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Today is Monday, May 20th, and the Minnesota Timberwolves shock the world and take down the defending champion, Nuggets, with an incredible Game 7 performance. Holy shit, PFT. Oh, I should have said also, congratulations to Hank. Boston Celtics are NBA champs.
Yeah, because the Nuggets are out. The only real competition that they had. So congratulations, Hank. That's very big for you.
Congrats, Hank. You're not worried about the Pacers at all, right? No. Yeah, I think so.
And you're not worried about the Mavericks? Not worried about the Wolves? No, I'll be watching the Mads-Wolves with some intensity. So watching these games, I've started to come around, maybe just because I'm hanging out with Hank too much, but I see his point when he says, you guys just hate me for existing.
And it's true. We do hate you for existing. But your entire existence is very infuriating. You understand that?
That's true. That's also true. I just exist, and then people choose to be infuriated. I can only control myself.
You just exist and throw looks. Yeah, again, it's like, I have to look. Like, I have to look places. And then if you get mad at me for not talking, then when I talk, it just enrages you.
Holy shit, the Timberwolves, down 15 at half. They played, like, dog crap in the first half. And then the second half, it was like the Nuggets forgot. The Monstars talked about half-time, I guess.
I want to know what that half-time speech was like, what adjustments they made on both sides, because the Nuggets went from looking unstoppable, and the Wolves looking like trash, to the complete opposite. Second half, a total 180. Nothing was falling for the Nuggets. Defensively, the Wolves were just swarming them.
Yeah, and they also, Jokic's taking, what, what do you end up taking? 10 threes? Yeah, he just kept shooting, because he's like, they have to start falling. Friday night, they absolutely kill the Nuggets.
And then even tonight, when they're down 20 points early in the game, and you're like, there's no chance. This team is just not ready yet. And they just kept fighting. Just, like, Anthony Edwards didn't have his best game.
Kept fighting. Nas Reed was just that, that stretch he had, where he was like, a couple free throws, block, assist, dunk. Like, he just, just absolute electricity they put into the Timberwolves team, and they take down the champs. Be real careful out there, if you're typing Nas Reed with your autocorrect, or Guy Marquise Noel from Kansas State.
He had, he felt victim just like 10 minutes ago. He just said, like, Nazi played a great game. Oh, no. Or, he said, GGs.
Nazi GGs, buddy. But it was, it was a full team effort from the Wolves, because if you told me, going into, uh, game seven, that Anthony Edwards would have the Kobe, six for 24, which is, was that his famous, uh, stat line from the game seven they won? I'm pretty sure it was. Six for 24 from the field.
I'd be like, no chance the Wolves win this game. Well, here's a fun stat about Anthony Edwards. So, when he's held below five points in the first half of the game, the Timberwolves are seven and one this season. Damn.
Pretty crazy. That's the formula. So, you just gotta not score. Just have him not score at all in the first half, and they're good.
But, like, even Karl-Anthony Towns' goofy ass, that one, that one moment where he couldn't get inbound the ball, and he just started, he looked like he was gonna, like, run up to the ref and be like, stop the game fully. Not even just call a timeout. He didn't call a timeout. Anthony Edwards will do something every game that makes you scratch your head.
Karl-Anthony Towns. Yeah, Karl-Anthony Towns will do something in every game that makes you scratch your head and say, like, how is this guy still having a job in the NBA? And then he'll do something every game where you're like, oh, this guy's one of the best basketball players on the planet. Yeah, but he was, yeah, I mean, he was getting tough rebounds.
He was, you know, he scored. Like, I'm just, I couldn't be more impressed with Wolves. This series was just, it was the anti-Minnesota series, because Minnesota sports fans have been through hell and back, and up 2-0, they were starting to be like, maybe this is different, and then down 3-2, they're like, nope, same old Minnesota Timberwolves, same old Minnesota sports, and then in this game specifically, being like a no-show in Game 7, can't believe we got our hopes up, boom, you look up, and they win the game, somewhat convincingly, because they were up 10 with, like, three minutes left, and they were over, in the Nuggets building, they win three games in Denver. I mean, what a performance.
They're for real. Pretty good. They're for real, Hank. I'm not saying they're not.
I love after the game, the second whistle blew. First shot, not the real team owner, not the coach, dealing with Torn Patella, not a crying fan in the stands that made the long trip for Minnesota. A-Rod. A-Rod.
A-Rod. First shot. When I think Timberwolves, I think Alex Rodman. Winning.
Winning culture. Yeah. Shout out Minnesota fans. This has to feel like, it has to feel almost bizarre, like, when's the joke going to happen?
Yeah. Because you have the young star, and it felt like the series slipped away, and it didn't, and now you're on to the Western Conference Finals for the first time, I believe since, like, 2004, when they had Kevin Garnett, and their last time, their only other time in the Western Conference Finals, it's awesome. You know, shout out Minnesota sports fans. It's been a long time to have a team that you're like, it's, again, it's the opposite of Minnesota sports where every other team they've had, it's always been like, ah, they'll end up losing.
This team's just a bunch of dogs. You're like, no, maybe they won't. Yeah, they're fun. They are the game that you look forward to watching.
Yeah. I'm bummed that the series is over, actually, even though we didn't have a whole lot of really close games. No, we didn't. I was just looking forward to these games, because you didn't know who was going to win.
Friday night was, like, that was the biggest joke of a game ever. They all have kind of been jokes. Yeah. Like, it's the most lopsided seven-game series where both teams were lopsided.
Also, the Nuggets-Wolves jersey mismatch tonight was probably the most profound there's ever been, because I don't know what the fuck. Burn that Nuggets jersey, never wear it again. Is it the zip code? I don't know.
It's like, it's the... It has the... Oh, my God, that's even worse. I'd rather have the zip code.
I'd rather have the zip code. They put it on their court, obviously, but, like, they put it on the jerseys and have the really dark blue ones. You've got to have something more intimidating. That's not a game seven uniform.
That's a game two uniform. And then you let the Wolves walk in with their awesome, clean throwbacks. Yep. And they just...
That was over right then, even though it wasn't. Even though the first half was just over, I guess. Yeah. Yeah.
So, Hank, you've got to be feeling it. I'm excited. I'm excited for the next few weeks. Yeah.
Well, so, who you've got facing is the Indiana Pacers. I want to start this, because I want to start it by saying, talking about the Pacers, because that ESPN broadcast was something else. I didn't even know that they were... Like, if you tuned into that game, you would not have known who the Knicks were playing today, because they, even at the end of the game, like, Doris Burke sounded like she was going to cry having to be like, the Pacers are about to win this game.
Mike Breen, I get, because he's the Knicks regular play-by-play guy, and he's a Knicks fan, but the beginning of the game started with Tyrese Halberton, Jalen Brunson walking through the tunnel, and then Stephen A. Smith also walking through the tunnel, like he was a player. Before tip-off, they kicked it to Stephen A. Smith, who gave a Knicks pump-up speech with Spike Lee.
You would never have guessed that the Indiana Pacers were playing in this game. And then at halftime, the Pacers are winning a great game, and then at halftime, they just talk about what a tough guy O.G. Which, credit to him for playing, but then Bob Myers just lectures America on what an outstanding feat of strength this guy's pulling off tonight. I wrote down the quote, because Lika Andrews asked Bob Myers at halftime, what stood out to you for the Pacers?
And he wrote, he said back, well, starting with O.G., couldn't go. And then went on to talk about O.G. He's like, no, no, the question was about the Pacers. So the Pacers deserve the credit here.
They went into the Mecca in a Game 7, and dropped 130. Just did not miss. 67% from the field. This team, yeah, their defense is great, but their offensive, when it clicks, they have so many dudes who can score.
And TJ McConnell, again, every time he comes off the bench, he's like, holy shit, Tyrese Halberton was awesome. It was just, they took it right to the Knicks, completely took the crowd out of the game. And their teams down 0-2 in a series have, I think, won the series 7% of the time. And home teams in a Game 7 win 75% of the time.
The Pacers just bucked both those trends. And it was the best shooting performance in a Game 7 on the road in NBA history. It's incredible. 67% from the field is insane.
Yeah. All 16 of the ESPN analysts before the series picked the Knicks, the Pacers used that on their Twitter after. And so the Pacers deserve all the credit. They deserve the shine that ESPN just did not give them whatsoever.
I think Rick Carlisle was right. Yeah. For the small market. Well, actually, New York, it's not called a small market.
It's called a bodega. Yeah, that's true. Get that straight. With a cat.
Yeah. Cat sitting in a box of old Twix. Yeah. Usually, there's a Ritz container, like a box of Ritz crackers.
That was from the 1980s. Yeah. The beauty of a bodega is if you go past the first two or three things that are on the shelf, you can see one that's like, oh, shit. Was this a war ration?
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But the Pacers, like, full team performance.
Everyone scored. They had all five starters were in double digits. Actually, the lowest starter was Miles Turner at 17. And then TJ McConnell put in 12th on the bench.
And yeah, I know that you shouldn't be worried about the Pacers, Hank. But the Pacers do have an offense that, like, when they get hot and they run, they play a weird style of basketball that could sneak up on you. Not worried. They could maybe sneak up a game.
Okay. Yeah. I mean, I agree with you. I'm just saying, give it some shine to the Pacers.
How do you feel about Tyrese Halliburton being, it seems like he's embracing the role of a villain. But to me, the best villains aren't the ones that have to be like, you know what, I'm going to embrace the role of a villain. A real villain just doesn't give a fuck and they're a villain. Yeah.
I didn't like that he did the too small to do something right on Friday night behind his back and then pretended to pick his nose. You got to do the too small with full force. Well, the too small is a hate crime. Yeah.
That's people of my stature. But I have no problem with him wearing a Reggie Miller choking shirt after the game. Yeah. That's good.
Like the Knicks were talking all this shit. As he saw in the media, everyone was picking against you guys. Nobody was really respecting the Pacers. So yeah, talk all this shit once it's over.
But a guy like that, he loses. He doesn't have that same, I don't know. Do you know what I'm trying to say about people who anoint themselves as a villain versus people who are just naturally villains? Oh, I think he's kind of hated.
Yeah. I think he's hated in the fact that when he's good, he's great. And then there's some moments where it's like, what is he doing out there? He's running in circles.
But you got to give Tyrese Halliburton credit. It's his first playoffs and he's made it to a conference finals. Joel Embiid has never done that. That's pretty good.
People are obsessed with Joel Embiid. You're obsessed with Joel Embiid. Well, I mean, I'm the one who brought this up. Tyrese Halliburton has made it to a conference final before Joel Embiid.
It's his first playoffs. Don't care. Cat, too. Well, it's not his first playoffs.
No, I know it. But he has made it to a conference finals before Joel Embiid. So who do you guys say about Anthony Edwards? So who's a better big man?
Rudy Gobert or Joel Embiid? Be honest. If I'm being honest, it's Joel Embiid. One's made it to a conference finals.
By a ton. By a ton. But yeah, the Pacers. So the Knicks went out so sad.
Well, they died as they lived with another heartbreaking injury. Yeah. Jalen Brunson broke his hand. I heard that Don Thibodeau actually sat on it at halftime.
We've got to figure out a way to blame him. Yeah. This one as well. Here's the thing.
Two things can be true at the same time. The Knicks had incredibly bad injury luck in these playoffs. And you can be excited if you're a Knicks fan about the future because Jalen Brunson is an up-and-coming superstar. I said it.
Up-and-coming. Not there yet. But a superstar in the making. Knicks fans also should understand that they have to get laughed at because all they do is talk shit.
And they had the We Want Boston chants and the Bing Bongs and the after-every game, the interviews. And then you just lost Game 7 at the Mecca to the Indiana Pacers. Yeah, and Spike Lee pretty much crying in the front row afterwards. That was tough to watch.
Like, I think. I don't know. I mean, maybe most Knicks fans aren't. Means, you're a Knicks fan.
Means, by the way, is going through the playoffs of hell because he's an Islanders and Knicks fan and hates the Rangers who are maybe going to win the Stanley Cup. We'll talk to P.K. Subban about that. But what do you think, Means?
Do you think it's fair? Or do you think Knicks fans are in their feels about people talking shit back to them? Because I saw a lot of that. Being like, oh, we're so injured, we're so injured.
You guys talk a lot of shit for not being in a conference final since 2000. Yeah, I think I'm right just in their feels right now. Yeah, fair. Which is fair.
That's how sports work. I think both sides are overreacting when Knicks fans are like, or Pacers fans are saying, well, Knicks fans keep using the injury card on everything. And then Knicks fans get pissed off at that. And I think the truth is in the middle where it's like, your team had devastating injuries.
Yeah, no, you were all hurt. It's a valid excuse, but it's still definitely an excuse. Right, and it's also, you talk a lot of shit along the way. You got to expect it to come back at you when you end up losing.
Especially Game 7 at the Mecca. Yeah, and that was, I mean, that crowd, like, the Pacers just took it right to them. Hank, are you sad you don't get to play the Knicks? It doesn't really matter.
I would like to shut the Knicks fans up and just sweep them real quick, but they would just, you know, play the injury card anyway, so. Yeah. This will get the in-season tournament revenge game. Yeah, but Knicks fans, do you think they're going to be rooting against the Celtics?
Are they going to be able to bring themselves to root for the Pacers? I don't think they're. They don't have that hate in them? They don't really care.
I mean, the Pacers and Knicks have more of a rivalry. They do. The Pacers and Knicks have more of a rivalry than the Celtics in the Knicks. That's true, but I feel like people from New York just don't want to see people from Boston succeed.
It's true. Here's a weird stat. Now, the Pacers have been to the Eastern Conference Finals a bunch of times. You know, they went to the NBA Finals in whatever it was, 2000, but 1994, they went to the Eastern Conference Finals.
2004, they went to the Eastern Conference Finals. 2014, they went to the Eastern Conference Finals. 2024, Eastern Conference Finals. So let's put in a reminder for 2034.
Make sure that's in there. Sounds good. They have been other times, though, but still. That's kind of cool.
I'm going to bet so many shit wins on that game. I'm going to be so rich from Doge. I'm happy for the Pacers. I mean, they've got a young, fun team.
But Tyrese Halliburton, what? Me too. I'm happy for him. Tyrese Halliburton.
Tyrese Halliburton, Jason Tatum, Luka, or Anthony Edwards. One of those four is going to win their first ring. That's pretty cool. Very cool.
Like, that's the passing of the torch of the NBA. I'm not saying those are all in the same level. Which player do you think is the best out of that group before you disnamed? I would still say Luka.
I would like Hank to answer that question. I would like Hank to answer that question, too. I would say Luka. Is it better than Luka?
More experience. Okay. How? Just played longer.
Nothing but success. More playoff games. I mean, Luka played overseas and then played here. I mean, it's close.
It's close. It's a 1A, 1B situation. Luka's very good. So if you had a call from the Dallas Matt Mark Cuban, who still somehow owns him, tomorrow and said, hey, we want to trade Jason Tatum for Luka straight up, do the Celtics hang up that phone call?
I don't know what they would do. I'm not sure. Okay. I would pick up that call.
I would pick up that call. I'd take that call. I'd rather entertain the call. Yeah, you'd answer it.
Okay, we should talk about the Mavs. That was an awesome, awesome game six. The shot making at the end of the game was just like, just such high level back and forth. And also the Thunder, I feel like the Thunder blew, I don't know, like four or five different 15 point leads during that game.
They just kept on getting these huge leads and the Mavs kept coming back. And the Mavs, Kyrie Irving, fun fact, is 14-0 in closeout games, which is a weird way to say it because he's lost elimination games. Yeah, not game sevens. No, he has lost, no, no, it's closeout games.
Yeah, yes, yeah, I would be worried about whoever came out of the West, to be honest. Yeah. Yeah, it'd be a fair fight. This game was awesome though.
Derek Lively was incredible. And Derek Lively, fun fact, goes back to last year when the Mavs got fined $750,000 for tanking the final two games. Now, teams tank all the time. They got fined specifically because they were like, hey, we're tanking and they said it out loud.
But they tanked for a specific reason because if they had stayed at the 11th spot in the standings, they would have had an 8.5% chance of keeping their pick because it was a trade that they would have to lose their pick. They tanked, they ended up having a 79.8% chance of keeping their pick. They get the 10th pick. They trade the 10th pick with the Thunder at 12 and they take Derek Lively.
So they traded Derek Lively. The Thunder technically took Derek Lively at 12. They get Derek Lively. Derek Lively was the difference in that game.
He had 15 rebounds. His rebounding is everywhere. And his defense is awesome too. He's a good role player on the Mavericks.
They've got a couple of those guys. PJ Washington, I think it's disrespectful to a role player at this point. I mean, he got a little bit cooler the last two games but he still hit the big shots when he needed to because there was a couple games where he was scoring like 25 points every three. I just wanted to remind people because I remember specifically last year people were very upset at the Mavericks because I think they started tanking when they technically were still alive for the play-in.
Yeah, they didn't want that. I'm a big proponent for a team to do that because the play-in is a joke as someone gets hurt by the play-in every single year. They created the play-in to give the illusion of playoffs to all these teams. The Mavericks made the right decision.
They got a good, big, young guy who can help Luka in his prime win a title this year instead of trying to make and probably failing to get in the play-in and then if they're in the play-in probably failing to get in the playoffs and even if they're in the playoffs losing to the Nuggets. And then trying to sign like a free agent or trying to lure another guy in there to make a super team and a good role-player. Taking work sometimes. Were the heat in the play-in game but what seed would they have been last year?
What do you mean? So they were the eighth seed last year, right? Yeah, they lost the first one and then they beat the ball and then there was no play-in. So they are alumni of the play-in tournament but they did not benefit from the expanded play-in field.
Correct. They didn't end up like oh, a team all the way from the play-in. Yeah, it was a weird ending of this game too where they had the free throws at the end and so he makes two of them misses the third one intentionally with two and a half seconds left. Chet looked like he was in disbelief after the game was over.
He could not believe that they lost that game. It was close. Well, Chet, I like Chet. The Thunder have a very promising future which is also a scary thing to say to the Thunder fans because they had a promising future before they traded James Harden.
Chet, you need someone else out there to help with Chet because he is not like he had like three rebounds. He's not a traditional big I actually think you want to hear this one? I think the Thunder should draft Zach Eady. Interesting.
Twin Towers. Insert careful grant. A little this, a little that. Yeah.
You know, you got the nimbly three-point shooting skinny center and then you got a little bit more of a traditional center in Zach Eady. DJ Burns. Yeah, why not? Get a big boy in there.
Get a college all-star team. I like it. I don't hate that idea. So you're off to Kevin Durant to the Thunder train.
No, I'm still on that. Him and Chet Sannex would look very, very funny. I'm still on that. I actually think that I think Kevin Durant wants that.
I don't know if the Thunder wants that. If I'm a Thunder fan I don't know if I'd want that either. Yeah. But the Thunder have a bright future.
I don't know why everyone has written off the Mavs. It feels like everyone just assumes whoever wins the Wolves-Nuggets is going to beat the Mavs quickly. I think the Mavs are going to give... Again, when you have the best player...
Anthony Edwards is very, very good. I still think Luka, as of right now, is better. And if you have the best player in the series you have a puncher's chance every single time. Every single time.
You're not out of it. No, I think it's going to be a good series. I think the Mavs play really good defense against the Thunder. They have some really good role players.
If you get them to a closeout game Kyrie Irving literally does not lose those. Which again, I feel like I feel like towering the closeout game stat is weird when you got injured and your team lost. When you lost in five to the Warriors because they technically didn't have a closeout game. Also, some of those closeout games are on LeBron's stat sheet too.
Correct. So when was the last time that Kyrie Irving made it this far? It had to be when he was with the Caps. Well, they won.
They won. They beat the year that he got hurt. They won the first round matches and he got hurt before the series against the Bucs in the second round. They took Bucs to seven and Kevin Durant stepped on the line for the three-pointer.
But yeah, the closeout game stat sounds awesome but then you're like, wait, but you've lost series. I don't think he's been to the Western Conference Finals. The last time I know this far in the playoffs I think was probably like 2018, 2017. A long time ago.
What was the farthest he made it with the Celtics? No, he got hurt. He got hurt. Yeah, he got hurt and he was out.
So yeah, it's been a long time. But he's 14-0 in closeout games if you want to let everyone know that. Yeah, that's the important stat. 14-0 in closeout games.
It doesn't count losing in five to the Warriors. That doesn't count because you don't have a chance at a closeout game. You just get him to a closeout game and he'll win that shit. So you guys all have the Wolves in how many?
I got Wolves in seven. Okay, so I can deal with that. I would have had the Lakers in five if they made it this far. Yeah, Lakers probably would have beaten I mean, the Lakers would have beaten these Nuggets.
Yep, these Nuggets are not those Nuggets. Game seven Nuggets? Did they have a shot? Well, game seven, second half Nuggets.
Yeah, Lakers smoke them. By the way, going back to the Knicks real quick, real leader move which I love from Jalen Brunson. Someone asked him, he was like, given everything this season, the growth you guys have had, how far you made it was a success. He said no.
Love that. Okay, that's good. I love that answer. I like that shit.
I got Mavs in seven. Mavs in seven. I'm starting to win even the Mavs. I don't know, it's just, and that game six, as good as the end of the game was, if you're an NBA hater, the first half you would have had a lot of material because Luka has never been more annoying to the refs than he was on Saturday night.
I don't know if you saw he was going to kick out of the game. I don't know if you saw the foul. I think it was the foul against P.J. Washington.
Luka called the foul before P.J. even hit the ground. Yeah. He had that call before the ref did.
He was turning his head on slow-mo. It was lightning-fast reflexes to call foul for a ref. Also, I can't believe we didn't open up the show with this. Bad job on our part.
This is very important. Speaking of the Knicks, this day, 35 years ago, Jordan scores 40 at Chicago Stadium in game six of Eastern Conference semis to beat the Knicks. In my check collection is the phone bill he paid that day. Oh, Darren Ravelle.
That's huge. That's awesome. That's huge. It's literally a bill.
Yeah. He paid his phone bill. But he has it. He has it that same day.
Yeah. He's quite a weirdo. Yeah. Weirdest of the weirds.
All right, so, Hank, give us a Celtics-Pacers series prediction as well. Celtics in five? Five. Okay.
So, that would easily catch my under four and a half losses that I said before. Yeah, I can see maybe going six, but definitely not seven. Okay. And Kristoff's going to be back.
Yeah. Well, you said it's imminent, right? His return is imminent? Yeah.
That's huge. Less than several. That's what we're down to now. Yeah, I think Celtics match would actually maybe be the fun matchup.
Yeah, that would be fun because you'd get to go to Dallas. I didn't think about that. Yeah. That's crazy.
Yeah. More on that later when we have Mr. Ping Pong on. Jerry O'Connell.
We should probably talk about the PGA Championship. Yeah, let's talk about what happened on Friday morning. Yeah. So, we record part of my take, go to sleep, wake up in the morning.
First thing that I saw, tweet alert, Jeff Darlington reports that Scotty Scheffler has been arrested outside of Valhalla. And I don't know about you guys, but when you saw it, what was your first reaction the same as mine, which is like, this is simply not true? I read it as Scotty Scheffler killed a man. Same.
That's how I read it. For the first 30 seconds that I had my eyes open, I was like, Scotty Scheffler ran over someone. Holy fucking shit. That's what I thought.
I was like, oh my God, this is crazy. It's the wildest golf story maybe ever. Well, Tiger Woods happened. Yeah.
Tiger Woods, there was a lot of wild, you could do Tiger Woods part one, Tiger Woods part two. I wouldn't say it was the craziest. But I think it's... You know what you just did?
You just did your RG3. No, no, no, but wait, but wait. I think it's the craziest sports story ever. Everyone's like, dude, Aaron Hernandez?
It's not, but why it might be up there for craziest golf story. I'm not talking about just the getting arrested part because obviously Tiger hasn't beaten just in terms of quantity. Yeah. But in terms of who you expect this from, waking up to see Scottie Scheffler has been arrested the morning of a PGA Championship and thrown in jail and charged with a felony assault on a police officer and it's Scottie Scheffler.
Yeah. That's the crazy part. But Tiger Woods was Scottie Scheffler. But he wasn't like...
Yeah, he was. He wasn't like Scottie Mr. Super, super squeaky. Yeah, he was.
Not to the same extent. Before Tiger Woods got the Thanksgiving with the car and everything, he was like the perfect guy. No one knew that any of that shit was going on. But Scottie is just so very much the perfect guy.
I think you're forgetting how squeaky clean Tiger Woods was. I do know that he had a great image back in the day for sure. I remember it. I remember Tiger Woods.
It's been so long that we've known the other Tiger Woods that it clouds who the original Tiger Woods was. He was like a brand... I remember reading stories where brands are coming themselves like this gift from the heavens of Tiger Woods who's never done anything wrong who's born to play golf. Yeah, but Scottie, in terms of just everything you've seen from on if it's the full swing behind the scenes documentary, his interviews...
Oh, it was shocking. He's like a very boring, very nice guy. That's why him getting arrested was holy shit. It was shocking.
I just remember so vividly when Tiger Woods, so that whole thing happened. I was like, what? And he does what in a Perkins restaurant? Yeah.
What the fuck? And all the text messages coming out? Credit to Scottie's lawyer, by the way. I don't know how this normally works for regular Americans, but if you get arrested for felony assault on a police officer, do they usually let you out in two hours so you can make a Teton?
So I think that police officer might have been a little embarrassed with who he arrested after the fact. I would think so. I think he might have not realized he was arresting the number one golfer in the world and then after was like, yeah, but he dragged me on the ground and my pants ripped because reading that police report, there's just no way that Scottie Sheffler would have been let out like 30 minutes after. Yeah, it said, I think the police report the officer's pants valued at $89 were damaged beyond repair, which by the way, if you read that, he will buy those.
He will buy those. I would actually buy those. But the way that it's, well, you can't because they're beyond repair. Yeah, we'd find a way.
We massacred those pants. They're the most destroyed pants in America right now. But if you read that police report and just take it at the text value of it, he might have shit his pants. Oh.
It didn't say like the pants were torn. It didn't say the pants got run over. It said the pants are damaged beyond repair. This officer might have shit his pants and destroyed his own pants.
And then now Scottie Sheffler is getting arrested because he made a police officer poop in his pants. That would be awesome if he pooped his pants after the fact. Like the whole thing goes down. They arrest him and then his sergeant's like, hey, you realize you just arrested Scottie Sheffler?
And then he shits himself. Yeah. And there's a few golfers on tour right now where it's like, this guy got arrested for doing that. Then you'd be like, okay, that sounds, I guess not totally crazy.
It's still crazy. Like if you told me John Daly did this, I'd be like, okay, yeah, fair enough. Phil? Yeah, Phil.
I'd be like, yep, something happened. But the person is a little bit of a bad boy. I don't think he would get arrested but I wouldn't be like, what? Yeah, but it'd be cool if he did.
He would be definitely a cool way to get arrested. Great mugshot from him. The fact that Scottie didn't shot a 66? Yeah.
Yeah, that was pretty impressive and he almost eagled the first hole. So I thought that he was going to go out there and shoot lights out in his first round because I don't know if you guys have ever been arrested but the way it kind of goes is None of us have. Yeah. What do you mean?
Oh, the dog thing? Yeah, I've been arrested three times. Just gained at dogs. Just put a couple nights in a slammer.
Oh yeah, you for Brady 4? No, but legitimately what happens is you get let out of jail in the morning and then you're like, that's pretty fucking cool. You're kind of feeling badass and then the next day is when all the repercussions and the thoughts about your future that I really screw this up start to sink in. So he's riding off the high of all the adrenaline of breaking the law because that's a cool feeling.
Yeah, and then on Saturday how the fuck? I still don't think so Scottie Shepard got arrested on Friday morning. It was an all-time internet moment. It was crazy.
He's the reason why Scottie and that one shot that he had that ended up behind the fence. Yeah, I would love to have my cat here for that one. I would love to not be Scottie's best friend who's on his bag being like, what the fuck do I do? I don't fucking know, dude.
Why didn't you just have your catty FaceTime his son? Call over another rules official, please, because I don't know what to tell you what to do. That, like, I don't want to say it cost him the tournament but Saturday was bad for him and he shot great again on Sunday when Ted Scott came back. What did Scottie end up shooting with Ted Scott on his bag?
It was probably insane. He was like 600 today? Yeah. I mean, that was a very unfortunate graduation timing.
You know what's really? Scottie Schaeffler has that money. He should have just paid for the graduation B on Monday. That would be pretty nice.
Not a bad idea. Just be like, hey guys, what I really love about the timing of all this though is Xander Schaeffler wins. Yes. But it's majorly overshadowed by Scottie Schaeffler getting arrested.
So now we can continue with our running theory of Xander Schaeffler will never win. He can't win the big one. We'll all forget about this one. This was the Scottie Schaeffler tournament.
Yeah, Scottie Schaeffler shot like he did have to earn it. The moment in the back nine when he lost the lead for a minute and he had a bogey and then he had like great shot after great shot and even at the end when he was playing a little safe with like three holes to go but he actually had a birdie 18 to win the tournament was awesome. And Xander Schaeffler, I know we'll keep going with the he can't win the big one but he was the only player in the top five world rankings without a major championship. He had made 25 major cuts in his career.
In those 25 major cuts he made he had 13 top 10s, seven top fives and four second or third place finishes. He was like the guy ready to do it. Like he had been so close so many times and playing such good golf so I mean and short kings. Very short kings.
That bunker that's totally normal. That's a buffer. He's going to be anywhere from 5'7 to 5'8. You're not lumping 5'10 guys with the short kings.
Well I mean he's listed at 5'10. So he's like Ronnie. Between 5'7 and 5'8 he's like Ronnie. Was it on 18 that he had to hit that shot standing in the bunker with the ball on the lip of the bunker?
That was a super hard job. And so he had to respond big time. Bryson got so lucky too bouncing it off a tree having it land in the middle of the fairway. And I had never noticed this about Bryson before.
Maybe you guys have. Every golfer has the yardage book that they put in their back pocket. That giant book. And so his name is Bryson DeChambeau.
He has two middle names. One of them starts with an A. So he just has the word bad sticking out of his back pocket. Wait he has two middle names?
He has two middle names. How far does that work? I don't know. I think the first one starts with the letter L so he just doesn't acknowledge that one.
Wait. Oh that'd be funny. He was bald. He was bald yeah.
No I think it's B-L-A-D. But he's just walking around with bad sticking out of his ass. Do we like Bryson now? Because I kind of deal.
I was rooting for him. I can't. Here's what happened to me. I'm rooting against Xander Shoffley simply for the narrative of Xander Shoffley not being able to win a major.
And I find myself rooting for Bryson on Sunday. On the back nine I'm invested in every single one of Bryson shots. And it was a very strange feeling for me. I did do something here.
because I said it a couple weeks ago like I watched his YouTube videos and I found myself liking him more and I think he birdied one of the first few holes and he like walked off and looked at the camera like he was like doing YouTube videos yeah he said that after so for my major championship dude my Bryson the fact that I like him now I've wrestled with this because I had the same feeling where I was like I think I even tweeted I was like am I rooting for Bryson right now I think I am Brooks squashing the beef definitely helped let's get there I do think he also has gone a little bit of the JJ Watt story arc where if you're so beyond corny and like do everything for the camera if you can just dial it back a little and be a somewhat normal person will immediately just be like you rock we just got the drive in him to produce all this content right so someone asked him about that Hank someone said you had some really big moments on the course this week we're celebrating how have you kind of embraced being a true showman on the course and celebrating those big moments he said yeah it's actually funny YouTube has helped me understand that a little bit more when the moment comes knowing what to do what to say how to act is really important you know when I was younger I didn't understand what it was yeah I would have a great celebration and what not but I didn't know what it meant and what I was doing it necessarily for now I'm doing a lot more for the fans and for the people around trying to be a bit of an entertainer that plays good golf every once in a while so he did that for us yeah thank you he has come all the way back around where he's like I can't just be so like weirdly standoffish and corny I have to be a little bit of a human being and it works for him now like I feel like he's coming to his own did you also see the clip where he threw the ball to the little kid and an adult grabbed it and tried to run off and he stopped this is the middle of the tournament stopped and was like get back here right now and made the guy give the ball to the little kid yeah Rivel did not want to get that ball away no I like Bryson I'm not ready to say that I like him because it's a weird feeling it's like my body's confused watching him it's like wait I always thought that I've not liked watching this kind of stuff and now it's on I'm like wait is my body telling me I kind of like it a little bit yeah and so it's a very confusing time but it was I'm closer to liking Bryson than I've ever been I'm bisexual maybe Bryson is like an IPA like you drink an IPA when you're 22 yeah and you're like ugh this is gross and you get a little older you're like oh this is kind of nice different flavor cool yeah I'm not opposed to it yeah I want more than 4 or 5 I don't think I'm going to go up to him and thank him for all the content that he puts out and tell him that I like him online if I ever saw him I definitely would but he's getting closer just to say that we're getting closer yeah Bryson damn is he the only guy who went to live and became cooler Brooks well Brooks was already cool but he's so cool but like he didn't have there's nothing he does makes him cool he's already the coolest I'm saying Bryson went to live like everyone has gone to live and it feels like they've taken a ding in terms of public perception Bryson somehow has beaten that yeah like John Rahm is a shell of himself did he not make the cut what's the story with Greg Norman is he everyone loves him now oh yeah he was probably there remember his hand he hurt his hand from shaking so many hands yeah people were probably coming up to him so he's gotten more yeah his image is improved yeah Blocky didn't make the cut either didn't finish today last Hi Tiger Blocky being all over TVs during this tournament was so funny that was yeah I kind of wish that had never happened nah that hole in one that hole in one was cool yeah yeah the hole in one was cool alright yeah that was cool yeah so Tiger Tiger not looking so great that was tough it's tough watching out there also for guys like us who love the course what a fucking pussy Valhalla is got absolutely demolished what this is from Justin Ray one of the best in the business when it comes to golf statistics I just give this a sad lowest combined score to par by field PGA Championship history 2024 Valhalla 214 under par the next 1995 Riviera 40 over par for the field wow that's crazy wait what course was that Riviera 40 over par 40 over par all the scores combined the entire field respect the best ever by the field in a PGA Championship before this year was 40 over that's insane I mean think about it let's see I'm scrolling down the 72nd position was under par Braden Shattuck went minus one and he finished 72nd by himself that's nuts it's embarrassing and they're arresting the best players yeah so they're arresting the best that's the only defense they have so it's an important question if you're a real golf fan you're asking yourself this this morning should the PGA Championship ever come back to Valhalla you arrested the number one guy in the world you of course got his pants pulled down grand guys had to walk miles on Friday yeah I think it was Willie Z and a few others they had to get out of their car and just walk to the clubhouse who says these guys aren't athletes yeah can I also just say one thing about the golf broadcast and just watching these majors which you know watching major golf is awesome it's the best when you have a weekend I already know what weekend the US Open is it's the best can they just stop trying to like wheel Rory down our throats the guy isn't like yeah he competed at St. Andrews he was close there it feels like every major we watch Rory is you know teeing off early on Sunday he makes a couple good shots they try to show us like well look out for Rory what do you mean look out for Rory he was 10 strokes off the lead I think you become a lookout for this guy it's usually early in your career if you win a few tournaments early then you're just going to be talked about for the rest of your life like if you're out there uh oh Rory's lurking he finished 9 strokes off the lead and they were showing him like down the stretch being like man if he strings together a couple birdies here he could be in the clubhouse 7 strokes off the lead yeah they're always going to do that for Rory it's just every time speed too speed the lead but Rory it feels like it's just way too much and it's just come on I don't need I want to see the live shots don't let me miss a live shot because you're trying to tell me that Rory could uh you know get six consecutive hole in ones and then still be three strokes off the lead they were playing a lot of old clips of him winning there in what 2014 yeah so the tie-in to the course was important for them they want to highlight it as much as possible but when they show those clips it really hammered home he doesn't look like the same golf that he was back then no look out for Rory look out for Rory Rory lurking I'm gonna keep you know what I'm good I don't need to look out for him anymore I'm gonna keep looking out for him I'm gonna remain vigilant you can stand back and stand by yeah I'm not done with him yet alright anything else before we do who's back in the week sees the gray one the Preakness kind of a disappointment because we wanted to see a triple crown and maybe an asterisk with Mystic Dan yeah it would've been good for the sport yeah it was Randy Moss the oldest pick on Friday shout out Randy he did if you listen to Randy he gives you the picks on Friday and they always hit yeah and uh yeah it was a great sports weekend all around alright let's do who's back of the week who's back of the week is brought to you by our friends at Coors Light Coors Light is the most delicious beer in the world I can let bad sports news ruin my day or choose a chiller mindset and then reach for a Coors Light I 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a confrontation and Stenhouse was just having it looked like they were having a conversation it was just like talking to each other and then at one point something snapped in Ricky's brain he's like I'm just gonna throw hands and it looked like he got two shots that's my favorite part it's great because it does feel like NASCAR has a special level of bad blood in all these fights because they see each other every weekend they're wrecking every weekend yeah these other guys just hopping in just grabbing him awesome fight I would hire an MMA guy to be in my garage just like ready to unleash him at any second Kyle Busch does have a punchable face do you guys do the same thing where you're like is that Joey Logano I think it's Joey Logano because I'm like I would like to punch Joey Logano yeah I think it's just every time I see someone getting in a fight I'm like oh here comes Joey Logano getting punched again yeah whenever something bad happens to somebody on the internet my first thought is usually I hope that happened to Joey Logano yeah Ricky Stenhouse Jr. a Ricky or a Junior yeah no you're proving my point yeah yeah right right right wait hold on I'm gonna look up Ricky Stenhouse and make sure let's see how many how many lines of Stenhouses I don't know I'm sure there's probably many it was a good fight though it was a good scrap yeah great my news back of the week is interns we're finally doing it we're gonna post the link for people to apply to be our PMT summer intern this summer oh boy looking for someone in Chicago local and there's a just fill out the submission form there's a place I put in videos and your resume stuff like that we'll probably do interviews next week and then start after basketball okay what are we looking for I don't know that's what I'm excited to find out short or fat no oh you can't say that they can be they can be any size short and fat would be great smaller than me or wider than me yeah we can't say sizes I don't think so okay strike that from the record we would like a very qualified young man or woman or older or older to say young also yeah you're right old they can be old or middle aged submit some content that you've done submit some content yeah there is a video submission so it's like if you're just gonna email us with like please hire me out you want to get a second look I'm not gonna look twice at that but if you have any videos do make videos or have built a following on your own like it could even be a couple thousand people that does get you a little bit more of a look because it means that you're actually creating content you can't just be like hey my friends think I'm funny I should be on the show and also it's not gonna be necessarily on the show like it's not like hey we're hiring someone to just sit on the show and hopefully you'll be our best friend but you might not be yeah think about listening to this right now is the start of your own personal championship DVD yeah from here on out especially if you're a shorter fat person I'm not gonna say it again I'm not gonna say it again you can't be like really really good looking that's why we can say that like come on dude go get another job yeah don't worry about us we're fucking mutants unless you have a good following and you make a content no no we can't hire someone who's like super good looking although what did they start dating Beyonce like a trained assassin out there just to start dating a famous female celebrity alright good looking guys back in you're a Montana boy you can apply let's just say this Jay-Z is welcome to join Jay-Z are we sure no should I be sure about Jay-Z let's wait a little bit on that okay yeah how about Diddy huh not a good guy shocker diddy we kept shocker yeah what do you say Jake this past weekend I popped up my phone it was five years since my intern interview whoa my stuff I thought that was going to be a Diddy comment the Diddy video interns interns interns interns interns anything else nothing else about the interns no we'll post the links apply and then try and get it done in the next couple of weeks alright PLT my who's back Max just keeps shaking his head don't shake your fucking head no time back what's your issue Max I know it's no there's legal issues with me saying that we want short and fat people which isn't true which is not true it's something you could say but I would never say it it's called satire it's big time satire now I've actually botched myself out we can't hire a short fat person like I clock myself my who's back in the week is shorts oh short season my who's back in the week is you almost got me on that well shorts are back yeah they are the weather's so nice so nice I was waiting for Big Cat to just go without fats shorts and fats both back my who's back in the week is sex stories from the Olympics that's how you know the Olympics are about to happen oh shit I forgot the Olympics yeah this is how I found out actually the New York Post put out an article about the beds that they built at the Olympics this year they hired the same people from Tokyo 2020 when they built the sex proof beds because of COVID and they're like we can't have athletes fucking so they build these collapsible beds that are like stacked on cardboard boxes essentially they can support one person's weight as long as they're not too fat this is you're right like this is how the Olympics just let us know there's just something about sex yeah it's usually like they've airlifted in 500 tons of condoms that's not a big story but this is the second time in a row we're getting the sex bed story so they're making the athletes sleep in single beds and they're built on these like cardboard frames so it can't really fit two people space wise and even if they try to then it would collapse yeah so I'm sure they'll figure out their way around it they'll probably just fuck everywhere else in the room yeah I mean it is these are the most athletic people in the world I don't think they need a bed to have sex people that need a bed to have sex are people like or normal people like us like if you don't have a bed you're going to wake up the more your back's going to be thrown out right but these people can they can do it anywhere yeah I mean it's the horniest collection of people in the world yeah because they're all in sane shape and young and they've been training for this moment the minute their moment is over they're like what are we going to do we're going to eat in the finals and have sex yeah it's honestly great yeah good for them good for them alright my who's back of the week I was going to say fights in general because the NASCAR fight but we also had a heavyweight fight on Saturday I don't know if you guys were able to tune in but it was awesome Tyson Fury lost Yusek beat him in 12 rounds it was an awesome fight because Tyson Fury did his classic Tyson Fury where he was out basically cold on his feet in the 9th right and then still fought the rest of the fight and was close to winning it but the right fighter won but it was just Tyson Fury is just fun to watch fight because he just throws and you never know when he could be knocked out and then totally be fine in the next round yeah I love it so I didn't watch the entire fight I did watch the highlights of the fight including the walkouts which Yusek won that and in the 9th round I saw somebody post a video that was filmed in their own living room of their television so that one didn't get posted that one didn't get taken down online so I was able to watch it and it was impressive because Tyson Fury he gets knocked it's a knockdown but he never actually hit the ground they gave him a standing 8 count and then he came back and survived that somehow if you can get knocked out on your feet and then continue to fight for another 2 rounds you should almost get the win it was incredible to watch and Yusek was awesome and just kicking his ass in that 9th round but still Tyson Fury he's done it many times before he's like the one fighter when you watch I chose my words carefully I was like Tyson Fury's in deep water because I knew he's the type of guy that if you're like Tyson Fury's done he'll come back and he'll just knock someone else out him and Nate Diaz yeah they just need to get knocked around but it was a great fight I think it was Tyson Fury's first loss so it was an automatic rematch I like that but now Yusek is undisputed yes he's beaten everyone and then Tyson Fury a little bit maybe not the nicest thing when he's just like oh yeah Yusek he's Ukrainian they're at war so people feel bad for him that's why they voted for him I was like I don't think so I think he kind of knocked you out I think he won I think he won the fight alright Jake finish us off mine who's back for the week is elite pitching we had elite pitching at Wrigley Field in multiple ways Paul Skeens on Friday oh you were going to talk about Shota I said multiple ways in chronological order Paul Skeens I think he struck out the first set in batter he did he's awesome and then your guy Shota Shota On Saturday, 1-0 walk-off. Yeah.
Some people saying controversial, but... Oh, I mean, uh... Yeah, I mean, Cody Bellinger definitely hit it out of his hand. Yeah.
I don't care. Cubs need to win. They can't hit for shit. But yeah, Paul Skeens.
Paul Skeens is really fucking good. I love it when young prospects step up and it's a big moment and they're better than you thought they'd be. Oh, yeah. Having a sick pitching prospect who, I mean, he won the national championship last year and he's already up doing this.
He's awesome. So what are the rules on... The show, by the way, is under one ERA. I just want to say he's fucking phenomenal.
What are the rules on hitting the ball it looks natural. Yeah. I think that's why they didn't overturn it. Because the ump was screened off from that.
But I can be honest and say that, yes, he hit the ball at his hand. Yeah. My rule of thumb on all plays like these is, did they call it? They reviewed it and they gave it to the Cubs.
Yeah. So they didn't call it, so... They called him safe and they reviewed it and then the Cubs won. Yeah, so I think that's right.
And the Cubs needed to win. My son, by the way, today, I took him to Wrigley for five innings and he was like, yeah, there's a ticket lady. I was like, this is a proud, proud moment. Just tell him that Chuck E.