You Cannot Be Serious, Camilo Villegas

Oridnarily, I’d have no problem defending a PGA tour pro to the death, but I have a couple criteria…one, said pro must always say things in context.  Yes, being a golfer is not the most demanding job in the world.  It’s more difficult than people give them credit for considering the amount of travel and the monetary costs involved, but at the same time, it’s not like tour golfers are struggling to get out of bed after a tournament because their knees have swollen up to the size of basketballs.

The other criteria is I must like you.

Now check out this tweet from overhyped, over blown, mediocre player, Camilo Villegas.

Home…. Way too much golf in the last two months… I still dont get it, every sport has an offseason but i guess we dont…

You motherfucker…do you have any idea how hard you’re making this defense of PGA’ers?  Especially PGA’ers that DESERVE to be out there instead of being Tim Finchem’s personal puppet to try and lure female fans in because you wear clothes five sizes too small and look like an even more retarded Brad Pitt.  Hell, you’re better known for your TOTALLY WORTHLESS way of reading greens, that is neither useful or effective, more than for you know, ACTUALLY BEING A GOOD GOLFER.

God fucking damnit, this was an uphill climb to begin with, but when a guy who’s a) not very good and b) doesn’t have a sterling reputation when it comes to work ethic comes out and complains that golfers are being overworked, well…

Fuck.

Camilo…do you know what a lot of other professional athletes do in their offseasons?  You know the ones they use to recover from getting their bodies destroyed for multiple months?

They play golf.

This is important because YOU play golf.  Golf is a sport, but at it’s core, it’s a recreational sport.  As much as physical fitness and athleticism plays into golf, it’s still not demanding.  You rarely see guys hurt anything more than spraining a ligament or jamming a wrist or something, and hell, even Tiger’s injury was sustained when he was training, not playing golf, so really, what the fuck are you complaining about?

Listen, Camilo…you have something I’d kill for.  There are THOUSANDS of guys on the Nationwide Tour and other mini-tours dying to be in your position, and honestly, these are guys who would take it more seriously than you do.  You care more about the fame and the women and your fashion muscles than you do about the game, because if you really cared about golf, you’d have more than one shot in your bag and you’d have developed at least a semblance of a short game at this point.

My point is this.

NFL players are just in their strike against an 18 game season.  NBA players get the benefit of the doubt if they want to do absolutely nothing after their 82+ game season ends.  A 162 game baseball season is an absolute grind, and we’re not even going to touch hockey…those guys DESERVE an offseason.

But golfers?

They do not qualify, and I’ll be the first to say that.  But it’s not even that, that pisses me off here, Camilo, it’s the fact that you DO have an offseason.  Hell, can you tell me how many tournaments you played between October and March this year?  I bet you can count the number on one hand.  How is that not an offseason?

If any player deserves to bitch, it’s the NFL guy.  You know, the guy who lifts year round, through serious pain from the game he plays, all for a paycheck that you probably think is pocket change.  And you know what?  He could get fired at any minute and get bubkus in return.

So…easy on the bitching, Camilo.  You’re making us look bad.

(HT: Waggle Room)