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This is for the people who said "they'll just be there Wednesday, what's the big deal!?" And here they are on the main broadcast.


Who is asking for this? Who is sitting at home watching and saying “Heck yeah! More Kevin Hart!”
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Augusta has simultaneously cracked down on the secondary market for tickets and let clowns like this guy in. Shameful.


Assuming that isn’t AI, the person that provided them the badge should be banned.
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Jack almost killed a bunch of media members on the opening tee with his tee shot


Well done Jack!
It’s been getting worse each year. Went from hit & giggle to clownshow.
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Jason Kelce is getting a lot of blow back.


And it’s probably unfair to him. I don’t really hate the guy but that shite today was a jumping the shark moment for the Par 3 contest.

Even the Waste Management dialed it back when it started to become a parody of itself. Augusta needs to do the same and I agree, it starts with telling ESPN to settle down.
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Fred Ridley just said he regretted doing the Dude Perfect thing, then allows this crap. Makes no sense.


He’s part of the problem then. They’ve done too much to lift the veil and take away the mystique since he’s been chairman.
It’s an excellent watch. Highly recommend.
There’s a ton of pushback online and X about all of this. Will be interesting to see if ANGC keeps moving forward with this or if there are still some traditionalists there who want to dial this bullshite back.

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Bryson has Kevin Hart as his caddy?? Is that worse than Jason Kelce?


Y’all remember when Gary McCord was banned for life from even walking on the property for saying the greens were slicker than bikini wax?

Now we’ve got all of this bullshite. ESPN destroys everything they touch.
I’m glad to be the Old Man yelling at the cloud but the Par 3 contest has become one of the clownish events. It could be an amazing sports spectacle but they turn it into the absolute worst version of a hit & giggle.

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The Masters in general has jumped the shark in the last 10-15 years. So many people that don’t care at all about golf celebrating “masters week” all just to do stuff to take instagram pictures


I’d say post-Covid, AGNC has done a lot to lift the veil to take away the mystique. Whether that’s a good thing or bad thing is up for debate.
Seeing influencers with their “Masters haul” all over social has made the term “Masters Slop” a thing I’d never thought I’d hear.
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Plenty of people I know who had been in TP for decades gave their tix up this year.


Except for the actual game on the field, it’s basically a different sport than what it was just two years ago. Expanded playoff makes regular season games less meaningful and the portal/NIL means less of a connection to the rosters.

Throw in the move to ESPN and really feels like the version of college football we all loved ended on the field at the Rose Bowl two years ago.
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Agree but he does have to stretch the rules a bit.


For sure, but almost every movie this century has Bond not just disobeying a few orders but operating “rogue” or tendering his resignation in some form or fashion. It’s a tired trope at this point.

Make Bond Great Again
Brosnan was fine in Goldeneye, his middle two were meh, and Die Another Day was so bad that it forced them to completely reboot the franchise.

Casino Royale is arguably the best Bond movie and set them up to have a great, but grounded, series. Then they just went completely haywire. Skyfall was good but it was nostalgia bait and it a little overrated but it to also set up a good series of follow up movies. Then they completely shite the bed with Spectre. Instead of letting that be the end of Craig, they doubled down with an even more bastardized movie in No Time To Die.

It’s been almost 30 years since we had a normal Bond movie where he gets an assignment and goes on a mission. There’s no going rogue. No personal connection. No internal conflict that has him questioning his place in the world. Just a regular Bond movie.
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Perhaps it’s a geographical thing?


From 2006 until 2023, every national champion (minus Ohio State in 2014) was in a 500+ mile radius in the Deep South. That wasn’t a coincidence.
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"rock the frick out of the Pimento and Azalea hats".


Time to find a good divorce attorney so you can also get full custody of the kids so they can’t be exposed to that…..

I said this in the other thread, but the “Derby-fication” of the Masters is a growing thing each year.
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It's not good for the game.


I’m sure some TV exec can show us a balance sheet and tv ratings chart to prove otherwise, but I don’t think it’s good long term either.
Look at the demographic map of the SEC. That helped a ton. Now the money is a lot more than a Dodge Charger, a new home for your “uncle,” or a laundry bag of cash dropped off at your dad’s church. So kids are willing to travel further from home.

The good thing about the old system is that it kept the market in check somewhat.