Tiger Woods Is Incredible, And Mercifully, The NBA Finals Is Over
Quick-hitters:
- Boy was it HOT today! 84 with a RealFeel of 95?
Today was NOT a good day on which to run errands. Not to mention, it’s only June! Wait until August rolls around!
- Current rebate-o-meter: $1594. That number will go up soon, I promise 
- We can debate over whether or not Tiger Woods is an elite athlete. We can debate over whether or not golf is a sport. We can debate, until we’re all blue in the face, over how much a balky knee could possibly affect one’s ability to hit a small round ball with a curvy stick.
However, any true sports fan would have a hard time denying that what Tiger Woods did in the 18-hole playoff + extra hole at Torrey Pines was nothing short of incredible golf. To go three strokes ahead after 10, to down one with three to play, to even after another clutch birdie on 18…absolutely incredible. Add on the balky knee, and all the pressure in the world (sure, Rocco played with a ton of pressure under him too, but it was hard to tell from watching his free-swinging ways), and that might have been the most compelling golf tournament I’ve ever seen.
(Too bad I had to watch the replay on ESPN Classic; I would have loved to see the drama live. And, why was I not at all surprised to see the tiebreaker go an extra hole?)
I hate it when people say “it’s too bad [the runner-up] had to lose,” but that couldn’t apply more to Rocco Mediate. And anyone who argues that Tiger’s dominance on the sport isn’t a good thing should be forced to watch the entire US Open to see how important to the game he is. Does anyone think Torrey Pines draws half the crowd they did on Monday if Tiger wasn’t there?
Well, Phil Mickelson, maybe. But that’s about it.
If Tiger shuts it down for the rest of the golf season, I wouldn’t blame him one bit.
- I did not watch Game Six, nor did I really care to. All I know is that Boston finally finished off the Lakers, and they did so with the second-largest margin of victory in an NBA Finals game ever. Fan-freaking-tastic…Boston myopians have yet another thing to brag about for the next few months, on top of their Game Four comeback and their Game Five near-comeback.
If I can survive the next couple of days of Boston myopians flooding talk radio, as well as the East Coast Sports Network (aka ESPN) kissing all sorts of green-colored ass, consider it a minor miracle. I hope I don’t have to hear a minute of someone calling Paul Pierce’s performance as among the best ever in NBA Finals’ history, and I’m sick and tired of hearing about Kevin Garnett’s “passion” for the game.
(Don’t get me wrong, the Celtics absolutely kicked the Lakers’ asses for six games, and Pierce and Garnett had huge roles. And yeah, their stories are compelling. Keep telling them, though, and three-fourths of the nation are going to start puking.)
BTW, Laker fan, please quit whining that the Pau Gasol trade was a failure. Like I have said before, the Lakers wouldn’t be anywhere close to the NBA Finals without Gasol, the softie that he is.
Boston, congrats, and let’s hope for a rematch next year.
(And thanks for the $50 I won because I bet on Boston +160 to win :P)
Until next time!
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