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I can outblog PGA Tour's Tim Finchem while suffering from blog amnesia in anti-blog land

Monday January 21, 2008 | 05:35:09 pm 615 words, 3279 views  

PGA Tour Commissioner Tim Finchem has a blog! He has a blog!!!

You can find it here, and let me tell you, it’s more entertaining than GolfWeek’s last meeting on how they should commemorate Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

Let’s take a quick look at what ol’ Timmy has to say:

Hello and welcome to the second year of the FedExCup on the PGA TOUR.

AHHHHHHH!!!!! ShutupShutupShutupShutupShutupShutupShutupShutupShutup.

Ok, sorry, I just wasn’t ready for the FedEx Cup pimping to start so early.

We have redesigned PGATOUR.com to make it cleaner and easier for you to navigate. We hope you enjoy it, but let us know if you do or don’t and what changes you think we should make to make it even better. In a month or so, we will have additional features up and running to allow us to interact with you on a better and more consistent basis.

You could care less about the Web site, nor those that visit the Web site, nor the additional features. Admit it, Tim, and then maybe I’ll have a tinge of respect for you.

We will be making message boards available to you so that you can talk to us and to each other …

Take it from someone who knows, Tim, having readers talk to you sounds WAY better on the drawing board than it works in practice. Of course, I notice your blog doesn’t have a comment section.

And you will also be seeing more blogs not only from me but from our players …

If you can get Tiger Woods to write a monthly blog, I will dedicate my life to promoting the FedEx Cup. I’m guessing, though, that won’t happen, and that we’ll know a whole hell of a lot about what guys like Chez Reavie think ("Wow, the FedEx Cup is Great!").

I’ll be heading out to the Buick Invitational in San Diego next week to meet with our Player Advisory Council. If you don’t know, the Player Advisory Council has 16 members that are elected by our players. We meet and talk with the Player Advisory Council many times throughout the year and get their recommendations on issues that will be presented to our Policy Board. Our Policy Board is the board of directors of the PGA TOUR and consists of four players – Joe Ogilvie, Brad Faxon, David Toms and Stewart Cink – and four independent businessmen, who are currently Vic Ganzi, CEO of Hearst Corporation, Ed Whitacre, recently retired Chairman and CEO of AT&T, John McCoy, former CEO of Bank One, and Ken Thompson, Chairman of Wachovia. Also, the President of the PGA of America (currently Brian Whitcomb) makes up the ninth member of our Policy Board.

Great Xenu on a half shell, you suck Tim. I’m just amazed that in that morass of corporate butt-kissing you didn’t manage to work the FedEx Cup into it.

We are looking at ways to have more players get into contention for the FedExCup through exceptional play during the Playoffs, and we are also looking for ways in which more players in the field of THE TOUR Championship will have an opportunity to win. We would be very interested in your thoughts on this subject.

Wow, I hate you, Tim.

Well, that’s all for now, and I look forward to talking to you again in the coming weeks.

Just stop, Tim. You aren’t fooling anyone. It’s total drudgery for you and you hate doing it as much as we’ll enjoy ignoring it. Ron Mon writes a more insightful and interesting blog than you. Yeah, Ron Mon.

So there you have it, Tim Finchem has a blog. Now, let’s never mention it again.

–WKW

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Comment from: Ron Mon [Member]
I know Tim Finchem and you, RonMon, are no Tim Finchem. Actually, I find policy to be quite stimulating. Random invented fact: Gene Simmons is the only human on whom Viagara works on the tongue.
PermalinkPermalink 01/21/08 @ 21:44
Comment from: Kiel Christianson [Visitor]
How about this: Paint a big clown's face on the green of the 17th at Sawgrass (nowhere near the pin), and if a player gets it in the clown's mouth, they get an automatic bid into the "prestigious" FedEx Cup final, or whatever it's called.

BTW, doesn't Finchem working the FedEx Cup into
every other sentence sound a lot like Guliani mentioning
9/11 with every other breath?
PermalinkPermalink 01/21/08 @ 21:47
Comment from: Wendy (UK) [Visitor]
His blog reminds me of my (hypocritical)introduction to the (compulsory) biennial Employee Opinion Survey. At least Finchem isn't forced to present the results back Q by Q face to face ("How good a job do you think your immediate manager is doing?" always a firm favourite) nor to come up with and present the Action Plan in the same way. Oh, and there were always some smart illegimate offspring like you in the back row too.
PermalinkPermalink 01/22/08 @ 09:42
Comment from: BV [Visitor]
Ahhh, Wolfie! I realize you communards have no clue how our capitalist society operates, but I'm pretty sure if the PGA paid Tiger enough, he'd write a WEEKLY blog. Or at least have one written that he 'endorses'. ;)
PermalinkPermalink 01/22/08 @ 18:24
Looks like there are not many takers for Mr Finchem’s Blog. I read a piece by Geoff Shackelford equally critical of the dull and dry manner in which this blog has been served up to the reader. If anything the Commissioner needs a Public Relations officer to help him understand that he needs a desperate Image makeover right away. He made the right start by saying hello and welcome to ’08 but completely spoilt it with the “ welcome to the second year of the FedEx Cup. In his defence no one expected him to tweak the rules even a bit in the face of unbearable criticism but thankfully he made some changes to appease the irate experts of the game and detractors of the FedEx Cup but he must stop trying to shove it down our systems and make us forcefully accept that it is a good concept. Let the event talk for itself. But nonetheless it is an attempt to reach out, it is an attempt to try and put his side forward but it would be better if he did a little more introspection, be frank and forthright and everyone will appreciate his attempt to reach out.
PermalinkPermalink 01/24/08 @ 03:47

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