Well if anything we'll learn the names of some of the other golfers now. If every other scandal-tarred athlete were to remove himself from the game in order to be better husbands/fathers/people we'd have no sports, what do you think? (A-Rod never even seemed to feign remorse, maybe that's the way to go). Guy at work the other day regarding why Tiger would stray so often on his supermodel wife: "you even get tired of filet mignon" - I guess......(ok I was waiting for my session to be extended for 15 more minutes, there you go). Lady Gaga doesn't do it for me, she's trying to be like Madonna but there's only one Madonna and you might say when Madonna wasn't being controversial she had a little bit of talent. Oprah's White House Christmas Special, that's a I-have-to-have-a-gun-pointed-at-my-head-to-watch-it kind of deal (is Brian Williams gonna be an elf?).
Now I'm gonna go get hammered.
haha fooled you people, you thought I was gonna bash Tiger Woods again. I'm like a spider with eight eyes viewing multiple angles at the same time,
ReplyDeleteI'm a freak.
For my part Tiger can go into retirement forever. I won't miss him one bit.
ReplyDeleteHe was always a jerk off camera.
This didn't surprise me.
Now A-Rod is another story, he is what he is and you either accept him or not..
ReplyDeleteI accept him. He;s no Derek Jeter, but he don't claim to be
His personal life is and should be kept personal, but what I don't get is how he used to have time to golf AND go to bed with all these women, so if golf didn't take away from his time with all of them plus his wife, then he should have plenty of time now(I would think) to try to "save" his marriage, no?
ReplyDeleteWhat I think IS unfair with his hiatus is to the corporations and sponsors of his that he is leaving high and dry, for that he should never get their money again, no matter how good he is at golf.
and the sponsors won't even step up and say he did wrong so they're dumping him! "He's taking time off and we support that"
ReplyDeleteAnd, he can't even make really stinking choices and cheat on his wife without Americans saying he's a SEX ADDICT. Everything's an addiction, I guess...nobody makes bad choices and just screws up?!!
I think Malcontent is right.
As for Lady Gag-Me....yuck! All hype!
Well as I told Beth I'd probably be at the library after work yesterday (Sunday) but here's what happened. I worked 7-3 and went down the hill to the closest library by the River and after seeing customers all day it's nice, relaxing, real good view of the Hudson while you blog. Anyway I go there and it's raining quite heavily, real dismal day and all four computers are ocupado and I see a couple of customers using them the same ones who come in all the time. One's a beefy guy vaguely mental but in a nice sort of way, folks don't seem to go outside the perimeters of this village very often, probably don't even know where Central Ave. is. It's like that M. Night movie The Village or something and so I got depressed and went home, better luck tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteWhat I don't get is the news coverage after his withdrawal like he IS the game, what no other good golfers out there? Caught Mike Lupica talking to Meredith this morning, he was always one of my favorite sportswriters and he talked about the long konga line of women coming out (Mike has a way with the language, does he blog?). Anyway he had a point and I agree even his hiatus can work for him, build up anticipation and who knows maybe that's calculated too. I don't think he'd be a lady's man if he wasn't famous, his face reminds me of a cross between an olive and one of those bobblehead thingies you see in the back of someone's car while you're stuck behind them in traffic. We live in an age when Eliot Spitezers 'ho is the voice of morality.
ReplyDeleteTiger looks perpetually 12 years old which is why I wouldn't think of him as some sex symbol, thing is that probably all those women thought they were the "only" other woman, ha!
ReplyDeleteZ-man, please get your own computer!!
Economics is not my forte, but now really, does Nike paying Woods $40 million actually sell that amount of shoes? (shoes which cost Nike
ReplyDelete$5 a pair in cheap foreign labor).
If so, we need start teaching consumer awareness in grade school...
Indeed economics is not your forte BB, do you think Nike just gives Tiger Woods money just because they think he is a swell guy (or thought he was?) They have a reason, and yes, it is to sell shoes!
ReplyDeleteBeth said...
ReplyDeleteHis personal life is and should be kept personal.
Tell that to A-Rod etc
I understand BB's point but when you stop to think about it just because a famous athlete endorses a certain footwear doesn't affect me in the least. OK so I'm in Payless Shoe Source I go with what appeals to my eye and what's functional and so lately I've been going with Reebok. I don't go up to the clerk and say "so where's the Tiger Woods shoe?"
ReplyDeleteI'm thinkin Z, that folk that buy
ReplyDeleteNike because of Tiger are the same folks that purchase Kevin Trudeau's
products....
I'm not syaing that I care who endorses the shoes or anything else for that matter (love when they have the BOGO at Payless myself) but people like us are UNUSUAL, some people think image is important!
ReplyDeleteKevin Trudeau, thuganomics B! I remember many many moons ago I sent for this video of his on how to make a windfall really quick and I watched him and it turned out to be some type of pyramid scheme. I know all about him. So the AP just named Tiger Woods Athlete of the Decade and I'm thinking golf ain't a real athletic game like swimming or tennis or even baseball but maybe what they meant is he was an athlete in bed too.
ReplyDeleteBack in my 'athletic' days, I was a junk player - baseball pitching curve, slider, sidearm, knuckler and screwball (reverse curve). I was a lousy hitter though. In college, I got interested in tennis and continued the junk stuff, serving overspin, slice and reverse slice and got a kick out of
ReplyDeletefore and reverse spin in vollying,
the ball either taking off towards the opponent or dying on the spot.
Torn hamstring led me to ping pong
where the junk stuff continued. Found I could play table tennis while drunk, and won an ammo plant trophy. None of this was good enough for success at philandering though...:)
When I used to ping pong I'd get a kick out of putting English on the ball so it would spin back over the net on my side. Learned early on about junk pitches from a Bob Gibson instructional book for young'ens. Slider is much like the curveball 'cept you keep your wrist stiff instead of breaking it. The knuckler the wind is supposed to take it so it does funky things and I played around with the rising fastball as well as your reverse curve but not too much as it seemed murder on the elbow. Stickball is my thing though and I'd still play it if enough people show up.
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