I see hating people. They’re everywhere. They walk around like everyone else and don’t know they’re haters.
Nonetheless, the haters are out there. Fo’ shizzle.
In golf, Michelle Wie is putting the finishing touches on a year that has taken her from the most beloved young player in the game to the most hated by the haters. Yesterday, a TravelGolf.com column “Who’s the culprit in the obsessive Michelle Wie circus: the sports media or golf fans?” there were 16 comments. Every one of them negative.
“I would be very happy never to hear her name again! Great golf is being played by many women on the LPGA Tour and they are not receiving the kudos they deserve.”
“Just because you can hit the ball a country mile doesn’t mean you can play the game. Michelle can’t putt. Period.”
“Short Skirts don’t win tournaments, a short game does.”
And on and on. Personally, I believe the worst thing that happened to Wie was that Tiger Woods went nuts and started winning everything he entered. Again. When the best in the game takes the game to a higher level - again - it’s kind of hard to get overly excited about the potential of a 16-year-old who is now missing cuts at men’s events by a country mile.
It was Wie’s missed cut at the Omega European Masters that got Jennifer Mario hating on Golf for Beginners, after they wrote:
“The only men’s event Wie qualified for was the SK Telecom Open … a third world event. Come on, let’s be serious, she was at least a foot taller than the other guys in that tournament - five foot tall men with eight foot sticks.”
“Not only was this not your best blog, Solomons, but it was just plain embarrassing. I know you can do better.”
Yes, the great Wie backlash is in full swing while Chris Baldwin convulses in giggles, causing his great quantities of man-flesh to jiggle like so much uncontained gelatin. So now, Wie-hater No. 1 has moved on to hating those that believe in 9/11 conspiracies, and they really hate him for that.
Like Max, who wrote: “Stop playing golf long enough to exercise your brain a little bit there golfer man,” followed by more than 2,000 more words on the subject.
Of course, not to be outdone, reader Dubya Shrub (GET IT!!!!) added his two cents, which came out to a 10,000-word, one-paragraph diatribe.
Finally, I happened to find someone hating on a blog I did a while back, comparing NBA star LeBron James to Tiger Woods.
“I could be wrong, but doesn’t Tiger Woods *win* stuff quite often? As in, like, always? Clearly, this is a totally flawed comparison,” wrote Bernard G. Watkins.
Of course, I didn’t take Mr. Watkins’ insults too personally, being that he writes for, and created the “I Hate LeBron James” Web site.
In the end, where does all this hate get us, my friends? Nowhere, that’s where. But it’s fun to read, so if you must hate, feel free to hate here. Unless you write in one long paragraph. I hate that.
–WKW
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Comment from: jaypee [Visitor]
Just so you know, the paragraph separations get eliminated in the transfer from one computer to the other, due to some technical formats not totally compatible. This is were my second paragraph starts, but you are not getting it. I absolutely HATE it when that happens.
WorldGolf.com's William K. Wolfrum blogs about everything in the world of golf and travel, including Michelle Wie, Lorena Ochoa, Tiger Woods and other PGA and LPGA headlines. Plus, he offers the humorous and obscure in news, politics and pop culture.
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