S.I. reporter needs a life
I think I've ranted about this before.
People on the sidelines at a golf event need to mind their place and find another way to get their 15 minutes of fame than calling penalties on golfers.
Michelle Wie got disqualified in her professional debut on the LPGA because a day after the drop occurred, some reporter from Sports Illustrated (Michael Bamberger) went up to a tournament official and said he thought her drop on such-and-such a hole was illegal (closer to the hole than it should be). They went back and looked at tape and lo and behold, he was right, so they DQ'd her.
I'm sorry, but that's just wrong. First off, I don't know but I doubt the kid did it on purpose, and it may have been, what, a foot closer to the hole? from probably over 100 yards away? I didn't see it, but I seriously doubt it made any difference whatsoever. Yes it was wrong, and she should know better, but that's not the point. People like to think golf is this pristine sport where people call all the appropriate penalties on themselves all the time, but that's bullshit. People cheat all the time, from foot wedges to not knowing the rules on what the penalty is for being out of bounds. It happens on purpose (and that part pisses me off...a lot) and it happens out of ignorance, but it happens. The pros are just supposed to be better at making sure it doesn't happen than the rest of us, and even at tournaments, there are rules officials available for rulings if a golfer isn't sure. Yes, she should have consulted one of them. Yes, if she's going to be a professional golfer, she needs a better grasp of the rules, but we're human, and mistakes happen. In any event, it's either her place, her caddy's place, her playing partners place or a rules official's place to call her on it. Not a reporter's. The reporter claims he's protecting the integrity of the game. I say he's butting his ass in places it doesn't belong. He says, "To stand in silence when you see an infraction is an infraction itself." I say, to commit an infraction, you have to be involved in the competition. Don't delude yourself into thinking you are. You're a reporter and a spectator. Nothing more.
Some magazine reporter doesn't need to inject himself into the competition any more than Joe Fan in his lazyboy at home needs to pick up a phone and do the same. Nobody goes calling Paul Taglibue when watching the Colts play the Rams complaining about a blatant holding call the officials missed. Golf set a bad precedent when they let the first person outside the ropes make that sort of call, and it's time that shit got squelched. Thank those people for their attention and point them toward the life store, so they can purchase one.
People on the sidelines at a golf event need to mind their place and find another way to get their 15 minutes of fame than calling penalties on golfers.
Michelle Wie got disqualified in her professional debut on the LPGA because a day after the drop occurred, some reporter from Sports Illustrated (Michael Bamberger) went up to a tournament official and said he thought her drop on such-and-such a hole was illegal (closer to the hole than it should be). They went back and looked at tape and lo and behold, he was right, so they DQ'd her.
I'm sorry, but that's just wrong. First off, I don't know but I doubt the kid did it on purpose, and it may have been, what, a foot closer to the hole? from probably over 100 yards away? I didn't see it, but I seriously doubt it made any difference whatsoever. Yes it was wrong, and she should know better, but that's not the point. People like to think golf is this pristine sport where people call all the appropriate penalties on themselves all the time, but that's bullshit. People cheat all the time, from foot wedges to not knowing the rules on what the penalty is for being out of bounds. It happens on purpose (and that part pisses me off...a lot) and it happens out of ignorance, but it happens. The pros are just supposed to be better at making sure it doesn't happen than the rest of us, and even at tournaments, there are rules officials available for rulings if a golfer isn't sure. Yes, she should have consulted one of them. Yes, if she's going to be a professional golfer, she needs a better grasp of the rules, but we're human, and mistakes happen. In any event, it's either her place, her caddy's place, her playing partners place or a rules official's place to call her on it. Not a reporter's. The reporter claims he's protecting the integrity of the game. I say he's butting his ass in places it doesn't belong. He says, "To stand in silence when you see an infraction is an infraction itself." I say, to commit an infraction, you have to be involved in the competition. Don't delude yourself into thinking you are. You're a reporter and a spectator. Nothing more.
Some magazine reporter doesn't need to inject himself into the competition any more than Joe Fan in his lazyboy at home needs to pick up a phone and do the same. Nobody goes calling Paul Taglibue when watching the Colts play the Rams complaining about a blatant holding call the officials missed. Golf set a bad precedent when they let the first person outside the ropes make that sort of call, and it's time that shit got squelched. Thank those people for their attention and point them toward the life store, so they can purchase one.
John put this out here at 8:10 AM
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