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  1. Retired_Scribe

    Fore, please: 2025 Masters thread

    Agree with both comments. My wife knows I talk back at the TV when The Mouths make stupid comments. She said I was in rare form Sunday.
  2. Retired_Scribe

    Fore, please: 2025 Masters thread

    Yeah, guess you're right. I guess if you don't make the cut and no amateur plays 4 rounds, there is no "low" amateur.
  3. Retired_Scribe

    Fore, please: 2025 Masters thread

    Anyone recall when The Masters' low amateur wasn't in Butler Cabin.
  4. Retired_Scribe

    Fore, please: 2025 Masters thread

    Jim Nantz mentioned McIlroy's parents enough to earn a quad bogey. He mentioned them again and it was Mission Accomplished as he got Rory to cry. Reminds me of the old Groucho Marx line, adopted for this post: "Jim Nantz hasn't stopped talking since the first tee shot... he must have been...
  5. Retired_Scribe

    Fore, please: 2025 Masters thread

    Freakin' Nantz and Immelman spoke it out of existence with their comments about McIlroy. If he doesn't win the playoff, from now on any golfer that blows a lead will be called a "Rory."
  6. Retired_Scribe

    Fore, please: 2025 Masters thread

    But... sputter... but... CBS' opening for The Masters was all about McIlroy vs. DeChambeau.
  7. Retired_Scribe

    Fore, please: 2025 Masters thread

    The Masters could be arrested for abusive behavior.
  8. Retired_Scribe

    Fore, please: 2025 Masters thread

    Holy FORK, Rory. What a damn great 2nd shot.
  9. Retired_Scribe

    Fore, please: 2025 Masters thread

    Uh... hello chokers.
  10. Retired_Scribe

    Fore, please: 2025 Masters thread

    WTF is the deal with CBS the last two weekends? No leads were safe in the Final Four a week ago and in just a few minutes, The Masters' leaderboard flipped upside down.
  11. Retired_Scribe

    CFB offseason thread 2025

    If there's anything we should learn and understand: Lessons are never learned when it comes from spending money in competitive situations. Some team/school will ALWAYS overpay if it thinks the player is THE ANSWER. PT Barnum was right: "There's a sucker born every minute." And the birth rate...
  12. Retired_Scribe

    Fore, please: 2025 Masters thread

    Must say that CBS Masters coverage is below average. They need to do a better job with player info graphics and post 'em every time a player is on the screen. Seems like they're getting better.
  13. Retired_Scribe

    Fore, please: 2025 Masters thread

    My wife and I are watching the third round. Rory's chip shop on No. 3 landed and checked up to a full stop. "How does he do that?" she asked. I consider myself an above-average golfer, pretty consistent shooting in the 80s. My answer: "I have no idea." :)
  14. Retired_Scribe

    Freelance vagabond

    Please pardon the nostalgia post. The Johnny Cash song "I've Been Everywhere" comes to mind when I review some of the places that have provided freelance gigs since I left the ranks of the employed in October 2016. Thanks to the Muck Rack site, my awful old guy memory has been sufficiently...
  15. Retired_Scribe

    2024-25 College Basketball Thread

    No smile from this retired scribe. OSM was meh and is formulaic - little-known mascots, characters, fans, above-average plays, sad players, happy players. The names and teams are changed to protect the assistant directors editing the footage.
  16. Retired_Scribe

    2024-25 College Basketball Thread

    It also pays off to be the conference darling of Disney's sports network.
  17. Retired_Scribe

    2024-25 College Basketball Thread

    Florida's team overcomes deficits like its coach overcomes in-house Title IX investigations.
  18. Retired_Scribe

    2024-25 College Basketball Thread

    Florida overcomes deficits like Todd Golden overcomes Title IX investigations.
  19. Retired_Scribe

    2024-25 College Basketball Thread

    Florida FTs: 17-of-21 Houston FTs: 9-of-14
  20. Retired_Scribe

    Writing for mags like The New Yorker, GQ, Esquire, etc.

    Perhaps off-topic, but an interesting tidbit: Vanity Fair's former editor Graydon Carter has written an autobiography about the "good old days" when magazines mattered. Bryan Burrough, who became a top writer at VF, dropped this nugget: "For twenty-five years, I was contracted to produce three...
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