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<\/p>\nFebruary 19, 2023<\/p>\n
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Allow me some of the fascinating takeaways from Collin Morikawa\u2019s mic\u2019d up session on Saturday at the Genesis Invitational:\u00a0 It\u2019s important to have a good short game if you play professional golf.\u00a0 Noted.\u00a0 Find an aiming point as you tee off.\u00a0 Noted.<\/p>\n
One other takeaway:\u00a0 Sports journalists have to be the biggest mouth-breathing, \u201cI like shiny things\u201d morons that inhabit our planet.\u00a0 \u201cAll hail the mic\u2019d up golfer as he rehashes information we\u2019ve had network gasbags deliver to us for years,\u201d the sports scribes bray.\u00a0 \u201cRelish the ground-breaking revelation of Morikawa intoning that you\u2019d like to be in the fairway on an upslope as you approach the green.\u201d<\/p>\n
Whew!\u00a0 Enough already!\u00a0 My brain simply can\u2019t take it all in!\u00a0 But alas, this cadre of subject-verb disagreement experts, which considers re-tweets viable journalism, is mesmerized by the very thing that is plaguing all sports:\u00a0 too much talk and not enough action.\u00a0 Just as the NFL has become a miasma of huddles and officials reviewing plays with their heads under a blanket, all bookended by mush-mouthed morons like Bill Cowher and Shannon Sharpe butchering our fair language, golf television has, too, allowed itself to be taken over by everything except the game.\u00a0 Golf tv coverage has now morphed into a stream of players blithely strolling about the green for five minutes lining up 4-foot putts, or players and caddies alike poring over their yardage books before air-mailing the green.\u00a0 One wonders if PGA Tour players can take a dump without their yardage books.\u00a0 What is missing from golf telecasts is actual shots; no one in charge seems very concerned with that piffling aspect of the game.<\/p>\n
So in an effort to enliven a slow game, let\u2019s show less action and show more blathering.\u00a0 \u201cBring it on,\u201d cry the Kyle Porters of the world, he a part of a subset of idiots that love having their hands held for everything, and that lack the imagination to intuit for themselves all the pedestrian nuggets Morikawa had to offer.\u00a0 And we won\u2019t even consider the competitive advantage of the mic\u2019d up golfer as he gets to discuss strategy and tactics with the two major winners sitting in the booth.<\/p>\n
All in all, the mic\u2019d up golfer adds nothing to the telecast, but for the ADHD viewers who love being spoon-fed the obvious.\u00a0 This is precisely the mentality that spawned LIV Golf, an artificial product germinated by people who hate golf in order to bring more \u201cmashed potatoes\u201d-screaming yahoos to the game they profess to love.\u00a0 And so goes our country, further circling the drain, catering always to the lowest common denominator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
February 19, 2023 Allow me some of the fascinating takeaways from Collin Morikawa\u2019s mic\u2019d up session on Saturday at the Genesis Invitational:\u00a0 It\u2019s important to have a good short game if you play professional golf.\u00a0 Noted.\u00a0 Find an aiming point as you tee off.\u00a0 Noted. One other takeaway:\u00a0 Sports journalists have to be the biggest … Continue reading The Obvious Files – Sportswriters are Dim<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[602,599,249,600,605,293,603,601,604],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/palmdown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/palmdown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/palmdown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palmdown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palmdown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/palmdown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":294,"href":"https:\/\/palmdown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions\/294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/palmdown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palmdown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palmdown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}