The lesson I take from the US graph is that if you want to be the dominant economic power in the world, hope that all the major economies on the planet engage in a cataclysmic war while none of your infrastructure is touched.
Obviously, this is not a valid excuse for Tiger, but I get the impression that letting Jordan into your world is bound to have bad consequences. It seems like everything is a to-the-death competition with him. And Tiger is not exactly uncompetitive.
So, if you have MJ constantly letting you know that he was beating you” in the women department, it might trigger something. We all have that friend that our wife doesn’t like us hanging out with. Jordan seems to be that friend to the 10th power.
I was living in DC when Jordan came to town to run the Wizards. What was somewhat shocking was open he was in his never-ending quest for strange. His image was squeaky clean when he came to town, but within a few months, seemingly everyone had a story of Jordan at a bar or restaurant trying to pick up a friend of theirs.
The Chicago media must have really been protecting him.
I just read “Looking For a Ship” by John McPhee. It’s a 20-year-old book on the merchant marine. And a good 20 percent of it is about piracy in South America. I find it interesting that this seems to only now be a headline-grabbing story.