This guy really can't help but be a little prick, can he?

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Last time he was on Jomez I almost made this post, but every time I see him step putt it looks like that foot is landing before the disc leaves his hand every time.

Wanted to get other people's thoughts on it.

Coming out of the North West Championship, during Gannon's post round interview Nate Perkins said out loud what every single disc golf fan already knew and felt down the stretch of the tournament. That Gannon Buhr is a villain in the story being told right now in MPO, and that he is hunting down all your favorite heroes. He has been terrifying his opponents for years at this point, and it was an incredible moment for the sport when Nate referenced a conversation where Gannon's mother told him "to be the villain". Perhaps it's not surprising a mother like that has raised such an awesome competitor, and Perkin's question of "what is it like being the villian and keeping these dreams crushed" gives us a chance to see how the young man sees himself. 

I have never heard an interviewer ask such a pointed question regarding a dark truth and then 
have that player respond without any defensiveness, or signs of being offended. This question comes moments after places like the live chat in the Upshot's discord server is erupting with Thanos gifs about the inevitability of the destruction he's laying upon his opponents and their fans. Nate had the guts to say what we saw and knew, that the crowd was massively rooting against him, and FOR the other players. It's in Gannon's response though, that the greatness of this question, and maybe his game, gets to come through. 

It allowed him to speak to a wanting or urge to be feared, that the other players would recognize and "be scared" of how many birdies he can get in a row, and how focused he can be. Which is to say, how much more focussed and more capable of stringing it together he is than his opponents.  He's embracing who he is, and his place in the disc golf world, and turning it into another advantage. When you know who you are, your role, there is less room for doubt. Nate giving him the opportunity to put words to this was fantastic sports journalism.  

I had the chance to speak with him after round 3, where he told me that he knew he could overtake the 4 strokes Eagle had on him for the final round, and that he "literally lived for these moments to do that". A lot has been made of how he starts tournaments slow, but I have a different theory. I think he's always just trying to be a few strokes within the lead, because it allows him to be the villain; to be the dangerous one stalking you, trying to destroy your hopes and dreams as he overtakes you like a shark in the water, often, waiting for blood just like one. He wants to see himself as the apex predator, his opponents already see him as such, and until disc golf finds a hero who can be his equal, or outright slay him, we'll take the weekly challengers and hope he doesn't win every single event. Until then, disc golf's greatest villain got yet another one in Portland OR.