Tiger’s Crisis, an NBA Mini-Mailbag, the Confusing Knicks, 'Survivor 50,' and the Yucky Red Sox | With Joe House, Jason Concepcion, and Bill’s Dad

**Bill Simmons** (0:00)
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All right, Joe House is here. You can hear him. I'm Fairway Rowan in the Ringer Gamlick Show. He was coming on my podcast all the time during football season as we struggled through our picks. I'm already, talk about Nobody Believes in Us, talk about Chip on My Shoulder. I am so ready for this next football season. I'm gonna be possessed this summer. I can't wait. You talked about Tiger on your podcast. We never talked about it here. And it seems like now he's just gone. Like he's out of the Ryder Cup. He's gonna be working on all his stuff. This is such a sad story. How surprised were you on a scale of one to 10 that this even happened?

**Joe House** (4:02)
Surprised. I would say a solid eight because there hadn't been news reports about questions raised. He was carrying an extremely large load in terms of participation in the redirection of the tour. He's been a crucial element and a person in Rolap's year for how the tour might refashion itself. He has been a super active participant in the TGL and the viability of that property really depends on him. And he, as he was getting physically stronger, was making overtures towards participating on the Champions Tour. And then it was revealed that he was training with an eye towards participating in the Senior US Open. So that's a large load of stuff on his plate. And there weren't news stories saying, you know, all of this is going on, but we see Tiger and he's, you know, he's in public appearances looking less than lucid or in public appearances looking like he might be out of it. And there had been in the past some of those observations made, but this was a full workload, full plate staring us in the face. And so the idea of him, it also is not like public information whether or not he's driving his own car. It would have been my serious hope that he was mostly not driving his own car after the accident in California.