Tiger Tales

Or, is it "Tiger Tails"?

Most atheletes, when they "retire", take up golf. Tiger Woods can't be doing that right now. Michael Jordan, when he "retired" from the NBA, took up minor league baseball as a way of fullfilling a dream that his father had for him. It might have had something to do with the NBA's being a bit unhappy with his gambling addiction but, it was a great story back then. That Michael was good enough to be a mediocre baseball player in the middle of being the GREATEST BASKETBALL PLAYER EVER! is testament to what a great athelete he was AND how hitting a baseball is still the hardest thing to do in sports.

I don't know that Tiger Woods has any such talent or desire. And anyway, his thing now is to stay out of the public eye. In cruising the cable channels the other night, I paused long enough to see an "expert" saying that a picture of Tiger's facial lacerations would easily bring some lucky photographer one million dollars.

Tiger is an odd one. Most guys sleep with regular good-looking women and fantasize about bagging a supermodel. Tiger, married to a supermodel, set his sights on more pedestrian women. There's something very wrong about that but, I guess it explains why he's Tiger and you and I aren't.

Atheletes have a lot more doors opened for them than you or I do. Being a famous jock is going to get you into doors at restaurants, clubs and into vagina's that regular guy's just don't get. Tiger is a perfect example of that. By no accounts is he a handsome guy. He's not likely to charm a Perkins waitress if he's a cabdriver or a sheetmetal worker but, it could happen. In a way he's kinda like Sarah Palin in that he's "hot" in comparison to what he does and to his contemporaries. Sarah Palin is an ordinary women passing on the street but, as a Vice-Presidential candidate- WOW! Most of them look like Joe Biden or Dick Cheney. That makes her "hot". There are a million waitress's better looking than her but, none of them get as much TV time as her.

It's TV and of course, money, that makes either of these two people desirable to the general horny public. That's it. I think Tiger knows this. I don't think Sarah does but, her vagina is not (currently) under public scrutiny. Tiger knows that it is his fame and fortune as a golfer that got him the supermodel wife and the 15 and counting other women on his scorecard. I *think* he knows this. Little Tiger doesn't know this though and that's why he's in trouble. Little Tiger took over Big Tiger's brain and common sense went south on him as he went south. It happens to the best of us just as it happens to rest of us.

He's still (probably) the best golfer there ever was. He just happens to be a dumbass. He's gone from being "THE MAN!" to simply being a man.

Welcome to the club, Mr. Woods. We won't hold the door for you.