Anyone who knows me knows that I'm an avid sports fan. I follow all kinds of sports, basketball most of all but also baseball, American football, boxing, mixed martial arts and many others. This past week has been a bit trying since none of the teams I root for has won a single game. For instance;
• May 27 - June 3 - Cleveland Indians lose ALL of their series' to fall from 1st place in the AL Central.
• June 6 - Spurs lose to Thunder despite leading by double digits in the first half. I'm not really a Spurs fan but I did want to see this very good series extended to a game seven. It was that good.
• June 7 - Celtics get blown out by the Heat on their home court in a close-out game 6. I've been a Celtic fan ever since the advent of Larry Bird (Sinong number wan!!!! Larry Bird, number wan!!!).
• June 8 - Petron Blaze Boosters one of the league leaders lose to Barako Bull, at that time one of the cellar dwellers. I have been a true-blue, die-hard Petron fan since Mon Fernandez donned the San Miguel Beermen uniform.
• June 10 - Triple Crown! 10AM - Celts run out of gas and lose game 7! 1PM - Pacquaio robbed by judges in Las Vegas! And the kicker at 9PM - Petron Blaze Boosters on the wrong end of a 21-9 finishing kick, turning a 7 point lead in the 4th into a 3 point loss! What a day!
• Finally, this past week I read that the PBA and the SBP were busy forming up the new national basketball team, SMART Gilas 2.0. My main question is what the hell was wrong with Gilas 1.0??? Wasn't the main purpose SMART Gilas 1 to field a long-term national basketball team in the mold of the Argentinian, Spanish and even Iranian teams? Players so used to playing with each other that teamwork not individual heroics would be the norm? Didn't Raiko Toroman bring the Philippine National team back into relevancy with his stint as the National coach? Weren't the Middle Eastern teams and even China now wary of facing a better-formed, better coached Philippine team? And now here we are again, ignoring hard-learned lessons, forming a team of PBA professionals and veterans, players and coaches who had already tried and failed where Toroman and Gilas 1 were already succeeding... I foresee more failure in the future for our woeful National Squad. This new SMART Gilas team isn't fit to shine the shoes of the old one. And I'm sorry but Chot Reyes is no Raiko Toroman...
It's weeks like these that make me question my sports sanity and make me wonder whether or not it's worth it to be a sports fan at all. Maybe I should just stick to being a ballet or a taekwondo fan, if only my daughter or my son could compete or perform on a weekly basis... *sigh*...
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