This is a downbeat on ninety seven to one The freak sar Good morning, seven o'clock Wednesday, April ten, twenty twenty four. You believe it's twenty twenty four. People made it. We're doing good. It's a down but it's Danny. It's no, it's in April. Yes, it's been twenty twenty four for over three months now. But sometimes when you say the year, you're like, jeez, look at us again. You broke me yesterday when you said twenty forty five. I'm like, boy, that's right on
my line. Twenty one years from now. Yeah, your line, that's right on your line definitely online. You should be, okay, should be. I looked at myself in the mirror this morning and I just kind of whispered, you're really not taking good care of yourself. Yeah, it's good to give yourself that good self will then be hard on yourself a little bit. As I've said many times, at least once a year, I just stare at my fully nude body in the mirror for a good five minutes and
just kind of reassess where I am in the world. There you go. When I'd kick the Masters week off with a little self reflection. That's what I've been doing, and that worked out. Not well, I'm okay. It's amazing because I look at myself and I looked the same. And then when I get back from the gym, I'll be like, oh yeah, I think I might have tightened up a little bit, and that's just not how it works. You just feel better about it. Yeah, that's true.
No one trip to the gym ever does anything. I like when you get back into the gym and about five days later, you're like, okay, you start to see a little bit of stuff. I think I'm trying to see all something you're not. You're not you're not saying anything. Do you ever think this? What if I could just press a button and just for an instant look, however, I looked the absolute best day I ever
looked in my life. Because if you are consistently on the gym or you're eating well, losing some weight, like, you don't know what that day is. And when you see yourself every day, you're like, all right, you know, I don't know, Okay, I'm fine, Like I'm fine. Yeah. I don't think anyone one of us are ones that have documented our fitness careers with mirror selfies. Yeah, yeah, and you can take mirrors. I mean, obviously not for sharing, no one wants to
see that, but just to assess where you stand. You know, it's probably not a bad idea to take a maybe underwear selfie on January first every year or something like that. Let it hang. That'd be sort of interesting, you know. But I wonder what I look like on my best day, and maybe it's today. April tenth, twenty twenty four, the day before the Masters begins. We are gambling, we're betting, we're fired up. Our heroes descend on Augusta, Georgia for the big one. Yeah,
for the Masters, the Masters. Danny's the Masters, the Masters. Kevin say it. It's the Masters. Maddie, it's the Masters. It's the Master. It is the Masters. She's right, it's the Masters. It's the Masters. Master, it's the Masters, the Masters, the Masters. Twenty twenty four, Masters, the Masters. That's good, Augusta, Georgia. Danny is number one, Maddi's number two. I'm three, Kevin's four. Albert Robert duvall is five for the new new Hire. For the Master's
voiceover, Guy, do it more time, Dany. That was good. Welcome to the Masters. That's all I've got. That's really good, though. That is look out in Nancy. Welcome No, I already hated it. Welcome No, put a little little air, a little whisper behind your voice. Welcome to the Masters, speaking list, Trump gravelly r at the list. Welcome to the Masters. A better time, one of the best. It's definitely named the best. That's name a US open. We like
open, not even gonna say it. Democrats love open, like the borders anyway, and then Howard Biden do it. It's no one can do it. It's the Masters. And at nine o'clock today we got a big stupid Master's bet. It's very convoluted. Lee Elder ruined everything. Lee Elder ruined everything just jokes. Yeah, we're having fun. We are having fun. Look, there's a lot of people listening. There's some that don't care about this, and that's fine, but there are many who are going to be
betting a lot of weird stuff. This is if you're in a golf majors thing. It all starts tomorrow, like you, This is how you set up your whole year a pool. Go ahead, you definitely the elder ruined, everyth ruined every the other's like, man, I'm just over here. Well he's not with us anymore. Oh boy, I'm sorry, dude, I trust me. It's showtime. Yeah. First things first, is this one at least I readd Augusta, Georgia to my weather app and I have
are we looking We're looking like s butt City tomorrow? How are we looking there? Sec delcas, We are looking like s butt City. It does look like s butt City. Tomorrow is going to be terrible. And there's a chance we don't even have f and golf tomorrow. I'm not gonna lie to you guys, dude. That is that where it's trajected towards I saw. I don't know. That's probably a little expect a little dramatic, Yeah,
a little dramatic. But if you just look at the basics, it's Thursday, ninety chance of rain, and it kicks off at three am, four or five, six, seven eight, and plays supposed to start at six am here, seven am there tomorrow, So there's a good chance that it's a very delayed start tomorrow and then maybe even bunched up into Friday morning where they finish the first round and just turn it into a damn mess. Win gust forty to forty five miles per hour no way between seven am and
one pm tomorrow, Oh my god. Forty Yeah, at a minimum, that's just gust, you know, it doesn't matter. Steady one would be twenty to twenty five. Yeah, dude, that's still a lot. It's a lot. But that only if that only happens while it's raining. They're not gonna be out there playing anyway. So course wise, the guys were sitting in the practice round that it was. It's brutal the last couple of days, like the hardest, firmest, like good shots are bouncing off the
green. But they are budgeting for this rain that's gonna come and soften the course. And if it is soft and wet, even if you play tomorrow afternoon, you know, delayed rounds or even into Friday, the thought is that bomber's paradise, right, I mean, if it's wet and the greens are fairly receptive, that it's gonna your long player's advantage. That's the thought at least. And no course in America is set up better to drain a bunch of rain than the masters so they can get them on maybe. Yeah.
I saw a ninety percent chance of rain at one pm tomorrow though, so and that gets down to like a thirty percent chance by four pm. So maybe some of those guys they do get out just to get some play in so they can finish on Sunday. There's only eighty eight people in the field though, too, so it's like it's a huge tournament. There's a chance they could they could get nine in tomorrow, right, Yeah, they
can't get more than that. They could start them rain pull them off, yeah, and they will run back out and yeah, I mean they'll start them in the rain. Yeah, depending on how much will they double up or let's say they get nine in tomorrow, would they do a round and a half on Thursday? Yeah, I mean they'll they will start jamming it
in so they don't want this bleeding over on a Monday. No, no, no, no. If it only rains tomorrow for the first half of the they will manage it and make it work and we'll have a normal master's finish on Sunday and weather it's a great Saturday and Sunday, yeah, that's supposed to beautiful, and Friday pretty good. Too, but I wonder if they've pushed back. No, no, so I mean right now they're planning to play on schedule, but we shall see injury updates real quick for people
if you're putting fantasy lineups in that sort of thing. Again, if you're in some big pool. We'll start with Jordan Speith, hometown hero, twenty fifteen Masters Champion, Bubba Wallace, Bubba Watson before him, Danny Willett after him, apparently aggravated a left wrist injury last week at the Valero Texas Open. He's been dealing with the risk injuries for a while, dating back last season. He aggravated it prior to the Century in January and he finished in
third place, so it's not bugged him before. But then he said he also reaggravated it right before the players and he missed the cut there. So he says, when his wrist flares up, I can't do anything that day, So damn. I mean, as probably the person that most people listening to this are cheering for fighting a wrist injury, how much will it impact things? Kevin Turner, I think that impacts things a lot, But I also think the way he's been playing impacts things a little more than that.
I don't think he's been playing very well, and like he's probably a good fit for the course because he's decent with his irons, he can scramble around the greens all that stuff. I still don't think he ever has any idea whereas his drives are going. That's why people like him so much, because he's just a wild man. Yeah, he is the antithesis of Scottie Shuffler for as basic as he seems off the course. Yeah he is a wing nut. Yeah he'll yell, but he's also really good at Augusta. Oh,
he's one of the best. He's just one of these dudes who is just their game is geared to this course. I will retell it because I've told it many times. With the one Masters I went to was twenty fifteen, the Sunday that Jordan Speath won, and we were right at the beginning of Amen Corner, the eleventh hole, part four, maybe the hardest on
the course, I don't know, a very difficult part four. And he sprayed his driveway right and I heard, I knew the group that was coming through, and I heard the trees and I look down and bounding is Jordan Speed's golf ball. I am am way right, and I sprint to his golf ball and I straddle it because I've been in enough tournaments. And do you want to see burst Watch a forty something year old person see a golf ball that they can get closer to than anyone else. Boom gone. If
you weren't head on a swivel, you'd have lost me. I straddle his golf ball and moments later he walks up, Michael Greller walks up, CBS cameras walk up, and right when they get there, I kind of put my arms on, like, hey, give him some space. Oh he went to bodyguarden moments back. Yes, And I'm then I know I'm going to be front of the line, right. I kind of just make sure everyone backs up. And I could not have been. I was closer than you and I are right now, Dannie, the Jordan Greller, the CBS
camera. I mean, I'm on the right side of amen quarter. I'm in it. I'm in the ass. I'm part of the masters. You did the noble thing there too. Did you kind of tell him? I, Hey, Jordan, I not let anything happen to you. MANA from Dallas. His head was in the game, but Greller and I looked at each other and I gave him a nod that I had this. You're now for the remainder of this hole under my protection. Did you give him some
tips on his approach from the previous shots i'd seen? Yeah? Oh, like, yeah, you want to keep it under these trees and get it up maybe off to the right of the green. Nice up and down. I'll start invoking how masters winners of ages ages ago did it. Yeah, he's telling me if he really finishes his swing, the ball won't be leaking
out to the right like that a little bit too. You have a couple to avoid the place he's in all Arno Palmer had their shot in nineteen fifty eight, the year he won his first Masters, proceeding a second in nineteen sixties, third in nineteen sixty two and his final fourth Master's victory in nineteen sixty four. He had this shot. Listen to me, Michael, did you make TV? Yeah? Absolutely, and you have it saved. Oh yeah, I have two of the great greatest pictures ever from that day,
and obviously I didn't. Do you have video of you like standing over the ball. No, No, the cameras weren't there then, okay, but the camera gets there. And it's also those camera follows the ball and where it ends up, not when he hit, not in the trees like that, and they're just you can see a scramble of people. Now that's a good question, because no, I don't think they saw the ball come to rest. I think it was through trees. But then the camera guy comes
up. He's right behind it. It's also much closer than you think too, especially when you missed the fairway like that. I mean, the camera guy's right behind Speed. There's no more in a couple maybe a few feet of swinging room that he has. And I was right there to the right anyway. But what the point I brought that up is because Speith is a wild man, and I got to see firsthand Jordan Speed back nine of the masters that he's leading, doing the mental gymnastics of what needs to happen in
this shot and talking to Michael Greller. I've never seen someone I mean I would if he didn't gone to win, I would have said he was melting down. Yeah, because he's muttering to himself, he's talking to the trees, he's talking to Michael, he's talking to nobody in particular. He walks one hundred yards up to go take a look at what's under the trees.
Then he walks back, still muttering the whole time. I mean, head case, as maybe everyone is when you're trying to win the effing Masters on a Sunday on Amen corner, like I don't, I don't know, but he shows it more than those other guys though. You never saw Koepka or any of those guys do that, true, Bill, And that's that's a lot like wing and I think people like that. Yeah, that's real. He's a wing nut. The way he hits the ball, it's fun.
Do some people wonder if his game has ever or his game has suffered because of what happened in twenty sixteen way choked? Yeah, I mean probably, but didn't he he's never been the same, right, Well, no, he won the Open after that, right, I don't know. I hate that's when Dustin Johnson choked and uh in Chambers Bay, right, I think that was twenty seventeen, right, Yeah, Dustin Johnson three jacked the eighteenth hole to sort of hand speak the Chambers Bay US Open and then he won
in twenty seventeen in the Open Championship. So no, his downfall didn't didn't start right though. It's a demon though, dude, for sure. And he but he's just so consistently good at AUGUSTA six top four finishes at Augusta, like he's just always kind of around. But will this risk injury affect things. I'm staying away from him. I'm staying with my betting circles. I'm not playing him at all. I'm not either. I don't trust him. I trusted him for a long time well because he's hard to trust because
he's nuts. But when I watch him play, I'm pulling for him too. And it is weird that he is such a local favorite. And we've said it before, it's odd that Scotti Scheffler doesn't even doesn't really have that level of like passionate support here in Dallas that speak. And I don't know why you think of you think of Jordan, you think of Dallas. You know, he's always felt rooted and connected here. I don't Scotty Scheffler is so nondescript. I don't think of him as being connected to the city in
any way whatsoever. I have a theory on this. It's that Jordan looks like a kid. Scotty Scheffler, despite being super young, has always looked like a big grown man. It's just like, oh yeah, it's just kind of basic guide speeth. At least we saw him as a kid. Yeah, it was excited babyface. Yeah. And Danny said, Scotty Scheffler's head looks like a football. It does a little bit more like a rugby ball. And Scheffler is born in New Jersey, but he's definitely a Dallas
dude. Scheffler is four to one to win this tournament. Scheffler and Luca are and there's not even argument for anyone else. Are the two most dominant athletes in DFW by far, and now it's him or the field with all these people. I mean, if you ask anyone who the greatest, the best golfer currently on Earth right now is, you will get no blowback that it's Scottie Shuffler. And how many people have had that and you Tiger Kepka had it for a little bit. Yeah, Phil didn't even have that title
ever. You know, like just undoubtedly the top guy. He four to one. That's Tiger numbers You don't put a golfer at four to one to win a tournament like that's crazy. Seven to one, eight to one, those are solid favorite numbers. I don't know if I've ever seen a four to one. I think Tiger was. They've had him at like three to one one or two of those years in the Masters. Yeah, I think
so. So listen to this. Since twenty sixteen, the favorite to win a golf tournament, all golf tournaments, golf betting favorites have won forty one times in five hundred and three events. That's good for eight just over eight percent of the time, which is about an eleven percent win rate. So if you have someone four to one, it just doesn't really make sense to bet him, man. I mean, he could trounce him, just like he did the players. You know, he was the favorite there and you
knew it's probably gonna win, and he went off and won. But you just can't bet someone at four percent. The other thing was Scheffler wife Meredith Prager's their first kid not due for about two weeks, but the window is a jar, and they already asked him and Scotti. Scheffler says, if I get the call, I am leaving immediately. I'm out, And some golfers say that, and then they have a debate. I think if it's Saturday afternoon and Scotti Shuffler is a five stroke lead and he gets that call,
I think he's on the plane. He's at least asking to speak with the doctor. Yeah, what is what's really happening here? Doc? Yeah? Was it go time? Or is she just freaking? I mean, how far four centimeters? Okay, I'm good, I can finish this. So there is a chance that I mean, you know, it never really seems to happen. Can you imagine if you's leading the Masters though, and he says, uh, the official comes over and he says, I withdraw.
It's crazy anyway, Scotti Scheffler is the heavy favorite. John Rahm would be the other guy in the argument. For John Rahm, he is really good. He is on live, So we're back to this argument of unsure if he's been forged in the five his game is sharp. But they all proved it last year that they're all sharp. I mean, Kepko was second last year and pat Reeve was top five. Ram has been good, kept Goa won a major like it seems already debunked that not playing on the PGA
Tour has zero impact on your ability to win major. But I will say this, Ron good well, especially here too. Yeah, but there's something weird with Rom because he's almost like he's got this the mantle that Rory has had for the last few years, which is just a bunch of crap I
have to deal with. And he keeps saying, you know, like he's maybe at the forefront of maybe let's bring this thing back together, Like it's all this weight that Rory has been dealing with that I feel like kind of has been transferred to John Rahm. Plus he has all the obligations of a defending champion. There's only been three people to ever defend, defend the Masters and win it two years in a row. It's being Jack Nicholas in nineteen
sixty five and nineteen sixty six. Is oppressive, Sure are the others. Nick Faldo in nineteen ninety nine or nineteen eighty nine and nineteen ninety Tiger Woods in two thousand and one, in two thousand and two, that's Mike Siroy. I'm Mike Siroy. That's say Baylist. Maddie's in with us today. Who's that Kevin Hello? Kevin Hi really hard to defend and I just don't think Rom's gonna do it. So if I'm fading one of the big dogs, fad genre, he's fading gen RANG, Fading GENRENG. You heard it
right here. I know eighty seven won the Freak I mean, tied for fourth last week in Miami on the live tour. Fading GENRENG been in top ten in every live event. Fading John Row, Wow, he's fighting John Rock. And I said, the weight that John Rahm is carrying, it's taken off of someone else. Another man. Oh, I have one name that's gonna win the twenty twenty four Masters on Monday. We're gonna come in
here and talk about how it finally happened. You did this last year and you were right, thank you, How he's achieved the career Grand Slam. Northern Ireland's Rory McElroy. What is going to win the Masters in five days time? Let's see you put your money where your mouth is at nine o'clock. Rory McElroy. Wow, see who he picks? Begins up getting the number one pick. Put that green jacket over your muscular shoulders. You've done it son mister cut last year, Danny, congratulations. Yeah, top ten
and eight of the last nine majors. He has missed two out of the last three Master's cuts. But everything other than that is essentially a top ten. And to think, oh, he can't win the green jacket, that's stupid what he did this year. He showed up yesterday like half an hour before his press conference. He's like, the only change I'm not. I'm doing it like I do every other week. I'm sick of going early, I'm sick of the weight I've been carrying. I'm treating this like every other
week. And I think just enough of the shine is off Rory this year to where it's not at what everyone's talking about the last few years. Yeah, that's one of the biggest stories. Y R R Rory. I think enough of it's off and he might just have a bucket a e F fitt. Oh yes, and he's gonna remind you that he's the number one player in the world and his name is Rory maclroy. The one club that has been giving him a lot of problem problems because the putter can come and go
for these guys. I mean, some guys are notoriously bad putters, but especially here at Augusta, where it's you're putting on glass, it's a little different like the bullpen and basically like le Clerk. Yeah, he can be good sometimes, but like it's the approach play all right, the irons and all that stuff. And he had his best week in a long time last week and his third place finish hit the Valerio Texas Open. I'm with you, Mike. No, that's not my pick, but that's Do you have
one name to win the Masters? Kevin Turner. I'm a big pe you know who. I think he has not been playing well, but no one's talking about and I think he's gonna be awesome and I think he might win it. Victor Hoveland, which everyone's a little He has not been playing well, and I know it's probably not the course, like if you're not playing well to go oh and all of a sudden, you're just gonna start kicking ass. But Victor Hoveland has everything you need to win here, absolutely,
and his odds are gonna be good. I mean it's he's a long shot or anything. He's probably the six or seventh favorite to win. But dude, I'm a little drunk on Victor Hovelind. I kind of love it because it's so not sexy. It's nice. He was seventh last year. I think he can do it, and maybe I love him and maybe that's part of the problem too. The ones that I saw on him was he does not have a top fifteen finish so far in twenty twenty four. Oh uh
oh, change it. Hideki Matsuma can't go wrong. My friend Hideki absolutely could be the guy. He could be the danger man this week. That's the one name you need to know. Mike Hi Deki changed it.