I know, I know, Ratief was being funny when he made his hilarious comments about Woods faking his knee injuries. I'll tell you, there is really nothing funnier than knee injury jokes...By the way J, you faked your knee injuries a few years back...The crutches and limp made it REAL convincing. See, that is funny.
Turns out, ole Faker Woods might not have been pulling everyone's leg...In fact, he was actually much worse than he let on. I've never torn my ACL like Tiger and J Money...but I have partially torn ligaments in my ankle. That was no picnic. My little injury put me in a walking boot for weeks. I've also had stress fractures in the same ankle...that put me in a cast.
Tiger WussSo, when I found out what Woods had played through to win the US Open, my man crush got even bigger for ole Edrick. The amount of torque he put on that knee each time he swung the driver was immense and has been talked about ad nauseum, but simply walking on that knee was an accomplishment in itself. Think about this- Woods walked about 23 miles in four days on a torn ACL and two stress fractures. That's gritty, I don't care which sport you play. Heck, some athletes can't even walk 23 feet even with no injury at all.
Tim's been really upset with all of the golf talk on our site in the last week. Well, with Woods out of all PGA events for the rest of '08, I'm pretty sure golf talk will generally subside around the US...Hope you're happy now Tim!!!
14 comments:
You misspelled Goosen's first name.
I'm alright with it.
It's Retief.
Matt- stop.
If it meant that much to me, I'd change it. I don't care. Do you think my computer doesn't have the capability to run google searches?
What is this now? The National Golf Spelling Bee Channel?
I was thinking to myself earlier... are golfers really athletes?
I don't know. I think of them more as skilled workers. Where is the athlete line drawn? Are bowlers athletes? Are pool players athletes? Pool takes skill and touch too, just like golf.
I'd say that they're not athletes, but they do play a sport. Is that possible?
I don't think all golfers are athletes...I don't think all baseball players are either, though.
What constitutes an athlete?
-physical fitness
-muscle control
-mental control
-reaction time
-speed
-patience
-competitive drive
-stamina
Honestly, I think it's pretty subjective. My sister used to compete as a cheerleader...she and my Mom were convinced she was an athlete. I'm not on board with judged dancing as an athletic event...But the girls were athletic.
How about this- an athlete is a person who trains his/her body in order to compete and possibly win a given contest/sport.
If you are going to write about someone, at least spell their name right. I don't think that is asking too much.
Is anal retentive spelled with a hyphen?
I used to draw the line with "if you can smoke while doing it, you're not an athlete." But then again, John Kruk used to say of himself, "I'm a baseball player, not an athlete." I think I agree with Dowd on this one.
I'm pretty sure most of the guys on the PGA are happy Tiger is out for a while. The PGA needs Tiger, but the others want to win sometimes as well.
Right on, Paul.
Matt, I like that you've made this a regular stop...That said, if you're so annoyed by my spelling of Gooson's name, maybe you shouldn't read what I'm writing.
I'm not a professional writer, never will be...Much of what I write is venting...I'm not going to spell-check that stuff. I research where I feel it's needed. I'll say it again, I don't care if his name was spelled "black" and I spelled it "white", if the reader understands the gist of posting, I'm pretty happy.
I'm not changing it, my counterpart, who actually checks facts and edits for a living hasn't changed it either...I guess it doesn't matter to anybody here but you.
Paul, Webster says Anal-Retentive does call for a hyphen.
Mrs. Bundy would be so disappointed in me...
Tiger tore his ACL last october while jogging. I don't know how you do that while jogging....but that is besides the point. I'm amazed he didn't get the surgery then, but look what he did since then! He won like 10 events. Believe it or not, if you are in decent shape, you can tear your ACL and not have surgery and hardly notice a difference. You can't play aggressive basketball or go skiing, but golf is something you can do. Obviously his muscles and other ligaments could keep his knee stable enough to continue playing. But it looks like any instability that he had caught up with him in the form of whatever issue caused him to get scoped in April. That surgery resulted in stress fractures. So he had stress fractures and a torn ACL when he won the US Open. That is pretty remarkable.
By the way, I have torn both my ACLs, had surgery and physical therapy for both, and regained 100% of my athletic awesomeness.
Eric, you're actually bionic now, aren't you? You'd have to be to get back the massive vertical that you had back when we played ball in God's country.
In fact your creative writing abilities have inspired me to start my own blog now. Really blogging is spreading its wings rapidly. Your write up is a fine example of it.
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