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Ian Baker-Finch Says He Can't Talk About Tiger in CBS Booth

Dec 16, 2009 – 9:46 AM
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Will Brinson

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Ian Baker-FinchEveryone is talking about Tiger Woods right now (as Bill Simmons mentioned, if you go to a holiday party, you will spend multiple occasions talking with different groups about Tiger's various infidelities).

Except Ian Baker-Finch, that is -- the CBS golf announcer has apparently been given a gag order when it comes to discussing the world's No. 1 golfer publicly.
"Mate, if I say one word about Tiger I will get fired," Baker-Finch said before playing in Australia's richest one-day pro-am at Wynnum Golf Club [Tuesday].
This is interesting, because Finch is a commentator and we expect to have his input on important issues in the golf world, and Tiger Woods deciding to leave golf would be the most important thing to develop in the PGA in the last 10 years.

That being said, CBS might have laid down the law in order to make sure that they keep Woods on the network's good side. 60 Minutes would be a likely candidate for a "first interview" with Tiger, so the last thing the network might want is to make the PGA star angry.
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