Chapter 1: What recent sports events are discussed at the start of the episode?
Hey, it's Tony. On today's show, we'll talk to Chris Clary about a huge upset at the French Open, and we'll chat with Paul Feinbaum about what's been going on in the SEC this week, and college football in general. But first, commerce.
Previously on the Tony Kornheiser Show. And then 2010, I got a concussion about 14 months before that tournament. I would have gone to that World Cup. But did you go in 2002? No, because I was young. I was so young. So you've never been in the World Cup? No. No, I've been an alternate many a times, which is fun.
Well, you're too old now, or I would lead a campaign to get you on this team.
Yeah, no, it's great. Tony, let's talk about my dog dying two years ago. Oh, God. The Tony Kornheiser Show is on now.
From Steve Gilmore in San Angelo, Texas, dear Dr. Potato Man, when you're trying to crush Taylor Twellman's soul by reminding him of all his misfortunes, at least remember to remind him he missed out on his opportunity to play at Augusta National. Remember that when he talks about that? He's fabulous. Oh, he's terrific. Just fabulous. All right.
We have to play golf with him next month. I'd love to do that. If he's traveling through the East Coast to go up to Philly. Yeah, because there's no games here.
So we'll try and play with him.
You're like the only big city that didn't get the matches, right?
It's not like it's a big summer. Unbelievable. Um, so you're probably expecting me to talk about the basketball and have guests about the basketball. I'm not Wilbon. The basketball was not unwatchable after the third quarter because it's not close. Look, um, I expected San Antonio to win. I'm happy it's going seven. I'm happy it's going seven, but the games aren't good. It's a bad product, right?
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Chapter 2: What happened to Jannik Sinner at the French Open?
Wow. Being boiled and is out. And we're going to have Paul Feinbaum talk about this craziness in college football where the Big Ten and the SEC are now... you know, trying to hit each other in the face and figure stuff out. So we're staying away from the basketball. We've done so much. I mean, I'm going to have to do it on PTI, obviously. It's every day it's the lead story.
But that was a lousy game in terms of a game.
Do you think the fact that there's going to be a Game 7 makes up for the fact that you've sort of weakened the story of the Knicks just because it's going to be a full week before you see them again?
I think game sevens are better than anything else. So if you have an opportunity for a game seven, that gets you to sit in front of the set. Yeah. Doesn't mean you'll sit there for 48 minutes. But you'll watch. But yes. Yeah. So no, I think the game seven is a big deal. And I think it'll be ginned up for the Knicks. Things aren't going to start until June 3rd. So that's next Wednesday, isn't it?
Yeah, it's Wednesday. It's not going to start until then. The Knicks are going to be off. I don't know. They could actually go to Paris and watch the French Open if they wanted to. They absolutely could. You know, they're off for so long. A couple of small things. I called Dave Spector last night from Bell's Up.
Oh, that's... Because he had sent me a case of wine and I felt that was so nice that I would buy a case of wine. And he said, wow, you went through that pretty quickly. And I said, well, I got five bottles left. It's a pleasure to talk to him because people go out there and he takes them on tours of his winery. Yes. Littles, go there. It makes everybody happy. Seems very lovely.
You know, in Oregon, it makes everybody happy.
The best part about this is I get an email for the shipping information because I'm sure it's coming to my house.
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Chapter 3: How does the upset of Sinner affect Novak Djokovic's chances?
So you are so happy to reveal that you've ordered this. And I can break down what you got. Well, I don't know what I got. You got three bottles of the Candide. You got three of the Maestro. Yeah, I told them to pick it out. And we're trying that new one.
Yeah, the Italian grape. Yeah. Yeah, so yeah, I said pick out some wine.
So happy to do it. Vanilla wines, anything like that? No. A little strawberry? No.
No. I have a rant. I'm going to make it, I'm not going to really rant a lot. I'm sure I'm not the only person this happens to. I get hundreds of emails a day, unwanted emails, hundreds from people trying to sell me something, hundreds. And in most of them, there's a thing that you can press that says to unsubscribe.
But then there's another thing you have to click after that.
I press to unsubscribe, and then I get an email from, what is it, Mailer Demon? That thing that says... Hate to see you go. It says you can't get through. Your email did not go through. So you're stuck with us for life. They're taunting me. They're sending me this thing, and I say I can unsubscribe when I attempt to unsubscribe.
Yeah, but now they know that you're active.
I can't unsubscribe. They won't take the email. There should be something, a law against that.
You think at the bottom there's another thing to click? So oftentimes it opens up a new window. Then you have to, what do you want to unsubscribe from? Do you want to stay on this email list? Yeah, and then they say, why do you want to unsubscribe?
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Chapter 4: What are the current controversies in college football?
Because people sell them your name. Because at one point you bought a box of chocolate. And so people are calling you, you know, with windows to sell you. We know you like the chocolate. How about some windows for that? One other thing, too. I am now getting blind phone calls from people who are in the loan business. My phone, they call and leave messages.
Yes, you've been approved for a $32,000 loan. Just call us back. Nice. Good for you.
The credit's going up.
I don't want these. So I call back.
No, don't call. I did.
I called back and I said, you have to leave me alone. I don't want your loan. I'm doing well. Thank you. I'm old. I don't want
this my takeaway is there's no nats game last night so you don't know so so i get somebody and says yes yes yes but first i go no no first stop calling me stop i'm getting these i get the voicemails about property that i have that they're interested in the outskirts of atlanta oh it's a great opportunity But see, now that you've answered, they will mark on their log, he picks up.
You know, he's there. This is a live phone. I don't want their loan. They're going to double down now.
Let me get to the headline news. The potatoes are in the ground. Yes. Nigel and I yesterday took seed potatoes. We found out we have five bags. Nigel said we have three bags. He said we have five. And then it's, yes, sir, yes, sir, three bags full. But we have five bags. And we put dirt in. We put dirt, then the potatoes.
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Chapter 5: What is the significance of the Game 7 in the NBA playoffs?
The good dirt. Eyes up. Yep. Then potting soil, good dirt. Yep. Then more dirt. And then we'll see. Yeah. We'll see what happens. They're in bags. Now, I... If you get a good potato yield, I don't think you're going to get more than three potatoes per bag.
If we get three potatoes in total. I'll be happy. Would be a massive success for this farm.
One real potato. Yeah. And the potatoes, Michael, that you have, that Michael went out of his way to buy potatoes.
Yeah, my dinner potatoes.
But now they're going to be eaten because they didn't sprout eyes. And now we're out. We're out. We've done it. We're in the ground.
We're in the ground.
In the ground with seed potatoes.
And we've got a backup. Buster is excited. We've got a backup location to see if that, you know, has any.
Yes.
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Chapter 6: What are the challenges of managing email subscriptions?
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Chapter 7: How did Tony's potato planting go this season?
You're not allowed to treat somebody on court for that because they're considered part of your conditioning. I think that needs to change because it's just not a good look. And also, you know, the players are really suffering. But center, again...
This is a situation that's arisen before, and Juan Manuel Sarandolo was running around like a rabbit at the end of the fifth set, so it clearly wasn't a problem for every player.
Yeah, no, so I mean, that's the hard part about this. This is how the game is played. It's, you know, when it's outdoors, it's outdoors. The same thing happens in golf many, many years ago. I was alive, but nobody else was. Ken Venturi had heat stroke at the U.S. Open at Congressional. I mean, was delirious, basically, and had to be hosed down and finally won the thing.
It's considered a tremendous act of bravery. And, you know, I know what Wilbon would say. Wilbon would just say, oh, stop, grow up, play. But, you know, if you want the best of them, maybe you have to put a policy in place when it's obvious that somebody is is just going down the drain. Right.
Yeah, I mean, it's an interesting call. I think maybe they ought to move the bar a little bit if you ask me, but I think there probably still should be a bar. I don't think we should be accommodating right and left. It's an outdoor sport. I mean, maybe some guys, like I know Agassi was a great player in the wind. So when it starts to get windy, do you block the wind?
If you get too much sun, do you block the sun in your eyes? At some point, there's an element of that, right? You've got to be able to say, you know, you're in an outdoor situation. You've got to deal with this. But you don't want people going to the brink of, you know, major medical problems. And this has been a really, you know, crazy week.
And we've seen other crazy weeks in Australia over the years, for sure.
Has this happened to other players? Sinner's not the only one, right? Other people, this has happened this week, right?
Yeah.
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Chapter 8: What insights are shared in the Mailbag segment?
Yeah, there are rules in place now. The French Open does have a policy and both tours do as well. And it's based on sort of, forgive me for my lack of knowledge on the ideals, figures of this, but it's like the wet bulb metric. And they use this combination of humidity and pure heat to decide when they would stop a match. In Australia, they actually close the roof.
And some may recall was up against an American named Spazieri third round of the Australian Open. He was melting down there. And they invoked the wet bulb situation and they closed the roof and basically saved him and he ended up winning the match. So there are limits put in place. But are they low enough? Are they... Are they accommodating enough?
I think there's going to be a debate about that now. But what I don't want to see, Tony, what you don't want to see is you don't want to see them making separate rules just because the top guys are having issues. You want to see it be democratic in that way and be fair to the ones who are the surrender lows of the world, you know, who...
who was better conditioned maybe and able to handle the heat better, and that's why he won yesterday in part.
I love that you called them the Sorondolo brothers. It made me think of like an aerial act in a circus. The Wallendas? Yeah. So let's get to the next question. What does it do for Djokovic? Alcaraz out, didn't play, Sinner out. What does it do for Djokovic at 39?
I mean, it's amazing. It's just you have Sinner, who was the ultimate favorite, right? So all the pressure was on Sinner. He's used to the mountains and the alpine life, and it just all came off of him and went through the whole field. And now there are several guys who must be thinking, oh, wow, now or never. Alex Vareff, number two seed here, never won a major. Kind of choked at the U.S.
Open when he had that chance back in 2020 against Dominic Thiem. You got Kasper Ruud, the Norwegian. And then you got Novak. who hasn't won a slam in a couple years, has hardly played this year, but you cannot count the guy out at 39. I think it's going to be tough in these conditions this week. He's got a tough match tonight against this young Brazilian phenom, Fonseca.
He would play potentially Kasper Ruud or Tommy Paul in the next round. Tough ask, but you cannot count that guy out. He's tenacity defined. So, yeah, huge opportunity to win that number 25, which I thought he'd never get a shot at like this. No center, no Alcaraz. Agreed. basically, the path is there.
Or we could see somebody totally more out of the blue for general sports fans, like this new Spanish kid, 19-year-old Rafa, familiar name, Odag. And he could potentially run the table. He's got that much talent. So it makes it from a pretty, honestly, conservative, rather dull men's event into this crazy, wide-open extravaganza. So I personally am
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