All day long I have been inundated with the endless tweets about Tiger and his current situation. Then there was the e-mails being passed around about their new Christmas card. Not to mention countless other jokes that have surfaced. His whole reckless driving and reckless straying to match have been played to death which is why I wasn't' going to say anything. But then I started thinking about some things about th3 whole episode that just didn't sit right with me and I felt compelled to speak on it.
Well all know by now that Tiger cheated. First and foremost, does it come as a big surprise to anyone? This is one of the most famous professional athletes in the world. He has more than endorsement deals thrown his way on a constant basis. He is only human. A human man. Not to say that it's not impossible to resist the urges, but we all know that athletes are renown for wandering. Tiger's not exempt just because he is who he is.
The thing I don't get it is when you have that much money, you have the resources to be more discreet about your indiscretions. Like the whole cell phone thing that got him into trouble. He should have two cell phones: one that the wife knows about and one that is for the jumpoffs. You don't EVER give your real number to the jumpoffs. Because there's always that slight chance that the wife will search your phone and want to know who those strange numbers belong to.
That brings me to my next point: the infamous call. In case you haven't heard, there's audio circulating around of a voicemail message Tiger left one of the other women. He's telling her to remove her name from the voicemail because his wife found the number on his phone. WHY ARE YOU LEAVING A MESSAGE?? He should know that the chick would potentially keep it to use for later. You're not supposed to leave a trail, Tiger! Especially if he's not breaking her off some ends which it appears that he clearly wasn't. For Tiger to be so intelligent, he sure didn't have much common sense.
My favorite part about the whole mess is how Tiger puts out a statement where he is essentially requesting privacy. Sorry, dude, but you know it's not that simple. When you're one of the most recognizable celebrities in the world, you don't have that luxury. Maybe if you would have been more cordial with the media, this thing would not have been such a big deal and could have just blown over. You think you would have learned that from hanging out with Michael Jordan all the time. Now you're just going to have to suck it up and ride this rocky wave out.
Don't get it twisted thinking that I am taking sides on this one. There's no Team Tiger and definitely no Team Elin for me. She needs to recognize that she is where she is because she got a come up. She used to be a nanny. She knew what she was getting into and knows what comes with the territory. If she was smart, she'd take a lesson from how Kobe's gold-digging wife handled a similar situation and keep on steppin'.



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