Latest / The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon / MLB's final week, Ken found a betting loophole, Matt Rudy on the Ryder Cup & Mitch Holthus talks Chiefs
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- 0:04Hi, Good afternoon. Welcome, Miller Condon on a
- 0:07Wednesday. It's the Iowa Sports Radio
- 0:09Network. Trent Condon, Ken Miller with
- 0:11you for the next couple of hours.
- 0:13Talk sports with you. Thanks for joining us here
- 0:15today. Here's what's coming up on our
- 0:17program 25 minutes. Our golf guy, Matt Rudy from
- 0:21formerly of golf died just now, is a ghost writer writing
- 0:24numerous books behind the scenes.
- 0:26He does a bunch of golf videos, but he's been involved in the
- 0:28game for over 3 decades. Matt Rudy will join us to
- 0:33preview Ryder Cup Ready or not, here it comes this weekend.
- 0:36We'll get into that here. Coming up in segment #1 is boy,
- 0:40oh boy. This is going to be a
- 0:41fascinating event as it usually is, but it's back on the
- 0:44American soil. We'll see, and we'll talk about
- 0:46that with Matt coming up here at 12:25.
- 0:49Then Mitch Holtis, the voice of the Kansas City Chiefs.
- 0:51Chiefs have a date with the Ravens this week.
- 0:54Unbelievable. One of these teams going to
- 0:56start their season. Hard to believe one of them.
- 0:59We'll be one and three as they both come into this game one and
- 1:03two. So we'll talk to Mitch Holtis,
- 1:05then we'll head to Chicago. I'm guessing it'll be a mixed
- 1:07bag with Cappy. He'll be in his element when it
- 1:10comes to the Bears. But the Cubs, since they
- 1:13clinched them, won a baseball game and they'll let another one
- 1:15get away last night at a big lead.
- 1:17Kate Horton leaves the game after three innings and the Mets
- 1:21come back and the Mets take it and now find themselves for that
- 1:24wild final wild card in the National League.
- 1:27Baseball's been unbelievable. And the stage for, I think, a
- 1:31terrific final Sprint to the finish line on Sunday.
- 1:34And then we'll hear from Sam. Burnaby tried to get Sam
- 1:36yesterday. He had some travel issues that
- 1:38prevented Sam from joining Trent tonight, yesterday, but he
- 1:41announced it on Sunday after the I Cubs regular season came to
- 1:44its conclusion that his career is coming to its conclusion.
- 1:48Wanted to have Sam on here to pat him on the back and to talk
- 1:52about some of the things that he's seen in the four decades or
- 1:55so that he was at the helm of the downtown Des Moines team,
- 1:58the AAA Iowa Cubs. Sam Burnaby, Trent will make
- 2:01some plays before we get out of here and turn things over to the
- 2:04boys. They'll come off the bench.
- 2:06Lucas Strange, Sean Roberts to until 5:00.
- 2:10Let's get to the Ryder Cup in a second.
- 2:11I want to start with maybe Iowa State basketball.
- 2:14A, the schedule came out. B, the news came out.
- 2:16Damon Lipsy is going to be out till November.
- 2:20Yes. So four to six weeks is what the
- 2:23diagnosis was. Did you see the press release?
- 2:27I saw that. I mean, I, I glanced at it, I
- 2:30saw that there was going to be the final comment from TJ, but
- 2:33that's basically, and I saw the length of time he's going to be
- 2:36out. But what did I miss?
- 2:37So it just struck me as odd and this comes from Ryan Workman who
- 2:42does their media over there, does a great job keeping people
- 2:46informed going through and grade 2 MCL sprained to his right knee
- 2:50in practice Tuesday, September 23rd, 23rd will be sidelined
- 2:55four to six weeks normal right go through.
- 2:57You know what his career has been dot dot dot.
- 2:59The final line of it just struck me as odd and maybe it's just
- 3:03me, but I want to get your perspective.
- 3:05Iowa State and head coach TJ Otzelberger will have no further
- 3:10comment on the injury. Yeah, I've read that same thing
- 3:13at the very end of it. Did it strike you as odd?
- 3:16Yeah, does. Yeah, I guess.
- 3:18What? What do they mean?
- 3:18Do they expect somebody to be sniffing around?
- 3:20How did it happen? Right.
- 3:22He's out because it leads doesn't lead to more speculation
- 3:26like. You're working with me too long.
- 3:29I've fired off an e-mail here. You go by the way, I've got
- 3:32another one of those. Scandals.
- 3:34We'll get to that one. I heard that on TV earlier
- 3:37today, but I don't know. There was just something about
- 3:40the wording of it that just struck me as different.
- 3:43Because Media Days is around the corner.
- 3:46Can't ask about it. Come on.
- 3:48Of course. You can ask about it.
- 3:50That's right, Big 12 Media Days and I was state media days.
- 3:53Of course they're going to be asked.
- 3:54About it, is he just going to say no comment?
- 3:58Well, we'll find out right that that is odd now that you mention
- 4:01it and you when you when you put the the media days into the
- 4:04equation, yes, of course he's going to be asked about it.
- 4:06I mean, sadly, unfortunately, Taemin Lipsey's career has been.
- 4:13Injury struck right And what did I injury remember what I brought
- 4:16up to I think it was Bill one day during the summer we're
- 4:19having a conversation on hoops and I said just put Lipsy in
- 4:22bubble wrap until. October, you did say that.
- 4:24And they didn't. And now here we are.
- 4:27Once again, you feel for the kid.
- 4:29Oh, absolutely do, Trent. Because we know what a
- 4:32tremendous defender he is. He's improved his shot immensely
- 4:35getting to the rim. Obviously a tough SOB to to play
- 4:38through what he's been through. And all you wanted to see in his
- 4:40final go. Around get through unscathed, be
- 4:42healthy. And and now how much is this
- 4:44going to set him back? Is this something that lingers?
- 4:46He's even as he just, we don't know.
- 4:48That's all the speculation that is out there, but just feel
- 4:51terrible for him because he has been a bedrock of this team, of
- 4:55this rebuild of what they've been able to do.
- 4:58And once again he gets off on a foot like this.
- 5:00It's really unfortunate. I don't know if I'm fortunate.
- 5:04It's the right way to describe the schedule that Iowa State was
- 5:07dealt yesterday, in particular, the month of February.
- 5:10Buckle up. I mean, this conference is
- 5:12unbelievable. It really is.
- 5:14But the, the, the, the gauntlet that Iowa State is going to have
- 5:18to somehow navigate through record wise.
- 5:21And what's this going to do? I mean, I guess you better put
- 5:23the hay in the barn if it's possible.
- 5:26November, December and January just pile up those winds and
- 5:30there's some good teams competition wise as well when
- 5:32they go to Las Vegas, etcetera. So so that's going to be a part
- 5:36of it. But then when you get to Big 12,
- 5:38play this gauntlet at K State, home to Baylor, at TCU, home to
- 5:42Kansas, home to Houston at BYU, at Utah, a final day of of
- 5:48February, home to Texas Tech and Travis Hines as he put in his
- 5:52column. And for the purpose of this
- 5:53column, we're going to say that the February is a 30 day month
- 5:57you have to finish in Arizona. So I mean, it's unbelievably
- 6:01tough trend, but it's going to be fun to watch it.
- 6:03But man, oh man, talk about some tests.
- 6:06Almost unfair, but it is what it is.
- 6:09One of the craziest things because then I wanted to match
- 6:11it up and see those pre season rankings from Bartorvic, just
- 6:14how difficult it was. The only team out outside the
- 6:17top 100. Colorado one O 1, UCF 83,
- 6:20Arizona State 72. All right, there's kind of the
- 6:23delineation, but the Kansas Jayhawks are the 5th ranked team
- 6:28by his pre season rankings. Houston number one overall,
- 6:31followed by BYU number six overall.
- 6:33And they have to go to BYU. Arizona, they're 12th, that's
- 6:38February 30th. Iowa State is the 4th list of
- 6:41team #15 as we talked about the other day, Kansas is the #5 team
- 6:46that ranks 17th. Texas Tech at 27 Since he 32,
- 6:49Baylor. 34 Texas Tech, by the way.
- 6:52But after that from Oklahoma State, who's 49th, that's
- 6:56usually on the outside looking in.
- 6:58Are we looking at a year where maybe we're not talking about
- 7:01the same number of teams that can be tournament teams, that
- 7:04it's much more top heavy, that it's not the depth that we're
- 7:07used to in the Big 12? Do you have the Big 10 in front
- 7:09of you? I can pull it up.
- 7:10Anxious to see but and and I know there's no February 30th.
- 7:14I was just commenting on travis.hinesandithoughthedidaverygoodjobwiththiscolumn@desmoinesregister.com.
- 7:21Big 10? Yep, as we talked about the
- 7:23other day, Michigan is the number one team in the Big 10,
- 7:26third in the country, 4th in the country.
- 7:28Purdue, Illinois 7th, UCLA 9th. That's right, four top nine
- 7:32teams in the Big 10 gap. Ohio State is fifth.
- 7:36They're the 19th ranked team in the country.
- 7:38Michigan State 22, USC 25, Wisconsin 29, Oregon 30.
- 7:43And there's the Hawkeyes, the 36th ranked, 38th ranked team in
- 7:47the country. So inside that number you were
- 7:49talking about, Yes. Well, we'll see where it goes,
- 7:53but man. Oh.
- 7:54Man, it goes deeper than that because you have four more teams
- 7:56that are still ranked in the top 50 and they are Maryland, Yeah,
- 7:59Indiana, Nebraska. There's your Huskers.
- 8:01Huskers and the Washington Huskies the bottom of the
- 8:05barrel. Northwestern at 68, Minnesota at
- 8:0884, Rutgers 99 and Penn State at one O 3.
- 8:11Medved's got a tough, tough slog ahead of him, does he not?
- 8:14We'll see where that goes. All right, Ryder Cup coming up
- 8:17this week, Trent, I'm not sure how this can be done, but I am
- 8:22sure it needs to be done because as you pointed out, this
- 8:26weekend, this upcoming weekend is as deep as and as as good as
- 8:31it gets. If you're a sports fan with
- 8:34college football in full swing in conference games in, I mean,
- 8:39just some massive games, right, Penn State, Oregon, Georgia,
- 8:44Alabama, I mean, pick your game. It's a fascinating, phenomenal
- 8:49week. Arkansas must.
- 8:51Notre Dame must win at Arkansas. There's another one, and the
- 8:53steam is coming in LSU, Ole Miss.
- 8:56Who's got the Notre Dame game by the?
- 8:57Way that's on ABC, is it OK? That'll be an 11 AM kick off LSU
- 9:01Ole Miss with the extras. Yeah, what weeks?
- 9:04The linebacker dating Lane Kiffin's daughter.
- 9:06And they decided this was the week to go forward, go public
- 9:09with that. Ohio State going on the road for
- 9:11the first time as they go to Washington, right all the way
- 9:14out to Seattle, Huskies have been playing well have.
- 9:16You seen the Huskies? I have not this.
- 9:18Year late night. Was it week one against Colorado
- 9:21State? I think that's what it was.
- 9:24We both like Damon Williams. Yep.
- 9:26And it's hard to tell a whole lot because the Huskies at this
- 9:30point have taken on Colorado State, UC Davis and Washington
- 9:34State. Well, the water gets a little
- 9:35deeper than we get. Absolutely, but just feels maybe
- 9:39something in the air there. Of course, Alabama, Georgia and
- 9:42how many times Alabama, Georgia is the game.
- 9:45It's not the. Game.
- 9:45No, it's not. Heck, there's a big one going on
- 9:47at the same time up in Ames, for crying out loud.
- 9:49Arizona. Sneaky good.
- 9:50Give me a good test for the clones and it'll do so without a
- 9:53kicker. So that makes it even a little
- 9:55bit trickier spot. So you've got that.
- 9:57You've got the final week of baseball.
- 9:59Great races. There are some fascinating
- 10:01races. I mean, Cleveland has now taken
- 10:03over the Central Division of the American League.
- 10:06I think it was August. They were 100 to 1.
- 10:08I think it was like August 8th. Cleveland was was so far,
- 10:12everybody was out of it. Detroit was home freed.
- 10:14So did you see the 6th inning yesterday how they blew the
- 10:17lead? I mean, there was one play in
- 10:19the game and Scooble's going along great.
- 10:21A ball didn't leave the infield. There was one particular that
- 10:24came out. It was kind of a a, a swinging
- 10:28bunt. So Scooble feels it doesn't have
- 10:31time to turn around and make the throw to first base.
- 10:34He actually turned himself into a long snapper and and and
- 10:39snapped the ball between his legs, only it went over the
- 10:42first baseman's head. It's it.
- 10:44It cuts the margin to run. It was just unbelievable how
- 10:47Cleveland was able to win that game, how Detroit has lost that
- 10:50game, how they've lost what seemingly was an insurmountable
- 10:55lead. They're now on the outside
- 10:58looking in because of the tiebreaker goes to Cleveland
- 11:00when it comes to this. So that's terrific.
- 11:02Dodgers are anything but home and cooled out in the NL W the
- 11:06wild card. Cincinnati gets by all teams.
- 11:08The Pirates. By the way, the Reds will face
- 11:11Paul Skeens today, the Mets win. The Diamondbacks come back to
- 11:16win last night, so they're in the thick of things.
- 11:19The Yankees are closing on on the on the Blue Jays thanks to
- 11:22the umpires. I sound like the audience, but
- 11:26it's true. So there's just some fascinating
- 11:30races when it comes to baseball. So that's going to be on, on the
- 11:34on the schedule. The Cubs have not locked up
- 11:36home. Fields, They haven't won a game
- 11:37since they clinched the playoff. It felt like we were going to
- 11:40get Cubs, Padres. We still are probably, but just
- 11:43in a different place, right? It might be an old Petco.
- 11:45Instead of starting at 7, we may get a 9:00 first.
- 11:48Yes, come on. I mean, come on, Cubbies.
- 11:51Let's go, Padres. So you've got that.
- 11:53And if that's that's not enough, starting at 8:30 on Sunday
- 11:57morning, we've got in the NFL and we've got four different
- 11:59time slots, Vikings, Steelers, 8:30, then the noon games, then
- 12:04the 330 games. Oh, by the way, Ravens, Chiefs
- 12:07and then Sunday Night Football. So the Ryder Cup trend, as good
- 12:11as this event is, and normally this is appointment TV, right?
- 12:16Whether you're rooting for the wet red, white and blue or
- 12:19rather your team Europe or you're just a fan of sport, this
- 12:22is fat. How about the Shambo Go and Rory
- 12:25McIlroy going back and forth, the EUR taking a shot at the
- 12:29Americas because they're getting paid this year?
- 12:31You've got all of that history with these two teams.
- 12:33Europe is really good. It's essentially the same team
- 12:37as 1-2 years ago. I think there's one exception.
- 12:39I would love to watch this event, however.
- 12:43When am I going to watch? It exactly there isn't time.
- 12:46There isn't. And now let's.
- 12:49Let's play this. And because your Broncos don't
- 12:52play until Monday. Yep.
- 12:53Because we know you're locked. Yep.
- 12:55There's nothing that's gonna get you off the TV.
- 12:57Well. Maybe The Jets?
- 12:58The Winnipeg Jets, yes, when the Broncos are playing right, But
- 13:01they're not no. And we get to Sunday afternoon.
- 13:06Ravens Chiefs. It's about half time of those
- 13:09games. It's coming down to the wire.
- 13:11You got to flip. You're going to get.
- 13:13You will flip for that. But I wouldn't be.
- 13:15I would be flipping to another sport if this was held in
- 13:18August. Why can't it be?
- 13:20Just the schedule, the way the playoffs go.
- 13:23But what's the bigger event? A, A, a, a a down the stretch
- 13:27playoff building lead up to the playoff or the Ryder Cup?
- 13:31I mean, this is for your country.
- 13:34What would NBC prefer? Oh, there's no doubt it's the
- 13:37Ryder Cup, but you have to get the PGA now.
- 13:40We have all these different things happening in golf.
- 13:42I mean, isn't this the perfect time to do that?
- 13:44We moved the PGA Championship out of August, moved it back to
- 13:47May, so we get the monthly majors throughout the spring and
- 13:50summer. Love it.
- 13:52So to do that, that's the schedule and then we'll get back
- 13:55into it. You get an off week and then you
- 13:57do the playoffs. Then after that, after the Ryder
- 13:58Cup, I think that would make a lot of sense.
- 14:02I would like to see it and I'm going to guess most of the even
- 14:05golf fans would like to see something like that outside of
- 14:07the traditionalists or else talking about golf.
- 14:09So when could you have it? What?
- 14:11What months make sense? August, there's nothing.
- 14:14January you still got. You still got wild card.
- 14:16Weekend. Well, yeah, I mean, and then
- 14:18you're getting into it and what locales are you gonna be able
- 14:21to? Have.
- 14:21Yeah, right, right. Right, to be able to pull it
- 14:23off. It'll never be at Bethpage Black
- 14:24or, you know, Midwest. Medina.
- 14:27No. Mm Hmm.
- 14:28Even go into the course of Louisville, there's just so many
- 14:34that you'd have to cross. Valhalla, yes, yeah, too many
- 14:37that you'd have to cross. Same thing with Europe.
- 14:39Where are you gonna play? Europe?
- 14:40Right. Fair.
- 14:41Because they don't have many locales we had in Rome two years
- 14:45back. But for the most part, all those
- 14:47places not gonna do those. Certainly in November, December,
- 14:51anything like that? No.
- 14:53But man, oh man, it's just, it's just really too bad because this
- 14:56would do a massive, massive television number.
- 15:00God, I I just got a couple of tweets, Todd.
- 15:04He loves his Cardinals. Yes, he does.
- 15:06They're not out of it, Todd. Todd, they're out of it.
- 15:12It's over, It's over. Heck of a run.
- 15:14Last week of the regular season, you'd sign up for your squad
- 15:17being alive. I get it.
- 15:18But I don't think it's going to happen this year.
- 15:21By the way, in that game and I got a text on the Scooble did
- 15:24not hit David Fry in the face. Did you see this?
- 15:26No, it was it was scary. It was absolutely scary.
- 15:30So I I don't know much much about Fry.
- 15:32I know a lot about Scooble. So Scooble's pitching obviously
- 15:35for the Tigers and Fry goes to bunt.
- 15:40And I swear to God, this is exactly what happened.
- 15:42Now I don't have the best eyes, but the ball grazes off his bat.
- 15:47Oh, I'm. Seeing this picture.
- 15:48He was not awarded first base. Why?
- 15:52Because they hit the bat. It's a foul ball.
- 15:55Scubble didn't throw at him. And all of these guys jumping
- 15:57onto a Ben Verlander who's on Twitter because his brother's
- 16:00Justin and he's got a big following.
- 16:02He talks about baseball. He did not hit him in the face.
- 16:05He didn't. It grazes off his bat.
- 16:07Are you watching? It I am right now.
- 16:09What? What's happening?
- 16:10What? What am I seeing this right?
- 16:12So I'm going back and seeing if they're showing a slow MO
- 16:14replay. I don't think that they will in
- 16:16this clip. He he turns to bunt.
- 16:18Yep. And it's a weird angle.
- 16:21Oh yeah, it's foul ball. It's a foul ball.
- 16:24Yeah, it's unfortunate. And Scuba's getting blamed for
- 16:26throwing at a guy and he. Didn't throw at a guy.
- 16:29I'm even looking at the location of the pitch I.
- 16:31Mean it's it's just high. I mean belt high.
- 16:34Yeah, it's a tick above the the top of the box and it's inside
- 16:40the line for the right-hander. Secondly, it's called strike.
- 16:44It would have been a strike. It's not throwing at a guy.
- 16:46What in his face? Look, I pitched well, GV
- 16:50baseball, I know baseball. There you go.
- 16:53What are you taught? What a guy turns to bunt go up
- 16:55and in. I was taught this in when I was
- 16:58five years old when you first started learning to pitch.
- 16:59And that's what you do is you put.
- 17:02But that was not at him. It wasn't.
- 17:04Come on. All day long it wasn't.
- 17:06You got to stay off that. Yeah, I know.
- 17:07I can't quit it. I can't quit it.
- 17:09It's fun. It's fun, but it's bananas too.
- 17:12All right, So do I have time for my tinfoil hat?
- 17:15Oh boy. Because I want to get to Matt
- 17:17Rudio on on time, because I want to talk about this Ryder Cup.
- 17:19So there's a there's a bet at at DraftKings.
- 17:24And the bet is what state will the World Series winner come
- 17:27from? And there's a bunch listed.
- 17:30Illinois, California, Get a couple.
- 17:34Got a couple in California, New York Yankees and if the Mets get
- 17:37in, blah blah blah. But the favorite in this thing
- 17:41is any other state. OK, Yep.
- 17:43OK, right. That's the betting favorite.
- 17:46So all the seven that they have listed anything?
- 17:49They don't have Wisconsin, right?
- 17:50If the Brewers win, that's in. In any other state, what Blue
- 17:55Jays win? They're not a state.
- 17:57They're not a state. They're not a state.
- 18:01Regardless of what people want, that's.
- 18:02True. Some so right?
- 18:04They're out of state, no So because of that.
- 18:09Do do you refund the bets if the Blue Jays win?
- 18:12I wouldn't think so. I would think that they would
- 18:14fall under that. I mean instead of listing it any
- 18:18other state, it should just be any other.
- 18:20Right, but they list any other state and it's the betting
- 18:23favorite. That is the wording that they
- 18:25use as any other state. So because of that you think you
- 18:29got a loophole? I think I've got a loophole.
- 18:32Do you have your e-mail directed?
- 18:34OK? Now the Big 12 didn't get back
- 18:36to me. You haven't heard back?
- 18:37I haven't heard back. OK.
- 18:42Am I becoming Karen Miller? You're getting there.
- 18:46Some days you're getting there. I'm trying to I'm trying to find
- 18:48it now myself on. DraftKings.
- 18:51It's under specials. World.
- 18:52Series Specials. All right, World Series.
- 18:54Special World Series spent. Some time on the app yesterday.
- 18:57I could tell, absolutely. Oh yeah, there it is.
- 18:59First time winner and it's still listed the same way.
- 19:02Plus 1:30 any other? And what are the other states
- 19:05that you can that you can bet on?
- 19:07California, yeah. Pennsylvania, New York,
- 19:11Illinois, Texas, Ohio. There you go.
- 19:14Any other state? State.
- 19:15It should just be listed. Any other?
- 19:17Yeah, or is it an open if the Blue Jays win, is that does
- 19:22everybody get their money back? Right.
- 19:25Well, DraftKings wouldn't want that.
- 19:26No, absolutely not. But don't you think you have a
- 19:29legitimate, I mean, it says winning state, winning state.
- 19:33If a state doesn't win, then you get your money back, no?
- 19:38I don't think the Blue Jays will win.
- 19:40So you're saying empty the bankroll on this?
- 19:44I don't. Know, I think you think you got
- 19:45a loophole. Yeah, good luck with that.
- 19:48We'll take your time out. We'll come back.
- 19:49Matt Rudy will join us on the Ryder Cup.
- 19:51Some of the storylines, a fascinating event coming up this
- 19:54weekend that unfortunately a majority of the people aren't
- 19:57going to watch. Too bad.
- 19:59It'll still do a good number. It'll still do a good number,
- 20:01but we'll do a massive number, especially does it.
- 20:04I think it matters more because it's played here.
- 20:06Obviously time wise makes a significant difference, but big
- 20:10event. And then put it in the NFL on
- 20:12top of it when you have people that are tuning in, at least
- 20:14early I know. It's it's not good.
- 20:18Rudy. Next, Miller and Condon, Iowa
- 20:19Sports Radio Network. I'm Miller and Condon.
- 20:23Welcome back. Coming up on 12:30.
- 20:25Let's get right to our friend Matt.
- 20:26Rudy, long time golf writer, decades now authoring books,
- 20:29ghost writing books. He joins us to preview the Ryder
- 20:33Cup. Matt, as always, thank you.
- 20:34Trent and Ken appreciate you coming on.
- 20:38You know, we were talking earlier just what a what a
- 20:41unbelievable sports weekend we have.
- 20:44This event sadly, is going to get lost.
- 20:46You know, this is appointment TV, but you got college football
- 20:50and the final week of baseball and the NFL on Sunday.
- 20:54Is there any possible way? Has there been any discussion
- 20:57all about about moving this into August?
- 20:59Or is it just logistically impossible to do?
- 21:03Well, I think with so many ways that the golf schedule is
- 21:08getting contorted now with, you know, Liv and PGA Tour and you
- 21:11got playoffs. I mean, there's really not a
- 21:14tremendous amount of real estate left where players would feel
- 21:17like there was a, you know, a reasonable run up to it.
- 21:20And it wasn't going to intrude on the other things that they
- 21:23need to do for the rest of the year.
- 21:25But I mean, that being said, I personally think like with the
- 21:30Super Bowl, I think being on a big tournament, we can, you
- 21:34know, when the the Arizona event is usually the same weekend of
- 21:39the Super Bowl. I think it can work in favor of
- 21:44the event if you're on the same bill as all kinds of exciting
- 21:47stuff going on. And I do think that there's some
- 21:50time windows during the day, particularly on Saturday where,
- 21:54you know, we of course, regionally, college football is
- 21:57important. But I think you can, you can be
- 21:59the place that people go if there's, you know, if the games
- 22:01are blah or if there's not a game out in your time window.
- 22:04I think the schedule is what it is.
- 22:06I think the bigger concern, we haven't had any rain in the
- 22:09Northeast here and now we're supposed to get bounded with
- 22:12rain here for the next three or four days.
- 22:14So I don't know, I don't know if people are, I don't know if I
- 22:17can find my umbrella. So that might be the issue here
- 22:21is getting it in between kind of heavy weather.
- 22:24You look at this week and of course there's the pomp and
- 22:27circumstances, the red, white and blue against Team Euro.
- 22:30But I, I'm surprised this week that there's been so much talk
- 22:34about money and the American players getting paid.
- 22:37It's just another bad look. And though a majority of the
- 22:39players, maybe all the players have said that they're going to
- 22:42donate that $200,000 that they get, the Euros are taking it as
- 22:45kind of ammunition. And the point they just know how
- 22:48to play this thing, right? The Americans how do they paint
- 22:51themselves in corners where they look like buffoons, even when
- 22:53they're doing the right thing? Really.
- 22:55I think that that's the, the one weakness of this event in terms
- 22:59of the timing, is there's so much time leading up to it from
- 23:02the last time players played that you're looking for
- 23:05storylines. And you know, this, this would
- 23:07have been something I think to announce 2 years ago.
- 23:10You know, you say 2, yeah, two years from now they're going to
- 23:14get paid XYZ and just take all the bullets, You know, maybe the
- 23:18week after the night, the last Ryder Cup, then you announce it
- 23:20instead of creating, you know, it was like when Rory filed for
- 23:23divorce on the Monday of the PGA Championship.
- 23:25You're just, by doing it that way, you're just asking for
- 23:28people to ask questions that players don't want to ask to
- 23:33answer. And I think you're exactly
- 23:35right. I think that the media
- 23:36management of it is you're shooting yourself in the foot
- 23:38and distracting people from what they really want to talk about,
- 23:41which is meaningful golf. You've got all the best players
- 23:44on the same golf course in the one time other than the four
- 23:48majors and you get some energy and some pressure because the
- 23:53it's the team concept and the country concept that's so far
- 23:56into, you know, individual operator golfers that what
- 23:59that's what makes this fun. So the more the storylines can
- 24:01be about that and less about money, especially in the last
- 24:05two or three years where all we've been talking about is
- 24:08money and personal golf, I mean, it would be great just to have
- 24:12it be about who makes what shot when.
- 24:15No, absolutely the Patrick Cantley, I believe it was with
- 24:17the hat controversy. Unbelievable.
- 24:20So as with with the event being at Bethpage, obviously, and I
- 24:24think this I'm I'm the reason I'm bringing this up is I want
- 24:27to see I'm guessing Keegan Bradley will have the final say,
- 24:31right? Like the EUR will turn in their
- 24:33match play and then does Keegan Bradley get to get to match that
- 24:37as the captain of the home team? Because if he does, because does
- 24:40he put the Shambo against Rory McIlroy and give us as fans what
- 24:45we want to see or does he keep the Shambo away from from
- 24:48McElroy? Does he get last call well?
- 24:52Well, I mean, do you want the real answer or do you want, I
- 24:54mean, the, the real, the real answer is that they conspire,
- 24:57the captains conspire to to to give, to give a line up that
- 25:01people want to see, you know, but the reality, I mean, I guess
- 25:04technically speaking, you're supposed to fill out your roster
- 25:08and you know, your singles roster.
- 25:09And then it's everybody reveals at the same time and that's kind
- 25:12of who gets who. But the general, I think
- 25:14gentlemen's agreements generally happen where a, this is a match
- 25:17people want to see. So let's let's give it to him.
- 25:20I mean, I personally think that all that stuff, the talking and
- 25:25the sniping and that's fantastic for the event.
- 25:28And I would rather have people, you know, jawn about it and
- 25:32showing that they care about it as opposed to it being kind of
- 25:35an exhibition, You know, where everybody just said, well, we're
- 25:37just happy to be here and be playing on the same course and
- 25:40it's really going to be fun. I mean, I like it when players
- 25:43are outspoken. And I think one of the
- 25:46unfortunate things that happen these days is players get so
- 25:50much static when they speak up and say something that's on
- 25:52their mind. All we're doing is convincing
- 25:55them that they shouldn't say things that are on their mind.
- 25:57That's when you get incredibly boring press conferences where
- 26:00somebody says, you know, I'm just, I'm just excited to be
- 26:03here playing with the team and I can't wait to see what happens
- 26:05next. I want guys that have a little
- 26:07edge to them. United States has lost eight of
- 26:10the last eleven of these events, but when they've won, they've
- 26:13won in blowout. But I look at this roster and
- 26:16you look at those rosters, you can understand.
- 26:18And almost every single year it's a decided advantage in
- 26:21terms of just what these guys are on the American side.
- 26:25I don't see it the same way this year.
- 26:27There's a betting favorite, OK, no surprise it's on American
- 26:30soil. But boy, this seems, at least on
- 26:32paper, a much closer matchup than it does coming into any
- 26:35other Ryder Cup. Do you see it that way, Matt?
- 26:38There's no question. And there's a there's a little
- 26:41bit you could say that, you know, for example, the venue,
- 26:45the American team can set up the venue the way they want.
- 26:48So this is a gigantic golf course and they've basically cut
- 26:50down all the rough and said to Bryson, hey, hit it as far as
- 26:54you want to hit it. You know, they're trying to
- 26:55accentuate the playing styles of their own players.
- 26:58But when you make a golf course that's great for Bryson to hit
- 27:01tee shots on, it's also a golf course that's great for Rory to
- 27:04hit tee shots. So, you know, I think the
- 27:06reality is exactly what you described, and that's certainly
- 27:10the top half of the European team is really strong and the
- 27:13top half of the American team is really strong.
- 27:16And what tends to happen in these is how well the top half
- 27:20of the roster incorporates some of the younger players and gets
- 27:24them moving, you know, getting in a positive direction early in
- 27:27the week. What tends to happen to American
- 27:30teams as if there's some faltering from not necessarily
- 27:33younger players, but newer players to the Ryder Cup.
- 27:36And you kind of see those players disappear through the
- 27:39week where what Europe has been so good at is making pairings,
- 27:42where those players draw energy from a, you know, an expert.
- 27:46You know, someone like Sergio Garcia through all those years
- 27:48and someone like, you know, Jose Maria Olasaba all those years.
- 27:51You know, you're pulling other players with you and creating
- 27:54that. You know the the Tommy Fleetwood
- 27:57vibe where you know, the Ian Poulter vibe from years past
- 28:00where it might not be the person who's got the most sterling
- 28:04record outside of Ryder Cup, but they just somehow become Ryder
- 28:08Cup monsters because of that positive vibe.
- 28:11That's what I think the US is looking to find.
- 28:13Hard not to root for the Americans because of Keegan
- 28:16Bradley. From from where I sit, just the
- 28:18fact that he removed himself from consideration could have
- 28:21been a part of it, decided not to be, and let and made his
- 28:24choices without himself being involved in it.
- 28:27Be great for Keegan Bradley being great for the for the
- 28:30Americans to win. But maybe a little cherry on
- 28:32top, if Keegan Bradley is captain, is able to pull this
- 28:35off. So certainly to pull it off for
- 28:39the US and to pull it off on Long Island, he played at St.
- 28:42John's and, you know, there would be some kind of, you know,
- 28:45regional twice to being able to do it.
- 28:49And, you know, I think there's no shortage of storyline.
- 28:52I mean, Rory McIlroy is probably not going to win Player of the
- 28:56year in a year where he won the tournament that gave him the
- 28:59career Grand Slam and won The Players Championship.
- 29:02I mean, that's, that's it's amazing that that's where we are
- 29:05with Rory and with, you know, Scotty Scheffler.
- 29:07There's all kinds of great storylines that can get tied up
- 29:11in a nice bow here at the end of the season.
- 29:14I mean, what really has been a very exciting, you know, an
- 29:17exciting season. And I mean, the tour, the
- 29:19ratings for the tour events have been up.
- 29:21I mean, there's been some movement between the PGA Tour
- 29:25and live a little bit where some of the the hostility is gone.
- 29:28And I think there's so much great momentum.
- 29:31I would love to see a spirited event where the crowd is a part
- 29:34of it, but but the crowd is not so ugly that that becomes kind
- 29:38of a distraction. Final thing for me, should
- 29:41Keegan Bradley be playing this week?
- 29:45I think you could. You could certainly make the
- 29:48argument that he should. There's no doubt in my mind that
- 29:51he was one of the 12 best players over the last two years,
- 29:55and the US needs as many good players as it can get.
- 29:59And I do believe that the job requirements of the captain are
- 30:03kind of overblown. I mean, yes, there's some stuff
- 30:06that the captain has to do. And yes, there's media
- 30:08obligations. Yes, yes, yes.
- 30:10But there's also, like, 50 assistants, and there's a system
- 30:13in place that those kinds of responsibilities can get
- 30:17distributed around. Now, I would also say that the
- 30:21gesture of standing aside was a great galvanizing thing for the
- 30:26team. That was a big net positive.
- 30:28So you can't really, you can't take that part away.
- 30:31But in terms of, you know, being deserving and, you know, should
- 30:35he have his name on one of the bags that's going out under the
- 30:38first tee as opposed to under the cart?
- 30:40Yeah, he should. Your Spartans are three and one
- 30:44off to a pretty good start. USC is a pretty good football
- 30:46team, I think, But Sparty's off and running and they're your
- 30:50alma mater headed towards seemingly a pretty good year.
- 30:53So we'll talk more about that in November.
- 30:55But Matt, if your schedule allows, we'll recap this event
- 30:58on Monday. Is that all right?
- 31:00Absolutely talk to you then. Yeah, I'll reach out.
- 31:02I'll text you over the weekend. Thank you, Matt Rudy, as always,
- 31:04appreciate the preview, buddy. Take care.
- 31:06You bet. Yeah.
- 31:07Good to talk to you, Matt. Rudy, Golf Digest.
- 31:10Sounds like you'll be there for a couple of the days, but bring
- 31:13your umbrella if you can find it.
- 31:15Mitch Holtis is next. He won't need one.
- 31:17He'd be in the press box at Gia. Is it gear?
- 31:20I'm saying it wrong, aren't I? I think I am.
- 31:23It's Arrowhead Stadium. That's where he will be.
- 31:25So will the Ravens. We'll talk about that when we
- 31:28come back. Miller and Condon, I'm glad
- 31:30you're with us on a Wednesday. It's the Iowa Sports Radio
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- 31:40Wherever listening in the state of Iowa, wherever.
- 31:41We're glad you're with us. We'll take you until 2.
- 31:45Mitch Holtis is the voice of the Kansas City Chiefs.
- 31:48Papa John's throughout the state of Iowa.
- 31:50Headquarters in Johnston sponsored this weekly segment
- 31:54with Mitch. With the exception of the bye
- 31:55weeks, he's with us every day during the month of August as
- 31:58well. Chief training camp reports he's
- 32:00back with us here today. Ravens and Chiefs.
- 32:03Mitch, it's hard to believe one of these teams, both of them
- 32:05have Super Bowl capabilities written all over them.
- 32:09You would think one of them is going to be one in three.
- 32:11That's crazy to me. Very difficult to fathom that
- 32:16two and two would be huge, especially with the challenges
- 32:20and the schedule these two teams have had to face out of the
- 32:22gate. I've said that they're kind of
- 32:24forced to take Calc 3 before you even take college algebra.
- 32:28That's what it feels like. And then in two and two, you
- 32:31feel like, hey, you can get, you can get healthy and go on a
- 32:34roll. 1 and 3 feels like Hill Storm damaged roof.
- 32:38So yeah, it's a playoff game in September.
- 32:41At least that's the way it feels.
- 32:42Late in the game, we saw a whole lot of Taekwon Thornton had a
- 32:46ball that just squirted out and then comes back, gets another
- 32:49one down there on the goal line. Thornton a guy cut New England,
- 32:53What are they really going to get here?
- 32:54Have they found something to Thornton?
- 32:56Is this a guy? Even when Rice comes back, they
- 32:58get healthier in the wide receiver.
- 32:59That Thornton's going to be a piece of it all season long.
- 33:04Different people will learn to listen to our training camp
- 33:06reports because honestly, this was a one of the thesis points
- 33:12of those 20 days. And I was on with you guys.
- 33:15The fact that Taekwon Thornton was showing up, he was good in
- 33:18OTAs and he took another level at camp to do what he did the
- 33:21other night to have a 34 yard touchdown and whoops, didn't
- 33:26complete the catch all the way through and the next play run a
- 33:30very similar route at the same point of the field and then make
- 33:33the catch. But maybe even better coverage
- 33:35on him is really hard to do now with the Chiefs receiving corps
- 33:40being down. We know that.
- 33:41We talk about it every week. The fact that Thornton is
- 33:45emerging will be just even better when everybody, you get
- 33:49all hands on deck. So Thornton is not only doing
- 33:53the flash play, he's doing it consistently week to week.
- 33:56And he's becoming a route runner and gaining the trust of Patrick
- 33:58Mahomes, which is a large accomplishment for the young
- 34:02lad. Speaking of, Patrick Mahomes
- 34:04made one of the worst plays I've seen make and he made one of the
- 34:07best plays I've ever seen him make.
- 34:08And it was the exact same play. Mitch, the ball goes behind the
- 34:12lines. How he was able to get that ball
- 34:14away. I mean, a lot of quarterbacks
- 34:16just kind of stay down, right? They don't want to get back
- 34:19involved and make a business decision.
- 34:21There's Mahomes. I don't know who 58 for the
- 34:23Giants was. He thought he was going to pick
- 34:24up the ball and watch waltz into the end zone.
- 34:27But Patrick Mahomes had other plans.
- 34:29What a play compounded by the play that he made just to start
- 34:33that sequence. Actually, the linebacker is
- 34:36Bobby Okarike and I think he's a good player.
- 34:39I mean, he's not an old pro, but he was 2 and O coming into that
- 34:43game as a cult against the Chiefs and I've always admired
- 34:46his game. So that's that's a decent player
- 34:49now you know, poor execution trying to get a screen and you
- 34:53throw a lateral and it happened before that.
- 34:56The. Exact same thing.
- 34:59And then padded the awareness there because nobody, the Giants
- 35:01don't react. I say on the air that looks like
- 35:03a lateral, but you know, they're not listening to me on the
- 35:06field. So.
- 35:09But Josh Simmons goes and picks it up and Mahomes immediately
- 35:12goes over and grabs the ball. Now it happens again, but this
- 35:14time he saves A touchdown. That play and Jaylen Watson's
- 35:18interception of the Malik Neighbors face was the other
- 35:22tied for the biggest play of the game because the Giants get
- 35:25either one of those, it's 13 to 6 and the feeling of that game
- 35:29totally changes as it were. The Chiefs go down and get a 52
- 35:33yard pass interference penalty on the Giants and the Giants are
- 35:36going, wait a minute, we're down nine to six.
- 35:38We should be up 13 to 6. And then the Chiefs got the ball
- 35:41to start the third quarter and had their best drive of the
- 35:43season to go up by two scores. So guys, and you know this and
- 35:48and Ken, you know this as a Bronco in the first three weeks,
- 35:51this league is razor thin. And they're just, I mean, a 64th
- 35:56of an inch here is deciding plays.
- 35:58And so those two plays that Mahomes made and Watson made are
- 36:03enough to tip the scale, just like the mispass by Kelsey
- 36:06against the Eagles that was enough to flip that game on a 14
- 36:09point swing. So that's just the league.
- 36:11That's the way we got it now and it's every week.
- 36:13You know what, just real quick on that with the Broncos.
- 36:14The Broncos have trailed for exactly 0 seconds in the fourth
- 36:18quarter. They're one and two.
- 36:20That's tough to do. That's nuts.
- 36:22Well, let me quickly on the Ravens.
- 36:23So here's here's Lamar Jackson. You're talking about being one
- 36:26and three. He's the only quarterback in NFL
- 36:28history to have 9 touchdowns, no interceptions in his first three
- 36:33games and have a losing record. Here's another one.
- 36:35He's the only quarterback to have a quarterback rating of 140
- 36:38plus in two games and lost both those games.
- 36:42I mean, you're talking defying laws of physics here, but that's
- 36:45the way the league is, man. It's crazy and you get you turn
- 36:48it over and you're in trouble. If it was any other
- 36:50organization, any other team, I think the sideline tiff between
- 36:55Andy Reid and Travis Kelce, a little chest bump there, it
- 36:57would have been a big deal. But because we know these guys,
- 37:00because of the response that Andy Reid had afterwards saying
- 37:03he loved it, he loved the passion and we need more of that
- 37:06kind of passion on the sideline, it doesn't become a big deal.
- 37:09Now there's certain thought provokers out there that will
- 37:12try to, you know, fan the flames it and make this a bigger deal.
- 37:15But I think Reid, he said it perfectly afterwards in the
- 37:18press conference. He's a passionate guy.
- 37:20That's what they're looking for there.
- 37:22What was your take away there in the little dust up on the
- 37:25sideline? Well, humbly, I'll tell you, I
- 37:29know both those guys. And this was like watching two
- 37:32brothers like Duke it out in the backyard and you're like, oh,
- 37:34man. And go no, So where they are and
- 37:37they'll be fine. And then they, you know, but
- 37:39here's here's what I will tell you, Trent, don't cross coach.
- 37:43This is an old offensive lineman.
- 37:44I've seen that side of him. And he'll put you in the dirt.
- 37:48He'll help you up. But he's such a nice man that
- 37:52everybody thinks he's Uncle Andy bringing the potato salad to the
- 37:55company picnic. And I'm telling you, there is a
- 37:58toughness and grit to the guy that when he gets, you just
- 38:02don't want to be there with him. And Kelsey knew it right away.
- 38:05If you see the reaction there, he knew back off because the the
- 38:10the Papa bear is not happy. So Kelsey was smart enough not
- 38:15to retaliate when coaches like, all right, figure this out.
- 38:19As he's known Andrew Reid in punt, pass and kick on Monday
- 38:22Night Football back in the day. What do you I wish I had more
- 38:26time for Karl Aftis cause good God, he's playing good football.
- 38:29Mitch, I, I just revel watching this guy play.
- 38:31Of course we saw Mick Purdue and he's taking it to another level
- 38:34in my opinion. But next week, we'll save that
- 38:36because I want to spend our final minute talking about the
- 38:39good folks that are the Donaldsons and they make this
- 38:41segment possible every single week.
- 38:44Well, Ken, you're so astute because Carl office is center
- 38:47stage, so is Amenaho, so is Gelati.
- 38:49All the guys that those guys and the linebacker corps have got a
- 38:53huge task this week. But it's not a Baltimore style
- 38:57pizza one topping, the special that the Donaldsons created.
- 39:01It's a New York style, one topping pizza.
- 39:03So we got rid of that. We got, hey, still order it.
- 39:06It's not a Baltimore style. It's what New York style one
- 39:09topping pizza 999 at Papa John's.
- 39:11Let's go. Good stuff, my friend.
- 39:12Thank you, Mitch. We'll talk to you next week in
- 39:14advance to Jacksonville. Appreciate you coming on as
- 39:16always, Mitch Holtis. Yes, Sir.
- 39:18I appreciate you guys. Yep, thank you buddy.
- 39:20Good to hear from you. Mitch Holtis, the voice of the
- 39:22Chiefs appointment. TV 325 Kickoff, The Ryder Cup.
- 39:28Bears. Raiders.
- 39:29They start at three O 5. Are they the three O 5 game?
- 39:32They are also 320. 5 They're 325 as well.
- 39:35What's What do we have at three O 5?
- 39:37Three O 5 games Jaguars at Niners Pass both teams winning
- 39:41teams. How would the Niners?
- 39:42Yeah, they're not dead Colts. Rams how about this late after
- 39:45that's? That's really good, actually.
- 39:47Those are four games that all bear watching.
- 39:51Five O 6 sports. Let's see what the map says.
- 39:54We're going to get here in the state of Iowa late afternoon
- 39:59window. We will be getting we're.
- 40:01Getting the Chiefs. To be determined.
- 40:04Oh, that's a single fox double early.
- 40:07I'll have to look at it. Hour 2 Cappy kicks it off.
- 40:10Miller and Condon glad you're with us on the Iowa Sports Radio
- 40:13Network.