I have thoughts in my head. Many thoughts. Most of them are inner crapolla that even I am interested in for just a few seconds. But I do have thoughts, feelings, analysis if you will that I need to share and since the Internet never runs out of paper why not out here.
I doubt anyone will care to read my ramblings. I'm actually not going to invite anyone to this blog but I am going to actively post to it. Most of the time it will be political in nature... hey great another political blog... .just what we need. But I will also comment on sports, pop culture which to be honest gives me bad gas, and whatever inner crapolla as I reference above is swimming around in my head.
Today's big story as Joe Piscopo (sp??... so sue me) is Tiger Woods and the apology heard round the world.
It is not my place to judge if it was sincere or not. To be honest, it is nobody's business but Tiger's to determine if he is truly sincere. No one can crawl in his head and break through to figure out if he means it or not so let's move on. His new life starts from today and really the only thing that matters is his children.
I was talking to a buddy today about this and I put it to him like this. Everyone wants to know about the golf, the 19th major, his pursuit of greatness. Who cares. If somebody came to me and said, hey Wayne, you can be great professionally... truly great... the best ever... but in return you will lose your wife and family. I would say I will take the average professional life and keep my wife and family thank you very much. I'm sure there are some men that would choose the greatness professionally. I won't judge them, but myself and the buddy that I posed the question to agreed that NOTHING would come between us and our families.
So here we go then. If Tiger is sincere he is going to stop the ballyhoo, get help, focus on his kids and his wife, and eventually get back on the golf course. But he better be a different Tiger. He better not use the F word on the course, throw clubs, refuse to sign autographs. He doesn't just need a marriage makeover. He needs an image makeover and according to many pundits he needed an image makeover BEFORE this came out.
So good luck Tiger. You aren't my favorite golfer but you are revolving around the Sun just like the rest of us now. You realized it today... actually probably over the last 12 weeks you've begun to realize it. So let's move on. You get the help you say you need. Fix your marriage. Spend time with your kids. Tell them and Elin that you love them. Show them that you love them.
And then come back out and play golf but remember one thing. The hint of invincibility is gone now. Your fellow PGA players aren't going to be as intimidated by you anymore because even though you may hit it further, knock it closer, and putt it straighter than most of them. They didn't have to go on international TV and read a 13 minute statement about how much of a dirtbag they acted like. In effect, it's like giving them a 2-stroke mental advantage on the first tee so be ready.
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