After 91 holes of play, Tiger Woods is your 2008 U.S. Open champ. But were the last 15-ish holes really necessary? Burnsy doesn’t think so. In fact, he thinks the U.S. Open’s 18-hole Monday madness is one of the worst overtime formats in all of sports. College Football’s is the most entertaining, although it really makes little sense (i.e. as a true extension of the sport). Sort of like a movie that’s totally unrealistic or over-the-top, but you still can’t turn away from:

College Football OT = Guilty Pleasure Movies

1. Dumb and Dumber (Burnsy)

2. Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo (Rod)

3. Happy Gilmore (Rod)

4. Die Hard (Burnsy)

5. Nacho Libre (Burnsy)

6. 300 (Rod)

7. Iron Man (Burnsy)

8. Top Gun (Rod)

9. The Lost Boys (Rod)

10. Old School (Burnsy)

Here’s how the analogy would apply to other sports/movie genres:

NFL OT: (Lifeless, no fun, clinical) = Biopics:

1. Ali (Rod)

2. Gandhi (Burnsy)

3. Ray (Burnsy)

4. Walk the Line (Burnsy)

5. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Rod)

MLB: (Fair, only way to do it, but too long): = 3-hour movies:

1 Braveheart (177 min)

2 Dances with Wolves (180 min)

3 Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (201 min)

4 The Godfather (175 min)

5 Scarface (170 min)

6 It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (174 min)

7 The Deer Hunter (182 min)

8 Magnolia (188 min)

9 Schindler’s List (195 min)

10 Doctor Zhivago (197 min)

NHL: (Regular season shootout is stupid and the playoffs are great) = Sequels better than originals:

1. Superman II (better than Superman)

2. Road Warrior (better than Mad Max)

3. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (better than The Temple of Doom, but not Raiders of the Lost Ark)

4. The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum (better than The Bourne Identity)

5. Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan (better than Star Trek: The Motion Picture)

US Open/Golf = Great ending, rest of it was OK or good but not great- the ending defines it:

1. Sixth Sense

2. Unforgiven

3. Seven

4. Fight Club

NBA = Straight forward, uncomplicated, solid movie:

1. Batman Begins

2. Training Day

3. Blood Diamond

4. I am Legend

5. Juno

Things are bad for the Arizona Diamondbacks, but they could be much worse. The D-Backs dropped 2 of 3 at home to the Kansas City Royals, but did not drop in the NL West Standings. OK, so maybe the Dodgers really suck, but is that any consolation for a team that is being outscored 20-6 by the friggin’ Royals. ESPN.com’s Rob Neyer stopped by to discuss that and the “dead in the water Yankees.” (My words). This in light of Chien-Ming Wang’s recent injury, one that Hank Steinbrenner blames on the National League. (Apparently, Mr. Steinbrenner believes the DH should be uniform policy around baseball.) Burnsy ripped Mike Mussina’s endorsement of that absurd argument which, in case you missed it, goes as follows:

“We don’t hit, we don’t run the bases,” Mussina said. “You get four or five at-bats a year at most, and if you happen to get on base once or twice, you never know. We run in straight lines most of the time. Turning corners, you just don’t do that.”

Yeah, turning corners is pretty tough stuff. But the “Forrest Gump School of Baserunning” Yanks get little sympathy from me or Mr. Burns.

Neither, for that matter, does Sports 620 KTAR’s own Jon Bloom, who was tired from long walks at the U.S. Open. Bloomer joined Burnsy to talk about his Open experience, and joined him in his call to change the 18-hole playoff format. I mean, who really has time to watch 18 holes on a Monday. Besides H-Lo, of course…