00:00My goodness, Phil Mickelson, one of the definitely, I'm just going to say it, the second most famous golfer in
00:07the world, got himself into some trouble.
00:10You can go ahead and put that on the screen there if you guys don't mind.
00:13Inappropriate contact with a female course employee.
00:16He was removed from the club.
00:18They took his picture off the wall, and this was from Golf Digest, and obviously it was a paywall, so
00:24I ended up, anyway, I got the story, and I was reading the story,
00:27and it got me to thinking about this with Phil Mickelson because we talk about Tiger Woods, and we should
00:33talk about Tiger Woods, the most famous golfer in all of the world,
00:36and some of the trials and tribulations for Tiger Woods, but Phil Mickelson is a far worse guy based on
00:43his deeds than Tiger Woods.
00:46Now, we don't know Tiger Woods.
00:47We don't know Phil Mickelson personally, but what we know about Tiger Woods to this point was he was out
00:53there messing with Perkins waitresses,
00:55and he unfortunately got addicted to pain pills, okay?
00:59Not good, but both of those in the grand scheme of things, outside of his wife, misdemeanors.
01:06We'll find out if the flipping the car thing is more than that, but he went to rehab, and that's
01:09it.
01:10Phil Mickelson, these are the things we know.
01:12He had to pay back $1.7 million because of an insider trader scheme in which he gave back that
01:18money because he happened to have it,
01:19but his co-conspirator did a full five years in prison.
01:22That's what we know from Phil Mickelson.
01:24That was kind of strike one with the insider trading and all those kind of things.
01:29Then he went to Live Golf, and at the time, and it's not that he went with Live Golf because
01:34a lot of players went with Live Golf
01:35because they wanted to or they had other reasons.
01:37Phil said that he spoke to the people from Live Golf, the Saudi backers.
01:42These are Phil Mickelson's words.
01:43I can't say them, but I'll paraphrase.
01:45He said that they were sick MFers, and he still took the money because he had to pay off a
01:51bunch of gambling debts,
01:52which at one point apparently in one day he was with his friends betting baseball.
01:56He made 40 bets and lost $150,000, and that was with witnesses.
02:01So we know that man likes to gamble a great deal, and we know that about him,
02:05and then we know what's happened with Live Golf and everything like that.
02:08He lost all his sponsors, and now we get this.
02:11Now, for people out there to say he's not yet guilty, innocent until proven guilty,
02:15and all that is true in the court of law.
02:18But we're talking about the second most famous golfer in all the world.
02:22Rory McIlroy's probably third, but it's likely a distant third behind Tiger, Phil, and then Rory.
02:28Phil Mickelson needs to get some help at this point.
02:33Now, you could imagine if you play golf or you don't play golf,
02:37but in whatever thing, any hobby you have, whether it's tennis, whether it's golf, basketball,
02:41whatever you do on the side, or if you like to bowl, if a pro bowler, a famous pro bowler,
02:47was at your particular bowling alley, you know that would be a big deal.
02:50If he was a member there, he was a regular there, because he's a pro, it would bring a lot
02:53of eyeballs.
02:54So obviously, Phil Mickelson playing at your private course is a big deal,
02:59because not only is he the second most famous golfer in the world currently,
03:03but he actually won a lot.
03:06I mean, he won a major as recently as 2021.
03:08He was the oldest player to ever win a major, Phil.
03:11So he's also a bona fide Hall of Fame level player.
03:14The fact that not only did they chastise him for this alleged physical assault of this employee,
03:24they also went out to him in the middle of a round and told him to leave,
03:29and they took his picture off the wall and revoked his membership, okay?
03:34They don't do that unless they think whatever Phil Mickelson did was bad enough to warrant that.
03:41So I just say we have to be fair about these situations.
03:45Fairness always has to reign supreme.
03:48If we're going to talk about Tiger Woods, and we did, and we should, okay?
03:53Again, what Tiger did in the first part was basically a private thing that went public.
03:58I mean, his wife tried to kill him with a golf club, if we're going to be honest.
04:02He was pilled up, and he tried to flee the scene because his wife was going to kill him.
04:08That's why she went to rescue him by busting out the back window of the SUV.
04:14That's really what happened with Tiger's thing, and then the pills.
04:16In the case of Phil Mickelson, we're talking about a bona fide villain.
04:21And I think we're going to have to be careful going forward
04:24whether or not he should be a loud and polite society.
04:27I'm not talking about if he goes to prison or not.
04:29I'm saying with what we know about Phil Mickelson to this point,
04:33it's time for Phil to go away and stay away.
04:36And I don't mean go to prison.
04:37The law, they are investigating this case, and the law will do what the law will do.
04:42But I don't want to see him at the Masters anymore.
04:44He lost his exemption at the U.S. Open.
04:46I don't need to see him anymore.
04:47I don't need to see him in public anymore.
04:50He should take the many millions that I believe he has left,
04:53that he has not, unfortunately, you know, done everything with
04:57and gotten rid of through all these other nefarious means,
05:00and he needs to just go away.
05:02He can no longer be ambassador for the sport of golf.
05:04He can no longer be an ambassador for his own family.
05:07Phil Mickelson needs to go away and go sit down somewhere.
05:12Because if we're going to chastise Tiger Woods, and we should and we do,
05:16we have to make a lot closer look at the second most famous guy, Phil Mickelson,
05:21who's got a lot of people into the sport,
05:23and he's led a lot of people down the wrong path.
05:26He's led a lot of people down the wrong path.
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