Tiger Woods car/life crash

Yeah nobody loved Kobe before and nobody loves him now and only Lakers fans root for the Lakers.

People do!! I meet a lot of oddball fans who don't live in LA, who have never lived in LA, who are huge fans of Kobe for whatever reason, and obviously those who do live in LA love the guy, I mean for all his faults he's such a talent and works harder than pretty much everyone else in the league...it doesn't seem like he thinks about anything else other than basketball, which you gotta respect

Wait do you mean "love" like think he's an amazing talent or "love" like I want to own his jersey and buy his album or whatever?

"it doesn't seem like he thinks about anything else other than basketball, which you gotta respect"

Pretty sure he thinks about rape sometimes. Maybe not any more though.

Wait do you mean "love" like think he's an amazing talent or "love" like I want to own his jersey and buy his album or whatever?

― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Monday, April 11, 2011 5:44 PM (2 minutes ago)

ha i definitely know some kobe stans, it's kinda sad

and it's tough to really feel too bad for Elin considering she got nearly a billion dollar settlement.

i suspect she would still prefer that she hadn't been humiliated by her husband raw dogging sluts around the world while she stayed at home taking care of the kids

What Tiger did in his personal life is of no concern to me whatsoever.

I like watching the guy play, golf is much more entertaining when he's in contention.

the public eventually forgives & forgets infidelity (this extends far past sports as well) as long as you play the game "the right way"

no one likes kobe outside of l.a. other than a few people, though obv bron is the most disliked player in the game these days. gotta figure the nba is ecstatic over the emergence of derrick rose b/c they could use an across-the-board likable and charismatic superstar on one of the big teams.

and as long as you butter up the press

rofl @ the idea of derrick rose as charismatic -- he has about as much personality as the statute they'll eventually erect for him outside of the united center

roehtlisberger is about a year or two away from his full fledged redemption tour

tiger is basically a-rod for all of his awkward self-awareness and lack of enjoyment he gets out of the game when he's playing (in recent years at least)

the public eventually forgives & forgets infidelity (this extends far past sports as well) as long as you play the game "the right way"

― J0rdan S., Monday, April 11, 2011 5:51 PM (44 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

There's nothing for me to forgive. Not to sound heartless, but i dont want to butt into Tiger Woods' private life, just like I dont want him butting into mine. I think if you were to investigate every athlete's private life you'd be disappointed. All they are is entertainment to me, not any kind of role model.

he may boring enough that they'll erect a statute but i think his game and court presence is exciting and his personality (what little there may be of it!) comes off as likable enough. i mean michael jordan was a cement block too but i think in the end he realized how best to use his personality in conjunction w/his highlight reels.

magill i wasn't addressing you when i said "the public"

you of all ppl

"ha i definitely know some kobe stans, it's kinda sad"

I'm sure there are a lot more Tiger stans though, I don't think it's a measure of forgiveness. Just some people are kinda weird.

"his personality (what little there may be of it!) comes off as likable enough."

His interviews are really stilted and weird.

magill i wasn't addressing you when i said "the public"

― J0rdan S., Monday, April 11, 2011 5:57 PM (50 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
you of all ppl

― J0rdan S., Monday, April 11, 2011 5:58 PM (19 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Yeah, i know.

If I can be completely inconsistent for a moment, I have to say I fucking hate Kobe Bryant.

kobe is a great villain & i resent the way his sins as a basketball player have been washed away by the media, but the guy's a straight assassin & for that i love him

also it was thrilling to have him on 'our' side for team USA

kobe is fun, def an amazing supervillain and just a heartless bastard in all likelihood, i'm sure he's murdered many people IRL as well as on the court but all of that makes him pretty awesome. i hate him but enjoy him.

Kobe's assassin persona would be a lot more enjoyable if he wasn't one the league's top whiners and floppers. He and Brandon Roy lead the league in mid-layup yelps.

rofl @ the idea of derrick rose as charismatic -- he has about as much personality as the statute they'll eventually erect for him outside of the united center

― J0rdan S., Monday, April 11, 2011 9:52 PM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark

so true. He has just about the most vacant expression during interviews that I've ever seen.

people who yelp are scumbags

If I see one more Kobe Bryant review of a "charming little bistro," I'm done with the NBA.

yeah charismatic was totally the wrong word...i guess his in-game energy and "plays the game the right way" reputation and lack of villain status would be more appropriate positives for his marketing.

i sorta feel like the nba conditions its stars to act that way -- once you get rewarded for a certain act 10,000 times in your life, you start to get pissy when you don't get that same reward every time? idk. for instance lebron & wade whine incessantly. dwight just got suspended for too many technicals. just sorta part of the territory imo.

his game is certainly flashy in terms how he finishes at the rim

yeah i really hate that about kobe how he's so used to getting all the calls his way that he bitches when the game is called fairly, but hey, that's the NBA...lebron does this too

i suspect she would still prefer that she hadn't been humiliated by her husband raw dogging sluts around the world while she stayed at home taking care of the kids

well i'm sure she'd rather Tiger stayed faithful too but I think you're kidding yourself if you think there aren't a lot of people out there who are willing to accept getting cheated on for $750,000,000

I mean obviously the situation is pretty horrible for her and I feel bad for her to some degree, but I think on the whole there are a lot of people who would definitely trade places with her right now

besides, marrying an athlete like Tiger is like singing Ron Artest or Manny Ramirez to a long contract...like, it can work out, but if things go sour it's not like you shouldn't have seen it coming

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpHOVO0aS1U

ron is the athlete of our generation

omar I think the next nba superstar you're reaching for is kevin durant

but yeah now that wade has the whiff of lebron-taint the nba needs a new superclean superstar

actually i agree w/ bethlehem shoals in that rose/bulls have overtaken durant/thunder as the young star/team that's the antithesis of the heat deathstar for ppl who want to root against them & what they 'represent'

so glad that you agree with a spammer

are you talking about frogbs

durant would be w/o a doubt "the man" on certain teams but i think he's hurt by the fact that most people don't give a shit about the thunder.

hahah no, 'bethlehem shoals' is a great name but I don't know who that is

the thunder would have to make a huge playoff run for durant to enter the conversation. it's totally possible this year.

he's the dude that started freedarko xp

"this way"?? he shot 67 on sunday and came in 4th!

― k3vin k., Monday, 11 April 2011 22:32 Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

31 out, 36 back says more than "he shot 67" - you don't shoot 36 in the last 9 holes and win championships.

But if you shoot a 67 on the last 18 holes, sometimes you win championships.

And by the way ... of all of his major victories, 67 is actually the lowest he's ever shot on the last day. You can look it up!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_Woods