Steve Williams: Phil Mick is a Prick

Why do we remember that person?

 

because the previous record was only 16.5 feet?




(too much?, but it still has nothing to do with Steve Williams)

 

Just to show that news happens every day.
We don't have to manufacture it.
The Williams story sort of lept up into our laps this week.
As did the Romo/Witten/Werder/T.O. story.
Did Werder make that one up?
Probably not.

And I said .. "not to threadjack"

 

Oh.

 

Slappy you post enough on this site to know that all other posts aren't going to be something you are immediately familiar with.

Though the majority involve things you "wrote the book on."

 

Ummm, I don't think I did, but OK...
Just thought that was out of left field enough -- even for this place to prove a point

 

I just find it hard to go a day without there being some kind of crazy story like Steve's in the news.
The shoe thing today, with President Bush, you needn't make this stuff up.
Even the L.Lohan & Samantha Ronson "story" (and that's a more well-known, but off-the-wall example)
Crazy, unexpected stuff is there for you every day.

 

I don't think the Williams-Mickelson story is crazy or unexpected. It's mostly annoying.

 

I liken a caddy spouting off about a tour star to, well, Michael Jackson in pajamas for his court hearing.

Both stories are absurd, and both will get coverage.

 

A few thoughts from the perspective of having covered a few majors:

1. I only deal with caddies if they are interesting people. Steve is a bodyguard, pure and simple. For most of his time with Tiger, he has either not been allowed to talk to the media, or didn't want (or we didn't give a rat's ass about talking to bullies). But Steve is getting a little frisky these days. He does an NBC gig for an off-season event. Then he gives two versions of the same Phil story to two New Zealand papers. This calling attention to himself is what got Fluff fired.

2. I like Phil. Actually, I try to like Phil. There are times when I think he's full of shit, and I'm far being being alone. He's the Eddie Haskell of the PGA Tour. But he wants to be liked so much by everyone, he doesn't blow off the media and signs more autographs than anyone. The feelings about Phil other players have related to me range from full-blown respect and awe (Rocco Mediate, for example) to thinking he's a bit of phony. Only one guy has openly expressed dislike for Phil (Vijay) and you have to consider the source. But no one else I know among Tour players of dislikes Phil. By the same token, none of the guys dislikes Tiger. However, many of them wouldn't piss on Stevie if he was on fire.

3. If I was Phil, I wouldn't have wasted my time responding to a caddie, even if he is Tiger's caddie. On the PGA Tour food chain. Phil is up there with Tiger, Vijay, Els, Garcia, Villegas, Kim, etc., and caddies are somewhere below the kid who shines shoes in the locker room. It's like being Tom Brady, and seeing yourself criticized by a high school J.V. coach in the Albany, Ga., weekly paper. Why would you give a rat's ass?