Umpire Controversies and Fan Passion

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Start of the day , star of the day, start of the da y, Star of the day, star of the day, start of the day , Start of the Day, Star of the Day, it is the start of the day. Start of the day, start of the day, it is the start of the day . Luka Doncic had more points in the month of March for the Lakers then Anthony Davis had his entire time with the Mavericks . Nah, one more time? At first I thought you were gonna say with the Lakers. I'd be like that . No no no no no. But if it's feel it's feeling that way. But one more time. Only ten players have ever scored six hundred points in a month. Luca went for 40 again last night and so he had more points in the month of March, more than 400, than Anthony Davis had in the entire time he was with the Mavericks. Now you see the vision. Weird. So basically, what you got back for Luca Doncic didn't score as much as Luka Doncic just scored in a month for the Lakers. What you got back for him, it's why it'll go down as you know the worst trade in the history of the sport. That said, though, and I knew Luca was good. I think we all knew Luca was good, but this? Like what is what is this? We all knew he was good, but uh the idea that he's scoring right now at Michael Jordan levels, Michael Jordan's greatest season. The year Michael Jordan averaged thirty-seven in a season, correct? He is doing over the last month Michael Jordan things offensively, where it's just an unstoppable offensive thing, even though he's always been an unstoppable offensive thing. And one of the reasons I find this so cool and interesting, kind of quietly, while Steph and LeBron are still around'.ve They hand ed over the league to the other guys. Like the other guys have taken the league where you're like Jokic and SGA and who's next? And it's Wemby. They've been able to transition out of that in a way that's been uh pretty exciting because it's the offensive play is so good and we love offense so much. Yeah, and and and the crazy thing is those guys are are still great, right? It's like it's not just that the transition has started to occur, it's just that it's a transition is occurring without them having the drop off of like, oh, I'm just I'm just the t seventh guy on this bench trying to get my 10 point tonight or whatever. So that's a really cool part. Uh but yeah, yoke. I mean, uh excuse me, Doncic, I I um maybe I maybe I'm desensitized. I there's no part of this that's shocking to me. Uh and not even the Anthony Davis part, because again, that's what made it a bad deal. It wasn't a bad deal because in retrospect, wow, that really didn't work out for the Mavericks. It was a bad deal on the day it was done because we knew your concerns, Nico Harrison, were with the durability of your young superstar. So why would you go out and get an old superstar who all We're in the midst of the most unpredictable run in the history of NBA basketball when it comes to the champions and title contenders. It's been for some maybe too wide open. That's really good now with these players coming online and developing to the point that they are, because as Sam mentioned, you have some of the old guard Hardens with the Cavs, Durant's gonna be in the equation with the with the Rockets, LeBron's still there, but you have these young new faces. I wouldn't necessarily count Jokic there. He's a multiple-time uh MVP and he's won an NBA championship, but you have these faces of these franchises that are all really good teams and all the sport needs really at this moment in time is an exceptional playoff. I think, and I think we're gonna get it too, because these series, the way that it's mapping out, looks like they're gonna be hotly contested. That is gonna be so huge for the sport at this point in time. Yeah, you g look, the playoffs are gonna be great. You look at the Eastern Conference, the difference between was it three and like six is a game and a half, two games or whatever. You look at the Western Conference between four and like uh seven is the same situation. So we're gonna get hotly contested playoffs right through in the first round. And I think what we have better than great players is we got two guys who have personalities, Victor Weminyama and Anthony Edwards. I think that's when we talk about handing over the reins, Dan, you need a personality to carry it. Cold, quiet, calculated uh efficiency. Tim Duncan couldn't handle th those reigns, not because he wasn't good enough as a player. He was an amazing player, but just he didn't have the personality . All of them to have personality. You need seven, ten guys who are great that we're going to have an interest in to go up against the guys with the personality. Larry Bird had quiet personality, but he wasn't we can go back throughout the history of time here. The fact that we've got nine guys that are competing for best in the league, and the fact that they are one-upping each other while trying to win the MVP trophy, that Lucas playing the best basketball you've ever seen, him shooting 40% from three during the stretch when everybody's trying to stop him and doing it for that franchise. I want to ask you for your expertise on something, though. The Lakers stink at defense. They do. They've been better recently because opponents are shooting 32% from three, but it's not because they're guarding them any better. It's weird. People are shooting poorly against them. And furthermore, where they have gotten better, and this has helped their defense, they're turning the ball over a lot less. And so the numbers going the other way on fast breaks against old guys are not it's that has not been happening over three weeks. I have said for a while that team can't win the championship playing defense that way. I still think so. I think it's a bad stretch of shooting. But can they fix that? Because if they can fix that, and you've got Luca, you've got the things you need to win a championship against an OKC or anybody else. I just think they're bad at defense and are gonna be bad at defense in the playoffs. Now when you say can they fix that, is this an April Fools thing that we're doing here? Cause if so, hold on. I have my friend here who'd like to chime in. Bleh, it's me, Fibula. And yes, of course they can fix it. I love this date . Now you're gonna tell me who fibula is on the front end to teleg raph your joke as you announce who you're impersonating, the lying vampire. Does uh does April Fool's say have the same kind of juice that it has for you uh in the past? I think every day is. Right. Yeah. I I I I that was my I been approaching the internet as if everything's been fake for close to a year now. So April Fool's Day, you gotta work harder than that. Like it's crazy how conditioned I am now. We are so cooked because I don't trust anything. We killed April Fool's Day. I think everyone is on guard every day now. I approach the way uh the internet the way you'd attra approach like an electric socket with your hand wet. Like I don't trust anything on any day. I have to run like several searches to get three sources to back up what I'm seeing. I'm scrutinizing everything because I everything AI is so advanced. Everything appears real that April Fool's Day is just a it's just a Wednesday. I I love that Mike just said I have to go look for multiple sources to Yeah, that's what you should have been doing the whole time. That's the thing I've been saying this whole time. It started with all these fake like breaking news. Uh uh Klay Thompson is getting bought out. He's signing with the spot. Adam Shafter. Yeah,, I'm like guys. Barry McCockener. Yeah, it's it's not that hard. Like, wow, that's pretty big news. Let me see who else is reporting it. Yeah. I I think you're talking to like the audience. Like, I I've known this. Like, as soon as the blue checks were just a free-for-all. Like we've had we've been on our on our toes right now, like especially for a show like ours, like trying to suss out what's real and what's fake. But I gotta say, like I think post-truth has really killed April Fool's Day. Uh put it on the poll at Lebotard Show. Has April Fool's Day been killed? Because I think that happened quietly, but I think it did indeed die. And we will be talking later in the show to Brett uh Ehrlich. Mike Ryan was very excited when he heard he was going to be on with us about what Twitter has done uh and what Elon Musk has done specifically to that algorithm to uh to bleep with democracy. Yes. Because then the defense of fake news it holds water because so many different things are fake. This is absolutely intentional. Billionaires love this post-truth age. They have actually built it and perpetuated it because they love this, because they can easily see, like, where'd you get that on the internet? No, that's not real. Because nothing is real. You don't know what's real anymore. Sure. You don't know what you're talking about. Sure, that's all cool. But have you guys seen the merger between American and Japanese Twitter over the weekend? Did you guys see that?? Nobody No. Nobody saw that? Okay, so they started putting on people's timelines Japanese tweets from people in Japan in Japanese, and then they would translate them to see what they were saying. And dude, they love us. And we love them. It's been the biggest it's been the biggest like uh what was it, Predator where they had the uh the the hand chill . Yeah. Okay. I know what you're saying. Yeah that's been the biggest thing for the for the Japanese and American relation in the longest time. I have a couple tweets that I want to put up that were translated on my timeline. Can we put up the pizza tweet first? So it's a pizza tweet. Somebody puts up a piece of pizza that has little tiny pizzas as toppings of the pizza. What? Yeah. So you've never seen that before inception? Pizza Inception. So this is a uniquely American thing 'cause I don't think anybody else really has that somewhere. And somebody in Japanese wrote something and then it was translated to when I saw this pizza top with a pizza in America, I thought there's no way we can beat these guys. They have a bunch of great stuff like this. Put up the uh the honky tonk love. Japan loves honky tonk culture, Dan. Did you know that? They love they love grilling meats. They love barbecuing with the boys look at this I'm gonna put this up on the screen here just a bunch of guys just hanging around grilling a bunch of steaks I used sometimes it's kind of small see if I had to choose between American men and meat I'd love to see this photo I want to participate in this event in person someday, somebody in Japan, seeing a barbecue saying, you know what? I want to be a part of this. Is it possible that Tony, you're getting April fooled right now? No, this is a hundred percent. You're saying the internet is bringing us together between Japan and America. Correct. Just uh the mere weeks after our president uh insulted. By saying no one wanted a surprise before Pearl Harbor. Again, you guys are worried about the wrong stuff. I'm talking about pizza on pizza and somebody saying they can't best they can't beat us because we have pizza on pizza. They don't have charcoal in Japan? Of course they do. They do beautiful charcoal, beautiful barbecue in Japan. But so why are they astonished by the idea of people grilling steaks? Because just the the community , the community of honky tonk, the community of southern culture in America, they're fascinated by it over there because they don't really have that. Okay. Thank you for that sound because I want uh uh to talk about what's real and what's not real because I had an argument with your dad, Chris, during the break where I said to your father, Do you realize how loud your stomach is? And he's like, My stomach's not making any sound. And I'm like, Greg , you're having nothing but coffee for 16 hours. You haven't eaten since four o'clock yesterday. You're drinking two thermoses of coffee. Yeah, a little bacon as well. That sound is your stomach and it's gurgling. And Greg said to me straight face, he's like, I didn't hear anything, my stomach's not making any sound. And I'd just like to put this on the poll at Lebutard Show. When your stomach has growled, do you always know it? Because Greg is so used to his stomach being in turbulence that he's not hearing explosive sounds made by his stomach. Look, he's white. Greg, we're not making this up, okay? Because I queued your son. Explosive sounds. Greg, listen to this. This is not altered in any way . Yeah, right. That's a pig on a farm. Greg, I'm gonna give you the con you have the context for it, Chris, or you just have that? That is just have the isolate. I'll get the longer version. Um Greg, that's absolutely you, and I'm telling Greg. Fake news. Speaking of fake news. You'll tell him Claire. I have it as as a frog . Really? It sounds like a pig. It's a snort. That's a snorting sound . Quit that. Quit doing that. Fibula is so limited . You tell him, Greg . You're the you can do it guy and water boy as a lying vampire. Such a limited imperson ation . Folks, this episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Listen, money stress. I feel like nobody really teaches you how to deal with it. 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Yeah, this is the Dan Levitar show with the Stu Gats . You mean to tell me that you don't feel a rumble at all? No. What rumble? I think he has lived in this kind of discomfort for so long that he is almost completely numb to it. Do you guys remember when former UFC champion Daniel Cormet was on with us and his alarm, uh, the alarm on his fire alarm kept beating beeping because the battery was dead? The smoke detector. The smoke detector, thank you. Alarm of the fire alarm. The soundtrack to many recruiting interviews. You gotta get that battery fixed. Uh and his response was to like, you guys can hear that too? Because I've been hearing that for months. Where is that sound coming from? Uh he doesn't hear his own stomach make these sounds because he's been living with these sounds for so long that he's numb to him. No, nobody hears their own stomach. Greg, your stomach is making these kinds of sounds. If you don't hear it, you should at the very least feel it. That kind of sound has to come with a physical feeling that's running through your stomach. No, I uh like when I have dancing swords, I feel that in in a lower region . It it may make the list. You know, souffles in the oven. That's callback, right? No, he's right. He's right about that. Thank you. I wanted to get to, and I'm too late in getting to it, uh a news that was, I would say, fairly unusual yesterday, even though all of us could have seen it coming. It has been a really long time since Tiger Woods was a meaningful competitive golfer . He exists in an area unlike most others who have ever played games in that he was so dominant and in his sport people can win old that there is a large contingent of people who move the ratings in golf because they think he can still win when he can't. This has been the case for damn near 15 years. But that hope keeps him so relevant that when he goes to rehab, even though it's not uh unexpected because all of us were shouting some form of somebody get him help, he needs help, tiger, please get yourself some help because everyone was seeing some of the symptoms of addiction when you keep turning over your car and the police find pills on you and you've already turned over your car in the way that almost made you lose a leg. And I've been talking about the seven back surgeries and the pain of the seven back surgeries. Can you look up how many leg surgeries he's had as well? Just because uh I imagine if you guys have ever talked to anybody who's had never mind minor back pain, but just chronic back pain, and now multiply that by whatever is seven surgeries, and I'm I'm gonna guess he's had fifteen leg surgeries as well. This this guy has been medic ated for a long time in order to do what he uh still tries to do because it's who he is, but can no no longer do that way at all because he's Uh grain of salt with uh Google AI overview, but five knee surgeries, two Achilles tendon procedures. We just talked about this, Mike. You're like, yeah, I'm gonna Yeah, I'm in live programming and and that that's why I couched it. Don't go Google. Like he's in the middle of a point. You're interrupting. How did you receive the news, Greg, when you saw something that I think we're all uh made sad uh by , but I do I have not talked to your son about this, who's a golf fan. I believe, and I know riches make it so that it makes it very hard for people to absorb what I'm about to say. I believe that Tiger Woods is a prisoner in his own body, and that that body is racked with pain and his life is far less lovely than we imagine it probably is I have an eternal uh fascination with Tiger Woods, and I have for thirty years. I think he's one of the most interesting athletes and post athletes in in my li fetime. Uh I think Tiger Woods is still the biggest thing in golf, even though it's been four years since he's played on tour with any regularity because of all these injuries. Um I I wish him well. I'm I'm glad that he's taking care of himself or appearing to make an effort to take care of what has been a pretty obvious problem of his for years. Do you think I have this wrong though in uh citing as unusual, how unusual the hope is that a 50-year-old, this guy's close to my age. That a 50-year-old still Hey, he can win the Masters. Golf guys can win when they're old. That hope makes him a still relevant athlete. It's more relevant than just about anyone else going to rehab outside of LeBron. Like in American sports? In in American sports, we talked about Steph Curry and LeBron giving over the league. Tigers still hasn't given over golf. The numbers spike every time he does anything. If he played, if he were to play and he won't now, I'm sure. If he were to play in the Masters next week, the TV ratings would be up twenty percent. And if he made the cut and played on a Sunday and and was only three back or whatever, the i y it would be like a a major deal. Let's talk about though the lack of precedent for what it is that you're witnessing. An athlete in his fifties is supposed to be washed up. This is someone who I don't know how many years are we from what is the relevant playing career of Tiger Woods? The merit-based excellence. How long has it been since Tiger Woods could reasonably be considered to possibly win a tournament? He won the Masters in 2019. So it's been about that long. And it was an incredible comeback, sorry, that had everyone glued to their television. That makes people think that he could do it again six years later. Right. It's the possibility. And and you see that in golf in a way you don't see it in other sports. Up until a few years ago, Freddie Couples had a reputation of being the old golfer who would really rise in the majors and and make a cut and and ready couples at the at the masters getting people excited? Dan, you remember Tom Watson at the British Open? Yes. I just uh I just texted the PTI guys, just texted him. You know what I miss the people who produce PTI. You know what I miss most about all things ESPN ? That first round Thursday of the British Open when I could talk about Jim Furick in the A blo What a repulsive tournament to look at on TV. Did you text them all together in a group or like individual? Do you have all the shows by group text like the around the horn guy? Is it titled PTI guys? How grateful were you for Tom Watson? He gave you three days. He did. Tom Watson gave us a run . Whenever Tony and Mike would take off, I'd get stuck on that Thursday with talk for a minute and a half about Jim Fuhrick. Make it interesting. Unique swing. Lead the show. Give us all you got on VJ Singh. VJ . The thing about this story though, uh that really resonates for me, okay, this is a strong man , weakened by humanity, by frailties. Uh we've done the pop psychology the last couple of days of trying to please your dad, dad, you know, buried in an unmarked grave. I urge you all to watch the HBO Max uh un una uthorized documentary, because Tiger did not participate in it on its two parts, and it's pretty exhaustive and uh well reported . Much like Tom Brady had two Hall of Fame careers, Tiger Woods has had two careers . He's got everything before the public adultery, and then everything afterward, and how it is that we absorb him. And it's two gener ations of information, two of them totally different. One is Prodigy, Excellence. His dad did such a good job. Look at the robot he made. He's on Merv Greffin as a child. He was programmed for this. This was gonna be, he made all his dad's dreams come true. He must be so happy. Then the next 20 years for an entire generation of oh, that used to be Tiger Woods, he's got his demons. Those are all things that we haven't quite seen of our Michael Jordan's and our Tom Brady's before, where the temptations grab you and they range from sex addiction to loneliness to drugs and now painkillers because what you do physically hurts and, the torque of swinging that way with a bad back means that every single morning you wake up and where the hell are the meds? What do I need to do? Not to feel high, not to feel low. What do I need to do? It's not I can't even get to the highs anymore. What do I need to do to not feel low? And you're the greatest champion we've known. Like, think about what that is to age. However, remember I told you guys the story of this was God almighty, twenty five years ago. I told you guys the story of feeling sad for Michael Jordan while in China because I'm like, you used to be the symbol for all the globe on what youth is, and I'm seeing you struggle up the stairs of the Berlin Wall. That must be tougher to age like him. Would probably be a little bit ad. Although I wouldn't think past MJ. That's right. Thank you. Dan, I don't think you should apologize. Folks, listen up. DraftKings Sportsbook, the number one sports book for live betting, is built for March. The tournament is unpredictable, but the rewards are guaranteed. And DraftKings is delivering some of the most generous rewards in the market. New to DraftKings, bet just $5 and get $200 in bonus bets instantly. Download the DraftKings Sportsbook app now and use code Dan. That's code Dan to turn five bucks into 200 in bonus bets instantly in partnership with DraftKings. The crown is yours. Gambling problem, call 1-800-GAMBLER or 1-800-MYRESE. New York call 877-8 Hope and Y or text Hope and Y. 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The the thing that I find interesting to the mic about everything happening with him is that he's suffering . He's suffering at the end of what could have been his life in a couple of these accidents. Yeah. And he's never quite retired either. It's it it it would be one thing if five years ago he went out on top after winning the his last major in nineteen, but he hasn't. He's still hanging on. And I've among the fascinating things I find about him is that he's gone from the peak of excellence to the ultimate underdog. And those are the two things we love in sports: the best and the underdog. And and he's that underdog right now. If he played the Masters next week, nobody in his right mind thinks he's gonna win. But the possibility is still there of him in a red shirt on a Sunday. And and that's enough. He he's I I I root for him. I I am a homer when it comes to Tiger Woods. I wish him nothing but the best. I hope he has one more major in him, if not to win it, at least to be in it. This part is interesting though, the way this stuff changes, because I think that Patino was somebody who had a lot of people rooting for him in this last tournament. It is an unusual thing . It is an unusual thing for us to bury someone when they betray us with what their public image is , and then at the end, sometimes come around just like human beings on forgiveness and being someone who roots for Tiger Woods. Because I just remember the specifics so much of when he cheated on his wife , he lost so many of you with what it was that felt like betrayal. Like you thought you knew that guy, and he did something that even though you know men can't be trusted. He did something that made you feel betrayed on what his public image was, because you were force fed for 20 years by Nike and everyone else, by his dad and everyone else. This is the prodigy. He's gonna save the country club. This guy is perfect. He's a robot of golf. And and now he's the face of fallibility. The guy in police mugshots. It's just such a spiral his image has taken that you root for him. I do anyway. You know, he's he's wildly imperfect and and that makes him interesting to me. It's interesting how few golf fans I can think of that have like turned on Tiger It's just, oh, he cheated on his wife. It's like this guy was banging waitresses from Shoney's, man. Like that was the part where everyone like, whoa Perkins Yeah. Probably Shonys too. Probably . It's easy to confuse the two. But yeah, in in the middle of that PR storm, it was bad. He he got out of it. Why? Because he has an adoring public. Beloved. Yes. He's beloved. Fortunately for him and others, he hasn't hurt anybody, which was the easy stance to take on this, which is you're gonna get somebody else hurt. All right, you're dealing with your demons. Don't take somebody down with you. He hasn't done that. He's only hurting himself right now and his family, and he can dig himself out of it, and he's got the support of everyone, including the media. Everybody likes Tiger. Hell, the media needs Tiger. The sport needs Tiger still at this age. He's in a good spot to get right. What an unusual interesting thing, though, to remember the specifics of this press conference that he did in front of a blue screen in Orlando. The reason I remember it is because there was so much howling around him because uh we had seen some threads of his private life come out in public and he was uh womanizing uh hound . The The braying betrayal of howling at him made it so in front of that blue screen in Orlando after hearing people be like, give us an apology, explain yourself. What the hell is this? He's holding his mom in front of us, and I'm like, why did anyone want this? We wanted this, we wanted this, we called for this, we wanted this, and now we're watching it. Ooh, we didn't want this., This this doesn't feel good from that point, whatever the frailty and the fallibility is it in it , he gets to go in the most unusual way from conquering hero, to fallible human being, to the support of everyone being like, we're rooting for you, tiger, and it helps him not at all at the core of the physical pain, never mind the emotional pain. The physical pain of he gets up every morning and where are my pills? I need I need more than I've ever needed because I've had so many surgeries, because my body, and I'm still out here trying to be the guy I was because I need to please my adoring public. I need to be the guy my dad thought I was. Like I need to keep being out here competing, because without competing, who am I? I'm just the guy poppin' pills. I gave my entire body over to all of this and now I can't stop taking the pills. Yeah, when you carry two pills with you on the road, that's that's a definite indication. I wonder about his mental health. I do. I wonder if he's had therapy. I I I know he uh early on when the only person he owed an apology to was his wife, uh he claimed a sex addiction uh addiction. I wonder if he has had work on his mental health. I know he says now he's going into therapy for uh presumably the pill addiction, but maybe he needs something beyond that. I guess when I ask you for your support or whatever it is on seeing the human parts of what Tiger Woods is as an immortal, the mortal parts of the immortal, it's just this . Imagine every morning you get up in the morning and your back is just killing you. That you can't, that you can't move around and function because you keep you need another surgery. You need an eighth surgery because the the the they cut you open and they can't fix it. Like you say his mental health. I'm talking about his physical health because people who are in this kind of pain do harm themselves. They think about harming themselves because that ends the pain . Yeah, but we assume right now that he's in constant pain. How could you not, though, is what I'm saying. How could you not if he doesn't if the if the culture of sports is and the culture of men is don't tell anybody about how you hurt. Right. Just hide that. Don't tell the public. You're you're part of a marketing machine. You are many economies over. Don't go out there and tell anybody you got a pill problem. Don't go out there and tell anybody how broken you are physically because that's weakness. Nothing there's nothing about anything that rewards him being vulnerable in public. Nothing. But I'm just not assuming he's in constant pain. I would just ass as soon ume that maybe he's over medicating himself. Maybe he's taking pills for pain that isn't really there. I have no idea. So that'll just make people hold their heart and go on even more. But he hasn't been No, he could buy more by being vulnerable, but very clearly this is a dude that values his privacy. This was the last stop, right? Like he didn't have any more get out of jail free cards without using the hey Okay, and I don't know what the pressures and hardships because he's never revealed them. He does not talk about this stuff. I don't know. He was burned in the first interview he ever gave. He was in the back of a limo with Charles Pierce. He made some sort of lesbian joke and then the whole machine shut out shut down around him, like at the very beginning of his career. He never said anything interesting again. He was never himself again in public, not one time ever. He was always tell me if I have this wrong, Greg, just marching marketing robot for Nike. Yeah, right. The the Michael Jordan aesthetic. You know, where he's not gonna say anything particularly interesting or anything to damn himself. But yes, of course. What you guys are saying is part of the rehab tour if what he cares about is the op tics and the business of being Tiger Woods, because it's a giant business, giant business. If that's what he cares about on how this looks, yes, of course, he sits down and talks about all of this . But we've never seen it in his career. Like the the fact that this guy has been in public for 30 years and the dirt is what you know because you don't really know anything else about him. You know the up bringing, you know the story. The darkness was revealed to you by accident. He didn't ever want any of that scene, still doesn't, goes to rehab now to avoid the embarrassment of it because there must be great shame in all of this And but yet overriding all of that, what we do know about Tiger Woods is the excellence that is virtually unparalleled. And beyond that, in a way that Jack Nicholas never did, he revolutionized golf. He opened the doors to people of color to be interested in golf. Uh and and I think that's a generational thing. That lasts. That's his legacy to me. Isn't just the 15 majors, it's that he revolutionized golf. Dan, I've got the solution for Tiger Woods. Right? So we've been talking for three days now. Tiger, just get a driver. And it's like, no, I don't want driver. My privacy and all that stuff. And we've been fighting. Like, how do we figure it out? I got the solution. Waymo. Get Tiger Woods a Waymo now he don't have to worry about drivers and privacy or anything like that and he's not behind the wheel. Your solution is to put Tiger in a car that is literally surrounded by cameras . I must admit I did not think this through. He should build his own Waymo. That's like, this is mine . Your solution. That's an idea, man, right there, folks. Your solution. How much just for this one? I want it forever. A Waymo with no cam eras. Even Mo. So you're telling Tiger Woods the solution for get a driver is get a car that doesn't have a driver. That's right. Don't know why I showed up. Hold on. It's very limited. Fibula. Fibula Fibula is a very limited impersonation, and I'm here for him being here the rest of the week. Uh I want to get to a story that I've not been able to get to because I miss Angel Hernandez. I know you all love to complain about the officiating and umpiring, but we have in C B Buckner somebody who is angling for being the greatest of all time at being the worst of all time at umpiring. The things going on with C.B. Buckner right now make him so that he is the rare baseball umpire that makes his way out of the sport into now. I just associate him with incompetence. Yes. An umpire that I a name I now just associate, like Angel Hernandez with this guy's gonna get it wrong in ways that are publicly embarrassing. This guy is just my hero. It's now you have to tune in whenever CB Buckner. He's behind the dish tonight. Last week he made news for missing multiple calls, having a bunch of challenges go against him, the crowd cheering anytime he got it wrong. And last night he was at first base, so a little appetizer before today when he's behind the dish, and he just flat out a runner running to first base, clearly touches the bag, and then Buckner ends they end up tagging him and Buckner's like he never touched first. So he's out.