Steiney Exonerated! Steiney Exonerated!
I come to you from the glorious Santa Monica Public Library after my modem died and the new one is not arriving until sometime Friday. It's a wonderful scene, really. Imagine a Twin Peaksextras reunion in an extra-large modern mental hospital reading room. That should give you some idea why today's lone post will be brief. (Not to mention that the library prevents me from reading several websites related to Tiger news.)
Besides, from what I can see, the only thing I missed were some wonderfully lurid and perverted text messages suggesting Tiger was concerned his agent, Mark Steinberg, would find out about his other life in Vegas. So Steiney, congrats, you've been exonerated! Even you appeared to have been kept in the dark.
In the final text, dated Oct. 4, 2009, Woods flipped out on James for apparently acting recklessly in public.
"Don't F--king talk to me," his text said. "You almost just ruined my whole life. If my agent and these guys would have seen you there, F--k."
Doesn't quite conjure up memories of the best of Bobby Jones, does it? Apparently there are more, but the SMPL isn't letting me see them. Something to look forward too with the new modem.
Good news though, as if we needed it, Larry Dorman reports that NBC is airing a 30 second spot featuring 5 seconds of reminder that Tiger is returning soon. I'm sure it'll make everyone forget what they read today and lead to several online spoofs. Something else to look forward to.
Thursday, March 18, 2010 at 08:33 PM
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For someone who rarely chokes on the course, he sure as hell fantasizes about it enough.
He's got (very plausible) deniability on this one. What about the mistress that the National Enquirer was going public with, but Team Tiger quashed? Surely he was involved with the quid pro quo that put Tiger on the cover of Men's Fitness.
That's a good line.
This stuff, if it can be verified -- and that should be easy to do by a computer forensics person -- is rather ugly. Borderline freaky.
It just makes me think that the story has got to be close -- as the spin doctors say -- to finding its bottom.
So Tiger winds up on a magazine cover and gives a giant interview -- thereby violating a contract for exclusivity with Golf Digest -- and his agent doesn't get the real story about why this happens? Golf Digest never picks up the phone and says "what's up with that?"
I understand the law firm negotiated the deal, but who in Camp Tiger contacted them? Tiger? And he kept Steiny in the dark? You're kidding, right?
...but in general I think if it were a body of water Steiney probably thought Tiger was dipping his toe into a puddle on the corner of 55th and Madison when in reality it was a deep dive waaaay off the continental shelf -- broadly speaking, Steiney was way in the dark.
Tiger's a pretty persuasive guy and I can easily see him convincing Steiney that the MF article wa a byproduct of his extreme focus on fitness. And given the benjamin's at stake, Steiney certainly isn't going to go bonkers without good reason...
http://deadspin.com/5496647/a-side+by+side-examination-of-tigers-golf-performance-and-his-concurrent-sexting/gallery/?skyline=true&s=i
Tiger's behavior appears to have been a cross between two 1990s video games. Leisure-Suit Larry and Escape From Colditz. Sounds like he always books a room next to a stairwell and then txts the girl when the coast is clear.
I wonder who in his entourage is facilitating this? I can't believe he goes to the front desk himself and asks for a room key to be left in an envelope.
"My whore will be along shortly".
What's the name of his childhood pal? Bell? Sean Bell? Brian Bell? It was Tiger and his close childhood buddies that managed his harem. It's plausible IMG was almost in the dark.
http://bit.ly/alr9xJ
"Another day, another milestone for Tiger. Another look at the loathsome little man behind the swoosh-covered curtain. Before yesterday we just thought he was a sleazy, self-centered guy who had no respect for his wife. Now we find out he’s even worse. He’s a sicko."
"He waited until he was behind closed doors before he pulled out the phone, texted his porn star girlfriend and told her how much he wanted to “choke, slap, spank and bite” her. What a guy."
"He promised a new Tiger, but what we really will see is the real Tiger. It’s not a comeback so much as a debut. The debut of the creep."
Tiger, no one to blame but yourself and those who supported you, and they're scrambling right now to save their reputations and possibly, their lives and families, no matter what they say. There’s no way you could have managed this on your own. You’re a delegator, I’m sure, and you’re stupid, too.
All this … all this because you are the worst of the world’s creeps and narcissistic multi-millionaires. You earned it on the golf course. We’ll give you that, with praise. Really, you mesmerized us for years. But please go away now. Please go away. Get help if you feel you personally need it. But please go away. The greatest decision you can make right now is to decline playing in the Masters and announce that you’re truly ill and will leave the fairly decent world alone forever.
Joslyn James. A beacon of truth shining through this lurid affair. Her reputation sullied. Poor girl.
"I'm gonna run you a bubble bath and listen to you talk about your day?"
Cripes, get a grip.
Still, one has to feel this is a tap that's going to drip for sometime yet. I just wish he'd go away and never come back. Golf will be fine without him.
i'm not making the"it's none of our business" argument; i'm making the "why is steiney's and stevie's knowledge/involvement of interest at all" argument.
i'll be gazing in the mirror as i await your replies. . . .
There is actually another agent text that Geoff didn't post on here. Woods makes a comment to her along the lines of, "He doesn't know about us, obviously."
What is interesting is that Bell was one of the close supportive friends in attendance at the public speech three weeks ago.
Bell indeed sounds like Woods' "Turtle".
A Turtle of sex.
I wonder what Bell's wife's father thinks of this? I wouldn't walk a daughter down the aisle to some bootlicking toad like him.
May we please have Tiger Woods play inside the televised window on Masters Thursday?
Your club is of course free to run its own tournament any way it sees fit, but I believe this moment will be one of worldwide sporting and historical significance and something in the public's interest to see.
Respectfully,
Bradley_L
Sydney, Australia
My script for that day would have begun, "Well, I guess this is 'Goodbye, world'..."
We're going to do the right thing ... and make him a member.
Golfingly Yours,
WPP