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This story underscores people’s natural inclination towards capitalism and entrepreneurship.  Our poor gal, Devon James, not seemingly endowed with anything other than an inability to say no, decides to try her hand at business.  Technically, she had always been self employed, but the tryst with Tiger presented an opportunity to make revenue in bunches rather than the way she would normally do it: piece by piece as it were.

She now claims that there is a video tape of Tiger and herself in, how shall we say,  flagrante delicto.  After performing an intricate series of calculations involving present value, interest rates, exchange fluctuations and moon phases, she concludes that the value of this tape is worth at least $350,000.  Nobody should snicker at this because the calculations for all collectible art are made in more or less the same way.  Apparently, porn distributor Vivid Entertainment would be interested at this price level. Or perhaps even Tiger himself for posterity.  He can file it under PRO-AMS, where in this case, he would be the amateur.

The factor of potential embarrassment to Tiger may be one of the factors in determining the $350,000 price tag for the cinematic treasure and  that’s a fair bit of change, certainly more than any movie Michael Moore will make again.  This of course begs the question, why would Tiger be embarrassed?  This whole episode has already cost him his marriage plus a few hundred million dollars plus perhaps a place in history. So what would embarrass him? That he had carnal relations with a woman?  Hardly embarrassing.  The world didn’t think he dated these women to talk swing changes.  Would he be embarrassed about perhaps physical shortcomings?  Unlikely.  Tiger is not known to leave his putts short.  I think perhaps the only thing that could be seen as possibly embarrassing is if he insisted the gals put on Phil Mickelson masks.  In that case, $350,000 may be cheap.

But you can’t blame a gal for trying.  With her loose lips and resultant declining client list, another major may be hard to get in her lifetime.  Tsk tsk to poor Tiger.  He shouldn’t have been playing out of bounds.

link Mickelson says McIlroy-Woods spat overblown – Yahoo! News.

Well I guess there has to be some kind of buzz created in advance of the Ryder Cup.  For anyone not involved in the golf world as a player or as a fan, what passes as ‘controversy’ in the golf world is amusing at best.  For non fans, very little that happens in golf can be seen as ‘exciting’.  It always amuses me to hear superlatives used to describe performances by golfers especially by the recent cast of golf commentators.  We hear adjectives such as ‘heroic’, or daring.  Come on! It’s golf! It’s 3 dimensional shuffleboard!  How can you be daring in golf?  What’s the worst that can happen if you miss a shot? Nobody crashes into your body as would happen to a receiver in pro football.

I’ll admit golf is a game requiring adroit physical talent and keen mental skills, but to characterize the exploits as heroic is a bit of a stretch.  It is amusing therefore to read about what passes as chest thumping by star golfers in advance of the upcoming Ryder Cup matches.  Somebody wants to take on Tiger. Oooh. Somebody may have disrespected Tiger. Oooh.  Not exactly Tyson vs Spinks at the weigh-in. 

With the recent ‘calling out’ of Tiger by rising star Rory McIlroy, the golf commentators will be buzzing like mosquitoes over what was ‘actually meant’, like teenage girls gabbing about their peers.  What is he supposed to say?

“Gee maybe there’s a chance I can breathe the same air as Tiger and bask in his genius.  I’m sure I have no chance to win, but just to be on the same course as him would be a lifetime honor”  ??

No, he says what any professional would say given a chance to compete against the best in the world, ” Bring it”.  The golfing world had better find more genuine drama to try to entice viewers.  This ‘he called him a name” stuff is lame.  Thus far, this edition of the Ryder Cup seems to be lack any real buzz so they’re grasping at anything.  Maybe they can talk about Ricky Fowler’s ugly hats.