Public people, private lives, and Tiger Woods - Page 2

Not Afraid · 12-02-2009, 09:36 AM

I don't even know what happened and I don't care.

Disneyphile · 12-02-2009, 09:53 AM

I find it rather mundane, really. But, it's good to know he's human and not a borg or something.

Strangler Lewis · 12-02-2009, 10:08 AM

Tiger finally admitted indiscretions. I guess the golfer's instinct to call your own penalty proved too strong.

Alex · 12-02-2009, 10:16 AM

My image of Tiger Woods does not at all rely on the quality of his private life. So it isn't really impacted.

Unless it turns out instability in his private live devastates his golf game. Since my image of him is based on his ability to, when in competition, focus to the exclusion of everything else.

But he could have banged the entirety of South Florida, calling his wife at the conclusion of each act to taunt her and it wouldn't much matter to me.

SacTown Chronic · 12-02-2009, 10:19 AM

Winter rules, Tiger. Winter rules.

/golf geek

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Originally Posted by Not Afraid

I don't even know what happened and I don't care.

Something about trouble involving a black man married to a white woman in the deep south. Also, the white woman appears to be some sort of immigrant. That's all I can tell you. Anything more than that would be conjecture at this point.

Morrigoon · 12-02-2009, 10:59 AM

I just so don't fvcking care at this point.

Ghoulish Delight · 12-02-2009, 12:02 PM

I don't care, but I have to admit, the image of Tiger flooring it backwards down the driveway, throwing it in gear, only to suddenly see through his drunken haze his wife standing in his headlights waving a couple of golf clubs over her head, causing him to swerve into the hydrant and tree has me pretty amused.

Strangler Lewis · 12-02-2009, 12:33 PM

I wonder if Tiger could have gotten her out of a vehicle with his driver. I think he might have pulled it.

I now have this vision of the family using golf clubs for all manner of difficult household chores.

As to caring or not, it doesn't detract from my regard of him as a sportsman. However, unlike, say, PacMan Jones, he is paid lots of money to endorse things based on his image. Anytime someone, be it politician or athlete or evangelist, dines out on a wholesome image and that image is tarnished, it is certainly a phenomenon worth noting and, perhaps, chuckling at.

Alex · 12-02-2009, 12:38 PM

True, his various employers definitely have reason to care (if not about the events themselves then the reaction of the buying public).

But people who are buying non-golf stuff simply because Tiger Woods is attached (while I never have, there are certainly cases where I am more aware of a product because of his face) to it, well I'd say they deserve to be disappointed.

SacTown Chronic · 12-02-2009, 12:58 PM

From golf . com:

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Tiger earned $100 million last year. $7.7 million on the course -- and approximately $92 million off it.

From Tiger's press release today:

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Although I am a well-known person and have made my career as a professional athlete, I have been dismayed to realize the full extent of what tabloid scrutiny really means.

Translation:

People should only pay attention to me when I want to sell them something using my carefully crafted image. Or when I'm winning tournaments. Or when I'm giving interviews. Or when I talk about the wonderful psychic connection I had with my Pops. Or when I release photo spreads taken with my family. Other than that, please respect my privacy. Let me have my cake and eat it too. Wah!

12-02-2009, 09:36 AM	#11
Not Afraid HI! Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 17,108	I don't even know what happened and I don't care.
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Disneyphile SQUIRREL! Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: On the curbside. Posts: 5,098	I find it rather mundane, really. But, it's good to know he's human and not a borg or something.
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Strangler Lewis Doing The Job Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: In a state Posts: 3,956	Tiger finally admitted indiscretions. I guess the golfer's instinct to call your own penalty proved too strong. __________________ Live now-pay later. Diner's Club!
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12-02-2009, 10:16 AM	#14
Alex . Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,354	My image of Tiger Woods does not at all rely on the quality of his private life. So it isn't really impacted. Unless it turns out instability in his private live devastates his golf game. Since my image of him is based on his ability to, when in competition, focus to the exclusion of everything else. But he could have banged the entirety of South Florida, calling his wife at the conclusion of each act to taunt her and it wouldn't much matter to me.
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Morrigoon I throw stones at houses Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Location: Location Posts: 9,534	I just so don't fvcking care at this point. __________________ http://bash.org/?top "It is useless for sheep to pass a resolution in favor of vegetarianism while wolves remain of a different opinion." -- William Randolph Inge
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Ghoulish Delight I Floop the Pig Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Alternative Swankstyle Posts: 19,348	I don't care, but I have to admit, the image of Tiger flooring it backwards down the driveway, throwing it in gear, only to suddenly see through his drunken haze his wife standing in his headlights waving a couple of golf clubs over her head, causing him to swerve into the hydrant and tree has me pretty amused. __________________ 'He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.' -TJ
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12-02-2009, 12:33 PM	#18
Strangler Lewis Doing The Job Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: In a state Posts: 3,956	I wonder if Tiger could have gotten her out of a vehicle with his driver. I think he might have pulled it. I now have this vision of the family using golf clubs for all manner of difficult household chores. As to caring or not, it doesn't detract from my regard of him as a sportsman. However, unlike, say, PacMan Jones, he is paid lots of money to endorse things based on his image. Anytime someone, be it politician or athlete or evangelist, dines out on a wholesome image and that image is tarnished, it is certainly a phenomenon worth noting and, perhaps, chuckling at. __________________ Live now-pay later. Diner's Club!
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12-02-2009, 12:38 PM	#19
Alex . Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,354	True, his various employers definitely have reason to care (if not about the events themselves then the reaction of the buying public). But people who are buying non-golf stuff simply because Tiger Woods is attached (while I never have, there are certainly cases where I am more aware of a product because of his face) to it, well I'd say they deserve to be disappointed.
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