This is a downbeat on ninety seven to one The freak sar Good morning,
seven o'clock Wednesday, April ten, twenty twenty four. You believe it's twenty
twenty four. People made it. We're doing good. It's a down but
it's Danny. It's no, it's in April. Yes, it's been twenty
twenty four for over three months now. But sometimes when you say the year,
you're like, jeez, look at us again. You broke me yesterday
when you said twenty forty five. I'm like, boy, that's right on
my line. Twenty one years from now. Yeah, your line, that's
right on your line definitely online. You should be, okay, should be.
I looked at myself in the mirror this morning and I just kind of
whispered, you're really not taking good care of yourself. Yeah, it's good
to give yourself that good self will then be hard on yourself a little bit.
As I've said many times, at least once a year, I just
stare at my fully nude body in the mirror for a good five minutes and
just kind of reassess where I am in the world. There you go.
When I'd kick the Masters week off with a little self reflection. That's what
I've been doing, and that worked out. Not well, I'm okay.
It's amazing because I look at myself and I looked the same. And then
when I get back from the gym, I'll be like, oh yeah,
I think I might have tightened up a little bit, and that's just not
how it works. You just feel better about it. Yeah, that's true.
No one trip to the gym ever does anything. I like when you
get back into the gym and about five days later, you're like, okay,
you start to see a little bit of stuff. I think I'm trying
to see all something you're not. You're not you're not saying anything. Do
you ever think this? What if I could just press a button and just
for an instant look, however, I looked the absolute best day I ever
looked in my life. Because if you are consistently on the gym or you're
eating well, losing some weight, like, you don't know what that day
is. And when you see yourself every day, you're like, all right,
you know, I don't know, Okay, I'm fine, Like I'm
fine. Yeah. I don't think anyone one of us are ones that have
documented our fitness careers with mirror selfies. Yeah, yeah, and you can
take mirrors. I mean, obviously not for sharing, no one wants to
see that, but just to assess where you stand. You know, it's
probably not a bad idea to take a maybe underwear selfie on January first every
year or something like that. Let it hang. That'd be sort of interesting,
you know. But I wonder what I look like on my best day,
and maybe it's today. April tenth, twenty twenty four, the day
before the Masters begins. We are gambling, we're betting, we're fired up.
Our heroes descend on Augusta, Georgia for the big one. Yeah,
for the Masters, the Masters. Danny's the Masters, the Masters. Kevin
say it. It's the Masters. Maddie, it's the Masters. It's the
Master. It is the Masters. She's right, it's the Masters. It's
the Masters. Master, it's the Masters, the Masters, the Masters.
Twenty twenty four, Masters, the Masters. That's good, Augusta, Georgia.
Danny is number one, Maddi's number two. I'm three, Kevin's four.
Albert Robert duvall is five for the new new Hire. For the Master's
voiceover, Guy, do it more time, Dany. That was good.
Welcome to the Masters. That's all I've got. That's really good, though.
That is look out in Nancy. Welcome No, I already hated it.
Welcome No, put a little little air, a little whisper behind your
voice. Welcome to the Masters, speaking list, Trump gravelly r at the
list. Welcome to the Masters. A better time, one of the best.
It's definitely named the best. That's name a US open. We like
open, not even gonna say it. Democrats love open, like the borders
anyway, and then Howard Biden do it. It's no one can do it.
It's the Masters. And at nine o'clock today we got a big stupid
Master's bet. It's very convoluted. Lee Elder ruined everything. Lee Elder ruined
everything just jokes. Yeah, we're having fun. We are having fun.
Look, there's a lot of people listening. There's some that don't care about
this, and that's fine, but there are many who are going to be
betting a lot of weird stuff. This is if you're in a golf majors
thing. It all starts tomorrow, like you, This is how you set
up your whole year a pool. Go ahead, you definitely the elder ruined,
everyth ruined every the other's like, man, I'm just over here.
Well he's not with us anymore. Oh boy, I'm sorry, dude,
I trust me. It's showtime. Yeah. First things first, is this
one at least I readd Augusta, Georgia to my weather app and I have
are we looking We're looking like s butt City tomorrow? How are we looking
there? Sec delcas, We are looking like s butt City. It does
look like s butt City. Tomorrow is going to be terrible. And there's
a chance we don't even have f and golf tomorrow. I'm not gonna lie
to you guys, dude. That is that where it's trajected towards I saw.
I don't know. That's probably a little expect a little dramatic, Yeah,
a little dramatic. But if you just look at the basics, it's
Thursday, ninety chance of rain, and it kicks off at three am,
four or five, six, seven eight, and plays supposed to start at
six am here, seven am there tomorrow, So there's a good chance that
it's a very delayed start tomorrow and then maybe even bunched up into Friday morning
where they finish the first round and just turn it into a damn mess.
Win gust forty to forty five miles per hour no way between seven am and
one pm tomorrow, Oh my god. Forty Yeah, at a minimum,
that's just gust, you know, it doesn't matter. Steady one would be
twenty to twenty five. Yeah, dude, that's still a lot. It's
a lot. But that only if that only happens while it's raining. They're
not gonna be out there playing anyway. So course wise, the guys were
sitting in the practice round that it was. It's brutal the last couple of
days, like the hardest, firmest, like good shots are bouncing off the
green. But they are budgeting for this rain that's gonna come and soften the
course. And if it is soft and wet, even if you play tomorrow
afternoon, you know, delayed rounds or even into Friday, the thought is
that bomber's paradise, right, I mean, if it's wet and the greens
are fairly receptive, that it's gonna your long player's advantage. That's the thought
at least. And no course in America is set up better to drain a
bunch of rain than the masters so they can get them on maybe. Yeah.
I saw a ninety percent chance of rain at one pm tomorrow though,
so and that gets down to like a thirty percent chance by four pm.
So maybe some of those guys they do get out just to get some play
in so they can finish on Sunday. There's only eighty eight people in the
field though, too, so it's like it's a huge tournament. There's a
chance they could they could get nine in tomorrow, right, Yeah, they
can't get more than that. They could start them rain pull them off,
yeah, and they will run back out and yeah, I mean they'll start
them in the rain. Yeah, depending on how much will they double up
or let's say they get nine in tomorrow, would they do a round and
a half on Thursday? Yeah, I mean they'll they will start jamming it
in so they don't want this bleeding over on a Monday. No, no,
no, no. If it only rains tomorrow for the first half of
the they will manage it and make it work and we'll have a normal master's
finish on Sunday and weather it's a great Saturday and Sunday, yeah, that's
supposed to beautiful, and Friday pretty good. Too, but I wonder if
they've pushed back. No, no, so I mean right now they're planning
to play on schedule, but we shall see injury updates real quick for people
if you're putting fantasy lineups in that sort of thing. Again, if you're
in some big pool. We'll start with Jordan Speith, hometown hero, twenty
fifteen Masters Champion, Bubba Wallace, Bubba Watson before him, Danny Willett after
him, apparently aggravated a left wrist injury last week at the Valero Texas Open.
He's been dealing with the risk injuries for a while, dating back last
season. He aggravated it prior to the Century in January and he finished in
third place, so it's not bugged him before. But then he said he
also reaggravated it right before the players and he missed the cut there. So
he says, when his wrist flares up, I can't do anything that day,
So damn. I mean, as probably the person that most people listening
to this are cheering for fighting a wrist injury, how much will it impact
things? Kevin Turner, I think that impacts things a lot, But I
also think the way he's been playing impacts things a little more than that.
I don't think he's been playing very well, and like he's probably a good
fit for the course because he's decent with his irons, he can scramble around
the greens all that stuff. I still don't think he ever has any idea
whereas his drives are going. That's why people like him so much, because
he's just a wild man. Yeah, he is the antithesis of Scottie Shuffler
for as basic as he seems off the course. Yeah he is a wing
nut. Yeah he'll yell, but he's also really good at Augusta. Oh,
he's one of the best. He's just one of these dudes who is
just their game is geared to this course. I will retell it because I've
told it many times. With the one Masters I went to was twenty fifteen,
the Sunday that Jordan Speath won, and we were right at the beginning
of Amen Corner, the eleventh hole, part four, maybe the hardest on
the course, I don't know, a very difficult part four. And he
sprayed his driveway right and I heard, I knew the group that was coming
through, and I heard the trees and I look down and bounding is Jordan
Speed's golf ball. I am am way right, and I sprint to his
golf ball and I straddle it because I've been in enough tournaments. And do
you want to see burst Watch a forty something year old person see a golf
ball that they can get closer to than anyone else. Boom gone. If
you weren't head on a swivel, you'd have lost me. I straddle his
golf ball and moments later he walks up, Michael Greller walks up, CBS
cameras walk up, and right when they get there, I kind of put
my arms on, like, hey, give him some space. Oh he
went to bodyguarden moments back. Yes, And I'm then I know I'm going
to be front of the line, right. I kind of just make sure
everyone backs up. And I could not have been. I was closer than
you and I are right now, Dannie, the Jordan Greller, the CBS
camera. I mean, I'm on the right side of amen quarter. I'm
in it. I'm in the ass. I'm part of the masters. You
did the noble thing there too. Did you kind of tell him? I,
Hey, Jordan, I not let anything happen to you. MANA from
Dallas. His head was in the game, but Greller and I looked at
each other and I gave him a nod that I had this. You're now
for the remainder of this hole under my protection. Did you give him some
tips on his approach from the previous shots i'd seen? Yeah? Oh,
like, yeah, you want to keep it under these trees and get it
up maybe off to the right of the green. Nice up and down.
I'll start invoking how masters winners of ages ages ago did it. Yeah,
he's telling me if he really finishes his swing, the ball won't be leaking
out to the right like that a little bit too. You have a couple
to avoid the place he's in all Arno Palmer had their shot in nineteen fifty
eight, the year he won his first Masters, proceeding a second in nineteen
sixties, third in nineteen sixty two and his final fourth Master's victory in nineteen
sixty four. He had this shot. Listen to me, Michael, did
you make TV? Yeah? Absolutely, and you have it saved. Oh
yeah, I have two of the great greatest pictures ever from that day,
and obviously I didn't. Do you have video of you like standing over the
ball. No, No, the cameras weren't there then, okay, but
the camera gets there. And it's also those camera follows the ball and where
it ends up, not when he hit, not in the trees like that,
and they're just you can see a scramble of people. Now that's a
good question, because no, I don't think they saw the ball come to
rest. I think it was through trees. But then the camera guy comes
up. He's right behind it. It's also much closer than you think too,
especially when you missed the fairway like that. I mean, the camera
guy's right behind Speed. There's no more in a couple maybe a few feet
of swinging room that he has. And I was right there to the right
anyway. But what the point I brought that up is because Speith is a
wild man, and I got to see firsthand Jordan Speed back nine of the
masters that he's leading, doing the mental gymnastics of what needs to happen in
this shot and talking to Michael Greller. I've never seen someone I mean I
would if he didn't gone to win, I would have said he was melting
down. Yeah, because he's muttering to himself, he's talking to the trees,
he's talking to Michael, he's talking to nobody in particular. He walks
one hundred yards up to go take a look at what's under the trees.
Then he walks back, still muttering the whole time. I mean, head
case, as maybe everyone is when you're trying to win the effing Masters on
a Sunday on Amen corner, like I don't, I don't know, but
he shows it more than those other guys though. You never saw Koepka or
any of those guys do that, true, Bill, And that's that's a
lot like wing and I think people like that. Yeah, that's real.
He's a wing nut. The way he hits the ball, it's fun.
Do some people wonder if his game has ever or his game has suffered because
of what happened in twenty sixteen way choked? Yeah, I mean probably,
but didn't he he's never been the same, right, Well, no,
he won the Open after that, right, I don't know. I hate
that's when Dustin Johnson choked and uh in Chambers Bay, right, I think
that was twenty seventeen, right, Yeah, Dustin Johnson three jacked the eighteenth
hole to sort of hand speak the Chambers Bay US Open and then he won
in twenty seventeen in the Open Championship. So no, his downfall didn't didn't
start right though. It's a demon though, dude, for sure. And
he but he's just so consistently good at AUGUSTA six top four finishes at Augusta,
like he's just always kind of around. But will this risk injury affect
things. I'm staying away from him. I'm staying with my betting circles.
I'm not playing him at all. I'm not either. I don't trust him.
I trusted him for a long time well because he's hard to trust because
he's nuts. But when I watch him play, I'm pulling for him too.
And it is weird that he is such a local favorite. And we've
said it before, it's odd that Scotti Scheffler doesn't even doesn't really have that
level of like passionate support here in Dallas that speak. And I don't know
why you think of you think of Jordan, you think of Dallas. You
know, he's always felt rooted and connected here. I don't Scotty Scheffler is
so nondescript. I don't think of him as being connected to the city in
any way whatsoever. I have a theory on this. It's that Jordan looks
like a kid. Scotty Scheffler, despite being super young, has always looked
like a big grown man. It's just like, oh yeah, it's just
kind of basic guide speeth. At least we saw him as a kid.
Yeah, it was excited babyface. Yeah. And Danny said, Scotty Scheffler's
head looks like a football. It does a little bit more like a rugby
ball. And Scheffler is born in New Jersey, but he's definitely a Dallas
dude. Scheffler is four to one to win this tournament. Scheffler and Luca
are and there's not even argument for anyone else. Are the two most dominant
athletes in DFW by far, and now it's him or the field with all
these people. I mean, if you ask anyone who the greatest, the
best golfer currently on Earth right now is, you will get no blowback that
it's Scottie Shuffler. And how many people have had that and you Tiger Kepka
had it for a little bit. Yeah, Phil didn't even have that title
ever. You know, like just undoubtedly the top guy. He four to
one. That's Tiger numbers You don't put a golfer at four to one to
win a tournament like that's crazy. Seven to one, eight to one,
those are solid favorite numbers. I don't know if I've ever seen a four
to one. I think Tiger was. They've had him at like three to
one one or two of those years in the Masters. Yeah, I think
so. So listen to this. Since twenty sixteen, the favorite to win
a golf tournament, all golf tournaments, golf betting favorites have won forty one
times in five hundred and three events. That's good for eight just over eight
percent of the time, which is about an eleven percent win rate. So
if you have someone four to one, it just doesn't really make sense to
bet him, man. I mean, he could trounce him, just like
he did the players. You know, he was the favorite there and you
knew it's probably gonna win, and he went off and won. But you
just can't bet someone at four percent. The other thing was Scheffler wife Meredith
Prager's their first kid not due for about two weeks, but the window is
a jar, and they already asked him and Scotti. Scheffler says, if
I get the call, I am leaving immediately. I'm out, And some
golfers say that, and then they have a debate. I think if it's
Saturday afternoon and Scotti Shuffler is a five stroke lead and he gets that call,
I think he's on the plane. He's at least asking to speak with
the doctor. Yeah, what is what's really happening here? Doc? Yeah?
Was it go time? Or is she just freaking? I mean,
how far four centimeters? Okay, I'm good, I can finish this.
So there is a chance that I mean, you know, it never really
seems to happen. Can you imagine if you's leading the Masters though, and
he says, uh, the official comes over and he says, I withdraw.
It's crazy anyway, Scotti Scheffler is the heavy favorite. John Rahm would
be the other guy in the argument. For John Rahm, he is really
good. He is on live, So we're back to this argument of unsure
if he's been forged in the five his game is sharp. But they all
proved it last year that they're all sharp. I mean, Kepko was second
last year and pat Reeve was top five. Ram has been good, kept
Goa won a major like it seems already debunked that not playing on the PGA
Tour has zero impact on your ability to win major. But I will say
this, Ron good well, especially here too. Yeah, but there's something
weird with Rom because he's almost like he's got this the mantle that Rory has
had for the last few years, which is just a bunch of crap I
have to deal with. And he keeps saying, you know, like he's
maybe at the forefront of maybe let's bring this thing back together, Like it's
all this weight that Rory has been dealing with that I feel like kind of
has been transferred to John Rahm. Plus he has all the obligations of a
defending champion. There's only been three people to ever defend, defend the Masters
and win it two years in a row. It's being Jack Nicholas in nineteen
sixty five and nineteen sixty six. Is oppressive, Sure are the others.
Nick Faldo in nineteen ninety nine or nineteen eighty nine and nineteen ninety Tiger Woods
in two thousand and one, in two thousand and two, that's Mike Siroy.
I'm Mike Siroy. That's say Baylist. Maddie's in with us today.
Who's that Kevin Hello? Kevin Hi really hard to defend and I just don't
think Rom's gonna do it. So if I'm fading one of the big dogs,
fad genre, he's fading gen RANG, Fading GENRENG. You heard it
right here. I know eighty seven won the Freak I mean, tied for
fourth last week in Miami on the live tour. Fading GENRENG been in top
ten in every live event. Fading John Row, Wow, he's fighting John
Rock. And I said, the weight that John Rahm is carrying, it's
taken off of someone else. Another man. Oh, I have one name
that's gonna win the twenty twenty four Masters on Monday. We're gonna come in
here and talk about how it finally happened. You did this last year and
you were right, thank you, How he's achieved the career Grand Slam.
Northern Ireland's Rory McElroy. What is going to win the Masters in five days
time? Let's see you put your money where your mouth is at nine o'clock.
Rory McElroy. Wow, see who he picks? Begins up getting the
number one pick. Put that green jacket over your muscular shoulders. You've done
it son mister cut last year, Danny, congratulations. Yeah, top ten
and eight of the last nine majors. He has missed two out of the
last three Master's cuts. But everything other than that is essentially a top ten.
And to think, oh, he can't win the green jacket, that's
stupid what he did this year. He showed up yesterday like half an hour
before his press conference. He's like, the only change I'm not. I'm
doing it like I do every other week. I'm sick of going early,
I'm sick of the weight I've been carrying. I'm treating this like every other
week. And I think just enough of the shine is off Rory this year
to where it's not at what everyone's talking about the last few years. Yeah,
that's one of the biggest stories. Y R R Rory. I think
enough of it's off and he might just have a bucket a e F fitt.
Oh yes, and he's gonna remind you that he's the number one player
in the world and his name is Rory maclroy. The one club that has
been giving him a lot of problem problems because the putter can come and go
for these guys. I mean, some guys are notoriously bad putters, but
especially here at Augusta, where it's you're putting on glass, it's a little
different like the bullpen and basically like le Clerk. Yeah, he can be
good sometimes, but like it's the approach play all right, the irons and
all that stuff. And he had his best week in a long time last
week and his third place finish hit the Valerio Texas Open. I'm with you,
Mike. No, that's not my pick, but that's Do you have
one name to win the Masters? Kevin Turner. I'm a big pe you
know who. I think he has not been playing well, but no one's
talking about and I think he's gonna be awesome and I think he might win
it. Victor Hoveland, which everyone's a little He has not been playing well,
and I know it's probably not the course, like if you're not playing
well to go oh and all of a sudden, you're just gonna start kicking
ass. But Victor Hoveland has everything you need to win here, absolutely,
and his odds are gonna be good. I mean it's he's a long shot
or anything. He's probably the six or seventh favorite to win. But dude,
I'm a little drunk on Victor Hovelind. I kind of love it because
it's so not sexy. It's nice. He was seventh last year. I
think he can do it, and maybe I love him and maybe that's part
of the problem too. The ones that I saw on him was he does
not have a top fifteen finish so far in twenty twenty four. Oh uh
oh, change it. Hideki Matsuma can't go wrong. My friend Hideki absolutely
could be the guy. He could be the danger man this week. That's
the one name you need to know. Mike Hi Deki changed it.