Think about it
We are driving Pacquiao to murderous heights
By Jun Velasco
“The passionate are like men standing on their heads; they see all things the wrong way.”—Plato
A few days from now — on November 12, to be exact, at Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas — the much-awaited Pacquiao-Marquez trilogy will be the central focus of the sporting world.
It is a great moment for us Filipinos because our greatest boxing hero, Manny Pacquiao, who is a congressman, a very generous TV host, actor, and a possible candidate for president when he reaches the ripe age is — if we only bother to read his innermost — is facing the toughest fight in his boxing career.
In this fight, there’s a grudge, a personal hurt involved. Manny has been nursing a deep wound in his heart because his opponent, Juan Manuel Marquez, has been telling the whole world it was he who won their first two fights.
The ordinary man on the street may not care less so long as he gets the biggest thrill of his life in this fight of the century, but to us who care enough of the fight’s implications on how our hero would handle himself and carry the torch of victory, the trilogy could be a lesson on how we watchers on the sideline treat our precious treasure in Pacquiao.
But the media, the promoters, they have become a grand taunting machine goading Pacquiao to hate his opponent more than he should by exaggerating Marquez’s taunts driving our man to murderous heights of hate and anger, which may not help him in the long haul.
And so, instead of helping him to victory, we are driving him to fight like mad, and to think that the arena is not for a brawl, a fight without rules, but a most decent one where the protagonists embrace afterwards.
So we are making Pacquiao hungrier of blood; he might as well be careful not to lose his sanity because by the looks of it, the November l2 showdown would end up with all of us getting floored and disappointed.
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We saw a nice article about the Calalsiao’s famous threesome of Mayor Mark Macanlalay, Vice Mayor Roy Macanlalay and Barangay Captain Allan Macanlalay in the Regional Examiner.
There’s no question that the grand political architect of the Macanlalays’ political triumph is Roy who has cruised his way to the totem pole of Pangasinan politics by getting elected president of the vice mayors league of the province.
No, we don’t think it was even money — that darn factor in winning elections in this country — that sealed their individual victories. We think its talent, honed to perfection by a home atmosphere that’s nourished in filial love where the real architect is our cumadre, the former Malou Guinto of Binmaley, Pangasinan.
The Macanlalays political story is written in a woman’s heart, his devotion to her family. Congratulate Malou for being a great achiever.
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