…that’s some fine bloviating

The RC questions?

…does it ALWAYS have to be about YOU ???? (lol) you brought together a real first class group of professional bloviators !! :-)

…it’s easy to take shots at the losing captain. Faldo struggled with players from countries other than England ? What does that even mean ??? Should he have passed a language proficiency test in Spanish and Dutch and Swedish ? Did Faldo substitute sugar pills for Sergio’s anti-biotics ? Did he put something on Westwood’s hands to give him blisters ? Nonsense.
  If you’re going to
   Faldo’s team – on paper – was said to be stronger than the US team – but the US team’s world rankings were higher as a group than the Euros. This Cup could have just as easily gone to Europe. Forget Monty – he played AND talked his way off the team – and Poulter put the last nail in his Ryder Cup coffin. Leaving Darren Clarke at home is harder to defend – he has not had a particularly solid year, but he did win twice in a month. Casey has been an up and comer for several years and deserved his shot. Tough choice.
  The articles being written that Faldo wanted this to be all about him are complete rubbish. Faldo is the all-time point leader in Ryder Cup history. He was the centerpiece for Europe for a lot of Cups and he played like he was a part of a team – and he played on some winning teams.
  There were very few blowouts on either side. If Faldo is to blame for everything – how did Oliver Wilson and Herik Stenson beat Mickelson and Kim ?
  This is like being a QB in football – too much credit for winning, and too much blame for losing. Faldo didn’t hit a single shot at Valhalla, but he is being blamed for losing the Cup when he could just as easily been the winning captain if a handful of holes had gone the other way.

  Media finger pointers are dispicable people. Somehow, they believe that it is their duty to point out everybody’s mistakes and shortcomings even though they couldn’t do what these guys do in a million years. Instead of hailing this as one of the greatest Ryder Cup ties of all time and patting their guys on the back – they believe that they are the appointed firing squad.

From Teddy Roosevelt – “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”

Faldo wasn’t bad at all. Sure, he may have made some mistakes, but only mistakes in retrospect.