No one tells Tiger what to do

Wow, that seems pretty under the radar for one of Feinstein's books.

 

Feinstein has been on the radio the last couple weeks pushing his book, at least here in the DC market. He's no doubt a great writer, but christ. Dude's ego is out of control. Yeah, we get it, John. You have had better access than anyone in the history of journalism. YOU SET THE STANDARD, SIR!!! We heard you the 834,383,019,346,653rd time you told us.

And he's NEVER backed away from an opportunity to tell you just how much of an asshole Tiger Woods is.

I bet Feinstein has trouble finding hats that fit.

 

I've read every Feinstein book I believe and whatever the ego, I have always felt like there was substance to the story that he was telling. Even his book about the tennis tour was fascinating. Of course nothing beats reading about how Alford was Bobby Knight's whipping boy and marveling at how despite that Alford still became an All-America who won an NCAA title.

 

This. Feinstein hasn't been shit for a decade. He's lazy and full of himself. He might be the worst sports writer on the Post staff.

 

Sorry, Verse, you couldn't be more wrong. You might not like his work or him, but the one thing Feinstein is not is lazy.

 

I'm not going to go any further but to say that yes, he's definitely lazy in many of his columns. Maybe not his books.

 

I agree about the ego and annoyance coming through, but I enjoyed reading the excerpt and learning some of the behind-the-scenes stuff. Unsure if I'll buy the book, though.

 

When a writer observes an athlete and says "who the hell does he think he is?", I'm prone to wonder the same thing about the writer. I don't care if he was covering golf for the Times of London when St. Andrews was founded, he simply doesn't have the right to ask that question.

 

I disagree. I don't know how much time Feinstein spent covering Palmer and Nicklaus in their prime (probably not too much), but both were considered the epitome of class. Then Tiger came along and was insufferable before he earned his first dollar. A lot of writers asked the question, if not publicly, at least amongst themselves.

 

I get that, but here's my thinking: It's assuming a position of judgement, and as entitled as Tiger's behavior might indicate he is, that statement from Feinstein indicated a certain amount of entitlement thinking, too.