Running Tiger Woods thread

I don't agree. Cheapshot moralizing when we don't even know the whole story behind the other night yet. Armchair psychology based on a mugshot.

 

I think it's a good column. The Tiger of old is who a lot of people wanted to be. He had it all with seemingly nothing going wrong in his life.

Regardless of what happened the other night, Tiger has had a rough couple of years.

 

This passage is bullshit:

They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but Tiger’s mugshot is worth only three:

“Fall from grace.”

His image is ruined. His star has fallen. His talent is gone.

And, too, there is a pang of personal nostalgia when you look into Tiger’s sad eyes in that maudlin mugshot.

 

Maybe, but journalists are supposed to cover what is and not just what they want it to be.

For 20 years, they have covered Tiger Woods for what they wanted him to be.

 

This is very true and I have to believe a lot of the hand-wringing regarding his downfall are wrapped up in the disappointment that he never quite became the transcendent figure off the course that so many wanted.

 

I lived there for two years, and that about sums it up. Not even good enough to make the awful, but worth a visit thread. Cumberland is even worse, though there is a really good little pizza place there.

 

Cumberland is a war zone.

 

I broke the gas pedal off my SUV while driving up a mountain in Cumberland.

 

I don't agree with you, but not so much because I think your reaction is wrong. I don't like the column much, either, but, reading it, I don't see Bianchi projecting much more than wistfulness onto Woods. I think your critique overshot the impact of the column. It's basically just early Baby Boomer wishing things were different, like they once were, when things were better, Back Then.