Slugger re-surfaces, Euro Tour re-brands, and Ben Rothenberg on tennis

The Shotgun Start

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Sports, Golf

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

This Friday episode begins with some quick discussion around Slugger White joining up with Greg Norman and the Saudi-backed LIV Golf Investments, as well as the European Tour becoming the “DP World Tour” with a 47-event schedule. There’s also a reading of an extremely weird Slugger and Norman moment illustrative of why they might be working together again. Then Andy and Brendan continue on with their Friday guest routine to go decisively off-golf-topic with Ben Rothenberg, a tennis writer for the New York Times, Racquet Magazine, and host of the No Challenges Remaining podcast. It was suggested to them that tennis has many of the same structural and organizational issues, and strengths, that golf currently grapples with and that Ben would be the perfect guest to orient them on that. It’s an interesting and edifying discussion on another sport that should resonate with the golf nut who might know little (or a lot!) about pro tennis.

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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	Gentlemen, start your engine!
0:36.0	Greetings and welcome to a Friday edition of the shotgun start. It is November 12th. Andy, how are we doing?
0:43.0	Brendan, I'm doing all right. I'm a little tired. I have a little bittersweet moment here.
0:50.0	I'm down in the dungeon. This will be the last shotgun start recorded in the dungeon.
0:55.0	Dungeon crew. Yeah.
0:56.0	The good news though is that I've got my blazing fast Chicago Internet. I'm out of DC. I'm out of...
1:07.0	The clogged up fires. Yeah, and the wobbly wires, the clogged wires, all the things that the infrastructure of DC, you're incredibly grainy right now.
1:17.0	My Wi-Fi is struggling a lot, but yours is better now that you got out of your DC hotel room.
1:22.0	We apologize for the Wednesday episode being cut short. I actually, we don't apologize, you know, whatever. It was discounted. It was half off.
1:29.0	You don't have to pay as much for that one as you normally do. And you got some insights, some jokes, some analysis.
1:37.0	I told you had your 6 a.m. flight, it was a coffee shop open. And the air pressure for your 6 a.m. flight.
1:44.0	Well, there was a coffee shop open. I couldn't believe it. The Dunk of Donuts wasn't open.
1:49.0	You know, this is the first one I walked by. I was just, I just needed coffee. Of course, I, you know, there was a coffee maker in my room.
1:58.0	But I knew I'd exhaust my cups. Sure.
2:03.0	So I was making one and I realized I didn't have a cup. And then I get to the, get to the airport. And I'm like, all right, well, get something there.
2:14.0	I walked by Dunk of Donuts. Doesn't open till 6.
2:19.0	Hey, what are we doing in the airport? What are you doing every day? There's flights at 6. Probably a thousand people walk by that before it opened.
2:30.0	Potentially. Yeah. Yeah. So you're back. We are recording this early. Again, this is absolutely not close to November 12th. It's Wednesday, November 10th.
2:40.0	And we're being realistic. That time doesn't matter for the intro. We have a great guest today. It's Ben Rothenberg, tennis writer, tennis podcaster.
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