I went today for the Playoff. Fantastic.

I was lucky to have a great week: Lakers Game3 Finals game+ Big Bear Porsche Run + Father's Day in Laguna Beach + Playoff at Torrey Pine.

I feel blessed. Only thing better is to get a F1 race back to Socal and we are done!

Golf courses are one of the biggest enviromental wastes. Too much water , little or no local enviroental plantings etc. Tiger plays the " good guy " card well, his opinions he keeps to himself. Ask hockey fans. Boring as hell, could care less. Fat boy nascar drivers after 4 hours in the car are in better shape. Look at some of the golfers, jeez. Smoking is banned from the spectators, but specifically alllowed for competitors. makes paint drying look exciting.

How far from plate to mound in softball? Chick lived across the street played softball, had this rising fastball that was tough to get a bat on, but if you choke up right, you hit it over the first baseman's head for an easy double, and that is a long ass throw to third from the right field corner.

I have not followed MLB since they cancelled the World Series due to pettiness.
I blame Canada.

it is a lot closer in softball.

Baseball is right around 60 feet (I think it's 60.5 feet). Those college gals bring the heat, and I think they are doing it from right around the same distance as 8-9 year old Little League distance (around 42 feet). So baseball is around 50% further than softball - a significant difference.

I was at the cages this weekend with my son. some of the coaches got a cage with an 80 mph ball. Pretty fast, not all that hard to hit when the machine is putting it in the same spot every time, but would be pretty scary with a person throwing that hard at you!

You have faced all star (let alone hall of fame) caliber big league pitching before?

I'd like to see you stand in the box for a few Randy Johnson sliders... :-p

Now imagine a 100+ MPH fastball with some movement that runs in at you at the last second. DUCK!!!

LOL, i realized at the high school level that hitting was not a skill i was ever going to make a living on. Hehehe.

BTW, YES, HITTING BIG LEAGUE PITCHING IS THE HARDEST SKILL IN SPORTS :)
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/ten-hardest-splash.htm

No aspect of golf even made the top 10.

According to ESPN, the hardest sport in general is boxing.
They rank baseball (in general) the 9th most difficult, and golf 54th.
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/sportSkills

So anyway, that's who "They" are. ;)

Greatest sports movie of all time. Even though golf isn't a sport. :)

Major league was funny as hell too.

Funny how golf is such a polarizing sport. You either love it, or hate it with a passion. You either understand it, or are completely clueless about it.

What the pros do is not really comprehensible to someone that hasn't ever played competetive golf. Playing a few times a week and hitting a few buckets of balls in between just isn't the same thing. You don't swing like they do. If you did, 100 range balls and 18 holes would be all you wanted in a day and you wouldn't be all that excited about doing it again the next day.

I thought that this year's Open was one of the best of all time. Rocco played some great golf. It was hard to watch him fold on the last hole.

You can't blame the golfers for the spin the announcers put on their commentary. None of the media (print, electronic) is worth listening to, because they cater to the average guy, who isn't all that impressive. Face it, we are a living in a world full of idiots and the media caters to the average dude, while worrying more about ratings, the stock price and the end of year bonuses than content. You need to hear a good sound bite daily! SportCenter! ESPN360! SportsNation! It's on now, turn the box on and turn it up!

By the way, it is getting worse.

JR

Number 4 is considered part of the top 10.

You can't expect sniper to know how to count to ten. ;)

I think most of the posters here that dislike golf so much can't even play the game, they may have had a bad time with the windmill at the local mini golf and that set their mind for them.
Also, I would guess Tiger Woods is in better shape than all of them. Probably in better shape than most baseball players. Probably in better shape than most football players.

I heard Johnny Miller say the Tiger could bench 350 lbs. Is that true?? I mean the guy is yoked, but he does have long arms and can't weigh much over about 180.

2 times body weight is a lot to be benching.

It wouldn't surprise me that he could, but I doubt he uses that much weight. He works out a lot but is more interested in things that could help his swing. Bench pressing isn't one of them.

I grew up with a guy that was on the wrestling team in high school. We used to work out together and were essentially comparable, except for bench presses. He could easily do 350, I couldn't. He had worked for years on his chest and it showed. We both weighed 150 or so.

JR

Some guys are built for benching. They're just strong naturally and then if they work at it...

My best is 295 strict - no bouncing. But I weighed 205 when I did it and was using Andro (back when Mark McGuire said it was OK).

I just can't see Tiger using that much weight and the risk of injury that goes along with it.

Yeah, my friend was built like a chimpanzee. An odd physique. The only drugs he used were smoked in this funny looking cigarette and I doubt that helped his strength much, or improved his concentration.

I'd bet Tiger usually doesn't do much bench press weight in his workouts. There are no reasons for him to do so and a lot of reasons for him to not do so.

JR

I saw Tiger at the Buick at Torrey Pines in January.

He is much bigger/more ripped in person than he is in pictures or TV, IMO. He spends some serious time in the gym, and is pushing up some heavy weight to get that kind of size.

Today's news has Tiger out for the rest of the season. He's getting the knee redone. Also, he has a couple stress fractures of the tibia on that leg.

There went my Sunday afternoons.

JR

You can bet your ass they won't be scoping that knee this time around

ACL reconstruction.

JR

How high on the top ten list does "Winning the US Open in sudden death on a knee that won't support my full weight because it needs full open reduction surgery" rank?

You could tell monday there was something wrong. Rocco is not a long ball hitter and he and Tiger were pretty even off the T. Tiger couldn't hit.