It's the downbeat on ninety seven to one, A freak good morning, metropol. So everyone's doing well on this Monday morning. You know, it's a day that quite frankly should be a national holiday. We should all have it off as we all gathered around a TV, either a loon or with loved ones or with friends at parties, not me, and you can enjoy the day going to work. Many of you may be hungover this about the new Beyonce country song which she released last night. More on that seven thirty and
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is real just mentally, it's just mentally taxing tired. Yes, it is a long day. You can't take a break from it now, especially you know if you because everything it offers. There's certain times okay, commercial if you're watching it live, or if you wanted to, like what I love to do during NFL games is get about an hour behind and just blast through commercials and halftime. You want to see all the commercials. You want to see the halftime show. You feel like if you get up, you're gonna
miss something, and that's that's the case. And if your eyes are on something for four plus hours, it's a lot. Man. No, it absolutely is watching the Irishmen, and the first half really was yeah right, okay, So if you're a MAVs fan, we are the home of the MAVs. We'll get to you in about seven or eight minutes, all right, so get ready. We had some new acquisitions. Might have one of those new acquisitions on the show later this week, possibly two more games before
the All Star Break. MAVs in a second. The Waste Management Open in Phoenix. Scottsdale Right Scottsdale is one of the more fun golf tournaments of the year. It is known for being party atmosphere, but this year they had bad weather, tons of rain, mud, a lot of problems, and they usually time it out great. We're on Sunday, the thing ends between four and five, and then you can flip it on over to the Super Bowl right before the pregame festivities get going. Not the nine analysts on a
desk like national anthem. A game on it's usually timed out perfectly. Didn't work that way yesterday because they had delays and they were just trying to get it done because they had a bunch of weather problems. This is from a tweet from Michael mceew and he is not my friend up at one Star, but he is a guy from the bunkerd podcast, the deputy editor of Bunkard. He had a big tweet. The Phoenix Open has massively jumped the shark
this week. It's straddled the fine line for several years now, but for several years now, but how anybody can read all this below from the past few days and recognize it as a golf tournament is beyond me. The organizers have lost control and then he's got a bulleted list. Spectator injured following from grandstand, fans filmed fighting with one another, organizers having to close the gates, temporary ban on booze sales commentators joining in the booing on sixteen. I
actually thought that was kind of funny. One player branding the event an S show. H what was it? Who had on? Young Ben? Been hung on? Yeah, been on, been on? Called it an S show. Zach Johnson confronting spectators. What is Zak Johnson in that? The sand angel on sixteen and fans too drunk to stand? Amazing guys being unable to control You see any of this, that's a lot of it. Holy
mackerel. We had guy in a front row on sixteen and borat Bikini incredible, which is just any anytime the bar at Bikini makes an appearance, so good, I get it. There's golf, there's there's opposing sides where you have the old guard that thinks it is a dignified man's game that needs to play with a modicum of decorum, and then over here you got no man. You you old school dudes, need to loosen up and have some fun, make golf fun again. There's got to be a place in the middle.
Well, the wasted management open is not in the middle. Is at least it wasn't this year that was the most unhinged golf event you will ever see in your life. It's important. I think it's important to say this. Last week was so bad for the PGA Tour because they had weather issues at Pebble Beach, could not play Sunday, and directly combating that was the Live Tour in Mexico and John Rahm, Brooks, Koepka, Dustin Johnson.
Now, all these big names who were on the tour who left, and a lot of PGA Tour people who had never even given Lived much of a shot went, jeez, my Pebble Beach cat taken away. I guess I will flip it over to Live and they watched it. So Live this week is in Vegas and they're doing their thing, but Waste Management has the headlines because of this. It was pretty good tournament. You had some big names up contending as well, and I didn't hear much about the Live tournament this
week. Everything in the golf world is about the Waste Management Open, and that's what they need. So I'm okay with what happened. Now, I want to play you this quip from a bartender first, and then Mike, I'm gonna let you have at it here. But this bartender his name is Dustin Williamson, and he's reacting to a post on TikTok where this drunk girl is going, why did you guys stop sarving out? He was how drunk she sounds, and that he is a bartender. He's like, I'll explain
to you what happened. The whole waste man just stops aroun alcohol and I need someone at home to tell me why. As somebody that was bartending today when they told us to stop serving alcohol, let me tell you what we heard. So around one thirty, when we were extremely busy, we were
told by our boss to stop serving alcohol. The reason being was because the Scotts Sale Police Department in the Scotts Sale Fire Marshall told us to stop and they stopped letting people in because there was almost a half a million people on the course at that one time, and the security that we're supposed to be checking tickets at the gate just said this had started letting everybody in without checking
tickets. So people were getting in for free. People were getting into vip boxes for free where it's all you can drink, and eventually everybody in the VIP boxes are like, ah it, we'll just serve everybody no matter what, and so everybody's getting extremely hammered. And on top of that, the behavior was just too out of control for them to manage with half a million
people there. So when they told us to stop serving, we just stood around and hoped that they were going to say, okay, we can serve now in like a half hour, hopefully some people will get out, but that never happened. After standing around for over two hours, they eventually said
we're done. We want everybody out. So everybody that was in general admission and not in a VIP skybox they ended up leaving because they couldn't buy food, they couldn't buy non alcoholic drinks, and they couldn't buy alcoholic drinks. So there's really no point to be there because who cares about golf, right, And so that's what ended up happening. There was way too many people there for them to manage the situation, and so they thought it was best
to just clear everybody out before stuff got really out of hand. See y'all next year. Keep in mind, keep in mind, this man is not describing Lollapalooza. Yeah, he's describing a peach a tour event. Golf. That's incredible. I like, I like that this thing has an identity. I mean they kind of casually call it the People's Open. It's a party, but it may have I don't like, not for me. I don't care in all sports. I want chaos. I don't care if you.
I mean, I guess you shouldn't yell in someone's backswing, which I know happened to Speet on eighteen as he's you suck close to contention, Yeah, and he finishes his follow through and points to the guy you know, like that's him, and then the ball soars through the air and lands pin high ten feet perfect shotten too right, Yeah, exactly, So I think it's funny to watch from afar. I don't have much Christine asked. He's like, would you want to go to this? I'm like, no, I
don't want to be in all that. Now if you gave me a sweet ticket on sixteen, like I knew where I you know, but to get in the mix. And these bastards wait until seven fifteen when they open the gates. But they're there for four hours waiting and probably pound drinks too. Such college kids, right, yeah, and no, I don't know that any of them really care about golf. And I don't care that they don't care about golf. I like that it's a party. But like the PGA
Tour is going to embrace the sixteenth hole. I mean, the logo for the tournament is the little coliseum they have on sixteen. You know, it's dude all day Saturday. It's funny, and I think this is correct. They showed every t shot on sixteen with Kevin Kisner and Smiley Kaufman like commentating and booing and yelling and throwing footballs in the crowd, so they're like full
embracing this thing. I don't think they showed one shot on seventeen or eighteen, yeah, which are cool holes, and seventeen is a driveable part four like awesome, tournament deciding hole, and they fully embrace the chaos of sixteen and then also with the other side of their mouth say oh, it's gone too far and all this. Yeah, and it's like I haven't you know,
there's a few players who are mad about it. I think most people, most of the players, I think understand like this week's too you know, this week, yeah, and if you don't want to do it, you don't have to play that tournament and had a huge this year though, so you know, No, he had a smaller person, but last year had a big person. Yeah. It had a smaller purse this year. Yeah, eight million bucks versus last year which was twenty And that is what
brings the boys to the yard. Now you thought it was a milkshake. No, no, no, it's a big purse. Former Ryder Cup captain Zach Johnson freaking Zach who Mikey and I just can't stand him. He got it to it with a guy. Look, this is short, but it's kind of funny. Somebody said it, I'm just sick of it. Tut up. The guy goes, I didn't grow up. That's the other guy who told Zact to grow up? Okay, what was the circumstance. He was talking in his back swing, and look, it ain't the worst things
that were happening in people's backswings. There were fights, there were mud slides, there were drug guys just hammered who were going down and just sliding down these hills and the mud. One of my favorite videos was the dude that took it upon himself to collect like I don't know five thousand plastic cups. Cups Snake build a three hundred foot tower to the third level with this thing.
It must have weighed one hundred pounds. And he's trying to hold this thing and it falls over and lands on a promo table and knocks a bunch of crap off of it. It was just chaos Cupsnake. As they're building it, people are just throwing their cups over to them and cheering for Cupsnake grow. But if you're there watching it, you're going, hell, yeah, this is awesome, But say, how longer to make that snake grow? Like it's so stupid, but it's great, and it's always on Super
Bowl week like it's it's it's kind of perfect. They needed it, and I hope they understand that they needed that tiger back. This week they have a chance to kind of right back up because live for a for a week there had pulled ahead of them. You know, back to Cup Snake guy
real quick. I love the when when somebody drunk in a big crowd is doing something that is getting the favor of the crowd and they're cheering him on, and then when they lose interest, they always try to keep going and everybody's like, Okay, we get it, and they're still I'm not done yet. It's like you you should wrap it up, cup snake man. So I play. I love prize picks, but I play some DraftKings too always, and honestly, I don't do well. Like I told you,
gambling gambling luck doesn't bend my way too often. Draft kis is getting harder. It's all hard, and people put in like forty teams, you know, and then just tweak golfers. So it's really hard to just win any
money or or do well with it. But I entered the twenty five dollars they're million dollar kind of tournament, right, Forty seven thousand people in this thing, and I was in the top one hundred all day Saturday and Sunday with a fairly realistic chance of winning it, which would have been two hundred thousand dollars. Really, I've never been in this position before, So I was locked into this damn thing, staring at at Tom Hogy and Daniel Berger,
who are nowhere near the leaders, but please make that putt. And I ended up doing very well. I won five hundred dollars. I finished in sixty first place out of forty seven thousand. But to watch Attorney like that, it was real different because I mean I had Scheffler, I had Nick Taylor, the guy ultimately won the thing. I had Kurt Kittayama, who are all near the top of the leader board, Wyndham Clark who biffed
it on Sunday. But what you're dealing with, make that putt knock that stiff and you make hundreds of dollars when you're kind of in this top one hundred. I think the highest I got was like twelfth place for a minute, and I was winning two five hundred dollars and I'm like, oh my god, but a couple breaks, and I mean it wasn't the realm.
I mean I was in my head doing the two hundred thousand dollars. Why I get about one forty after taxis you can probably pay off my house, but that's credit cards is gone, a car gone, a chunk to the house, and a vacation because of these idiots golfing surrounded by drunkards with cups make cupstakes guys. The amount of people like just and they all look like
college frat bros. You're right, just walking with a cup in their hand and they just can't control their body and they like two steps back and regain their balance and they start walking again, and just you know, the loss of physics and gravity. That's what they're doing. The lean, the gangster lean that those guys are doing, it's unbelievable. They look like me the first time I ever went to New Orleans. Yeah, like at four in the morning, I'm fine here, just walking around in a figure eight.
Yes, yeah, one shoe, one crop coming off, yeah, shortened them shorts, yeah, yeah, we know you MAVs. Yes, mad god what was that. So they start out and they get their little starting lineup, and then six minutes in here comes PJ. Washington and Daniel Gafford together and Luca decides, I'm gonna throw a hell Mary to Daniel Gafford and watch him go get it. Luca threw it oop to Daniel Gafford, turned around and threw his hands up in the air before the oop it was even
completed. Daniel Gafford had nineteen points. PJ. Washington had fourteen points. The Mavericks smoked the very very good Oklahoma City Thunder by thirty five points. Oh my god, they saved it. They may have just saved it and we may win the NBA Champion. Like, I'm not gonna do the overreact to one. But that is scary, and honestly, just because of the names Luke and Kyrie, it was a little scary for other teams potentially in the playoffs. Look, I don't know if it's gonna look just like that,
but they beat it's because it's the Okac Thunder. It doesn't feel like the best team in the West, and I don't know if they are. I mean the right now, the Nugget they're behind technical. They were Timber one Saturday, which is another weird team to think the best of the West is, Oh, is it the Tea Wolves, Is it the Thunder? No, it's probably the Clippers, and probably the Nuggets still and maybe even
the Suns. But if it was one of those teams, if that was the Nuggets that you just want beat by forty and scored almost one fifty on and did it in just pure fashion with it your new acquisitions doing exactly what they were brought in to do, like meshing perfectly with the guys that we had. That's a dream day. That was so fun and I'm so psyched for tonight. Tonight it's the Wizards or Wizards A're gonna smoke them. I'm
going Wednesday night, hopefully Wimby Place, it's the Spurs. And then you get All Star break, which a little bit of time for these guys to get settled, oh, find a place to live, unpack their bags, and just chill for a minute. Like so I love that, and then I kind of feel like it's on. That's the happiest Luca has looked in a long time. Yeah, you know what I thought. I like about excuse me, I like about the Oh god, I like about the moves.
And I remember us talking about this, I think early last week that we feel like if one out of the twelve, if one dude is not playing for the MAVs, it knocks them off the tracks. It just it completely just makes them have to reconsider their rotations. And Bobby Crawler brought this up from the MAVs when we had him on discussing these moves. He said, what this does is it does He agreed with that, you know, he agreed. I remember him saying that it's like, yeah, if one
guy is out, he just throws the rotations out. Of out of sync. This shorees that up man. Yes, they are strong from top to bottom now, And yeah, you don't have to have Tim Hardaway giving you twenty points, don't. You don't have to have Josh Green giving you something every night. Max, he doesn't have to play twenty minutes. And you're
not Kean Pile doesn't have to play at all. I mean, you're not counting on the guys that they brought in to the as three point go they go, yeah, well, and you're not gonna have that as starters, right, you know. I mean Josh Green might be worthy of being a starter. Probably is that dude's kind of losing his head. But Tim Hardaway is like a dream person off the bench, yes, to come in and just pop and Max he is too. And there's a couple of things they
did, which is one characteristic, sorry Kevin, that one characteristic. If you remember, the twenty eleven team had was a very very good second team. Oh my god, Yes, this getting deeper, taking pressure off of role players. And then there's a couple of things they did, like Luke and Kyrie can play together, Yes, they play together a lot of the game, but there are times when one of them's out and it's the other
guy's job to handle it. And they had Kyrie just kind of leading the second team the other day, just for a few minutes at a time. But you're sitting there and you go, Okay, Kyrie's out there with the bench guys now and he's cooking and they're cooking, And how cool would that be if you almost have like two teams. This is like almost like youth basketball where you just kind of all right, we're gonna take these five out
and put these five in. Now, you get because Kyrie would be perfect to mentor those guys and just run in the second group and at the end of the game, your best five out there, no matter what, huz so good. You want your second team to be able to beat over half the teams in the NBA. That's a that's a sign of a damn strong
lineup. It might be like cheating, letting Luca throw balls up and having these big boys dunk it because all he's really had is Lively, and Lively is still getting his feet wet and figuring out where the hell the bathroom is in this arena. He's like teenage part of it, and he's been the guy. Yeah, but when you add a couple of bets who can kind of do the same thing, specifically Gafford in that case, I mean Luca's options. Guys who can expand defensive questions have to expand and stay on their
heels just a little bit. If you have one pound of weight backward on your heels that was normally forward to defend Luca, that's enough for him to just kill you if he wasn't gonna kill you anyway. Move Derrick Jones Junior to the second Union. That's the second unit because he Gafford and Lively in PJ. Washington. Now, like your guys who can actually jump and Josh Green I guess too, but you didn't have many people who could even jump in the air. You have that now. I'm not I swear to god.
I don't think I'm overreacting. Official contender dude, I think social and I don't want to overdo just the one game. But first first taste of that, that dish was so damn good. And they're gonna They're faired by fourteen and a half points tonight. The Wizards have nine wins and forty something lost. Is they're one of the worst teams in basketball, they'll cover that,
they'll cover that. Let's go it's fun tonight here on the Freak, MAVs Whiz be there and then MAVs Spurs Wednesday, and then the All Star Break. But lightning fast because I listened to the first half of that game on n side the Freak, the Home of the Mavericks and Doctor TiO. Sorry, I'll show Inside Sports Medicine. Yeah, and Coop is awesome. Goop's great. He's the best, you know, like we have Nadelle,
like we have Sham, like we're spoiled. And I don't know how long Cooper a year's been doing it. Twenty I believe Coop's a fireball or twenty one. Well, I don't know if he where he you know, he's no no Eric Nadell fine, but he's pretty. He's gonna get there pretty much. And when you're driving, you're just watching the game. When you listen to him, it's great. He paints a beauty of a picture, gets fired up. That dude calls a nice game coming up next. She
did call Brian Demris Brad the other night. I thought that was funny. Oh yeah, I'm sorry about that. Twenty years. It's a habit going up. Next, Corporate America was kurt shielding out seven million bucks for commercials. Was their money spent wisely? Next time, ninety seven won the Freak