Episode 24 - World Cup Action

In this week's episode, the guys discuss what's happening in the MLB, the current World Cup standings, and all the recent crazy trades in the NHL. 

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:00

Hey everybody, welcome to another episode number 24, my favorite number of Full Strength Podcast. It is I, Brandon Michael, here again for another wonderful episode. Steve, let's get into it. How is your week, man?

SPEAKER_02 0:14

Um it's a good week. It's been a busy week. Um a lot of trades going on, a lot of sports.

SPEAKER_00 0:21

Absolutely absurd what's going on in the NHL right now. Absolutely absurd. Yeah, we're gonna do it.

SPEAKER_02 0:29

It's been an interesting one day there was there was nothing, and then the next day there was.

SPEAKER_00 0:33

It's honestly historic what's going on in the top ten. That's just doesn't happen. So yeah, we'll get into it later. Um, if you're listening, it's exciting. We're into it, we're having a good time with it. So, Nick, how was your week, buddy? Week was good, nothing really new to report.

SPEAKER_01 0:49

Uh, healing from a black eye, and that's about it. Um, ready to ready to get back into podcasting.

SPEAKER_00 0:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:01

Awesome.

SPEAKER_03 1:03

The stuff. What's up, buddy? How was your week? I'm not doing too good. I'm suffering from hockey withdrawal. Recently turned my living room into a hockey rink. I'm not doing too good. Got like eight or more days to get through this. I don't know if I'm gonna survive.

SPEAKER_00 1:21

Well, there's I mean, there's there's uh golf at baseball, and NFL will be here soon. So I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 1:27

I tried golf. I got tossed off the course after I checked a guy. I guess makes sense.

SPEAKER_01 1:35

I want to go golfing with you.

SPEAKER_00 1:37

That'll do it. Awesome. Well, yep, same here. Uh, just been watching this, it's been a pretty crazy couple of days here with the NHL, and it's I there's no sign of letting up with another deal just came across. So um, yeah. So with that, let's kind of get into we'll start with the NBA. There's also been a bunch of moves, um, absolute huge blockbuster trade. Uh, Giannis out of Tacamumbo is uh is headed to the Miami Heat. Um, the Miami Heat got uh five future draft picks. Um, absolutely insane haul. Um, Austin Reeves uh and the Lakers uh agreed to a four-year, $185 million deal. Um, that's nuts. Um and the Wizards uh sharpshooting guard Tyrus Jones or Tyus Jones um also agreed to a four-year deal. So moves are happening. Um, and then of course the Mavericks. The Mavericks have a new head coach. Uh Nick, you were kind of looking into that one. What do you got?

SPEAKER_01 2:44

Well, um, we'll start off with the man uh that we're talking about the Mavericks uh officially hired Dusty May on Tuesday, yeah, making a massive college to pro jump. Um his resume, uh Dusty is coming off literally a peak performance. He just led Michigan Wolverines to the 2026 NC2A national championships, um, like what three months ago? And then before Ann Arbor, he was famously, he took the Florida Atlantic University on a historic Cinderella run to the Final Four in 2023. Yeah. Um, he's known as a pilgrim or a program builder. Uh, and he really likes to prioritize player development. Um, it's gonna be interesting because Dallas is building completely around their new one, their number one rising star, the reigning rookie of the year, and the 2025 number one overall pick, Cooper Flag. Um, handing this 19-year-old generational, some are calling it generational talent to a coach with no NBA experience is a massive gamble. Um but the team president is go ahead.

SPEAKER_00 3:51

No, no, go ahead. Sorry.

SPEAKER_01 3:52

No, I was just um the you know, they've it's they call it like the ghost of the Luca era because they moved on from Jason Kidd not too long ago. Um pretty much and they got rid of uh Luca, obviously, and they're still paying Kidd what $40 million just to go away, which kind of means to me that the Mavericks ownership is spending heavily to erase the past and start fresh, and they're starting fresh with a new coach and their number one player.

SPEAKER_00 4:23

Didn't he sell them?

SPEAKER_01 4:24

He sold him and then he bought him back. I honestly don't know where his stance is currently. Here's my thing.

SPEAKER_00 4:30

So the NBA is I mean, next to the NFL, both the egos in those two leagues are so massive that a lot of times and a lot of those players do not take you know team-friendly contracts to, you know, to stay winning. There are a lot of selfish, a lot of selfish players in the NBA, more so than any other league. So here's my question Is is this gonna be like in college, you you know, it's easier to it's easier to control, you know what I mean? Like you've got egos and people that talk about themselves in the third person and just so on and so forth. I it's like that seems like that's gonna be a really big challenge.

SPEAKER_01 5:18

To try to rein in all those personality types, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 5:20

We've seen it in the NFL, it really doesn't work too often. Pete Carroll had success. That's it. You look at the high-end coaches, Nick Saban was done quick. It's like they just don't do well when they go pro because it's like you don't have control over these these egos. It's very hard.

SPEAKER_01 5:42

So it'll be an interesting, it'll be an interesting year in the NBA next you know, next season for sure for people that like the NBA.

SPEAKER_00 5:51

Yeah. I know, I know it's hard, but anyway, yeah. So great uh some good big signings, some big trades, and uh that's gonna be one to really keep an eye on next season and see how they do. Because if he can build in the NBA, then awesome. I I hope I you know we wish you all the success, but yeah, it's just interesting. It'll be something to watch, I think, right? So indeed. But anyway, uh Brandon, any thoughts?

SPEAKER_03 6:23

No, mine were just you know similar to yours, you know, just how the transition would be is because now you got 20-year-old guys that he's coaching that think they've already learned everything, they're in the NBA making millions of dollars. What do you have to teach me?

SPEAKER_00 6:38

Right. Yeah, I that's again, that's just that's my biggest. I think that's my biggest concern with the whole thing. So we'll see what happens. I it it'll be it'll be interesting. So Steve.

SPEAKER_02 6:49

That's gonna be a huge adjustment going from college to pro. Because, like you were just saying, I mean, if one, they're teaching the kids in college, they're not doing that anymore in the pro. I mean, they're no obviously still drilling, but they're not teaching anymore. That's kind of that's gonna be a weird that's gonna be a weird transition for him.

SPEAKER_01 7:08

I think so. Because you're right. They treat they they teach like their system, you know, whether their offense or defensive system, and now it's like go to man, go to zone.

SPEAKER_00 7:17

If if you can do it, it'll be with a team like the Mavericks that are building from the ground up.

SPEAKER_01 7:22

Absolutely. For sure. I mean, I mean, and you do have that young that young blood 19-year-old who's never even been to college. So, you know, chances of we'll see.

SPEAKER_00 7:32

Yeah. So awesome. Well, we'll look forward to that next season. Uh moving on, the College World Series has ended with an absolute just destruction of Port UNC by Oklahoma. Oklahoma was a wagon, we knew they were good, but holy smokes, 13-2 in a decisive game three. Game one went to Oklahoma 9-3, and then UNC won game two, 6-2, and then of course Oklahoma takes the College World Series with an absolute lambasting of UNC. The Tar Heels are definitely licking their wounds tonight. So, and it's gotta be tough.

SPEAKER_02 8:07

They're embarrassed.

SPEAKER_00 8:09

Yeah, I it's here's the thing though. I in a game like that, it's almost like if you lose, like on a bottom of the ninth, you know, walk-off, that's harder sometimes to deal with than a blowout like that. A blowout like that, you're walking off the field like, Jesus, what are we like? What just happened? And sometimes it's a little bit in my experience. I sometimes it's easier to get over when you get blown out that bad. Because it's like, all right, back to the drawing board, let's just go to work. You know what I mean? Let's go to work, let's train, let's get better, right? But when you lose like in overtime game seven or you know, extra innings, walk off, it's like you were right there, and you feel like you should have won. Sure. That to me is harder to get past than getting absolutely just drubbed like this.

SPEAKER_02 9:01

Well, and but the problem with with like this, for instance, this three-game series, it look didn't even look like North Carolina should be there. But yeah, but they got beat so bad in game one and game three.

SPEAKER_00 9:12

I know, but they won game two. You know what I mean? So it's like they belong. If they would have got swept, I could see where you know, okay, sure. Yeah, they got swept. It's like, yeah, these guys are terrible. But in this situation, Steve, I feel like they did win game two, and it was an elimination game, and they came out, played good ball, only gave up two runs to Oklahoma, who's been scoring runs at will. So, but I get what you're saying.

SPEAKER_02 9:37

They got outscored 24 to 11.

SPEAKER_00 9:39

Yeah, even with the win. Like, I get what you're saying, I really do. But I just feel like UNC can go and be like, okay, this just we just got destroyed. Let's let's go to the drawing board. Oklahoma was a wagon, we're good, let's move on, right?

SPEAKER_02 9:53

Let's go pick up some pitching.

SPEAKER_01 9:54

Yeah, yeah. So it's it makes you wonder, like, because the Sooners, the well, I guess the Tar Heels were the winningest team in college baseball going into this tournament, like 54, 14, and one. A lot of people, yeah. Um, and the Sooners being what 40. I'm looking at my notes, 43 and 23. Like good winning season, but not great. Great record. So, but they got hot when they needed to. So, is it more important to be like the best team that has a that's a wagon, like you like to say, or you know, is it more important to be hot when it's time the time is right?

SPEAKER_00 10:29

It it Nick, we've talked about this. We talked about this at length. Yeah, at the beginning of the street. Just another example. That's why I bring it up. The Stanley Cup playoffs, right? It's like if a team gets going and gets hot, I mean, technically the Knicks, look at the Knicks. Yeah, the Knicks got hot or the Golden Knights were near favorites, and they got hot. But it's like, yeah, teams get going, they get good. It's like that's why uh that's why Bussey wasn't in net. The Carolinas starting goalie is Busy, but Frederick Anderson got hot and carried him. It's like it's with all sports, it's just if you get really going at the right time, that's what matters.

SPEAKER_01 11:07

I think this proves it.

SPEAKER_00 11:08

I mean, another example that helps solidify the right another nail in that coffin that's like if you get hot at the right time. I don't care what your record is. Uh, the 2010 San Francisco Giants, they had the worst record, they were barely over 500 as a wild card team. And or no, they won the West, but the West was terrible back then. So it's like it's you never know, man. Yep. So, yeah. Or the what was it, the 2012 LA Kings, I think is the greatest example of that. But anyway, yeah, college baseball's done. Um, MLB drafts coming up soon. Um, and so MLB will get into it for a minute. Not a lot going on in baseball. Um, just you know, kind of starting to get close to the dog days of summer. We've got the all-star break coming up. Um, we all know that you get into the dog days of summer. This is where seasons are won and lost.

SPEAKER_02 12:06

This is when I start really watching baseball.

SPEAKER_00 12:08

Yeah, me too.

SPEAKER_02 12:09

It's like starting usually about in July, and I'll really start watching baseball.

SPEAKER_00 12:14

Everything's everything from the fall and winter's over. It's like, all right, yeah, let's let's let's watch some let's watch some hardball. The weather's perfect for baseball. There's nothing like grabbing a beer and a hot dog.

SPEAKER_02 12:25

Hot dog for a baseball game, right?

SPEAKER_00 12:27

Yeah, you scumbag. I swear to god, if you don't get a hot dog and I want a video, our TikTok fans want a video of Steve eating a hot dog. Not in a weird way.

SPEAKER_02 12:41

I'll get you one this summer. It'll be a Durham game.

SPEAKER_00 12:45

I think you should get yourself a hot dog. I'll get a hot dog.

SPEAKER_02 12:50

I promise you. Promise you.

SPEAKER_00 12:53

Oh my gosh. Yeah. So anyway, uh still kind of just nothing much has changed. I mean, I don't see there's nobody that's like exuberantly hot right now. Um, Miami's making a little bit of a run right now.

SPEAKER_01 13:10

But uh other than that the Phillies are closing that gap on the Braves. They had uh they had a game where was it Bryce Harper that hit for the cycle and the Schwarber had three home runs, and it's only the second time in MLB history in one game where a team mate teammates have hit one for the cycle, and another one had three home runs in a game.

SPEAKER_02 13:30

That is kind of crazy. Cubs are having a good week or so.

SPEAKER_01 13:34

I saw that. I was waiting for someone else to notice. Why are they 500? Seven and three last ten games. Still in the middle of the pack, but a lot of a lot of baseball left to be played.

SPEAKER_00 13:45

It's how baseball goes, right? It's up and down.

SPEAKER_02 13:47

You just you know one week you're really you're hot, next week you're you're dude.

SPEAKER_01 13:51

This is the entire sport of baseball is about being hot when it matters.

SPEAKER_00 13:55

Yeah, it's like there's times where it's like you're the ball is coming at you, it looks like a you know, beach ball, and you're you're gonna you're hitting it, and it's finding it's finds a hole, it finds a little piece of green, and then there's other times where you might it the ball either looks like a pin on a needle, or it's like everything you hit hard is right in somebody's glove, right? And it's just like thinking, what in the do I have to do? Like this sucks. So it's just yeah, it's it's such a long season. It's like coming up though, once the all-star break hits, it's like how teams get through whatever times of injuries or whatever. It's like, how do teams deal with the dog days? It's that's that's what it is. So um, anyway, uh, so moving on, uh one of the biggest golf tournaments happened at Schinook out in the Hamptons, uh, beautiful golf course. Um and it was absolutely one of the greatest performances. Um, the first wire to wire, which means from the beginning to the end. Um where'd it go? Uh oh. Um, I was trying to bring up a couple of stats here. Uh but Wyndham Clark is the ninth player.

SPEAKER_01 15:19

Yeah, ninth player.

SPEAKER_00 15:21

It's and it's only it's happened a bunch, but if you really break it down by like masters, it's only happened six times. Um, anytime it happens, though, is extremely important. And Wyndham Clark went wire to wire for the US Open, one won the U.S. Open. Absolutely incredible performance. Um, yeah, sheesh, I'm just not finding it right now. Anyway, um, I was trying to see because uh Scotty Scheffler really did make a push. So he really made a push there at the end, but Wyndham Clark hung on for the victory. That's weird that I'm not fine. There was a couple of stats I was looking at. That's why I'm kind of uh yeah, he finished four under par. It's like it's just really impressive to be able to do that. It was Sam Burns that made a push. Sorry, that's what I was looking for. Um, Scheffler did as well, but Scheffler falled up fell off. He ended up even. It was Sam Burns that made a push. Wyndham Clark didn't have a great final day. He went in up, uh, I think he shot plus three on his last day.

SPEAKER_01 16:32

Yeah, you're right. He was he was six under, he had a six-shot lead going into Sunday.

SPEAKER_00 16:37

He was seven under, and the next closest was one under, and that was Scotty Scheffler. But Scheffler had just kind of a pedestrian day, as I say, as he shoot one over, but um anybody that golfs knows it's such a difficult sport. Um, it's absolutely incredible. With these guys are like plus six handicaps, and it's like it's it's yeah, it's fun to golf with people that are that good. So, anyway, um, great performance by Wyndham Clark. I mean, very, very impressive tonight. Our top five, we will come back to golf. Um, we were gonna do a segment, but there is just so much to get into with the NHL. Um but yeah, Wyndham Clark, wire-to-wire champion. Like Nick said, it's only happened that's only the ninth time it's happened in US Open history. Either way, where these guys go, the nicest golf courses in the world, and it they're very, very difficult. So um, but yeah, pretty cool. Tonight will be our top five greatest US Open championships, most dominant, whatever each one of us decides. So we're looking forward to that. Uh with that, we'll move on to the World Cup. How is everyone? I know you guys are watching soccer. I I I've watched a little bit. I watched the USA Australia game. Um, I it is anybody Norway their their start, Norway's start is absolutely gas. It's fire, it's incredible. Throwing the boat, dude. It's so cool. The players are down on the field doing the same thing. It's like, and you hear it through the whole state. It's like, dude, it's like uh the Minnesota Vikings do it where they do the clap. That looks like that that looks like fun to see. I have not, um, Minnesota's one of the football stadiums I have not made it to yet. So everything else in Minnesota I've been to, but I have not been to that stadium. So US Bank uh arena or whatever.

SPEAKER_02 18:41

So Scotland is getting drummed by Brazil right now.

SPEAKER_00 18:45

Well, it's Brazil, so yeah. It was expected, but still. Yeah, USA was minus 186 favorites going into the game against Australia, and they won two to nothing. They now have like a what six gold differential in the tournament, which is great. Six points. It looks like they they are going, yeah. They're and yeah, they also they have six points and they have a plus six or seven gold differential. So it's like they're looking like they're gonna move on to pool play. Any or uh is it they're already guaranteed to go to pool play, Steve? Is that right?

SPEAKER_02 19:20

To turn well to tournament, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 19:22

Yeah, knockout round. What's that, Brendan? Yeah, they're in the knockout round. It's what is that what's next? Is the knockout round?

SPEAKER_01 19:29

Yeah, yeah. Knockout round goes to the end.

SPEAKER_00 19:33

Okay, cool. I I think that's gonna be fun. Is how far are they gonna get? You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_01 19:39

It's well, they've so Bosnia Herzko Herzegovina um just beat. Wait, did the yeah, they won over Qatar, and so our first knockout will likely be against Bosnia-Herzegovina.

SPEAKER_00 19:56

Okay, that's how it's gonna play out, is what you're saying.

SPEAKER_01 19:58

Okay, that that that's mathematically, that's what they're saying. Likely will be the U.S.'s first matchup in the knockout rounds. Which is a good chance to win, they're predicting. Which is a good chance to win, but like this is the first time in World War. We would be favored in that against Bosnia. We are. Yes. Okay. Um, this is the first time that the World Cup has actually extended the amount of teams that they're sending into the uh Oh my god. Knockout tournament. Knockout tournament, thank you. Um now they have to play eight matches to win to raise the cup. The World Cup. And they're adding in some historically always been seven. And now there's three points that everyone's got to play.

SPEAKER_02 20:38

The top eight third place winners, I think they said, are making it into the round.

SPEAKER_01 20:42

Well, here, let me do it. I'll read it right here because I got it. Um the round of 32 for the first time in World Cup history, the single elimination phase begins with a round of 32 rather than a round of 16. Who advances? Um, a total of 32 teams move on from the group stage. The top two teams from each of the 12 groups, plus the eight best third place teams overall. Um, the introduction of this extra round means the teams will now have to play eight matches total instead of the historical seven to lift the trophy, like I said.

SPEAKER_03 21:12

Currently, nine teams that have qualified.

SPEAKER_00 21:15

Nine already, Brandon. Yeah, because they give three points for a win. Is the US one of them, Brandon?

SPEAKER_03 21:21

Just curious. Yeah, so far it's the whole list right now is Mexico, Switzerland, Canada, uh, USA, Germany, France, France, Norway, Argentina, Colombia. That's it for the guarantees.

SPEAKER_00 21:39

Okay. Okay. Well, uh here's the thing. I think that's that's awesome that we're already in through two games. That's fantastic. Um some have said that this is a really good USA team and it's different than teams in the past, just from the stuff I've been able to see. So it's you know Well, I mean, we're scoring points. That's new. Yeah, that's a blessed right there.

SPEAKER_01 22:04

Scoring the World Cup.

SPEAKER_00 22:07

Ah, sad day.

SPEAKER_02 22:10

Yeah, this team does look like it has a lot more uh player cohesion than they usually do.

SPEAKER_01 22:18

And our star hasn't even been there because he's been nursing uh, I think a calf injury pulsar, whatever his name is, hasn't even been playing yet. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 22:25

And he most likely will not play this game as well.

SPEAKER_01 22:28

No, because there's no reason there's no reason to now. Might as well rest him. Rest everybody. You take a nap, and you take a nap.

SPEAKER_00 22:35

You get a nap. You get a nap.

SPEAKER_01 22:37

Thank you.

SPEAKER_00 22:37

So that's cool. So it's like looking forward uh their next when's their next game? When's US next game? It is tomorrow.

SPEAKER_02 22:44

Yep. Against Turkey.

SPEAKER_00 22:47

Where's it being played? So fi out in LA?

SPEAKER_02 22:49

LA, yeah. Okay. Um, I do not know what time though.

SPEAKER_00 22:54

Doing TikToks and stuff, and it it's watch going through TikTok has been cool because like I I gotta tell you, everything that I'm seeing from foreigners is really positive. Everybody loves it here. They're like, it's not as bad as a lot of people. Everybody loves it here, and they're like, whatever the media is saying is full of shit. This we love it here, and so I'm like, thank you.

SPEAKER_01 23:16

It's just I saw the video of a bunch of Scottish guys in kilts going into a bucky's, and then they all they left with like I don't know, like six foot tall cases of beer, like taller than they were. All of them left with beer.

SPEAKER_02 23:31

Go drink them, boys. Yeah, I can't believe those Scots actually emptied out several bars in Boston of beer. Beer is completely gone.

SPEAKER_00 23:42

It's it's just different overseas. The fact that they would just have a random parade, yeah, just a random parade that people level. I don't even care if you're a good drinker or you can handle your whatever booze. You go overseas, man. They're gonna they're gonna they're gonna mess you up. You're gonna just different over there. I don't know. And all their beers like moonshine, it's like it's just absolutely ridiculous, dude.

SPEAKER_03 24:10

It's like they're able to start drinking at a younger age over there.

SPEAKER_00 24:16

That might have, yeah. Well, I don't know. I started drinking at like 15, 16. Um legally drinking, yeah. Yeah. Um yeah, it was funny. I was in a uh rather large golf tournament, an amateur tournament last week. And at the end, they have a thing for a shootout, and you can qualify for that shootout based on score and a couple other things. So it's uh we had teams like two-man teams, but it we you have to play singles because it's a USGA tournament, and so we uh at the end, um it was cool because everybody just lines the greens and they go back and forth between like hole one and hole 18 at my club. And this these these brothers are passing around this, and I know them because they're members at our club, and they're passing this thing of moonshine around. I almost had to call Ashley to come and pick me up. I'm like, I guys, I can't drink anymore. So what these guys are doing, like these foreigners coming over here. I I'm done. Like, if I have five or six boys, I'm in the tank. Like, I'm done. I I'm handed anymore in this stage of my life, and it's I just don't ever drink. So it's like, yeah, six beers, I'm I'm I'm in I'm in the tank, dude. And everybody I keep here, like Ashley always says, I love drunk Brandon, I love drunk brand. It's like I'm like, that's good that I'm fun when I'm drunk, but it's like I just don't do it anymore. So what these guys, these foreigners are doing, it yeah, I probab they probably drink me under the table in about 20 minutes.

SPEAKER_02 25:58

Oh, yeah, especially Scottish blokes.

SPEAKER_00 26:01

What's that?

SPEAKER_02 26:02

Especially Scottish guys, man.

SPEAKER_00 26:04

They are yeah, dude. Yeah. Brandon, when you were in Europe, what was the uh what was the drunkest country you went to?

unknown 26:11

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 26:13

The drunkest country probably that I went to, I never got to go to Norway or I'd say Germany.

SPEAKER_00 26:23

I thought you were gonna say Germany from the stories you told me, though.

SPEAKER_03 26:28

The starting age to be able to drink beer when I was there was 12, I believe.

SPEAKER_04 26:37

I thought it was bad. Do you know the rule?

SPEAKER_01 26:39

Do you know the rule in Wisconsin in our own United States?

SPEAKER_00 26:42

Yeah, Minnesota has a similar rule. As long as you're a certain age, if you're with a parent, you can even sit at the bar.

SPEAKER_01 26:47

Uh in Wisconsin, that's true. Uh up to 18, but in Wisconsin.

SPEAKER_00 26:51

14 in Minnesota.

SPEAKER_01 26:53

Uh, you can drink in a bar with a parent at 18 in Wisconsin, but if you're married to somebody who's 21, yeah, you can drink at a bar.

SPEAKER_00 27:02

Yeah, there's bars in northern Minnesota that yeah, it's 14 if you're with a parent. Yeah, it's wild. It's like there's parts of our country that are great, dude. There really are. And it's like I tell people all the time, and you know, they say bad things about California, and I'm like, dude, I'm like, let me tell you something. The most desk, some of the most desolate places on earth are in Northern California. Like it's beautiful up there. So, like, yeah, eastern Washington, Eastern Oregon, that whole region is fantastic. And there's places where it's like, yeah, I guarantee you there's 16-year-olds in those bars drinking. So, but anyway, moving on. Uh, World Cup looks great. Team USA tomorrow. We'll keep recording and uh keep covering it. I'll keep doing TikToks. Come follow us over on TikTok. I'll start doing some more shorts on our YouTube channel. Don't forget to subscribe. I appreciate our two new subscribers. Thanks, boys, um, for the support. Um, and then uh, so moving on, let's let's go ahead first into this, guys. Uh, the NHL has absolutely gone bonkers. The amount uh Steve said it a couple episodes ago that the amount of trades that happen inside the top 10, it just doesn't happen. It's very, very rare. We've got teams going absolutely nuts. Obviously, uh the big one uh to start the whole thing um was Brady Kachuk going to uh Florida with his brother, and Ottawa got Florida's ninth and 25th pick in this year's first round, and Ottawa immediately takes that number nine pick and trades it to the San Jose Sharks for William Eklund and two uh uh uh prospects. One of them, Caspar Halton, is a high grade prospect. Um, and so San Jose now has two and nine and twenty seven. Um real quick, I've got uh Jordan Cairou.

unknown 29:03

St.

SPEAKER_00 29:03

Louis sends Jordan Cairou to the Washington Capitals for Connor McMichael, Milton Gaston, and this year's 16th overall pick. Nope, we're not done yet. Calgary Flames acquired Simone Nemek, who's a top, I'd say 12 defenseman in the NHL, is going to Calgary. Um, going back to New Jersey uh is if I can get it to that one to come up. There it is. Um, going back to Jersey is this year's 20, their second round pick this year, their first round pick in 27, and their first round pick in 28. Uh, this is Calgary. Calgary is who obtained Simone Nemek. Um absolutely huge trade there. Um, did the San Jose one. Now, here's the here's here's a massive one. Bowen Byrum made it very clear he doesn't want to be in Buffalo. Didn't he got traded there? He hasn't been happy there. Um, when you're a second-round playoff team in game six and you're winning, and the fans are booing you. Yeah, I'd want to leave too. So, yeah, Buffalo fans booing them when they're winning is just yeah, that fan base did not look good in the playoffs, didn't help themselves out much. Um, so Bowen Byrum is going to the Chicago Blackhawks along with Jordan Greenway for the fourth overall pick. So Buffalo gets rid of a guy that they don't even that didn't want them. I don't think he's just, it's just not a good relationship there. So Buffalo's got the fourth overall pick, a team that very well could have also been in the conference finals this year. They also get the 45th overall pick and a low-level prospect. That's a huge thing for for the Sabres because you're looking at it. Nobody knows now what San Jose is doing. San Jose is really throwing a wrench in this whole thing because it was definitely gonna be Chase Reed. I know there's a bunch of people that are like, Ivan Stenberg, you're an idiot. Okay, it was always going to be Chase Reed. Now it might be Ivan Ivar Stenberg. Because San Jose now has the ninth pick, so they can get the defenseman that they want. What's Buffalo gonna do it for? And is this over, guys? Nope. Because, oh, by the way, Alex Tuck just left Buffalo. He was already saying he's not signing there, so Buffalo said, All right, we'll trade you. They got him to the Washington Capitals. Eight years, 10 and a half million is what Alex Tuck got, and Buffalo's getting a third-round draft pick in return. This is this is huge.

SPEAKER_02 31:42

So I just looked it up before today, or last couple days trades, I should say, there was only 11 trades for the top 10 in or in or out.

SPEAKER_00 31:53

All time, all time, 11, 11 different trades. That's crazy, right? And there's what like two or three the last couple days. In your mind, what's the biggest move of these? Steve, go. We'll just go in order here. Go for it.

SPEAKER_02 32:10

Oh man, I don't know. I mean, just all these are gonna have a great impact and an interesting impact on on the draft. And because I mean, we just don't know what who's gonna pick who now.

SPEAKER_00 32:22

Like you would just find it crazy because it the like the mocks were pretty accurate. We were like, Yeah, San Jose is definitely taking Chase Reed, he's the best defenseman. And so you look at some of these other ones. I still don't think San Jose isn't gonna take Chase Reed. And we don't even know if this is all of them yet. I mean, this is and it might, yeah, it might not be done.

SPEAKER_01 32:43

Yeah, Toro Markins hasn't found his home yet. What's that, buddy?

SPEAKER_00 32:47

It's a Dylan Larkin hasn't found a home yet. That's also true. And by the way, Toronto has said that Matthew Nice is available for a top 10 draft pick. That's their asking price for a top 10 draft pick. I'm thinking to myself, okay, San Jose just got rid of William Eklund. Kaspar Halton was going to be like an odd man out. He's going to be a first or second line forward, but on the Sharks here in another year, he's going to be fighting on the fourth line for minutes. So it's like, yeah, that's the right thing to do. Give the kid a chance. Could the Sharks trade the ninth overall draft pick still and obtain Matthew Nice, who is a massive upgrade from William Eklund? Well, I mean, they have two picks and they already have plenty of prospects. Oh, yeah. And then they still and they've got 27th overall as well. So it's like, and they just traded with Buffalo and got that defenseman. That young 25-year-old who's built like a freight train.

SPEAKER_02 33:48

So it sounds like the Sharks really want to build for next season.

SPEAKER_00 33:55

No, they're because the guys that they're going to draft aren't going to be in the NHL next year.

SPEAKER_02 33:59

Well, I mean, what if they trade, like you just said, where they trade the nine and try to pick up somebody that's, you know, that would just basically that would just be a replacement, though, Steve.

SPEAKER_00 34:07

And a small upgrade. They're not, no, they're still in build mode. They're going to be a playoff team next year. But no, they're not trying to do anything stupid like sign some bullshit big name free agent.

SPEAKER_03 34:18

Well, I just recently read something that might shake things up again. What is it? The GM of the Sharks said that he's received some legitimate offers for the number two spot. The number two is considering them.

SPEAKER_00 34:34

Well, he's he's always he's always said he'll he'll look at every offer, but there's there's no way he's trading two. Like I've seen it. Yeah, it's he's gotten a lot of big offers, but it's like if you look at what he's done and how he's built this team, it's like number two's not going anywhere. But no, number nine, also, it's like the only way you're gonna see two go is if it's for a player like Kale McCarr, which isn't gonna happen. So yeah. So I know for a fact, I know for a fact that Buffalo, like Buffalo called for the number two pick for Bowen Byrum, who's a top ten defenseman in the NHL, and that was shot down. It's gotta be something that is absolutely like franchise changing. He's not getting rid of that pick. Nine? Nine is what I think Greer is gonna move.

SPEAKER_01 35:38

So I have I have an issue with the uh Brady Kachuk trade, and I would like to get your guys' input. Go ahead. What do you got? Why do you not like it? Uh short answer because I'm afraid that the NHL is turning into the NBA. No, I and that's what I knew you were gonna say that. Listen, you're hold on, hold on, hold on.

SPEAKER_00 36:00

Let me get my partner go ahead.

SPEAKER_01 36:01

Um, I have an issue with top-tier superstars are using contracts and leverage to form super teams and dictate exactly where they play. And for example, the Kachuk family have successfully strong armed two separate Canadian franchises into trading captains to the exact same city so they could play together.

SPEAKER_00 36:22

Dude, it it it happened five, six years apart. It's not it's not that. It's really not that.

SPEAKER_01 36:31

I mean, I don't say what you want, but yeah, this is a dangerous precedent to set, if you ask me.

SPEAKER_02 36:39

The other thing that a lot of people are talking about is because it's all these people are being wanting to get traded out of Canada. And that is US teams, yeah. And it's a lot of the US born players that want to get out of Canada and go to a US team because they're unhappy with the Canadian atmosphere and the way that they run things.

SPEAKER_00 37:03

Yep, media, everything. I I've said it for years. I if I had made it that far, I wouldn't. There's guys, I I would never, and yeah, I would never say you can't say this publicly if you're assigned player on when on a team, but there's a reason, guys. Dude, nobody wants to play in Toronto. I mean, they do, but they don't. It's I would not play in Toronto, I wouldn't play in Montreal. It's like they're fun places to go to, play in, great, playoff atmosphere is legit. Vancouver? No.

SPEAKER_03 37:42

It doesn't seem like people don't want to play in Buffalo either now.

SPEAKER_00 37:46

It's it's a question, Brandon. It you got two all-stars that are gone.

SPEAKER_02 37:55

Yeah. And why do they want to leave?

SPEAKER_00 38:01

They're both big losses. I don't care what anybody says, it those are massive losses. Huge. And Alex Duck is from Buffalo. That's his home.

SPEAKER_01 38:15

Oh, I didn't know that.

SPEAKER_00 38:17

Yep. Yep. So I it's a big question mark in Buffalo, are they gonna fall apart?

unknown 38:28

I'm not Doctor.

SPEAKER_00 38:32

Again, I know Byrum had an issue with the booing while they're in the playoffs at home. It was like, yeah, I it some of the stuff that that fan base did in this playoffs was just oh, and I love the fan base. It's like, and it sucks to say it, but scumbag move booing the team like that. That's you're you're right.

SPEAKER_02 38:55

I just found something about the avalanche trade.

SPEAKER_00 38:57

Yeah, the drewery. It was just buried. I couldn't, I couldn't even find it there for a while.

SPEAKER_03 39:04

But have you ever experienced any of that Buffalo stuff yourself?

SPEAKER_00 39:09

No, I no. What do you mean?

SPEAKER_03 39:12

Just uh bad fan base behavior or performance.

SPEAKER_00 39:16

No, and I've never I've never seen it, but I did see uh the experience in the at the playoff, a couple playoff games, I did see that their fan base really isn't used to playoff hockey. People complaining about borderline penalties. You guys, this is playoff hockey, the whistles go in the pockets. Um, I one fan is screaming when it was in overtime. There's they're not supposed to be cleaning the ice. I had to literally lean forward and say, buddy, that's it's 10 minutes. First whistle at 10 minutes or past, they stop and they clean the ice. Like this is this is basic playoff shit, man. He's like, no, no, broke! And even my wife, my wife is looking at me like, why are they complaining about that? That wasn't even hardly anything. And I'm like, they don't know that it's normal for playoff hockey. It's been so long. It's been so long, yeah. Yeah, and so I I saw that a lot. Um it it's just I don't know. I don't know, but no, it violence or just that that's the worst I've ever seen, Brandon. I mean, I've you know, yeah. So otherwise, it's just a it's a fun fan base, they have a great time. It's cool. Outside the arena's amazing atmosphere, pre-game. Uh Buffalo Bills, the the tailcape parties, uh, need I say more or amazing. So, but anyway, I I just know that I've I heard rumblings that that was an issue with with Bayer. He's like, dude, just now get me out of here. So um, it's great for Chicago, it's great for the Blackhawks. It's great for the Black Hawks. So um also Calgary. Calgary with that Simone Nemick up uh acquiring him. That's huge. That is a huge move for Calgary. So I like that one. Um, Jordan Cairo is also so you got Jordan Cairo and Alex Tuck going to the caps. Caps got way better and Ottawa. They've dude, they've got two, a couple of great young players. They've got Tim Stutzel still, they just acquired uh um William Eklund, Eckie from the Sharks. Um, the Sharks also traded a great player, Fabian Zetterlin. So it's like, and Zetterlin and uh Eklund are really excited to get to play together again. So I think it's uh a good moves. I mean, Ottawa's gonna be fine. So anyway, very interesting so much. Um, yours truly will be at the draft on Friday. I will do some live stuff there, and uh yeah, I think it's I think it's gonna be really, really interesting. And it's not over yet. Friday's not here. Like Brandon said, yes, they uh the sharks are getting a lot of calls for two. Um, the only one I think I I would I don't know. Here's the thing. Think about this now. Okay, San Jose's forward pool is ridiculous, right? It is absolutely absurd. The first line, you've got three guys, all of which are probably gonna have 80 or more points next year, with Igor Chernesov officially being a rookie, Macklin celebrating Will Smith. Line two, you've got Michael Misa at center, you've got Colin Graff. Imagine adding a guy like Ivar Stenberg. I that's he's probably gonna win the Calder. I don't think it's gonna be Gavin McKenna. Um, it's funny that a lot of people think Ivar Stenberg is the best player in the draft and the most ready for the NHL. Now, what I said about San Jose and Chase Reed, if San Jose waits for nine, and this is why I think there's a high possibility that they don't move nine, is because they still want that high-end defenseman. The problem is you don't take Chase Reed at two, you wait till nine, all your tier one defenders are gone. All your tier one, just about NHL ready defensemen, are gone. You're gonna have to settle for like a Verhoff. And Verhoff is years away from NHL ready. He remember, he was originally the number one defenseman in in prospect going into this college season. All he proved is that he needs skating work, he needs stick handling. And puck movement work, and his shot isn't even AHL ready. So you're looking at a player like that, and I want to say actually, San Jose was looking. Um, I'll tell you right now, there was another player, and everybody's acting like, oh, this guy's NHL ready. He just got done playing in the QMJHL. What are we talking about? It's not even WHL or OHL. It's a great junior league. Not ready to go to the NHL.

SPEAKER_02 44:35

All the mock drafts I'm seeing right now is still show San Jose taking Ivar. That's what everybody's predicting, anyway.

SPEAKER_00 44:42

That's no, that's what I mean. That's the new thing, because it was Chase Reed before.

SPEAKER_02 44:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 44:49

But now that they have to be. Now that they have nine, it's like, oh shit, what whoa. Okay. Now San Jose is gonna take. So here's the thing. If but if Mike Rear moves nine and it's a forward, it's gonna be Chase Reed. Um, yeah, Caleb Mohaltra, and then the Sabres getting Chase Reed. But like Chase Reed isn't going to the NHL next year, he's going to Michigan State University. Um, that was the other one. Albert.

SPEAKER_02 45:28

So he'll be a couple years before he's in.

SPEAKER_00 45:31

Right. And then you got Carson Carells. Um, I think he's NHL ready. And then you yeah, then you're getting into tier two prospects for defense, and that's Keaton Verhoff. Some are thinking that Seattle will take him. Um, and then the Sharks. This is the guy, is Daxon Rudolph.

SPEAKER_02 45:54

Yeah, I just saw him about he's about on about three or five of them.

SPEAKER_00 45:58

So Daxon Rudolph is um, he's been playing in the WHL, so he might be close to NHL ready. You know, if if it's Daxon Rudolph, that's a tier one guy. So maybe Keaton Keaton Rurf. Verhoff, yeah. He's best defenseman in college hockey. But he's not NHL ready. Like I said, he needs skating work, he needs some puck movement work and shot work. And granted, he's going to be great. He's gonna be an all-star, I think, one day, but I don't I think he's a season or two maybe from being making a real impact. But yeah, if if it's Daxon Rudolph, Daxon Rudolph, I was watching a lot of highlights, is yeah, that and that's why if San Jose, I think they might hold on to nine because they'll get what something is the best offensive NHL ready player in the draft at Ivar Stenberg, and then also get a guy like Daxon Rudolph, and then it's like, what do you do with 27? I don't know, let's just draft somebody else. It's like best player available, so I don't know. Now, does anybody here think that there's gonna be another trade?

SPEAKER_02 47:23

I do, but I don't think it's gonna involve the top 10 anymore. Okay, I think that's pretty much set as up until the draft comes.

SPEAKER_00 47:31

Yeah, I agree. It I I think if I'm predicting, I think it's done as far as the top 10 goes. All right, I mean there I I think there'll be picks, but it won't be top ten.

SPEAKER_02 47:42

Like in the last couple have in.

SPEAKER_00 47:45

Right. Yeah. Nick, what do you think, buddy?

SPEAKER_01 47:52

I don't think Dylan Lark can get you a top 10 draft pick. I think that he I think his draft, I think his trade comes before the draft. Uh he's not he I think he says now he wants to go to the stars because of the Kachuk trade. He wanted to go to Florida, but now he wants to go play in Dallas.

SPEAKER_00 48:09

Um, but they might, yeah, if they have the cap room, then they can do it. But you know, if it's a trade, it's different.

SPEAKER_01 48:16

I get that. No, but I think it's I think I think it's gonna calm down before Friday, and then we'll see how everything pans out afterwards.

SPEAKER_00 48:23

I got one more interesting piece of news. Go ahead, Brandon. What do you think?

SPEAKER_03 48:28

Yeah, I think I think there's gotta be one more trade that shakes things up. What it is, I have no idea because I didn't predict any of these so far.

SPEAKER_00 48:37

Nobody predicted this, Brandon. I like buddy, I didn't see any of this happening. Like, this has been crazy.

SPEAKER_03 48:45

But one thing we haven't touched on that I'm curious to watch is just to see what St. Louis does because they got four picks in the first round.

SPEAKER_00 48:53

Yeah, that's gonna be interesting. St. Louis does have a lot of capital, but not a single one of them are in the top are in the top 10.

SPEAKER_03 49:02

No, I mean they're 11 and then yep.

SPEAKER_00 49:05

I mean, 11 is pretty close.

SPEAKER_03 49:08

15, then 16. I mean, still could be some interesting picks.

SPEAKER_00 49:11

15 and 16. I mean, it's yeah, it's crazy. St. Louis has a lot of capital because here's Brandon brings up a good point. They could package a bunch of these for somebody ridiculous. I mean, they're clearly decided to rebuild, getting rid of Jordan Cairo is yeah, so um, one other thing, real quick, because somebody brought up Dallas. Just a heads up Jason Robertson turned down an eight-year $12 million a year deal. Turned it down, said no, I want 14. He wants 14? Yeah, because Leon Dreisido got 14. So now he's like, I, you know, it's like, dude, shut the fuck up. But it's like, all right, maybe he wants to land somewhere at 13. It's like he's he's he's good. Give it to him. I don't know. But anyway, just thought I'd bring that last little one up. So um, don't have anything for Ladies' Corner this week, uh, as NHL just kind of took over the whole episode here. So we will uh we're gonna move into our top five this week, and that is top five greatest performances in US Open history. Every time I hear that sound, I'm like, oh god, here we go again. Um so with that said, top five. Is everybody ready? Yes, yeah. Steve. Steve, you didn't sound too uh too confident there.

SPEAKER_02 50:49

Well, yeah, I mean, golf's not my uh top sport, but too hard for you. I I did it, I did the best I could. So um I put number five actually as Clark Windham as number five, but not this most recent one, his 2023 performance at the US Open? Yes, again. Um, I mean uh I watched some highlights of him going up against uh uh McElroy on that one, and they were fighting he had almost one of the best performances overall in the US Open, and Roy was only one stroke away from what um Clark did.

SPEAKER_00 51:26

So it the funny thing, like it's yeah, I can't state this enough, okay, is that golf is always even in like lower end tournaments, like I play in a pro am. It's like even then, it's like it with when these guys have a couple hundred thousand people following them around and just the pressure is insane. Like, I can't imagine, and it's like they're literally lining the fairways, like, yeah, don't don't don't put one out of bounds, but it's just it's incredible, in my in my opinion. So um anyway, so yeah, right on. Nick, what's your number five, buddy?

SPEAKER_01 52:08

Number five, gonna go with Johnny Miller from 1973 when he won at Oakmont. Um, he was entering the final round, six shots off the lead. Miller went out and shot a mind-boggling eight under, that's 63 at Oakmont, traditionally considered one of the most brutal courses on earth. It is and he hit all 18 greens in regulation. Remains widely widely regarded as one of the greatest single rounds of golf ever played, vaulting him to the trophy.

SPEAKER_00 52:36

That's that's also my number five. I'm just gonna add something to it, but yeah, go ahead, Brandon, the stuffed trainer.

SPEAKER_03 52:43

My number five is Bryson DeCambo in 24, who beat uh McIlroy at the end there with probably one of the best bunker shots of all time.

SPEAKER_00 52:55

Yeah, yeah, I remember watching that. Yep, that's a good one. Um, I'll add just real quick on to Nick's number five. Uh, listen, Oakmont, it got my top, it got into my top five because it's Oakmont. Oakmont, if we watched just a couple of years ago, uh, not this year, but the year before, it was 25. The balls were going into the rough and they disappear there, you guys. It's like I can't state it enough. It's it's just so crazy watching these guys who have plus six and seven handicaps struggle just to get it out. There's a thing that I was talking about, like right now, I'm a 4.6 handicap according to my USGA uh gin number. And for a four-six is pretty good, it's regarded as you know, a high, a very, very good handicap. Okay, it's a thing, like if you're up below 10 handicap or even a plus one or plus two, which means on average you shoot under par, ridiculously good. They say, Can you break a hundred at Oakmont? It's a thing, and I'm like, I just want to play there once to see if I can break a hundred. My average scores are anywhere from 75 to 82 in a round. That's what I play, and so it's like to say, can I break a hundred is kind of I I haven't gotten I can count on one hand in the last several years where I've where I haven't been able to break 90. So I had a couple of bad rounds here and there. It just looks insane, anyway. Johnny Miller, what he did there is just that's why they're pro golfers, it's insanely good. So, anyway, moving on. Sorry, Steve, what is your number four, my man?

SPEAKER_02 54:40

All right, well, I can't I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one that has, but the uh Pebble Beach 2000 Tiger Woods. Yep, that's crazy. Uh, I actually that's actually one of the very few tournaments, the 2000 that I actually did watch that I have watched in in my life, and that I remember that, and of course, it's one of the main ones talked about shooting 12 under.

SPEAKER_00 55:01

So it's just uh also a public course still to this day. $700 green fees, but it's still public. 700. That's why it's so nice, is because the green fees are that much. It's not it's expensive to maintain a golf course, anyway. Good one, Nick. Number four.

SPEAKER_01 55:23

Number four, going old school again, 1960s at Cherry Hills, Arnold Palmer. Arnie. Let's go. The performance was um, it's the ultimate Arnie's Army moment. Palmer trailed by seven strokes entering the final round on Sunday. Yep. He uh he drove the green on a par four on the first hole on Sunday, birdied six out of the first seven holes, and shot a 65 to stage the greatest first round comeback in U.S. Open history.

SPEAKER_00 55:52

Awesome. Great number four. Brandon, the stuff. What is it?

SPEAKER_03 55:56

Number four, I got Tom Watson in 1982. Nicholas on his last two holes there with a chipping birdie on 17 and a birdie on 18.

SPEAKER_00 56:13

Awesome. That's a great one. Yep, great tournament. Um, real quick, my number four is also Tiger Woods at Pebble Beach in 2000. Um, it I've got the I had the pleasure, I've played it twice, and it the wind at that course is it's just absurd. It's stupid. You're on the coast, yeah. It it and you are the beautiful, like whole eight is ridiculous. It's like you're on the cliffs, but it's like Tiger made that in 2000 look like an absolute, like it was like we're like I'm playing putt-putt at fucking like he's acting, he's walking out there casually, just you know, it just his I yes, I think he's the greatest golfer of all time. I mean, I and it's like Scotty Scheffler's getting to be there with him, but Tiger Woods dominance I don't think will ever be replicated, man. I just don't, and that was during that time where it was like he just was beating everybody. Yeah, he beat Ernie Ells by 15 strokes in that US Open, by the way. Yeah. Imagine being a pro golfer and being like, I'm not gonna win. So, anyway, all right, moving on, Steve. What is your number three?

SPEAKER_02 57:28

My number three was the same as Nick's over there, the Arnold Palmer. It's a great one. Not really much, no, uh, not much more to say about that one.

SPEAKER_00 57:37

Great.

SPEAKER_01 57:38

Nick, number three. Number three, 1980, Jack Nicholas at Balt Baltis Roll. I don't know how to say that right. Um, I don't know either, but uh he was Jack Nicholas was 40 years old, and critics thought that the golden bear was past his prime. Nicholas responded by opening with a record tying 1963 and never looked back. He fought off a relentless attacks from Ioki in a thrilling Sunday duel, setting a then tournament record total score for the three-day tournament of 272-2 under par to capture his fourth U.S. Open title.

SPEAKER_00 58:14

Awesome. Brandon, number three. Excuse me. Sorry.

SPEAKER_03 58:19

My number three was Johnny Miller, and the only thing I'll add on to that was that he's actually the first golfer to shoot a 63 in any major tournament.

SPEAKER_00 58:30

Oh, there you go. I yeah, that's awesome. My number three was Tom Watson 82. We already talked about it. Um again, just a great shot at that one point. It it just, yeah, that was a great the the highlights of that I watched were were phenomenal. Tom Watson really was a phenomenal golfer. So anyway, Steve, what do you got at number two, buddy?

SPEAKER_02 58:53

Uh number two actually is a this is for the women's U.S. Open. Okay. Nelly Corda. Okay. Lowest single 18 score of 62 at the uh Shine Shine Cock Hills in the Southamptons.

SPEAKER_00 59:09

John Cook, that's where that's where the golf, that's where this year's US Open men's U.S. Open was, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 59:14

62.

SPEAKER_00 59:15

That's uh and that's crazy. That's a difficult golf course. 62. I like Jesus, man. What was she? What was she eating for breakfast? Wheaties. My I think I think Ashley's got the swing to go pro. I think we're gonna make her a pro golfer. I think we're gonna get her there. So Nick, what's your number two, buddy?

SPEAKER_01 59:37

Uh, number two, I'm going with Tiger Woods, but I'm going with 2008 Tory Pines Tiger Woods. Yep. Um, pure unadulterated grit. Tiger won uh the championship on a grueling 19-hole Monday playoff. Okay, um, and it was later revealed that Tiger won the tournament playing on a broken leg, a fractured tibia, and a torn ACL. Yeah, no big deal. No, because you you're walking for four days because he had to go to a playoff.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:07

Yep.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:07

Crazy stuff.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:10

What do you got? Number two. My number two was going way back to 1950 with Ben Hogan.

unknown 1:00:18

Yes.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:19

Love it. It was this comeback tournament because he had survived a near fatal car crash. So I think this was like his seventh tournament after that. He ended up winning it and uh one ended up winning it in a playoff by four shots. Sweet.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:37

Awesome. My number two was Johnny Miller, 1973. Uh again, I think we we talked about Oakmont, and that's why it was so high on my list. For for him to do that at Oakmont was is just crazy and absurd. Um, and that was old Oakmont. Like, if you look at the progression of Oakmont, when he won it, there was trees and other shit. Now it's wide open. You should see the the progression and the difference like 50 years has made. So, anyway, that's why I got Johnny Miller at two. We already talked about that one. Steve, what do you got at number one, my man?

SPEAKER_02 1:01:14

I gotta go with Roy McElroy from 2011. Lowest score ever recorded in U.S. open history of 268 strokes.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:22

Yeah, I think he shot, didn't he have a 59 in there or something? I think, but yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:27

16 under par was his average.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:29

Yeah, that's crazy. Nick, number one, buddy.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:34

It's already been said, but I'm gonna I just have something to add. Uh 2000 Tiger Woods. Um, it was ultimate. He finished 12 under par, like we said. Um, and that he won by 15 strokes, breaking the 138-year-old major championship record. He didn't record a single three putt all week. And as someone who's a horrible golfer, that's hard to say.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:57

Listen, I again I have a low handicap, and I it's like I have days, I had a day in a tournament where I was playing phenomenal golf, had eagle putts, I was on in two and a couple par fives, and I would I was my putting was dog shit. If you can't putt at an elite level, you're not gonna win. So for him to be able to do that at that difficult golf course is crazy, dude. So great number one. Brandon, the stuff. What do you got?

SPEAKER_03 1:02:23

My number one was 2008 Targa Woods just because of what he did with his injuries. I mean, if I stuck my toe on a golf course, I'm going to the 19th bowl.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:34

That's great. I do want to say, listen, I played in a tournament last week and I've got a fractured big toe. So I I I gutted through it, boys. You were my six. You were my six. Definitely my torn. What's that? I had you as my number six on my list. Oh, okay, thank you. But uh torn ACL, a fractured tibia, like, and I the tibia is the big bone, dude. It's not the little fibula in the back. It's like, dude, you're talking about a lot of pressure, and the way he swings and his rate, it's just what he did, that's why it was number number one. It any of these could have really been number one. So it's like, yeah, I I'm with Brandon on this one.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:16

Just the amount of pain that he must have been in during that.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:18

Uh I I don't know because Tory Pines isn't like super flat. And like, if it man, I know just with the I've I've torn partially torn my MCL a couple times on my right knee, and it's like with an ACL, there's just no support. And it's like, if you just if I would tweak the knee the wrong way, it's like, man, that's like some devastating pain.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:40

Like, it's like shit that sucks.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:44

If you try to walk on it, ACL, that's your biggest ligament in your knee. So there's like just no, you know, it's just like the littlest thing, and you're like the kink, there's nothing holding that. So it's dude, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:59

Sorry. And then they have the fracture on top of it, it's and that a fracture on top of it.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:02

Yeah, no big deal. Take a fracture too while you're at it.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:06

That's amazing. It can maintain a stance like that.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:09

That's yeah, like the whole stance, like Brandon just said all weekend, but like Brandon brings up the a really interesting point. When you're your backswing, when you're forward swing, the first move that your body makes is your hips are starting to rotate forward, your hands drop as you come in through that zone. But it's like that torque, dude. Your legs are barely bent, and when you're coming up, they're straight. It just dude, well, just hats off, Tiger. Yeah, you're the goat, buddy. So, anyway, with that said, we're gonna close out this episode with final thoughts, Steve.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:49

Oh, get out there and watch the uh World Cup. We're almost uh getting ready to go to the tournament round. USA all the way, baby. Nick, final thoughts. Yeah, baby.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:59

I just want to bring everyone's attention to the fact that Caillou was traded from the Blues to the Capitals and Tuck from the Sabres. Are we gonna get a 22nd year with OV? He has not retired yet. There's no way he doesn't come back.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:14

That's a good question. Good final thought. Brandon, the stuff trainer. What do you got?

SPEAKER_03 1:05:19

Just looking for today. W for Ben and Door this weekend. Got uh Zach Saber Jr. uh wrestling taking out Kenny Omega for first time in the United States. It's a dream match I've always wanted to see. Right on.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:36

Enjoy, buddy. Um, and again, for me, it's just uh get out there and golf, enjoy the game, um, watch the draft, and uh yeah, I think it's gonna be uh I think it's gonna be exciting. Um, I like it, Nick. I like the final thought. I I would say I think Obi's I think Obi comes back for one more. Especially getting those two players. Yeah, you got to. I think you have to, or maybe two. Maybe he's going for a thousand goals. Who the hell knows? I think it gets like Gretzky said. Gretzky said he knew it was time when guys while playing in a regular season game would be coming up behind him and be like, Gretz, come on ya, I'm on you, Gretz. Wayne, Wayne, Wayne, Wayne, watch out, watch out. I'm coming in hot. I'm gonna hit you. Gretzky said it was time to go. Yeah. I'm just warned by the opponent that I'm about to get hit. It's time to hang up the skates. Like, ah, that was it for me. So, anyway, great week, everybody. Great episode. We appreciate it. Don't forget to like, follow, and subscribe. We are on all platforms iHeartRadio, Apple, Android, and several others. We are also on YouTube. Go find us at Full Strength Podcast on YouTube. We appreciate all the follows and all the support and all the comments. Also, find us on TikTok. We're almost at a thousand followers and a hundred thousand total likes. Thank you for the support there. We greatly appreciate it. Thanks, everybody. Have a great week. We'll see you next week. Hope everybody's happy and healthy. Cheers. Night, no trash pandas.