re: Tiger Woods Documentary on HBO Max: Jan/2021

I’m watching this now. I think it’s pretty solid overall

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It's based off the book by the scum bag Jeff Benedict

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What’s up with this? I’m out of the loop. His books The System (College Football) and The Dynasty (NE Patriots) were great. Was looking forward to reading his book on Tiger.

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all I know about Tiger is that he was damn good at golf and he got arrested some years back and it was all over the news

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If that's all you know then episode 2 is going to be a wild ride for you.

Watching this also reminded me of how hot his wife is. If she's looking for a guy who can't break par, isn't famous and will definitely not be getting any better offers so cheating is off the table... I'd love to let her take me to dinner.

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Not sure why Tigers first ex girlfriend needed to offer her opinion on everything or was given so much air time.

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Because they were together for 3 years during a pivotal time in his life? And the circumstances of their breakup is part and parcel of the dysfunctional relationship between he and his father which is related to his future issues.

I mean, Really?

Not all the way through part 2 but it reaffirms that paparazzi are some of the lowest forms of life on The planet.

Man frick these motherfrickers. Bow tie wearing piece of shite from the fricking NATIONAL ENQUIRER??? Took her tampon as blackmail to force him into doing whatever they wanted?

frick the media.

I never understood why Tiger caught so much shite for cheating on his wife? Sure he had a squeaky clean image, but cheating happens all the time. Am I saying its right no, but to have to call a press conference and for Nike to put out a commercial with a voice over of his father, who was also a well known philanderer, was insane.

Yeah that made me sick watching it.

A lot of people said this felt like a hit piece, but I don’t see it. Maybe it was on Earl, but the fact is he exposed Tiger to that world at a very young age and like they said, he built a machine and left out the human part. Then when Earl died, Tiger was lost because the machine builder was gone. I thought this was a dive into the psyche that drives some of these goat level athletes and what they have to do to get through life. I especially liked the family friend at the end saying it was BS that the same people who jumped on Tiger were now talking like Tiger was a different man and virtuous now. He was and is, human. I enjoyed it.

My biggest takeaway is this country’s absolute addiction to schadenfreude.

Why did I have to watch 30 minutes about him breaking up with his high school sweetheart Once they got in a long distance relationship in college? Is there is something wrong with that?

The only part I didn't like was fricking Bryant Gumbel. We've established he's a person of color, we got it, and they had moved past it and were really getting into Tiger the person and what really was going on with these girls, then up pops Bryant Gumbel again with his "bringing the black man down" shite. Obviously this esteemed member of the prestigious media has decided Tiger is simply black and the rest of his heritage doesn't matter