Rocco Mediate Isn’t Always All Smiles

↵The PGA Tour’s Anti-Doping Program starts today and is being received really well by Tour vets. Take Rocco Mediate, for example. He would be that fun-loving pawn in Tiger’s game of world domination who we cared about breifly a few weeks ago. Like all old people, however, he has a tendency to get a little grumpy when change is introduced into his life:↵↵⇥“It’s the biggest joke in the history of the world. You could sit in the parking lot and drink a fifth of vodka, and you might get a fine. But if you take Vick’s Vapor Rub, you’ve got to go through the whole system. There are all kinds of things. If you drink a protein shake, and it metabolizes wrong, you’re done. It’s stupid. There is nothing we can take to help you in golf. ↵⇥↵⇥We’re not Olympians here. If I take steroids, I’m not going to shoot better scores. I can assure you of that. ... I don’t have a problem with drug testing, just the way it’s being done. Why don’t we do our own deal? And they follow you in [to a restroom] to take a piss? C’mon, it’s bull----. Everybody can cheat all day out here if they want. We can move our ball, and nobody does it. We police ourselves.” ↵⇥

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↵Rocco does have a good point. I mean, we’re talking about golf here, although thankfully booze -- an essential element to enjoying golf, as I understand -- has not been banned. But “the biggest joke in the history of the world”? Come on, Rocco. This clearly isn’t a bigger joke than laser discs, PS3 (losing $3.3 billion while Nintendo does this), McDonald’s pizza, any film ever starring Vin Diesel, the Bay of Pigs (too soon still?), the XFL, “Entourage,” and any team ever coached by Rick Venturi.↵