Posted on 04/11/2011 5:42:15 AM PDT by ejdrapes
Updated: 6:07 AM, April 11, 2011 The unsurprising twist about the weekend's Masters coverage on CBS is that Saturday's was no different from Sunday's. When Tiger Woods was behind by five, Saturday, or tied at the top, yesterday, it was still mostly all Woods, mostly all the time. What TV now does best is beat things to death. Doesn't matter who or what it is -- Charlie Sheen or Charles Barkley -- TV is going to squeeze it dry. The Masters used to be televised by CBS as one of golf's majors, as special. Follow the leaders, show a few shots from old and recent champs, but no one's bigger than the Masters or the Until Tiger Woods. And Saturday, the Masters became just another tournament in which Tiger Woods, plus some other guys, played. The same pathetic formula. It didn't matter that Woods's once-incomparable game has been on the fade. It didn't matter that Woods was five strokes off the lead. It didn't matter that eight players were ahead of him. It didn't matter that Woods in the last two years has been self-scandalized, proven to be the opposite of the wife and kids family-first guy, nothing close to the greatest-human-ever image that TV carved for him -- and still held tightly to. It didn't matter that he's a never-could-hide-it and still-can't brat on the golf course. And it didn't matter that this was the Masters. The most live video, Saturday, was devoted to Woods. The most taped video was devoted to Woods. The most talk was devoted to Woods. It became so silly -- rather, it stayed so silly -- that when co-leader Jason Day appeared in a taped interview, it was to hear him talking about Woods!CBS Masters art of following Woods
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It's part of the game, though. Young Rory will have to learn to cope with this as I expect he will find himself in the position of leader on Sunday more often than not in the future!
AND, like many, I mute or change the channel when the media buttheads stick their heads up his arse.
Again, like ØBozo, I have a bumper sticker that says; 'anybody but tiger!'
You know, I don’t play golf, never have, but somehow I got hooked on watching it on TV. The human drama is amazing.
I’ll never forget, after winning the 1997 Masters by 12 strokes, Tiger making the proclamation that he did it inspite of not having his ‘A Game’. He has always been a self absorbed a$$hole.
AND probably more often then Tiger will.
I admit to still liking Tiger, and hoping he plays well. I really didn't notice anything ungracious in what he said, but maybe that's just the schvatza lover in me coming out?
ML/NJ
You’ll appreciate it even more if you try to play it sometime and see what a maddeningly difficult game it is.
When Tiger made the turn,I said to my friend.I can hear the media breaking out their knee pads!
Tiger Woods. The Charlie Sheen of golf. Without the “Winning”.
This is one of my favorite snide comments:
Those that can, do. Those that can’t anymore end up speaking in hushed tones on the Golf Channel.
That's true, but for me, it's all about balance, or the lack thereof. Adam Scott posted two weekend 67s, and yet you barely saw the guy until he got to the 16th green. The same could probably be said for the eventual winner. By any measure, Scott and Schwartzel flew under the radar almost the entire weekend, even then they were in contention for a much longer period of time than Tiger.
All things considered, Schwartzel's last round was one of the best last rounds to win the Masters in years, maybe decades. Just off the top of my head, the only person who comes close is Nick Faldo in '96.
Ol’ Earl Woods and Dr. Frankenstein had something in common.
Be thankful it's not Brent Musberger.
I think it's the same reason some people get a tingle up their leg over Obama.
“WØØDS, like ØBozo, was made by the media.”
I can’t agree with this comment. While I thoroughly detest Woods and his boorish behavior (obvious F-Bomb after almost every bad shot for example), it is inaccurate to say he was made by the media. At one time, Woods was by far the dominant player in golf and was performing at a level almost inconceivable. Obama on the other hand never accomplished a thing before being annointed by the elites and the media to the most important job in the world.
I do like your observation. Getting behind a slow poke could have made it very hard to get back on track.
Similar to the black-focused commercial ads you see today, where they portray the "typical American family" as black; disregarding the reality of 75% out-of-wedlock/fatherless births....and criminal and drug use statistics.
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