[12 piece bucket]

Ya, I feel the same way, like I just realized how I'd been lied to or something and as always its accompanied by the thought that I was being naive in the first place. This aint anything new is it? Wasnt Babe Ruth sort of like Tiger and Daly combined while selling candy bars to kids? This whole thing might say as much about us, our Western society, as it does about Tiger. What are our expectations of these guys? Why do we value these guys so highly? So Tiger is a jerk, didnt we sense that already? Didnt his parents seem kind of odd? Didnt he kind of look like a kid who picked his nose and ate it? Dont get me wrong I love the guys game, his swing. If he changed putters I'd be the first to try to figure why, how etc. Until now Ive been supporting Tiger better than a bra does some of his girlfriends.

This past summer I went to a golf tournament for the first time in about twenty years. Jacks tourney in Columbus. I loved it and want to go back but I was really taken back by how things had changed. The fans were like a drunken mob that the players dare not look at. The players aloof or maybe trying to zone the fans out. I wasnt sure whose behaviour was worse but I didnt like it. Maybe Im just getting old. Kenny Perry and Ernie seemed like great guys despite the bs. They're fighting a good fight there.

Tiger has transcended golf, as his dad predicted, he is now a celebrity. Brad and Angelina, Tiger and whoever. Maybe the USGA and Bobby Jones were right, professional golf is a vulgar proposition. Of course some say Bobby retired after the Grand Slam and some say he retired to profit from the Grand Slam. Only his hair dresser and Spalding Sporting Goods know for sure.

Me I love the Brendan Shanahan response when discovering your hero is not worthy of your adulation.

http://www.thestar.com/sports/hockey...n-vaive-attack

I agree with the above to a certain extent . . . however . . . Eldrick & Co. Inc. sold that he was BIGGER than any athlete because he transcended race and via sport would eventual trascend politics etc. I never believed that garbage. I thought he was human . . . but THIS AIN'T HUMAN. I mean going to a strip joint . . . human . . . getting drunk . . . human . . . helping a confused goat over a fence . . . human . . . maybe even cheating one time on your ole lady . . . human . . . looking at pawno . . . human . . . this junk IF TRUE . . . is BEYOND . . . he transcended alright. Can you imagine some of the suit types that were probably at these parties rolling out after a big "how can we market Tiger's image" . . . "Dude, can you BELIEVE what a sales job we've pulled on the ENTIRE WORLD?? . . . and now we're hanging with MODELS that want to do us!!!"

Tiger has probably screwed the pooch for a bunch of athlete poltician types . . . I bet that's why these skanks are hiring lawyers . . . this probably runs deeeeeeeeeeeeeep into the set he rolled with. Could be more celeb types pulled into this crap storm.