Do we like anybody?

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.

 

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 dick jokes, so let's just sit back and enjoy him for what he is without trying to asign all this mythological bullshit to it.

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