THE trouble with us is, we tend to love to stage fights between two persons that aren’t actually foes.
Since when did RSA (Ramon S. Ang) and MVP (Manuel V. Pangilinan) become enemies, anyways?
Just because RSA is top honcho at San Miguel Corp. that owns San Miguel Beermen, Ginebra and Star, and MVP is chieftain at Talk ‘N Text, Meralco and NLEX in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA), doesn’t mean they don’t see eye to eye.
The hemisphere of sports is an entirely different world from their universe of running their business empires that it is almost impossible for RSA and MVP to still have time transporting their many splendid concerns from the boardroom to the hardcourt.
For all you know, they could even be the best of buddies.
You just don’t know how billionaires think, act and relate with others.
When bumping into each other in gatherings, very normal given their esteemed statures, they carry themselves with seemingly blissful innocence, exchanging pleasantries in child-like manner as though they aren’t powerful and influential captains of the industry that they monumentally represent.
And they are the gentlemen of the first degree.
That is why for some quarters now to even insinuate that RSA has ordered his SMC stars to cut ties with MVP’s Gilas Team bound for the Olympic qualifiers in China next month is an outright shot below the belt.
To even think about it can only mean it’s the work of no one, but of the low-life.
In the first place, RSA will gain nothing from it.
Doing it is systemic suicide—meaning, it could be RSA’s quickest shortcut to losing the respect of his players, and his peers, too. So, why would he do that?
In the second place, why would a well-meaning man, like RSA, who is high up there in the highest echelons of society, do such a despicable thing when the truth is his players getting drafted to the team would be an added luster and prestige to the SMC organization, the oldest in the PBA.
SMC cagers needed badly to the Gilas Team is a flattery no end.
If you ask me, the SMC players’ departure is even a noble act of giving aspiring players a chance to wear the national colors, too. The country has never been lacking in talent that is why we are called the most basketball-crazed nation in the world.
So, instead of hurling insults, let us instead heap praise on June Mar Fajardo, Marc Pingris, Marcio Lassiter and LA Tenorio—SMC stars all—for giving up their slots so that others may also have the chance to shine on the world stage.
And never forget: The four issued valid reasons, too, when they begged off—Fajardo foot injury, Pingris to check on his skidding game at Star, Lassiter to be with his ailing mother in the US, and Tenorio fatigue.
If we can’t respect their decisions, who can?
And, yes, let us not make RSA and MVP fight, please? They are both doing their best to make the game we all love to be continually raised to a pedestal—in their own unselfish, if not, unique ways.
They aren’t shakers and movers for nothing.
THAT’S IT. Kia, which will be known as Mahindra Enforcer in the 41st PBA season set to open on October 18, will inaugurate its state-of-the-art Kia Theatre at the Araneta Center in Cubao, Quezon City, on September 1. Cheers, Bobby R.!…Finally, Jason Day became a majors winner with his Professional Golfers’ Association victory on Monday at Whistling Straits in Wisconsin, USA. Making the win doubly memorable for this Fil-Aussie now living in Florida is the fact that he survived the dogged challenge of Jordan Spieth, the Masters and US Open champion. They were paired in the last round, and Day ably protected his two-shot margin with the poise of a true champ. Winning by 3 shots in the end, Day (his mother is from Tacloban) becomes the first majors victor with Filipino blood running in his veins.
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Ang mga Pinoy basketball pundits at tagahangga ay mahilig magsimula ng guirihan,conspiracy theories at mayhem kaya pinagaaway nila sa media si MVP at RSA. Ito ay napakamaling pagiisip na tinawag na talangka mentality ng mga Pinoys.