Re: Michelle Wie the biggest joke in sports?
 

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IMO she should say the hell with the LPGA tour and just go to Stanford and play golf for 4 years.

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Does this mean go and play for fun for 4 years and not worry about playing pro? Or does it mean that you think she should go play for Stanford, because she has zero eligibility.


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Wow that was a poorly worded sentence by me. I meant she should go to Stanford and forget about playing pro and play golf for fun when she wants to. She needs time off to get away from all the pressure that's on her. Every tournament she plays is just putting her in a deeper hole, as far as her confidence goes. I mean she is down right terrrible right now (by LPGA standards), and that is a fact. She was pushed too hard too early and I think if she doesn't take a substantial amount of time off to get her mind straight then her career is gonna be over before it really even started.

Does anyone know if her endorsement contracts stipulate that she plays a certain number of tournament per year? I really have no idea how they work.

Re: Michelle Wie the biggest joke in sports?
 

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I'm actually starting to feel sorry for her. A little bit. Just because I hate to see someone crash and burn so hard when they had so much potential, primarily due to the bad decisions by herself and her handlers

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she's made more money failing than most people will make in their lifetimes

do you feelbad everytime a top5 draftpick fails?

she's young, attractive, super-wealthy and well she could still figure things out

Re: Michelle Wie the biggest joke in sports?
 

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I'm actually starting to feel sorry for her. A little bit. Just because I hate to see someone crash and burn so hard when they had so much potential, primarily due to the bad decisions by herself and her handlers

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she's made more money failing than most people will make in their lifetimes

do you feelbad everytime a top5 draftpick fails?

she's young, attractive, super-wealthy and well she could still figure things out

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Yeah you can never really feel bad for someone who is set for life financially at the age of 17, no matter what else they do in their life.

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she is pathetic

morgan pressly is a 10x better "prodigy" then she will ever be

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Good to see that not knowing what you're talking about doesn't stop you from posting about golf either.

Re: Michelle Wie the biggest joke in sports?
 

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she is pathetic

morgan pressly is a 10x better "prodigy" then she will ever be

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Good to see that not knowing what you're talking about doesn't stop you from posting about golf either.

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u know who i meant why dont u get that big wooden stick out of ur butt, i know 100x more then u will ever know

wie is a joke she cant even win a womens event let alone a mens event

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First, yes the injury is real. She was in a cast for four months and has seen a couple of specialist. If it was fake, then a simple phone call would uncover that. Annikka has played poorly after her neck problems but I don't see anyone here posting about how she is obviously faking an injury.

Second, she shouldn't even be playing. I know that David Ledbetter is against her playing, but apparently their are stipulations in her sponsorships that require her to play in certain tournaments or a certain number of tournaments. So she has pressure to give it a go, because the sponsors want her there to promote her and their products.

Thirdly, she's still 18 years old. Give it a rest already with the Wie bashing. I don't think their has ever been a greater number of internet sport nerds more gleeful in seeing a teenage girl fail then we have with Wie. Really, what does it matter to you what she does or how much she gets paid? Why do you care?

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Thirdly, she's still 18 years old. Give it a rest already with the Wie bashing. I don't think their has ever been a greater number of internet sport nerds more gleeful in seeing a teenage girl fail then we have with Wie. Really, what does it matter to you what she does or how much she gets paid? Why do you care?

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I'm really tired of this line of reasoning. She gets ripped on because she and her handlers and sponsors have put her in the spot light, paid her all sorts of money, and in some people's eyes she's failing to reach expectations. We rip on 18-19 year old college football and basketball players all the time, and none of them make anywhere close to the kind of money she does. You can't market yourself as a serious professional athlete and then fall back on the innocent little girl card when things go bad, because it's not true.

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First, yes the injury is real. She was in a cast for four months and has seen a couple of specialist. If it was fake, then a simple phone call would uncover that. Annikka has played poorly after her neck problems but I don't see anyone here posting about how she is obviously faking an injury.

Second, she shouldn't even be playing. I know that David Ledbetter is against her playing, but apparently their are stipulations in her sponsorships that require her to play in certain tournaments or a certain number of tournaments. So she has pressure to give it a go, because the sponsors want her there to promote her and their products.

Thirdly, she's still 18 years old. Give it a rest already with the Wie bashing. I don't think their has ever been a greater number of internet sport nerds more gleeful in seeing a teenage girl fail then we have with Wie. Really, what does it matter to you what she does or how much she gets paid? Why do you care?

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You do realize your last paragraph describes a LOT of pro sports figures and their followings, right? The fact that she's 18 years old or that she makes a TON of money just breathing for a day doesn't have nearly as much weight as the fact that she basically has a game little better than that of a lot of amateurs right now and has handled herself terribly both on the course and off it as of late. She chose this profession and all that comes with it. None of us hate her as a person, or hate her for the money she's making, its that she keeps getting shoved down our throats even though she completely sucks right now, for whatever reason. She's going to turn into David Duval sooner or later.

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She's pretty bad, and a whiner too it seems. I find it funny though that ESPN bothered to include her in their list of the 30 greatest current athletes, while leaving Tim Duncan off.

Re: Michelle Wie the biggest joke in sports?
 

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she is pathetic

morgan pressly is a 10x better "prodigy" then she will ever be

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Good to see that not knowing what you're talking about doesn't stop you from posting about golf either.

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u know who i meant why dont u get that big wooden stick out of ur butt, i know 100x more then u will ever know

wie is a joke she cant even win a womens event let alone a mens event

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You are not helping yourself here.