CHEAP SHOT OR TIGER'S UNPLAYABLE LIE

First of all I apologize for the picture (courtesy of SI.Com) and the last half of the title (courtesy of AZ Republic 12/2/09). I may be tacky and tasteless, but I still remember to give credit for my sources. It also perhaps makes me look a little less like a jerk. (Feel free to disagree).

Is my entry today cruel? I think so. Judgmental? Probably. Inappropriate? Yep.

Then why did I do it? I still don't know. I just know when I hit on the website picture, I laughed a little. Am I proud of that? No. Do I feel sorry for the family? Yes, I do.

I remember walking out of the movie Basic Instinct a few decades ago and hearing a man claim, "I'll never do that. That movie taught me to be loyal to my wife."

"What?" I wanted to yell. "It took a stupid movie for you to declare your allegiance to your wife?"

Tiger's tale just brought that moment back to me in the lobby of the Granada Theatre in MTV. So of all that's be written, aired, and said, that's the connection or application I made. Maybe that's the animus of this entry.

I don't know what else to say. I have a feeling that I've said way too much with reproducing the picture alone. And if this whole debacle makes me feel rather sleazy, just think how the Woods family feels.

I wish the whole incident(s) never happened. I hope we as a culture can learn something valuable from it. And I pray that Tiger and Elin can reconcile and re-build.