Chris Baldwin - Latest Comments on Arnold Palmer puckers up to the USGA

j [Visitor] in response to: Arnold Palmer puckers up to the USGA

j [Visitor] — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 05:13:54 +0000

Tim McDonald = Bamberger

Denver Player [Visitor] in response to: Arnold Palmer puckers up to the USGA

Denver Player [Visitor] — Sun, 27 Nov 2005 18:10:09 +0000

Tim,

I am glad to hear it. *I apologize for my preaching.

The personal attacks, while stimulating some degree of interest, get old after awhile.

Tim McDonald [Member] in response to: Arnold Palmer puckers up to the USGA

Tim McDonald [Member] — Sun, 27 Nov 2005 16:33:07 +0000

Denver Player - your concerns are valid. Rest assured I have written about Arnold Palmer in the years since "the incident" with total professionalism and objectivity.

If I let incidents such as this color my coverage, I'd have started a vendetta with about 8-10 professional athletes, who shall go nameless at this time, because of their incredible boorishness, both with myself, other journalists, teammates and the public at large.

Professioanl journalists should be able to discern between subjective feelings and objective coverage. Happens every single day.

Owen Burnett [Visitor] in response to: Arnold Palmer puckers up to the USGA

Owen Burnett [Visitor] — Sun, 27 Nov 2005 05:00:55 +0000

Arnold Palmer is a truly great American. He truly does love his country. There is nothing wrong with what he said.

I wish I was could have seen Mr. Palmer play when he was in his prime. I was able to watch him play in a senior event in Nashville, Tennessee in the mid-nineties. He was total gentleman and the definition of class.

Arnold Palmer is a great American. He has my total respect.

j [Visitor] in response to: Arnold Palmer puckers up to the USGA

j [Visitor] — Fri, 25 Nov 2005 05:15:23 +0000

i give a F for your writing.

Denver Player [Visitor] in response to: Arnold Palmer puckers up to the USGA

Denver Player [Visitor] — Thu, 24 Nov 2005 01:11:36 +0000

Tim,

He made you feel bad?

In the real world, we all are made to "feel bad" at times by others. I am in sales, and get verbally abused constantly by clients, assistants, etc. It's part of the territory. I am sure there have been times where I have deserved it. But we have to smile, be professional and do the job.

I haven't read anything you have written about Arnold Palmer. So I don't know whether you have handled your situation with AP professionally since that time, and reported on AP based on fact, or instead have looked to find fault in him and "create" stories. I don't know whether Chris Baldwin shares your sentiment of AP. But I can't see much worthwhile in what he wrote. Seemed like more of a "creation" than a newsworthy story.

Tim McDonald [Member] in response to: Arnold Palmer puckers up to the USGA

Tim McDonald [Member] — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 20:10:58 +0000

Arnold Palmer once made me feel bad at a press conference when I asked him a question. I was a novice sportswriter, and it's made me dislike him all these years. Unfair maybe, but that's the way it is.

Jason [Visitor] in response to: Arnold Palmer puckers up to the USGA

Jason [Visitor] — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 16:56:06 +0000

You are not a golf writer.