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Today's guest, winner of the Players Championship, Cameron Young. ESPN College Basketball Analyst, Jay Billis. ESPN NFL Draft Analyst, Matt Miller. And now, it's Rich Eisen. That's right, everybody.
Welcome to this edition of the Rich Eisen Show right here on Disney Plus, the ESPN app, ESPN Radio Series XM, Channel 80, 844204. Rich is the number to dial on the program, March Madness, Golf. The NFL draft on the brain. We had a big NFL trade happen about a half an hour ago. We're going to talk about it all again, also with you.
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That's right. You're wearing green. I am not. I'm just kind of realizing that. Good to see you over there, Jason Fedder.
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Just came in. I don't understand. Today's supposed to be. If you're wearing a logo-less hat, like that's something Del Tufo would wear. That's not, no, no, that's not.
He would wear hat. Actually, it's the opposite. That's something like Rob Lowe would wear. Good to see you over there, TJ Jefferson. What's going on?
What do you have? You have the electric candle from the combo? Yesterday, the wick burned out, so we got to turn this candle on. And I, too, am ripping. For St.
Patty's Day by repping Ireland's greatest warrior, Becky Lynch, the man. Ah, very good.
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Well done. Thank you, sir. Greatly appreciate everybody's on brand today. They're always listening. What was that?
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Okay, very good. What is that from? I have Austin Power. Right, right, right.
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Sorry, Rich, Isaac. That's all right. I was just getting ready to turn to the big news here. You know, obviously, World Baseball Classic. We've got Team USA versus Team Venezuela tonight.
What a game that was between Venezuela and Italy last night. And we'll discuss it on this program. We were going to kind of lead with that, but. We have a trade in the NFL. Listen, there's been a lot of folks in the Rocky Mountains area.
uh wondering what their Denver Broncos have been up to. Um again. The Denver Broncos back in the day made the biggest maneuver. um in recent memory. Right around this time.
By telling Russell Wilson, doesn't matter how much it's going to cost on our salary cap. You, sir, are no longer on the team, and we are going to rack up the biggest dead cap. in history. And what wound up happening is somehow, someway, they became spenders in free agency and also made some smart draft moves to try and turn their roster over as soon as they made that move, Bo Nix being the first big piece that they added. in the draft after making that move.
And um They then began to have less of a free agency frenzy. One would think maybe because they didn't have the cap space for it, what have you, but they didn't add too many pieces. in subsequent free agencies, including this year. Entering today's Activity. when we didn't really expect it.
The only team in free agency to not sign an outside. Free agent. They took care of a lot of their own. They re-signed. or tendered seventeen of their own free agents.
I mean, Alex Singleton, their lion-hearted defender in the middle of their terrific defense. basically said after losing to the Patriots in the snow AFC Championship game. Let's just run it back. And apparently that was the Idea of the Patons. George.
and Sean, their general manager and coach. Not a single outside free agent added.
Well, they added an outside player today. And interestingly enough, What they did was make a deal with the team. that looked at their dead cap, Their record-setting dead cap of Russell Wilson and said, guess what? There's a beer to be held. And we're holding it.
Cause we just deadcapped two. To the tune of ninety nine million bucks in change. Ninety nine prompts. And we are still being aggressive by going out and getting our quarterback of the future, not in the draft, but in free agency and Malik Willis. And it looks like, in a way, they're running The Broncos' game plan on how to dead cap a quarterback you don't want anymore.
and still try and be aggressive to change things around. Albeit. Denver didn't seemingly burn everything else down to the ground. Because, as you know, Miami in dead capping tour and signing. Malik Willis told Bradley Chubb also we're done here.
And now The Broncos and the Dolphins have made a trade. And the Broncos have indeed added an outside player, and it is Jalen Waddle. Wow. The star wide out of Miami for the last five years. It's hooked up with Tyreek Hill famously.
for many of those years, And it is for a first round draft choice and a third round draft choice and a pick swap of fourth round picks this year that gives Denver a higher selection in the fourth round. They're going to take the Dolphins' 11th overall pick of that fourth round. And the Dolphins then take the Broncos' 30th overall pick of that round.
So the Broncos improve their draft standing in the fourth round. but give up their first and third round selections, meaning Talk about standing pat. The Dolphins, the Broncos' first selection in this upcoming draft. Smoke them if you got them, Denver fans. Right now, the Broncos are not slated to select until the 62nd overall pick.
The thirtieth pick of the night on Night Two Friday. And then they don't have one in the third round. And then the next time they choose is going to be late. In the first round of, well, pardon me, they're going to be choosing 11th overall on day three of the draft. They've got.
No first night picks. They've got one second night pick, but late in the third round. And then they've got A fourth round selection. towards the top. And that's the way they're going to supplement a team that they clearly are going to run it back with.
And the Dolphins Now Have a wide receiver room that is definitely up for grabs. We'll talk about that in a second, but what Denver has done. is looked at Bo Nicks and said, okay, kid. come back from that ankle injury. You're in year three after having made the playoffs the first two years.
This is essentially The last year we have before you're going to turn to us and say, pay me that money.
Okay.
Pay that man. And we are going to go to battle. With two wide receivers in the top twenty-five of receiving yards last season. With Cortland Sutton being 13th in the league in receiving yards, and Waddle being 25th in the league. In the league in receiving yards.
The only other teams with two players in the top 25 in that regard last year were Philadelphia. with Smith and Brown, Detroit with Amon Ra. And Williams And Atlanta with London and Pitts. And that's it. And I don't remember the last time Denver had a receiving core.
that had that type of production, in just two guys And Sutton is your six foot four. Beast. and Waddle is your five foot tenth speed burner. And they re-signed one of the 17 guys that they kept is J.K. Dobbins coming back from a knee injury.
R.J. Harvey in year two is clearly going to be. utilized more by Sean Payton this year. And off they go. Into that.
Orange crust yonder In 2026, you're defending AFC West champion defending one seed in the AFC playoffs, Denver Broncos essentially running it back, but adding a massive piece. that they figured they couldn't get with the thirtieth overall pick this year. And they're ready to do it. With Bo Nicks right now. while they still have him on his rookie deal.
And that is a calculated decision that right now To me, I feel is pretty damn smart. And you know With your Second round selection sitting there at 62nd overall. Again, that's going to be their night one, their night two pick. With that 60-second overall selection. I don't know what they're going to do.
I imagine the best offensive player that you can continue to add for Bo Knicks because that defensive side of the ball appears to be. Pretty damn well handled. I kinda dig it. It's aggressive. It's just the way, like, Sean Payton operates.
It's time. It's time to push the pedal to the metal while Bonix is still affordable. in a way that he's affordable. As for the Dolphins, boy, are they burning this thing down to the studs? They've kept Devin Each hand.
For now.
Well, I mean, no, you hold on to him. Yeah, I don't think that's a kid you hold on to. Really? Unfortunately, for him, I don't think he's thought Jalen Waddell was a kid you hold on to. No, I get it, but I don't, I think A-chance stays.
And Malik Willis is going to have to be evaluated. with one would think A very green wide receiver room. I don't know. Who Is out there off the top of my head at the wide receiver position. That's a veteran that can be added.
Juwan Jennings, Stefan Diggs, Debo Samuel, those are kind of the three biggest free. That might be. I don't know how much money they've got for that sort of thing. Because right now, you look at the Miami Dolphins' receiver room, they just added 2-2 Atwell. They've got Malik Washington, Jalen Tolbert, Tutu Atwell, Taj Washington, just to name four of them.
But I think they're going to run it. That's what Jeff Hafley normally would think a defensive-minded head coach is going to want. And they're just going to start from scratch and build it up. And keep on Um From there. And like I said yesterday when I was talking about the Dolphins.
And the day before that, and the day before that, I really think it's a smart move to go with Malik Willis. They know him. They trust him? And if you are a new general manager and head coach, this is the time you. Look at the roster, and you do drastic things or seemingly drastic things, and remake and reshape.
This Franchise and this roster, and Dolphins fans have got to sit here and go back and forth between. Man, what are we doing? And all right. Nothing's worked for damn near thirty years, so we might as well trust. The brain trust.
that they entrusted partially to Troy Aikman to identify. This is better than What the Dolphins have attempted over the last few years with people that I think Dolphins fans feel a little bit more comfortable making these maneuvers. You gotta trust it. And what do they hope that? We'll talk to Matt Miller in hour number three, draft expert.
Well, they hope Carnell Tate drops to 11th overall. Because if he does, that card will be handed in in two seconds flat. Exactly. Right. That card will be handed in.
In a hurry, unless they want to move up. You know, they just got a new third rounder. Yeah, they have 11 picks in this draft.
So they have the ability to maybe move up a few spots in that first round if you want. To put them together and get Carnell Tate, or you just saw a bunch of wide receivers at the combine and you're like, We'll take one of them. We'll take somebody. Who might be the second or the third wide receiver off the board? 11th overall.
Yeah, Michael. Yeah. I mean, there are some people out there that you could. take away from the combine and say You know, will woods last to that spot? If you're talking about all the Ohio State guys, Fernando Mendoza, Jeremiah Love.
A couple of uh offensive linemen go off the board. You can have some Wide receivers pushed down to 11. Yeah, I think there's still a chance that Carnell Tate does fall in into that slot, but You know, you'd be feel a little bit better about it if you trade up to eight, say, and grab him. You know, ahead of Kansas City, because that's been a rumor there as well.
Well, the last time the Dolphins had multiple first-round draft choices was 2020 when they drafted Tua. They drafted Austin Jackson and then the defensive back, Noah Igbanogani, who is now. On his third team, he just signed. with The defending Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks. Jackson is the only.
player remaining on the Dolphins.
So That's the way we start the day with the Denver Broncos being extremely aggressive. They basically said, We like the roster that we have. We are keeping our guys and we are running it back. We're going to sit on our hands when everybody spends damn near half a trillion dollars in free agency, it feels. and they're gonna sit on their hands and they're gonna make sure that they keep the guys that they like and then they're going to Boom.
Trade for the guy that they couldn't get at the trade deadline last year. Apparently in Jalen Waddell, the and add him to this wide receiver room in Bonix's last year of being A rookie contract affordable quarterback. And run it back and say, this is the team that damn near won it last year. If Nix's ankle didn't snap, we would have had a shot at it. And then the Dolphins are like...
We're starting from scratch. We got a new coach, a new general manager, a new way of looking at things, and we are blowing things out. With the exception of A-chan, it seems on offense. and build it up from there. Through the draft.
and see what we can do. With our new quarterback. 844-204-Rich, number to dial. What are your thoughts on the big NB on the big NFL trade. We've got Cameron Young is going to be joining us on this program.
And then Jay Billis will be here on the Rich Eisen show as well. 844-204. Rich is the number to dial. Man, fresh off the Players Championship, everybody. Cameron Young here on the program.
Don't you dare move. The Rich Eisen Show Podcast. Back here on The Rich Eisen Show. This man just won the Players' Championship. Thrill to have here after that big-time win in the de facto fifth major.
Ladies and gentlemen, Cameron Young here on The Rich Eisen Show. Good to see you, Cameron. How are you, bud? I'm doing great. Thanks for having me on.
Oh, you're doing great. I can confirm that. Yeah. Uh before we jump into your lane, uh are you a football fan? NFL fan?
Tell me? Man, I'm not the best sports fan, to be honest. I was a Giants fan growing up, but. Yeah, other things have kind of taken priority over the last Giants fan. Because where are you from?
How are you a Giants fan? Over in Westchester, New York.
Okay.
Yeah, all right.
So, no, no Yankees, no Mats, not really, not anymore. Yeah, no, Yankees fan for sure, New York Rangers fan, uh, kind of your classic. You're through three there, but Yeah, we've got little kids in the house. The TV doesn't go on much, so unfortunately, I don't get to follow as much as I would like to. How old are your kids?
One, three, and four. Oh, baby. Oh my goodness gracious. That's quite a way to start the day. One, three, and four.
Unbelievable.
Well, and I do notice, obviously, the Major League Baseball logo on your collar. Is it true that? Part of that is because your dad. Uh, knows the commissioner of baseball, Rob Manford. Cameron?
Yes, yes, Mr. Manford was a member at Sleepy Hollow in New York, where my father was a head pro for over 20 years.
So they've been friendly for a long time and Uh, he was really one of my first couple sponsors. Uh, right out of the gates, he asked if I would wear the logo. And uh, given that I had no status anywhere at all and uh, really no money to my name, I said, absolutely, sir, whatever you'd like to do. And uh, they've stuck around, and it's been a great relationship for the past, I mean, I think seven years now. Wow, that's pretty cool.
And is that uh, let's put that shot back up one more time. Is that your four-year-old coming out at your yeah, that's my oldest, Henry? That's my four-year-old. What's this moment like for you? It's pretty cool.
I mean, it's it's one of those times that Life is very real. I mean, and looking back at some of those pictures, I can't help but almost cry because I know. You know, for me, it's the biggest professional moment of my life. His reaction to that, you know, his face in some of those photos coming to see me is not. Not because of that.
It's just him seeing me at the end of the day and Um so it's it's pretty cool just knowing, you know, that They don't care one way or the other. They're just happy to see me like any other day. You know, that's the most important thing. How does that ground you? It was honestly really a pretty cool moment for me.
And I think it took.
something like that to really almost take some weight off my shoulders. You know, we we spend so much time trying to be good at golf and uh working at it that you know we forget You know what things truly are important sometimes and It was a stark reminder that those little kids do not care one bit that I won. They don't care what it was. They were just happy to see me after a long day. And I think it really, really put it in a good perspective for me.
Cameron Young here on The Rich Eisen Show. Speaking of family, my nephew, Jack Schuster, he's. Uh uh he's got he's a good stick, great stick, as a matter of fact. He he definitely uh whips his uncle uh any time we have the uh uh ab ability to play since we're on opposite coasts. He also has a an Instagram handle about talking about golf quite a bit.
At any rate, I I reached out to him and I said, What should I ask Cameron Young today, even though you know, uh Uncle's got it. I just wanted to. Bring it ah, that's just screw it. I just had my my nephew give me this question.
So this is pretty cool, man. Uh what do you say to yourself walking up to T shots like the ones on 17 and 18? Last week, to get yourself in the frame of mind on a course like TPC Sawgrass. In a tournament like the Players' Championship, Cameron Young, what do you do? Yeah, it's difficult in moments like those.
I mean, like you've said, it's a really intimidating stretch. There's trouble everywhere. There's nowhere to bail out. Um So it it's You know, mostly for me, especially yesterday, I had done such a great job of sticking to my process and trying to focus on my execution and letting go of what happened. That 17 in particular was a continuation of that.
I didn't. I didn't have any really looming thoughts. You know, I had a really clear objective. Matt hit his ball in a really good place for me to kind of aim just right of it.
So, I had a really good visual. And for me, it was just visualizing that shot and executing. And then 18. there's a bit more of a battle there. I mean, I had some trouble there on Saturday and You know, there's some intrusive thoughts of don't do that again, but I stood over it, and it was just one of those moments you say, I've got to hit the best one of my life right here.
Thankfully, I was able to do it. Not to get too deep in the woods here, but how do you visualize? Do you literally see the shape of the ball? Is that what you think? Yeah, some.
There's some amount of like imagining the feel. and picturing a flight. But, yeah, I mean, for me, it starts with the numbers, you know, running through, you know, how much I think the wind's going to help, how far I think it's going to balance, how far it needs to carry. And so it's once I get through all of that, then I go to: okay, this is the feel that I need to create that. And this is then from that feel what it should look like.
And yeah, I mean, that one just came out perfect. It was as good of a number as I could have asked for. Yeah, nice to feel one, you know, come off the club face just how I want to and look up and have it doing what I thought. Yeah, result match the. Matched the execution there, which was really nice.
Man, and so on your T-shot on 18. I mean, you knew you tagged it, right? As soon as you follow through? Right. Um and then you watch where it goes.
Um, who was the one who told you it was three hundred and seventy five yards? Who's that? Yeah. I didn't know exactly. I remember looking in my yardage book and noticing that we weren't that far from the 400-yard run out, which my daddy and I had a good laugh about.
You know, that hole is not one that you ever think, you know, I'm going to have 100 yards to a back pin. I'm used to hitting, you know, at least a nine-iron in there, if not maybe a seven-iron.
So. It's not one that I had in the book as where I thought it would finish, but I did hit it really well, and there was a bunch of wind at our back. With the course firmed up, it just had to be the right shape and it was going to get way down there. Did you think your yardage book was a misprint? At some point?
Like, was this wrong? Like, did I grab the wrong one? Or, like, did that happen? Because 375 is a stupid number. It's a stupid number, Cameron.
Yeah, it was a big one. That was a big one for sure. Yeah, like I said, I mean, just not anywhere I would have imagined being, but. If you'd asked me where I wanted to drop it, I would have said up there somewhere. I wouldn't saw 375, but somewhere in the fairway where I could take a clean shot at the green was all I could ask for there.
Cameron Young here on the Rich Eisen Show. Who'd you speak with after your round? Walk me through that. Yeah, you know, I did kind of all my typical short interview for TV and for some of the writers and Um And really the first moment that I had. You know, after that, I got to see my family, which was great.
I got to see my wife and my three kids. I saw my parents briefly.
So, just to get even three minutes with them where it was just kind of quiet in a room above scoring. It was a pretty special time. I mean, got to got to just give my boys a hug and And see my wife for a minute. And that's, you know, that's kind of the moment that I had. that I had waited for.
Just to take a breath and kind of try to take it in for a minute before going back into the ringer and out onto the green to do a whole bunch of other stuff. But yeah, so I got to see, saw Justin Thomas. He waited around for me after I put it out on 18, which was. Super kind of him. You know, he's he's a great guy and To see his support there was really special.
That's cool.
So I saw him, saw my family, and then I kind of got on with everything else. I mean, your dad, though, walked me through that one. I mean, You know, the only analogy I could make from my relationship with my dad, who's passed. Is if I nailed a French test, you know, like I'd go up to, hey man, I nailed that French test. What's it like to speak to your dad, a golf pro?
of note after winning the players' championship in the manner in which you won it. Cameron. Yeah, it's pretty cool to have him there to share with. I mean, he puts in so many hours on my behalf, both on the course, in practice, away from the course, looking at statistics and trying to do some planning for me. Uh he's an essential part of what I do and Yeah, just for him to have all that work pay off in something um You know, and the biggest professional accomplishment of my life is really cool.
I'm just happy to get to share it with them. Honestly, it's been so busy. We basically hopped in the car and drove home. I haven't really spoken to him much since. And it reminds me, you know, the Wyndham Championship last year where I won kind of the same thing.
You know, I got done with all my stuff at the course, hopped on a plane, went to Memphis. And it really wasn't until the next morning that he kind of stopped me and. I gave him a hug and we talked about it for a minute. But we haven't really even had that moment yet. I'm sure they live about 15 minutes from us down here in Florida.
We'll probably have dinner at some point later this week, and I'm sure we'll get to talking about it then. I get it. When you got one, three, and four, and you got a golf career like the one that you're building, I get it. In the few minutes I have left with you here, what's your favorite hole-in-one story from your Life. Cameron?
Um man, I've Of mine personally, I've only had four. I think my whole in one at the US Open was very cool. And the timing of it was definitely interesting. I had made, I was one of those, I was hanging around the cut line with nine holes to go and made. I think a bogey, a quad, and a bogey.
And so I pretty well shot myself out of it. And then I decided to make a birdie, a hole-in-one. Two more birdies and ended up having to putt to make the cut on the number, and unfortunately missed, which would have made it a way better story. It was a funny time. I mean, there was such a wild swing of emotions and shots.
Some of the worst shots I've ever hit, coupled with one of the best.
So it was just a funny time. I bet. What about someone else's? Anyone? Anyone famous?
Anything that you've been, friends? Man, I'm trying to think about it. High school, college, anything? And put me on the spot, I'd have a hard time coming up with one. The first one I remember seeing was actually my father.
And we didn't see it go in. And it was at Sleepy Hollow on the third hole. And I don't know how old that was, I had to have been maybe 12 or 13. And, you know, I had never seen anything like that before. I'd never witnessed one.
I'd never made one. And uh I just remember him made it. He was very casual, went in. And he told me, I think later that day, he'd made maybe 11 or 12.
So he kind of just moved on and. You know, unceremoniously, but one of the coolest shots I've seen. All right. This photograph that we were showing before. That is so boring.
Look at that. That's just bald. It was a comfortable chair after the end of that day. Dude, where does this photograph go? What do we do with this?
I don't know. Come on now. I don't know. I've got the trophy in a box sitting next to me.
So maybe I'll come unpack it. Come on. Can I see it, please? Oh, I got to unlock it. I got to find the key.
Oh, it's a box box. Oh, it's a box. Did you guys think it was a cardboard box? I thought it was a banker's box. It's serious.
I feel very responsible for that. Oh, here we go.
Okay.
What do you got?
Someone's got the best. Oh, look at that. Look at that beauty. It's like an Oscar. It's like a golf Oscar.
That's like a golf Oscar, man. Yeah, that's pretty cool. It's okay.
So that was in a box.
Now it's out of the box. Camera, real quick. People kind of have maybe an issue with your demeanor on the course. Maybe you're too serious. You're not laughing.
I'm aware of that. Yeah. And that's, you know, it's been a talking point. Does this in any way make you want to loosen up a little bit or show a little bit more personality? Or is this, you know, this is just it for you?
I think it's pretty much just it for me. If the way that I carried myself yesterday led to winning a players' championship. I think it's going to be my goal to be like that. I don't know. It's just one of those things I find that that's the way that I can perform the best.
It's not that I'm unhappy, it's not that I'm miserable, it's not you know that I don't want to be there. It just, it's the way that I've found is most effective for me to play.
So. Um You know, if you meet me in person, I don't think that I'm really that way. You know, I'm a happy guy, I enjoy my job, my family. It just is the way that I have kind of learned to be in order to play my best, and I don't see it changing much. Cameron, you be you, man.
Listen, let me just say this to everybody. I know what you're saying. I don't take it. I know, I know, I know, I get it, I get it, and it's legit to bring up. I love it.
Cameron, the only way I can give the analogy is this: I played Celebrity Wheel of Fortune a few months ago, okay? And Excuse me. No, I know where you're going. Where you're going.
Okay.
I was so locked in.
Okay.
I'm playing against Dwight Howard. All right. I'm playing Candace Parker. That's my face right there.
Okay.
I'm locked in. I am winning money for charity. I am not losing to Hall of Famers on Celebrity Wheel of Fortune and my one shot at buying vowels and spinning the wheel. You get, you know what I'm saying? I don't care about entertaining or being smiley and happy.
I was locked in. Yeah, you're in your process looking for your outcome. Dude, I solve puzzles like you hit 375 yard. T-balls and drives in the 18. You know what I mean?
You and I. Yeah, I see. That was what was important. Yeah, exactly. Other than that, I don't think we have much in common.
Other than we have three children, we have three children. Oh, New Yorkers, that's right. Yeah. But yeah, my golf game. Maybe I need to be less.
Uh, jokey on the golf course myself. Um, before I let you go, man, what are we thinking green jacket here? I don't know if that's the sort of thing that's like fight club. Can you talk about it? Like, what do you think, Cameron?
Yeah, I mean, it certainly can. We we kind of have set um. Augusta has our first benchmark for the year. Everything we've done is to try to prepare for that tournament.
So, you know, I've kind of said it, but my goal was to be in contention as much as I could be before then, just to. you know, maintain a level of comfort in those situations. Um you know, the players having the major field that it does. you know, the importance that that event has in our schedule. I think that's the best prep I could have possibly asked for to You know, succeed under those circumstances and prove to myself again that.
That's something I'm capable of when I feel that way, when I'm nervous, when things feel important. Yeah, I mean, Augusta is certainly on my mind, and I feel like I'm in a better place than ever to play well there. But at the same time, I'm playing Houston next week. And there's a lot of work to be done between now and teeing it up on Thursday at Augusta. My mind is really just on taking each day as it comes and trying to prepare myself to go play a good tournament there.
Cameron, thanks for the time. Congratulations. Enjoy the dad time between now and Houston and after that. Enjoy time with your dad and your folks when you see him for dinner this week. Hopefully, this is the first of many times you come on this program.
I just wanted to say thank you for the time and congratulations on that beautiful trophy that you got there. Thank you very much. I appreciate you having me on. You bet. That's Cameron Young, the winner of the Players Championship, right here on the Rich Eisen Show, everybody.
You know what I mean? I'm locked in. Locked in. He's locked in. I mean, winning $88,000 for St.
Jude's Children's Research Hospital, that's my trophy. Yeah, that's absolutely. You know what I mean? Yeah, where is that on display around? I don't have it.
Okay.
There's no trophy. Got it. Richison is right. Thank you. That's the way it works when there's game shows on the line.
Yeah. Other than that, we got three children. We're from New York. I don't know. I got nothing else.
Beard? You got beard-ish? I wear beards. You got beard. You got beards?
Beard gang? I love Major League Baseball as well. I mean, my dad didn't know the commissioner. I would take it. Imagine if I said, oh, my dad knew Bowie Kyun.
Yeah. I could see your dad and Bowie hanging out. I don't think so. Back in the day. Yeah.
No no. All right, we take a break. That was fun. That's great. That was great.
Cameron Young here on The Rich His and Show. Jay Billis, still to come, and you, 844-204-Rich, number to dial. The Rich Heisen Show, the podcast. Back here on the program. We're still taking in our chat with Cameron Young.
Do that, Cameron Young. What is I mean, chocolate, baby? 375 is just. Can you imagine what that's like? That's why I asked him: who told you that, right?
Yeah. Like, who told you you just hit it 375? And he just like looked down at the artage book And he's Said, oh, I'm a hundred yards away. You're like, you're not supposed to be just a. You know, a wedge flip from the pin.
Not on that hole. Yeah, not on that hole. You're not supposed to be. Dude. Really, on any hole.
375 is ridiculous. But it's just, I just love hearing that, and that's why I'm glad. you know, Jack, my nephew, gave me that idea for the question as well. Because I did hear the sound bite of him saying, I was thinking to myself, I needed a shot of my life, and he did. It's just like, how do it just shows you the mental aspect of.
the individual sports, right? Like golf. This guy is as accomplished as they come and he's sitting there talking about His thought is in his head. that he needs to be positive about. and he visualizes the ball flight.
And he visualizes the feel. My God. Yeah, and to go from 17, one of the most iconic holes in golf, Birdies It to tie the lead with Matt Fitzpatrick, who he was playing with. And you think about that hole being the island hole. 18, actually, more balls went in the water on 18 during this tournament than 17.
And so, you know, one miscue, one. The face turned just a little. That's in the water. He's now scrambling for his life. He probably loses the tournament.
And he uncorks 375 downwind and makes parr wins it. That shot we have of from behind him on the island hole. Look at that. That's incredible. You see the crowd, you see the island, you see the water.
But you also see the divot he takes out from his t-ball. I do that, it's because I've hit behind it. You know, and the divot is hitting it fat. His divot is because he has hit it perfectly. Where he gets the ball first and then the divot.
The number of times people have told me that's how you're supposed to be done, and then I can't do it. But look at the reverse C. Look at it, it's like perfection. That's like. That is picture perfect.
And he has a real unique swing. He pauses for a hair swing and really just corkscrew unloads on the ball. It's. It's phenomenal. I'm so happy for him.
He broke through, won his first tournament last year. It's kind of near the end of the season, and obviously this one is just m monumental. Right, and tennis as well, where you need to. Make your serve. You need to come up with a hold.
You need to come up with a break. You need to come up with a point. You need to come up with something. And you're in the middle of a point it could go through your head. You're trying to serve out a match.
You're trying to serve to see Keep a match going, and whatever is going through your temples, you need to really. Focus, and it's unbelievable when somebody says, I'm going to visualize it, and then I'm going to do it, and then you. You hit it, 375. Stupid. Stupid.
Love it. What a great finish.
So much drama on Sunday. Yeah, so that was fun with Cameron Young. And what, you said Susie texted you during the break where she can't believe I made my Wheel of Fortune analogy to him? Yeah, she did an OMG, What Is Happening? Got it.
You know.
Okay.
And then Rope sent Steve Harvey shaking his head. Got it. That's not a bad emoji. Yep. Or Jif or GIF or whatever that.
Whatever they call it. We're sending out our best to our buddy Vinny Pasquentino, who's. What a ride. From start to finish, he did it again, and this time they made the semifinal. And we're up.
On Venezuela. in front of a highly partisan crowd. in Miami. And what? an atmosphere last night For that contest, for the right to play tonight against Team USA for all the World Baseball Classic marbles, just the latest example of why this is so.
Awesome. And it means as much to the players as it does to the fans. I keep saying it over and over again because it's worthy of mentioning. Um and Michael Lorenzen, who Handcuffed. Team USA in pool play.
Came out last night in support of Aaron Nola, who threw four plus of terrific baseball. Um And Team Venezuela got him. They got him in the seventh inning. They got three runs in the seventh. And in the top of the seventh, leaving Italy with just Nine outs to try and dig out of that two-run hole.
They were up to nothing. We see Suarez going around the base paths after a solo shot to make a 2-1 and send the place into an absolute frenzy. It's the only mistake I think NOLA made, you'd you'd have to say. And then, um With Less than two outs. And Lorenzen in trouble.
After striking out two guys. Um up comes Acuna. Right guy, right spot. And he hits it in a hole. I think Smoltz made the interesting point of saying if he had gone to second for the force, it would have been better than trying to get a cunha on a on a weed killer of a throw from deep in left field hole.
Not even sure he would have got the first one. I don't think so. Even with Vinny Pasquantino's awesome range at first base. But Acunha beats out the throw tie game. Listen.
Easy to second guess here. Simple second guess. But I'm wondering with Garcia up Do you take Lorenzen out? It's like tie game. He's Clearly Getting Um tired.
And Now after a tie game, do you bring someone in new to face Garcia? Because it's an easy second guess because the dam broke after that. Two more runs and that's the end of that. And after it was 4-2, that's when. Cervelli came out to take Out Lorenzen, and it was over.
It was over. You could see Vinny's look on his face as his teammate, by the way, from Kansas City. It's a handful of teammates there, Salvador Perez being another. For Venezuela to make the finals for the first time in the World Baseball Classic. And tonight, it's going to be a great game.
But this is what our buddy Vinny had to say in defeat. It's a really sad night for us. And it's not because we lost, because we played a great game. Venezuela was a better team tonight. There's nothing to hold your head for that.
I think we're just sad that This team's not going to be together anymore. I mean, guys have flights at 7 a.m. tomorrow morning.
So Uh you know, it's kind of back to the real world now. It's just been an incredible run.
So I just shared how thankful I am and how humbled I am that to be the captain of this team was one of the high points of my baseball career so far, and I'm never going to forget it. I love this guy. Is he like emotionally. Present. More than anybody that we've gotten a chance to meet.
You know, in the last couple of years through this program, He's like emotionally brilliant. And and a leader. And a leader, and I hope this is a springboard for him professionally. I mean, he just got paid in a way that when he just won his arbitration, right? And You know, Bobby Witt plays tonight.
Uh against You know, Garcia, maybe this bodes well for the Royals season as well. That's why you're also looking at this about how it can be a springboard into the campaign. For the year, and then tonight. Man. What a scene that's going to be in Miami tonight.
You know.
With Al Tuve in the in the stands. Miggy Cabrera. By the way, we mentioned he's the hitting coach for Team Venezuela. We mentioned Johan Santana yesterday in derision of me trying to troll you for the Mets retiring. Love when you said trying.
Beltron's number, he's the pitching coach. Oh. Oh, I did not. Did you know that? I uh did not know that.
Or he is a pitching coach. He might be. Cooper was showing me all the coaching staffs uh of uh Of the teams, which is great. You know, Posada was a bench coach. That's the other thing I love about the World Baseball Classic: you're seeing guys get a chance to be coaches and managers and get that.
Experience going, maybe for their future. Andy Pettit's on team USA. It's great, man. We got Eduardo Rodriguez for Venezuela and Nolan McClain tonight. Speaking of the Mets tonight, Mets prospect in a big game tonight.
World Baseball Classic. Hate it. For all the marbles internationally, that's our one in the books. The Rich Eisen Show Podcast. Mm-hmm.
