It was bad enough seeing Phil Mickelson purposely flaunt that carefully manufactured wholesome family image in front of the cameras on the walk to Butler Cabin.
GQ nailed it on the head when they named Mickelson to the Ten Most Hated Atheletes List and wrote, "Mickelson has aggressively pursued a family-man image that is crucial to his success as an endorser." I, for one, have not nor ever will, be fooled by the Joker of Golf.Unfortunately, the phoniness only worsened as the festivities rolled into Butler Cabin. As we all know, Hootie and the Men of the Masters are wacko control freaks. When they try to deceive the viewers into thinking that the tightly-controlled green jacket ceremony in Butler Cabin is a casual and spontaneous affair, the result is just laughable. This year, the ceremony started the same way as it always does. Hootie introduces Jim Nantz and then reads off the teleprompter:
In a few minutes we'll be joined by our 2006 champion, Phil Mickelson. And with him will be last year's champion Tiger Woods who will present him with his green jacket. And Jim, I believe that they're coming in now.Right on cue, Phil and Tiger stroll into the picture. Can you say "contrived"?
The rest of the ceremony was as artificial as Splenda. Even Tiger feigns joy as he slips the XXXL green jacket onto Phil's naturally padded shoulders. The only thing missing was a live performance by Milli Vanilli. As JD Salinger wrote in The Catcher in the Rye, "People always think something's all true." As Holden Caulfield would have done, I turned off my TV in disgust.
P.S. My buddy Tony K. of Hooked On Golf has started golf's version of MySpace. Called The Golf Space, it's a networking site only for golfers. Users have their own profiles, pics, blogs, connections, business associates etc. Be sure to check it out.
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You know the other thing I don't get is why there are TWO green jacket ceremonies? There's one in Butler Cabin and then outside...
And does that painting of Bobby Jones looking over them in BC look eeeeerrie to you like it does me?
Yeah, and how are you different than Phil in that while he censors his thoughts and reactions, to the betterment of his game, you censor the comments made to your blog, to the detriment of free speech? Not that you both don't have that right, but should you be criticized for it? I, for one, am glad the Joker beat Batman.
I moderate comments to filter out Spam. Phil just eats it.
"I moderate comments to filter out Spam. Phil just eats it."
What a GREAT quote!
It looks a lot like you buddy Tony used Joomla and maybe Community Builder to make his site and erased all front page credit to them.
CB doesn't "require" a credit be listed. In fact there is a "preference setting" which allows you to take it off.
I've donated $$$ to both projects and promoted the hell out of both of them.
Ok I just looked deeper into it:
From the Joomla site:
"The copyright must remain in the source code - this means the Joomla PHP and XML source code.
This is not the HTML source code delivered to the web browser. Nothing regarding Joomla must appear anywhere in the HTML delivered to the web browser.
Not in the HTML code.
Not visible on the page."
All appropriate copyrights and credits are intact in the source code as they require.
:-)
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