Jim Nantz mentioned McIlroy's parents enough to earn a quad bogey. He mentioned them again and it was Mission Accomplished as he got Rory to cry.
Reminds me of the old Groucho Marx line, adopted for this post: "Jim Nantz hasn't stopped talking since the first tee shot... he must have been...
Freakin' Nantz and Immelman spoke it out of existence with their comments about McIlroy.
If he doesn't win the playoff, from now on any golfer that blows a lead will be called a "Rory."
WTF is the deal with CBS the last two weekends? No leads were safe in the Final Four a week ago and in just a few minutes, The Masters' leaderboard flipped upside down.
If there's anything we should learn and understand: Lessons are never learned when it comes from spending money in competitive situations. Some team/school will ALWAYS overpay if it thinks the player is THE ANSWER.
PT Barnum was right: "There's a sucker born every minute." And the birth rate...
Must say that CBS Masters coverage is below average. They need to do a better job with player info graphics and post 'em every time a player is on the screen. Seems like they're getting better.
My wife and I are watching the third round. Rory's chip shop on No. 3 landed and checked up to a full stop.
"How does he do that?" she asked.
I consider myself an above-average golfer, pretty consistent shooting in the 80s. My answer:
"I have no idea." :)
Please pardon the nostalgia post.
The Johnny Cash song "I've Been Everywhere" comes to mind when I review some of the places that have provided freelance gigs since I left the ranks of the employed in October 2016. Thanks to the Muck Rack site, my awful old guy memory has been sufficiently...
No smile from this retired scribe. OSM was meh and is formulaic - little-known mascots, characters, fans, above-average plays, sad players, happy players. The names and teams are changed to protect the assistant directors editing the footage.
Perhaps off-topic, but an interesting tidbit:
Vanity Fair's former editor Graydon Carter has written an autobiography about the "good old days" when magazines mattered. Bryan Burrough, who became a top writer at VF, dropped this nugget:
"For twenty-five years, I was contracted to produce three...