robotic and calculated, but personally i don't give a damn about the scandal or him as a golfer (i bleed basketball). you can tell the dude just stepped out of a sex rehab clinic. nothing but an arse load of "i" statements... i did this... i was wrong for that... i will do this (no pun intended). a few months in rehab and the dude is already making apologies/amends? even if this was an amends process, the other side (the media) is supposed to be able to give some sort of response/feedback. hmmmm... just sounds like he had a few sessions w/a counselor, went to a few meetings, memorized/manipulated step nine, analyzed the mannerisms of that android dude on the movie "aliens", and laid on a few cards out on the table to all the reporters' beady eyes anticipating more. wtf?
tiger's wife wasn't even there. the kobe's press conference looked much better, despite it being a criminal case at the time, b/c his wife was there holding his hands.
bah...he is only sorry once he got caught. otherwise, he would have done this for life probably. the point is celebs can and do get away with stuff like this. he is not the first and will not be the last. some we do not even know about. celebs do live by their own rules and some feel entitlement to things normal people do not. call it a sickness or whatever. celebrity breeds and corrupts these folks. he just didn't cover his tracks well at all and went too far. but, i do not think he is really sorry. he had one hell of a time and is only sorry he got caught...is the way i see it.
i agree. but the press conference would have "appeared" much better and more sincere if his wife was there (which means he had done something to ask for her forgiveness). hell, tiger's mom just stared at the guy like she hasn't forgiven him yet. i mean, i'm sure kobe's wife wanted to strangle him when she heard the news. anyways, the only way tiger can do is come back and continue to dominate golf. sports fans care for one thing: winning. but nobody is going to care for his fake act that he's an all-american guy. i really felt bad for tiger's wife b/c she just had a baby when this news came out. wish she's doing well. why can't some of these athletes just be who they are? instead, they pull this "all-american ideal" person act (like tiger and kobe). if you know you have this "suppression" and can't settle down, don't get married (like a lebron james). or just act yourself (wade, tmac, magic, MJ.... and many other high profiled athletes cheated on their spouses and nothing like this ever happened). lesson brought to us by tiger and kobe: stop fakin' it and be yourself.
That apology was lame. He did sound robotic as if he rehearsed it a million times to make it sound perfect. Is he even human?
Umm, what? Obviously not. They're no different than the rest of us when it comes to love and war. How does entitlement have anything to do with this? I'm pretty sure people cheat on their spouses and do plenty of bad things without being celebrities. Blaming his actions on being famous doesn't make much sense at all.
Umm...yes they are. The difference is they cannot go anywhere without being recognized and women ready to throw themselves at them. Admitting he felt he "deserved to enjoy the temptations" that came with his fabulous success, Woods said he is solely responsible for his actions. Yes they do. Never said they didn't. But, celebs have one foot in the door already whereever they go cause they are well known. All they have to do is act on the temptations in front of them, whether it be women, partying, drugs, or whatever. Mark Walhberg knows about this. He has a show about it. What do you want me to say? Celebs are normal people and always act like normal people. I will not say that. I don't believe it. I believe some of them know how to handle celebrity...and some of them know how to abuse celebrity to get what they want.
You know how our society is . . . it's almost like everyone who expects the so-called obligatory apology to the public, even though he has nothing to do with the public. Tiger should simply embrace his hedonism and latent arrogance, and tell the reporters (the ones who want let the story die or act holier than thou) to go to #e!! (and mention by them by name). Pretty much say that he is the greatest golfer that has ever lived on the planet. Though, I guess Bill Hicks was right about corporate whores, it takes all their integrity and manhood away. The only spokesperson I know who wouldn't be doing all of this apologizing, is . . . #23 for the Chicago Bulls and Washington Wizards. That man has had problems with loan sharks, gambling debts, gambling late at night, during a playoff series, and probably 4,000 more affairs than Tiger. Has ever once apologized to the public?
He did what he needed to do. If he wanted to just make a public announcement, then he just wanted to make a public announcement. He isn't obligated to do an interview. The media crying about that seems childish. His wife not being there made it more sincere for me. You know none of the wives in any of these pressers are happy about it and are just doing it for show. And he wanted to keep his wife and kids out of the public eye, so his wife not being there furthered the point. Finally, he's always come off as stiff (that's what his mistresses said) so it was not strange to me. I've seen Kobe & Mcgwire cry and they both seemed insincere to me. It didn't make me form an opinion either way. in the end their actions will define them. Kobe has recovered. Mcgwire still sounds douche-y.
Tiger sounded like someone reading a paper about someone else and didn't even sound like he was talking about himself. I think it was pretty pathetic. I didn't take it as sincere because I didn't feel any emotion coming from him. It might as well have been a robot up there. And, it would seem appropriate to apologize to all the women he stuck his ding dong in but I guess they are just whores who had it coming?
Who also had boyfriends and significant others as well. No need to feel sorry for most of them, especially when they had relations with a married man.
