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Cubs win, Transfer Portal talk, Masters Preview with Matt Rudy · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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All right, good afternoon. Welcome Miller and Condon on our
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Wednesday program. Welcome Trent Condon.
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Ken Miller talking sports with you for the next couple of hours
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here on the Iowa Sports Radio Network.
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Shout out to all the affiliates throughout the state of Iowa and
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all of your listeners listening on the iheart app wherever.
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However glad that you are. Here's what's coming up on our
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program. At the bottom of the hour, we
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will preview golf's first major. The Masters gets underway
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tomorrow, by the way. We'll have updates at 4616 and
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46 or the break that comes closest to that in our case,
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Yes, I have no idea, but. Remember when we went to the
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network and we had to be so tight on those breaks?
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I don't miss that one bit. I really.
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Don't dissipated just a little. Bit.
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Absolutely, but we'll have masters updates starting
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tomorrow on Westwood. One, Matt Rudy's going to join
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us at the bottom of the hours. He always does throughout the
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majors covered GG Digest for three or four decades in total.
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Matt Rudy coming up at the bottom of the hour.
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David Kaplan kicks off hour number two.
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How about those Cubs, Trent, We never lost faith.
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Told you by stereos was going to come alive like by Bregman.
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I was all over him. Swanson, he can still swing that
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bat. Big win yesterday for the
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Cubbies. No problem starting, pitching,
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the bullpen. A lot of people lost faith.
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I was not one of them. Nine to win yesterday, now win
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today. You overreact just a little bit,
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but. You know what?
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Look what happened. Oh, you're the key?
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Well, why don't you do that all the time?
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I think I'm better today. Yeah, maybe you transfer my
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bitching to the Blue Jays 'cause my good God.
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Anyways, so we'll talk to Cappy, a lot of stuff going on in
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Chicago, obviously the Billy Donovan and the Bulls, etcetera,
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etcetera. Coming up here with Cappy to
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kick off our number 2. And then back to Bill Seals,
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Iowa State, the football programs keeping the Cyclone
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media jumping here last few days.
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Bill Seals had an opportunity yesterday, more coaches, well,
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not just Bill, he did see some of the practice yesterday, but
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all the Cyclone Media did a couple of coaches availabilities
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and players as well. So we'll get Bill Seals, the
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latest on Cyclone football coming up here at 1:30.
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Trent, we'll make some plays of the day.
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Now, will you share your master's picks today?
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Yes, since the tournament will be underway tomorrow at 1:50
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when you do. It I got a long list and I'm
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sure by the time my my head hits the pillow tonight, it'll be a
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longer than longer one. I just.
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The tournament is great in itself, but from the betting
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perspective, part of the new. Ways.
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Absolutely. The the markets that are kind of
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funny. I mean top debutant, it's a guy
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making his debut. But the terminology obviously
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that needs to be used on top of it.
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But the thing that I like most, and I think you've learned this
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in our years doing inside the numbers on MC22, is I like
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betting golf, but I really like these smaller fields.
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And that's what you get with the Masters with just 91 guys.
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Because those top 20's, the prices aren't quite as good as
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you'll get in a traditional golf tournament with 176 golfers or
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whatever it is. But the opportunity to finish
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the top 20s a whole lot better when you only got 91 guys there
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and only 50 of them are going to make the cut.
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So I just love all the different angles to the tournament, so
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many different guys and, and it's at this point now we don't
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have that storyline. Rory chasing it, obviously.
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That has been such a huge. One, what is it this year?
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That's a really good question, Trent I What will the story of
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this year's Masters be going into it?
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You know, Rory, and I've heard it again.
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All the extra that happens this week.
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Now, Rory's been there already. He was.
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There last week I think. For the women, the the girls
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youth tournament that they have on Sunday, he was there, he was
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reading the greens. Another guy that was there who
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Bryson Dechambeau, he was. Sounds like you've got a little.
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Out of the. Backing of Dechambeau.
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The top five guys or so, he's the one that I'm most invested
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in. How about Jon Rum?
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Did you just take the sniff? There at all.
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I did not I know he's playing well.
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I just another thing of the many things I hate about Liv.
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You don't see him. The numbers are fate yes, you
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can match up all right, this course how it what's the slope
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and everything and and I know the numbers are out there.
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It just, it is incredibly difficult for me in my mind of
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the way that I go about handicapping and marrying these
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guys, playing on these pitch and butt courses halfway around the
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world. Yeah, you don't know anything
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about them. As opposed to what they're doing
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and what Pebble, Yeah, absolutely right.
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Yes, All right. You did this at the players that
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equates to this. You did this at the Valspar, an
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incredibly difficult term. Those are things that I know
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what these things are and ROM he you have to take.
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You have to dig your heels in sometimes and ROMs one I just
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crossed off my list. Yeah, I throw somebody out all
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the time. Usually it backfires.
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Well, hopefully it won't do. It's kind of like I mean, and I
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know we have a lot of listeners that like horse racer, you know,
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know you from back of the days at Prairie and and know.
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Well, I got a little something to share with you coming up
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here. Yes, but back of the days at
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Prairie. Absolutely.
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So I mean, is it similar the way that you kind of look at
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handicapping horse racing and golfing especially like?
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For instance, big events like the Derby, I'm trying to I'm
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going to take a stand, took a stand against the Chiefs a
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couple of years ago, it worked when the Eagles knocked him out.
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Now the year before it wasn't so successful but but none the less
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so I can't wait. I love the event.
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I love the coverage of the event.
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It's it's locked in, it's four days of appointment TV.
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It really is. And by the sounds of things, I
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don't think weather is going to be a factor.
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Not at all. It has been an incredibly dry
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winter in Augusta on top of it. You couple that with this week,
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there's been no rain and well. It wasn't always dry because
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we're driving through some rating sideways.
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Well, it compares it overall. They have mentioned, I've heard
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this a couple of different places, read it once and heard
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it once today, that the powers that be in Augusta, they're sick
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of the 141516. Are they OK?
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And that step meter is going to be ratcheted up.
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These greens, which are year after Year 5, most difficult
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you're going to find on tour. They're going to be ramped up
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this week. And if you're not putting it,
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you have no chance. If you're not hitting the flat
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stick, well, this is going to be 1.
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Speaking of cross offs, absolutely cross off for a lot
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of the guys because it is going to be fast, difficult.
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We already know how difficult it is even when the conditions are
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soft, but they're not. It's going to be fast.
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It's going to be fun. We'll probably see a guy with
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four putt and he'll be hollering back in the crowd.
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You're going to see that coming up here.
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And we got the Part 3 right around the.
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Corner. We do.
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And you know what's on the the television here in the studio.
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Whoever was here late yesterday must have been watching.
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But the Cubs game, it's on marquee.
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That's that's Principal Park. There must be playing down there
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today. They must be.
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This is live, I think. OK, because I look outside the
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same kind of skies. Many people there, well, I can't
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see. They're just showing the field.
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And they must be singing the anthems because it's just the
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umpires. But kind of cool to see our
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hometown ballpark. Yeah, it's a decent crowd.
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Not really. It's April, it's April, early
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April and it's twelve O 5 anyway, so a number of topics to
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get to Zach Johnson back. So I'm at the at the Champions
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dinner last night. OK, that's a pretty cool picture
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when they got all those dudes together.
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Yeah, it really. Is one guy missing?
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Yeah, yeah, well, two guys missing.
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No Mickelson at the event and of course, no Tiger at the event
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for the for the Champions dinner last night.
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But it's a pretty cool picture. So Zach was there.
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What what kind of player? I mean, I haven't followed.
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What kind of year is he playing? Very much.
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He's playing a ton on the senior tour and he's playing incredibly
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well. He's won a tournament, maybe 2.
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He's finishing the top. Five.
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He'd be here coming up later on. It's a good question.
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What end of May you know? Principal Charity classic.
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I don't know the answer to that. I would anticipate he would
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though obviously what he did back.
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In the city. Yes.
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And coming back here. Where he went to college.
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Absolutely not Even the number one golfer, a Drake.
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That's so wild. And now?
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That's the career that he has. So one of my biggest investments
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this week is actually on Zach really not to win at 700 to one
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at Circa. That's what he is.
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And 405 hundred to one at other places by the way and I had to
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throw 5 bucks. On you did better.
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Of course it's 5 bucks, right? I mean, it's anymore it's a.
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Lottery ticket? Absolutely.
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So the top senior, and now that's Zach, he's. 50 and older.
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50 and older and when you look through the group of seniors,
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the other guys, there's only six guys that follow this couples,
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yes. They don't list Gary Player.
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No, Gary Player doesn't count. Holy mackerel, I'm stumped.
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VJ. OK, yeah, he was in the picture
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yesterday. And VJ's, He's one of masters.
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Played OK, yeah. Oh, Mike, we're one of masters.
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Is he on the list? He's over 50 is.
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He one of the most improbable Masters winners of all time.
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The little Canadian lefty. Yeah, the lefty part helped, as
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we know in this course. But yeah, he's definitely in
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that mix of guys out of nowhere on hell Carrera, fresh out of
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prison. So when did he get out?
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I think like 9 months. Ago.
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So was he at a real prison or was he at a quote country?
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Club I, I don't know the answer to that, I don't know.
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Did he have golf privileges? Right.
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And did he have a simulator into cells?
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Like, yeah, this is too bad. I'm just working on your game
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there. So what did he go to prison?
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Was it tax evasion? Yes, yeah.
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And Jose Maria. Ola Thabel, how old is he now?
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Oh, he's got to be 60. Five in the 60s, I would think,
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Yeah. Those are the six guys.
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So it's a. Field of 6A.
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Field of 6. Now Zach's 50.
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Yes, just turned 50 so. I would think that quote, the
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youngster in the group would have the best chance, right?
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Maybe. Now you're getting minus one O
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4. That's what it is at DraftKings.
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You're not getting, you know, some kind of plus money.
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Or are they the only ones that offer that?
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The only one that I've seen, I haven't looked any other places,
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but that's the only one that I saw when I was digging around
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last night. He's playing well.
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I know it's on the senior store. He finished in the top ten last
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year. And what kind of price you could
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have got at the Masters? At the Masters, I don't remember
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that. Yeah, he was never in content.
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Because Rory was the story. Yes, Zach Johnson -104 put that
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one in your back pocket. Interesting.
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They are going to be feeling good about that amongst the top
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senior players, alright. Zach Johnsons, 50.
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So yeah, so if they none of them make the cutters, the bed
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voided. Great question, did not look at
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the house rules. I don't know if it's that or
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still who had the best finishing position even if you didn't make
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the cut. Even if you only play 36, you're
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quite right. But you finish plus 4, I'm going
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to make it. And that's the way that they're
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going to pay that out. But love that one and going to
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be playing that. But yeah, we'll talk a little
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bit more about my wagers a little bit later on.
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Sure. This golf tournament though, it
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is. There, I just love it.
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Rite of Spring every single year.
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Gymnets do your thing, but then if you could just excuse
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yourself from the Butler cabin. It just drives me.
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It's over the top. It is it really?
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Is that's who he is though He's hokey.
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Yeah, and at least it's not with Hootie anymore.
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Oh, that's true, Which is even took it to a whole different
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level. Couple of couple of things
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basketball related apparently. And and Scott Knock, who worked
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with us here, he was just in studio before you got here.
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He showed me a clip of the Vanderberg's podcast.
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Matt Vanderberg and his wife do a podcast.
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Laura Yep. Laura and Cooper Koch was part
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of it. Did you?
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Did you watch this little? Piece I didn't know did.
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You hear about this and and part of it was, was Koch sharing with
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the Vandenberg's that Ben McCullum had reached out to him
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last year, right before Drake played Texas Tech in the round
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of 32. Wasn't the Freeze the guy at
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that point? I.
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That's kind of what I thought too.
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I just found it. It struck me as, hang on a
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second. This really doesn't add up,
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right? And this, this was this was
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recently the first time he met McCollum or one of the first
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times he spoke with him was spoke with him apparently right
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before Drake played Texas Tech last year.
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Now, it's not a shock that McCullum was moving on right
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now. It was just whether where he was
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going to land. But at that time, I thought it
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was clearly and obviously it didn't turn out and it turned
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out very well for Iowa, right? But it's just, I, I just trying
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to, you know, line up the calendars a little bit.
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And maybe the Indiana thing was happening quicker than we
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anticipated maybe and and that could be the reasoning behind it
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is kind of that's the thought process you go down because we
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hear things very delayed in comparison to what's happening
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inside the industry. Well, where's?
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The Brent Bloom story here with that happened a year ago.
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Absolutely. Heather had Heather and Alec had
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Bloom on this morning. If you missed that story, it's
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incredible. It really and truly is and what
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we're talking about. So how what was the total 2.5
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million? That sounds right, yeah.
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So three Iowa State basketball players last year all wanted to
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stay at Iowa State. But to, in order to get them,
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I'm paraphrasing and go back and listen to the podcast.
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Chris Shipley on his his three beards media had it as well.
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But Alec and Heather had it here, had them here this
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morning. And Brent Bloom relayed the
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story that he had to come up with or the collective had to
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come up with 2.5 or they were short $2.5 million by June the
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30th. That was the deadline.
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Do I have that right? And they didn't have the money.
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Yeah. And there was a tremendous sense
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of urgency. I'm just guessing.
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Two of them had to be. Well, one of them was Jefferson.
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We know that one, Yeah, that that LSU offered.
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Right. I would assume on Chilovich fair
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and this is just an assumption. Who would the third be?
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Lipsy? I I don't know about that.
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I'm not saying he wanted Jefferson money because he, I
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mean, I think the legacy really meant something.
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Here I'm with you. And had hadn't they not come up
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with that, with that threshold of cash, I'm guessing he would
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have, you know, all right, what do you got?
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What could he do for me? That's good.
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But just the fact that how difficult it was and how much
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Brent Bloom had to scramble just a fascinating story in nil.
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And it came right down to the last minute, apparently.
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And Bloom had to, you know, make an emergency phone call to 1
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booster to write that one check to get them over that $2.5
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million threshold in order to keep those three players happy.
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The only other name that I think would make sense is maybe
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Heisey. I'm sure he could would have had
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availability and he's not going to get a third of that, but
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maybe he had to offer back home with Minnesota for throwing out
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a random #350,000. Can you get close?
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You know something, whatever it is, that's about the only other
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name though on the roster. I think that would make sense to
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to complete it because it's hard to get there with Lipsy.
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Could you imagine Tame Lipsy? No leaving in June.
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No, no, I couldn't. Get that announcement.
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Nope, could not could not that would have been bad.
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Yes, that would have been bad. That's a that's a 5 alarm fire.
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And he did and it was never close apparently to being that
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do we know of and he stayed and we saw the results.
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And that's off to you, tame and Lipsy, because you know, the way
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the NIL is going and the and the the ease, I guess, of
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transferring, at least at this point, will there be how many,
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how many will stay four years? You know, to meet that
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requirement, you got to graduate from Iowa Stadia, I'm guessing I
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was the same way. If they want to retire a number
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you know to meet these parameters, not going to happen
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very much anymore, I wouldn't think.
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Because what did we have 20 guys that completed their eligibility
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at the power of conference level and now over half the guys are
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in the portal. Just crazy.
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What is? The And it's not just men's
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basketball, it's women's basketball also. 1600 men in the
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portal yesterday. Is Manchelevich in the portal?
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I don't I have not seen it reported.
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Boy, there's rumors everywhere and and then you see the, the,
15:50
the apparently Florida is throwing millions at him.
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Well, if he's not in the portal, can he do that?
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I mean, I'm not saying he's not going to get in the portal.
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I hope he doesn't. And we know he's going to dip
15:58
his toe into NBA waters. We'll see where it goes.
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Boy, Iowa State would be a whole lot better if he comes back.
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Obviously, yeah, need that kind of shooting out there.
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And as you go through another transition, they've got work to
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do in the portal themselves. They do.
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It won't be Brent Bloom anymore that are is going to be doing
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that. But whoever is running things
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over there and figuring that out, there is a lot of work to
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be done to rebuild that. Roster What about Trey Singleton
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from Northwestern? Do you remember him?
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I. Do.
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Good. Just a freshman.
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Yeah. Big 10, I liked him.
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Yeah. He averaged 8:00 and 5:00.
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He also felt like a guy that was going to be bothersome by the
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time he was an upper class, one of those Northwestern guys we've
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seen in the past, and that guy's still around.
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They were, they were bad as freshmen here.
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But now, you know, down the fringe of being a tournament
16:43
team or something like that, That's kind of felt like the
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path. Yeah, he was all right.
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Liked him 6. Eight.
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Yeah. 6-8 Yeah, I think he's 68. 6768, right at that range.
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Yeah, he was fine. I like their freshman guard.
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That was a kid that I really liked.
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Really. Yeah, I can't even remember his
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name off the top of my head. But yeah, it's the other
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question that kind of lingers along with Manchilovich.
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I think it's the same kind of conversation.
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Is is even in the portal? What's happened in Iowa City
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with Elvira? Cabarrus, it doesn't have to
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happen today or tomorrow. I mean, what are we waiting for,
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right? For both of these guys, by the
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way. This is connecting dots, this is
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speculation, this is not reporting.
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And I know some people struggle with that, but that's what we do
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on the radio when we hear the number that was estimated for
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over a year ago. And I was probably not going to
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spend the same amount to keep him around.
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See that? Reminds us what that was I think
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north of 1,000,000. Yeah, 1 1/2 I think was the the
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rough estimate that was out there.
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Did they get their money's worth based on the Florida Shot art?
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Arguments, art. Argument went a long, long ways.
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Did it? Yes, But overall, they certainly
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didn't, right? Not that one, right?
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Not throughout the course of the season.
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They did not get the return on investment for sure.
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That went a long way to balancing the scales to.
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Get to a Sweet 16 yeah the 27 year streak what he did that
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against the Nebraska late pulling away in that one yeah he
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earned it in the. Tournament.
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He had a really good the tournament, well, with the
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exception of the Illinois game. Lead 8 and that's what you saw
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from Fool Garris. I'm sure the conversation was
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had. You're not going to get the same
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and there's opportunities to make more money elsewhere.
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Do you make that choice to go chase the money in the last year
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that you're going to have an opportunity to chase that kind
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of money? Al Ferro's not played in the
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league. No.
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He'll play in Europe, you can make decent money there and
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good. Money.
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What is what is it? Do you have any?
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Idea. It is a wide range.
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It is anywhere for me. You can make $70,000 to hundreds
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of thousands of dollars. It's a wide swath, but this
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could be potentially set yourself up for life.
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I mean, you stack another $2,000,000 on top of 1.5 when
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you're 22 years old. Yeah, that's going to go a long
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ways as long as you certainly use your money correctly.
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But here we are on Wednesday, portal opened up yesterday day
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#2 of this. I think we're getting close to
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that decision time. It needs to be one way or the
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other. Because schools are aren't going
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to fill positions, Trent. Right, right.
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There's going to be visits, tons of them already set up this
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weekend and those suddenly those spots go very quickly.
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So I have nothing, I have heard nothing.
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A lot of people believed that he was going to do.
19:16
It's just odd that we haven't heard anything yet.
19:18
Yeah. Well, stand by.
19:19
We'll we'll see. Maybe we should if there, if
19:21
there is something news to be made, we would assume that that
19:25
will happen here in the next day or so.
19:29
What are you going to do with you with your top 20?
19:31
Are you going to are you going to try and parlay these these
19:34
back to your master's bets? Maybe a little bit, but most for
19:38
the most part, no. I usually just kind of stack
19:40
them up individually, don't do a lot.
19:42
There's some boosts at the different websites.
19:44
I'll play around with that and have a little bit of fun with
19:46
it. But yeah, overall, you know, you
19:48
go back to kind of having a key, having something that you want
19:51
to put in there with a bunch. I really like Cam Young for a
19:54
top 20. Two, I do too.
19:55
Playing incredibly well, nice player.
19:57
Another guy that won the players, The last two guys that
20:00
won The Players Championship went on to win the Masters the
20:02
last two years. So if you want to make that
20:04
equation and stack that together with Cam Young to win, that'd be
20:08
another direction to go. But yeah, for the most part, I
20:10
just kind of, I play with them individually, just stack them up
20:13
that way and that's the direction for the most part that
20:15
I go. We'll talk to Matt Rudy, more
20:19
Masters conversation coming up here in a couple of minutes.
20:23
Look forward to getting Matt's opinion on this tournament, what
20:26
he thinks is going to happen, who a couple of names.
20:29
He's covered this event for long, long time.
20:31
So we'll get his thoughts on that.
20:33
Not that he's going to guarantee us a winner by any means, but
20:36
we'll see who Matt Rudy is going to be backing this weekend.
20:39
Look forward to getting his take and who he thinks there's going
20:42
to be there at the end. By the way back, back to
20:45
basketball for just a second. Did you see the women's
20:48
tournament had the second highest audience, the final,
20:51
second highest television viewing of all time?
20:54
I've not seen Monday's men's yet, but the but the women's
20:58
came out from Sunday. Second most watched women's
21:01
final four of our championship game ever.
21:05
A little bit of surprise. That it's still doing as well as
21:08
it is, yes. That it still reached that type
21:11
of level did. It did it get it did it in a
21:13
roundabout way? Did it get some?
21:16
Maybe not the publicity they didn't want.
21:19
I mean, did it, did it hurt? The, the Gino Auriemma and Dodd
21:24
Stanley had their little dust up on on Friday night.
21:27
Just to remind people that you know the the the championship
21:30
games in 48 hours. It's anecdotal, but it could
21:33
hurt. I mean, just the people that I
21:35
talked to, the people that are not big, even sports fans that
21:39
were interested because of that in in seeing that again.
21:42
Yeah, I think it definitely helped it and went a long ways.
21:45
Did you see the Friday night numbers?
21:47
I'm sure I did. They didn't stick with me.
21:50
But yeah, I mean, that's third I'm seeing here from ESPN PR.
21:54
Third most watched women's championship ever, 9.9 million
21:57
viewers. Second most watched March
21:59
Madness overall, up to 5% year over year.
22:03
The second most watched Final Four on record, 6.7 million
22:06
viewers across the three games. That's from ESPN.
22:09
And the highest rated would have been Angel Reese's.
22:12
Yeah, it was that one. Angels.
22:15
Angels, let's get Jeff in here, then we'll get a break.
22:18
We'll get to Matt Rudy coming up.
22:19
Hello, Jeff. How are you?
22:21
Good. How are you guys?
22:22
What's? Up, just wanted to put my little
22:25
thoughts on the Masters, You know, a couple of big headlines
22:27
in my opinion coming into the Masters.
22:30
Number one's got to be, you know, where is Scotty at?
22:32
You know, he just had a second child, hasn't really played that
22:35
well. Yes, I know he won early.
22:37
You know, to his standards. That's not that's not enough.
22:40
I don't think. So coming into the Masters,
22:43
where is his game at #2? You got to talk about worries
22:47
back. He's not really been himself
22:50
since he kind of had, you know, the problems with the lower
22:53
back. And then he played the the
22:55
players and just I want to say he wasn't even close to being in
22:58
contention. Bryson has won a couple times on
23:02
live. Take that as much as you want.
23:04
I don't know what that really gives you.
23:05
But you know, let's say his forms coming into, you know,
23:08
coming into the masters, Jon ROM, to be honest, if you
23:12
haven't looked at the odds like he's the second choice at +900,
23:16
which is kind of surprising there.
23:18
Going back to Scotty. I haven't seen Scotty Plus 510
23:21
in a long time. So.
23:24
If you want, it's kind of crazy if you want to take a chance at
23:27
Scotty thinking, you know, can it can he does his game suit the
23:31
masters? Absolutely.
23:33
Is he the number one player still by far?
23:35
Absolutely. So to get him at 5:10 when we
23:38
were talking last year that Tiger was at the same level as
23:42
you know, I'm sorry, Scotty was at the same level as Tiger.
23:46
Getting, you know, 2 to one odds or under 510 is kind of a kind
23:50
of a deal. If you think that, you know,
23:52
Scotty can just kind of maybe put the switch some golfers that
23:57
I kind of like lower down the the list.
24:00
Trent's already brought up Cam Young, unbelievable putter.
24:04
Matt Fitzpatrick is one of my guys.
24:06
I'm circling. I played really well this year.
24:09
He would be in the top euro market too.
24:11
Absolutely. Is he the favorite Fitzpatrick?
24:14
Well, you got him up there. You got Tommy Fleetwood right
24:17
above them and then Rory. So, yeah.
24:20
And then, you know, my last choice, and I really don't want
24:24
to say his name, but he's been playing well, kind of a choker
24:27
is a Berg. He's been in the hunt.
24:30
He kind of choked it on Sunday and then he's got another top
24:33
five. And if you look him up at the
24:35
Masters, his game absolutely suits the Masters.
24:39
I mean, if he's going to win closer before, he's been close
24:43
before. If he's going to win a major, I
24:44
believe it's the Masters. Now.
24:46
Let me leave you on this. You guys talked about Al.
24:49
I think it's hilarious when people bring up Manchilovich and
24:53
Willie GoPro. He's a late 2nd rounder.
24:56
I I think by next year is Al a second round draft pick?
25:01
The clutch shot shooting from three.
25:03
He can he can create his own shot enough he can dunk it on
25:06
big. Yes, I understand his defensive
25:09
problems, but you don't think he could sniff a second round draft
25:13
pick? I don't think so at 22 years
25:15
old. Jeff, thanks for the call.
25:16
Appreciate. It with the inconsistency.
25:18
Now if we see that Alvaro Fugaris that we saw against
25:21
Florida and Nebraska for the whole year, yeah, absolutely.
25:25
I don't think we're getting. That though I, I, I'd like to
25:27
believe you would, yes, but not sure you would.
25:30
By the way, when he's mentioned Nebraska, that kid just named,
25:32
it's possible to say. The big guy, the big guy, the
25:34
big nerdy guy, Yeah. He's in the portal.
25:37
I saw that top Englishman Tommy Fleetwood the betting favorite,
25:40
plus 225. Englishman or European
25:43
Englishman? OK.
25:44
Matt Fitzpatrick plus 240. Justin Rose plus three.
25:48
I love. Justin Rose in this tournament.
25:49
And I'm going to have him to be the first round leader at 40 to
25:52
1. Yes, that is already part of the
25:55
card. Can I entice you on this one?
25:56
And then we'll go to break. After a a lengthy study last
26:03
night, I've found the winner of the Super Bowl.
26:09
It's April 8th. Uh huh.
26:11
OK, Yep. I'm ahead of the curve.
26:13
I I know you are. They're not beating the Detroit
26:16
Lions. What?
26:17
Look at the schedule coordinators.
26:20
We don't have to remind people what happened the year after the
26:23
Eagles lost their coordinators. They won the Super Bowl, they
26:28
lost Glenn, they lost Johnson. They've got some continuity in
26:33
that position now. They've still got a a, a really
26:36
good team, I think. And they've got a fourth place
26:39
schedule, a fourth place schedule.
26:42
Trent, just let me run this by you real quick.
26:44
I got to find it, so it might take.
26:45
Give me a minute here. Here's who the Lions are playing
26:49
this year. You ready?
26:50
Other than, of course, the their divisional foes home to New
26:54
Orleans, Tampa, New England Jets, Tennessee Giants.
26:58
Pretty easy. Rd.
27:00
Atlanta, Buffalo, Carolina, Miami, Arizona.
27:03
OK, you don't think there's twelve wins there?
27:05
Might be not winning a Super Bowl. 49 to 1 Cam Young top 10
27:12
Detroit wins the Super Bowl. Parley them together.
27:19
That offensive line still stinks to high heaven.
27:20
No, no, no. They've made some.
27:22
They've made some signings. Larry Boreham and the drafts
27:24
coming up. It's the Lions.
27:27
They finally going to breakthrough.
27:29
We're going to breakthrough. We're going to break.
27:30
We'll come back. Matt Rudy joins the program.
27:32
Next, it's Miller and Condon on the Iowa Sports Radio Network.
27:36
Hi, Miller and Condon. Welcome back, Iowa Sports Radio
27:38
Network. Wherever you're listening.
27:40
Grateful that you are. We'll take you until 2:00.
27:43
Let's talk some golf, shall we? As the music would indicate,
27:47
Matt Rudy, long time golf writer, joins us to preview and
27:49
to recap all of the majors and the big events or golf stories
27:53
throughout the year. Hello Matt Rudy, good to have
27:55
you back aboard again. We certainly appreciate the
27:57
relationship over the decades. How are you?
28:00
You know, I'm really good and it makes me happy to know that the
28:03
golf season is officially starting talking to you.
28:06
Guys, absolutely right back at you.
28:08
You know, one of the stories coming into it has been Nick
28:10
Faldo. We go back a couple of weeks
28:12
last week, I guess, letting his feelings known about Tiger
28:15
Woods. I'm glad he did.
28:16
I have no problem with what he said.
28:18
I thought he was spot on. And then Greg Norman and Nick
28:21
Faldo kind of going back and forth.
28:24
Trent started the show talking about, you know, what's the
28:26
story of this year's Masters. And we really couldn't come up
28:29
with one. But it's good to see the old
28:30
boys are giving us something to talk about before they put AT in
28:33
the ground. Yeah, I think it's a reminder
28:36
too, that as much as some players historically complained
28:40
about the coverage they got, Nick Stout was a great example.
28:43
He was notoriously kind of prickly with the media.
28:47
When that attention goes away, you can see how the elbow is
28:51
sharpened a little bit so you can get yourself back in in
28:53
front of the in front of the cameras again.
28:56
But I think I think those those kinds of storylines are always
29:00
good for Monday, Tuesday. And what's great about Wednesday
29:03
and the Thursday is we get to start talking about what's
29:06
actually going to happen on the golfers and I.
29:09
And I can't think of anything more interesting than all of the
29:12
talk about Scotty Scheffler being, you know, kind of off
29:15
form and not being a guy that has a chance to win.
29:18
It must be interesting for him to feel kind of what Tiger must
29:21
have felt like during the, you know, the Tiger Woods heyday,
29:24
which is if you don't win every single tournament, all of a
29:26
sudden you're not as good as you used to be.
29:28
That's a pretty tough standard. Definitely high expectations for
29:31
Scotty. He's still the betting favorite,
29:33
but a better price than we've been able to get over the last
29:36
year or so on him to win this golf tournament.
29:39
Matt, if you can set the scene for the tournament, it sounds
29:42
like it's been dry for their standards here throughout the
29:45
winter. No rain this week.
29:47
It's going to be a fast track and that means fast greens.
29:50
Is that going to play around here a little bit and coupled
29:53
with maybe a more difficult golf course than we've seen the last
29:56
couple of years? Yeah.
29:58
I mean, all the adjectives that I've heard from the coaches that
30:01
and players that I've talked to this week is that it's fiery.
30:04
And I think of fiery, you know, hard, you know, high bouncing,
30:09
you know, ping pong volley kind of a setup makes life really
30:13
hard if you're not really precisely striking the ball.
30:17
And it makes that precision striking a lot more important
30:21
than how far you happen to hit it.
30:23
Because if you, even if you put a lot of speed on it, if you're
30:26
hitting these, you know, the undulations, for example, on
30:28
some of these holes. And you know #10 is a great
30:30
example. If you hit a, a heater down
30:33
there with your 3 wood and you're offline and you aren't
30:36
taking the right, you know, you're taking the right line,
30:39
you know, down that hole, all you're going to do is bonk it
30:42
even further into the wilderness.
30:43
So I think precision and and off of the T precision and you're
30:49
striking with your irons and being able to land the ball
30:51
where you intend to, especially on approach shot.
30:55
It brings a whole subset of players much more firmly into
30:59
the contention, where it's not just going to be the person who
31:01
can vomit the farthest off the T because it's, you know, because
31:04
it's soft. Is is Augusta your favorite
31:07
course in in the States? I mean, I admire kind of the
31:14
audacity of trying to take full control over the environment.
31:17
You know, they they literally have engineered every inch of
31:20
the place to have it do exactly what they want it to do.
31:23
So I admire it kind of from an engineering perspective.
31:26
But if you were asking me what you know would be the most fun,
31:30
or you know the place I would pick is number 1, I don't know
31:32
that that would be the the number one course I would pick.
31:36
Put it this way, and it should be some more, but where do you,
31:40
you know everybody's going to die?
31:41
Where does it at some point? Where would you like your ashes
31:43
spread? Gosh, you know it's hard.
31:47
Yeah, this is not a political show, but my favorite course
31:50
anywhere on the planet is Turnberry.
31:52
And. I think if I want, if I wanted
31:54
my actions to be spread at Turnberry now that Trump owns
31:57
it, I don't, you know, I'd have some parts.
31:59
People in my family would think that was awesome.
32:01
And some people in my family would never go visit my, my, my
32:04
actions ever again. So I probably have to come up
32:07
with a different choice now. Yes, plenty of that on the
32:10
political superior. So I want to jump in to Rory.
32:15
I've heard this a couple of different times.
32:16
Just the extras that happened being the, it's not just all
32:20
right. I'm going to put together a menu
32:21
for the Champions dinner. There's a lot of extra that
32:24
comes along with it. What do you anticipate for Rory
32:26
this week when we get out to the golf course?
32:29
Yeah, it's, it's, it's not only the extras this week.
32:32
I think I, I remember talking to a few New York Yankees adjacent
32:37
folks during the 2000s when the Yankees were kind of coming out
32:40
of their, their era where they're winning titles seemingly
32:45
all the time. And, and, and the coaches and
32:47
the peak performance folks and all kind of and the players all
32:50
kind of commented about some of the same effect, which is after
32:54
you accomplished some big milestone goal, Mount Everest
32:57
goal in your career. What really separates some
33:00
players is their ability to immediately wake up the next day
33:03
and go back to work again. And I think that hangover you
33:05
saw for Rory last year was was inevitable after the masters.
33:10
So I mean, I think ideally he would have had enough time to
33:12
kind of process what's going on and to come back into this
33:16
tournament. Somebody you should be one of
33:17
the favorites. But you're right, you know, be
33:20
having to host the Champions dinner, having to shake
33:22
everybody's hand, having to go through all the extra
33:24
responsibilities. It definitely changes the run up
33:28
for the preparation you'd have for a tournament.
33:31
The one thing I will say in Rory's favor is that he's the
33:34
guy who always is on the media circuit.
33:36
He's always in the press room. He's always got responsibilities
33:39
that other players don't have. If you were some other player
33:42
that had not won one of these before or was not one of the
33:45
marquee players and all of a sudden you've got these new
33:48
responsibilities during a tournament week, I think the
33:51
adjustment would be much, much more difficult than it will be
33:55
for Rory. I think what makes the Masters
33:57
so interesting is it's so hard now because of where, you know,
34:01
some players are playing on live, you know some players are
34:04
playing a traditional run up to this tournament.
34:06
Other players like Scotty haven't played in a few weeks.
34:09
I don't think it's as easy to predict form right now as it
34:14
would have been historically. Is it great that Bryson
34:16
Dechambeau won two other events in his last two starts?
34:19
You know, one in Asia and one in Africa?
34:21
I mean, it doesn't hurt to be winning, but I but I don't know
34:25
how you evaluate that relative to what he's going to see this
34:28
week, for example. Tommy Fleetwood is become one of
34:32
my favorite players just for the person that he is a he's a great
34:35
player, but BI left him away from the course as well.
34:38
Seems like a really good guy and you know, Family Guy etcetera,
34:41
etcetera become one of my favorites.
34:44
What kind of shot do you give him this week?
34:46
You know, I, I think I was telling you guys about how cool
34:48
Tommy Fleetwood was, you know, like 10 years ago when I did, I
34:52
did a cover, a cover shoot with him for Golf Digest.
34:54
And he's just the nicest, most regular guy, you know, comes
34:57
walking up to the shoot carrying his own bag.
35:00
And, you know, you can't find a better guy.
35:02
I mean, he and Scotty Scheffler are kind of cut from the same
35:04
mold. And that if you ran across them
35:06
at a, you know, a burger joint in your town, they would talk to
35:09
you like regular people, you know, not like somebody who was
35:12
kind of segmented off. But I think the display that you
35:16
saw Tommy Fleetwood put on toward the end of last year
35:19
really validated what everybody who's seen him hit a ball
35:22
already knew. And I think the other
35:24
interesting thing about Tommy Fleetwood is how well he had
35:27
played in stretches, had Augusta National before.
35:30
And this is a guy, I think one year I watched him make 7
35:33
birdies in a row at Gusta National.
35:35
So clearly it's a place that rewards the kind of striking
35:39
that he is known for. I think they are the piece that
35:43
it always sort of eluded him is he's been kind of an indifferent
35:45
putter for his career. So if you can play enough rounds
35:49
at that place, the advantage that Gusta National provides
35:53
players who are just mediocre partners and that obviously
35:55
you're playing the same venue every year.
35:57
And this is a place that prides itself on being consistent year
36:00
in and year out, mostly in terms of the way the greens play and
36:03
the putts that you have to read. So if you can get some some
36:08
mileage on those greens and get some experience, it's a lot like
36:11
playing your home course. You know you're not, you're
36:12
almost not even reading putts anymore at your home course.
36:15
You're just remembering what those putts on each hole did.
36:18
That can only be an advantage for a guy that that stripes it
36:21
like he does. Ludwig Oberg, a young guy that's
36:24
going to win at some point and I think win on this golf course
36:27
and in this golf tournament. But another meltdown maybe is
36:30
not the right phrasing for it. A struggle getting to the
36:33
stretch. Last year he was a shot off the
36:35
lead, bogey on 17, triple on 18. A guy that's going to finish in
36:40
the top 10. But maybe not when it where you
36:42
thought Overall with the youngster who obviously has a
36:45
ton of talent, just feels like we got some Sunday struggles at
36:48
this point. Yeah, I think he might even have
36:50
been tied to the lead for a minute there.
36:52
Yeah, your. Point.
36:54
Your point is right on. And I think we have this
36:57
conversation a lot on your show, which is the only way to find
37:00
out is to find out, you know, to do it.
37:03
And you look at maybe we've been we've been kind of we've lucked
37:09
out. For example, to watch the way
37:11
Tiger came out or the way the Brooks Kaupka came out and
37:14
started his major championship career or even the way that Rory
37:17
came out and started his major championship career where you
37:20
just start winning these things right off the jump.
37:23
It's hard. It's hard to win majors.
37:24
It's hard to do it for the first time.
37:26
And I think getting some of those bumps and bruises like he
37:28
did last year, it's all I like the bumps and bruises Rory went
37:32
through at the Masters, you know, dominating at times and
37:35
all of a sudden hitting one in the out into the, you know, the
37:38
subdivision next door or into the cabins or whatever you want
37:41
to call it. I think the resilient champions,
37:45
the ones that go on and do it are the ones that take those
37:48
bumps and kind of learn what happens when they get hyped up
37:52
like that and when the emotions are running differently.
37:55
Instead of trying to avoid it, they embrace it.
37:57
And as you said, this is the guy has all the town in the world,
38:01
He's like Xander Shockley. You know, we talked about
38:03
Shockley on your show a lot, the guy where everyone knows at some
38:06
point he's going to win majors and all of a sudden Xander won
38:09
two of them in a row. So it wouldn't surprise me if
38:11
that is the trajectory that over design as well.
38:14
Last thing for me is the part of you that would like to see
38:17
Justin Rose finally breakthrough and get this done after being so
38:20
close last year. And then give us a name or two,
38:23
Matt, that you think could ultimately be adorned in the
38:27
green jacket on Sunday late Sunday afternoon.
38:30
Well, I hate to sound like a weird kind of a Homer, but it's
38:33
kind of what this is going to sound like.
38:35
But I spent a lot of time chatting with Justin Rose last
38:39
year, as in the run up to the book that I did with his coach,
38:42
Mark Blackburn that came out in September.
38:44
And Justin wrote the forward to that.
38:46
And you all find he's he's in that that Fleetwood category,
38:49
that Scheffler category is just a nice guy who puts in a
38:52
tremendous amount of work. So seeing Justin Rose win, I
38:55
mean, selfishly, it'd be cool for, you know, the guy that I do
38:58
projects with, have his player win.
39:00
And then I related note, another one of Mark's students is Matt
39:04
Fitzpatrick, who's been playing fantastic golf over the last
39:07
couple months. So I'm going to, I hate to be
39:10
the Homer, but since we talked about Michigan State on this
39:13
show too, I guess I'll just reinforce my formerness and say
39:15
that, you know, Justin Rose would be awesome.
39:17
And I and 1, you know, guy a little bit further down because
39:21
it's fiery and difficult. Fitzpatrick is such a great
39:24
strategist and, you know, and a guy who can play the angles.
39:26
And when it doesn't, when you don't require, you know, it's
39:29
kind of that bombing component that perspective doesn't really
39:32
have, you know, he's a guy you got to look at too.
39:35
Last thing, we made it through the whole interview.
39:37
But Tiger, just your perspective felt like maybe we're trending.
39:43
He was going to make it a go. At minimum, he was going to be
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there trying it this week and of course that is not the case.
39:48
Just an overview and a look back at yet another unfortunate
39:51
event. Maybe the last one as far as his
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golf I. Mean one of my best buddies is a
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captain in the fire department and the town went over from
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where I live and. We were talking about how many
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people in life have had two rollover accidents in
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residential neighborhoods where the where the speed limit was 30
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miles an hour. I mean, I don't, I don't know
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that that's even happened unless you're, you know, some kind of
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NASCAR driver or something like that.
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And I think it's, it's evidence and we've talked about this
40:19
before, that the skills it takes to be an incredible player are
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not necessarily the ones it takes to navigate your real
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life. And I think when you have a life
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where there are a few people that are telling you to, you
40:31
know, stop or to do something different.
40:33
I mean, you know, the bubble you live in is in a lot of ways is a
40:37
sad 1. And in this particularly case,
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it's a dangerous one. If you're blasting around
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neighborhoods and rolling your vehicle, other people can get
40:46
hurt. And it feels like this piece of
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it is kind of breaking through and and people in the in the
40:53
world of golf are kind of not only they're not so much
40:56
demanding it that he changed something himself because they
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want to see Tiger Woods get better.
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They're saying you can't just go out and be a menace to everybody
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else. And I think that might be the
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piece that, you know, at least pushes this in a better
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direction. I mean, I would I would love to
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see Tiger play more majors. I'd love to see him play PGA
41:14
Tour Champions event. I would just love to see him be
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present and not and be and be coherent when he's talking in an
41:21
interview, you know, before our tournament or when he's hosting
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an event, you know, having him be the statesman kind of
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requires him being, you know, all there.
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And I think every also anybody wants to see is Tiger Woods be
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all there? No doubt about it.
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Hope you'll be here on Monday to recap the turn with with us.
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Matt Rudy. I'll text you.
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Thank you, buddy. I appreciate it.
41:41
Thank you my friend. Good to talk to you.
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Matt Rudy, a long time golf writer, formerly of Golf Digest,
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now writing books on the sport of golf.
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We'll take your time out, come back and finish our number one
41:51
of our program. David Kaplan kicks off the
41:53
second hour. Miller and Condon on the Iowa
41:56
Sports Radio Network. Hi Miller and Condon, final
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couple of minutes, first hour of the show.
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What did you make of the Vrabel Rusini story that broke
42:05
yesterday? Kind of a weird look, huh?
42:07
Yeah. That's sort of cheating.
42:08
I mean, yeah, yeah. For both sides.
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For both sides. You know what one of my first
42:13
thoughts was is, is clearly that's what's going on.
42:16
Secondly, I feel bad for other women in the field like a Laura
42:20
Rutledge, Courtney Cronin, you know, all the faces, the women
42:25
that have come before, you know, trying to make, trying to make
42:29
their mark and, and, and now everybody's going to be
42:32
wondering, right? I mean, it's just, it's not,
42:35
it's not it's an awful look. It's a look.
42:37
They're the people that are fooling around and their spouses
42:39
all over Des Moines everyday We get, we get that it's part of.
42:43
But when you see it like this, and then I want to know who took
42:47
the pictures. I want to know what's behind it.
42:50
That's what I want to know, You know, who's behind it.
42:52
How? Who did that?
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Was it New York Post that got him first?
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I think who funneled them to the New York Post?
42:58
Why were they spying on variables I mean?
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Were they even spying though? I don't know.
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I've been in the hotel. Hey, there's Mike Variable.
43:03
They were at an adult, only $2100 a night for per room.
43:08
A resort, they can afford it. They can afford it and but this
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or there were six other people there.
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Really, where were they? How come they're not in the
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pictures like you're holding hands.
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How come you're, you know, laying beside each other?
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It's just a terrible look. Yes, reporter and an NFL head
43:23
coach. And again, I feel bad for the
43:25
other women that now we're going to they have to work twice as
43:27
hard to begin with in this like it or not, it's true.
43:31
And now they're always going to be well, how did she get her
43:34
job? It's not right.
43:36
Anyways, that was my take on him.
43:38
It was really bad. Really bad.
43:40
Ugly look it is. And I think you need.
43:42
The Patriots way. Cutting quarters, good things,
43:46
colouring outside the lines. Yeah, that's that's for sure.
43:49
Cappy coming up in hour number two, we'll talk.
43:52
Bulls, by the way, the starter for the White Sox, the game one
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star, the opening night star, Shane Smith.
43:58
Yeah, he was sent down to the minors today.
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And yesterday. You had a good day.
44:06
Well, he was good. He did not take the loss.
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You're right, he was out of the game by the time that happened,
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yes. Yeah, they'd strikeouts.
44:12
Five walks. Well, that was the problem,
44:14
right? Yes.
44:15
And he was only in for like 3 and 2/3.
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It was the control, but unbelievable.
44:19
Yes, Trace. Google watched a lot of him last
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night. He got beat.
44:23
He didn't look very good either, really.
44:25
Command just was a little bit off.
44:27
Yeah, no, his standards are a little bit different and the
44:30
twins got all their one runs. By the way, the Twins are
44:33
working on a winning streak. That's that's 2.
44:35
That's two. You know who is good?
44:38
Todd Bradley. He was unbelievable, wasn't he?
44:40
You said that yesterday, that he's.
44:41
Pitching pretty well, throwing hard.
44:43
He is looking like the guy that was a what, top 20 prospect for
44:47
years when he was in the race system came up, didn't have it.
44:50
Twins have figured something out.
44:52
They got a lot more to figure out though.
44:53
How about the Tigers at 4:00 and 7:00?
44:56
Not good. Paul Skeens finally got a win,
44:58
though for the Buckos yesterday. Hour 2 coming up next, Cappy
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kicks it off Miller and Condon on the Iowa Sports Radio
45:04
Network.