PIP reactions and KVV with #FBF on Phil Mickelson’s deluded pro baseball tryout
The Shotgun Start
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🗓️ 3 March 2022
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
ESPN Senior Writer Kevin Van Valkenburg joins this early “Friday” episode with some delightful insights on golf news past and present. The trio begin with reaction to the final PIP results announcement, from Tiger deciding to poke Phil about his premature celebration to Bubba Watson sneaking in the backdoor top 10 to the Hideki omission. At Bay Hill, Rory’s comments on starting to welcome Phil back into the tent and forgiving him are inspected closely. The Masters Fact of the Day makes its triumphant return as does Flashback Friday. For this one, KVV requested Andy and Brendan come in cold as he takes them on a magical ride re-telling the mid-career boredom endeavor of Phil Mickelson believing, and actually trying, to pitch in high professional baseball, getting a tryout with the AAA Toledo Mudhens with begrudging approval from their major league affiliate Detroit Tigers. It’s a solid 20 minutes of cackling at some of the truly amazing quotes around the experiment that KVV dug up, so thanks to him for his time and contribution to the episode.
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| 0:00.0 | Now the shotgun's starting golf is full of mathematics, there's a lot of a lot of setup work that we have to do in order to make a tournament work, so I'm going to demonstrate to you just exactly how we do a shotgun start here. |
| 0:14.0 | And here we go. |
| 0:17.0 | All right, all right, all right. |
| 0:21.0 | Ladies and gentlemen, start your engine! |
| 0:38.0 | Greetings and welcome to a Friday edition of the Shotgun Start. It is March 4th. Andy, how are we doing? |
| 0:44.0 | Brendan and Kevin! |
| 0:47.0 | We are joined by ESPN. What's the title now? Senior Reader? What is it? |
| 0:57.0 | Senior Reader sounds like a great gig. |
| 1:00.0 | Senior Reader? What is it? Come on, be formal with us. |
| 1:05.0 | It's a senior writer. |
| 1:07.0 | Kevin Van Volkenberg, doing a little more golf writing, wrote about Aaron Rogers, it's just a mix of everything. |
| 1:13.0 | What was your last thing Tiger Woods, right? |
| 1:16.0 | Yeah, Kevin. |
| 1:18.0 | I decided to make all the Tiger fanboys real mad by asking some basic questions from the police report. |
| 1:26.0 | Oh, yeah. |
| 1:27.0 | Basic questions, yeah. |
| 1:28.0 | He's the one who said it's in the police report, so. |
| 1:31.0 | That's true. |
| 1:32.0 | We looked in the police report, but I was just doing what Tiger said. |
| 1:35.0 | That's true. That's true. |
| 1:37.0 | Yep, yep. Definitely some questions raised from that report, which you wrote about eloquently for ESPN. |
| 1:42.0 | Thank you for joining us. Thanks for the time. |
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