WHAT AN EPIC WASTE OF TIME

Instead of just showing us the highlights of a fun filled day at the Memorial, we have to listen to this nonsense.

The video didn’t work, so here’s some of Jack vs. Tiger playing Skins today.

I’m pretty sure Skip Bayless and Scoop Jackson are two people that I’d never want debating anything that actually deserved a thoughtful response.

Skip is the perfect example of that smart girl in your 9th grade class. She put her time in, did the required reading, regurgitated a bunch of facts, but really didn’t have a clue  what she was talking about. Skip will waive his hand in the air, demand to be heard, but what he’s really doing is just spewing information without any sense of the issue.

Now for Scoop. Here’s a guy who is well known for writing some of the most nonsensical drivel masquerading as prose about the NBA, and now he’s going to break down the golf stat sheet for us? Nevermind that he’s not even sure what he’s talking about. (Paraphrasing) “Jack Nicklaus had a stretch where he went three years without winning a major. Tiger Woods has only done than once.” Huh?

I’m all for respecting both golfers, but really, I have a larger problem with the question.

A water-cooler discussion about who’s better, Tiger Woods or Jack Nicklaus, isn’t what’s wrong with sports talk, it’s  thinking we can decide who would be better between Tiger Woods and Jack Nicklaus in two minutes. Why give such a great question, something that could be rigorously debated by people who actually have a real idea of the answer, such a lackluster effort. That’s my biggest issue with ESPN2′s morning show, and why I always change the channel when it’s on at the gym.

(For the record, Tiger Woods is a much better golfer than Jack Nicklaus ever was. I say this with the utmost respect for Nicklaus and all he accomplished, but today’s golfer is so far superior to yesterday’s, and the training that Woods does is probably ten times what ever the hardest working golfer of the Golden Bear’s era ever did. Even if you gave Tiger Woods persimmon drivers and irons from the 1970s, his pure body strength, fitness levels, and muscle memory would be superior to anything the sport had ever seen. While there is no telling how hard Nicklaus would’ve worked if he had an opponent like Woods, Tiger has changed the way golfers think about themselves as athletes.)