More cold, damp, drizzly weather in the Northeast. Spring was here again a few days ago, then disappeared once more. Now, I don't know too much about flowers and plants, but I wouldn't be surprised if the petunias, begonias and whatever else tries to grow around here packed up their seeds and moved south.
And what I really want to do is to find AlGore, so I can borrow the overcoat he doesn't think he needs anymore due to global warming. Because AlGore can believe whatever he wants about climates, but all I really know is, I'm sitting here freezing my tail off.
There's not an awful lot in the news lately worth writing about, so it's just a couple of comments today about a few of the headlines. It seems good old Tiger Woods is back in the forefront for a change, but not about winning golf events. It seems yesterday he fired his swing coach, Hank Haney, who'd been with him for the last six years. Naturally the story Woods people gave to the press was that Haney resigned and they're still the best of friends.
That news got me thinking about how this whole Tiger situation has been treated from the beginning. The conclusion I reached is that whatever really took place, from step one when his wife chased Tiger out of his house, whoever's been handling the public relations end of it all has been making colossal mistakes. All the talk about addictions to women and undergoing clinical cures wouldn't convince a turnip that there was any kind of remedy to fix that marriage. It all came down to Tiger saving as many bucks as he could and getting off the front pages.
That fiasco was followed up by Tiger's departed dad visiting him in a dream right before the Master's Tournament. This time the public relations and advertising geniuses thought that disparaging the deceased and insulting viewer's sensibilities would help a sponsor sell a few more pairs of sneakers. Add to that the information leaking out about Tiger's gambling habits, and send in who else to explain that away? None other than Charles Barkley, a wonderful human being to be associated with. If that guy lives to be two thousand he'll still not have paid off all of his own gambling debts.
After Tiger's poor performance in the Master's Tournament, despite Tiger's dad's spirits attempting to lift Tiger's, the loss was explained away as an attempted recovery from a tragedy comparable to the one suffered by the legendary Ben Hogan. In actuality that disgraceful insult to Hogan's memory was like comparing someone broken and bleeding returning from the sill of death's door to a Girl scout with a hangnail.
Follow that up with the withdrawal from the Player's Tournament with a strained neck. Then a few days later his swing coach suddenly departs. What all of this adds up to is a player whose game is currently far above "par", both on and off the golf course. And in golf above par's not a good thing. But, what I seem to feel is wrong throughout all of this, is not specifically what Tiger's done, good or bad, but more about how the situations themselves have been handled.
I think whoever's been handling the public relations side of Tiger's travails is taking bad situations and making them considerably worse. Because I doubt very many folks really buy the stories, excuses and attempted cover-ups provided to explain away what really took place. And, when all of the dis-information is added up, Tiger's "recovery" becomes that much harder for him, because the press and public will keep hammering away until they feel they learned the truth. Or, if these tragedies keep piling up as they have in Tiger's recent life...perhaps quite soon, they'll simply stop caring at all.
That's it for today folks.
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