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Chapter 1: What did Tony Kornheiser share about the Captain's birthday dinner?
Hey, it's Tony. On today's show, we'll talk to Al Michaels about the Knicks, the World Cup, horse racing, the NFL, and we will preview the U.S. Open at Chinnock with Doug Ferguson. But first, commerce.
Previously on the Tony Kornhauser Show. They've got me here for free, and I am willing to write, and I believe that I write well. And it's like, okay, you're paying some of these people, but you've got a hungry college kid in Spike Braun that's coming for those jobs soon enough. But yeah, they've only got us doing the group stage.
This is the most important question. Do you have an expense account? Can you eat for free?
This is General George Washington, and you're listening to the Tony Kornheiser Show. What a delight to have him on.
What a delight to know that he's making progress in a profession that is dying, but a profession that I respect tremendously. Sure. How about that confidence? Yeah, it's very confident.
I spoke with the parents after that, and they were both just absolutely thrilled. Ken and Gary say yes.
That's great. Okay, so you're saying to yourself, wait, it's Tuesday. Why is there a podcast on Tuesday? There's never a podcast on Tuesday. There are a lot of reasons to have a podcast on Tuesday. But the main reason, honestly, is that we have Al Michaels on the show today. We taped Al Michaels last night. Didn't want to hold it.
for an extra day, you know, I mean, you get Al Michaels, you put him on. Now, you can't get him at 4.30 in the morning his time. That's not reasonable. But you can get him at, you know, 3.30 in the afternoon his time, which is what we did yesterday. Post-golf pre-dinner. Hmm? Post-golf pre-dinner. That's right. He has not yet gone to Tuscana to go to dinner, and he's out of Bel Air. He's played.
He's played. You know the Al Michaels thing with caddies and speed of the putt?
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Chapter 2: Why are there no World Cup matches in Washington, D.C.?
I'm sending her pictures. And he also wants a side of bacon. So for the adults, we get a BLT for him. He gets bacon and focaccia.
That was great. It was absolutely great.
We're getting some early season tomatoes. It was awesome.
A little pesto. One of the other things I thought of, and this is sort of a random open, and I'm not going to go into soccer. I'm not going to do it. I'm not going to just go on and on about how soccer fans are the Subarus of sports. I'm not going to do it.
Are you going to do your early power rankings for the next season for the NBA?
No, I'm not going to do that, but I am going to say this. It's ridiculous. that the capital of the United States of America is not hosting at least a group stage. Yeah. This is ridiculous. How did that happen? How did it happen that every other country in the world has its final in the capital? Okay, you don't want to have the final here. Where's the final? In LA or is it in Dallas?
I think it's LA. Or the Meadowlands? It's fine. Oh, no, it's in New York. I don't care about that. But there should be a group. The last time it was here, there was a group stage. There should be that. At least that. And whoever is responsible for that. I don't know why that happened.
All this happened when Taylor Swift skipped D.C. for the Heiress Tour. Do you think that's it? No, I think people started to move past wanting to go to FedEx Field.
Okay, I'm not saying FedEx Field isn't a dump. I'm saying it's the capital of the United States of America and the World Cup. Some portion of it, some small portion should be held there. I watched the Nats last night. Another big fifth inning. Yeah, I had my problem with the Nats. The Nats were ahead 1-0 or 2-0. They were 2-0. Nats were ahead 2-0.
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Chapter 3: What are the latest updates on the Nats' performance?
Pete Crowe Armstrong. It's a cycle.
It went backwards. Yeah. Went Homer, triple, double, single. That's difficult. Fantastic. Oh, it's so great.
What are the odds against that? It's millions to one.
Yeah, it's got to be.
That you're going to A, get the cycle, and B, you're going reverse. Yeah. Not that everybody goes single, double. They don't. Yeah. But the symmetry of that is wonderful. Anything else, or can we stop the open? I think we can stop the open. And Al is next? Al is next. Al is next. Yes. And then after Al is Doug. That's correct. I'm Tony Kornheiser.
This is the Tony Kornheiser Show. Tony Kornheiser Show.
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medical fight at this point obviously it plays in my friend al michaels uncle big al we've arranged this so that he doesn't have to get up at three in the morning to be on we're taping it obviously on monday evening did you go to the the curtis cup was at your place was at bel air and was on tv and i watched a couple of hours of it i sort of liked it did you go to it
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Chapter 4: What insights did Al Michaels provide about the Knicks and Hurricanes?
I did not read that piece, but you say they're nowhere near the Open. They're nowhere near golf right now.
Yes, yes.
It's not just the Open. I mean, they have just flat disappeared. These... Aging warriors who have done so many battles together over the last couple of decades. And they should be the ones, even if they're not playing, sitting on the porch talking and reminiscing. And it's gone. And it's incredible. Tiger apparently back from Switzerland now or wherever he was getting treatment.
And Phil, you saw the report last week about getting kicked out of his club in San Diego.
Yes.
It's unfathomable. And Phil's just disappeared with that family health matter. I mean, he showed up in South Africa for a Libby event, and I'm surprised he went there, and that's been it. Now, he wasn't in the field this week anyway, and I don't think Phil would have asked for an exemption if things were normal.
I don't think they would have given him an exemption just based on the annex he displayed last time when he hit the moving ball. Yes, yes. That's a pretty hard ask and give. So he's done. I mean, his open ended last year is when his exemption ran out from winning the PGA in 21.
And famously, he's never won the open. He's come close. He's shot himself in the foot a couple of times in the open. He's never won that. Tigers wanted a bunch. But I mean, 15, I don't know, 15, 20 years ago, they're not there because of scandalous behavior, scandalous personal behavior. Doug, you never would have predicted that. Nobody would.
No, injury, you could have made the case for Tiger when he first started having some knee troubles, et cetera. But not, you know, two DUIs in the space of, I'd lose track of time, eight or nine years.
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