Tiger Woods in Car Accident

Nice take, Alma. I agree.

 

Crash,

Tell me you realize that the only reason no additional charges have been filed is because Tiger deliberately went into hiding and dodged the cops because he doesn't want them to see his face or ask him any questions about why he was driving at 2:30 in the morning, and his back windows were smashed. Tell me you understand this.

The damn cops don't dictate a story. The Fla HP cucked this thing up anyway, but journalists don't wait for them to investigate to decide whether there's a story or not.

Obviously this is a story. That sports journalists have no interest in covering.

 

Alma is dead on.

 

That takes does not suck, Alma.

 

Thanks...simply put, I was outraged by the coverage yesterday. Not because of Tiger's transgression, per se. But because readers/viewers got a fucking sermon about privacy from people who willingly invade it every day! And they keep the subject squarely focused on Tiger's "transgressions" when the real story is a huge fight and a car crash that could have really hurt the guy. If this were John Daly, everybody be clucking their tongues and waiting for ol' John to make a country song out of it. But it's Tiger so....what....journalists need to respect his...<i>dignity?</i> What dignity? He's a shoeless, bloody, woozy idiot out in the middle of the road with cuts on his face and shards of glass in his hair, hiding from the cops so they can't see his face, issuing edicts on his Web site like Howard Hughes. It's news! Of course it's salacious! That it's salacious doesn't disqualify it, though.

 

Outraged? Really?

 

This is not news?

The technological advances made in the past 30 years have changed the rules, the media no longer gets to decide what is "news" and what is not. The public gets to decide. If the NE, US Weekly, or TMZ did not run this, then it would be publicized by someone else, a blog, Twitter, whatever. Why? Because anyone in the U.S. today can communicate to someone in Somalia instantaneously.

The girl who tells is a POS? Yet again, this is another instance of letting the guy off. How about making a better choice of your dance partner? How about vetting her? You're the most recognizable face in possibly the world, she has in the bank less than $50k, and you think because of some stupid outdated sense of "morallity" she's not going to spill the beans? Get real. We're talking about the chance at a million $$. And now apparently for the first lady, she even lied for him but has now decided against that.

As a married guy, I certainly understand the temptation, its there every day (obviously not like Tiger), I've seen my buddies fall down, but let's not be ignorant that you are the decision-maker and have control.

 

Alma, I too enjoyed your take. Hopefully you had the opportunity to put that in print.

 

Dammit. According to TMZ, the lawyer for hot creeper No. 1 has nixed the presser today.

 

Also, I heard that Tiger drank Powerade, wore New Balance, and knocked it around with a Titleist at a Vegas Country Club. -- maybe that's what the presser was gonna be about, Sonner.

 

Yes, I understand this. I also understand that if Tiger wants to go into hiding, that's his personal choice. Along the lines of your first post, it's not Tiger's responsibility to give anyone a story. If the reporters want to write a story, then go out and report a real story. But don't sit back and speculate about some bullshit that you read on TMZ or in US Weekly.

It's all this speculating bullshit that pisses me off. If you've got NEWS, report it. But if all you're going to do is speculate, shut the hell up. You're not doing anybody any good by talking about stuff you haven't a clue about (of course, considering that's what 95 percent of TV is today, I guess it's to be expected). Tiger getting whacked upside the head with a 3-iron is news. Domestic violence is news. But most of these people left the domestic violence behind the minute US Weekly put the voicemail news out there. Since then, it's been all about the affair. And sorry, but a professional athlete having an affair isn't news. Hell, a professional athlete NOT having an affair is more newsworthy than that.

 

You realize Tiger could have been more seriously injured in a lesser vehicle.

As always, a golfer is only as good as his Caddy.

(I'm not reading 44 pages of this fail to see if my stupid unfunny joke has already been made)