to... They could show a shot every 10 minutes, and as long as I have it on my TV, I'm going to take a nice nap.
100% correct. Yeah.
And they do the less commercials.
Hank's been compromised.
Hank just likes to defend all of the golf.
Yeah. You're defending the wrong golf here, bro. I just, it's true. Hank thinks he's going to play at Augusta someday.
Max was like, I think we should be able to watch more golf, and Hank's like, no.
Yeah.
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