This is a downbeat on ninety seven to one the freak. We know that the NBA playoffs are pretty much set. We'll get to that a little bit at nine. Maybe Mavericks will have the Clippers in Round one, five seed versus the four. So when does that start next Sunday Monday? Well, I think it'll be Friday or Saturday, or maybe Saturday or Sunday, because the play in tournament will begin tomorrow night with the two teams in the West, with the four teams in the West. Actually, I think we'll play
Kings and Warriors will play. Loser of that game will be out, and then you'll have the Lakers playing the Pelicans and then then they'll go through all the things if they win. You know, obviously the winner of the seven eight game gets in and then the eight and the nine team will play. So yeah, but interesting, the Mavericks are set, the Suns will play the Who's the three? Gosh, I was looking at it earlier. The point is we'll talk about it, not because I had it, No,
I just had it up a minute ago. It's like, uh, and then there's like a lot of stuff about it. In the other portion of the Bright youell them the Knicks for the two seed in the East, bind the Celtics. Jalen Brunson is and the Knicks are the Celtics the only team in the East that remotely scare anybody, I think, so, I think they're the only them. And the Nuggets are the only team you could argue
are better than the Mavericks. And I'm not saying the Mavericks are incapable of beating either, because we don't know what these nuts down the road are capable of. Sure, you know, yeah, yeah, true. So you know, we look at it, youngest team ever to be the one seed, their average player, their average age, and the roster is twenty three point nine years old. Yeah, oh yeah, I would buy all the
stock and okay, see in the next few years. But also, yeah, On Bronton is so good and I think it's underreported how incredible that man is. Like, we nailed it, you hit, but I just you couldn't afford to make it work and there'd be no Kyrie if you kept Bronson. Yeah, I think it's worked out right. Yeah, it's the tea Wolves and Suns. That's kind of fun, Denver. The two will play you know, we'll see what happens, either the Lakers or the It's funny
because the Warriors could lose one game and be out just like that. I think that's good, right, I think that'd be very good. I wouldn't want to mess with them, to be honest. I'd rather have the Kings than them. More on that at nine right now though, the full Sports at seven with the intro right now seven now Sports at seven, Another ranger thing for you at nine too. Yesterday Master Master Master, it is a
Master weekend. How hard did you, guys? Masters? Danny, Hmmm, pretty hard, Not as hard as I would have liked to, because I had Malcolm quite a bit on Saturday after like in the prime time of it, and then yesterday morning midday, but I had it on you know.
Yeah, there's certain times where you know, he wants to play or he wants to watch something else, and but I was pretty locked in a golf doesn't pique his interest all that much on TV at least he you know, dude, he'll kind of stop down and watch and he thinks it looks cool. And putts. He likes watching the putts because he likes to see especially the long ones and they get close, he's like, oh, it almost went in. I'm like, yeah, dude, that a lot for
Tiger. Yeah almost went in. Made the damn cut. He made the cut, and my god, it's about it. He played a lot of golf this weekend. She's weak dead last. Yeah. Think he was sixteen over sixteen over eighty two seventy seven on the weekend. That's the worst round he's ever played, right, I think as a pro boy, I've got to be right. I think it was. I think I read that headline somewhere earlier today. He looks so tired. He looked sweaty too. He
was very sweaty. He's always just so listening, I know. But it might be just because he's so his legs are so messed up. The way he has to matriculate the course, I guess is just harder because yeah, he's drenched all the time. There's so many times where the camera went on him on Saturday where he had just this look on his face after completing a hole and he looked like the Ben Affleck cigarette meme. It's like this guy of all people that look like they want a cigarett. Right now, it's
Tiger Woods when he was finishing his front nine. I think it was the feature groups and Colton ost or somebody. They're like, they're like fifty to fifty that he just walks off the nine green and right into the locker room, you know, because he knows he's out of it. Yeah, he's clearly hurting. I didn't see too much like wincing or like pain, you know, but he's a tough sob. I think he hides that pretty well. But it's just that look on his face like he's about to throw up.
It's not so much pain that it's a deep pain, I think, or he just can't handle the not being able to do what he used to do. But he's he said it multiple times, continues to that I don't practice, which is maybe it's not strange, maybe he's really just protecting his body. But he's going to try to play at the PGA Championship which is May sixteenth, and the US Open after that, and the Open Championship. He's going to play in those once a month is what he's been his plan.
But he said I don't practice, so I don't think he can. And he said, you know, he gets up at three am. That's what Shipley said. The amateur he played with, they talked about it. He said he had to wake up at three, and they keep like alluding to whatever he has to do to get his body ready to play. But I don't think they ever really lay it out. It's probably a lot of
stretching. It's got to be. But if you really have to wake up at three for whatever nine am tea time, maybe yeah, yeah, just to do what you need to do to get ready to go and hang at eighty two. Who cares? He made the damn cut. A lot of very good current players didn't make the cut, like all in all solid week. We talked of his last week, and I think it was the I think it was off the air, and if it was on the air, I apologize. But all the things that happened to him injury wise all fine.
The the wreck was so unnecessary and he could have still done some of these things. Yeah, if the wreck doesn't have and which is just him being a bad driver or not being lucid or whatever was going on, we still don't really know, and there was a sketchy investigation around it, but
that if that doesn't happen, maybe he can still do it. Yeah, you know, but you know he talked about too like the Masters, he knew this course front and back, he knew where everything would bounce, so the next one actually have to go practice and walk the course and find out where the ball is gonna you know, break and all that stuff. I texted you guys. Look, he if he could have putt, and I'm talking about not crazy putts, if he could have just been fairly consistent with
his with his putting, he wouldn't have been half bad. But he missed so many damn what looked like six to eight foot putts that you're just normally used to seeing a professional golfer right sink. He's forty eight. I keep going back to if he took two years off, could he like be good to play when he's fifty like or is it just allways gonna be I think he's just not what he's got now, and he knows he's like my age, young enough to drag it out. And I'm eligible for these tournaments,
so I might as well. I wonder if I wonder if he's just playing it. So when he won the Masters in nineteen, that's five years for all the majors. But I yeah. So it's just the Master's in PGA that he's eligible for life, right. I don't know how it works on the US Open. No, you don't get it for life in the US Open or the Open. And I wonder if he's like, well, who am I not to play in these? I'm eligible, like as a golfer because I wanted twenty nineteen, not because I'm this legend grow the game.
But after those five years, if he'll just do the Masters forever, would you? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, that's how much it hurts, Like DD Yeah, I was the whole time going why he doesn't need to finish today? He doesn't have to do this. He's not the forty seven hundred dollars he got from that. Yeah, it does not matter. He's hurting. Get off the course, dude. Like, I don't know, it's sad to watch him too, man, I don't know. It's like hard
to watch most people play the Masters forever. And he might, but he also might have the ego that he does not want to go out there as a sideshow, which he is. I don't want to say he is because he made the f and cut and Speeth and Justin Thomas and Victor Hovlin. Three dudes are right near the top of the world. Didn't make the cut, you know, so that's I don't think the delay did him any favors either, or he had to play extra golf on uh yeah Friday, twenty
three holes. Yeah, that might have been what done him. Man, Friday whooped their asses. Man that run rough Saturday. They wanted off that course. I wonder if his looks of anguish were also combined, you know, not only the pain and the result, but obviously kind of being somewhat reflective and thinking, man, I'm almost fifty and I'm gonna be that guy and not not too many years. That's taking the ceremonial first shot, yeah, and just realizing that the glory days. Yeah, the glory days are
over. Man. It probably will be him and Phil for like ten years when they're in there six mid late sixties. Oh, Phil is gonna play till he sixty. And Phil has been what great health always. He made the cut too. Bj Singh made the cut too, though, so yeah, of course, knowledge Jose Mariela Fauble at sixty. You're right though, on in a tournament that had the rain and the wind and everything. The names you listed of guys that didn't make the cut. Could they can win
any tournament on any given week. Yes, you don't say that about Tiger now, but for him to he beat him, it's incredible. Yes, making the cut should have been his victory for the weekend, and clearly it was really because that was not good on Saturday Sunday. All right, let's get to it. The Scotti Scheffler Show and there have You know, it's I don't know if it's lazier just you can't help it, or if it's
correct that Scotty Scheffler is showing signs of Tiger level domination. Now, yes, give wait another decade or at least a half decade before you even kind of officially invoke their names together. But there's some dominant traits to what Scotty Scheffler's doing that does make you think of this. Now, there were times when Brooks Koepka and Jordan Speith over the last decade have been the oh my god, they and Rory, I mean, we're fine. Are they just
on the precipice of destroying everyone every week and it never really happens. He looks like he's doing it, and he's going to be the favorite in every major this year, right, And there's some similarities as far as winning the players and winning the Masters, winning as the number one player in the world.
I mean, there are Tiger esque things that he's doing. And then just the eyeball test, he is head and shoulders the best player out there, bogey avoidance, He's got very similar numbers to Tiger, and it was it felt inevitable, and that is a Tiger thing. Now there's maybe a different conversation to where are we all rallying behind Scotty like we are Tiger? No, we're not. Is Scotty have an army of people that he's bringing
to Masters coverage? No, Tiger definitely had that, and it felt like you were watching magic when you watch Tiger at his peak, and that maybe because he is that damn good. The Scotty shuffler went on to thump everybody finished eleven under four struke victory for his second Masters in three years, and
dominant not even close to the buzz we told them this last week. Now even close to the buzz that speak had in his day with no dominant you know, it's like and the numbers that Scotty said to two Masters wins in five years, fastest to do it and to win two since the guy who won it first in nineteen thirty four, Mike Horton Smith. Horton Smith. But that's a little unfair because the first one was the first one, you
know. Yeah, but no one else has won two in three years like that, right, But if you win the first one, then you're a heavy favorite to be the first to set that record. But yes, well again, sad eighty eight years since that's happened, so no one else is doing that. I mean to both wins by three and four shots, not squeaking it out. That's a short list too. Yeah, what in the world, he's multiple winners that have done it by that many strokes. Yeah.
I think Tiger is on the that's another equivalent. And I do predict that he will fall off once this kid comes, because life gets harder when you have a kid. Okay, at least that's what I've been told. I don't I couldn't speak to that personally. Well, I think priorities shift. And he said that he's like, you know, starting in a weeks, he said, golf will probably be don't know about fourth. Yeah,
but he's always kind of done that. He's been very good at compartmentalizing how good he is at this skill, this sport, versus the rest of his life. And I think he has prioritized his religion and his wife over golf. Now I don't know how that all actually plays, and I don't know. He seems like the kind of guy who would say, yes, now, golf is fourth, this child is more important to me, and he still goes out and thumps everybody. I mean, I don't think Scotti Scheff's
gonna win the Grand Slam. This is a second major win. You know, it's not like he's racked up. You know, he's not doesn't have he's not winning him every time he goes out there. But he's just on a different level right now. We knew he was gonna win coming into the weekend, coming into Sunday, and he did what you expected him to do, which is pump ball straight down the fairway. Now, I don't think he was in the top ten, and like approach shots as far as strokes
gain, which is where he is head and shoulders better than ever. Everyone on earth is iron accuracy essentially, so he kind of did it without his most dominant trait showing itself. But it was just kind of never in doubt, you know what I noticed about him? And in the break he's a robot and not so much referring to his personality, but he's so efficient and he doesn't make the fatal flaw. He doesn't make the big mistake. So you really don't even know how creative of a golfer he is. He's not.
He never puts himself into a position to where he's having to Bubba Watson himself, yeah, to make something insane or shoot left handed or everything is just so meticulous and regimented. Yes, and right down the middle. He stripes every damn drive right where he wants it to be. And you're right. I mean, I think he's always been known. You know, his one of his strong suits is his iron play. But his putting is so consistent. He never puts himself in a position to where, uh, oh,
Scott, he's in trouble. Now fixed it. He fixed it like a month ago. Yeah, and they said he had a change and like, forget all the alignment, forget overthinking this be an athlete and do this thing that you were born to do. And his putting has turned around completely. Okay, I'm glad you said that, because I don't think. I don't know Scotty, right, I don't know his family, I don't know friends of his. But I think there's something to him that might just be
super helpful. Is that he's that that big, that size, that athletic. He can do a lot of things with the ball that no one else can do. Plus he's kind of just kind of dumb guy. Now he may be smart, but I feel like he approaches golf as he's just kind of simpleton. And I'm gonna hit it here and then I'm gonna hit it here and then it's gonna go in and I'm gonna win, and now I'm
gonna go home. We're gonna have a baby. Like I do think there's up there Whereas Speith is running through the stuff in his head and he's over calculating if it's sixty five and the wind hits there, it's gonna be seventy five yards. Oh there, Oh crap, hits it in the water. Like I think there's something about that and maybe that wrong. I no, no, I don't want to underestimate anything about this, but I I just watched him on that first season of Full Swing too. He's speeding and they're
talking about dude, you're speeding. He's like, oh yeah, oh the speed limit. It's like, okay, this guy, does he know how to drive? It's very odd. Does he friends with anybody on the tour? Speith, yeah, Tom Kim, Max Homo was waiting for him. I think he's friends with all of them, maybe not best friends with I think you're right, but domb is so unfair, total field golfer. Is that what you're saying? No, like simple and calm minded maybe is a
better way to say it. Dustin Johnson's dumb. Yeah, he's a simple, beautiful idiot and he benefited from that because you don't even think about it. But the truth is, and Bryson said this, and Brython's a psychopath too, and who knows where to slot him? But Bryce's like, look, you have to remember I am playing golf, that we're on a course, we're on the same course. This ball's got to go in that hole, like, try not to overthink it. And Scotty, however he does,
he does it perfectly, absolutely right. It just hit that green. I played a golf tournament once where I wrote on my glove like a d tst. I wrote it right in the web of my thumb, and that man man always do the smartest thing. Just try to remind myself. It did not work. I shot terribly, But I think Scotty has that inherently. Yes, like you said, like he stays out of trouble hill at
the middle of a fat green. I mean, just look at amen corner, look at eleven right, the eleventh hole tied for the hardest hole in the course. It took out all of his contenders. It's where everyone went down. They all went down because lud big Aberg hooked it into the water. Call Marikawa hooked it into the water. You just throw it out short right or way right. And Scotty missed the green to the right. Fine,
But in golf sometimes you can't help it. And then when you're in second or third place, you're looking up the leader words Saint Jesus, Scotty shuffler. I know he's not gonna screw anything up. I have to go for a pin or give myself a chance at something that you know. I mean, Mark Howis said it, Mark Howis said it. He's like I knew I shouldn't have gone for that, but I couldn't help it. Skin Scotty had By that point, they all knew where he was because Scotty had
done damage on eight and nine and ten. I think to get that lead, like we were still tying, we get the whole seven hoole a, we were still yes a one stroke match. By then, he had already extended the lead to three strokes before everyone started hurting themselves and they're like, well, crap, we gotta catch him. So they take the aggressive play, hit the water max. Homa hit it into a bush on twelve.
He kind of got screwed because he tried to do the smart thing because it was in Tiger's win where everyone tried to go for the pin, and the way twelve is situated, it's way further out that part of the green that it is the front left, and Tiger's like right over that bunker every time, don't even think about it. And Homa tried that and he hit it good, and then it took a brutal hop and disappeared in the bush,
essentially ending his day. I mean, or Obert Albert might have been the star of the week, right, Yeah, and he and he's the dude who looks like he belongs and will be a part of your golf life for the next fifteen years. And he I felt like he was almost like and they even mentioned this on the broadcast, like he was just almost like soaking everything in, not even trying to catch Scottie, Like you know, it's like it's impossible, I'm not get four birdies and last four holes. Let's
just hit it and just kind of soak it all in. And I don't know if that's true or not, but watching him, he was smiling even after a missit. He's just smiling. He would de text his tech too, So I support Ludwig Obert. He's not as euro as his name makes him sound. No, I mean he is a euro but he was at Tech. You wouldn't even know he's zero when you hear him talk. And he's got a little bit of spice, some smiles and a little number one
up. When he made that pot on whatever then twenty four he didn't even he didn't even get mad when someone smacked the power bar out of his hand. Yeah, hey, you know why because because he knew that, oh I just lost my power bar and the next hole. It shows him munching on a sandwich, like a big ass sandwich. He's out there just eating two dollars sandwich. He's playing. I'm claiming him. That's my guy. You you don't get to claim that's my guy. You can't claim him.
What does that mean? He did that's my guy. That means it's his guy. Okay, you guy. You called your guy years ago. Fleetwood, Yeah, he was around, he was kidding. You know what, I would have served myself by picking the joke picks. I could have picked Max Helma because he burdied on him three. I could have picked Tommy Fleetwood, and I could have picked Danny. Will it even? Yeah? And I would have been fine, white knuckle riding freaking d Shambeau for four days.
That's my friend. That's my best friend, Pryce and d Shambeau. I did send you, guys the picture of us playing backyard football football? What did you see? You saw two friends throwing a football? Now you did see it? Is that what you saw? Danny? Because I want to tear this down and I don't know why. Frankly, we saw hot broad in the pool at the pool, don't zoom into the people in the pool. When I'm showing you a cool picture, a cool it was a
live picture. You could also press it. Yeah I did. You did? You saw the boobs right on the surface of the water bouncing and your boobs from the post. Something happened with the lens of that camera. Bryon looked really lean on the post route. He was making you run fifty seven yards down the field. Huh running back. He was playing fetch with you, not catch. He's not playing his friends having a catch together. You were Simon's friend. He did good, although he couldn't make a putty there,
but he hung around. It was fun. But something about the inevitability of Scotty is and you know what's money He's made just as caddy in the ten percent you see that tweet. His caddy's made like one and a half million dollars in the last this year, basically last three months. Yeah, I love these They do this all the time. So based on ten percent, his caddy, Ted Scott's made one point two million this year his caddy, and that puts him fifty fourth out of the two hundred PGA players.
And he's ahead of Victor Hobblin Ricky Fowler, his caddy. All the live guys are like, well, we're making them way more than you guys are. Are you still? We'll clean up a little more at nine anything else including how they kind of ruined the send off to Vernelnquist's master's career, and some other stuff with the Rangers and the MAVs at nine o'clock a little bit later coming up next. Yeah, you're right, guys. You guys ready for us? Butt City? Is it coming? The storms are a coming.
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