It’s really Fall and that means lots of football. But there is still the ending of the golf and baseball seasons around the same time and today was an example of Sunday’s game day driving me nuts.
The Packers played at 12:00, the Brewers at 12:05 and Golf was changing over to network at 12:30. The Pack has Aaron Rogers with a banged up knee. The Brewers are tailing the Cubs by only 1-2 games going back and forth. The PGA had the final FedEx Tournament that the golfers have been striving toward all season, and Tiger was playing and playing very well–he’d been at first place since Thursday and there was an outside chance he could win all the marbles if the rest of the group fell into specific places in the roster.
So you can image how my switch-channel finger was wearing down by the millimeter as I keep hitting the little button to go from one to the other. At the same time I was cooking BBQ Ribs and cleaning out the refrigerator, so I was really multi-tasking (and they thought I couldn’t!!).
I had trouble leaving golf channel if Tiger was on camera, but when I switched to the Packers/Red Skins football game, I became involved in keeping my eye on Aaron so he wouldn’t get hurt with all the sacks he was getting from a very aggressive Washington team. I really didn’t get over to the Brewers until after 1 o’clock and they were ahead of Pittsburgh by four runs. I figured they didn’t need me, and I went back to golf.
By now Tiger was five points ahead of the next contender so I switched to the Pack, but I had just missed Mike McCarthy having a flameout with a referee over ClayMatthews flag for roughing a player–a bogus call among several this season. Back to the Brewers and they were 10, 11, 12, 13 runs just while I watched one batter. That was exciting and the ball was bouncing around the infield like a pinball while Brewers emptiied all three bases with guys running into home while the catcher tried to corral the baseball. Back to golf and I decided to stay there and watch Tiger finish his last five holes. The Ribs were done, the fridge cleaned, cats fed and I poured myself a big glass of lemonade over ice.
There was a chance toward the last few holes that if certain aspects fell into place, Tiger could win it all. I was too confused to figure if out as it involved lots of numbers designating players places on the Fed Ex list. I just watched. The men closest to him changed a couple of times and then it was Tiger at minus 12 and Rose down around minus 5 or 6 left. Tiger and Rory McIlroy were the only ones close and Rory dropped away and it looked like a shoo-in for Tiger for the tournament, but the FedEx Cup was still hovering in the air. Justin Rose needed to be tied for third place and with his previous scores would win the cup. He was at a tie for fourth place.
Then at the 18th flag, Rosie shot a birdie and moved into third place. He was the Cup winner even though Tiger had won the East Lake FedEx tournament. There was a decent roar for Rosie from the crowd, but when Tiger entered the 18th green the place went crazy–there were literally thousands of people lined up three to six deep all around the perimeter of the green. When Tiger played his last ball, the people went ballistic and even Tiger got emotional over the response from the crowd.
So Tiger won a championship that numbered 80 even though it had been a long dry spell of five years of painful surgeries for his back and an inch by inch rehab and return to playing the sport that had been in jeopardy in 2013. The Brewers won, but so did the Cubs so they kept their places in the race for the wildcard, but my beloved Packers lost and that’s two in a row. Maybe I should have stuck with them.
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