Pardon My Take
Smylie Kaufman Talking PGA Championship, Knicks Whomp The Celtics, Thunder To The WCF, Miami Marlins Kyle Stowers And Tyler Phillips In Studio And A Goodbye To Mr Bing Bong
Mon, 19 May 2025
We had a weekend full of sports and Hank is trying to avoid talking about Friday night and the Knicks whomping of the Celtics so we talk about everything else first. Thunder take down the Nuggets and grow up in front of our eyes (00:00:00-00:15:18). Scottie Scheffler dominates the PGA Championship and wins his third major (00:15:18-00:23:18). Maple Leafs lose in Game 7 and the Stars advance (00:23:18-00:26:46). We talk some WNBA and Hank empties the clip on other stories (00:26:46-00:37:11). We finally get to Friday night and talk Knicks Celtics and Hank's mental state and whether hes smashing the rebuild button (00:37:11-01:09:53). Who's back of the week (01:09:53-01:22:27). Smylie Kaufman joins the show to talk PGA Championship, just how good Scottie Scheffler is, mud balls, Rory not talking to the media and tons more (01:22:27-02:04:41). We then welcome on Miami Marlins Kyle Stowers and Tyler Phillips talking baseball, making it to the big leagues, hitting dingers, and tons more (02:04:41-02:48:45). We finish with a recap of Max's AWL Bachelor party and a surprise farewell to Mr Bing Bong (02:48:45-03:08:19).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 sports topics do we cover this week?
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On today's part of my take, we've got a ton of sports to talk about. A lot of sports this weekend. We're going to talk about NBA playoffs. We had some duds in Game 7s. We had the Preakness, which was incredible. Celtics-Knicks are over. We're going to get our thoughts from Hank from Friday night. We got a great interview with Smiley Kaufman talking PGA Championship.
Scotty Scheffler is back in the winner's circle. He's got his...
third major we also have a really fun interview with kyle stowers and tyler phillips from the miami marlins they came into studio uh last week awesome dudes a little baseball talk i think we're gonna hit everything we're gonna hit all the sports today let's see we got hockey baseball basketball golf horses horses we'll have to talk some football we'll figure out some football
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Chapter 2: Who dominated the PGA Championship?
Listen, Game 7s are great. Game 7 duds, I don't even want there to be a Game 7 when it happens. And we had two of them on Sunday. I agree with you. Game 6s may be more important. Did we have any Game 6s? That's the new Game 7. The new Game 6. Hank, what would you like to talk about first? Because we have every sport. We're literally going to talk golf.
Scotty Shepard.
WNBA. Well, I had WNBA on there. We have everything.
You want to start with Scotty or do you want to start with basketball? I feel like major championship or game sevens. That's pretty easy. One of those two.
What about your game seven that you had, Hank? Didn't have a game seven. Oh, why not? It's Monday night. Oh, okay.
No, the Celtics lost. No, you want to start with the NBA? No, I don't, but yeah, sure. No, let's get it over with. Let's just get the Band-Aid off. Let's do it. Let's rip the Band-Aid off.
Let's do it. Hank is so egotistical that he thought that we were talking about the Celtics this whole time.
No, we were talking about the Thunder and the Nuggets, and we were talking about this Game 7, and we were talking about Scottie. Let's wait. Let's talk about the Game 7s today. Let's talk about the Thunder Nuggets. By the way, I should have started the show. Parody is back. NBA Parody is officially back. This now with the Thunder beating the Nuggets in Game 7.
There are going to be – it's guaranteed seven different champions in seven different years in the NBA. And we also have the chance for two franchises who have never won a title in Indiana and Minnesota. I guess actually three because I don't think OKC claims any of Seattle's history. Well, Kevin Durant. Yeah, Kevin Durant. And then the Knicks – Last title was 52 years ago.
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Chapter 3: What happened in the NBA playoffs?
He went games 5, 6, and 7, 31 points, 32 points, 35 points, and he went game 5, 52% from the field, then game 6, 68% from the field, game 7, 63% from the field defensively. The best player on the Thunder stepped up his game when they needed him to, and they had their role players step up today. The Thunder are so good.
They are such a good team, and I don't even know where to start with the Thunder versus Wolves because both defenses are just going to eat each other alive.
Yeah, I mean, it was one of those games where Caruso, as a defender, proved that he's worth everything that you're paying him, and then some. And I feel like the games that the Thunder, as a team, do really well are the games where Caruso is not a top scorer on the team. You know, the Alex Caruso games, I think we talked about them losing one of the Alex Caruso games.
Yeah, where he tried to bring him back at the end of the game.
Yeah, when he's just fighting people in the background, when he's playing hard defense, those are the games that fall into place for the Thunder. Yeah, they did kind of grow up. But, again, it was a close game. It was a very close game until the end of the first half.
But can you call it a close game if it was only a close game for less than a half? I don't think you can.
I'm going to say it was a close game until – that's back to my point about just it being a long series for the older team. Yeah. And they seemed to just run out of all the gas that they had stored up.
Well, I mean, the Thunder are a better team. They were a better team. And, like, you go back to that game three, like they – That's a game they could have won, should have won, and it could have been.
I do give the Nuggets a ton of credit for even getting to Game 7 because I do think they were overmatched, and they have a lot of questions going into this offseason because you've got to get more help for Jokic. But Jokic, we love Jokic on this podcast. He's awesome. He could have played better this series. And I know that he needs probably a little more spacing and some more help.
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Chapter 4: How did the Thunder grow as a team?
No, not a lot of good drama. I mean, Scottie going five under in his last five holes yesterday. I'm sure there's a lot of guys who are like, all right, they finished their round maybe a couple holes ahead of Scottie. Like, all right, I got a shot at this. And then they just see him come in five under, four-shot lead going into Sunday like it's over. Wanted Jon Rahm to come back.
I wanted to be closer just for the drama. But I like seeing Scottie win.
Yeah. I mean, on Sunday morning, when you can bet on it online, you couldn't even really bet on Scottie. The odds were just so crazy.
It was minus 450.
The first odd that was at the top of the screen was who was going to finish in second today.
Yeah.
And that became the new champion that you could bet on.
Yeah. And it was it was all I mean, we will talk about it with Smiley, but I was Scotty was was was in like seventh place and he was plus 250. And I was just like this. It's just it's almost like they knew Scotty's coming. Yeah. And there's nothing you can do about it.
Yeah. He was pumped when he won, let out a scream.
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Chapter 5: What insights do Smylie Kaufman share on Scotty Scheffler?
Pretty incredible. The barn was rocking. Pretty tough loss to bounce back from with a handshake line. Yeah. But you got to do it.
Yeah.
Got to do it.
Got to always do it. And now I'm... Outside of Carolina, no offense to the Carolina Hurricanes, but after watching them play against your Caps, I don't like watching them play hockey. Yep, that's fair. I'm very excited for Stars Oilers. That's going to be awesome. And I'm excited that Biz is going to get his life back.
So we're going to have Biz on Wednesday's show to talk about the conference finals. Credit to TNT because they just let Biz do whatever he wanted. Before the game tonight, he had a candlelight vigil for the Maple Leafs, and he was lighting the Leafs, each candle, being like, got to get Marner going, light the candle.
If that was your first time tuning into hockey, you're like, this guy has lost his complete mind.
Yeah. But it was great TV. He's like a fan, except he's only really been a fan of the team for a couple seasons. But he's gotten off the deep end for them. I do think that the Leafs discussion is going to be interesting this offseason because they cannot come back with that same team. It's not going to happen.
But again, the Panthers are so good. They are. Bob was great. Yeah, Bob was locked in.
Locked in. I thought for a second Oldie might have saved the Leafs going down to Florida for game six. That was bullshit that they kicked Oldie out. Did they actually kick him out? Because he shook hands with the police officer.
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Chapter 6: What are the implications of the Knicks' playoff performance?
Chapter 7: What’s the latest on the Miami Marlins?
I want to start with giving the Knicks their flowers.
Same.
I think we need to give the Knicks their flowers because I think that's appropriate because the Knicks... Shout out Knicks fans. They have gone through a lot of shit. They've seen some really bad basketball for a lot of years. I think there was a lot of weird gatekeeping going on on Friday night because Knicks fans were going crazy in the streets and like guys on billboards.
This podcast is very much in favor of enjoying the ride. If you're a fan, you can't be like, oh, job's not finished. Job's not finished for the players. The players should say job's not finished. Jalen Brunson actually said that. They had a team meeting after game five after they lost in Boston being like, that was piss poor effort. Job's not finished. They didn't really celebrate.
If you watch, they celebrated game four victory a lot. And then on game six, they didn't really celebrate that much after on the court.
the fans should celebrate the fans should enjoy every moment of this and soak it in and have the best time ever especially like basketball and hockey when the weather turns there's no better celebration yeah shut down seventh avenue climb up the foul poles it rocked high five uh timothy chalamet is hanging out the side of a limousine yep do all that stuff you should absolutely celebrate you got to the eastern conference finals which is obviously difficult to do
First conference finals in 25 years. First, yeah, in 25 years. And you've got a very fun team to root for. A tough team. A mentally, physically tough team.
I would say the toughest in the fact that you had... There was two moments on Friday night where I was like, this... I mean, the game was over pretty quickly. But... Mitchell Robinson basically playing defense on the entire Celtics team on that one possession where he was just hustling his ass off. And then Josh Hart having a triple-double and diving for offensive rebounds when they're up 40.
This Knicks team has grit. They have guts. They've done a good job with their roster, making the moves they made. And Jalen Brunson... And I'm sure Knicks fans, I would love for you to chime in and tell me if I'm close or where I'm at. What do you got, memes? What are you pulling up? Langston Galloway, Alexi Shved, Andre Bargnani, Lou Amundsen, and Lance Thomas. Knicks fans have been through shit.
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Chapter 8: Why is there controversy surrounding Rory McIlroy's driver?
I think you need to go try it out for yourself. So when the mud is caked on the left side of the golf ball, there's some type of aerodynamics that make when the mud flies off, it makes the golf ball shoot to the right. So it's the opposite. The side the mud is on is the way it's going to go. So it's on the left. The ball is going right. The mud is on the right. The ball is going to the left.
So my bit now that I don't play much anymore, when I tee the ball up off the tee and I just hit a big slice, I'll just say mud ball.
Yeah, uh-huh.
It's just such a shame.
You just described every shot I've ever taken in my life, and I'm just only hitting mud balls.
Exactly. I'm a mud ball expert. You got a new bit. You got a new bit.
What happened with that shot that Jon Rahm hit where it hit the dude in the head and then bounced off his head and went onto the green? How did it bounce that far off his head, number one? And two, did anybody check on that guy to make sure he's okay? Because that seemed like it was pretty intense. Yeah.
I'm 99% sure, PFT, that that guy played fullback in high school.
Yeah, because that guy just went up to John Rahman and was like, hey, man, sorry about that. We're all good. Don't worry about it. I was like, dude, that shot just hit your head as hard as it possibly can, and then it bounced 50 yards.
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