- The hate for Sergio Garcia runs deep for many golf fans.
How deep? So much so that as the Spanish star was playing the final round in
contention at the Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass, fans were actively rooting for him
to miss shots in the latter half of the round. "Go in the water!" a fan yelled after Garcia hits one putt.
"It was probably about three or four times on every hole since the 10th
hole," Garcia said. “It was great for the most part. Obviously, some guys
there that don't deserve to be here watching golf, but that's what it is."
His playing partner was fan favorite Rickie Fowler and in a three-man playoff
with little-known Kevin Kisner, everyone knew that fan favor would not slant in
Garcia’s direction. What no one expected was for the cheers that greeted
his double dunk at the par-3 17th after his run-in with Tiger Woods at TPC
Sawgrass in 2013 to morph into an even more vitriolic outpouring of disdain.
Simply put, the anti-Sergio sentiment was louder and nastier than any of the
normal trash talk fans fire off at the event. The bile began flowing well
before the three-hole aggregate playoff and it took a decidedly nasty turn when
some of the spectators chanted, "U.S.A.," as Garcia putted on the
17th green. An undeterred Garcia whiffed what NBC analyst Johnny Miller called
the "putt of his career" and turned back for a wordless “Eff
you” glance at the crowd ringing
the green. . "I wouldn’t say that [they caused me to miss the ball], no.
They shouted at the wrong time on top of the ball, so I was able to back
away," Garcia said. "When I get in contention, no [it wasn’t any more
than usual]." Whatever you say, Serge………
- Hey Guinea, remember that former coup leader you forced
into exile a few years back? Yeah, well, he’d like to not only come back home,
but he’d like to run the whole damn country. Last we saw Moussa
"Dadis" Camara, he was an army captain who seized power in 2008 after
the country's longtime dictator died. Oddly enough, he was not a beloved figure
and that was proven out later on when he was shot in the head in an
assassination attempt by his own bodyguard. Maybe that shot to the head dulled
his memory or maybe he figures it was merely an isolated incident of attempted
murder and that he’s really grown as a person since then, because after spending
several years in exile in Burkina Faso, he’s baaaaaack. Not only that, coming
out of exile he has also formed a new political party and announced Monday he
would be the party's candidate in the October vote. The first plank of the party’s
platform, one would imagine, is to not shoot its leader in the head, although
that hasn’t been confirmed. What also hasn’t been confirmed is whether Guinea's
electoral commission would allow the former coup leader to run from outside the
country, as those seeking to preside over a nation are typically expected to
reside in it. Guinea has done well for itself since Camara left the country,
holding its first democratic elections in 2010. Their embrace of democracy
probably wasn’t with this particular instance in mind, so the notion of the man
who wrongly tried to seize power and only left when someone pumped some lead
into his skull coming back to take the reins, not that appealing……..
- The weird has an official return date for Fox. Specifically,
the return date for the network’s short-term revival of “The X-Files” has been
set and fans of Mulder and Scully can rest secure in the knowledge that their
beloved investigators of the odd will be back….next year. Yes, the “X” revival roars
to life Jan. 25, to be followed the very next night by the second of the six
new episodes. From there, the four remaining shows will air on Monday nights.
Fox announced back in March that it would heed the call for a small-screen
return for the popular science fiction series. David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson will
reprise their roles as Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, with Chris Carter back in
the big chair as the show’s executive producer. Mitch Pileggi will also be back
as FBI boss Walter Skinner and Carter previously said the reincarnated show will
be "honest" to the show's characters. "I know what I want to do,
how I want it to lay out - the balance of mythology to stand-alone episodes,”
he said. “The people that are going to be involved have been talking since the
beginning of the year, so we have a clear idea of how this should be, or the
best way we think this should be laid out.” The last anyone saw “The X-Files,”
the franchise was producing an ill-fated second spin-off movie in 2008,
following a similarly disappointing film 10 years prior. In between, the show aired
on Fox for nine seasons between 1993 and 2002, cultivating a massive cult
following and leading to Fox’s January revelation that it would come back for
an abbreviated run. Fox did the same last year for its action-spy vehicle “24,”
bringing Jack Bauer back for a romp through London before he was turned over to
the Russians, never to be seen again……….
- Some dudes are just pimps to the end. Enter an
unidentified man living in a suburban Philadelphia assisted-living facility
who refused to adhere to the notion that a guy in his 70s should be mellowed
out, ready to finish out his time on Earth playing cards, pounding bags of
Werther’s Originals and waiting on a visit from his grandson. This old-timer
rejected those preconceived notions in many ways, including allegedly paying
hookers to have sex with him using profits earned from peddling alcohol to
fellow residents. According to housing official Uri Monson, this old badass is a
"more mobile gentleman" who went on booze runs for his neighbors. Why
going out to get a bottle of Johnnie Walker or Jim Beam for Myrtle in Room 160
and some quality scotch for Frank in Room 205 is a problem remains unclear, but
this pimp’s downfall (yes, technically he’s a john and not a pimp, but his
racket should qualify him for permanent pimp status) was having housing
officials find one of his ladies of the night hiding under his bad. The
incident was reported after county commissioners authorized contract extensions
with private facilities housing former residents of the closed county-owned
assisted living facility and because to believe that it has the right to tell
this dude who he sleeps with and whether or not he can break the law by paying
those women to sleep with him. As usual, those in their final lap around the
great track of life don’t seem to care too much about what other think of their
actions………
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