BS: No thoughts about Tiger Woods?

Subject: BS: No thoughts about Tiger Woods?
From: Smedley
Date: 20 Feb 10 - 05:12 AM

I thought there would be a thread by now.

(or have I short-sightedly overlooked it?)

Subject: RE: BS: No thoughts about Tiger Woods?
From: artbrooks
Date: 20 Feb 10 - 05:24 AM

Another jock (in the American sense of the word) with no moral character. Who cares?

Subject: RE: BS: No thoughts about Tiger Woods?
From: Smedley
Date: 20 Feb 10 - 05:35 AM

His 'apology' was the lead item on BBC News yesterday, which given the state of the economy and continuing wars is pretty shocking.

Subject: RE: BS: No thoughts about Tiger Woods?
From: mauvepink
Date: 20 Feb 10 - 05:48 AM

He's a man who has had an affair. What's new? It happens.

It's tat. Old tat at that

Considering what is happening in the real world it's hardly newsworthy save those who like a good gossip and to see celebrities implode. But celebrities are only human too, with human needs and weaknesses. Same as politicians, etc etc. Why does it still surprise people?

Move along please: nothing to see here

;-)

mp

Subject: RE: BS: No thoughts about Tiger Woods?
From: kendall
Date: 20 Feb 10 - 05:50 AM

None of my business. With all the strife in the world why should we care who he is involved with? He has been front page news more often than some serious stuff. The media play to the prurient interests of the people who have no life of their own. Pathetic I say.

Subject: RE: BS: No thoughts about Tiger Woods?
From: skarpi
Date: 20 Feb 10 - 06:39 AM

I Agree with Kendall None of my business, maybe his wife should have take better care in the first place ..............

what is wrong in a relationship when either or both partners
go and see other s to have their needs fullfill ?

hummm .......is it becouse they have lost ..the connection
or are they growin apart ...

we don´t know ... like Kendall said there are more matter than this
to worry about ... .

or not ....

Subject: RE: BS: No thoughts about Tiger Woods?
From: Smedley
Date: 20 Feb 10 - 07:06 AM

I completely agree that this is not the most important topic. But the residents of Planet Mudcat often want to discuss topics of a similar 'level' of significance and I wondered why this one was overlooked.

Subject: RE: BS: No thoughts about Tiger Woods?
From: Bobert
Date: 20 Feb 10 - 07:16 AM

Well, I'm waitin' until Tiger walks up my driveway, knocks on my door and asks my forgiveness before I'm gonna ever watch golf on TV ever again... Nothin' less!!!

(But, Boberdz... You've never watched golf on TV???)

Shhhhhhhhhh.....

B~

Subject: RE: BS: No thoughts about Tiger Woods?
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 20 Feb 10 - 07:22 AM

Maybe just for once, we've all decided that

a) It's a personal matter between him and his wife
b) In the great scheme of things it is monumentally unimportant.
c) Nobody would even notice if he were the world's best taxi driver, or bricklayer, instead of golfer, so why bother hounding him to destruction.

I'm seriously hoping that the above is true, and that we can leave the poor bastard to pick up the pieces in private.

Don T.

Subject: RE: BS: No thoughts about Tiger Woods?
From: Leadfingers
Date: 20 Feb 10 - 08:05 AM

Nice comment on 'The News Qiz' on Beeb Radio 4 ! Reference 'Therapy' , does that mean when he gets an erection someone hits it with a cricket bat !

Subject: RE: BS: No thoughts about Tiger Woods?
From: alanabit
Date: 20 Feb 10 - 08:13 AM

What Kendall and Don Firth et al said. It is none of my damned business and I would rather his private life stayed his own. I do not need to know and contrary to the cant printed in the press, I believe I have no right to know.

Subject: RE: BS: No thoughts about Tiger Woods?
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 20 Feb 10 - 08:23 AM

Don F would be quite surprised, and possibly just a litle miffed, being much better at expressing himself than I am.

Don T.

Subject: RE: BS: No thoughts about Tiger Woods?
From: Emma B
Date: 20 Feb 10 - 08:35 AM

My thoughts on Tiger Woods -

As golf is one of the few televised sports I enjoy watching is to wish this excellent player a speedy return to the game he has excelled at and whose skill it has been a pleasure to watch.

My thoughts on the coverage in the media and elsewhere -

Unfortunately, the touring involved with such a career means that such professionals will spend far too much time away from family and home and their athlete / celebrity status will make them exceptionally attractive to many women adding up to many opportunities for adultery

This is NOT to blame women for 'men who stray' - whether that is some media fantasy of 'hot groupies' or assuming some 'failure' on the part of a wife and mother of two children unable or unwilling to share the pressure of so much touring - neither should it make Tiger Woods into some kind of crazed 'sex addict'

This article opens up some other (less headline grabbing) insights……

Critically Examining Media Coverage of Tiger Woods

Subject: RE: BS: No thoughts about Tiger Woods?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 20 Feb 10 - 08:40 AM

I wish all the peurile infantile, tacky, smutty, scatalogical, and totally unfunny jokes that fill the airwaves, and my e-mail inbox would cease NOW.
Apart ftrom that, I don't give a fuck what he did or didn't do, or with whom he did or didn't do it.

Subject: RE: BS: No thoughts about Tiger Woods?
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 20 Feb 10 - 09:30 AM

Thoughts about Tiger Woods?

Nope.

Subject: RE: BS: No thoughts about Tiger Woods?
From: Nancy King
Date: 20 Feb 10 - 09:49 AM

Me neither.

Subject: RE: BS: No thoughts about Tiger Woods?
From: greg stephens
Date: 20 Feb 10 - 09:55 AM

I am really really sorry. For just about everything.
If anyone would like to offer me any sponsorship deals, I am available.

Subject: RE: BS: No thoughts about Tiger Woods?
From: Charley Noble
Date: 20 Feb 10 - 10:04 AM

Nope. Not a one.

Tiger's acts were thoughtless enough.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: No thoughts about Tiger Woods?
From: Raedwulf
Date: 20 Feb 10 - 10:19 AM

Who?

Subject: RE: BS: No thoughts about Tiger Woods?
From: Paul Burke
Date: 20 Feb 10 - 10:29 AM

Bloody good golfer. Apparently has a personal life. Let him who is without sin tee off first.

Subject: RE: BS: No thoughts about Tiger Woods?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 20 Feb 10 - 10:50 AM

"yawn"

How about that?

Subject: RE: BS: No thoughts about Tiger Woods?
From: Jeri
Date: 20 Feb 10 - 11:19 AM

I think threads like this are amusing. "I don't have anything to say about 'X', but I thought YOU would."

It's like saying "I don't like shit sprinkles on my breakfast cereal, but I thought YOU would, so I started this thread (Called 'No thoughts about shit sprinkles?'."

If you don't have anything to say, feel free to not say it often.


Tiger Woods? I don't give a fuck. (Too bad he didn't.)

Subject: RE: BS: No thoughts about Tiger Woods?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 20 Feb 10 - 11:47 AM

"I wondered why this one was overlooked."

It wasn't overlooked. It was mentioned on a thread and no one gave a shit about it other than the few who usually do and many who usually don't. What TW does or doesn't do is none of my business.

Subject: RE: BS: No thoughts about Tiger Woods?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 20 Feb 10 - 12:13 PM

PS I watched two golf games in my life and they were seriously boring. It seems a strenuous way to go for a good walk.

Subject: RE: BS: No thoughts about Tiger Woods?
From: Jeri
Date: 20 Feb 10 - 12:22 PM

I wouldn't admit I ever watched a whole golf game, let alone TWO!

Smedley, it wasn't you. There seems to be a lot of 'news' networks that think people are interested enough to watch hours of reporting on a stranger's sex life. What I find truly appalling is that enough people ARE interested to keep them doing it.

Subject: RE: BS: No thoughts about Tiger Woods?
From: Neil D
Date: 20 Feb 10 - 12:31 PM

He owes only one person an apology.

Subject: RE: BS: No thoughts about Tiger Woods?
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 20 Feb 10 - 12:38 PM

Well it was the top of the BBC news headlines last night, which to my way of thinking certainly shouldn't have been.

Scripted is all I can say. He's sorry all right. Missing out on the product spokesman bucks.

Subject: RE: BS: No thoughts about Tiger Woods?
From: mousethief
Date: 20 Feb 10 - 12:53 PM

When I stand in line at the grocery store and my groceries are rung up, there is a display of magazines and tabloids telling me exactly who did what to whom, and how often, and whether she let him come back after sleeping with her, and who left the other guy, and why the baby had to stay at Grandmama's.

I don't know any of these people (except for having seen them last time I went to the store) and have no interest whatever in their private lives.

I've heard of Tiger Woods. I have just as little interest in his private life.

O..O
=o=

Subject: RE: BS: No thoughts about Tiger Woods?
From: gnu
Date: 20 Feb 10 - 01:08 PM

Jeri... hahahahaaa... good one. I like the jokes. I will laugh at damn near anything, except when it truly hurts people. Yes, it's a fine line, but there it is.

Subject: RE: BS: No thoughts about Tiger Woods?
From: Bill D
Date: 20 Feb 10 - 01:15 PM

As *I* grow older, I am more & more fascinated by games and activities in which individual compete in ways that do NOT involve other individuals trying to prevent them from their goal.
I do NOT find golf...or mountain climbing, or ski jumping... boring. Being able to figure out ways to hit that tiny ball hundreds of yards under constantly changing conditions is an amazing skill, and Tiger is one of the best at it. I'd like to see how far his GOLFING abilities can go.

He let temptations and easy access to them overwhelm him, but unless he is charged with a crime, I'd like to see how his golfing career will develop. What I will have opinions about are the inevitable remarks and harassments he will be subjected to if & when he resumes playing golf in public.

Subject: RE: BS: No thoughts about Tiger Woods?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 20 Feb 10 - 01:20 PM

Golf seems to be a good game for those who really get into it, and I imagine you could say that about any game.

Subject: RE: BS: No thoughts about Tiger Woods?
From: Emma B
Date: 20 Feb 10 - 01:23 PM

I like to watch curling too - how's it going over there?

Subject: RE: BS: No thoughts about Tiger Woods?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 20 Feb 10 - 01:27 PM

Not bad.

Subject: RE: BS: No thoughts about Tiger Woods?
From: Emma B
Date: 20 Feb 10 - 01:33 PM

Waves back

Well it's sure better than 'housework on ice' :)

Subject: RE: BS: No thoughts about Tiger Woods?
From: gnu
Date: 20 Feb 10 - 01:35 PM

Scotland (GB) is on TV right now, leading China 3 - 2 in the sixth. I am impressed with the Chinese as the Murdoch rink is one of the best in the world.

Subject: RE: BS: No thoughts about Tiger Woods?
From: gnu
Date: 20 Feb 10 - 01:53 PM

Scotland took 3 in the 6th. >:-)

Subject: RE: BS: No thoughts about Tiger Woods?
From: gnu
Date: 20 Feb 10 - 02:03 PM

Scotland steals 2... I think it's over.

Subject: RE: BS: No thoughts about Tiger Woods?
From: catspaw49
Date: 20 Feb 10 - 02:25 PM

If you don't play golf then you will rarely if ever watch it. Unlike other games, probably 80% of golf is played in your head.....at least that's what my Ol Man said. My Dad loved the game and was a superb golfer. There are courses around Ohio where the course record is 60 years old and they are held by W.J. Patterson. Many wanted him to turn pro but you didn't give up a good job back in the forties to go play golf. I started playying at age seven with a few cutdown clubs and in high school was 5-8 handicap. Dad had quit playing regularly because of back problems but he still shot par almost every round. I played very little after high school with the exception of a few periods of time, but I still enjoy watching a pro play the game.

I preface here with those remarks because what made this such a huge story was of course related to sex and an out of control media coupled with our voyeur-like interest and other things you have all mentioned. Many other stories like this one have been out there before but this one really went to overkill. Why?

I submit that had the guy played something else it would have been yet another Kobe Bryant story taking up too much space but about the same as many others. No, what made this one different is Golf. Nobody talks much about it, but the real hook here is golf. From football to tennis, all of the major televised sports has been involved in some kind of huge scandal about drugs or sex or both. Golf has had some minor things over the years that barely registered on the radar.

Jack Nicklaus was the All-American boy and Arnie was the greenskeeper's kid from Pennsylvania. Ben Hogan was probably one helluva prick but his comeback after the car accident made him a legend. Sam Snead, Ken Venturi, Byron Nelson, and on back to Bobby Jones, none of these guys had much negative press let alone a scandal. Tony Lema could have been close but it didn't happen.

Tiger made it happen. And when the press heard about it, they licked their chops and dove right in for a seven course meal......with a "seconds" buffet. This one had all the reqisite sports star goes wrong elements but it was in a sport where this kind of thing never happened. How would it affect golf?

Almost every report on this always alludes somewhere in it to how golf will be affected. Tiger did bring large numbers of new folks, often kids and their parents, into the game and I know the question is legitimate. On the other hand, I'm sick of hearing about it and so it seems are quite a few pro golfers. They're tired of talking about Tiger the jackass and very little else. They'd like to have him back simply to get back to the game as opposed to where Tiger left his dick last night.

So if Tiger's apology hastens the process of returning some normalcy to golf for them, I am all for it times ten.   I like golf and I don't give a particular shit about Woods.....except when I'm in them or they have a number on the bottom.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: No thoughts about Tiger Woods?
From: Smedley
Date: 20 Feb 10 - 02:43 PM

Jeri, I'm sorry if the way I started this thread displeased you. It was started out of genuine surprise, mostly because I thought that as TW was such a prominent celebrity in the US, the American Mudcat contributors would have views. I am a curious Brit, that's all (*very* curious, perhaps............)

Very interesting post, Spaw.

Subject: RE: BS: No thoughts about Tiger Woods?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 20 Feb 10 - 02:46 PM

Pat, if I played the game I don't doubt I'd view it differently.

Subject: RE: BS: No thoughts about Tiger Woods?
From: Greg F.
Date: 20 Feb 10 - 03:04 PM

Here's a thought:

Who gives a shit?

Subject: RE: BS: No thoughts about Tiger Woods?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 20 Feb 10 - 03:19 PM

LOL

Subject: RE: BS: No thoughts about Tiger Woods?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 20 Feb 10 - 03:43 PM

That was the first thing that went through my mind as well, Greg. ;-D

Subject: RE: BS: No thoughts about Tiger Woods?
From: Amergin
Date: 20 Feb 10 - 03:44 PM

What irritates me is when any public official, sports, actors, politicians...and so on, get caught with their pants down...they all cry, apologise, and say it wasn't really their fault because they are addicted to sex...and go to a "rehab" to get it cured...

They do this instead of owning up to their misdeeds. And the media (and because the media does, the public as well) gets on their collective knees and swallows it all.

Subject: RE: BS: No thoughts about Tiger Woods?
From: fat B****rd
Date: 20 Feb 10 - 03:49 PM

The Murdoch Rink ! Brucie has a building named after him?

Subject: RE: BS: No thoughts about Tiger Woods?
From: Don Firth
Date: 20 Feb 10 - 03:52 PM

Actually, what Don T. posted at 20 Feb 10 - 07:22 a.m. pretty much reflects my feelings on the matter.

Golf is a game in which on puts a ball about an inch and a half in diameter on a ball approximately 8,000 miles in diameter, and the object is to take a club and hit the little ball without hitting the big ball.

I can't say that I think about Tiger Woods much at all.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: No thoughts about Tiger Woods?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 20 Feb 10 - 03:55 PM

He'd probably be devastated if he knew how little most of us care... ;-)

Then again, maybe he'd be relieved.

Subject: RE: BS: No thoughts about Tiger Woods?
From: kendall
Date: 20 Feb 10 - 05:24 PM

I hear Diogenese gave up his search when they invented golf.

Subject: RE: BS: No thoughts about Tiger Woods?
From: Dave MacKenzie
Date: 20 Feb 10 - 05:29 PM

"I thought I could get away with whatever I wanted to do". Does this mean he's a banker or a politician?

Subject: RE: BS: No thoughts about Tiger Woods?
From: mousethief
Date: 20 Feb 10 - 06:44 PM

I hear Diogenese gave up his search when they invented golf.

I heard he's dredging a water trap on the back 9 swearing under his breath and murmuring, "Dammit, Socrates himself gave me that ball and I'm not leaving this course without it."

O..O
=o=

Subject: RE: BS: No thoughts about Tiger Woods?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 20 Feb 10 - 07:13 PM

What's all this rubbish doing all over the front pages of our papers?

Subject: RE: BS: No thoughts about Tiger Woods?
From: Don Firth
Date: 20 Feb 10 - 08:30 PM

Slow news day?

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: No thoughts about Tiger Woods?
From: Riginslinger
Date: 21 Feb 10 - 07:47 AM

With everything that's going on, it does seem stupid that so much attention is being paid to this.

Subject: RE: BS: No thoughts about Tiger Woods?
From: GUEST,Phil Cooper on the road
Date: 21 Feb 10 - 08:34 AM

No. I he some sort of athlete?

Subject: RE: BS: No thoughts about Tiger Woods?
From: greg stephens
Date: 21 Feb 10 - 10:12 AM

If you access this thread now, you are greeted with an advert for a course to give you a perfect swing. Seems sort of funny, somehow.

Subject: RE: BS: No thoughts about Tiger Woods?
From: Rumncoke
Date: 21 Feb 10 - 10:30 AM

Oh is that who it was - I turned on the radio in the car and there was someone asking us to believe in him again.

I thought I had the wrong channel selected and turned it off as I was in traffic.

This fellow seems to think he's a god, or at least worthy of being worshipped like one.

Anne Croucher

Subject: RE: BS: No thoughts about Tiger Woods?
From: GUEST,saulgoldie
Date: 21 Feb 10 - 12:43 PM

Which reminds me...haven't Brittany, Paris, or Lindsay been naked lately? Why wasn't I informed? And hasn't some purty little white blonde girl gone missing somewhere that I also have not been told about?

Besides, Woods is only playing freakin golf. It's not like he is actually doing anything IMPORTANT.

Saul

Subject: RE: BS: No thoughts about Tiger Woods?
From: Greg F.
Date: 21 Feb 10 - 02:22 PM

Its not like ANY of 'em are doing anything important.

What passes for the Fourth Estate these days is only concerned with "Dog Bites Man" pieces & blogs masquerading as news- nothing of any import.

Subject: RE: BS: No thoughts about Tiger Woods?
From: Bill D
Date: 21 Feb 10 - 04:10 PM

"...hasn't some purty little white blonde girl gone missing somewhere that I also have not been told about? "

Obviously, you have not been watching Nancy Grace. She don't miss many.

Subject: RE: BS: No thoughts about Tiger Woods?
From: Phil Cooper
Date: 21 Feb 10 - 11:30 PM

Sorry for the thread drift. No offense to Tiger's skills. The one time I played golf, I did 9 holes in 45 strokes. I was told that was a good score. I figured I didn't need to do it again. I was mostly there for the 12 pack in the golf cart.

Subject: RE: BS: No thoughts about Tiger Woods?
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 22 Feb 10 - 09:22 PM

How little we care?

If anyone took the trouble to ask, I suspect Tiger might be pleased if the only one who cared was Mrs Woods.

In fact he'd probably be ecstatic, and rightly so.

Why, I wonder, is it so hard for us simply to drop it.

Don T.

Subject: RE: BS: No thoughts about Tiger Woods?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 23 Feb 10 - 05:31 PM

It's the mainstream media who won't drop it, not "us".

Subject: RE: BS: No thoughts about Tiger Woods?
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 23 Feb 10 - 09:09 PM

""It's the mainstream media who won't drop it, not "us".""

Do you honestly believe, LH, that this is any of our business.

I tried to short circuit this back at the very beginning, without success.

Subject: RE: BS: No thoughts about Tiger Woods?
From: catspaw49
Date: 23 Feb 10 - 09:13 PM

But it is nice to know you care Don and keep Tiger in your thoughts by extending the thread............................

LOL

Spaw(;<))