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12/11/09
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12/12/09
I don't think you can call it "making a living" when you've earned ten figures in the last decade or so.
12/12/09
12/13/09
Very few people are paid what they are worth, including Mr. Woods, President Obama, and my postal delivery person. Whatever the market will bare is my stance.
12/11/09
Don't.
A fair number of people who call in at times seem to skew douchebag. Ironically, the white callers probably includes some who wouldn't have let Woods onto their golf course 50 years ago. But now their dislike is vented towards the ladies (and teh gehs).
12/11/09
12/11/09
Lets get one thing clear- for all of his many faults, Tiger Woods is a golf genius. If golf is a piano, he's Chopin. He DOES NOT care as much about his wife, his kids, whatever as he does about golf, nor should he. When you're given an amazing, world changing talent, you use it. End of story.
PS: I really hope he can reconcile with his wife, and become a better person, and maybe some day become santa's #1 elf. But in reality, if he just wins 25 majors and blows the rest of the golf world to hell and gone, nobody will give a crap about the rest of everything. That's reality.
12/11/09
12/11/09
You don't get where he has gotten in the sport by being a great father- you get there by selfishly putting in hours upon hours in the gym, at the driving range, and flying around the world. Would he have been better off if he didn't chase random tail? Of course.
However, deep down, if you made him choose between greatness in golf and being a family man/coulda been, he'll choose greatness - and I applaud him for it. Call me callous, but I don't give two shits about his marriage compared to his golf career.
12/11/09
12/11/09
@Dave J.: I'm not talking endorsements, or what people say to him in the gallery. He doesn't care about that. I'm talking about, when you read "the history of golf, 2030 edition", it having a picture of Tiger Woods on the cover and the preface starting out "Though the history of golf is long and varied, only one player stands head and shoulders above the rest."
That's what Tiger has always cared about, and I don't see that changing anytime soon. I could very well be wrong - but I doubt it.
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12/11/09
Tiger needs to take time off to decide what is best for him and what is left of his family (kids).
As for the PGA: there are plenty of other golfers that you can turn the cameras on during a tournament and most viewers are happy to watch without hearing about Tiger Woods every freakin' second.
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12/11/09
*and I know they have 2 children
12/11/09
And there isn't any kind of a cheapo alternative. For every stadium with an NBA basketball team, there are probably hundreds and thousands of blacktop courts where kids can play pickup ball essentially for free. Kids in my parents generation played stickball in sandlots, and flag football is still fairly popular even today.
But there's a much higher bar for golf. That, and it's sofa king boring.
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12/11/09
It wasn't the game of golf that got him into this mess; it was Tiger's own balls and shaft that got him there.
She needs to say "You need to choose between sex with multiple partners or me."
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12/07/09
This is a quote from a Bild spokesman, a newspaper that has famously low editorial standards. I don't get his appeal to the public interest here. These people have made a business of publishing irresponsible rumors that appeal to populist sentiment.
There are German newspapers that are actually doing poorly. These are mainly the broadsheets with high standards. Bild is not having any major financial issues like the broadsheets are having. It's true that its circulation is decreasing, sure, but for a newspaper that has consistently chosen the profit motive as a guiding principle over quality journalism in the public's interest, it's obviously disingenuous of them to justify their price increase as a way to provide better journalism.
The motivation is so clear here: squeeze as much money out of their readers before the great unwashed migrate away from Bild to equally poor-quality blogs.
12/07/09
12/07/09
Also, those douches aren't doing their job. Most of the Bild properties haven't changed their format in years and their online presence is especially a mess.
They can't expect to just keep doing what they've been doing since the eighties yet hope to preserve or increase their circulation numbers. The major problem I see is that the Bild concept is graphics heavy but commentary light -- a format that's easily supplanted by anybody with an Internet connection and a Wordpress account.
12/07/09
12/07/09
Um, OK. Still, I eat the occasional steak and I think people who take pleasure in the choice of fighting, torturing and killing dogs are sick individuals.
I do not think people who work at meat factories, or people who eat pork chops, are working at the same level of individual mental depravity.
12/07/09
12/06/09
As for Vick. I am the biggest dog lover on the face of the earth. However. He served his time. It's time to let him move on. Flame away on me, but I believe in justice being served and the ability to return to society hopefully rehabilitated.
12/07/09