Nick

@jlalk Love it! And that picture on 16 is 🔥

I spent 5 hours on my feet at Augusta before I even saw a golf shot. Went to the Masters practice round this week...best Tuesday of my life. We got there at 6 AM. Already a long line at the first gate. By 7:15 we were through. By 9:00 we still hadn't touched the course. Here's where all that time went: 1) The merch shop is controlled chaos. No phones allowed inside. So you're just standing in line making friends with strangers for 30 minutes. Once you're in, most of the good stuff is behind the counter on display with a number. You walk up and say "I'll take three of number 73 and two of 57." No price tags visible on most of it. It almost feels like a shopping spree, which is only made worse by the fact that this might be a once-in-a-lifetime trip. I've never spent more money before 9AM. 2) The course is nothing like TV. The elevation changes are insane. The first tee drops about 50 feet before climbing back uphill. I had no idea. The green on 7 is more tilted than you'd ever guess. The approach on 8 is way steeper than it looks on screen. The fairway bunkers are so deep that I wouldn't wish them on my worst enemy. 3) People make big sacrifices to get to Augusta At Amen corner, I met two Australian guys who flew in from Sydney. Their plane had to turn around over Fiji because a passenger went into anaphylactic shock from trail mix. One had a five-week-old baby at home. The other had a 20-month-old and a pregnant wife. They still made the trip. 4) The bathroom situation deserves its own post. They have attendants in the men's room directing traffic. "Number two? Against the wall. Number one? This line." There's a dedicated attendant to wiping down the toilets after each person uses it. No other event moves people around as efficiently as the Masters 5) 16 is electric. Practice round Tuesday is when they skip balls across the water. The crowd loses it every time someone tries. Goes absolutely nuts when one makes it across. Watched Rory skip one that rolled all the way through the green into the crowd and trickled back out. He tried to play it from there. Almost came back to his feet. 6) The end of the day was the best part. By late afternoon, most players were off the course. Almost everyone had cleared out from Amen Corner. We walked back to 12 and it was just... quiet. Peaceful. Then watched the grounds crew replace divots on the 12 tee box. They carve out oval-shaped pieces, lay in fresh sod, and hammer it down with a mallet. On every single tee box. Every single day. That's Augusta. I also brought my camera for the first time in a while. I used to shoot golf content on the side, and it felt really good to pick it back up again.

@VinnysCorner1 Benito Santiago

Age yourself by naming an MLB Catcher you grew up watching….. I’ll start: Gary Carter

@4thandsaturday 💯 Treat sports for what it truly is, entertainment, and your perspective will shift. Invest less in a player or team, and more in the few hours with friends and family, outside on a beautiful evening. Sports becomes immensely more enjoyable with that perspective, IMO.

Go support your local minor league ballpark. I’m at the Knoxville Smokies game. Payed $20 for tickets behind home plate and beers are only $5. High level baseball being played as well. Minor league baseball is possibly the best value in sports.

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@kpottermn Me getting on the plane

BREAKING: Now Delta is raising checked bag fees by another $10 or more. Up to $45 for a first checked bag, $55 for a second bag and $200 for a third. Effective for flights booked as of Wednesday, April 8. Third US airline to hike bag fees in just the last week.

@ButchBaseball29 Not just baseball, soccer also. There are multiple teams in Cincinnati that are all of equivalent talent… my daughter’s team doesn’t play half of them. Why? B/c they’re in a different “league”. So instead we drive 4-5 hours to play teams in our “league”. It’s stupid.

What I learned today. Apparently a lot of people have fallen victim to bad travel baseball. That hurts my heart. Travel was originally set up so the best could be challenged by the best. Apparently not the model anymore.

@BaseballBros Played NAIA. I remember carrying 50lbs bags of quick dry out of the dugout, up concrete steps, in my metal spikes… praying I didn’t slip and fall.

If you never understood the difference between division 1, 2, and 3 baseball, now you know 😅

@RoyalCaribbean I love RCB, and I’m sure the Ultimate Family Suite on Hero of the Seas is amazing… but….

@GiacomoLucaTV @WLWT This is normal at CVG; as you have a lot of people all arriving at the same time for early AM flights. I’ve been in a line like that many times at CVG and I’m almost always through security in 30 minutes or less.

Long lines popping up at CVG this morning amid the Spring Break travel rush. We’ve learned the U.S. Senate has approved a funding plan to end the partial government shutdown and fund DHS including TSA, but not ICE or CBP. @wlwt

Baseball stuff…

@dailydirtnap Not just baseball, football, basketball, and golf.

Thanks, MLB, for putting baseball games on Netflix, Prime, Apple TV, Peacock, and The Dildo Channel, pretty much everywhere except the MLB network, because I enjoy paying for shit I can't watch. You may think this is a ruse to get me to subscribe to all this stuff, when in reality, it just makes me hate baseball. Well done.

@DavidSalituro Judge is in luck, today is actually Opening Day, not yesterday.

Aaron Judge is the first reigning MVP to strike out four times on Opening Day in the following season.

@TheMasters You should televise the practice rounds on Netflix, and the Par 3 tournament on Apple TV.

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@katieamrheintv @Local12 This is normal in early AM at CVG. The result of a large number of people showing up at the same time for the early flights. I’ve been in a line like that, and I’m through security in less than 30 minutes.

This is what the TSA line looks like at 5am today at CVG. While the line is long, it does seem like they are moving people through quickly @Local12

@thatvirtualboy Oh that’s amazing!

Brought the baby home #StudioDisplay

King

Me paying for parking in Clifton when I know you can just park in the middle of the street, or at a bus stop for free, as long as you have your hazards on

@USGA When do tickets go on sale?

The wait for Inverness Club is over. The Ohio venue is slated to host the 2045 U.S. Open and two more additional USGA championships.

@privategolfacs 3 separate 9 hole matches

@privategolfacs The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. 2 person teams. First 9, the good, scramble. 2nd 9, The Bad, fourball. 3rd nine, The Ugly, alternating shot (both players tee off). Play only against the other 2some in the group.

Alright fam. I need some ideas. My annual golf trip is at the end of March. We play 3 days, 36 holes each day. The second round each day is a hit and giggle. Usually some variation of a scramble. Anyone have any fun 2 or 4 person game ideas for my 3rd day?