Of PAL Interclub, Tiger & PBA Finals

By Al S. Mendoza

BACOLOD CITY – The break in the 63rd PAL Interclub Golf afforded me the chance to go PBA-watching here Sunday night on TV — and Wednesday night, too.

Never mind that Tiger Woods had grabbed some valuable time from all of us earlier, only to irritate us some more, once more, with his nonsense about his self-confessed marital infidelities.

Who cared?

Not me.

He didn’t say anything new and all he did was to parrot his old line about being how sorry he was, that he was apologizing for his marriage misdeeds.

Oh, yes, he also said how great a wife his Elin had been all this time that he was being tortured by his sexcapades.

And, yes, he chastised those who said that Elin hit him with a 7-iron the night he crashed his SUV into a tree.

Elin used a driver, instead?  And she had an errant tee shot, causing Tiger to also go errant on his drive out of the garage en route to the biggest drop of his life thus far?

Who cared?

Not me.

What I would have cared about was Elin’s presence on the same stage that Tiger was in that day.

I would have listened intently to what she had to say to Tiger, to us.

Tiger forgiven?  Marriage saved?  Show must go on?  The Tiger Show, I mean?

But no, there was none of that.  Ergo, it was all Tiger Talk.  Blah-blah-blah. Bereft of belief. Empty as a clam shell.

So, watching Game 6 between Purefoods and San Miguel Beer was what mattered most to me on February 21 — and the PBA Game on Wednesday.

So, Jake P. Ayson and I had an early dinner, a light one that is, since we had a tummy-bulging lunch earlier.

It was brunch, actually, as we brought Ken Angeles of Davao City’s Yellow Fin Kitchenette fame and, to the revered Bar 21 with Fiscal Tony Tan and Yellow Army’s Joe Abejo.

Bar21 did not have its famed bulgan (sea bass) but never mind.

Upon mere mention of Boy, who is “only” the owner of Bar21, the waitress said, “Yes, we have diwal and also adobadong alimusan.”

That clinched it.

We left Bar 21 past 12, burping and burping and burping.

Oh, yes, Purefoods beat SMB, arranging a title duel with Alaska for the KFC-PBA Philippines Cup crown beginning Wednesday.

Purefoods won Game 1 on Wednesday, 81-77, for a big start in its bid for PBA history.

I wrote this before Game 2 of the PBA Finals could even begin on Friday, Feb. 26.

As usual, deadline was the culprit, as I couldn’t write a about an expected thrill and spill in Game 2 on Friday.

I care about the PBA Finals because there is no fakery here, no leg-pulling, no hanky panky.

In short, no Tiger Trash here.

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