What the Hell Happened to Phil Mickelson?
EPISODE 315: A generational reply guy.
It’s not always clear when someone is destined to become a recurring character in the PTFO universe.
But in retrospect, Phil Mickelson seems like a pretty obvious call.
On Nov. 7, in case you missed it, we published this episode, with Sam Koppelman:
Phil Mickelson's "Big Daddy" Trump
Here is a series of things that have happened over the last couple weeks.
So today’s task was different.
And our choice of guest, like our subject, seems like an obvious call.
My old SI colleague, Alan Shipnuck, is a longtime journalist who has sparred with Phil and authored Phil (the definitive unauthorized biography, published in 2022, which was built upon hundreds and hundreds of interviews).
Few writers have as long a view of one of the most colorful characters in sports.
Even if that character, at one point, also pretended not to know him.
YOUTUBE SPOILER ALERT:
A wee bit,
Pablo