Tiger ... this is just sick

[shotglass]

He's taken a one-shot lead in the final round. Again.

Just how far does this thing go?

 

[PeteyPirate]

All the way to the 18th, baby, yeah!

 

[old_tony]

He was great for golf for 10 years, but I wonder if the effect is turning around now. If he wins every time he plays, will people quite watching?

 

[shotglass]

It's difficult to quantify, tony, but yeah, I think they will keep watching.

It's reached the point where things feel right when Tiger is leading a tournament. And it feels uncomfortable when he isn't.

 

[friend of a friend]

I will keep watching.

 

[Double Down]

And it feels uncomfortable when he isn't.

I've always thought that was such a ridiculous sentiment.

 

[93Devil]

He was great for golf for 10 years, but I wonder if the effect is turning around now. If he wins every time he plays, will people quite watching?

I'm turning hoops off to watch Tiger.

 

[DemoChristian]

I'm not a golfer and won't watch either way, but I think people like to see a dominant athlete. I think they'd rather see this than an even field.
Remember when people said women's tennis was more exciting than men's because there were no dominant guys? I haven't heard anybody say guys are boring now because of Federer.

 

[shotglass]

And it feels uncomfortable when he isn't.

I've always thought that was such a ridiculous sentiment.

You know, I can't even dispute that. But I also can't dispute that this is the feeling. [/DougFerguson]

 

[the_lorax]

It makes for a natural story. If there's one guy/gal whom everybody knows is supposed to win, it's interesting if he loses (shocker) or if he wins (how did he deal with the pressure?).

 

[shotglass]

Also, if it's a ridiculous sentiment, then you don't have 5,000 idiots around the tee screaming "BOO-YAH" on every drive. Those 5,000 would be rooting for him to hack it into the left-hand trees.

Let's never forget that we're naturally caustic/questioning/hardened. A lot of these folks just prefer greatness to be great.

 

[typewriterhill]

I enjoy watching Tiger but a part of me wishes he had someone near him talent-wise to push him and see how he reacts. It does get a little boring on Sunday watching Tiger in his classic red shirt, black pants attire just slaughter a field of stiffs.

 

[playthrough]

I'll be in Vegas the day before the Masters starts and can't wait to see the odds on Tiger. My guess is even money.

 

[Double Down]

Also, if it's a ridiculous sentiment, then you don't have 5,000 idiots around the tee screaming "BOO-YAH" on every drive. Those 5,000 would be rooting for him to hack it into the left-hand trees.

Let's never forget that we're naturally caustic/questioning/hardened. A lot of these folks just prefer greatness to be great.

I'm not saying the sentiment doesn't exist. I'm saying it's ridiculous. When people say "it makes me uncomfortable to see Tiger struggle," it makes me want to barf. I don't feel uncomfortable at all. I feel indifferent. Sometimes, I feel fascinated, because it's fun to watch him grind so much and press so hard and curse and **** and moan. But I never feel like "oh no, the sporting universe has gone mad in the rare times that this dominant professional athlete can't wack his ball with a stick properly!"

 

[Tripp McNeely]

I'm not a golf fan, but I'll watch the final round of tournaments if Tigers near the top of the leaderboard because every time out, you're expecting to see history. He's an all-time superstar that transcends his sport.

Also, because Tiger is so great and so dominant, whoever eventually knocks him off his throne will be elevated as a legitimate star in the public's eyes, so it's win-win all the way around.

 

[the_lorax]

I enjoy watching Tiger but a part of me wishes he had someone near him talent-wise to push him and see how he reacts. It does get a little boring on Sunday watching Tiger in his classic red shirt, black pants attire just slaughter a field of stiffs.

Was it Jim Rome a year or so ago who had some rant on how flabby Phil was and how Tiger was good, but the rest of the field being pathetic just made him look better?

 

[93Devil]

Also, if it's a ridiculous sentiment, then you don't have 5,000 idiots around the tee screaming "BOO-YAH" on every drive. Those 5,000 would be rooting for him to hack it into the left-hand trees.

Let's never forget that we're naturally caustic/questioning/hardened. A lot of these folks just prefer greatness to be great.

I had a chance to go to the U.S. Open last year.

I did not go, and if Woods would have pulled out that tourney, I would have been sick because I did not get to see the win in person.

I'm sick of Phil's bull****, so there are no golfers, other than Tiger, I could give two ****s about when watching a tourney.

Oh, Daly I care about, but he is so far gone.

 

[shotglass]

Also, if it's a ridiculous sentiment, then you don't have 5,000 idiots around the tee screaming "BOO-YAH" on every drive. Those 5,000 would be rooting for him to hack it into the left-hand trees.

Let's never forget that we're naturally caustic/questioning/hardened. A lot of these folks just prefer greatness to be great.

I'm not saying the sentiment doesn't exist. I'm saying it's ridiculous. When people say "it makes me uncomfortable to see Tiger struggle," it makes me want to barf. I don't feel uncomfortable at all. I feel indifferent. Sometimes, I feel fascinated, because it's fun to watch him grind so much and press so hard and curse and **** and moan. But I never feel like "oh no, the sporting universe has gone mad in the rare times that this dominant professional athlete can't wack his ball with a stick properly!"

It's a good point. It's also what makes a run like the current one even more fascinating, because all of us have had front-row seats to those days in the last 3-4 years when he HAS pressed hard and cursed and pissed and moaned. Days when you expected his drives to wind up in the deep rough.

 

[93Devil]

Also, if it's a ridiculous sentiment, then you don't have 5,000 idiots around the tee screaming "BOO-YAH" on every drive. Those 5,000 would be rooting for him to hack it into the left-hand trees.

Let's never forget that we're naturally caustic/questioning/hardened. A lot of these folks just prefer greatness to be great.

I'm not saying the sentiment doesn't exist. I'm saying it's ridiculous. When people say "it makes me uncomfortable to see Tiger struggle," it makes me want to barf. I don't feel uncomfortable at all. I feel indifferent. Sometimes, I feel fascinated, because it's fun to watch him grind so much and press so hard and curse and **** and moan. But I never feel like "oh no, the sporting universe has gone mad in the rare times that this dominant professional athlete can't wack his ball with a stick properly!"

Casey at the Bat...

Tiger at the Tee...

Oh, somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright;
The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light,
And somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout;
But there is no joy in Mudville - mighty Casey has struck out.

 

[Double Down]

Devil, I cannot stand John Daly, and I can't understand why people still root for him in any capacity anymore. If some jerk showed up to your office drunk and 45 minutes late, then goofed around and chain-smoked his way through his shift, took angry phone calls from his crazy fourth wife on speaker phone, spilled Diet Coke down his shirt and made everyone else's work harder, no one would like him just because he won 2 pulitzers more than 10 years ago, and could, on very rare occasions, still write a killer headline. John Daly isn't even a golfer anymore. He's a sad joke. Like Britney Spears, it stopped being funny and aw-shucks silly and crossed in the rhelm of tragedy quite awhile ago.