The Masters, for the foreseeable future, might be about greater than who simply will get an unwearable blazer. While the chase for the inexperienced jacket will take up most of the story, as a result of it’s the solely main that may’t ban golfers who joined the LIV tour — or received’t — then it turns into one thing of a temperature test/referendum on the state of the skilled recreation as a complete. It can’t be helped, and but all the gamers who determined to take Saudi Arabia’s blood-soaked cash are practically pulling each hamstrings operating from any questions about it.
Sergio Garcia was the latest to throw all of his toys out of the pram when he was requested a easy query after his opening spherical. The query was merely requested if it felt regular to be again at Augusta, and he then went to the regular playbook of blaming the media for all the controversy. It’s by no means any of those guys’ fault, in fact. Everything can be advantageous if the pesky media, and that is the golf media we’re speaking about — which isn’t precisely Woodward and Bernstein — would simply go away these poor guys alone.
Garcia is hardly alone. Phil Mickelson, who skipped out on final yr’s Masters altogether so he wouldn’t even have to be in entrance of a microphone to reply why he had mainly turn out to be a spokesman for the LIV Tour, is in Georgia this time round however continues to be ducking any questions he can. He even misplaced weight so he’s extra evasive (probably not however let’s faux). Bryson DeChambeau, by no means too shy to be the world’s greatest ass-boil, has been decrying his therapy for months. As far as anybody can inform Greg Norman lives in a bunker.
What’s most galling, although probably not all that stunning, is that that is the path these guys selected. No one made them go away the PGA Tour merely for an ungodly sum of cash from an evil authorities for a tour that basically has no likelihood of standing on equal footing with the PGA Tour. Pro golfers won’t ever be confused with the biggest thinkers of our time, however certainly there was an agent or confidant round to clarify to them what may occur ought to they soar ship.
But nothing is ever actually a golfer’s fault, is it? It was that gust, or that lie, or that break, or that fan blowing their nostril at the flawed time, or that digital camera, or that structure, or no matter else. You’d assume not less than considered one of these guys would simply pull a, “I’m rich, biatch!” in entrance of any microphone and to any query, contemplating that was the motivation in the first place. What the fuck do these guys truthfully care?
It’s not sufficient to get all the cash in the world. Everyone has to pat you on the again for it too, regardless of the way you went about it.
Look at this pitch
In the latest exhibit of how pitchers are usually not actually of this Earth, we current Dustin May final evening:
Just what the fuck is any hitter supposed to do with this? It’s 100 miles an hour and moved a foot and a half to basically transfer from the outdoors nook to the inside. It’s considerably stunning hitters don’t run from the field screaming for an exorcist as a lot as making an attempt to get a chunk of wooden on it, which they mainly don’t have any hope of doing.
Baseball can juice the balls and guidelines nonetheless they like, they usually have, however till they discover a means to maintain so many guys from doing shit like this, hitters are up towards it and can simply attempt to maximize the uncommon contact they will make. And May is the Dodgers’ second or third starter. He’s not even the greatest they’ve, not less than not at the second.
It ain’t straightforward once you’re goin’ down…on strikes.
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