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John Smoltz, he stopped by yesterday. We had a chance to talk to him.

He, of course, is the lead analyst for Fox Baseball. He's a Hall of Famer as well.

And I ask him, what is tougher to master?

Baseball or golf?

Golf.

Yeah.

It's just, there's too many elements that, you know, no teammates to bail you out, right?

And you've got to be fundamentally sound and mentally strong because there's always a weakness in some part of your game, the golf course will find it even if you try to

stay away from it so i've never been nervous literally in a baseball game other than the first time i

threw a pitch when i got signed and in golf i can play practice rounds with anybody i'll play

anybody because there's not the same pressure when you get in a tournament it, it's different. But you've played with Tiger before. Yeah. No pressure? No. You just know if you miss the green, you lose.

I mean, and plus I said something to Tiger, the same thing I said to Maddox in their sports, I said, Greg, how hard is it to pitch when it's 02 on every hitter?

Like, seriously? But he got 02 on every hitter. That's what made him so special.

And I told Tiger, I said, how hard is to play golf when you know what club to hit every time?

He said, you know, his ability to be creative and just pure shots after, I mean, that's obviously why he's the greatest ever play

but also the ball isn't moving right it's right there and it's it almost

paralyzes people and it's not moving well professional golf ruins all casual

golfers ruins because they see the professional golfers stare at a two-foot

put for about a minute and a half they go go through their routine. They're very, I mean, they're playing for tons of money. They're playing on incredible conditions. And then you watch the average golfer just try to do the same thing. And it does parallel. The longer you stay over the ball, the worse it gets, unless you're a professional. And so there is true that the ball's not moving, and then you think about, you know,

if you have any negative thoughts, you're done.

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