Jim Nantz on Tiger Woods....Change? What Change?

All I know is, Nantz has no room to talk condescendingly about temperance, entitlement or turpitude. And I'm of the camp that doesn't really care about Tiger Woods other than how he does on a golf course; anything else is between him and Elin.

 

Bless you, sir! (I trust you were speaking euphemistically when you say Tiger is a killer.) Bless you!

 

The thread begs another question ... with all cameras and recorders on Tiger after he vowed to do everything short of install a V-chip (ala Cartman in the South Park movie), do we know that none of the other players utter an occasional vile oath when a shot goes bad?

Or is it the TMZ's of the world that's forcing the sports media to monitor Tiger's every movement 24/7/365? If so, we're in deep trouble.

 

Nantz speaks from experience. He too changed his ways, cleaned up the potty mouth. No one remembers the '91 Masters? He opened it with his traditional opening: "Hello, fuckers."

 

I laughed at that?

 

And then there was #8 or 9, the British TV host, who was used just for the British Open... Tiger had sex during a major. I'm shocked I tell you, shocked.

It's really interesting to me how some people are bothered by this. The only thing I can think of is that some people like to "compartmentalize": Work, sex, money, competition.... and never the twain shall meet. And I guess you're thinking that Tiger would most certainly abstain when chasing a major?? But you should know there's a whole segment of the population that doesn't think that way. We mix and match.

 

To me, the moralizers are just sore that Tiger went out and contended in his first tournament since the golf world changed. Some of these people, I swear, think Tiger crashed a plane into the wall at St. Andrew's.
Let he who has had a high-tech microphone within earshot of every swing for 15 years and never dropped a dirty word cast the first stone.
And Nantz looks every bit the whiny ass that Joe Buck did in his Randy Moss meltdown.

 

This debacle has inspired some truly God awful sermonizing.

 

Go fuck yourself Augusta.

 

The "I couldn't say that" comment is weird because there are about 656 things that have happened during sporting events that Jim Nantz would not be allowed to do on CBS, yet as far as I know he's never called attention to them. For instance, if during a college basketball game, a brawl erupts because one player punched another, Jim Nantz would not be allowed to punch Clark Kellogg in the face. He'd be fired. And he'd be charged with assault, though I think most juries - assuming they're populated by college basketball fans - would probably acquit in this particular case.

In two different SI stories this week, the phrase morality play is used in a Masters story, and Joslyn James is again quoted. Agh. The woman gets quoted more often than Larry Sabato and Robert Thompson.

 

Whenever the phrase "morality play" appears in a sports story, it is a deadly tell the reader will encounter bad writing and worse thinking.

 

She looks better than either of them in a green jacket.