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There have been more criticisms lobbed at the FedEx Cup over the past several weeks months/yearsby a bevy of sports writers, bloggers and other half-smart opinionated monkey’s than there are Kanye West jokes.  Ok maybe not, but it’s close.

In the process of reading the same arguments being re-run on a variety of news sites and blogs, one headline jumped out at me: Despite hopes, FedEx Cup not on par with majors.

A few weeks ago we ran a post that poked a bit of fun at a story written about Morgan Pressel because it was essentially vapid and boring.

Now the latest Fox Sports headline above seems to have me thinking we likely have a recurring series of Water is wet type journalism to put on display from time to time.

You can read Robert Lusetich’s article for yourself to see if I’m being overly harsh in categorizing it as a snooze-fest.  Though I would challenge you to find any new insight stemming from it other than a smattering of carefully worded Tiger Woods quotes.  I’ll paraphrase his piece along the following lines: The FedEx Cup isn’t as big as Finchem had hoped…Tiger couldn’t really care less whether he wins or loses…insert snazzy hook of FedEx cup isn’t like the Super Bowl – kaaa-ching!

By contrast give a read to Jay Busbee’s piece on the Tiger Woods presser (that’s hip blogger speak for press conference).  Unique.  Honest.  Displaying a sense of humor. Insightful.  It is essentially most everything that the Fox Sports piece could have been, but wasn’t.

This is hardly newsworthy as well, one golf blogger giving a proverbial big sloppy kiss to another.  But we like to think we’re pretty even handed.  We’ve pointed out that there are a lot of traits that make bloggers really annoying as well, like how many are guilty of doing the old ‘rip & read’ bit by re-reporting the same news broken by the mainstream media we criticize. 

But on some occasions the big boy sports journalists step up and flat out whiff, while the scrappy golf blogger can sometimes show that water isn’t always just wet.