It’s hard to overstate Tiger Woods’ greatness at the moment. He’s just running through people. I thought today might be the Sunday when he’s got someone or two challenging him. The course was playing pretty easy and there were a lot of guys in contention. But it didn’t happen, because Tiger is Tiger, and no one else is.
I love watching him. I actually find him exciting to watch, and he’s a fucking golfer. Physically, he’s better than anyone else, but the reason I love watching him is his incredible focus. It’s complete tunnel vision, and it is unshakable. I think it’s the most impressive thing going in sports today. I realize that this is highly subjective, but I find it more impressive than LeBron’s ability to control an NBA game, more impressive than David Ortiz’s clutch hitting, more impressive than Kobayashi’s cast iron stomach, more impressive than anything else out there.
I believe that if he was lining up a putt on 18, even if he already had the tournament won, and didn’t need the putt… if he saw Manute Bol having sex with his wife on top of a baby-oil-covered Twister mat, with a jockey riding Manute and slapping him with a whip, while KISS played an impromptu concert right behind them… he wouldn’t blink. He’d see it, he’d notice it, but right then, he wouldn’t give a fuck. What’s important is the putt. Nothing else. The putt is the thing. He’ll make it, sign his scorecard, collect his trophy, do an interview with Peter Kostis, and then he’ll beat Manute Bol’s ass. Or join in.
But anyway, going back to the inability to overstate the man’s greatness… Wilbon puts him in the Ali/Jordan category today. And, you know… it’s not ridiculous. I’m not saying I agree, I’d need some more time to think about it. But it’s not ridiculous.
By the way, why we’re here… Wilbon also takes Sergio Garcia out to the woodshed for giving this reason for Tiger’s domination: “The bad shots he hit all week long, he got away with them.”
Puss. Bag.
You know, it’s amazing that no one else got those breaks. Out of all the players in the field, Tiger must’ve been the only one getting good breaks. Hopefully, Sergio Garcia can someday get those breaks so he can actually, you know, win something. A guy known more for yellow pants than championship golf should probably keep his mouth shut. The only thing he should be thinking is that he just got his ass whooped, and he needs to get better if he wants to win. The fact that that thought even occured to him is evidence that he’s a skirtbag.
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We’re just not that good. I’m sorry to say it, but that’s the truth. People are going to look at the romp of the Chinese as a return to form, but it wasn’t. The Chinese are not only very bad, and would probably be beaten by most college teams, but they also match-up really poorly against us. Their weaknesses were what we’re best at exploiting; they don’t have good guards, they play man defense (and a poor one at that), and they’re just not a real cohesive team.
