(Kinda) Weekly WatersHack
1/21/21 - HBO done did fuck up…
What a missed opportunity...This was a 5-foot uphill birdie putt to win the tourney and it was pulled very hard left and pushed right at the same time. The HBO documentary “Tiger” is being heavily criticized and deservedly so, but just not for the right reasons. Yes, it is rough, but I do not think it is too rough. Tiger is no angel, and Earl is well…less of an angel. What is criminal about it is how can one of the greatest, most significant, polarizing, and complicated athletes in history get a documentary that is 3.5 hours long and mostly about banging white chicks?
I have seen the “it was a slam piece on tiger” take and no it was not! It was too quick to be. It does not have enough time to be a slam, or a praise, or anything. It amounted to my high school mass media assignment which the teacher would have given a C for not enough detail or information. The slam piece commentary probably comes from the fact that they only thing they gave more than 6 mins to was the affair scandal. I mean when the only people you are interviewing for this are people that are jilted by Tiger and that knew him 25 years ago then of course all they can say is the bad stuff to get their attention. They were not part of anything beyond Earl and his Winnebago (gross btw). There seems to be a bit more to Tiger than just his unchecked libido. Way to miss an opportunity to dig deeper into that issue and flesh out the complexities of deep and troubling entitlement then many men seem to have an issue with. Why not have something valuable come from the negative parts.
Weekly WatersHack
The first of a weekly top 5 and 4 current golf topics by Watershack himself - this week: Candy, Swear Jars, and 9000 yard courses