Moral Compass

Sitting here drinking my coffee watching the news I thought it was time to express my thoughts on this Tiger Woods situation. If you don't know what's going on please use this slight pause to hit yourself in the head.... go on I will wait. I'm getting fairly tired of hearing about what a bad guy Tiger is. The news media has really hit an all time low. Yes I understand that he is one of the most popular athletes on the face of the planet but what law did he break? Did he cheat the game that made him so popular and made him millions of dollars? Ahhhh no. The man cheated on his wife multiple times and got caught. Great, thats his personal life and none of us has any right to be involved in. If he had cheated the game or broke the law by raping some hotel chick then yes bring him down to china town. I am getting tired of hearing the excuse of people saying he is a role model to young kids and should be better as a person. Well to that I say go shit in your hat. The only model he should serve to kids is the one that involves golf. Parents need to be their kids role model. Its a cop out to say Tiger is this almighty being and should know better. Is he not human? Is he incapable of making mistakes? We as fans don't go and see him play, don't buy his products or watch him on TV because he is a great family man. No we do all those things because he is an amazing golfer. All this naysayers can go look at themselves in the mirror and ask would I be as big of a person as he has been through all this. Probably not because most media personnel now a days are the equivalent to a Saturday night hooker. Only looking for a quick score. Watching Tiger during his news conference was very painful. I couldn't even make it through the entire statement. Here is a man who may become the first athlete in history to be worth a billion dollars and he is reduced to apologizing for his personal actions to the whole world. The only thing Tiger should ever apologize for is for not playing golf right now. And for that I blame the media for blowing his personal life up.

Lets not forget the other players in this game either. I was watching Nancy Grace the other day and she had a lawyer of one of his mistresses on saying she demanded an apology from tiger. Ha! Are you kidding me? She claims that she didn't know Tiger was married. Ha! For this I say ' well no wonder you are a call girl." And yet the media doesn't jump all over these lower than life individuals trying to make a quick buck off of the pain of this man. And lets not forget Tigers wife in all this. Yes she is the victim and has been put through a lot. She has had her life drug through the mud and having the public know how many times her husband has cheated on her. So why doesn't she just leave? She threatened to when this all came out. Does she really love him that much that she will stick by his side? Maybe. Or maybe is the all mighty dollar that has her thinking twice from leaving this cash cow. If that is the reason then she is no better than he.

Now let me be straight here for a second I do not condone what Tiger did at all. However what he has done is nothing in comparison to other infamous athletes. Kobe, raped a woman. Ben Roethlisberger accused of raping a woman. Barry Bonds possibly the biggest cheater ever in all of professional sports. Mark McGuire and Sammy Sosa are the worst bottom feeders known to sports. These individuals are known to have cheated or committed a crime and yet nothing has been blown up to the size of Tiger cheating on his wife.

Thank you Tiger for giving so many memorable moments in your golfing career that has made me personally enjoy golf better, but most of all thank you for never cheating on the game that has made you millions of dollars and millions of fans around the world. Please continue to re write the record books and change the face of golf forever.