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Old 12-01-2009, 05:25 AM   #19 (permalink)
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Perhaps this is fodder for the old saying "show me a (presumed straight) beautiful woman and I'll show you a guy tired of putting up with her shit". Not that the beautiful women of the world are more high-maintenance than the rest of us, just that they're just as human as the rest of us.

Here's the thing for me about this whole incident: Tiger has spent his career trying to live out of the spot light. His job requires intense media focus at times, but he keeps his personal life personal. He doesn't make birthday party appearances for insane amounts of money or the like, and he makes sure to keep out of the papparazzi's eye as much as possible. How many candid pictures of the guy have you seen that weren't taken on a golf course?

The other aspect here is control. He's controlling the situation, and honestly I think he's doing a good job of it. Personally I think that his wife probably caused the facial injuries because she believed the cheating rumors - whether or not those are true doesn't really matter to me - and that he may have taken some pain killers and then driven. But he doesn't want his wife to go to jail, and he doesn't want to make a bad situation worse. Whether or not that's the case now is open to debate.

Now whether or not he's using his celebrity to avoid the police is a double-edged sword. Perhaps he is (probably he is), but the police are pursuing this so aggressively because of his celebrity. If this were any schmuck off the street, do you think they'd be seeking search warrants, etc. to get to the bottom of it?
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