PMT DB
PMT DB
Shinnecock provided the vibes, and Wyndham Clark provided the mandatory grape. The guys are back to recap a bizarre US Open where the gallery treated an American champion like a foreign invader. PFT was all for the chaos, arguing that the usual golf decorum is overrated when you have a clear villain on the course.
PFT CommenterGolf fans should be allowed to cheer for bad shots and ignore decorum
It's good that we have people like preaching some of the finer rules of decorum for golf. Like being happy that somebody that you're rooting against hit a bad shot. I think that's fine and people should be allowed to do it.
The conversation inevitably turned to Clark’s colorful history with locker rooms, specifically the hallowed grounds of Oakmont. While golf purists were clutching their pearls over a couple of broken wooden panels, Big Cat decided to lean into the heel turn, declaring his newfound enmity for historic lockers everywhere.
Big CatI fucking hate the historic locker room at Oakmont
I'm going all the way the other way. I fucking hate this [Oakmont locker room]. Also, if anybody that works at Oakmont knows what they did with the locker panels after the US Open, I would want them. We will hang them as banners.
Between fog delays and late tee times, the tournament felt disjointed, and PFT wasn't buying the excuses for the slow pace of play. He’s ready for the PGA to stop treating 150-yard walk-ups like a survival mission.
PFT CommenterGolfers should be tough enough to play through fog delays instead of load managing the course
I didn't care for the fog delay on Thursday. I think you gotta play through the fog. You gotta play through. Yeah. We're doing load management for courses now too. You gotta play, you gotta play through a little fog. It's a cloud. Are golfers so soft that they can't play with clouds?
Soccer is Officially Back
The USMNT is rolling after a dominant performance against Australia, and Big Cat is ready to plan the parade. The energy in Seattle was unmatched, and even though we're still in the group stages, the confidence level is at an all-time high. Big Cat is already eyeing a deep run, even if the new tiebreaker rules are trying to ruin the drama.
Big CatUSMNT is the best soccer team in the world until someone tells me differently
We are the best at soccer. We beat Australia, the Socceroos, two-nothing on Friday. It was picture-perfect. Scene in Seattle... and we're the best. We're the best. We're the best in the world until someone tells me differently. Until we lose.
Big CatThe new head-to-head tiebreaker rules for the World Cup group stage suck
The new rules for how to win a group suck. They basically eliminated these third games meaning anything for half of the groups. It's now the head-to-head is now the tiebreaker. Not total goals... they've eliminated probably, I don't know, six games that just will have no meaning whatsoever.
Hank, ever the contrarian, tried to rain on the parade by suggesting the USMNT is only relevant because they’re the hosts. He compared the current run to a participation trophy, which went over about as well as you’d expect with the rest of the booth.
HankThe USMNT doesn't deserve credit for winning their World Cup group because they were handed a charity draw as the host nation
If we didn't qualify, like if we earned it, maybe I could get, but it's like we, oh, you're gonna get it's a cookie cutter. We just got like a, a charity. A charity like entry. And then they gave us a charity group. ... So obviously we won our group because they was set up for us to win our group. ... We won a T-ball game once we had a home run and t-ball.
To bridge the gap between American sports fans and the beautiful game, PFT suggested leaning into what we do best: pageantry and noise. If we want the US to truly embrace soccer, we need to stop trying to be English and start being obnoxious.
PFT CommenterUS soccer matches should adopt American college football traditions like whiteouts and marching bands
We've got the best sports traditions in the world right here in the United States. Just do those. LSU 'Neck' would be a perfect example dude, put a marching band in the crowd, turn all the lights off in the stadium before the games kicks off and then blast 'Enter Sandman'.
Max Homa and George Kittle Join the Show
Max Homa called in to give the pro's perspective on the US Open, and he didn't hold back on his desire for more carnage. While the broadcast talked up the difficulty of the course, Homa felt the fescue was a bit too forgiving for a major championship.
Max HomaThe fescue at Shinnecock was disappointing and didn't provide enough of a penalty for bad shots
My complaint this week as a fan of carnage, I didn't think the Fescue did anything. ... You're teasing us. Like I want you, you're telling me this is gonna be hard. I'm excited for like the not top 10 play. ... And it just felt like everybody was just hitting it in there and like a 12, everyone's just whacking it up on the green. So I miss that.
He even proposed a practical solution to make bunkers actually feel like hazards again. Forget the perfectly groomed sand; Homa wants the rakes to do some damage.
Max HomaGolf course bunkers should have wider teeth on the rakes to make them real penalties
Jack Nicklaus did it at his course for a while where his rakes had thicker teeth. And when you went in there, it would sit down and again, as a player it's annoying, but it's also like, man, you shouldn't be in the sand then. We need to make this shit harder. We gotta start calling penalties. Make the teeth on the bunker rakes wider.
George Kittle also stopped by to hype up the start of Tight End U in Nashville. Amidst the talk of Lucha masks and Brandon Aiyuk’s social media activity, Kittle got serious about player safety and the ongoing battle for natural grass across the NFL.
George Kittle90% of NFL players prefer grass fields; teams should install them everywhere
Put me on a soapbox man. I mean, if you can put grass in MetLife and in SoFi, I think you could do that year-round if you really gave a shit... I think if you polled every single player, I would say probably 90% would prefer grass field. Why not just spend a couple extra million dollars? Which you, we know they all have. Just grass all the fields. It doesn't seem that difficult.
Kittle also played a little scout, evaluating how NBA freak Victor Wembanyama would hold up in the trenches. While the height is an advantage in the air, Kittle pointed out that in the NFL, being that tall just makes you a bigger target for safeties.
George KittleVictor Wembanyama would struggle at tight end because his height creates a huge target area for safeties to hit
If he was only running a fade? Yeah, maybe. I think part of me thinks he would get the hell jammed out of him at the line of scrimmage though. ... Not a lot of base. And also if he tried to run like a crossing route across the middle, I think his, he's getting taken out pretty quickly. ... Like if you're a receiver or a tight end and you're over six six, you're that, that like your ankle to like hip, that's a huge target for safeties to just run through.
Mount Rushmore of Deli Meats
The episode wrapped with a highly contentious Mount Rushmore of Deli Meats. What should have been a simple discussion about sliced proteins devolved into a civil war over the merits of Turkey. Max and Hank couldn't agree on whether you can actually enjoy a slice of turkey on its own, leading to some of the most heated debate of the young season.
HankTurkey is a dry meat; you can't just eat a slice of it by itself
Turkey is a good deli meat, but it's gotta be, you know you have turkey sandwiches... eating a slice of turkey, unless it's super fresh, not the greatest. You can eat salami [by itself]. You can't just eat turkey.
It turns out that even on a show about sports and nonsense, nothing gets the blood boiling quite like the moisture content of a cold cut.
