Cardinal Caddie

I shared some thoughts tonight on the KSBoard about the current online community, specifically around the transfer portal. Someone could probably speak on this better than I can, and it's probably worth an entire book on its own, but I wanted to share some of what I'm thinking on here. This is the most tense I've ever seen the online community during the transfer portal. I think that's due to a lot of factors, not limited to, a smaller sphere of information relay, more burner accounts that can put out information without fear of personal backlash, and a driver for quick intel that can result in a clouding of the bigger picture information. The last few years of the portal created such a high amount of revenue for media companies, but also burner accounts and those taking advantage of Discord chats and X monetization, that it created expectations on newbreakers to break more news when there's the same amount of news as in years past. It feels a lot like the pot calling the kettle black, saying this, especially given that a lot of the news I break sometimes others don't want me to put out, but I really wonder how sustainable it is to have the expectation for so much information at all times, and to have that expectation continually increased.

Rory McIlroy on his prep for this year's Masters: "I’ve been on this golf course so much the last three weeks… I did a couple of days where I dropped Poppy to school, flew up here, played, landed back home and had dinner with her – or had dinner with Erica probably. Like I did a couple of day trips like that where I felt it was a better use of my time than going to Houston or San Antonio."