Masters Sunday

[Guest post by hit and run*]

Who will win this year's Masters is obviously yet to be decided. But we do know who came in last place. At the age of 63, Ben Crenshaw shot successive rounds of 91 and 85, failing to make the cut for weekend play in what is his final Masters.  

However, Ben continues to have a big impact on this year's tournament through the relationship both he and his long-time caddy Carl Jackson have forged with current leader, Jordan Spieth.  

The leaders tee off at 2:50 PM today.

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[Jack is Back!]

Cross posting:

BTW, don't discount Spieth's Jesuit education as a big factor in his cool demeanor and ability to focus and bounce back after a bad hole. Self discipline is a big attribute of that matriculation and he shows it in spades for a 21 y.o. Compare to someone like Billy Horschel for example.

[Jeff Dobbs]

BTW, TM has compared watching golf to watching paint dry, so the "Guest post by..." was almost not needed.

[Jane]

I win!!! Thanks Hit. Now can Jordan follow my lead?

[Frau Atomkraft Ja!]

Jane is hit's favorite. NTTAWWT

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Spieth definitely has something to prove as far as those cool recoveries from self inflicted adversity, especially after last year's Masters.
17 was botched and only a shot that could very easily have gone very, very wrong prevented another botch on 18.

His two, perhaps three worst shots of all 54 holes were on the last two holes he played.
I hope he wins, so he faces a massive test in putting his finish yesterday behind him.

[pagar]

Once more on Obama's new best friend.

"The Cuba Archive which documents deaths and disappearances resulting from Fidel Castro's Cuban revolution has documented 3,615 firing squad executions conducted by the Cuban state since Castro took over on January 1, 1959."

http://babalublog.com/fidel-castros-greatest-atrocities-and-crimes/fidel-castros-firing-squads-in-cuba/

[Jane]

NTTAWWT

No fair Frau, that is not in the JOM glossary.

[Janet]

This is funny - https://twitter.com/YMikarov/status/587278961140371459

[Frau Atomkraft Ja!]

Not *in* the JOM glossary? I found it lurking in the JOM penumbra.

[Jack is Back!]

Another motivation for Speith is his sister Ellie who is a special needs kid. I believe he dedicates every round to her before he starts. He is one special young man.

[Stephanie]

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Nttawwt.

[daddy]

JimmyK,

Only found out via ESPN Highlights that your Detroit Tigers picked up ex-Oakland/ex-Boston slugger Yoenis Cespedes over the off season.

What a great bat to add to that already terrific lineup. No wonder you guys are 5 and 0 so far. If he keeps playing and hitting like he normally does, and he's welcomed in the dugout, you guys are definitely looking at a great season. Plus Kate Upton in the grandstands! Man, this could be the season of all seasons.

Up 4 to 1 over Cleveland in the 2nd.

Hi TM! Your Yanks stink:)

[Jane]

Thanks Steph.

[Jack is Back!]

In case you are wondering why bears are not allowed as caddies at the Masters, its because they don't know how to pull the pin properly.

http://www.chonday.com/Videos/baybearcigolf2

[Danube on iPad]

Spieth was my great-nephew's good buddy at UT, so the whole family is rooting for him.

[daddy]

Fun link, Jack.

Only thing about it I would not recommend is where the golfer at the end walks up very close to the cub after it steals his ball. Momma bear is always nearby and they generally are very protective, so I would have given up the ball and stayed a little bit back and just made noise to get them off the links. That golfer is either braver than me or stupider than me, probably both:)

[daddy]

I listened to a fascinating interview this morning with an anthropologist who has written a book called "The Invaders."

Her basic premise is that the reason Homo neanderthalis became extinct and Homo sapiens survived boils down to this:

We had dogs.

Interesting premise, Miss Marple. I'd like to hear more of her logic and research, so I'll keep my eyes peeled on my next Library run.

The Invaders: How Humans and Their Dogs Drove Neanderthals to Extinction

[Dave (in MA)]

BTW, TM has compared watching golf to watching paint dry

[Captain Hate]

TM has compared watching golf to watching paint dry

Not as exciting as a column by Flathead or Kruggy Bear? Or hot diet updates?

[Captain Hate]

All in for Spieth!

[Beasts of England]

Is this the 1% thread?

[Danube on iPad]

Jay Leno and a '48 Buick:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3X8DtxYt8I

[Stephanie]

Don't forget I called dibs on Spieth several years ago. The daughter has Rickie.

[Beasts of England]

Spieth's background doesn't surprise me at all. He displays a tremendous amount of class and humility during interviews. Seems like a really grounded young man.

[daddy]

Wow. So far today Tiger and McKilroy are putting like me, and I don't play the game.

[GMax]

Nice start with a birdie. If the collar is tight it aint showing so far. And Rose is likely the only one who can catch him

[Beasts of England]

Spieth looks as cool as the other side of the pillow.

[Beasts of England]

High definition television really lives up to its billing at Augusta...

[lyle]

You mean revealing the beads of sweat rolling down Tiger's face, BoE?

[GMax]

Announcer:

"Tiger not firm enough."

Or was that in the Waffle House parking lot? I am confused...

[Stephanie]

Azaleas. My most favoritest plant.

[daddy]

Is it SPYth, SPEEth, or SPAYth?

[Stephanie]

The fluffy filling in an Oreo daddy.

[GMax]

SPEE TH

[Frau Atomkraft Ja!]

OT - How about more than two minutes hate for Lawrence Wilkerson? Colin Powell certainly picked his office help well: Wilkerson, Marc Grossman, and Dicky Armitage.
LUN

[daddy]

A commenter at Insty says this is the question that should be asked of Hillary.

raynman13
Glenn, you could do a tremendous service by seeing she is forced to confront this at every interview. Every interview should include the following query:

As a member of the Judiciary Committee investigating Richard Nixon...what would your response have been after a subpoena had been issued for the White House Tapes...If Nixon had replied with "After reviewing the tapes, I am providing transcripts of the portions I have determined were "official business" and erased the portions I determined were "private". Since I own the tape recorder and the tapes, I have determined they are private and they will not be released. I have supplied everything you asked for. Deal with it."

[daddy]

Well SPEEth just double putted like a SPAYth.

Getting tight!

[Frau Atomkraft Ja!]

Preach it, daddy!

How is Feith pronounced as in Douglas Feith?

[GMax]

Eldrick putting like someone hit him in the head with a nine iron...

[Beasts of England]

That was a huge birdie for Spieth!!

[Captain Hate on the iPad]

Lol GMax

[Jane]

Dot,

Jay wasn't even born in '48. And he began his car obsession with chevy's. I like his style.

[Jane]

I can't believe what great shape all these golfers are in. Tiger started that.

[Captain Hate on the iPad]

My next Airedale may have been born yesterday; still not sure if I want to raise a pup since our last two were adults when we got them.

[Dave (in MA)]

So much for the pot of gold idea.

[Buckeye]

Sitting in church today, heard an older lady talking about the 37 Ford convertible hotrod she bought yesterday. Yellow with orange flames and a blue top.

Had to get going after communion because it was going to be in a local show today. I'm guessing she is at least 70. Said she paid for it, but hubby has to take care of it.

[Beasts of England]

@Jane: a couple of years ago I took my older daughter to Augusta for the tournament. On the first hole, Tiger tugged his drive left, just like he did today. While the patrons assembled parallel to his ball, I told my daughter to keep walking - that we'd stop twenty yards up, between his ball and the green.

After he got to his ball, he started walking towards the first green to examine his shot path. He walked right at us and my daughter was going nuts. She couldn't keep talking about how he looked more like a football player than a golfer. He is ripped.

[GMax]

Eldrick still putting like he got hit in the head with a club...

[Jack is Back!]

DoT,

My first car was a derelict: 1950 Hudson Hornet I bought for $75 from a friend's dad who was tired of pouring 2 quarts of oil into it every day!

I got pretty tired of that also and my buddies and I put a brick on the pedal and watched it thrown cyclinders into the hot summer night while drinking 3.2 beer and smoking Swisher Sweets.

[Jack is Back!]

Looks like another Masters that will be decided on the back nine on Sunday. Its incredibel how much that cliche is truth in this torunament.

[Miss Marple]

Captain Hate,

Start looking around for a good dog trainer NOW. Airedales are very smart but can be bossy and you need to get good habits started early.

My dog trainer saved me from having to give my Maggie away. I was locking myself in the office! LOL!

Look for a trainer who is used to dealing with working dogs, not one of those "positive training" trainers who do nothing but reward them with treats. Those trainers are fine if you are dealing with a naturally compliant dog like a King Charles Cavalier, but with my English shepherd they were useless.

[Jeff Dobbs]

Just released this from typepad naughty bin, figured I share it since it's so upthread...

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Not *in* the JOM glossary? I found it lurking in the JOM penumbra.

Posted by: Frau Atomkraft Ja! | April 12, 2015 at 01:42 PM

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Frau - you and matt are the two commenters most targeted by typepad. I'm going to guess that's a geographical targeting based on the so-called pitzer whatshisname.

You may want to consider signing up for a typepad profile to convince the infernal software that you are not whatshisname.

I'm more than happy to rescue caught comments, but I can't do so on TM threads, and I have been know to sometimes be away to go play pool (I got whipped like a red headed step child just now, don't ask) so by the time they're set free, they're long past noticeable.

[exdemocrat]

Jane - you sure it wasn't craig stadler?

[Jack is Back!]

Bill Glasson and Gary Player were way before Tiger but didn't have te same influence. And Tiger can never match Player for total fitness or nutty conspiracy theories, for that matter.

[exdemocrat]

My favorite clip from the tourney so far was of Jimenez doing his stretching on the practice tee with an enormous ciger in his mouth ;-)

[daddy]

HuffPo has a link to a Reuters story saying that The United States is planning to impose a major new regulation on offshore oil and gas drilling to try to prevent the kind of explosions that caused the catastrophic BP Plc oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the New York Times reported on Friday, citing Obama administration officials.

As these restrictions continue to come down the pike, worth mentioning that when Kudlow and Michael Rubin yesterday were discussing which Oil Companies were most interested in getting their hands on Iranian Oil if the sanctions are lifted, top of the list was Royal Dutch Shell.

It makes sense to me that Shell would much prefer to deal with the Iranians rather than our Federal regulatory nuttiness. The Fed's have in essence stolen Shell's multi Billion dollars paid for leases to drill offshore in the Alaskan Arctic, because with the other hand it has stymied that drilling for 5 years now by continually creating new Byzantine Regulations, generating Law Suits, and using US Tax Dollars to fund the Law Suits perpetually brought up by the Enviro-Lobby.

Haven't talked to the new neighbor lately but I expect the neighbor is pleased that the GreenPeace activists have bailed off the Shell Drill rig due to bad weather conditions: Greenpeace group leaves Shell drill rig after six-day stay

Greenpeace activists opposed to offshore drilling in the Arctic have abandoned a Seattle-bound drill rig they boarded in the Pacific Ocean six days ago, the organization said Saturday...Rough seas prompted the decision

Shell had advised the crewmen on board the Shell rig to not interfere with the protesters.

[Captain Hate on the iPad]

I've been pretty good at raising them myself, Miss Marple, and ultimately imposing my will on them. Having a couple local parks where they go over two miles per day has been the key to having relatively calm dogs.

[Dave (in MA)]

Punching numbers into Turbotax, all I can think of is how much more satisfying it would be if I was punching Koskinen.

[Jane]

Tiger is the first golfer I recall being dedicated to working out. He's always been ripped, Beasts. One year I went to the local tourney that TC and I meet up at - as the press. So I got to be in the room when Tiger walked in. He was very very buff.

Believe it or not I got bored with the whole golf press and left before his interview. I don't recall when it was but I think it was after the downfall because I distinctly remember thinking I should check out the bar to see who was getting lucky.

[daddy]

Amazing shot by Phil Michelson on the 11th, chipping onto the green all the way to the upper end, just touching the grass off the green, and then the ball rolling back 20-30 feet to stop 2 feet from the hole. It was like magic. The ball kept rolling for like 10 seconds after it first touched down on the green.

[Jane]

Punching numbers into Turbotax, all I can think of is how much more satisfying it would be if I was punching Koskinen.

You need to tweet that.

[GMax]

Rose has a very good chance of plunking it off the tree in front

[Frau Atomkraft Ja!]

Clarice-sized ::smooches::, hit. How terrible to have to reach into the dust bin for naughty bits, er, rejected comments.
When things go missing, I just accept that the JOM kahuna decided I needed more humility. Now, matt has NO need for humility. That's not right!

[Captain Hate on the iPad]

Rory finally wearing a shirt that doesn't look like it was donated to tornado victims.

[Dave (in MA)]

I don't want to get audited.

[Frau Atomkraft Ja!]

Pitzer Putz is the name you were looking for, hit.

[Jack is Back!]

daddy,

Mickleson is on 8 not 11 and missed his eagle putt. What Master's are you watching??

[James D.]

My only contribution to the Masters discussion is that my 84 year old mother has a strong and irrational dislike of Phil Mickelson.

The way she talks about him, you'd think he owes her money or something. I do not understand it.

[Captain Hate on the iPad]

Lots of people don't like Phil for whatever reason although I've known a few who've done a 180 in his favor.

[Miss Marple]

Captain Hate,

I should have known you would know how to train a dog. I did not, being one of those sorts who talks to her dogs like they are people. I had to learn that EXPLAINING WHY a dog shouldn't do something was not very effective. LOL!

[Jane]

#HillaryAccomplishments: Once dodged a shoe

[James D.]

CH mentioned in the last thread taxing college endowment funds to pay for student loan forgiveness.

I just want to point out that was my plan. 90% tax on endowments over a billion, 70% on endowments between 100 million and a billion, 50% for those less than 100 million.

Since the billion+ endowments are worth 380 billion in total, and the next tier probably equals that, we're talking probably 600 billion in new revenue to pay for the forgiveness. We could probably throw in a $10,000 tax credit to all families that paid loans in full over the last 20 years, too.

The R's should pass that and dare Zero to veto it.

[daddy]

Captain Hate,

Thanks for your "traditional" analysis of FOX Sunday News with Chris Wallace. That's becoming a great weekend favorite, especially because then I don't have to watch the damn thing myself. Cheers.

[James D.]

CH @ 4:40

True. It's just weird to hear that level of vitriol from my Mom about a pro golfer.

[Jane]

I don't want to get audited.

Naw they are way too busy for that - well unless you are in the tea party.

James, I have an irrational dislike of Phil too - Elliott, our resident golf pro, loves him. He was Phil, I was Tiger. When he came to Paris to meet Caro and I, he brought me a Tiger key chain, which was gracious as hell.

Sheesh Elliott, stop in now and then.

[exdemocrat]

my second favorite was Speith giving Rose a smile and thumbs up for his get out of jail pitch. class.

[daddy]

What Master's are you watching??

Jack,

I'm watching the one that's going on on channel 656 between innings in the Tigers 8 to 5 victory and the Oakland A's/Mariner's tied in the 2nd with King Felix on the mound.

It is not impossible I put it in the wrong hole, but hopefully that's only the first time I've done that:)

[GMax]

James. He is left handed. All us lefties know about real discrimination, not the phony baloney kind...

[daddy]

Perhaps it was Phil at 11 under, not Phil on the 11th.

Whatever, Sunuvabitch, Felix just got out of the inning with a double play@#$%!

[Miss Marple]

By the way, along with the horrible Hillary logo, the geniuses who never talk to low info voters have made a confusing use of words.

She says "I want to be your champion."

LIV's will ask "What's she wanna be champion OF?"

Most LIV's do not use the word in the sense of a fighter for one's cause (as in medieval jousting) but rather as "Super Bowl Champion."

So, they aren't going to know what she's talking about. Ha!

This is what happens when you don't deal with people outside your little bubble.

[Jack is Back!]

Well, Phil did try to cheat two guys out of $100K in a silly but serious shark match at Augusta and the white shoes made him pay up or never set foot on the grounds again. Soi maybe JamesD Mom was their bookeeper or something:)

The brothers are New Joisy boys if you get my drift.

[Extraneus]

Speaking of white racists, I think millions of them are being manufactured as we speak.

My eyebrows raised when my 17-year-old son told me today that he is sick of blacks. Ever since the Trayvon thing, he says they've continued to post racist hate on social media, and have been on the "black lives matter" kick since Michael Brown became a household name. He knows that "hands up" was b.s., but says that they all post things to the effect that whites hate blacks, want them hunted down by cops, etc., and he's sick of it.

I explained that Democrats need blacks to turn out to vote in big numbers, and they use real or bogus events to stir them up.

Turning blacks against whites is having the opposite effect as well. Sad.

[Buckeye]

Dave (in MA)

Years ago I made a big error on my taxes. Completely overlooked a 1099-B associated with a sizeable trade. To make matters worse, the basis wasn't reported to the IRS.

I got the "friendly" letter saying I owed them $80K. Enough to make you crap your pants.

Turned out it was actually a loss my broker wanted to harvest. Got a lot of satisfaction when in the end the Feds had to send me a check.

Bad news is that I started getting audited every year after that. Didn't stop until I made an intentional error in their favor.

It was only a hundred or so, but they quit auditing me. And they coughed up the hundred.

[Miss Marple]

Extraneus,

You should hear the vitriol that comes from my grandson about the situation at the suburban high school he attends. He is also fed up. And he does not hear that at home or at my house.

Unintended and sad consequences of Obama's stirring up hate.

[Jane]

Speaking of white racists, I think millions of them are being manufactured as we speak.

I've said that since the beginning. I just don't know if it is a result of evil or incompetence.

[GMax]

Well it looks like Rose has to make up at least 4 shots in 9 holes to stop the next Tiger Woods from ascending to the the golf throne...

[Jack is Back!]

5 shot lead heading to the back nine. Maybe the cliche will get challenged big time or not. Rose is -10 this week on the back nine and Speith is -8. Two shots difference doesn't make up a 5 shot difference. Let the games begin.

[exdemocrat]

Cruz/Speith 2016! lol

[James D.]

JiB @ 4:51

Well, her brother in law did know people who knew people. And a close family friend was a bookie we ho operated out of abbar on 241st St in the Bronx. So it's possible!

[Captain Hate on the iPad]

Your advice was much appreciated, Miss Marple. When we first met the breeder she brought out a young male just bristling with energy and internally I let out a sigh and thought "I'd forgotten what this was like". We will see what happens.

[Jack is Back!]

JamesD,

Six degrees of separation:)

[narciso]

Afternoon, all.

well one is being some what flip but the white ethnics, that became Democrats, and to a lesser
extent, the 'hated' neocons was because of early
'mau mauing. meanwhile the likes of ScrowBaker (see what I did there. pushed to have the Arabians misdeeds, shoved under the rug, I'm speaking of the mysteries of Prestancia,

[Ben]

Carlin pronounced the game defunct a decade ago. The lure for popularity which ocurred over the previous six suddenly morphed from an upper to middle class obsession, coupled with post WWII optimism, and a temporary rise in middle-class numbers which could not be sustained and had to recede over what we consider 'the long haul'due to the physics of top heavy wealth distribution, had a half-life of less than one generation.

What is the most perplexing human behavior of all, voting against one's best interests, makes the former; elementary and
self-evident. The promise of exceptionalism cuts deep into Darwinian/Hobbesian credibility and Walking Dead reality. Hive mentality requires citizens to take a bullet for the good of the many. Poor and struggling conservatives see victory in taking one for the "Gipper".

[Miss Marple]

http://twitchy.com/2015/04/12/pretty-sure-its-the-cuban-flag-epic-mock-alanche-in-progress-over-hillarys-new-campaign-logo/?utm_source=autotweet&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=twitter

[Captain Hate on the iPad]

Thanks for the feedback, daddy; since I end up yelling at the tv anyway I may as well write it down.

[Jack is Back!]

Talk about White Privledge, look at the Patrons on the 12th tee box:)

[Extraneus]

My recommendation for dog training:

http://www.amazon.com/Koehler-Method-Dog-Training-Experienced/dp/B00ES262LM/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1428873284&sr=8-2&keywords=koehler+method

It takes a bit of intestinal fortitude at first, but I've used it on two very different dogs so far (a Lab and a German Shepherd) and it works.

[narciso]

'Winning the Future' is that about, now if I were Mittens, I might have said something like this,

'the Senator, had no honor, and no shame, that was
evident during the campaign, but the media's willing to further a criminal slander, also proved their mark,

[Captain Hate on the iPad]

404 had an opportunity to be a superb President and squandered all of it.

[Jack is Back!]

George Carlin is who I go to everytime I need advice on my golf game and whether I should continue to pay my dues at my club.