Reading the Stripes of a Tiger - Stain's Blog

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Reading the Stripes of a Tiger

Posted on January 5, 2010 at 12:21 PM.

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Gangsta Golfer Reveals Stable of BitchHoes

Street Ced now available for purchase? Could be.

You look at it. What's it look like to you now that you know what you know about Eldrick?

But, I digress.

As a pro golf writer, let me give you the media perspective on the entire Tiger Woods deal going down currently.

First, as far as EA and "Tiger Woods" Golf ..

There's two sides to the coin. Top: Video games like GTA and such .. well, the facts are the facts. The objective of most of the popular video games is to blow somebody's friggin' head off with a wicked weapon. The more graphic, the better. So, the dude screwed some skanks. Ehh .. We're talking video games here, not Rolex. If there IS one area that keeps Tiger, this might be the last bastion. NOW .. the other side of that coin is .. pro golf has an image of a very family oriented sport. While other pro sports are talking about guns and arrests and deaths and steroids, cute little 5 year-old girls are running on to the 18th green and being scooped up by dad, and then dad kisses his drop dead gorgeous wife .. and all this because he just won a tournament.

It looks really good for sponsors. They eat it up.

And the demographic audience is simply phenomenal in their disposable income level and sponsors eat that alive, as well. Sponsors love when people who make $100,000+ watch consistently and they do not care about the NUMBER of people that watch, just that they can get to THOSE people. Watch a golf tournament sometime and just watch the commercials. Yeah. These are the people with Mad Bank in the United States.

Turns out they are all scumbags and crooks after last fall's evidence was spilled during The Financial Meltdown. But .. they are very, very well paid scumbags and crooks and they do dig golf. Big Time.

Here's one of the things that deeply disturbs me about Tiger Woods:

I wrote an article that, basically, said "Where's all the black golfers?" It was so significant that Tiger won The Masters at Augusta National Golf Club, a bastion of deep South prejudice. It was so important that Tiger cracked this sport that was Cracker White wide open.

OK.

Now, where's all the people he blazed a trail for at? This is most definitely not Jackie Robinson, evidently. There's no "wave" of 22 year-old black golfers that were inspired by watching a black man at Augusta set the tournament record. I can't think of ANY significant young black golfer, college, Nationwide Tour, anywhere.

Can think of a GOB of Asians.

No blacks.

So ... the article was based on that point and "Why isn't anybody saying this incredibly logical point in the media? Why isn't this talked about, this entire failure of an opportunity of a culture to expand?"

I submit the article and the Editor says, "Oh, we can't print this. It's race. We have a black president now and we can't get in to this. This is too racial, too racial."

Why?

The facts and stats speak for themselves. It's not my OPINION. The doors that Tiger supposedly busted down with sheer talent are just sitting there. Nobody is walking through them .. therefore .. making his achievements NOT RACIAL and just really impressive. If Tiger ends up being the only black golfer ever to win The Masters, THAT point, of that missed opportunity by a culture, that will taint his legacy in The Big Picture far more than getting totally ridiculous amounts of trim.

So, Jackie Robinson he is not. That whole thing is now gone from The Tiger Story. Insignificant. Not his fault. Just the facts.

Lastly, why doesn't anybody say "The only guy who has ever really been in a mess such as this in PGA Tour HISTORY is black." Does it matter? No. Is it a fact? Yeah, it is factual. And it's pretty shocking considering how many white dudes are on the Tour.

The odds on this are galatically astronomical.

The one black guy from America out there didn't just screw around on his wife, he went pusyybanzai banana nutz with it.

Nobody says anything. It's incredibly obvious and in any other sport or any other situation, like .. say .. POLITICS .. , this would be The Lead of the Story and then the facts would follow.

Here, nobody even mentions it.

Why?

Just a different perspective to consider on The Tiger Woods Situation.

DD

Comments

# 1 edaddy @ Jan 6

LOL man I dont get this at all..First why would u title this article as "Gangsta Golfer Stable of Bitch Hoes"..one was it neccessary as I dont see anything that screams gangster as far as Woods goes..second "stable of hoes"..Cmon man while I certainly dont condone his infidelity there have been many politicians and athletes that have made the same mistakes...remember Steve Garvey,Bill Clinton, Kobe Bryant and the list goes on..I didnt look at Woods as a role model and I am black..I looked at him as a great golfer period.. much of the black community was and still is inspired by Woods breakthrough in the Sport but his inspiration has produced a"there is no barrier type" of mentality at least in the black community..and that just doesnt include golf..it includes everything from education to politics..besides that I "see" a bunch of folks who are now playing golf because of tiger..I am one of them..I would have never thought about golf until he came on the scene...True there might not be an elite presence in the golf world now..but give it time...Trust me there alot of black folks who look at golf when tiger is playing..that in itself is the inspiration he set..I think people arent to overly concerned about Tigers discretion especially as it relays to golf are people who know that this happens every day in every facet of life..We all know he was admonished not because he was black and a good golfer who broke barriers ..but because we were "shocked" at his behavior based on the "image" he readily potrayed..But man you should think about changing that title ..it reks of stereotypical connotaions..