Yesterday I had a blog post up minutes after Michelle Wie won in Mexico. In that post I said

The next few days are sure to see a deluge of articles about how big the win was for both Wie and the LPGA.

I should have said the next few hours. If I wanted to make excuses for my poor prognostication, I could explain it away as a result of my having to cook Chicken Parmesan as I raced to put up the news about Wie at three blogs, Waggleroom, ROK Drop, and OTB Sports.

At least my wife's friend was impressed with dinner. She said the Chicken Parmesan was delicious.

Back to golf blogging. Alan Shipnuck wrote to say welcome to the Wie era and Beth Ann Baldry said for Michelle to now do it again. Both of these articles or posts were up within less than two hours of Wie's triumph. How did Alan and Beth Ann do it? Maybe they too were preparing dinner around 6 p.m. last evening.

That or someone had a Michelle Wie gets her first win column on the shelf* as The Constructivist suggests. Maybe Alan did, but  in Beth Ann's case I think the answer is no. I am slightly puzzled by Beth Ann not knowing the Lorena Ochoa was on tape delay. She even wrote-

Fans waited nearly a decade to see Wie win an LPGA event, and they can’t even watch it live. Thanks, Golf Channel.

She also said she might as well hit the record and get to packing for this weekend's Tour Championship

Beth, you are being unfair to GC.(I've talked to Beth in person so I can call her by name. She might have a few colorful names for me after she reads this)  GC is contractually obligated to show a PGA event before it gets to an LPGA broadcast. Then yesterday's Children's Miracle Network tournament went to sudden death. It doesn't take a degree in rocket science or the words of a smartass golf blogger to know that if GC could have shown Wie's win live instead of  two  journeyman golfers few people care about, that GC would have chosen to go with Wie.

Tape Delay is pardon the pun, almost par for the course when it comes to LPGA tournaments being broadcast on GC. That's one reason I didn't think it was a smart idea for the tour to sign with that network and I even recall a member of the golf media asking the LPGA when their new television deal was announced, if that meant tape delay would be a thing of the past. Whoever it was at Daytona Beach who replied, danced around the question. Tape delay isn't going away.

Beth Ann's outrage is a joke and puts her in a poor light. Is she taking a page out of Stina Sternberg's playbook now?

*- I began writing the Wie victory post while she was playing 18 and as I followed the tournament with LPGA's live scoring. Also no wine was served with the Chicken parmesan. The wife and I don't drink.

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