Jack Nicklaus scoffs at your silly question

April 10th, 2008 | Posted by PostmanE

The Masters is already underway today, and so is TigerWatch 2008. Will one of Tiger’s rivals emerge? Will a random amateur compete for the title? Will the field rise up against the man’s unyielding dominance? Will Vegas eat its even-money prediction? These are the important questions of our day.

The unimportant questions: those are the ones you want to ask Jack Nicklaus:

Nicklaus also was not biting on any questions about Woods’s quest to overtake him, starting with one asking him about the oddsmakers having installed Woods as even money to win the Masters. He said he knew nothing about oddsmaking.

“Is he the favorite?” Nicklaus asked rhetorically. “By a mile? Of course he is. Why wouldn’t he be? You’re asking me a question you already know the answer to.”

Is Tiger Woods the favorite? Does the sun rise in the East? Does the yeast rise in the sun? Does the caged mockingbird sing after you kill it? Is the Dugout hilarious? Is PostmanR neurotic? Is Starbucks’ new Pike Place Roast a blatant, albeit delicious, attempt to reinstall consumers’ sense of authenticity in the brand? Is this paragraph too contrived?

Is this reporter lucky he didn’t ask this of Brett Myers?

You tell me.