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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what do you think of The King, Arnold Palmer ?
And to add about their replays, and of the CBS replay of 1975 footage, how nice it was to watch without wincing at the “GET IN THE HOLE!!!” or “YOU’RE THE MAN!!!” a millisecond after each shot.
Douches.. pull their badges.
same here.
I don’t know if this is true, but I saw on a tabloid news site that he has a 23 yr. old girlfriend who looks a LOT like his ex-wife!
I am curious to know why TW only dates WHITE women. I’m just saying....
Great article. It’s a shame, in a way, because CBS does golf coverage so much better than everyone else.
They are Woods bootlickers and it’s really annoying. It’s to the point where if I know he’s playing in a CBS event, I won’t watch.
I only watch maybe 2 tournaments a year (majors) and then only the last day. I’ll take your word for it.
I was going to say "well, in the world of multi-multi-millionaires in which he lives, he's surrounded by white people."
Then I stopped and thought "wait a moment . . . I'm not certain 'dates' is the appropriate verb for what Tiger does to women."
And then I stopped again and thought "wait another moment . . . Tiger's not meeting most of those women in the world of multi-multi-millionaires. They're cocktail waitresses, pancake waitresses, lingerie models, and porn stars*."
So just ignore my theory.
*Yes, cocktail waitresses, a pancake waitress with an interest in intimate couplings in parking lots, a lingerie model, and two porn stars, among others.
Arnie was my inspiration to take up golf in high school. Back then, they only televised the last four holes in black and white. I still remember an incredible shot he made while perched in a tree.
BTW, I am a retired advertising guy.
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