Look at this asinine ESPN article: “Wie ties for last in Fields Open, Creamer takes title.”
She comes in last, finishes twenty shots back, and gets more ink than everyone else combined?! She gets not one, but three ESPN headlines including a picture. There’s no pic of the winner, but we MUST all know what Michelle is doing at all times. There’s even a special piece claiming her triumphant return a success. The main article, which was supposed to cover the tournament but is exclusively about Wie, even provides us with a stirring, blow-by-blow account of her double bogeys.
I mean really, people, this is ridiculous. You’d think it was Hogan coming back from his car accident. Until she does something worthwhile, she shouldn’t be stealing the headlines. Paula Creamer won the event, yet there isn’t a single quote from her, picture of her with the trophy, or breakdown of one single shot, let alone the recap of “birdies and bogeys.” The biggest problem still exists – the media is willing to hand her anything without her earning it. She finished last. She hasn’t won in five years. This is not newsworthy, yet. Wake me when she wins. Can you see any self respecting journalist writing “Cliff Kresge finishes last in Greater Burlington Open, Woods wins – Cliff Kresge shot a disappointing 79 today, but he picked up $1,760, so the kids won’t go shoeless this week.”
Ron Sirak, I luv ya, but Michelle Wie is like your Pittsburgh Pirates. You keep pickin’ them and they keep stinkin’ up the joint. Nobody should have been writing that “Michelle is back” after her first round of the year. To the rest of the media: it also helps to not consistently underestimate middle America, who is tired of Wie and doesn’t care who came in last. They certainly do NOT have an eighteen minute attention span.
We all know we’ve been had when it comes to Michelle. We were sold a false bill of goods and are not going to change our minds over one first round under par. Golf fans still respect that the game is a meritocracy and that virtue gets flaunted every time Michelle Wie gets headlines for just showing up and competing.
The media loves Michelle still because they pray she will prove them right, but there is no other way to put it. Lipstick on a cow is nothing more than the same old cow and a waste of lipstick. To the media: please stop forcing her down our throats. You were terribly wrong calling her the savior of women’s golf and you were terribly wrong apologizing for her incessant mis-steps. It’s time to back another player. Maybe…just maybe…Paula Creamer and Morgan Pressel are the future of the LPGA. Come on, everyone, take another player out for a test drive. At least they won’t feed you garbage quotes that sound like your kid sister coming back all agog from the latest Fall Out Boy album.
I can’t understand the media infatuation with Michelle Wie. I admit, I’ve been paying attention because her talent at a young age was quite impressive. However, since she came on the scene, she’s totally fizzled out.
That doesn’t mean that her career is going to be a bust. It just means that maybe we should just step back and let her accomplish something before getting all wrapped up in the hype. While Wie is struggling, Lorena Ochoa is setting the course on fire. The media might want to consider that before allotting any more airtime for Michelle Wie hype.