Do we like anybody?

[broadway joe]

I don't follow golf closely, but I haven't seen many rip jobs on Tiger, with the exception of the Charlie Pierce Esquire article. People in the business may rip him privately, but seems to me the guy gets overwhelmingly positive coverage in the press.

go re-read the pierce esquire article (heck, go buy 'sports guy' -- great stuff) it wasn't a rip job, it just showed tiger as a human being. something it seems tiger has decided not to show again since pierce's excellent story

Hoops, I agree with you. The Esquire piece wasn't a rip job. I just mentioned it because it was the first non-fawning Tiger story. It was a great piece.

 

[Double Down]

You guys beat me too it on the Pierce story. Fewer things annoy me more on this board than when someone brings up that story and calls it a rip job. It makes me wonder if they even read the story, or if they only remember the fallout. It's a great story, and the whole point of it is, here is this ass kicking, cutthroat badass golfer, and despite what you might have read (by people, who, frankly ought to know better), he's not the second coming of Jesus or the next Ghandi, he's instead just a regular 21-year-old kid who likes to play video games and make deck jokes, so let's just sit back and enjoy him for what he is without trying to asign all this mythological bullshirt to it.

EDIT: Sorry Joe, I didn't see your clarification.