Pardon My Take
Scott Van Pelt Live From Augusta, Rory Wins An Incredible Masters, NBA Playoffs Set, Who's Back And Monday Reading
Mon, 14 Apr 2025
An all time Sunday at August leads us to Rory McIlroy's career grand slam. We talk about the incredible drama on Sunday and the up and down play from Rory that led us to his playoff against Justin Rose. Wrapping up other Master thoughts/storylines (00:00:00-00:38:21). NBA Playoffs are set and Lebron having his shirt off offended Isiah Thomas (00:38:21-00:53:58). Tennessee loses their quarterback and we NIL has gone sideways (00:53:58-01:05:20). Who's back of the week including Paddy the Baddy, Coach Gruden in Madison, and PFT's kidney stones (01:05:20-01:30:45). Scott Van Pelt joins us from Augusta to talk Masters, Rory getting the monkey off his back, the sights and sounds from an insane 4th round and an update on the Big Texas (01:30:45-02:06:25). We finish with a Monday reading and a conclusion to Jim Nantz's wallet toast card and lottery numbers (02:06:25-02:14:27).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 happened at the Masters?
hey pardon my take listeners you can find every episode on apple podcast spotify or youtube prime members can listen ad free on amazon music on today's part in my take we recap an incredible masters rory finally does it completes the career grand slam we have svp live from augusta as is tradition a tradition unlike any other Recapping the Masters. Incredible weekend of sports.
We're going to talk some NBA playoff seating. Finally set. We are going to do who's back of the week. We're going to do a little Monday reading. Great, great show. The sports were great. And we got to talk about it. And Rory, even though... We were haters. Tip your cap. So we'll break it all down. It's all brought to you by our friends at DraftKings. The NBA 82 game grind is done.
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Chapter 2: How did Rory McIlroy perform during the Masters?
I love that we got free golf. Yeah. That was the perfect cap off to a great Masters. I wish we had more free golf. I wish the playoff went on. Credit to us for accurately picking what was going to happen at the end of this Masters. Or say it was our wish.
Almost exactly spot on with Whitney. I think the exact clip was if Rory has a five-foot putt to miss to go to a playoff, will you be rooting against him? And I said, yes, absolutely. And I was. Listen, sometimes as a hater, you got to tip your cap and be like, we got bested today. The haters got bested. We'll come back stronger than ever, though.
That's the thing about the haters. The haters are remarkably resilient.
Yeah. And I have no regrets, too, because golf is obviously an interesting sport to root for because it's not like you're rooting for your team. There's a bunch of guys. You have guys. You don't have guys. I would rather have a set of guys that I root for and a set of guys I hate than be like, I'm just rooting for whoever wins. And then when they win, I say, what a great story. Rory deserved it.
I was hoping that Justin Rose is going to win in that playoff. but Rory exercised every single demon with that insanely schizophrenic Final 18 because he went, I think he had six birdies, three bogeys, and two double bogeys. He choked multiple times, including on 18, and then he comes back and birdies 18 and wins the Masters.
So I don't think I've ever seen anyone more relieved, happy to win a golf tournament than Rory McIlroy when he won the Masters.
So I think Rory might be his own biggest hater. That's the thing. That's why I'm kind of okay with how it turned out. Rory loves to choke himself out. Yeah. And it's like good Rory and bad Rory out there on the course. And it's always like good Rory trying to fend off bad Rory for just long enough to make it work. Usually I feel like bad Rory is like six and three over good Rory. Yeah.
And we saw bad Rory take it to a playoff against good Rory. Even to start, he went double bogey to start. Yeah, bad Rory, he teed off on one. And good Rory was like, fuck you, I'm not going to let you take over my day. Played pretty well. Then the **** nine happens. Second nine. Oh, fuck, sorry. Can we bleep that out?
Yeah, bleep that out.
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Chapter 3: What are the NBA Playoffs looking like?
Jim Nance almost laid the biggest jinx of all time, waxing poetic on Rory going down the 18th fairway, talking about how he grew up. By the way, shout out Rory's dad. I don't know if Rory's dad had a future bet on him to win the Masters like he did the Open Championship.
Yeah.
I think he won like $400,000 on that the first time Rory won. Great dad. But yeah, Jim Nance was just, he was laying it on thick. He unloaded the clip. Thick with like seven Cs.
And they had the graphic. If he didn't win that playoff, the graphic of him lining up his putt on the 18th that says going for career Grand Slam would have lived in infamy.
Yeah, for sure. Also, shout out to Skip Bayless for dropping Bryson DeChambeau on us on a Sunday. That's one of the ones, hand up, we missed that one. But that's why Skip is the man. That's why he gets paid the big bucks.
I was getting accused of jinxing because I was like, Rory's got this. It was right after the ball didn't go in the water. I was like, it's just his day. And then I realized you have to have those moments where you're like, listen, you could be a narcissist and think that you can actually affect these games, which you can't.
and that you jinx it, and then you have to realize there's a higher power at play, and his name is Skip Bayless because right before I think Rory went into the water officially, he tweeted, Congratulations, Rory, for winning the 2025 Masters and completing the career Grand Slam. Extraordinary performance. Was I ever wrong about today and Bryson DeChambeau? He tweeted that on the 12th hole.
I think I tweeted out congrats to Rory on winning the Masters at like 10 a.m. this morning. I was so pumped up to see a potential Rory choke job.
That's why I'm not as mad. If he had just waltzed into a four-stroke victory, I would have been a real salty bitch right now. he really did like, he gave us all the chokes and then he still won. Yeah. So I'm like, you know what? Fair play. Like shake hands. Good job. You gave me the moments I needed. I needed those moments where it was like, holy shit, this is actually happening again.
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Chapter 4: Why is the NIL situation controversial?
You guys jumped out my throat about it, but... I was rooting against them. It felt very similar to 2016 LeBron, similar where it's like you root so hard against them and they accomplish, you know, history. And it's basically, you're never going to be able to get your level of hate up again.
No, he won.
Because if LeBron had lost that Warriors series and his finals record, you could always run that narrative. If Rory chokes this, the narrative never goes away. Now it's like if you're hating, it's just... It's a much harder hate.
Yeah, we had to retire. Yeah, we had to retire because Rory, no matter what, he is now the sixth all time to have the career Grand Slam. The only the second next to Tiger Woods to do it in the last 50 years. So like in the modern era, he's he's he and I actually think I'll say this. I think Rory might go on a hot streak.
Because that did feel like the monkey off your back Steve Young moment where the way that went down and the chokes and the unchokes and the big shots and the shot of a lifetime, Rory might just rip off. He might get to 10 majors. I'll call it right now.
He's got nothing to lose. When Tiger came back and won at Augusta, was it 2019? Yeah. That felt like he left it all out there. We all kind of knew. It's incredible that this is happening, but let's not expect Tiger to go on one of his runs. With Rory, he's been so close so recently.
Yeah, he's been incredible. He rode to Dubai. Ever heard of him? That was more important. That's what got the monkey off his back. What did you guys make of it came out afterwards that Rory refused to say a word to Bryson during the round? I kind of love that. Bryson said he wouldn't talk to me at all. Yeah.
I love that because Bryson probably his brain was malfunctioning being like, but my PR team told me that if I do the YouTube, guys will talk to me. Well, he needs the comment section to get his next jokes. Yeah. Bryson was... I mean... I still... I bet on him to start the day just because I was like, I want to bet on something and I had no other bets going.
And I was... So I was begrudgingly a Bryson Ryder. I didn't like it. A Bryder? A Bryder. I didn't like it. He... I mean, he just was – I actually think Rory kind of rope-a-doped him pretty well after the first hole. Like, after the first hole, you're like, Bryson's going to win this going away. And Bryson got comfortable and then just kept on going down.
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Chapter 5: Who is back this week in sports?
That's always such a disappointment when the last group, it's worse when both guys don't end up in competition at the very end. But when one guy just bows out, that's just sad to watch him finish the round of golf.
Well, and how do you say his name?
Oberg? Oberg. Yeah. He hasn't earned the umlaut.
That was tough. 18, just making everyone wait because he couldn't hit.
I thought that was great. I thought he was icing Rory.
I know.
I was pumped about it.
See, this is why he's the number one hitter.
I love it. I'm going to call him A-Berg until he wins. He doesn't deserve that. I bet on him. And Hank, please remind me to not bet on him to win any majors.
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Chapter 6: What insights did Scott Van Pelt share from Augusta?
The three shots swing off the jump and then it was just...
But especially when Justin Rose started making his moves. I mean, what a fucking putt on 18, too, for Justin Rose. But it was sports at its finest. I was just sitting there smiling ear to ear, being like, no matter what happens here, you know you're watching history. And it ended up being real history because of his Grand Slam. It was great. It was great. And our boy Max, T12. Yeah, love it.
He gets automatically back to the Masters next year.
Max had a great weekend. The round that he shot on Friday, I think it was a 70 that he shot on Friday. That was the best 70 that you'll ever see in your life. He was scrambling all day, somehow made it work. I'm very happy for him. I'm also very happy that JT didn't do that great.
Yeah.
Because if JT had finished, like, top five, His caddy is Max's old caddy that broke up with him. Well, just for this week. Yeah, just for this week.
But still, Max doesn't need that. No, no, no. Max might be back. This might be the start of the championship DVD. Got him pumped up. He's a superstar. What else? Oh, I think we all, we weren't talking about it before, but
I said before the whole Sunday started, and I think you'll agree with me, PFT, when you were looking at who could win this, Patrick Reed somehow winning it would have been hilarious. And he actually, that eagle. I know, the eagle that he pulled out. Hold out. Yeah, he ended up what, like third or fourth?
No, he had a birdie putt on 15 that he three putted. Like he missed it and missed the par putt, which is two shots, which he would have had if he would have been tied.
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Chapter 7: What are the latest thoughts on Monday reading?
He rocks Ken Griffey Jr.
Yeah. Him and Randy Johnson.
Yeah. Yeah. Big photogs.
Did you see what many people are saying might have spurned Rory on to victory?
Okay. No.
Yes.
Oh, The Reckoning?
No. I was going to say he's reading a book. Yeah, yeah. The Reckoning. Oh, that's the name of the book. Yeah, yeah. I liked it better when they just reported that he was reading a book. Oh. No, it's way better.
Okay. So it's The Reckoning. First page. Here's the first page. This is going to be part of my Monday reading. I have a different one for us, but this is the start of The Reckoning. It's a John Grisham novel. On a cold morning in early October of 1946... Pete Banning awoke before sunrise and had no thoughts of going back to sleep.
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