C'Mon, Not Even Tiger Was Drinking His Own Gatorade Flavor

by Ryan Ballengee on Dec 9, 2009 10:26 AM EST

There was a big uproar yesterday about the revelation that Gatorade has dropped their Tiger Focus drink in lieu of other "innovations" for 2010. I don't know you innovate a sports drink, but that's neither here nor there.

Apparently, this news was made public in Beverage Digest on November 25. I'm Ryan f'n Ballengee and I'm NOT on Beverage Digest's mailing list?! I get the Radar Online press releases, c'mon!

At the very least, this was really poor timing on Gatorade's part because everyone in jumping to the conclusion that Gatorade has dropped Tiger altogether. For what it's worth, Gatorade Tiger is still featured on their website.

Geoff Shackelford points out that Tiger isn't listed on Gatorade's site of athletes, do you think Tiger wants to be listed with these winners? (Click for full size image.)

What's more is that Tiger wasn't even drinking his own Gatorade flavor. Steph Wei noted that at The Barclays that a Tour player she knew told her that Tiger was drinking a lot of coffee.

Considering that Tiger was on Ambien - a drug to help someone sleep - I'm pretty sure Tiger Focus didn't have nearly enough electrolytes to energize him. That, and the bottle is just creepy.

No wonder it was at 99 cent stores.

But, probably a great reason to drop Tiger Focus is these creepy cartoon commercials where the title character ventured into the Woods of Wisdom.

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That forest has been chopped down faster than loggers can crush the Amazon Rainforest.

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I thought it was delicious. Less carbs than regular Gatorade and tasted better than G2 (their other low carb option).

Thanks for taking away my favorite sports beverage, Gatorade. YOU JERKS!!!

by BMoreMatt on Dec 9, 2009 10:49 AM EST reply actions

I liked it too... Lots of bike miles with it in my water bottle.

by pingforever on Dec 9, 2009 12:21 PM EST up reply actions

You can bet your bippy

TW got his money up front. He’s an adulterer and fornicator, but he’s not a dumb adulterer or dumb fornicator…

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by One-Eyed Golfer Guy on Dec 9, 2009 11:09 AM EST reply actions

You’ll probably be crushed to know Tiger doesn’t drive a Buick either.

Truth has a well-known liberal bias.

by dianemarie on Dec 9, 2009 12:17 PM EST reply actions

It’s kinda funny. At the Tour Championship, I was standing in the parking lot and Tiger was getting into his car with Stevie. He was driving a Buick in Atlanta. Figured it was just for show, and it was!

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by Ryan Ballengee on Dec 9, 2009 12:26 PM EST up reply actions

No kidding?

“Considering TIger was ON Ambien”? No question you can write whatever you like. This should stir up some comments. Mission accomplished!

by pingforever on Dec 9, 2009 12:36 PM EST reply actions

He was prescribed it. It’s in the police report. Care to disagree with the police report?

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by Ryan Ballengee on Dec 9, 2009 12:40 PM EST up reply actions

So, "prescribed" means "on".

Remember: If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem…..

by pingforever on Dec 9, 2009 1:07 PM EST reply actions

When I’m taking a drug, I’m on it. I’m on penicillin cause my throat hurts. :)

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by Ryan Ballengee on Dec 9, 2009 1:14 PM EST up reply actions

still waiting

Not trying to cause trouble here but…………..Ping you said, If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem….. ahhhhhhhhh,, I’m still waiting for you to write an article for Ryan to submit. The best part of waggleroom is that you get to interact with the writers. You wont find that over at TGC with those chuckleheaded writers…jumpn

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by progolf on Dec 9, 2009 2:48 PM EST reply actions

Where to begin.....

I wrote a piece for the fan post but it kept getting rejected… I titled it Bloggers vs. Writers. Don’t get me wrong here, Ryan is prolific. But I see him as more of a blogger than a writer. My guess is he’d be gone tomorrow if he got an offer to write for a standard golf publication or even TGC. We are interacting with each other. Sometimes that works well, other times not. I never thought it was necessary to call some one else an idiot or a moron or worse. You know how it goes, one guy says Tiger is God’s gift to golf, the next guy says he’s punk and tells the first guy to put a gun in his mouth.. I got that same vibe from Ryan about Rick Reilly. There are no writerS here, only one sort of “super blogger”. That being said, I do enjoy the interaction here. Now, check out my comment on the Q-school article about the hat…

by pingforever on Dec 9, 2009 3:43 PM EST up reply actions