Tiger!
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Bugsy McGurk
President
Amazing.
A true redemption story.
A true redemption story.
resident_evil
Senator
Who cares.
All sports have become spiritless, really. To say there is is to beat a dead horse.
Jordan could come back and I'd feel jaded about all sports.
My circles of respect have been redrawn for many years now.
All sports have become spiritless, really. To say there is is to beat a dead horse.
Jordan could come back and I'd feel jaded about all sports.
My circles of respect have been redrawn for many years now.
That’s too bad. That’s of course from your perception and I disagree.
Good call. I don’t think he can do it, but it was pretty sweet to see him back. In his prime, his dominance was out of this world. It was pretty cool to see him hug his son, since his dad wasn’t here for this one.
Days
Commentator
You've got to wonder how far he will get on his new back. He's had 4 back surgeries, that's on top of the knee injuries. The guy is a walking band-aid commercial.
This win should rank him in the top 10 of the golf world... that's coming back from being ranked #1199... that's a long way to come. To do it in his 40's, nothing short of miraculous.
resident_evil
Senator
Play don't spectate should be the sports mantra of the day.
Days
Commentator
heh, c'mon RE, we all know it is rigged, even golf.
resident_evil
Senator
In a way they all are rigged just as you say.
Remember the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team? Are those days gone forever? Will no child of this day forward know the feeling of real sport?
Mark Spitz and Michael Phelps. Which one captures the essence of true sport more for you?
I think that may have to do with the time period you grew up. My grandfather has different sports heroes than my dad, who differs from me. We all like what we grew up with. I was a child when Jordan was doing his thing and he had more “magic” than Kobe or Lebron for me. But for somebody 10 years younger, maybe that isn’t the case.
The 1980 olympics were before I was born. But I can understand it because I’m a huge sports fan and that was a major world event. I can only imagine what boxing and track and field was like leading up to WWII.
The Cubs winning the World Series was special. Same with the Red Sox. Tiger Woods carrying a whole “sub-culture” on his back before his troubles was amazing. You mentioned Phelps and that was sweet, too. Maybe sports aren’t what they once were, but they still offer us some pretty cool moments, often parallel our lives and can give us a nice distraction in a stressful and difficult world.
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Commentator
well, I think you missed his point and at the same time, punctuated it.
When I was a child watching sports (1960's) it was a world that played by the rules, where the winner was for real, not engineered by the sport. When I was a kid, that double dribble by Virginia in the national semi-final, that was so obvious the kid afterward plainly said, "the ref let me get away with one" ... the whole world would not have looked away, that foul gets called, and the touch foul that wasn't a foul 6 seconds later, would not have been called. Everyone cheats, and you don't notice because you are used to it, you grew up in it, but we remember when our amateur ice hockey team beat the Russian Army team, a purely professional team, and really beat them, it was a miracle on ice.
So, yeah, Brooks Koepka missed the gimme birdie at 17 that would put him at -13, and as the whole crowd gasped, Brooks just smiled.
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Yep. And Trump predicted it.
Drumcollie
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REPUBLICANS ALWAYS MAKE A COMEBACK.
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Did you happen to notice that all 4 of the golfers at the top of the leaderboard with Tiger went into Ray's creek at the 12th? And Molinari, the most mistake free golfer on the circuit, who had one bogey in the first round, none in the 2nd, none in the 3rd, and was leading by two in the back 9, went into the water twice on the back 9.
The 3rd round was the lowest round ever at the Masters (by the field)... with the same conditions on Sunday, everyone stood still when they reached Tiger, and Molinari backed up... pretty obvious to me, I've been watching Tiger his whole career, I'm the biggest Tiger fan on the planet, but this one was a gift.
