The insanity continues

Here we have a professional golfer. Between the PGA, European, Asian, and other tours, not to mention the "minor leagues", there's certainly an abundance of them.

See said golfer playing a tournament -- not a major -- just your average tourney, in California.

See him a whopping ten strokes back -- tied for 55th place, not quite through his second round of play, and hoping to make the cut. Barely.

If you were watching the tournament at home, would you expect to be bombarded by coverage of this guy?

Of course not. But this particular golfer's name is Eldrick Tont Woods, sometimes known as Tiger.

The insanity of the media, not to mention the hordes of lemmings faithfully following him around continues.

He's not even in the Top Ten of the rankings.

He's won a grand total of one -- count it -- ONE tournament in the last five years. Not a major at that.

But STILL they faun over him. Replay, after replay, after replay. Everything always revolves around Tiger. See Tiger drive. See Tiger putt. See Tiger eat a banana. See Tiger chat with his caddie. See Tiger scratch his rear end. Tiger, Tiger, Tiger mania is everywhere. It's like they WANT him to win. They NEED him to win.

And never mind the 54 other golfers that are ahead of him. The TV crews can't go more than 2 minutes without showing Eldrick on the air.

When any round is over, apparently Congress passed a law saying it's mandatory the media televise a live interview with Tiger.

Wake up in the middle of the night, flip on ESPN for a recap of the day's sports, and what will you see?

More Tiger highlights. Tiger eagled this hole and birdied that one. They don't show the viewer the holes he butchered in between to be so far back on the scoreboard.

There are those that continue to say Eldrick Tont Woods was/is good for golf. They wouldn't tune in if he weren't playing.

I'm quite the opposite. I find any tourney infinitely more interesting when he's NOT entered in it, or the final two rounds of one where he didn't make the cut.

Because when that happens the TV coverage is more evenly spread around among the top contenders, as it should be.

To boot, of late Woods appears to only play maybe once a month or so, cherry-picking his tournaments at venues he prefers, while the rest of the pros are grinding it out week after week here, there, and everywhere.

You can bet he'll go into hibernation a few weeks before the Masters in April, preparing himself for the conditions at Augusta National.

And I wouldn't be surprised if the media somehow found a way to televise a documentary of Eldrick's said preparations, while all the other superior golfers the world over are ignored while actually playing live action.

I won't even get into his serial infidelity as a husband. Or his temper-tantrum throwing infantile behavior on the course when things don't go his way. Or claiming to have walked an entire course while playing on a broken leg. Ridiculous, but the suckers bought it.

Yet in spite of his boorish behavior and self-entitled attitude over the years, I tried, I really tried to warm up to the guy.

But I can/t.

The more the media attempts to jam him down my throat, the more I come to dislike him. If they would only be impartial about it, I likely wouldn't harbor such feelings.

I, for one, will be SO glad when the time comes and Eldrick Tont is no longer relevant, as in so bad even the media can't spin the proverbial gold from his game of straw.

Game "better" with Tiger in it? Pshaw. It's decidedly worse, much worse, because of the blatant bias.