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Augusta National Golf Club, host of The Masters, has all the money in the world and tries to live up to its blessings by doing things well. For example, Masters.Com website is outstanding. It allows you to watch every stroke of any golfer’s round in order without all the walking, standing around, squatting, tossing grass into the air, talking to the caddy, and plumb-bobbing of live golf.
For example, you can relive in just 90 seconds Kevin Na’s misadventure’s on the par 3 16th hole, at an average of only 15 seconds per stroke Just click here and then click on “16.”
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I’d rather watch putt-putt golf.
They also famously don’t charge very much for their concessions, which as anyone who eats 0r drinks at a professional sporting event can tell you is a great contrast to everywhere else.
A few years ago a thunderstorm went through Augusta during Masters Week and knock over a tree into a restroom building damaging the roof. Augusta National had to roof repaired in the same day.
The biggest take away of Augusta National they will give up money on things like the TV contract or concessions so that they can have more control.
What someone needs to invent is a good quality re-hydratable beer. Pouch, swirl in water and a little alcohol.
2) Until recently, the three sponsors AT&T, Rolex, and Mercedes Benz did not show commercials during the match. See above. This time we missed tee shots from the front runners so we could hear about MB's latest electric car.
3) Felt bad for Cam Smith. He was hanging with Scottie until the 12th. He's not the first to lose the tournament there and he won't be the last.
4) Cam missing the last put on 18 cost him sole 3rd place and about $500k.
5) Lots of interesting use of drones with cameras.
6) Way too much Tiger slobbering.Replies: @Ralph L, @Captain Tripps, @Ganderson
The top players are so young these days. Was impressed with Will Zalatoris when he was charging yesterday. He’s the same age as Scottie Scheffler. In fact his bio notes his first competitive play was against Scottie Scheffler and Jordan Speith as Texas teenagers. Speith seems washed up at 26. Same could be said for Bubba Watson and Char Schwartzel both winners from a decade ago. Aussie Cameron Smith, who looks more like a California hippie than a top tier golfer is 26 and could be peaking at just the right moment to make Scheffler really regret the 18th hole yesterday.
Maybe golf is becoming like women’s gymnastics. You peak early and decline fast.
In the past, it was common for young athletes to play a variety of sports growing up. But now, he says, all these kids are training starting at age 5 to excel at one sport, so they are more likely to have injuries from the same repetitive motions and also from the elevated intensity.
I can certainly confirm that from the children of my peers (soccer, golf, etc.) as well as from combat sports:
https://youtu.be/Hp_SWcsogxo
And the older girl acting as the instructor's Uke in the video was quite a child prodigy herself:
https://youtu.be/vJ4GiKFYMi0
That’s neat.
Went to see the Master’s once. I don’t like golf that much but it was still amazing. Will always remember wandering onto the course by the first tee. I looked up and Tom Watson was 3 feet in front of me. That set the tone for the day.
Rather than trying to follow any specific golfer, I just walked the course and paused when I saw a golfer I liked. I will admit, with no shame, that when I was walking up the slope to the green of the 18th hole, I fantasized that I was in the lead on Sunday walking up to sink the winning putt.
Wanted to get my dad a souvenir. So I picked an azalea blossom and pressed it into the program I picked up at the course entrance.
But everything else is expensive. Look up what a room at the Motel 6 or Red Roof Inn costs in Augusta during Masters Week. Look up the cost of renting a house for the week. Look up the costs of scalped tickets are.
A few years ago a thunderstorm went through Augusta during Masters Week and knock over a tree into a restroom building damaging the roof. Augusta National had to roof repaired in the same day.
The biggest take away of Augusta National they will give up money on things like the TV contract or concessions so that they can have more control.
Also: no commercials, woke or otherwise. No hagiographic coverage of Tiger playing like a 46 year old with a bad ankle. No fawning interviews by sports babes.
Yes, folks, we DO know how strong of mind Tiger is, at least when it comes to golf. Give it a rest!
Or, perhaps you'd like to talk about how Tiger has often been NOT strong of mind OFF the golf course, that he's made several bad decisions that led to serious injury and near death, judgments which put his family through hell.Replies: @Dan Smith
Wow. This is a way to watch “golf proper”, without the non-golf parts like walking from hole to tee. Is such delay-eliminating video reporting available for other sports like football and baseball?
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The app is very good too. It is the only one of the major golf tournaments I will leave installed on my phone year round. The Masters treats the fans as guests and wants them to have a great experience instead of treating them like marketing data to collect and exploit.
Na is a good putter as well.
The Masters is a great experience especially because they incorporate about 400 local HS kids who are all pleasant and helpful.
Which is strange for a PGA event. Whistling Straits last year was $14 for a 12oz domestic beer and $19 for a mixed drink… but you got to keep the cup. After our “transitory” inflation this year I shutter to think what the updated pricing will look like. You’ll have to take out a small loan to pay for a round with your buds.
The PGA Tour did the same thing for the Players last year (every shot live & also archived on the NBC app), and it was amazing. Then the tour mysteriously scrapped it this year. I’m sure player pushback was the reason–touring pros don’t like being filmed when they’re shooting 83 late on Friday afternoon and ready to slam the trunk.
New motto: “These guys are good, but when they’re not, you don’t get to see it.”
Naturally players at the Masters are just happy to be there, and wouldn’t dare challenge ANGC’s green blazers.
I grew up in Aiken. I have been to the Masters 60-70 times. Lost count a long time ago. Lost ticket access after 2013 when my mother changed care homes. I don’t miss the the tickets. It was work for me. Every day, another friend to take, and they all wanted to go early and stay late. Late night dinner at Variety on US 1.
I can tell you this about Augusta National: with few exceptions, they have resisted political and cultural pressures to change things. Their reliability is refreshing in today’s age.
By personal observation, I can assert this has been true for over 50 years. And by legend, forever.
Shouldn’t they have something like speed golf, like speed chess?
The sporatic “ congrats on finishing the hole” is sad…
There is way too much slobbering over Tiger.
Yeah--while that was happening I gave my dog a standing ovation for finishing 47th in the dog show.
;-)
It's a sporting event. There's nothing important or historic about any of it. It's fun. That's it.
Be nice to hear a sportscaster that gets that basic reality and just rolls it out for what it is--entertainment.Replies: @Justvisiting
The beauty of the Augusta setting is inspirational for fans, and likely for players, too.
Or click “16” here (round 2) for a better shot:
https://www.masters.com/en_US/players/player_20229.html
(See you next Thursday when this highly controversial comment is finally approved!)
That’s the way GHWB played. He bragged about his time, not his number of strokes.
Steve, do you like golf?
LET’S GO, ELDRICK!
Agree. I don’t really use most of the features. I’ve been firing up one of the feeds–“broadcast”, once it comes on–hooking up to the TV, using the windows “extend” and just flicking the masters over to the TV side so i can keep reading, emailing and iSteveing.
BTW appreciate the choice of 16, instead of seeing yet another picture of 12 with the Hogan Bridge.
That video of the triple bogey pretty much reminds me why I don’t play this game. Brutal,
There’s a neat variant where people run between holes and then add up the number of strokes with the number of minutes it takes to complete the round. Some just carry a 7 iron and use it alone. Fascinating trade offs in the strategy.
Elsewhere in the Peach State, eugenics can be cruel:
Georgia father is charged with murder after his 8-year-old son accidentally shoots and kills his brother, 6, with an ‘AR-15’ that was ‘left out on the bedroom floor’: Dad was found with ‘meth and marijuana’
They don’t give us the name of the shooter, D’onte’s son and V’onte’s brother.
https://nypost.com/2022/04/10/georgia-man-thomas-hawk-wife-and-grandson-killed-in-gun-range-shooting/
Nowhere left to run in Georgia. You have to retreat behind a pile of money in Big Canoe or St. Simon's Island or hope your pricey neighborhood has lots of doorbell cameras to discourage criminals. Of course, now that the authorities have made it acceptable to obscure your identity in public I'm not sure how much good surveillance does. Stone Mountain used to be a white suburb by the way.
“We’re just a small town, 12 officers. I’ve been here eight years and have never had to investigate anything like this. It’s been kind of hard on us. The crime rate is really, really low,” he said.Replies: @OilcanFloyd
What the pocket flask was made for.
What someone needs to invent is a good quality re-hydratable beer. Pouch, swirl in water and a little alcohol.
Georgia father is charged with murder after his 8-year-old son accidentally shoots and kills his brother, 6, with an 'AR-15' that was 'left out on the bedroom floor': Dad was found with 'meth and marijuana'
They don't give us the name of the shooter, D'onte's son and V'onte's brother.Replies: @R.G. Camara, @The Anti-Gnostic
Fucking NRA members.
They ought to do that with football games too. They’d only be 15 minutes long, if that. Cut out all the huddling and walking back and forth and untangling pileups and lining up.
Basketball would be funny. It would just be 120 shot-shot-shot-shot-shot-shot-shots.
But never do it with baseball. Baseball is the true American sport. They didn’t play golf in the Civil War.
It’s nice to have a short, very positive subject here today.
I don’t follow golf, or play it, but learning of well done websites these days is a nice thing.
Georgia father is charged with murder after his 8-year-old son accidentally shoots and kills his brother, 6, with an 'AR-15' that was 'left out on the bedroom floor': Dad was found with 'meth and marijuana'
They don't give us the name of the shooter, D'onte's son and V'onte's brother.Replies: @R.G. Camara, @The Anti-Gnostic
In other fun Georgia news:
https://nypost.com/2022/04/10/georgia-man-thomas-hawk-wife-and-grandson-killed-in-gun-range-shooting/
Nowhere left to run in Georgia. You have to retreat behind a pile of money in Big Canoe or St. Simon’s Island or hope your pricey neighborhood has lots of doorbell cameras to discourage criminals. Of course, now that the authorities have made it acceptable to obscure your identity in public I’m not sure how much good surveillance does. Stone Mountain used to be a white suburb by the way.
“We’re just a small town, 12 officers. I’ve been here eight years and have never had to investigate anything like this. It’s been kind of hard on us. The crime rate is really, really low,” he said.
Is it really, as they say, a lot more hilly in person than what we see on TV?
My memory of the elevation is that the course slopes down as you go away from the clubhouse. So, for example, when you walk along the 11th fairway it is downhill. The 12th tee is a great spot to watch from because you have a good downhill view of the golfers pin point accuracy shooting onto the green.
I have an impression that 4 and 5 were hilly fairways. I remember watching Tiger Woods hit there. But I may be wrong. It’s interesting that I remember the back nine much better because I’ve seen it on TV so much.
Of course, the uphill slope on the 18th fairway is impressive to see in real life. One of the sacred grounds of sports.Replies: @Captain Tripps
The giggling gets annoying, but a rocket-powered golf club is worth it.
“How Hard Can You Hit a Golf Ball?”:
— (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JT0wx27J9xs)
“Rocket Powered Golf Club at 100,000 FPS”:
— (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBcxuzdP3rs)
And how about a “Supersonic Baseball Cannon”:
— (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqidD7kVnxY)
I kinda like the almost ASMR-ish banter and commentary that golf announcers have to resort to while they cover the tournaments. Very calming.
Yes, yes, yes. What should also be emphasized, is that Eldrick has scored the worst weekend in his entire Masters’ career. But there’s nothing to see here, folks.
There certainly isn’t.
Currently he is at the same age (46) as Jack Nicklaus, when he won the final Majors of his career.
TICK. TICK. TICK.
* Since 1960, only 5 PGA players have won a Major tournament over the age of 45.
TICK. TICK. TICK.
https://www.amazon.com/Slim-None-Dan-Jenkins/dp/0767914333
They have commercials, last year they were woke. This year was better, AT&T and IBM were actually trying to sell their products. CBS has always given Tiger Woods fawning coverage this year was more of the same. They also have airhead Amamda Renner interview players after their rounds. Are you watching coverage from another country?
If you watch the broadcast on CBS you would notice there are very few commercials there either, as per their contract with ANGC.
Kevin Na (and others) might benefit from this essay, published in The Strand Magazine in 1913:
Wilson Pickett predicted his coming way back in 1966:
https://nypost.com/2022/04/10/georgia-man-thomas-hawk-wife-and-grandson-killed-in-gun-range-shooting/
Nowhere left to run in Georgia. You have to retreat behind a pile of money in Big Canoe or St. Simon's Island or hope your pricey neighborhood has lots of doorbell cameras to discourage criminals. Of course, now that the authorities have made it acceptable to obscure your identity in public I'm not sure how much good surveillance does. Stone Mountain used to be a white suburb by the way.
“We’re just a small town, 12 officers. I’ve been here eight years and have never had to investigate anything like this. It’s been kind of hard on us. The crime rate is really, really low,” he said.Replies: @OilcanFloyd
I used to live on SSI, snd it isn’t what it once was. I don’t know much about Big Canoe anymore. My current small coastal utopia is in the process of being destroyed by the usual combination of transplants, encouraged/forced diversity, immigrants, and, of course, sleazy developers and politicians. I have no idea where I will go next.
BWAHAHAHAHA
Tiger Woods shot +6 today, finished in front of only 5 other guys who made the cut, 23 strokes above the guy who got the big check.
Cedar Rapids, Iowa?
The Sailer law/principle should be re-cast as the Sailer axiom, because it is as fundamental as, say, the axiom of a two points and a line.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10704777/Two-dead-10-hospitalized-overnight-shooting-Iowa-nightclub.html
Back in the early 70s, the Masters and the Triple Crown were the only TV shows that had national Cadillac ads.
“There is way too much slobbering over Tiger.”
Yeah–while that was happening I gave my dog a standing ovation for finishing 47th in the dog show.
😉
Perhaps no “babes,” but by God I got sick of the Tiger butt licking from Jim Nance.
Yes, folks, we DO know how strong of mind Tiger is, at least when it comes to golf. Give it a rest!
Or, perhaps you’d like to talk about how Tiger has often been NOT strong of mind OFF the golf course, that he’s made several bad decisions that led to serious injury and near death, judgments which put his family through hell.
Yes, hilly, and a very taxing course to walk over four days.
A few years ago my friend and his wife had tickets for the practice rounds. The players, although intent on their practice time, were very accessible and outgoing. He said the golfer and his caddy would stand in one spot on a fairway and try different cubs, all the while recording everything in their pocket yardage books. Also was amazed at how hilly Augusta National is. Food and drinks very reasonable.
https://babylonbee.com/news/to-make-golf-more-exciting-players-will-just-play-football
It is hilly, although I can’t say if it is more so than on TV.
My memory of the elevation is that the course slopes down as you go away from the clubhouse. So, for example, when you walk along the 11th fairway it is downhill. The 12th tee is a great spot to watch from because you have a good downhill view of the golfers pin point accuracy shooting onto the green.
I have an impression that 4 and 5 were hilly fairways. I remember watching Tiger Woods hit there. But I may be wrong. It’s interesting that I remember the back nine much better because I’ve seen it on TV so much.
Of course, the uphill slope on the 18th fairway is impressive to see in real life. One of the sacred grounds of sports.
The club is doing obless majestie (sp?) in saying we make so much money off this thing that we aren’t even going to bother to screw the “patrons” on food and drink.
2) Until recently, the three sponsors AT&T, Rolex, and Mercedes Benz did not show commercials during the match. See above. This time we missed tee shots from the front runners so we could hear about MB’s latest electric car.
3) Felt bad for Cam Smith. He was hanging with Scottie until the 12th. He’s not the first to lose the tournament there and he won’t be the last.
4) Cam missing the last put on 18 cost him sole 3rd place and about $500k.
5) Lots of interesting use of drones with cameras.
6) Way too much Tiger slobbering.
I think you're mixing lese majesty (an offense against the sovereign) with noblesse oblige, the expression you want.Replies: @Reg Cæsar
Sports media people (as Howie Carr calls them “the shills from Shillville”) make the average MSNBC anchor look like Tucker Carlson.
Oh and Woods is my exhibit A for my contention that guys married to hot chicks are more inclined to cheat…Replies: @Emil Nikola Richard, @Jim Don Bob, @AceDeuce
It was Biblical, hahhahhahhahahhaaaaa! It was cold and weird for the first 2 days. I was very happy that the top 1-15 remained at the top so we could focus on their shots.
I know the course was rough as far as the wind and cold. I did get tired of everyone sort of throwing shade at Tiger as to how he would suffer from the conditions. Well, sometimes, annoucers (talking heads) need to STFU.
Tiger shot a 74 on his first day from orbit.
Everyone I know, knew that the weather would suck for Tiger: cold and damp is bad for people who have musculoskeletal issues. My father had polio as a child, and was crippled, so, I hated rain…all my life, still do.
Tiger played and was not pathetic. Announcers knew that if they said anything negative, their career was over, or worse1 hahhahahhahaa
Scheffler, early on, was the champion. He was slow and steady, methodical. He was an unknown so the media could not talk about his past, ffs. He was a true star and very deserved champion as he outshot/out-putted EVERYONE! He was a leader, athletically, and blocked all the nonsense out.
Don’t forget, he’s got a German last name.Replies: @Reg Cæsar
Steve have you been following the looming global famine issue? Apparently that giant explosion took out Lebanon’s ability to process and store food imports, and their last shipment of wheat had to be destroyed because it got moist, so now they have … whatever they have in their pantries now. So they’ll have a war. There is sellable surplus food in India, Canada, the US, and I expect Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina, but its sufficiency and prompt portability is questionable. A lot of places grow more profitable plants rather than food (eg, Egyptian cotton), but could convert given time. Apparently the fertility of Anerican soil is cratering. But that still leaves real food shortages in many places this year.
My sister worked the Softball World Series, and fans tried getting peppermint schnapps into the games in sippy cups in diaper bags.
They do. The Hamilton college ( or is it Colgate, I get ‘‘em mixed up) men’s and women’s golf coaches, who are husband and wife, are speed golf champs.
That makes complete sense. The families, cause they’re the only ones watching, have to be blotto to spectate woman’s softball.
2) Until recently, the three sponsors AT&T, Rolex, and Mercedes Benz did not show commercials during the match. See above. This time we missed tee shots from the front runners so we could hear about MB's latest electric car.
3) Felt bad for Cam Smith. He was hanging with Scottie until the 12th. He's not the first to lose the tournament there and he won't be the last.
4) Cam missing the last put on 18 cost him sole 3rd place and about $500k.
5) Lots of interesting use of drones with cameras.
6) Way too much Tiger slobbering.Replies: @Ralph L, @Captain Tripps, @Ganderson
The club is doing obless majestie
I think you’re mixing lese majesty (an offense against the sovereign) with noblesse oblige, the expression you want.
I hate their logo. It's un-American. Where are the states?
Maybe golf is becoming like women's gymnastics. You peak early and decline fast.Replies: @Twinkie
I was at my orthopedic surgeon’s office the other day (I tore my shoulder). My ortho guy is a former competitive collegiate athlete and both of his children were too. He told me that he sees a lot more sports injuries among children then he did in the past. He think that’s happening, because children’s sports are becoming much more “professional” and “specialized.”
In the past, it was common for young athletes to play a variety of sports growing up. But now, he says, all these kids are training starting at age 5 to excel at one sport, so they are more likely to have injuries from the same repetitive motions and also from the elevated intensity.
I can certainly confirm that from the children of my peers (soccer, golf, etc.) as well as from combat sports:
And the older girl acting as the instructor’s Uke in the video was quite a child prodigy herself:
NFL games.
I don’t know if Masters.com lets you do it but you could also in theory watch every play a single hole like, say, the strategic 13th at Augusta.
Is Augusta the nearest we have to Rand’s ‘Hidden Valley’? Select club of achievers. Women just barely tolerated. Own ‘currency’ – concessions decoupled from market; green jacket hierarchy. Civil behaviour (by order). Plebs, sorry patrons, only get a tease of its efficient superiority once a year. All set in an increasingly decrepit locale. Winners should get a gold bar for completeness.
Golf itself is little more than a nice way to get a little exercise and time in the sun and fresh air … watching golf, especially speed-watching golf is just sad.
My memory of the elevation is that the course slopes down as you go away from the clubhouse. So, for example, when you walk along the 11th fairway it is downhill. The 12th tee is a great spot to watch from because you have a good downhill view of the golfers pin point accuracy shooting onto the green.
I have an impression that 4 and 5 were hilly fairways. I remember watching Tiger Woods hit there. But I may be wrong. It’s interesting that I remember the back nine much better because I’ve seen it on TV so much.
Of course, the uphill slope on the 18th fairway is impressive to see in real life. One of the sacred grounds of sports.Replies: @Captain Tripps
The back nine makes better television, that’s for sure. The general strategy is to endure the front nine, then go after it on the back nine, though the announcers always make the point that the Amen corner holes are among the hardest on the course. Rory McIlroy tore up the front nine on Sunday but cooled off enough on the back that Scheffler’s big lead was for all intents and purposes insurmountable. Scheffler even double-bogeyed 18 and still finished 3 shots ahead. Indeed, Scheffler’s 3 putt at the end was like letting the air out of a balloon in terms of entertainment; the highlight of the day was watching McIlroy and Morikawa both hole out of the bunker on 18 for birdie at the same time.
2) Until recently, the three sponsors AT&T, Rolex, and Mercedes Benz did not show commercials during the match. See above. This time we missed tee shots from the front runners so we could hear about MB's latest electric car.
3) Felt bad for Cam Smith. He was hanging with Scottie until the 12th. He's not the first to lose the tournament there and he won't be the last.
4) Cam missing the last put on 18 cost him sole 3rd place and about $500k.
5) Lots of interesting use of drones with cameras.
6) Way too much Tiger slobbering.Replies: @Ralph L, @Captain Tripps, @Ganderson
All great points. The hagiographic coverage of Woods was strange, almost weird in tone (to me anyway). Every announcer seemed to fall all over themselves talking about his humility and awesomeness (I was driving home from a weekend getaway playing golf – heh – and was listening to the PGA channel on SiriusXM; then turned on the TV coverage when we arrived home).
Yes. Was using the app on my phone while playing 18 on Friday, then Saturday, and was able to drill down to my favorites to watch on demand at each hole, between shots during our rounds. Fun…
A guy Tiger hated actually wrote a novel on the subject.
OT
There’s a new generation of Bazelons: Simon Bazelon, son of Emily Bazelon, is guest blogging at Matt Yglesias’s Substack:
https://www.slowboring.com/p/democrats-are-sleepwalking-into-a
He got this primo gig and exposure from his high-quality, six-post-old Substack:
https://outoftheordinary.substack.com
When last we heard from Simon, he was having a panic attack at age 5 because he couldn’t find the veggie stick snacks his mom had prepared for him:
https://slate.com/human-interest/2008/05/staving-off-my-son-s-panic-attacks.html
Apparently he was a Montessori kid, which is a guilt-free way for progressive parents to throttle down the number of blacks their kid has to interact with.
Joe- I enjoy the practice rounds- one can wander the course and get a sense of it, and then view the competition rounds on the idiot box. Watching the tourney live one only gets to see a tiny sliver of the action.
The most impressive thing I’ve ever seen at a pro golf event was at the PGA in 2015 at Whistling Straits during a practice round- Jason Day walked the length of the ninth (from memory, so…) fairway while hitting his golf ball up in the air with his wedge. Didn’t drop it once. Amazing.
And regarding food and beverage prices, compare what they charged at the Masters with the $18 beers at the Frozen Four in Boston this past weekend. BTW the Natty was won by the Denver Pioneers, who woke up in the third period after being dominated by Minnesota State U-Mankato for two periods and four minutes: the problem was that even after controlling the game for that long, the Mavericks were only up 1-0. The Pios scored 5 (2 ENGs) in the third stanza. Pa Engalls, who as I’m sure you all recall, used to go to ‘Kato to get supplies, was sad, as is all of Blue Earth County, MN.
I fully realize none of you care…
Oh, and Joe; are you happy about coughing up for a new playpen for the Bills? Maybe the Senecas can donate some of their cigarette and gambling money from their establishment in Salamanca!
A true Boston story. Back in the early 90s during the WWF's heyday I went to an event at the Garden with friends. We were having some frosty pops at Sully's, and who would be sitting at the bar having some cold ones of his own was the Hub's own "Pistol" Pete Doherty, wrestling's Duke of Dorchester. He actually got a call at the bar to tell him that he had to fill in for a no-show wrestler.
He acquitted himself admirably, especially for having had a half dozen Bud tall boys!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Duke_of_DorchesterReplies: @Buffalo Joe
Tiger Woods shot +6 today, finished in front of only 5 other guys who made the cut, 23 strokes above the guy who got the big check.Replies: @The Anti-Gnostic
He’s 46 years old and wrecked his body with that turbo-powered, hyper-aggressive swing. Greg Norman predicted his physical burnout years ago. Then this happened last year:
He easily could have lost half his right leg. I hope his doctors published his case study for the benefit of orthopedic medicine in general. Tiger probably needs to give up professional golf now so he can still walk a course when he’s 65–or still golf when he’s 65.
Screw Tiger.
Bryson DeChambeau appears to be foolishly headed down a similar path. He played poorly and claimed he has injuries to his hand and hip because of a fall he took while playing ping pong. Clearly his body cannot take the strain he is putting on it long term.Replies: @Jonathan Mason
2) Until recently, the three sponsors AT&T, Rolex, and Mercedes Benz did not show commercials during the match. See above. This time we missed tee shots from the front runners so we could hear about MB's latest electric car.
3) Felt bad for Cam Smith. He was hanging with Scottie until the 12th. He's not the first to lose the tournament there and he won't be the last.
4) Cam missing the last put on 18 cost him sole 3rd place and about $500k.
5) Lots of interesting use of drones with cameras.
6) Way too much Tiger slobbering.Replies: @Ralph L, @Captain Tripps, @Ganderson
JDB: Re number 6: I think it is a pretty big story that the best player in history has come back from terrible injuries to even make the cut at a major; but I always felt that if Woods were John Johnson from Wisconsin the slobbering would be way less to nonexistent. And besides, isn’t Tiger kind of a dick?
Sports media people (as Howie Carr calls them “the shills from Shillville”) make the average MSNBC anchor look like Tucker Carlson.
Oh and Woods is my exhibit A for my contention that guys married to hot chicks are more inclined to cheat…
But maybe the ex after pumping out a few kids said "My work is done here". I actually know a woman who said that and then went on to do some very public coal burning.Replies: @Ganderson
It is popular enough to be held at a neutral site (Oklahoma City) and I’m sure Goatweed‘s sister can tell you it’s a sell-out crowd.
https://www.latestcelebarticles.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/montana-fouts.jpgReplies: @Brutusale
His agent wants him to sign more contracts with Nike. Also his ex-wife and a hundred So Cal Skank Hos. About the only good thing that can be said of this man is that he doesn’t appear to have a coke habit. Well the only good thing that can be said in the thirty seconds worth considering this question.
Screw Tiger.
The latest two I spotted — on YouTube or DailyMotion, a cheesy YouTube wannabe:
1) A cute white woman playing some kind of X-Box game while her black boyfriend/hubby lies on the couch laughing.
2) Even more disturbing, a warm and fuzzy Pampers ad with a white woman gently hugging what appears to be a tiny black baby.
White men understandably enjoy golf and hockey, as we’re being erased from the culture everywhere else
It don’t bother me none if you shoot under par
‘Cause I know what I am, and I know what you are
— Spock’s Beard, “The Doorway”
Came across this at random again yesterday — the only rock song I can thing of offhand that references golf
This is somewhat true. The same woman coaches both the men and the woman at Hamilton, while her husband is the pro at the local public course 16 miles away. I will say it is refreshing to see such an attractive woman coaching golf while being married to a man and having three children.
I think the people who run Augusta know that Golf generally and the Masters specifically relies in large part upon nostalgia, tradition, history and continuity for its fan appeal. The green patron’s jacket and lifetime invitation for past champions is an example of this. The $1.50 pimiento cheese or egg salad sandwiches are charming and an ode to tradition. My guess is that the costs (sourcing ingredients, storage, preparation, packaging, retail staff, etc.) exceeds the price of these sandwiches, so the loss on the sales at the $1.50 price point is a form of branding and marketing, rather than simply a choice of not socking it to the patrons and guests.
OT: Another test of Sailer’s Law of Mass Shootings. No pictures of victims yet.
Man killed, 5 others wounded in shooting at birthday party on northwest side: Indianapolis police
https://www.wrtv.com/news/local-news/crime/5-people-shot-1-killed-after-fight-at-birthday-party-on-northwest-side-indianapolis-police
INDIANAPOLIS — A man was killed and five other people were wounded in a shooting believed to have started with a fight at a birthday party overnight Sunday on the city’s northwest side, police say.
Officers responded to the shooting about 3:20 a.m. at an event hall in the 4200 block of West 38th Street, according to Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department Lt. Shane Foley.
When police arrived, they initially found three people wounded. One of the victims, Belansky Fanord, 24, was found dead inside a building.
The other victims are a 29-year-old male, a 37-year-old male, a 31-year-old male, a 33-year-old male and a 21-year-old female.
This is just so isteve that i have to show it to you.
https://twitter.com/InorgChem/status/1513527228533035018/photo/1
Maybe this will embed
No, i don’t know what IAPN stand for. A guess
I intersex
A ?
P polysexual
N non sexual? Will google
One more
I’d be interested to know if this applies to post-foragers. I realize most modern people anywhere are noy descended from the people who lived there in the paleolithic. Do various behaviors arise from things besides foraging requirements? Like, just cuz your a farmer doesn’t mean the parasites all go away.
Thanks. I knew I was mostly right. And, she is attractive.
Watch every stroke?, or watch every stroker stroke together with all six billion stroker chokers, while they watch the planet implode.
Jesus Christ! Is there anyone left on this planet that gives a shit about physical production?
Swinging a pussy golf club, (try a 33 inch bat combating a 100 MPH baseball.
Tiny the Tiger.
They are people that have big big "plans" for what your life/community/nation must be like.
Leaving people alone to have and enjoy their own organic communities with their own traditions/norms/values/culture and turn them over to their own children--nope! they can't allow that! Not when their big plans will make it all better.
That Masters interface is awesome. I really enjoyed it. It is something out of Star Trek “Menagerie.” Thank you. I am always ranting about the good old days… old-fashioned technology, music, art, culture, literature etc. But this Masters space- and time-travel thing is certainly an exception.
Interesting final round of 64 by Rory, which was only one stroke over the course record.
The thing was that he could very easily have scored three strokes better and shot a 61 by eliminating a few more wayward shots.
I imagine that many of the top players are capable of playing similar rounds when the pressure is off and they have nothing to lose, however there are probably relatively few players for whom the difference in prize money between 3rd and 4th places in The Masters is immaterial, so most players will still play for position and dollars rather than for glory.
Even so, the $1.62 million that McIlroy picked up for second place will have been some small consolation.
Man killed, 5 others wounded in shooting at birthday party on northwest side: Indianapolis police
https://www.wrtv.com/news/local-news/crime/5-people-shot-1-killed-after-fight-at-birthday-party-on-northwest-side-indianapolis-police
INDIANAPOLIS — A man was killed and five other people were wounded in a shooting believed to have started with a fight at a birthday party overnight Sunday on the city's northwest side, police say.
Officers responded to the shooting about 3:20 a.m. at an event hall in the 4200 block of West 38th Street, according to Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department Lt. Shane Foley.
When police arrived, they initially found three people wounded. One of the victims, Belansky Fanord, 24, was found dead inside a building.
The other victims are a 29-year-old male, a 37-year-old male, a 31-year-old male, a 33-year-old male and a 21-year-old female.Replies: @Calvin Hobbes
Deceased birthday partier Belansky Fanord:
https://www.orangepublicrecords.com/sample.php?id=90682
Is that a great haircut, or what?
Rory also made some incredible shots that he wouldn’t be able to make again if had he another dozen Sundays. That shot out of the bunker on the eighteenth to make birdie is something that will be on his career highlights. He couldn’t do that again if he had hit fifty more balls out of the sand. Rory also putted from off the green on the seventh hole to make birdie. That putt was probably at least fifty feet downhill with a nontrivial break.
Rory had at least half-a-dozen lucky save shots yesterday. Three of his birdies came on holes in which he wasn’t even on the fairway off the tee. His birdie on eighteenth, for example, went from fairway bunker to green bunker to in the hole.
I can’t remember the last time I saw a guy in the sand twice on the same hole and still make birdie.
Bob, the best way to enjoy golf is to play with players that play at your level. Next set your own pars…call it “bob golf”, ie., a tough par four is a Bob Par Five. Shoot for what you can achieve, relax, have fun.
It probably got him killed after someone laughed at him.
I’ve watched as much of it as I can for a few years now. Women’s softball is more fun to watch than any level of baseball, for a few reasons.
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.superwags.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2016%2F03%2FJennie-Finch-Palying-14-SW122.jpg&f=1&nofb=1
There's a Crystl Bustos:
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww3.pictures.gi.zimbio.com%2FU%2BS%2BOlympic%2BTeam%2BMedia%2BSummit%2BIgxR_bvEqIMx.jpg&f=1&nofb=1Replies: @ScarletNumber, @Ganderson, @Mike Tre
Way too much slobbering and hagiography in general. Blather about “making history” and crap.
It’s a sporting event. There’s nothing important or historic about any of it. It’s fun. That’s it.
Be nice to hear a sportscaster that gets that basic reality and just rolls it out for what it is–entertainment.
Their billionaire boss owned whores will write it.
That is why most of "official history" is total garbage.
I think you're mixing lese majesty (an offense against the sovereign) with noblesse oblige, the expression you want.Replies: @Reg Cæsar
Or maybe they’ve just lost their ob over time. The rest of America has.
I hate their logo. It’s un-American. Where are the states?
This is what actually “evil” people look like.
They are people that have big big “plans” for what your life/community/nation must be like.
Leaving people alone to have and enjoy their own organic communities with their own traditions/norms/values/culture and turn them over to their own children–nope! they can’t allow that! Not when their big plans will make it all better.
C’mon man, don’t you pregame at Sully’s Tap?
A true Boston story. Back in the early 90s during the WWF’s heyday I went to an event at the Garden with friends. We were having some frosty pops at Sully’s, and who would be sitting at the bar having some cold ones of his own was the Hub’s own “Pistol” Pete Doherty, wrestling’s Duke of Dorchester. He actually got a call at the bar to tell him that he had to fill in for a no-show wrestler.
He acquitted himself admirably, especially for having had a half dozen Bud tall boys!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Duke_of_Dorchester
This is an amazing coincidence. Just the other day I was explaining to an AWFL how birthday parties are the best metric by which to measure the difference in civilizational potential between whites and blacks. I asked her how many birthday parties she’d attended in her life without anyone getting shot. Answer: about 50. She agreed that all of her friends (about 100) had also each attended about 50 such events without violence. Then I asked her the same questions for funerals. So we came up with around 10,000 events where not a single person got shot. Then I asked her to check her Google for shootings at black parties or funerals just in the last year.
I don’t think Tiger has any intention of still playing at 65, although it would be smart to make sure he can still walk at 65. He wants to play the British Open this year because it is being held at the Old Course in St. Andrews.
Bryson DeChambeau appears to be foolishly headed down a similar path. He played poorly and claimed he has injuries to his hand and hip because of a fall he took while playing ping pong. Clearly his body cannot take the strain he is putting on it long term.
They can use Niagara Falls casino profits– from the Ontario side– to build a portable stadium that can be hauled to Canada for two or three games a year. Win-win.
Tiger Woods has become his father.
There is 150′ in elevation drop from the 10th tee to Rae’s Creek at 12.
Yes, it’s hilly.
Bryson DeChambeau appears to be foolishly headed down a similar path. He played poorly and claimed he has injuries to his hand and hip because of a fall he took while playing ping pong. Clearly his body cannot take the strain he is putting on it long term.Replies: @Jonathan Mason
Maybe somebody had a quiet word in his ear about steroids.
Can he golf his age with a walker? Jim Kaat, from another field, has done it four times– no, not with a walker– once right-handed. I bet I could match that– on a miniature course.
New golf book recommendation for Mr. Sailer.
Just saw a nice review of this in the Weekend Review section of the Wall St. Journal.
The Nature of the Game
by Mike Keiser with Stephen Goodman
Knopf, 304 pages $ 40
The book is about golf course design/architecture.
Special focus on “links” courses which the author has personally built (in Oregon and recently Wisconsin). Review discusses how “links” courses are now becoming the Thing.
Looks like this is right up your ally. Might be able to get a library to order it. Or get it for your next birthday…
FYI
( I don’t golf but this sounds great for a golfer, course fan.)
OT assorted
Hugh Hewitt has embraced the laziest kind of racism and dishonesty, led astray by his neocon friends, his elite casual racism, and his faith in the utterly worthless American flag officer. Using as his evidence the movie Fiddler on the Roof, the same genius who claims that Putin wants to bring back Soviet Communism has decided that Putin is also a raving anti-Semite (who appears in a kippa in every other photograph, to keep Jews off-guard) and is sending forth his stormtroopers specifically to specifically murder Jews with the famous Russian fire control precision. This, at a time when every Russian atrocity is gleefully celebrated by smiling ghouls like Hewitt and uncritical monkeys like Charles D’LeDesma, especially the ones which turn out to be Ukrainian attocities. Because this was not dumb enough yet, he does this as part of a Pulitzer-worthy geld-grabbing scam, to evacuate the billions and billions of Jews in Ukraine in the year 2022. Other of course than the State Department employees in the embassy bunker. And presumably those Ukrainian Jews who prefer to serve their country at the front.
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The TV show Severance. I think I’m going to start watching it. It sounds well executed and it looks at the themes of corporate infantilization and totalitarianism, which is brave of them in light of the educated adults in their candy-colored toy-decorated cubicles bemoaning Orange Man Bad.
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The historical record of the independent proecutor and congressional impeachment is to harry, without properly inhibiting, completely innocent presidents, but in the same institution to enable child molestation and bribery by hostile foreign powers.
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Hearing of Allen West and his friend chased off a university campus by terrorist thugs, the proper right-wing response to the leftist capture (and subsequent destruction) of institutions should be economic scorched earth. Stop interviewing, let alone hiring, worthless morons who hate you and want you to die (and who have no skills anyway). Stop donating. Stop bothering with the scripted opinions of fake experts like the losers Steve apparently reads.
I watched the feed off the Masters website. Zero commercials, just golf. I was in the USA. CBS has beaucoup commercials. I watched round four there only because Tiger was done early and the good golfers were playing.
Yes, folks, we DO know how strong of mind Tiger is, at least when it comes to golf. Give it a rest!
Or, perhaps you'd like to talk about how Tiger has often been NOT strong of mind OFF the golf course, that he's made several bad decisions that led to serious injury and near death, judgments which put his family through hell.Replies: @Dan Smith
I totally agree. Nance was on CBS, not the Masters website. Amazing though how all the commentators had total amnesia about Tiger’s accident. Real reporters would penetrate the wall and tell us what drugs were in his urine toxicology screen.
Absolutely brilliant anonism I cannot claim credit for but must share:
Psaki: [Warning of extremely elevated inflation “data,” mentions, by way of explanation, that just like the oil-producing United States possesses no means of competing with OPEC, so too, when you sanction a country, your own economy suffers.]
Anon:
We are seeing what happens, when people who cannot win an election except through obvious cheating, or earn an income without public sector graft, get to govern. It’s literally that bit in the Art of War where the total lack of that fundamental understanding (which education and experience are supposed to impart) guarantees failure every single time regardless of resources.
Sports media people (as Howie Carr calls them “the shills from Shillville”) make the average MSNBC anchor look like Tucker Carlson.
Oh and Woods is my exhibit A for my contention that guys married to hot chicks are more inclined to cheat…Replies: @Emil Nikola Richard, @Jim Don Bob, @AceDeuce
Ben Hogan had a near fatal automobile accident and came back and won several major championships. Ben Hogan. His putting stroke was the first to go at the end of his career.
The commercials during the telecast are famously limited to a few minutes per hour. I also watched some of the online feed. You were getting a very limited view of the tournament unless you watched some of the network broadcast channel that had commercials.
IIRC, it was Churchill who said that “Golf was a good walk spoiled”.
Gandy, our latest governor, hochul, is going to use the Seneca casino money that was in escrow to partially fund the new play pen. Of course the casino money was supposed to be used for education, roads and tax relief for Buffalo and Niagara Falls. These people are all whores. Went to a kids day Bill’s pre season with my grandson a couple of years ago…pretzels $8 and a bottle of water another $8. Niagara U and Canisius College both play D-I hockey, but not like Michigan, or Minn or the Ivies. But tickets at the down town auxillary rink are about $20 per ticket, open seating and ramp parking for $4. That is a deal. Some college sports even at the D-I levl are a bargain. Great lacrosse around here, when the snow melts off the fields. Just kidding, snow is all gone. Stay safe.
This years NCAAs were interesting for me, as my alma mater Minnesota, (who I still root for unless they’re playing the Minutemen) played defending champs Massachusetts (for whom I’ve been a ticket holder for 28 years). Gophers won in OT- great game.
Saturday in Amherst there will be tons of lax fun- at 1 we have Amherst vs Williams, and at 3:30 UMASS vs Fairfield. I should be able to make both. UMASS is better than their record, and Amherst is digging itself out from an attempt by the president of the college to destroy the program.Replies: @Buffalo Joe
Sports media people (as Howie Carr calls them “the shills from Shillville”) make the average MSNBC anchor look like Tucker Carlson.
Oh and Woods is my exhibit A for my contention that guys married to hot chicks are more inclined to cheat…Replies: @Emil Nikola Richard, @Jim Don Bob, @AceDeuce
The strange thing is that none of the babes (?) he was cheating with or his current GF are anywhere near as hot as his ex wife was.
But maybe the ex after pumping out a few kids said “My work is done here”. I actually know a woman who said that and then went on to do some very public coal burning.
Reg, the Canucks are all talk. They don’t want the Bills in Canada….NO TAILGATING ALLOWED!!!
https://youtu.be/0qqP1uk1BGs
A true Boston story. Back in the early 90s during the WWF's heyday I went to an event at the Garden with friends. We were having some frosty pops at Sully's, and who would be sitting at the bar having some cold ones of his own was the Hub's own "Pistol" Pete Doherty, wrestling's Duke of Dorchester. He actually got a call at the bar to tell him that he had to fill in for a no-show wrestler.
He acquitted himself admirably, especially for having had a half dozen Bud tall boys!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Duke_of_DorchesterReplies: @Buffalo Joe
Brute, I flew to Boston years ago on a commercial flight that carried the woe begone Bruins. Sat next to Don cherry.
Hosers. This is real tail gating:
The NCAA events are expensive, but I only pay about $300 for my 2 UMASS season hockey tickets- and I don’t really need beer during the games.
This years NCAAs were interesting for me, as my alma mater Minnesota, (who I still root for unless they’re playing the Minutemen) played defending champs Massachusetts (for whom I’ve been a ticket holder for 28 years). Gophers won in OT- great game.
Saturday in Amherst there will be tons of lax fun- at 1 we have Amherst vs Williams, and at 3:30 UMASS vs Fairfield. I should be able to make both. UMASS is better than their record, and Amherst is digging itself out from an attempt by the president of the college to destroy the program.
Joe- don’t know how overburdened you are with extra time, but George Plimpton’s Open Net, in which he goes to training camp with the Cherry -led Bruins, is a great read.
Back then, only 12 teams made the playoffs, and they were seeded regardless of division, so the Bruins and the Canadiens didn't meet until the Stanley Cup finals, even though they were both in the Wales Conference. Now they would meet in the 2nd round of the 16-team playoff, as to achieve better geographic distribution for the semifinals and finals. This last happened in 2014.
Trivia time: The Wales Conference was named for whom?The future King Edward VIIIReplies: @Ganderson
But maybe the ex after pumping out a few kids said "My work is done here". I actually know a woman who said that and then went on to do some very public coal burning.Replies: @Ganderson
Elin Nordegren is , as the Swedes would say, “jätte vacker”. And she has an identical twin. Alas she is a coal burner.
Not likely. The first use of the quote was dated by researchers to a 1903 American book. Churchill was in his late twenties at the time and not nearly as famous as he would later be.
The quote was later often ascribed (incorrectly) to Mark Twain.
No Soul Train, eh?
Sports media people (as Howie Carr calls them “the shills from Shillville”) make the average MSNBC anchor look like Tucker Carlson.
Oh and Woods is my exhibit A for my contention that guys married to hot chicks are more inclined to cheat…Replies: @Emil Nikola Richard, @Jim Don Bob, @AceDeuce
Eldrick isn’t the best player in history.
I mean, I’m not a fan of Eldrick, but give the man his due.Replies: @Steve Sailer
Scheffler, early on, was the champion. He was slow and steady, methodical. He was an unknown so the media could not talk about his past, ffs. He was a true star and very deserved champion as he outshot/out-putted EVERYONE! He was a leader, athletically, and blocked all the nonsense out.Replies: @Curle
“ so the media could not talk about his past,”
Don’t forget, he’s got a German last name.
Ooh, look at this:Lots of Krauts in Krim back in dem Tag. There was even a Zürichtal, now Zolote Pole.Replies: @Curle
Don’t forget, he’s got a German last name.Replies: @Reg Cæsar
So does Steve.
Or maybe not.
Ooh, look at this:
Lots of Krauts in Krim back in dem Tag. There was even a Zürichtal, now Zolote Pole.
https://www.latestcelebarticles.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/montana-fouts.jpgReplies: @Brutusale
Yeah, well for every Jenny Finch:
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.superwags.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2016%2F03%2FJennie-Finch-Palying-14-SW122.jpg&f=1&nofb=1
There’s a Crystl Bustos:
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww3.pictures.gi.zimbio.com%2FU%2BS%2BOlympic%2BTeam%2BMedia%2BSummit%2BIgxR_bvEqIMx.jpg&f=1&nofb=1
*Time is a bitch
Lots of Subarus in those softball parking lots.Replies: @Brutusale, @Mike Tre
There are more lesbians in NAIA than NCAA. Look at the Florida State Roster this year and find me the lesbians. Or the Oklahoma State team. Or the Georgia Team. (U of Oklahoma has a lot of lesbians though)
I know Steve has suggested that lesbians dominate softball but the problem is bull dikes are not good athletes, so there really aren't as many of them in NCAA D1 as you might think.
However, Northwestern has a player who might actually truly be man but her bio says she was born a female.
A lot of hot blondes with hair almost to their asses play D1 softball.Replies: @Steve Sailer
This is the first I am hearing of this book and I will have to add it to my list. Even though it wasn’t published until 1985, it is indeed set during the era Don Cherry coached the Bruins. Cherry is still alive at 88 but he was cancelled the November before COVID for noticing that Canadian immigrants weren’t appreciative of those who died to keep Canada (relatively) free. He reminds me a lot of John Madden, except Madden actually won a Super Bowl while Cherry’s Bruins made the Stanley Cup finals twice while winning the Adams Division 4 times.
Back then, only 12 teams made the playoffs, and they were seeded regardless of division, so the Bruins and the Canadiens didn’t meet until the Stanley Cup finals, even though they were both in the Wales Conference. Now they would meet in the 2nd round of the 16-team playoff, as to achieve better geographic distribution for the semifinals and finals. This last happened in 2014.
Trivia time: The Wales Conference was named for whom?
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.superwags.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2016%2F03%2FJennie-Finch-Palying-14-SW122.jpg&f=1&nofb=1
There's a Crystl Bustos:
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww3.pictures.gi.zimbio.com%2FU%2BS%2BOlympic%2BTeam%2BMedia%2BSummit%2BIgxR_bvEqIMx.jpg&f=1&nofb=1Replies: @ScarletNumber, @Ganderson, @Mike Tre
I was at Citi Field that day 9 years ago* when that picture of Jenny Finch was taken. Having said that, she and Kayleigh McEnany are both butter faces. Oddly enough both are married to former MLB pitchers.
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The story of the GOAT and his recovery from his devastating accident.
https://www.golfdigest.com/story/ben-hogan-car-crash-accident-recovery-tiger-woods
Hogan throwing himself over his wife just before impact actually saved his life. Given his social history, I find it hard to believe that Woods would have done the same thing.
Hugh Hewitt has embraced the laziest kind of racism and dishonesty, led astray by his neocon friends, his elite casual racism, and his faith in the utterly worthless American flag officer. Using as his evidence the movie Fiddler on the Roof, the same genius who claims that Putin wants to bring back Soviet Communism has decided that Putin is also a raving anti-Semite (who appears in a kippa in every other photograph, to keep Jews off-guard) and is sending forth his stormtroopers specifically to specifically murder Jews with the famous Russian fire control precision. This, at a time when every Russian atrocity is gleefully celebrated by smiling ghouls like Hewitt and uncritical monkeys like Charles D'LeDesma, especially the ones which turn out to be Ukrainian attocities. Because this was not dumb enough yet, he does this as part of a Pulitzer-worthy geld-grabbing scam, to evacuate the billions and billions of Jews in Ukraine in the year 2022. Other of course than the State Department employees in the embassy bunker. And presumably those Ukrainian Jews who prefer to serve their country at the front.
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The TV show Severance. I think I'm going to start watching it. It sounds well executed and it looks at the themes of corporate infantilization and totalitarianism, which is brave of them in light of the educated adults in their candy-colored toy-decorated cubicles bemoaning Orange Man Bad.
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The historical record of the independent proecutor and congressional impeachment is to harry, without properly inhibiting, completely innocent presidents, but in the same institution to enable child molestation and bribery by hostile foreign powers.
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Hearing of Allen West and his friend chased off a university campus by terrorist thugs, the proper right-wing response to the leftist capture (and subsequent destruction) of institutions should be economic scorched earth. Stop interviewing, let alone hiring, worthless morons who hate you and want you to die (and who have no skills anyway). Stop donating. Stop bothering with the scripted opinions of fake experts like the losers Steve apparently reads.Replies: @Mike_from_SGV
Agreed. Act like we’re in the war that we are in. The next Republican president should announce a hiring ban of anyone from the elite colleges, which are all leftist-captured. And of course us normal people should stop patronizing captured institutions to the extent possible. The leftists need to start feeling personal degradation. Snappy blog posts and tweets are not enough.
Not a ridiculous assertion, but I think we are in “who was better, Mantle or Mays?” territory.
I mean, I’m not a fan of Eldrick, but give the man his due.
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.superwags.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2016%2F03%2FJennie-Finch-Palying-14-SW122.jpg&f=1&nofb=1
There's a Crystl Bustos:
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww3.pictures.gi.zimbio.com%2FU%2BS%2BOlympic%2BTeam%2BMedia%2BSummit%2BIgxR_bvEqIMx.jpg&f=1&nofb=1Replies: @ScarletNumber, @Ganderson, @Mike Tre
My boys, who were good DIII college lax players, described a typical college softball team as “ 8 lesbians and a hot pitcher”
Lots of Subarus in those softball parking lots.
Like I said in my other comment, D1 softball is dominated by tall blonde girls with long hair. Those aren't lesbians.
https://www.si.com/.image/t_share/MTg4Njk4MjY1MDE1ODIyMDY4/041022_wsb_goodnightda_florida_kg3968.jpgReplies: @Steve Sailer
Back then, only 12 teams made the playoffs, and they were seeded regardless of division, so the Bruins and the Canadiens didn't meet until the Stanley Cup finals, even though they were both in the Wales Conference. Now they would meet in the 2nd round of the 16-team playoff, as to achieve better geographic distribution for the semifinals and finals. This last happened in 2014.
Trivia time: The Wales Conference was named for whom?The future King Edward VIIIReplies: @Ganderson
I like the Canadian habit of naming things- from army units (Princess Pats) to hockey awards. (Hart, Norris, and Masterton , etc.) NCAA hockey awards have names, too.
Cherry is a national treasure ( I wish he were one here in the lower 48) hated by the Canadian sporting press, who, to continue a comparison I made above, make US sportswriters look like members of the SA.
I mean, I’m not a fan of Eldrick, but give the man his due.Replies: @Steve Sailer
Obviously, the two greatest golfers were Nicklaus and Woods. Nicklaus won 18 majors to Woods’ 15, although Tiger won 82 PGA tournaments overall to Jack’s 73. Woods was better at his peak, winning four straight majors and 13 in a decade. Jack’s career was more consistent and didn’t have embarrassing down periods. Personally, I think Jack, while very smart, outsmarted himself sometimes with an overly conservative strategy that Trevino could take advantage of: e.g., Jack hitting one-iron off the tee for the first 3 rounds at Muirfield in 1972 while trying to win the third leg of his Grand Slam, finally switching to driver on Sunday and shooting 66, only to come up one short. I don’t recall Tiger outsmarting himself. I can recall once being right that Tiger was making a bad choice: going for the green on Sunday at Torrey Pines in the epic 2008 US Open on, I think, the par 5 13th from about 280 yards out and hitting it into the canyon. What I didn’t know was that Tiger had a broken leg and was trying to put the tournament away then and there rather than risk a playoff on Monday (which he won, anyway).
Just some thoughts:
Remember the persimmon woods? Beautiful, but recall that those beauties bear no resemblance to the metal woods of today nor the shafts to those of today.
Jack didn't have much of a game from the traps so he didn't practice much from them.
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His game with long irons was out of sight. Those clubs simply aren't used from the fairways today. When they're used at all, it's off the tees.
The will of the two is just astonishing.
I recall how long Jack was willing to stand over a tough putt (in that hunched crouch of his) before he drew that blade back. Then, he made the putt!
On the right track, confounded by the fact that the kids at the top colleges tend to be brighter than the rest. Better to return to near SAT absolutism and to provide sufficient financial support for flyover country folk. Then shut down unreliable claims departments. If no progress towards falsifying key elements of operative hypothesis in say 10 years, start removing the program. Take sociology: 100+ years and no progress towards falsifying chief operating hypothesis; shut it down.
Ooh, look at this:Lots of Krauts in Krim back in dem Tag. There was even a Zürichtal, now Zolote Pole.Replies: @Curle
Right. Media not promoting Steve much either. If Tiger’s last name were Wagner would we ever hear of him?
It's a sporting event. There's nothing important or historic about any of it. It's fun. That's it.
Be nice to hear a sportscaster that gets that basic reality and just rolls it out for what it is--entertainment.Replies: @Justvisiting
The mass media has a right to talk about “making history”.
Their billionaire boss owned whores will write it.
That is why most of “official history” is total garbage.
e.g., Jack hitting one-iron off the tee for the first 3 rounds at Muirfield in 1972 while trying to win the third leg of his Grand Slam, finally switching to driver on Sunday and shooting 66, only to come up one short.
MEGO
Lots of Subarus in those softball parking lots.Replies: @Brutusale, @Mike Tre
I was never one to play softball; softball was for girls and for guys who couldn’t play baseball.
In the early 90s a friend who was a state worker kept after me to come play for his softball team. They played in a coed league in Jamaica Plain. As someone who lives in MA, you know what JP is famous for. I’d say at least 3/4 of the female players were lesbians (all 4 on the team I played for) who’d played in school. The third game I played one of them tried an old-school takeout slide on me!
Average guy players and good woman players make for a pretty competitive league.
In other MA sports news, Jerry York, longtime BC hockey coach announced his retirement today. One of only 3 to win National Championships at two schools. He was a D I coach for 50 years..
This years NCAAs were interesting for me, as my alma mater Minnesota, (who I still root for unless they’re playing the Minutemen) played defending champs Massachusetts (for whom I’ve been a ticket holder for 28 years). Gophers won in OT- great game.
Saturday in Amherst there will be tons of lax fun- at 1 we have Amherst vs Williams, and at 3:30 UMASS vs Fairfield. I should be able to make both. UMASS is better than their record, and Amherst is digging itself out from an attempt by the president of the college to destroy the program.Replies: @Buffalo Joe
Gandy, thanks for the reply and information.There used to be a great website for lacrosse…LaxPower.com. Guy took the site down, even covered HS lax nationwide. Take care.
You make a good argument, but I’ll throw these points out: 1) I don’t think Tiger has had to play the hungry golfers that Jack did. Those guys were self-taught, hardened in many ways, and didn’t have the easy life of guys on tour today. There are a lot of guys on tour in this era who can place 20th here and there and be “set.” 2) In comparing and contrasting the two, I’d say the number of non-majors won means little. Jack wanted to see his family and he always understood, “there are only so many swings in a golfer.”
Just some thoughts:
Remember the persimmon woods? Beautiful, but recall that those beauties bear no resemblance to the metal woods of today nor the shafts to those of today.
Jack didn’t have much of a game from the traps so he didn’t practice much from them.
.
His game with long irons was out of sight. Those clubs simply aren’t used from the fairways today. When they’re used at all, it’s off the tees.
The will of the two is just astonishing.
I recall how long Jack was willing to stand over a tough putt (in that hunched crouch of his) before he drew that blade back. Then, he made the putt!
True, but there are more than enough smart kids who went to State U in flyover country to staff an administration. Mind you, they might be less nakedly ambitious than the Ivy Leaguers but that’s a feature, not a bug.
after watching most of the tournament and seeing thousands upon thousands of White people in the gallery all I can say is “Masterstoowhite!!!” LOL 😉
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There's a Crystl Bustos:
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I’d say it’s more like 4 to 1 straight to lezzies.
There are more lesbians in NAIA than NCAA. Look at the Florida State Roster this year and find me the lesbians. Or the Oklahoma State team. Or the Georgia Team. (U of Oklahoma has a lot of lesbians though)
I know Steve has suggested that lesbians dominate softball but the problem is bull dikes are not good athletes, so there really aren’t as many of them in NCAA D1 as you might think.
However, Northwestern has a player who might actually truly be man but her bio says she was born a female.
A lot of hot blondes with hair almost to their asses play D1 softball.
Sheffler was a champion. Tiger freaked out a lot of the world.
Lots of Subarus in those softball parking lots.Replies: @Brutusale, @Mike Tre
Look, it’s real simple to determine which players are lesbian and which are straight. The straight girls wear their hair down, sometimes with a bow. The Lesbians play with their hair up, and no bow.
Like I said in my other comment, D1 softball is dominated by tall blonde girls with long hair. Those aren’t lesbians.
There are more lesbians in NAIA than NCAA. Look at the Florida State Roster this year and find me the lesbians. Or the Oklahoma State team. Or the Georgia Team. (U of Oklahoma has a lot of lesbians though)
I know Steve has suggested that lesbians dominate softball but the problem is bull dikes are not good athletes, so there really aren't as many of them in NCAA D1 as you might think.
However, Northwestern has a player who might actually truly be man but her bio says she was born a female.
A lot of hot blondes with hair almost to their asses play D1 softball.Replies: @Steve Sailer
I’m guessing that a lot of college girl athletes have good relationships with their well-to-do sports-loving dads who played sports in high school and maybe college themselves. Your daddy’s rich and your ma is good-looking, that kind of thing. Dad has done a good job of keeping them off the pole by getting them interested in sports.
Like I said in my other comment, D1 softball is dominated by tall blonde girls with long hair. Those aren't lesbians.
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Thanks.
Less ambitious and less cunning. We need some cunning bastards out there working on our behalf.
Or what.
Jamaica Plain- the Northampton of Eastern MA.
In other MA sports news, Jerry York, longtime BC hockey coach announced his retirement today. One of only 3 to win National Championships at two schools. He was a D I coach for 50 years..
aaah, but my old friend, Reg, is talking about time travel, hahhahahhahahaaaa! I have so missed you, Reg!