I Wonder Whether Tiger has Night Mares?

Yesterday Tiger Woods announced on his web site  that he was firing his long time Caddie Steve Williams.  Somewhere along the way he failed to call Steve up or even have a personal meeting with him to discuss it.  He lets Steve and the world know about  it at the same time.

Earlier this year Tiger changed his golf coaches  and of course the same method of action occurred.  There was no personal meeting or a telephone call,  just a public notice given on his Web site  and Hank Haney needs to find another cash cow.

I think there is a simple answer to why all of a sudden Tiger Woods has  become the King Of  announcements  on the Web.  You know the last time that he had a private meeting with someone face to face, eye to eye that being his wife she took a nine iron to his head and if there has ever been a person fall off the mountain it is Tiger Woods.  So Tiger probably has dreams running from a wife weilding a golf club.

Wouldn't you after having an experience like that be a little a  leary  of what Hank  Haney could do to him with a driver if you told him he was fired.  You know Hank Haney knows how to play golf  so he would know how to use a driver and where it could do the most damage.  So Tiger sure wants to stay away from Hank.

Wouldn't you think that as little as his itty bitty wife was with one club that Steve Williams could  really do damage  to  him if he was face to face telling Steve he's fired, since he knows how to carry all of them.  There  is one thing for sure that Tiger is not.  He not Donald Trump. 

Good athletes have their yes men that hang with them, maybe friends in high school who follow along just waiting for Tiger to drop a crumb.  Every thing they say, yes Tiger you are  so cool dude.  I have a feeling Hank and Steve maybe have told Tiger what he needed to do to turn it back around and that answer was not the yes Tiger as they have done in the past.  Tiger at his apex  was the #1 known person in the world.  He was no ordinary athlete.  He has lost all confidence with life that the only people he wants around him is his yes Tiger people.  Remember now they are there for the crumbs not to help Tiger.  Those that suggest change your ways are thrown to the side.

 Have you heard of Tiger being out in the public any where?  I think he is under a doctors care for a trauma known as nine iron neuro knok  me over the head syndrone.  He is afraid to go out in public fearing someone will hit him with a nine iron.  This is a fairly new trauma.

Has anyone seen him lately.  He is in disguise wearing this goatee.  He must think he is in the witness protection plan afraid of being attacked by a nine iron.  He looks like he has been on a ten day drunk.

As a doctor of opinion I think Tiger  is in real trouble now that he has been knocked off his perch.  He has no idea how to deal with anyone face to face, eye to eye.  He has become a Joe Blowe.  No better than any of us.  If he can't  deal with us on a daily basis how is he going to make a putt to make the cut.    He is going through this denial  that he is been such a super hero for so long he can do it by himself.  It would not surprise me if he isn't the next Howard Hughes.  A recluse for life.  Done with golf and the world.

I Thought You Ought To Know

I try to give you all of the local sports that I can and as a one person operation there is only so much that I either see myself or someone else tells me about.  I thought this was well worth everyone knowing about even though it is not about any body from around here.

Chris Hatcher is from Kinston and went to college at UNC Wilmington.  He was drafted by the Florida Marlins in 2006 and in the September 2010 was called up as all major league teams do Hatcher went to the big club to sit on the bench mostly during the month of September.

The Marlins suggested to him during the off season that they would like to try him at pitcher and Hatcher went to spring training not as a catcher but as a pitcher and has done well enough he was called up to the Marlins and pitched in  his first major league game July 16th.  I don't know about you but I think this is one for the books.  A want-a-be major league catcher in 2010 and a major league pitcher in 2011.  What a story.

I looked on the Washington Nationals web site and they announced over the weekend that four of their draft picks have signed including 6th round pick Greg Holt from Carolina.  They had two first round picks and Brian Goodwin as the 34th pick and none of those players have come to any terms with the Nationals.

You may not know this but since this next coming school year will be the last for Rocky Mount High  baseball at the old stadium there has been a want by many to try to have an old timers game at the conclusion of the baseball season next spring .  Call it the last Gryphon game at the old Stadium.  I think it would be a great idea and all proceeds go to the Gryphon booster club.  If you ever wore a baseball uniform for Rocky Mount show up even if you didn't play to take one last bow at the old Stadium.

Have a big Barbeque  while the game is going on and let people like Danny Talbott, I think I have heard even Phil Ford played baseball, Bill Merrifield, Danny Weaver, Carter Harrell ,Jason Battle all of them who ever wore a RMSHS or RMHS come say good bye to the old stadium.  In order to do it up right this would take a big effort to get it to happen.  What do you think?