"Tiger's people asked we not ask him specifically about the details of his car accident of last Thanksgiving night."
/Richard Deitsch shared the lone stipulation for Tiger's appearance on "Mike and Mike" Thursday, including this from an ESPN spokesperson:
"Tiger's people asked we not ask him specifically about the details of his car accident of last Thanksgiving night. Considering Tiger's been asked about the details of the accident many times during the past year at various press conferences, golf tournaments and by ESPN and has declined to answer each time, we agreed to that request."
4. Woods’s reps also asked that ESPN not ask how much time he spends with his former wife, Elin. (ESPN reps said they had no plans to address this topic, anyway)
Okay, make it two stipulations. So then the audience will get this:
5. ESPN will make an on-air disclaimer about the Thanksgiving content prior to the live interview as well as subsequent re-airs of the interview.
So instead of going into the interview with an open slate and answering any awkward questions by citing his right to privacy or the "it's all in the police report," Woods continues to put these stipulations out there.
Instead of sticking to his guns and making the interviewer look silly by bringing up year-old news, the stipulations just remind people that something very peculiar must have happened that night because he's scared of being asked about it.
Where's Ari Fleischer when you need him? Oh right, he quit.