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The Sports Junkies preview LIV Golf’s tournament in Virginia.
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00:00Tomorrow should be, they're calling for some showers tomorrow, but of course it's the first round of the Live out
00:05of Trump.
00:06Got it.
00:06All the local sports guys are out there doing live shots yesterday, I saw that.
00:12But I'm going to, so we get off at 10, I'm going to get out of here quick, go back
00:17home, pick my wife and daughter up, and then hit Trump.
00:20So I'll probably be there by like 11.30.
00:21I don't even know what time they tee off tomorrow.
00:24I'm going to be there at the Live event on Saturday.
00:26On Saturday, I asked Chris for seven tickets, he said, done, no problem.
00:31Seven.
00:32Seven is a big ass.
00:33It's a big ass.
00:33I feel awkward, but he said, done, VIP.
00:37Who are you rolling with?
00:38With my daughter and my wife, and then we have friends that texted me and said they were also going.
00:44I said, well, I might be able to hook you up.
00:45And I just asked for them as a favor, and he said, no problem.
00:51But then my daughter heard in New York, and she wants to come down.
00:53So I had to send another email yesterday, sheepishly asking now for eight, for one more.
00:59I haven't heard back, so I hope they don't.
01:01I'm going to guess if he gave you seven, he's probably going to be able to give you eight.
01:04Yeah, I know.
01:04Most likely.
01:05But I do, honestly, I do feel embarrassed.
01:07I understand.
01:08Yeah.
01:09It is embarrassing.
01:10We've all been in the same boat asking our friend Jim Van Stone for Monumental Sports, and he's always,
01:15always so gracious.
01:16To make the initial ask, but then when you go in for that extra one, you come back, you hit
01:20him back.
01:20You're going in for the re-raise.
01:21The re-raise, you know, I'm not really wanting to understand.
01:25They don't tee off till one.
01:26Yeah, yeah, yeah, which is great.
01:27I didn't know it was that late.
01:29I thought it was going to be in the 11.
01:30That's perfect.
01:31I think it's great.
01:32Of course, it's shotgun, but that's one o'clock's perfect, so I don't have to rush.
01:36So my daughters want to go, and then my friend's daughter, well, they're daughters, so it's
01:41going to be four parents and four girls.
01:43The girls want to go because they want to see Bailey Zimmerman.
01:46Sure.
01:46Right?
01:46Oh, yeah, yeah.
01:47Performing on Saturday, what time do I take that crew?
01:52If I take them at, let's say, 12.31, I think it'll last for five hours of golf, and then
01:58a little, you know, maybe a 45-minute concert or something afterwards.
02:02You've got to pace yourself.
02:03You've got to figure that out.
02:03You've got to figure that out.
02:05There's a lot of moving pieces there.
02:06By the way, I'm not supposed to say this on air.
02:09I was told not to.
02:10Oh, but you're going to anyway?
02:11No, no, I'm just going to, this is the person that's also coming on that same day you are.
02:15Oh, on that same ticket?
02:16Hold on, hold on.
02:17Yeah, yeah.
02:19Okay.
02:20Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
02:21I'm not surprised.
02:22He was there last time we were there.
02:23He'll be there the same day you're there.
02:25Yeah, yeah.
02:25Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
02:27I'm kind of glad he's not going to be there when I'm there.
02:29I think I know the name.
02:31Because that's all that piece of paper.
02:32That would be a poop show.
02:33Yeah, I understand.
02:34Thanks.
02:35Well, I'm really looking forward to it.
02:36And I told Jason, actually before, and Cakes was here too, that, you know, what's his name?
02:43Taylor Gooch.
02:43Taylor Gooch was such a nice guy yesterday.
02:45Great guy.
02:46I mean, I had no reason to think otherwise.
02:49Yeah.
02:50But he came in and was just such a down-to-earth, nice dude that he's got a fan for
02:53life.
02:54He's a guy that's easy to root for.
02:55Easy to root for.
02:56Nice guy.
02:57OKC fan.
02:58Yeah.
02:58I asked him about Che.
03:00There's a video just of his first half flopping and flailing last night.
03:04You should watch it.
03:05I tweeted it.
03:06I take your word, Chunk's radio.
03:09It's borderline unwatchable.
03:10I've watched it.
03:11And I love Luca, who sells fouls.
03:13But Shea does it in a different manner.
03:15I know he does.
03:16He's an old KC guy.
03:16He's on the ground all the time.
03:18Thunder fans are going to defend him.
03:20Yeah, of course.
03:20And they're going to just dispute whatever you say.
03:22It's like me trying to be objective about Bilal Koulibaly.
03:25It'll just never happen.
03:26I'm going to be irrational about that person.
03:28But believe me, I've watched SGA enough.
03:29I understand he flies.
03:30Oh, he's a great player.
03:31Yeah, yeah, yeah.
03:32I mean, he's a Hall of Famer.
03:33When he hits his mid-range game, now he kind of does a little push-off.
03:36You're allowed that in the NBA.
03:38He shoots at a ridiculously high clip.
03:41Super efficient.
03:42Yeah.
03:43But he's constantly going to the ground like he's been mugged.
03:47Well, and then you saw that Donovan Mitchell was saying last night
03:53that he didn't think he was getting enough calls.
03:56Right.
03:56And he says, I don't flop.
03:59You know what?
03:59He goes, I don't flop.
04:00Respect it.
04:01Yeah.
04:01You respect it.
04:02You'd probably get more calls if he flopped.
04:04Yeah.
04:04If he started acting a little bit.
04:05So, I mean, I don't know if he's insinuating an SGA thing,
04:09but he's saying, look, I don't just fake it just to get to the line.
04:11Yeah.
04:11If I get fouled, I get fouled.
04:13No, there are a bunch of guys who do it.
04:15Joel Embiid does it.
04:16Luka does it.
04:17Oh, Embiid does it.
04:17James Harden.
04:18James Harden used to do the bit where if a guy's hand was out,
04:21he just went up for like a three-pointer,
04:23which they've tried to rule against.
04:25But I'm telling you, go at Junk's Radio on Twitter.
04:29Check out the video that somebody posted last night.
04:32It was just the first half.
04:33If you watch the whole game, he just does it throughout.
04:35Yeah.
04:36And he doesn't need to because he's so damn good without it.
04:39Now, last night was the first time.
04:40This is a bad sign for the Lakers.
04:42First time that he's held to under 20 points in forever, right?
04:46He had that ridiculously long streak of at least 20 points in a game.
04:50He had seven turnovers in a game.
04:53LeBron had a good game.
04:55Yep.
04:55And the Lakers got smoked by 18.
04:57They still got waxed.
04:57Yes, they did.
04:58So that's not a good sign.
04:59When you actually get a subpar SGA game, a good LeBron game,
05:05SGA has all those turnovers, and you still get smacked by 18 points.
05:09That is going to be a gentleman's sweep at worst for the Thunder.
05:13Yeah, unless Luka comes back.
05:14Luka comes back and would give him a chance.
05:17Austin Reeves can play better just by looking at the box.
05:19Yeah.
05:20Three for 16 ain't great, is it?
05:21That's not great.
05:22I think I could do that.
05:23But Oak City, were they the best defensive team in the league?
05:26Yes.
05:27I mean, they're going to step it up in the playoffs,
05:28especially against the Lakers, defensively.
05:31Yeah.
05:31But it's, yeah.
05:33I mean, I need the Spurs tonight to wrap up my three-game parlay from last night.
05:38But your boy Gooch is sized.
05:40His team's up 1-0.
05:41He's got the courtside seats.
05:43Of course.
05:44I did see a Liv story yesterday about Bryson DeChambeau.
05:48What is he saying?
05:49That he's just going to be a YouTube golfer?
05:51He's been saying it for a long time.
05:52It's not really newsworthy.
05:54I mean, it's not particularly new.
05:56He's been saying for a long time, I'll just play more YouTube golf.
05:59Yeah.
06:00You know, if I have to.
06:01Now, I think that's kind of a farce because the YouTube golf thing makes him a ton of money.
06:05I mean, he's basically right there with Grant Horvath and the Bryan brothers,
06:08like one of the top YouTube.
06:09And those guys are making like an insane amount of money.
06:12Mm-hmm.
06:13But to keep you competitively sharp, you know, you can play all these YouTube golfers in matches.
06:18It's not the same as playing in a professional event.
06:20Even though the guys that are playing are basically professional.
06:23Yeah.
06:23Some of them are ex-professionals.
06:24Some are like borderline professional.
06:26Just playing those guys in like, you know, heads-up matches or even little like 10-man tournaments.
06:32That's not like playing in a PGA Tour event.
06:35But somehow he has been able to stay relevant.
06:38Whereas you have some guys like that have gone over and live.
06:40And, you know, it is what it is.
06:43It's, you know, some of those guys like Dustin Johnson have kind of just like disappeared.
06:46Like Cam Smith has like disappeared.
06:48Yeah.
06:49Cam Smith was like number two in the world.
06:51Yeah.
06:52And, you know, he can't make a cut in a major.
06:54Got that money, just disappeared.
06:56I think he just goes fishing all the time.
06:58You know?
06:59Yeah.
06:59Are you fishing as relaxed?
07:00Maybe I would too if I got $150 million.
07:02You'd probably be doing sufficient.
07:04I mean, Dustin Johnson clearly passed his prime.
07:06But, yeah, Cam Smith is.
07:08In his prime.
07:08He's not the.
07:09He's in his prime.
07:10In his prime.
07:10Yeah.
07:11But DJ was still competitive.
07:12And then for whatever reason, it's just.
07:14Yeah.
07:14I don't know.
07:17But.
07:17But if.
07:18And I don't necessarily think Live Golf is going to disappear after this year.
07:21But wait and see.
07:22But if Live Golf does disappear, why wouldn't the PGA Tour just say, welcome back, all these guys.
07:28Come on back.
07:28Oh, because they want to penalize them.
07:30I know, but they could easily drop those penalties.
07:32I don't think that they will.
07:34I think that.
07:34I think they might.
07:35If they come back, they're going to have to pay a penalty.
07:37I think they might.
07:38And the only ones they really care about at this point would be like Rahm and Bryson.
07:42Yeah.
07:43And maybe Neiman.
07:44Yeah.
07:44Neiman would be nice to have back.
07:46Yeah.
07:46But they can also earn their way back.
07:47I mean, they've already.
07:48They can go play a DP Tour world event like Patrick Reed did.
07:50Win one.
07:51And boom.
07:51You're back.
07:52True, true, true, true.
07:52But they've already kind of dropped some of these penalties.
07:54I mean.
07:54A little bit.
07:55Patrick Reed's coming back.
07:57Kepka's obviously back.
07:58Yeah.
07:59But they were told at the time by the new commissioner that this was a one-time thing.
08:03Yeah.
08:03I know.
08:04But I just think that they can always drop that and say, all right, we've got big name
08:09players back.
08:10Yeah.
08:11And then people will start watching more.
08:14So the ratings will go up.
08:15More people will go to tournaments.
08:17Bryson did have a good point.
08:18I just think that that's going to happen.
08:20Bryson did have a good point, though, that Liv may have their struggles.
08:23But so does the PGA Tour.
08:24That's the reason why they're condensing things.
08:26They had to go get the outside financing from the Red Sox guys.
08:30Yep.
08:31You know, professional golf is not necessarily in an amazing place post-Tiger.
08:35It's all private equity, man.
08:37Private equity is just.
08:38Got to have deep pockets.
08:39Yeah.
08:40Private equity is taking over the world.
08:41Get in there and finance it.
08:42Yeah.
08:42I know I'll watch it.
08:43I mean, private equity has taken over two of the, I don't know, medical outlets that
08:51my family goes to.
08:53We used to go to this dermatologist, right?
08:54Yeah.
08:55I'm not going to say the name of him.
08:56Mm-hmm.
08:56All right.
08:56It was a great dermatologist, small, owned by the head dermatologist.
09:01Yeah.
09:02Private equity.
09:02She sold to a private equity company.
09:04All right.
09:05And now they suck.
09:06All right.
09:07And I told them, I'm never going back to you again.
09:08The level of care went down.
09:09The level of care sucks.
09:11All they want you to do is come back and get your deductible, or the, what do they call
09:14it?
09:15The co-pays.
09:17The co-pays.
09:17The co-pays, yeah.
09:18They just want you to come back, come back, come back.
09:19Yeah.
09:19And then, or dentist, same thing.
09:22Oh.
09:23I'm not going to say the name.
09:24It was a small dental office sold to a private equity company.
09:28Bigger money.
09:29They suck.
09:30Okay.
09:31You need to find a new dentist.
09:32So all these private equities come in, they buy these small practices, and then they suck.
09:35I'm going to the dentist tomorrow for the first time in a while.
09:39Just for a little cleaning job.
09:41I'm a little bit worried.
09:42It's been a minute.
09:44Yeah, but you already well established.
09:46Your teeth are solid.
09:47My teeth are pretty good, generally.
09:48I mean, you might have one or two little stragglers.
09:50Who cares?
09:51It's just not a big deal.
09:52Fingers crossed.
09:53You're not going to go in there and need a root canal.
09:55God willing.
09:56Has gum taken out any of your teeth?
09:59Gum?
09:59No.
10:00Does that happen to EB?
10:01All the shoppers still attack.
10:03They're all, they're all, they're all, they're all up.
10:04Just so you understand.
10:05So like, when I get a crown, right?
10:08Let's say a tooth has a cavity or whatever, you get it filled, or just the root, whatever,
10:13and you get a root canal.
10:15You put a crown on it.
10:17That, that, that, it, the crown is on top of like old decayed tooth.
10:21So if you keep chewing gum or candy or something, eventually the decayed tooth is going to crack.
10:27And if that cracks, then the crown falls off.
10:29It's as simple as that.
10:31Right?
10:31So they put crowns on a decayed tooth.
10:33What's left of a decayed tooth?
10:35Crown.
10:36Eventually, if, if you keep eating hard candy like me, he tells me all the time.
10:40Jolly Ranchers.
10:40You probably should stay away from it, but you do you.
10:43And I just forget.
10:44How good a Jolly Rancher is.
10:46It's not good for you, but it tastes good.
10:48Yeah.
10:48The sour apple or the blue raspberry.
10:51Yeah.
10:51I haven't had one of those in a long time, but I'm going to stay away from those.
10:54It's better if you do.
10:55Yeah, I'm going to stay away from those.
10:56Later in the show, we've got Paul Taboni, Jason's guy, schmoozed with him on Saturday.
11:01The president general manager of the Nationals.
11:03He will join us at nine o'clock here on the Junkies.
11:06Don't go anywhere.
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