REShow: Brody Miller - Hour 2

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Earlier on the show Raven Safety Marlin Humphries is the star of the show. Coming up golf and college football writer for the athletic Brody Miller Titans defensive tackle Jeffrey Simmons. And now sitting in for rich it's Kirk Morrison.

Yeah, our number two right here on the Rich Eisen show Kirk worse and filling in for rich I still got my golf polo shirt on and I'm rocking it today. I'm trying to get some swings in a little bit later because you're always coming off of a big weekend like that. The US Open you always feel like I can go out and and play just like some of the pros and that is not the case saw some unbelievable shots this past weekend just the atmosphere of being there and I know I got a lot of work. I got a lot of work.

Absolutely. I played on Saturday as well. Nothing makes you want to go play if you're a golfer.

Yes, sir. Nothing makes you want to go play golf more than watching one of these big-time tournaments the Masters the US Open. It's just I need to get out and swing right now. I know I'm I can't hit a 280 yard, you know cut this five would like Wyndham Clark did but you know, I can get out there and still kind of hack it up and have a good time and I'm going to go to the range today.

I'm playing on Wednesday like nice got to work some stuff out because maybe one day maybe one day. I'll break 80. Yeah, maybe one day. Yeah. I'm just trying to breathe. I'm trying to get there.

If I break 80 just don't talk to me no more. Oh, it's over. Yeah.

Yeah. Oh, what do we get a card like a t-shirt that says like the golf course should literally hand out sweatshirts or little mini trophies. Like used to getting t-ball like I broke 80 today. Leave me alone. I'm telling you somebody listening is going to get that shirt and maybe already out there already.

Somebody told me I broke 80 leave me alone. But you know, it's it's a it's part of this always say the season of we just had looks at the NBA playoffs are now done with and you're like man remember we could have had a game seven if necessary yesterday. How cool would that have been? It would have been kind of awesome. That would have been cool because you would have had hopefully an early game seven that would lead you into the you know, the final round of the US Open, which would have been pretty cool. Two big huge events going back to back and yet we didn't have to worry about that because the Nuggets took care of business and a gentleman sweep and then the videos of Nicola Jokic at the at his horse racing events. He likes to go to that would happen. I totally missed us. He was at his a horse race. I was watching close to him in Vegas like yo kids drunk in Vegas like drunk Michael Malone at the parade.

I'm just like and hold on. Maybe I missed this. What was Lebron talking about? Did when Michael Malone like call him out at the parade or something because I completely missed all of that. Oh, so this is the guy that I didn't understand what LeBron was like shadow. It's whatever you whenever you like miss out on something. Just go to NBA Twitter NBA Twitter. Let you know what's going on. They keep you all the way. So what happened was pretty much Michael Malone says hey, I know we just won a championship, but I'm gonna let you guys know.

Yeah, I might be retiring at the end of this. Oh, that's what I took the jab and LeBron was so I guess I'm living rent-free in your mind and all that stuff during the parade when they introduced him introduced him as the Lakers. Daddy the Lakers Daddy to yeah, you know, they did sweep the Lakers.

Yeah. Well, I mean you yeah, but that's why it's why LeBron is like I see, you know, you're talking about me like that. He was talking about the Lakers.

I mean, well, they took care of business and the Denver Nuggets gave us a weekend in which I could just concentrate on golf and not have to worry about a possible game 7 between the Miami Heat and the Denver Nuggets. So I focused on the US Open four days of the US Open at the great Los Angeles Country Club right in the heart of Los Angeles. And somebody who was covering as well as Brody Miller, the golf and college football writer for The Athletic.

You can reach him on Twitter at Brody a Miller. I'll just start right here Brody your thoughts on the US Open the 123rd edition regardless when we get to the winner in a second, but just your overall thoughts and pictures of what this year's US Open look like. Yeah, of course and picture have me it was a very strange week. I mean, I think this was probably one of the most anticipated exciting US Opens in a long time because everyone was excited to see this course that was always so well thought of and you know highly rated but no one has ever really seen let alone on television and it obviously has been all things considered a disappointing week. You know, I think it was you start with two guys able to shoot a 62 on Thursday kind of got things off to a rough start then you add in the just kind of strange crowd vibes and at first I think they were getting credit for the fact that it was only 22,000 people there.

But then I think as the week went on it was just you realize there's more information comes out that the overwhelming majority of those went to members and the club to hand out only a smaller amount were for you know, just normal GA people and that's where most of the excitement comes. That's where most of the buzz is coming from and then you know, they didn't they didn't allow a lot of grandstands and fans around the 18th green and 9th greens because they you know, I think they wanted the clubhouse to be the background. Well, that's where you need most of the excitement and it so just felt empty and awkward on the biggest hole of the course. So it was a very weird week and I think the scoring conversation is an exhausting one.

The one that I'm always happy to have because I think that did ended up finishing around where you want it. I do think the final scores were pretty tough and competitive and par golf, but as an overall event, you hear a lot about battling between the USDA and the LACC. I just think it was a stressful weird week and I'm going to be really interested to see if they really follow through and have it here again in 2039. Yeah, I saw that then we back around here 2039 when the hopefully the LACC is in rotation, but Brody when it comes to the winner Wyndham Clark a guy who had just had one PGA Tour victory coming to the US Open and he walks away as the champion battling toward the end and then sinking a putt to keep Rory. McElroy from getting his first major in like what eight nine years.

What do we know about Wyndham Clark now? Where is this taking us? Is this the PGA Tour's new star?

Yeah, it's good. I don't think go as far as new star, but I do think he's a guy who is here to hang around. You know, he's not going to be just one of those random major winners that we get every few years and you're just like remember that I think he's going to be around. He's going to win more tournaments.

I don't know if he's going to become a star, but he's fascinating because he I mean three years ago. He was not even in the top 200 golfers in the world. I mean, he he was a really big amateur prospect and dealt with the loss of his mother and dealt with some struggles there went then, you know, what got came up got his PGA Tour card and I mean to flat out was not good.

It looks like he missed like seven cuts in a row at one point in he was even in the mix and he made some changes last two years and it's kind of quiet right now. I expect everyone to know his name, but he has quietly been one of the better golfers in the world last, you know, 12 months. Probably, you know, he won the Wells Fargo, which is it was an elevated event that's against the best guys in the world. He's been, you know, raking in top 10 the top 20 is a pretty big tournament that it's like, you know, I'm not saying he's some star, but he is, you know, in the FedEx Cup rankings and things like that. Like he was a top 10 top 15 guy this season. So if I just came out of nowhere and I don't know if he's going to be some great guy for the next 10 years, but people should get that all because the year he's having right now with these two massive wins with he's probably going to be playing on the Ryder Cup this fall. That feels very, very likely at this point.

Probably a suit. And, you know, he's a fascinating guy because he has dealt with all those things. He has dealt with loss and struggle and just kind of he said he was ready to quit golf multiple times, just kind of hopping in the car, driving, not knowing where to go. And I think that's what makes this such a cool story is that as much as I think golf, we all want stars to win the big events. It's kind of cool to have a guy who, I don't know, just went out and earned it when other guys couldn't. That's a great point there. Speaking with Brody Miller, golf and college football writer for the Athletic.

You mentioned it there. We're all about the stars, right? And I had a chance to be at LACC and, you know, you're watching the Shefflers tee off. You're watching, you know, obviously Ricky Fowler and Rory McIlroy and some of the greats.

Who do you think was more of a disappointment this week? Was it Rory not getting that next major or Ricky Fowler who's playing in Southern California near a lot of his hometown fans and both guys just come up a little bit short? Well, right, because Rory is like, that's the answer because Rory, I mean, people have just, it's so bizarre that he is, what he is doing in majors here in your Apple, I don't know, four or five years, is out of this world. I mean, he is playing like in majors, honestly, like the best golfer in the world. The fact that he's getting top fives and top 10s this steadily in the biggest events, it's like, that's the most impressive thing. You know how good he is and he is so beloved and everything that's gone on with Liv the last two years and the role he's taken in the game and how good he is at talking and being around people. Everyone wanted him to win this.

Let's just call it what it is. I mean, in the golf world, golf writers wanted him to win this. And I think it is just so disappointing that, and what makes it so strange is it's not like he's going out and choking. St. Andrews last year, right? He didn't choke at St. Andrews. He couldn't quite hit that like big birdie putt he needed to and then Cam Smith took it from him.

And that is kind of what happened today, too. He played well. I mean, other than maybe that 14th hole where he put that ball in the bunker and missed that putt, I think that was the one, obviously, that he let get away from him. But other than that, he hit fairways constantly. He drove the ball out of his mind. He put the ball in greens consistently and he just could never make that like 15, 20-foot putt, that 10-foot putt for birdie.

He just couldn't make any of them. And again, that's what I think, it's not that he's losing it, it's that he's lacking that ability to just go grab it, to go take it. I know it's not that simple, but sometimes when the court just went out and grabbed it and took it, I think that's what people are hoping for out of Roy McElroy. And with Ricky, it is disappointing just because how much, as you were there, right? That crowd wanted Ricky Collins.

Absolutely. The crowd was in love with him. They were chanting Ricky and other old chicks, too.

They loved him. And I think it's disappointing. It's tough, though, because not only anyone expected him to win this, right? The fact that he's having this bounce-back year and playing as well as he has all season long, really, that's enough of a big story for Ricky Fowler, I think, to have his game back. It is a bummer that the crowd didn't get to kind of embrace him, but I think Rory is who people will be talking about for the next few weeks. You know, Brody, has the PGA Tour and Live Talk sort of cooled now? You had that initial, like, bombshell, and it was, like, kind of earth-shattering a little bit.

And now it just seems like, for me, the last four days, that wasn't the conversation. It wasn't the Live Tour. It wasn't the PGA Tour.

It was just the U.S. Open. And it came down to the final hole, which I think ultimately is what the fans want to see regardless. No, you're totally right about that. And we all kind of wondered going into the week, like, how much will that be a distraction? I think the consensus was what's happening.

You're right. It's when the balls start flying, it's going to be, wow, we have a golf tournament. And I think you're right today where people were able to enjoy it a little more knowing there's no longer a war going. And I think that's been the case with most of the majors, that we've been able to just enjoy them. But there was still that background, like, wow, Brooks Koepka won it for Live and all that stuff. And I think this week it was like, oh, Ken Smith and Dustin Johnson are making runs.

And Live wasn't even really part of that storyline. And that is all, no matter your thoughts on the proposed joint venture and all that, and you're allowed to be angry about it, that is better for golf. I completely agree. But the sad, I don't know if sad's the right word, but the interesting thing will be that, yes, this was a great weekend of golf. Now it's going to go right back to being this time because, you know, we are going to start getting more details about what it looks like. Jay Monahan, the commissioner of the PGA Tour, just had to step away with the health scare.

You know, the U.S. government, the Justice Department are going to be looking into whether this is violating antitrust issues. And all of that, it's not going anywhere is the crazy thing. But, yeah, you're right. As much as I said, LACC was kind of a failure in some ways for the U.S. Open. We were fortunate to have a really great tournament, though, and a very fascinating result. You know, Brody, I think always interesting for me is that when you look at when these tournaments sort of take place, obviously I'm talking about the majors, right? The Masters, you know, generally in April, right around Easter, right? Then you have the PGA Championships in May. Then in June, we have the U.S. Open on Father's Day. And then we know coming up next month, we'll have the Open Championship. Is there a way that golf can maybe try to spread these out a little bit more instead of just having them back to back? It's like, I was still recovering from Brooks' win at the PGA Championship, and then here we go.

Here comes Wyndham two weeks later. It feels like everything is so rushed and always felt like they could spread it out just a little bit when I feel like golf has started to take that momentum back. I think you're right when it takes momentum back. And it's not a bad point, but, yeah, it is kind of passing rather rapidly. I don't think they will ever go away from the one a month thing. I think that's always just kind of worked for them.

It's good for eyeballs and all that. But, no, you're not wrong. I mean, the fact that this week is the Travelers, which is a tournament most of the time, but it's an elevated event this week, as you know, which means all the best guys have to go. If that means former medical Roy just held this crushing defeat and I used to hop on a flight across the country to Connecticut to go play in a tournament that he probably doesn't want to play in, that is kind of a wild aspect. And as much as I don't think they'll go away from one major a month and plus the PGA Tour and that doesn't even have control of that, I do think what happens in the next few weeks with when the schedule comes out for what this new joint venture looks like and what all that, that is going to be really interesting to see how they map out schedules, how they try to balance it out to, like you said, own the calendar more.

And I think that's so important. I think then you have the FedEx Cup, which will take over all of August, and that will be the big thing. And fall golf is always just kind of an off-season if we're being really honest with some small events. Do they try to spread things out and get more going in the fall?

Does live become more of a fall concept or something? I don't know. But here's your question. I don't think they'll ever change that, but I do think there's a conversation to be had. We're speaking with golf and college football writer for The Athletic, Brody Miller.

You can reach him on Twitter, at Brody A. Miller. You mentioned that fall golf is probably not a thing because we know what's coming up in the fall, college football, Brody. We already know what's going on.

And I was talking to the guys a little bit earlier. I saw something over the weekend and it just, it didn't look right. It didn't feel right, but you know what's happening. And I saw USC recruits taking pictures in the USC uniform without the Pac-12 logo, but with the Big Ten logo. Like it just, it's starting to hit me that in one more season. This is like the last college football season upcoming of, I guess, in its purest form before we got to get used to realignment. As we head into this college football season, which obviously is the next one up, the next big season is going to start. What are your top storylines as we start to prepare for the 2023 college football season? Ooh, yeah, it's tough, yeah, because so many of the biggest stories of college football, like you said, are what are coming in 2025 or 2024 and how it's going to change. This season though, it's going to be a, I mean, I'm all in on this year because two of the programs, right, that I think we all collectively assume are top five teams, the defending champs, Georgia, Alabama.

Those are two programs that are in rebuild, not rebuild, but they're reshuffling. I mean, they're losing both the quarterback, both coordinators on both schools. And, you know, I think that's undervalued how much continuity matters in college football and how much, hey, it's okay to lose one of those things. And I assume both those teams are going to be really good because guess what, the Bama and Georgia, right?

But that's not going to be just some simple thing. I think both those teams lose at least one game this year, maybe two. What happens with the LSU's, you know, a team that is very deep, is very experienced, has some really top-tier talent, some guys coming up.

You know, is that experience more valuable than the talent of an Alabama, even though they're, you know, more inexperienced, things like that? I think that's, you know, the juicy thing to me, but also that quarterback race, so Caleb Williams and Drake May. I want to watch that, all the eyeballs on Caleb Williams this year, but don't forget about Drake May. So I think those are the things that really jump out to me.

Last question before I let you go, Brody. We just saw Wyndham Clark take the big tournament, right, the U.S. Open. He's like the big star now that everyone's going to be talking about. When we get to the upcoming college football season, outside of Caleb Williams and Drake May, who I've both seen play, who is that big star that you think no one's talking enough about, but could have a huge, huge season, and everyone's talking about him at the end of the year?

Ooh, should we have some fun and go defense? I think I'll go Mason Smith and Harold Perkins' LSU on defense. Mason Smith's the guy who should be this year's, you know, Jordan Davis or this year's Deion Carter. He is a 6-foot-6, 300-pound freak, and he was going to become it last year and in the first half of the first game of the year towards ACL. I mean, that guy could be a top-five pick if all goes right, and I think he's going to be a big name. And the world's already fell in love with Harold Perkins last year, but now they're going to really follow it because they know him. I think Harold Perkins, what they do with him, he's moving inside linebacker.

He's one of the most explosive players in the country. I think I'm really just excited to watch those guys play on top of, you know, some other guys maybe on the offensive side of the ball. Oh, man, I can't wait. I can't wait. Got to wait.

Oh, can August get here finally, bro? Please. Hey, Brody, I appreciate the time, man. Good to talk to you.

Absolutely. Thanks for having me. Take care.

All right. That's the golf and college football writer for the athletic Brody Miller. Reach him on Twitter, at Brody A. Miller. I'm so excited about college football. He mentioned Perkins from LSU, man.

The dude, I'm just giving you a little heads up, has some – should I whisper this? Because T.J. gets all excited. He's got some Micah Parsons-esque kind of skill set. I know.

He's that kind of player, so be interesting to see him. But, you know, we talked a little bit about the U.S. Open. I just got a couple more things on that before we get off of the U.S. Open.

I got my top ten takeaways, my top ten takes from this past weekend at the L.A.C.C. And you know what? We're going to go over that coming up next right here on the Rich Eisen Show.

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Call clickgrainger.com or just stop by. So my U.S. Open euphoria is about to end. I'm trying to just keep it all into this last segment as I turn the page, right? Just like Bill Belichick says, it's on to the next sport. It's on to the next, right? I have to get excited about the NBA draft this week.

You're on, Cincinnati. Think about it. The NBA draft is this week, and no one's talking about it, right?

It's hard to pick two, right? Right. But it's like, you know, the NFL has set such a high bar for the draft, man. It's just, you know, we talked draft for like two months, and it is like really exciting. Guys moving up. Marked draft.

Marked draft part three. Outside of Victor Winbenyama, I don't like Scoot Henderson. Brandon Miller. Brandon Miller.

Those are the only three. After that, couldn't tell you. Couldn't tell you. So, I have to rely on Big Perk to tell me, I like this guy. I like this guy. He's an inside-outside player. That's it. Everybody said, I like this guy.

He's going to be in it. I just don't. You might want to get more than one opinion, though, on these. Yeah. I get more and more opinions. You know what I'm saying? More than just Big Perks.

That's what I'm going to be. I got to watch, you know, the coverage on Thursday. After Victor Winbenyama, it's just, okay, who gets traded? Who doesn't? They try to give some, you know, information. You got, like, the battle between Shams and what was going on.

That's really what the NBA draft is about. Who's got more information? Who's more plugged in on the inside? Who tips the picks quickest?

Yeah, I saw you. It's all about that. You see, speaking of Shams, he reported this morning that Draymond opted out of his $27.5 million contract. He did. So, now he's a player option. Yeah, a player option. You have the Golden State Warriors. Four-time NBA champion Draymond Green. Draymond Green, which we already knew he was going to decline the option because that's just a one-year deal. So, you decline the option because I want more guaranteed money.

But, more importantly, I want extended years. I got a new general manager in Mike Dunleavy Jr., who I believe that they, no, they didn't play, they think they did play together at one point. I think at the end of the Dunleavy Jr. This is before the Warriors were, in my air quotes, the Warriors. Why'd you air quote that?

Why'd I air quote? Because, you know, I've been a fan for a long, long time. So, people think that the Warriors just came about in 2017. Like, I'm still one of the, you know, I still thought we should have kept Monte Ellis over Steph Curry. Obviously, that was one of my worst takes. I'm one of the worst takes ever, but that just shows you my fandom.

That just shows you my fandom. Here's this dude who can't keep his ankles together, and yet, Monte's giving us buckets. Yeah, I remember that too, Curry, a lot of people don't, because, you know, when Steph came into the league, he did have those ankle injuries, and it seemed like, I can't remember if he really did get hurt every year, but it seemed like every time you heard, oh yeah, he hurt his ankle again. So, no one could have predicted that the current Steph Curry that we had was going to exist based upon how he started. Well, you remember too, at Davidson, Steph Curry wore that like triple X jersey, it seemed like, so he looked like he was like nine years old playing college basketball. And then he gets to the NBA, you're like, how's this little young high schooler going to be able to, and he's grown into his NBA body, and he's actually a lot taller than people give him credit for. I stood next to him, I'm like, okay, you're kind of tall, Steph. He's actually more like in the 6'2", 6'3", kind of rangy, more so than when he looks on the court around all these guys who's 6'10", 6'11", he looks a little shorter. Monta Ellis, from 09 to 2011, 25 and a half, and then 24 game, he could pour it.

He was a bucket, he was a bucket. So, that's what I'm looking forward to this week, we'll see what the NBA draft, and we got Howard Beck coming up in the next hour as well, so he can talk about, I feel like Kevin Durant just wants to play with everybody in the league at some point, I just saw the list of players that have actually played with Kevin Durant as a teammate, the list keeps going and going, but I got a list I wanted to get to. Here's my top 10, my top 10 takeaways from the U.S. Open. You ready? Let's go. All right, here we go.

Put the list up. All right, they're coming up real quick. Number one, this is... No, no, no, you don't start with number one, Kirk.

No, no, no, whoa. The first one. Okay.

I don't have a... This is just my 10 takeaways, TJ. It's not a top 10.

Here's 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. No, there's a bunch. So, number one I had on my list, not number one, but just one of them, I saw a lot of people this weekend, a lot of people, and one of them I was reminded of when I walked into the studio today, because when you go to big events, you're always like, man, this is so cool, and we take pictures to remember it always, right? But then you always realize when you walk by the gift shop, the memorabilia shop... Gear guy. You gotta be souvenir guy. And souvenir guy, soon as I walked in, was Chris Brockman over here. Yeah. He's souvenir guy. He's got his 123rd edition of the US Open... Sweater on.

Sweatshirt on. And so for me, I ended up spending a lot more than I want to because I brought... So much. I ended up bringing my daughter and my youngest son on Friday. They got done. It was on the way home, and I had a little entrance at the US Open, which I'll rename Nameless Mike Del Tufo. Don't tell everybody my entrance that I went in. But it was kind of a hidden entrance that I brought the kids through. We walked in and had a little family time. My daughter says, don't take me back.

It is too much walking. But when I told her we're going to the gift shop, their faces lit up. So I took them to the gift shop and bought her a shirt, bought bag tags. We bought everything. So I was souvenir guy.

Nice. And that's one of the big takeaways is that when you go into a gift shop, even on vacations, anywhere you go, you always need something to hold on to that memory. I think I overdid it at the gift shop. Souvenir guy.

So that's the one thing I have on my list of 10 things here. Too much money. Next thing is the reference to Lionel Richie's house. Oh my gosh. How many times did they reference Lionel Richie's house?

8,000. Oh, Lionel Richie's house. On Hall 4?

Yeah, that's really his house on the LAC. Which, it's kind of funny because I did read up on, I guess the initial fee or the member's fee to actually... It's like 250 to 300.

250 to 300 to get in. But they don't accept celebrities. No entertainers. No entertainers.

Yep. So Lionel Richie is right there on Hall 4, but yet he's a celebrity. He can't be a part of the golf court. Can't play.

Can't play. He can go out on his back and his balcony. He can go out on the patio.

Cheer the guy up. Yes. Time out.

Time out. Yes. That's Lionel Richie's house. Yes. For throwing him fire. Lionel Richie dancing on the ceiling. Yes. That's his crib.

And the Commodore. In his backyard. Can't go play. Can't go play. Can't go play.

Can't go play. Yo, that seems racist to me. No celebrities. It is a non-celebrity. No celebrities. It's just against celebrities. Hugh Hefner, the Playboy Mansion is right up against the 13th green and the 14th tee. You can still hear the monkeys and the birds and stuff while you tee off on 14. Hugh Hefner tried to become a member of LACC forever and they wouldn't let him in. Wow. That's crazy.

I'd be playing at night. Oh no, you won't let me in? Watch this.

Cool, I'm going to get more animals. And he got to bother everyone. He got animals over there on the 13th tee. So was Lionel there? Was he peeping from the balcony?

I'm not sure. Him and the Commodores. They didn't show him but they mentioned his house in every single commercial.

I think he's on tour right now. He left. Dancing on the ceiling.

One of the third takeaways, number three, or one of the things I also noticed. When did golf turn into suites? When did the suites and the seating... When I grew up, watching golf was always about people along the fairways and along the greens and you would be Rose. And I remember back in 2009, I remember when I was at the US Open at Torrey Pines, it was same thing.

You walked the greens and you had all this open space. Now, it was like the suites. And what really bothered me the most was that I was not in one. I was not in the suites. But the crazier part was that I had my transistor radio in, shout out to my guy Taylor Zarzer and the coverage that the guys over at Sirius XM had.

The people in the suites or the grandstands and all of that, the suites actually had a television. So you could always hear them saying, oh, and then everybody's looking around like, what happened? What happened?

What happened? And I have the transistor radio in my ear. So I'm telling the people who are next to me who don't have any idea, I was like, oh, Roy just missed a birdie putt or oh, Wyndham Clark just hit bogey. So I'm just thinking like the whole suite thing, I get it at the Waste Management in Phoenix.

That's like whole 16 is the part three. That's a party hole. But that's what I think the USGA is now moving towards now. They're moving toward this more corporate suite situation, which also leads into my other sort of takeaway from this weekend, guys, was that everyone says, oh, there wasn't a lot of fan interaction or a lot of fans. Well, I said this, look, you're in Los Angeles. Los Angeles actually, you're used to this. The US Open is huge, but L.A. is used to having World Series, NBA Finals, Stanley Cup, big events, the Grammys, American Music Awards. So when it comes to events, people say, well, there was no there was no Rockets fans because we know how to behave. You know, we know how to act at big events.

So that's another takeaway that I have. Another one that I have is, isn't it always cool now that you just know that the US Open is probably the best Father's Day event? Oh, it's always on Father's Day weekend. Think about events that you can like go with your dad.

You know what I mean? Finally, grandpa, all that. It's a great event for Father's Day weekend, right?

How many times I just watched every, you know, watched all the guys and you saw, you know, the matching hats and polo shirts and dads with their sons. I thought it was a cool event. And I think when I think of Father's Day weekend sporting event, US Open is like top tier, right?

When I think of now Easter, around Easter, I'm always thinking of obviously the Masters is right around that time. But I can't really think of a lot of events that kind of correlate with a special day. There's been a lot of big NBA finals moments. Yeah, finals day, Michael Jordan, MJ, yeah, when it being the Sonics and finally getting over the hump.

So usually sometimes, like I said, there would have been a game seven on Sunday had Miami been able to push Denver. But yeah, US Open, Father's Day, lock it in. It's every single year. It's so special. Yeah.

Another one here on my list. I make sure you just schedule a recovery day. So, you know, for a lot of people who are listening and the people who are watching, I do have shorts on underneath the desk. Yeah.

Yeah. I'm on recovery day. I walked a lot. I got my steps in. What do you got? What do you got for numbers? I don't have, I will click back. I will do that during the break. I will give you my numbers at, but I got some steps in.

Gotta been 20,000 plus. Oh my God. Easily, easily steps were steps for steps. I will step in. Okay. I will step in. I'll just say like that. So I got my steps in, got a lot of exercise and was great with the cloud coverage earlier in the tournament compared to like the last Saturday and Sunday when that cloud coverage was over.

It was just, it was, it was too hot. Another one here on my takeaways from the US Open, Wyndham is not just a hotel. He is now a major champion.

Think about that. And there actually is a Wyndham actual tournament. The Wyndham championship. And Wyndham Clark has actually missed the cut twice and he tied for 81st. So now the Wyndham championship takes on bigger significance and I think it's actually upcoming. It hasn't happened yet. So in August, Wyndham Clark could be playing in the Wyndham championship.

Think about how cool that is. Man, this dude missed the cut in four of six majors that he previously played in, wins on his seventh. Unreal.

That's how unreal goes. You just need one good weekend. One good weekend. One good weekend. Everything's rolling.

All the luck goes your way. A couple more for you, a couple more for you here. I was by a golf guy. So I was standing by a golf guy. I was on the 10th hole and I was just happened to be standing there and Padraig Harrington, he hit one and you always see it on TV when it happens, but I saw it live in person where the ball actually hit somebody and the guy was, I mean, it barely tapped him, but it hit him and he was like, Oh, but I saw how the officials, they come over and they marked the ball and they spread everybody around like scoot out of the way, get out of the way. And then Harrington's, his caddy comes over, Hey, give us a little more. He needs a little more room.

So now I'm pushed all the way, but I still got a nice little sight view of what's about to happen. He's about to take a shot. But I happened to be standing behind golf guy who was with his lady. So golf guy, you already know, yeah, baby, he does. All they can do is lay up right here. So he's probably just going to hit it over here in a fairway just to give him a nice little shot. Probably try to save par. Just mansplaining everything that's happening. She's like eating it up. She's like, Oh, okay, cool.

Okay. And all Harrington does comes over, I think he grabs, I want to say he grabbed maybe like a seven or a six comes over and that's this how I know I'm just a bad golfer because for me, I probably would have did what golf guy was saying. And yet these are true professionals. Harrington hits one up onto the green from this up almost obstructed view that he had. He gets it up on the green. Now he's trying to shoot for birdie and so golf guy is totally wrong.

And that's why you don't listen to go like, Oh man, yeah, that was, I didn't see that. I was like, yeah, golf guy, relax golf guy, but not to start that was funny because golf guy was really trying to impress his lady and he just was just flat out wrong. Whatever works. Last one here. This is what I, what a last one here.

And this is my final takeaway. After seeing some players hit and after watching a lot of the guys on Thursday and Friday who actually missed the cut, I'm not as bad as a golfer as I really thought. Look, I'm not Roy McElroy. I'm not Scottie Scheffler.

But I'm also not as bad as my guy, Xander Schauffele yesterday. I was also, again, I was on the hole number 10. He almost had a snowman. He triple bogeyed.

He did some things and I'm like, that's not, I do that. Like you're not supposed to triple bogey. I triple bogeyed a couple of times. Dustin Johnson had a snowman on one of the holes. Hole two on Friday.

He had an eight. So I know I'm not the greatest golfer, but I also saw some shots this weekend and said, hey, I could have done that. And that's it. That, those were my takeaways from the, uh, any other question I have.

You hit at everything. It's so cool. You were out there every day. Uh, any big celeb sightings or the big, you see anybody walking around? I saw Larry Fitzgerald on the broadcast. They were showing some of the guys who were out there walking around. Yeah, uh, one of my good friends is, uh, Manolo Vega.

Manolo teaches golf. I hung out with him for a little bit. He is a riot. Yeah, that dude's hilarious. He is hilarious. And you know, he's, uh, you're around him and some of the other guys in the TV compound area.

Right. There's like a lot of TV guys that you see. Um, but the one thing about, and this is what I was saying about this tournament and moving forward is like, when you come to golf, you just come as you are.

You're just an ordinary person. Like there is no court side seats. There are no behind the catcher, you know, behind home plate. There is no like, hey, look at me, I'm here.

It's not about what you wear. It's not, Marlon's man isn't walking around. Marlon's man. He probably was there.

Marlon's guy in his jersey. Like you don't have that, right? It's just everybody just coming to enjoy. I feel like it's just a level playing field of people who enjoy being out on a Saturday or Sunday, walking the greens, having a good time. So I enjoyed that part of it as well. And I think moving forward, I wish there were like other events like that.

You know what I mean? Just outside of golf, maybe, because I know the U.S. Open's coming up for tennis, but you got to have, you know, you got to have tickets for that. Yeah. Wimbledon is coming up too.

Right? Wimbledon's next. Wimbledon's next coming up when it comes to tennis.

So those are like little things that now like I've, there's more events that I still got to check off the bucket list. I need to get to the Masters. I want to get to the Masters. I haven't been to the U.S. Open in New York, so I want to go there. I was actually near Wimbledon, but I didn't go. I actually was on a layover in London. And everybody's like, are you, you see the black guy in the airport. They're like, are you here for Wimbledon? No, I'm not here for Wimbledon. I'm just passing through. I'm on a connection flight.

You know what I mean? It's a good weekend. And now, I shift over towards, in my free time now, I tend to start looking at NFL stuff. I'm starting to get my schedule, get my calendar together. We know when the preseason games are. I know when the, obviously the training camps are now starting. So we're putting this schedule together.

I'm going to go to about four training camps, four or five training camps, start to see some of these teams and get ready for the long haul of a season of what we're doing. But I know it was something that we talked about a little bit earlier, and I'll bring it up here, but there's something that certain NFL players do, and it just drives me crazy because the fans just love it. They just love it.

And every time I see it, I'm like, he's just doing this for a reason. And I'll tell you what I'm talking about coming up next, right here on the Rich Eisen show, Kirk Morrison filling in for Rich. Get an inside look at Hollywood with Michael Rosenbaum, actress, Kristin Ritter, your parents let you travel by yourself. It was a different time. They just put you on a train as a 15 year old girl. You went to New York. I went on a bus and I did get picked up at Port Authority and they thought I was a runaway. What would they do?

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Just a real basic question. What the hell were you thinking? What are you doing out there? You know, just tackling a challenge that most wouldn't do.

I would say so. Why? Why'd you do it? I was just trying out my new booster package that I was working on this year. For me though, it's literally like, would you rather live and die?

Would you rather die and never live? So when I jumped to the first time, everybody started like cheering and yelling, I was like, okay, that's pretty cool. And then I did it the second time and then I heard this word El Salvador, El Salvador. And I didn't know what that means. I left that one day and then I started hearing that through the streets and I was like, okay, whatever.

And came back the second day, did it again. And they stopped the music and everything and they just started yelling at in the stands to you, to me, like me now. I'm a football player here in the States. Sure. Correct. Yes, sir. They don't know me from Adam House.

Josh. Out there in Pamplona, else I get there. Yeah.

And they started sharing that name. So I'm like a hero in Spain almost. Not even back here. Let me, so hold on a second. This is bananas.

Let me get this down so I can use this on any host of shows this NFL season. El Satador? Yes.

It's like the jumper. El Satador. Like the matador? Yes.

Like the matador is like the jumper. So I would love just one second in my life to have the words El Satador chanted to me. Back here on the Rich Eisen Show, Kirk Boorstin here filling in for Rich and it is that time of year. It is a time of year where it gets on my nerves a little bit, but a lot of us, I would say football fans, you get thirsty for content. There is no content right now.

There is no content. All football player we just had Marlon Humphrey on, he told you, I'm on vacation. I'm relaxing. Probably, you know, we have Jeffrey Simmons coming up in about 12 minutes at the top of the hour. We'll talk to him. Jeffrey Simmons, a defensive tackle, one of the highest paid defensive tackles. Just got paid. Just got paid.

Yes. For the Tennessee Titans. We'll talk to him about how does he, you know, go about the off season and now have a little time off before training camp starts. But you know, you get away from football, you get away from a little bit, but it also is time now for the, I won't call them thirst traps, I call them workout traps.

How about that? Workout traps, that's a new thing where a player, NFL player, will show a video or post a video of them working out. And I've seen, because I like to look at the message boards, you know, different fan pages or team, team fan pages and how excited people look like, oh my God, look at him working out. He looks great.

And then they forget all about it coming up. But there's one player who just posted one and you hate to give it the, you know, sort of the publicity, but I can't help it because I feel like he's just, he's the guy that we continue to just either you're a fan or you're not. I'm a fan of his game, but sometimes what he does off the field is just, but the video circulating around the internet or around the web or the Spider-Verse is Russell Wilson. And look, it's a good workout, I mean, but it's showing him doing on the, the slide board. It's showing him doing all of his workouts and movements. I will say he does look like a much more in shape in a more leaner looking Russell Wilson, but he's doing his workouts and I just go straight to the comments a lot of times. This was posted on the at danger, Russ Wilson, and you tend to look at the comments and all the Broncos fans, oh, comeback season. Here he is.

And I think, I think it is Russell Wilson who hashtags, what are these hashtags Brock went to? A restoration season. Restoration season. Oh yeah. Comeback season. I don't know what that means. I don't know. Restoration hardware. Good place. That's what I said. Restoration hardware.

I actually got valet parker here in LA by the way, restoration hardware. But I can't think of like, when Russell Wilson posts stuff like this, you know, I think he's, he has to take the place of the look at me guy of the NFL. One of them retired, great good guy and JJ Watt, remember JJ Watt would post his pictures and all. Everybody's like, oh my God, look at JJ Watt, he's ready. You know, he's going to take this league over this year. Same with Russell Wilson. He's the guy that looks at, you know, tends to go out and say, oh, I'm just being me.

I'm just being me. But people eat it up. Fans eat it up. I've seen fans look at players who show workout videos that, oh man, he's dialed in. Well, we just talked to Marlon Humphrey says, yeah, I work out in the morning. I do my own thing. I don't need a trainer. I just work out.

I'll be ready to go. Football season comes around, but I got other things to do, right? I got other time to lay down, relax, get my mind away from football. But I always laugh at the fans' reaction when their players or favorite players post a video of them working out.

And I say, that's what players are actually supposed to be doing, you know? So if I post a workout, is this posted or like, oh my God, look at him. He's lifting weights. Like, duh, he's going to lift weights. He's running because he's going to be running come fall.

He's sprinting. Oh my God. This is what you do. This is NFL off season.

This is what happens. The focus should be more on get some time away. Clear the mind. I'm not saying going on one of these darkness retreats like Aaron Rodgers, but always reflect on my own career. And I always thought about the time that you have to get away from football to truly love it because people always ask me, man, how much do you miss it?

It's like, oh, I miss the locker room. But this is a part of the NFL that guys will tell you, you question it. You question your love for football when you get to training camp because you just want to play games. But it's the preparation that leads you up to that part. So you need to take away, refresh, get your mind right, understand why you're doing it, what you're doing it.

Everyone has different reasons of why they do it, but you take that time away. And for me, it was always Fourth of July. When Fourth of July came, that was it. It's over. It is all football like LeBron used to call it zero dark 30. That's what it is. Don't talk to me. Don't bother me.

It is. I am getting ready and preparing myself to play football all the way until right around President's Day weekend. But never made the playoffs, so I was usually done around New Year's. Never made the playoffs about a year, season was five months on the nose.

It was like, man, one, two, three, Cancun. Yeah, that was me. So you learn a lot along the way. That's the hard part I think about people. The hard part about the sacrifice is that no matter how much effort, hard work that you put into, like we put a show together, everyone puts their pieces in and we're all a part of this together. And we make a great show.

You do a great show. In the NFL, you can do all the hard work, all the studying, all of the weightlifting and all of that, and yet you can go out on Sunday and lose a football game. That was the hardest part for me. I remember the first game that we lost, I was a rookie, first game, lost to Tom Brady and the Patriots.

I go into the locker room. You weren't alone. Everyone lost. I know.

I was going to say a lot of people. I remember going into the locker room and I was in like real tears. Like I was like, and I had one of my vets come up and slap me.

I said, boy, get out of here, man. Can't cry over spilled milk. That game over with.

And that's what kind of whipped me into shape into the National Football League. Hey, you can't cry over what already has happened. Only thing that you can do is move forward.

The only thing that you can do is be better the next game because if you're worried about last game, you've already lost the game ahead. Those moments that you take and you move on and then guess what? They become metaphors for life. So I tell my son, hey, I don't care you failed that test. Guess what? You better get an A on the next one. That's just how it is. Metaphors for life.

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