Saturday, February 20, 2010
The "Apology" of Tiger Woods
Many are divided on whether Tiger Wood's apology was sufficient or sincere enough. I am on the side of the argument that says it is nowhere near close enough to what it should have been. You could say I was nowhere as moved as this guy (http://sports.yahoo.com/golf/blog/devil_ball_golf/post/Charlie-Rymer-cries-on-The-Golf-Channel-when-dis?urn=golf,220917). One of my main peeves about a press conference is when the speaker continuously stares down at a piece of paper, which is exactly what Tiger Woods did the entire presser. He knew what he wanted to say, so why doesn't he look truly sincere and throw away that piece of paper and speak from the heart. Another thing that bothered me about the presser was the he refused to take questions. This came off to me as a cowardly act, refusing to "face the music" if you will. In baseball, many steroid users have been completely forgiven because they admit what they did and take their lashings from the press. Not Tiger, he got up there read from a piece of paper most likely prepared by one of his PR people and then stepped away without one person asking exactly what happened. The whole thing seemed truly robotic and scared to me and Tiger has a long way to go to repair his once sterling reputation.
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