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Category: Rants And Random Ramblings (page 5 of 8)

Golf horoscopes, why I’m like Tiger Woods, and why to bet on Natalie Gulbis

It is Friday night, right? I expected to be doing something else tonight but my other half is down with some kind of nasty cold. Rather than dosing up on Airborne and Emergen-C like I’m known to do in such situations, I opted instead to go the route of the martini. Truth be told, I intended to do the martini thing last night but I never got around to it, so I am glad for the opportunity. And though I’ve cautioned in the past against drinking and flogging, here I am – sitting with my Goose, my martini (also a goose of the gray variety even though they spell it wrong) and Tom Waits, typing away. I have to say that these blue cheese olives I bought at BevMo suck. Shoulda stuck to my own hand-stuffed freshies. Ah well, live and learn.

I suppose I should find the point. Not the one on my head (I actually have a pointy skull and if I ever shaved my head I’d probably look like a real Conehead – my parents swear they didn’t drop me) but an actual golf-related type of point. Ah yes, golf horoscopes.

While sitting here surfing around, I found a site called Pargazer which is my new favorite site. This ain’t my first square dance, though, so I won’t stick it in my links list just yet. (Ever really connect with someone at a bar and declare them your new bestest friend and swear you’ll call?)

ANYWAY – Why do I like this site so much? It actually likens me to Tiger Woods simply because I was born within a few days of him. It’s mostly a site that sells stuff, but the gimmick is golf humor and horoscopes. I think we all like to believe in the reading of the stars when it’s favorable. Which is why so many horoscopes focus on the positive aspects of a person’s sign. This one uses the same general horoscopic – did I just invent that word? – theories and applies them to a person’s golf game. It’s pretty fun, actually.

I’m a goat, through and through. Hey, maybe that point on my head is actually a horn trying to stick through. No, that would make me a unicorn. Nevermind. Almost everything I’ve read about Capricorns pretty accurately describes me. Even the bad stuff. I’m a major astronomy geek which makes some people see irony in that I’m also terribly fascinated by astrology. Not Capricorns, though. They know that while we may be commonly known as pragmatists we can also be quite creative and apply that flair to our logic. When you really think about the cohesive nature of the universe, why wouldn’t the position of the stars at the exact moment of our births have something to do with our personalities and indeed, everything about us? I could go on and on and delve into quantum physics and really rationalize this.

But oh yeah – this is a golf blog. And I’m like Tiger Woods. Just lookie here:

But wait a minute…

Isn’t it interesting that there’s no mention of noted female Capricorn golfers? Nancy Lopez and Natalie Gulbis are both Capricorns. Shame on you, Pargazer! Now you’re not getting on my links list for sure (as if they’ll feel the pain). I’m not going to spend any time researching this right now but it seems to me that horoscopes are typically more of a chick thing and the folks at Pargazer are morons for not knowing their audience.

There may be critics who say Natalie hasn’t won, she won’t win, she doesn’t “have it,” she’s too “flaky.” If anyone doubts what Natalie Gulbis will accomplish, hear me now: if she wants to win at golf, she will. She may be too busy right now applying her dogged Capricorn-ness to enlisting sponsors, endorsements and fans at the moment, but when she really focuses on golf, watch out! Calendars Looks fade; skills develop. She’s a goat, alright!

 

 

Okay, so I’m way older, shinier and drunker, but can’t you see the Capricorn in us both?

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Justin Timberlake or Taylor Hicks?

Okay, I just have to weigh in on this. Seems a bunch of folks are up in arms over whether Justin Timberlake or Taylor Hicks should have been playing as a celebrity at the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic.

Taylor Hicks, hands down! It’s not like I’m an ongoing fan of his and I’m sure he has a record out but I don’t own it (although I have to admit I’m a self-loathing, non-voting American Idol devotee and enjoyed his performances and rooted for him in last year’s season). But in this competition, I have to say I’m not so much “voting” for Taylor Hicks as I am against Justin Timberlake.

That squeaky wormish boy-band slangsta actually put out a song about being sexy? He’s bringing sexy back? Yeah, to the dollar store where he bought it because it was defective! The kid’s got as much sex appeal as a Q-Tip. That’s exactly what he looks like. A fricken used Q-Tip. He can get as buff or ripped as he wants, but unless he removes his head, he’ll just be a ripped fuzzy Q-Tip. I don’t know or care how good of a golfer he is. I don’t know that about Taylor, either. But Taylor would never put out a song about being sexy, either.

Umm… did someone say something about sexy?

Phew. I think I just needed a forum to release my pent up JT thoughts. I don’t think I’ve ever expressed an opinion on him one way or the other. It feels good to get it out. It’s always nice to disagree with Chris Baldwin, too.

Personally, I like the alternative Patricia gives us in her poll for next year’s tournament. Snoop Dogg all the way!

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Oh Lord, Won’t you Buy Me a Mercedes Benz

Okay, so I have nowhere near the amount of soul to pull off that song.

And I’ll probably never get a real Mercedes-Benz as a gift.

But I like to think that the PGA Tour and its players are honoring my birthday by kicking off their season today on Maui with the Mercedez-Benz Champonship at the Plantation Course of the Kapalua Resort.

I just wish they would have brought me with them. Maybe a couple days early, you know? Perhaps play a *friendly* round with Adam Scott or something? Warm him up a bit? Just thinking out loud here. Or at least thinking through my fingertips. Oh don’t be like that – you know what I mean.

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Deck the blog

Thought I’d hang some decorations here on my blog. I even found some golf menorahs!

Merry Christmas, Happy Chanukah, Happy New Year, and Happy Anything-else-you-may-celebrate-this-time-of-year. May all your golf wishes come true.


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The Pink Panther goes too far

I don’t have anything against the color pink. In fact, I’m quite fond of it.

I also don’t have any problem with Paula Creamer declaring her devotion to the color pink. Gimmicks are good for marketing.

However, all things in moderation.

Maybe her collision with the Pepto Bismol truck on Sunday at the Samsung World Championship was in recognition of Breast Cancer awareness month. Even if it was, come on, Paula! Would an accent color hurt so much? Even a pink golf ball? I’m glad you weren’t in the final group because I couldn’t have handled having to look at you long enough to watch the coverage.


I usually like the fashion choices she makes, which, coming from me is probably insulting since my own fashion choices often end up looking like garanimals.

I remember an unfortunate incident of my own from when I was about 12 years old. My favorite color at the time was purple. Somewhere, there are actually photographs of me on a ski slope wearing purple ski pants, a purple parka over a purple turtleneck and purple sweater, with purple gloves, a purple hat, purple earmuffs and purple sunglasses. I looked like a human grape. I wonder if when Paula is older she will want these photos of her to disappear as much as I hope those photos of me never see daylight. The difference is I was twelve and just out having fun with my family. Paula Creamer, while still quite young, is a professional golfer on a world stage.

So, Paula, chalk one up to the mistakes column and learn from it. That saying about there not being such a thing as bad publicity is for those who can’t get the good kind.

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Funny search phrases

Keyword activity is always a fun stat to check. How are people finding my site? Sure, they’re mostly golf term searches, but not always! There have been some good ones. I wish I could remember some of the better ones from longer ago, but some recent entries prompted me to share some of my favorites here:

Stupid cats brain
Colorado corn bread
Heather McMichael leaving (Heather, are you going somewhere?)
Goose abuse
I need my space t-shirt
How to spent twenty dollars (careful, misspell something in your search and you could wind up here)
Stupid birds

Hmm… I’m starting to detect a stupid pattern.

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Natural Golf on Mars

Martians must be huge. Look at the size of this golf hole!

The Victoria Crater on Mars On its way to Victoria, Nasa’s rover, “Opportunity” better watch its back lest it get smushed by a giant golf ball heading into the cup. Oh wait. Maybe that’s just the ball mark on a giant green. Holy crap – imagine the size of the actual hole if that’s the case.

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Track the Ryder Cup

Are you a die hard Ryder Cup fan (either team?) Here’s a site to watch: Ryder Cup Diary.

It’s a blog style site, not affiliated with the PGA or Ryder Cup. But it’s all Ryder Cup, all the time. It’s got posts about players & teams, the course, history, news, and more.

Here’s a snippet from a post about Ryder Cup odds:

 

So what are the betting odds at this stage? Who do the betting public favour? We had a quick look at PaddyPower.com

Europe to win 8/11
USA to win 5/4
Tie 10/1

This means that at this stage the Europeans are favourites which is amazing when you look at the depth of the US Team.

Lets revisit this after the European Team is finalised and see if there is any change in sentiment…

It seems like a pretty comprehensive and organized Ryder Cup resource to me. Check it out.

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My theory on Tiger Woods – you heard it here first

No human being can play golf that well so consistently. The kind of domination Tiger Woods wields over everyone in the world who plays golf requires a mental consistency of which no human being is capable. Therefore, Tiger Woods is not human. So what is he? Well, I have a few theories and stay with me because they kind of blend into each other. They are:

A. Tiger Woods is a robot
B. Tiger Woods is an alien
C. Tiger Woods is a changeling

First, you know we common folk aren’t aware of the truly cutting edge technology that exists and prototype testing that goes on in secret. Tiger could be the product of the uber-private robotics industry. This could either be done in the private sector or by a major government power. Given that he is an American, probably the United States government. I don’t see another country’s government just handing us a winner like that even if it meant a better cover.

Second, you know we are not alone. Not only in the universe, but here on Earth. Exhibit A: The praying mantis. A friend recently pointed out to me that they are, of course, actually aliens and I completely agree. Look at their cool demeanor and the way they observe the world and indeed, you. Look at the way they control their numbers on Earth in order to remain inconspicuous until they decide to take over: the females bite the heads off of the males after mating. I think they know that the human form has the greatest advantage over other species on the planet and they will take the form of humans once we have killed ourselves off with our stupidity. Tiger might just be their prototype. That’s where the third theory comes in and the blending begins.

Perhaps the aliens are capable of a changeling type of metamorphosis.

Is this what Tiger looked like before the change?

“Achieving trust is always the final step with a change.” – Tiger Woods
Maybe deep down, he wasn’t talking about his swing.

More than likely, their evolution is so far beyond our own that we couldn’t even comprehend the kind of mental discipline, intelligence and physical power they possess. Maybe they didn’t want to “waste” one of their own by experimenting with the form of a human. Instead, they developed a robotic simulation of themselves for the test. I guess the simplistic human equivalent would be like sending a monkey into space before a human.

How about when he doesn’t win?

If Tiger ever has a bad hole, four in a row, comes in second in a tournament or even misses a cut, you can bet it’s by design. They don’t want to blow their cover. It’s just that their little experiment has his own highly involved intelligence center (way beyond our simple brains). He’s fully capable of winning every tournament every time and they let him dominate the sport but he’s gotta make it look good. Lately, I think he disobeyed some of his orders and is drawing too much attention to himself. I wonder if they’ll rein him in a bit.

But he’s so emotional!

Oh, and what about that emotional display at the British Open? Was that some kind of flaw in the dominant mental system? Not at all. He became attached to his earthly father and probably has some true feelings there, but I think he never would have expressed them. The superiors were looking for a way to make him appear more human, so after his “father” died, they had him miss a cut and then activated his emotion chip on the 18th hole at the Open. I wonder if his earth family and Steve Williams are the biggest victims of the deception or if the aliens are using some kind of mind control in order to let them in on it.

Why Tiger?

Okay, so why would they choose to do this with a golfer? Easy. They wanted it to be an athletic figure so they could test the physical capabilities of the human body. They wanted him to be a public figure because it’s just fun to bamboozle so many people. Of the sports, golf is the most mentally challenging. But most importantly, it’s the sport with the most nature around so the mantis can observe unobtrusively. I’d like to see some of that nose-hair zoom camera work at the next PGA event focusing on the mantis leader.

So, there you have it. Tiger Woods is a robotic changeling alien. You heard it here first.

Photos courtesy Erich Mangl.

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Against my better judgment, but I gotta try something

I have always been leery of chiropractors. It’s not that I don’t believe in alternative or therapeutic care. I just get this paranoid feeling like while they’re working on you they’re going to do something to make sure that you have to keep coming back. I’m sure they’re not all like that, but how does one go about finding a good one?

Mom pleaded with me to go see one and told me her doctor fixed her right up when she had a similar back injury; that she felt immediately better. With my upcoming tournament and a desperate feeling (and to appease my loving mother), I found one just blocks from my home and I went. He performed electrical muscle stimulation, ultrasound and gave me what they call an “adjustment.” After the endorphin rush of that last treatment, I did feel markedly better, but it didn’t last. I was back to the pain and not being able to get comfortable in any position soon enough. However, unlike the night before, I was able to sleep through it.

This morning I’m feeling well enough to at least sit here and type, so that’s progress. I’m sitting up straighter than ever before, so maybe something good will come of this whole mess. I’m going back for another treatment this afternoon and again tomorrow morning before I attempt to play golf. He urged me not to play but said he would do all he could to make me feel well enough to try if I insisted.

Meanwhile, I’m amazed at all the little things I took for granted before the pain. Wiping my ass, for example. Or physically helping my 11 year old Great Dane up the stairs. We must look like a couple of old grannies out on our walks. Standing and walking are the least uncomfortable things I can do, but I know I must look like there’s something lodged up my aforementioned ass as I cautiously take my steps.

If I can swing a club and end up playing tomorrow, I think I’ll invite someone in my foursome (not my competitor) in on my secret. Maybe have him slyly retrieve my golf ball from the cup after I sink it. Surprisingly, squatting doesn’t hurt that much, but I’ve tried the move with the reach for the ball and it will look awkward at best. I don’t want my competition to know that I’m struggling. With a secret helper, I might be able to pull it off. That is, if I can even swing.

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