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Thursday, June 05, 2008

Tiger Woods?  Tiger Wuss!

By Tangotiger, 04:20 PM

Great job by Canada’s (Toronto’s) Globe and Mail in praising NBC over Canada’s CBC.  The ice-level reporting was pretty good.  The NFL usually saves this for some hot chick to talk to players about how they feel.  MLB sometimes gets a headset talk with the manager every now and then.  The story of the playoffs was really Zetterberg and Fleury, and NBC was all over it.  Great job on them (and Versus) in terms of the focus on selling the game.

As for Tiger Woods:

I don’t really care. Let’s talk about the Dodgers. … I don’t think anybody really watches hockey any more.

Does he not realize that the NHL ($3billion) draws 50% the revenue of MLB ($6billion)?  Two years ago, the PGA drew $1billion.  In 2007, prize money, in total was 257 million$, which is less than one-fifth of the prize money (salaries) of NHL players.  Tiger does the classic arrogant thing that if he’s not interested, then how can most other people be interested?  Not only arrogant, but an ignoramous to boot.  And mostly, I hate Tiger for making me side with Mike Milbury:

Milbury: “You know what? I’m gonna change the name now. It’s gonna be Tiger Wuss. Here’s a guy that took about three months to get over a simple arthroscopic surgery. You look at [Pens forward] Ryan Malone. His face exploded with a slap shot last night — he’s back out in 10 minutes!

“Keep your yap shut, Tiger, or I’ll send a couple of wingers down there — [Pens forward] Gary Roberts — to tidy you up a little bit, meat head.”

Pierre McGuire: “I’ll just say this: Tiger Woods doesn’t usually have a bogey, but this was a triple bogey.”

McKenzie: “Unfortunately, [Woods] epitomizes what a lot of Americans feel about hockey: They don’t give it a chance, they don’t get it, they’re not wired correctly — and to those Americans that do get it, Mike Milbury, thank you very much.”

James Duthie: “I’ll say this to Tiger: Nobody watches golf any more either! Except when you’re playing, then everybody watches it.”

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