Foley: Lay Off My Man Tiger!

Sean Foley is fed up, mad as hell, and not going to take it anymore. At least, as much as a super nice Canadian can get angry. Asked at the end of a Sirius/XM Fairways of Life interview with Matt Adams about Woods after 20 minutes of general golf talk, the instructor came to his pupil's defense. Randall Mell reports:

“I know everyone has a job to do, and I get it,” Foley said. “But if it is about the game of golf, Tiger Woods is an extremely important part of the game, and I think everyone understands that. It has just gotten to the point where the tearing down of Tiger as a person and a golfer has become just too much. I think it is just out of hand.

“I realize it is 2012, and we have dotcoms, and you have to write five articles a day, and you run out of things to write about, but we should be in a position where we are trying to help and lift up and support a player like Tiger Woods, instead of tearing him down, because everyone in the golf industry is better off because of his existence.

“That is basically one thing I want to get out. Tiger is a wonderful person, and he is a good dude, and he lives a complex life. I think things have got to slow down, it has got to stop, the daily referendums and the criticism.”

Duly noted. And that won't happen as long as he's kicking clubs.

Boomer Esiason & Craig Carton Gang Up On Hank, Call Him "Scum Of The Earth," "Terrible Human Being"

A CBS New York reports on the WFAN interview of Hank Haney by Boomer Esiason and Craig Carton resulted in Haney eventually hanging up after having suffered through various cheap shots.

As shocking as it may be, there are talk radio hosts calling someone "scum of the earth" and a "terrible human being," only after they sell a few ads built around making money off of their guest, who they view as violating one of "the most fundamental of trusts anyone could have," the athlete-coach relationship. What a country!

About five minutes in, the interview takes a turn and by the end Carton and Esiason are patting themselves on the back about how great it felt to have gotten Haney to hang up. Carton gushes that he's Tiger's biggest fan and "I pick him to win every freakin' tournament, I always will." Of course, the name of Tiger's current instructor also escaped Carton.

Esiason doesn't say much but when he does, he bumbles along with a few jabs, butchering various elements of the book he appeared to not have read, including most irresponsibly, a portion where he suggests that Haney implies there were "racial vibes" in Tiger's relationship with Phil Mickelson. Had Esiason read the book, he'd know Haney was referring to the climate in the world of golf, not Phil personally.

Descriptions used by Carton during the course of the interview:

Repeated references to Haney as a "coward" if he hangs up, or just a coward in general.

“The scum of the earth” for writing such a book.

"Terrible human being."

"Guys like you, the scum of the earth"

"Pond scum."

"Snake."

Listen and see what you think. I thought Haney did a fine job sticking up for himself and the book. Esiason and Carton seemed pretty proud of their efforts and have been promoting the interview on Twitter. I'm guessing the irony of trying to profit off an interview where you belittle someone for profiting off of someone is going to fly right over their heads.

Oh, and Tiger still won't come on your shows guys, no matter how much you pucker up and kiss his rear end!