OT: Rick Reilly article on Tiger Woods
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/columns/story?id=4347419
Rick Reilly criticizes Tiger's on-course behavior, generates hits on espn's website.
"Woods has been this way for years: swearing like a Hooters' bouncer, trying to bury the bottom of his driver into the tee box, flipping his club end over end the second he realizes his shot is way offline."
wha? Tiger, disrespectful? can't ignore! need to click on that to read more! must provide job security for rick reilly!
Yeah I personally dont care if Tiger swears, tosses clubs, whatever. Its good TV and it makes golf somewhat interesting. Hes the best in the world and I personally think its good he is so competitive. Where would he be if he didnt hate losing so much? Rick Reilly needs to relax.
In the article he mentions a story from the 97 masters when Tiger almost hit a kid with a club when the child approached tiger simply to touch his hero. Really Reilly? You're going to criticize the late Earl Woods for not reigning in Tiger, but you say nothing of the parents who let their kid wander off into the middle of a pro sporting event? Give me a break!
reilly = sensational hypocrit
And i'm sure Rick Reilly didn't swear at all when he got canned from SI. Seems a little hypocritical to me. We all swear when shit hits the fan at work.
Apparently Reilly's brother-in-law was at a clinic with Tiger and he just wanted to pass it on to let us all know it might not work out for him.
Reilly was the brother-in-law who sat at the table with RichRod when he was dropping all those f-bombs.
isn't this the same turd who wrote the article about Yost and the foul mouthed fans there?
Apparently Reilly's innocent little ears just can't handle it. I'd be shocked SHOCKED if this guy ever wrote anything I was ever remotely interested in.
First off, this is not even an original article. I read an op-ed piece a few days back from some other guy pointing out the same thing.
Tiger is who he is. He has always been that way. For a career journalist like Reilly who looks like he has not so much as swung a bat since t-ball, after all Tiger has and continues to do for the sport, is asinine.
I think this says it all-
Reilly dabbles in magic, piano, mountain biking, SCUBA, back-alley basketball, skiing and snowboarding. He lives in Denver and in Hermosa Beach, CA, with his wife, Cynthia, and a putter he’s not currently speaking to.
If I see him around Hermosa, I'll be sure to pimp slap him on general principle.
I love Hermosa and am jealous that you're there and i'm not. Go to Patrick Molloy's for me.
That's a favor I'm happy to do. Bushmills or Jameson?
Both, talk to Fred the owner. He's a good family friend of mine and he'll gladly get a few rounds if you can get a good chat out of him. Big, tall guy and can be loud. Can't miss him.
Thx. Will do.
"Either behave or get off the course.
Come to think of it, if I were the president of Nike, I'd tell him the same thing."
That's a lie. He makes so much money for Nike.
When you play sports, emotions are high. People getpissed off. Every athlete cursing but he does not bitch at them.
Seems hypocritical.
Why is golf on ESPN? It is a hobby, not a sport.
I would imagine that will get some backlash from some folks. Perhaps you were kidding, if not...
do you have any idea the workout regime that tiger endures? or how mentally taxing it is to go through 4 rounds focusing for 5 hours? while many golfers are not athletes, they are all (pros at least) sportsmen.
Name another "hobby" where you can earn 100 million in one year
Ponzi schemes
How do you get one of these started?
You've obviously never played golf.
I hate fucktards that pull the "not a sport lolololol" argument about sports they don't particularly enjoy.
I play golf. I enjoy golf. I also recognize it's the easiest (least effort involved) thing I do outside.
Ok so its not much effort for you, but you are not a pro golfer. Going out with 3 buddies and a case of beer is different than trying to win the masters
Tell that to John Daly
I was waiting foir the John Daly joke.
+1
So you play in a cart, for nine holes, like a woman?
Play golf like god intended and walk 18 carrying your own bag and playing from the tips, pussy.
Eh, I caddied, ruined my life.
I've got a friend who caddies, and it sounds like the best job ever. Heavy lifting, sure, but an average of $200 a day to walk around a golf course is a good gig.
This is after like 10 years of $3 an hour
He's 21, and he's been doing it for three or four years now. Started with course maintenance for something close to minimum wage in early high school I believe.
Why would you take a job paying $3 an hour in the first place?
You don't have a green card.
where on a golf course is this "tips pussy" you speak of? knowing this might cause me to play much more golf...
wow. you must not spend much time outside.
hey Wu, wasn't this guy supposed to be a millionaire?
He looks like a fuckin' loser.
but I see it as more of a game than a sport. Anything that has Michelle Wie competing at its highest level is stretching the definition of "sport."
You are really stretching the definition of "compete" by including Michelle Wie, who receives regular and total ass kickings.
for her to be out there. The fact that she was there at all is a black mark on golf though. That being said, pro golfers are tremendously skilled, and I would love to have that ability. I do in fact suck at golf, so maybe that's coloring my opinion.
It requires some athletic ability, sure.
You know what damages its sport status more than anything? Putting. Putting is the least athletic endeavor you will ever see on ESPN (yes, perhaps less than poker), and it is of paramount importance to golf.
Putting is as gay as mimosas at brunch.
/generally bitter about all things golf-related
Are you serious? That is one of the dumbest things I have ever read. Putting is extremely difficult on PGA tour caliber courses. It is not physically demanding, but it is far from easy or "gay". Is it gayer then Gramatica jumping for joy after kicking field goal? Is it gayer then the QB taking a snap from the center?
Nothing pisses me off more then people talking shit on golf because they either suck at it, or have never really tried it. Its one of the purest individual sports there are. Its you versus the course and ends up being you versus yourself.
Can you guess I'm an avid golfer?
Woosahhhhh...woosahhh...
I didn't say putting wasn't hard. It's really fucking hard.
It's just super duper gay - you're hunched over trying to just tappy tappy tap a little ball just the right distance to go down a little hill into a little hole. It requires all kinds of concentration and mental toughness. It requires less athletic ability than darts.
Gayer than capri pants.
I, like just about everyone else, disagree.
The game involves swatting a very small ball into a very small hole over distances orders of magnitude larger. It's not necessarily the most physically demanding sport in terms of muscle mass, but being successful takes as much or more body control than any other sport.
NASCAR? Do you guys consider these to be sports?
NASCAR is a joke. The car does all the real work and you never even have to turn right. Darts does not even deserve to be debated, like pool, if it's played primary by drunks in bars, it's not a sport.
Thank You!
i hope you also have a problem with poker and fishing being on SPUN as well.
Poker is the reason I stopped watching ESPN, that and having their summer Top 10 consist of outfield grabs and homeruns. An outfielder is out there to catch the ball, it's not that hard and homeruns speak for themselves, unless it's off the roof, we've seen it before.
Can you imagine what we would hear players say during football and even baseball games (reading the lips of a manager yelling at an umpire is especially fun) if the crowd didn't drown it out?
Perhaps that's a poor comparison because golf has its own etiquette rules, but I ask: if you were playing for a million dollars (hypothetical number), with every shot being crucial to winning, might you be a bit unhappy when one went awry? Might you even--gasp!--swear, perhaps? Or even toss a club down in frustration in the midst of a poor round?
I mean, these guys are human. Even the Almighty Tiger Woods.
Tiger is a hyper competitive dude obsessed with winning golf tournaments and being the absolute greatest he can possibly be. This is why he's the greatest of all time in his chosen field. It's also why he cusses and slams a club when he hits a wedge shot three yards off line.
Tiger is great, but Jack is the greatest of all time.
Agreed, for now.
Tiger vs. Jack ... discussion slipping down a path that never ends well.
And, for my money, Old Tom Morris is the greatest of all-time. 13-stroke victory in the '62 Open! Man, that guy could swing a fierce mashie.