An Unexpected PBA News Summit

Question: Does the PBA have lousy referees?

• If you think FIBA referees are generally lousy, then for sure you'd answer "yes". PBA refs are like FIBA refs; when they're in the mood to call a foul for touching jerseys, they'd call a foul. Same way when they're not in a mood to call a foul to a 12 to six elbow on the no-charge zone, they wouldn't whistle. A player wouldn't know what those refs had for lunch or what did their wives told them before going to work that would affect their perspective on the game. Like my many several tweets during the SE Live Tweets, we just don't get the PBA refs sometimes (actually, make that ALL THE TIME).

Question: Were the Barako Bull Energy capable of winning that series?

• There were only three basketball players in that team during that series; Gabe Freeman, Danny Seigle, and Willie Miller. The rest were all aspiring mixed martial artists. If you put three basketball players against... uhm... uh... <whispered to my sidekick "how many basketball players does TNT have?">... <whispered again "just subtract one?">... <finally "okay thanks">... a total roster of basketball players except for one, there is no way you'd win the series. Perhaps the only reason TNT lost those games is one, they didn't pass that fucking basketball to Gilbert Lao, and two, TNT forgot in one game that Danny Seigle has the ability to stop his aging process while he's injured which practically makes him like he's 32-33 years old.

Question: Since tanking is such a big trend in the NBA right now, did Ginebra tanked?

• Did Jackson Vroman tanked? Looks like he did. Go back to the moment were Ginebra was pondering of letting Chris Alexander go or stay. The Kris Aquino of the team (Mark Caguioa) said he wanted Alexander to stay, even though he looked terrible at the start and was working his way to optimum potential as the games go. Imagine if Alexander was with the team and Kris Aquino of Ginebra has that eye injury (Incidentally, the dude that is somehow involved in Caguioa's injury is Kris Aquino's ex-husband James Yap! Does James Yap just wanted to destroy everything Kris Aquino related? My crazy ass mind.), I bet his ass wouldn't itch to get in to the game with one good eye the way he was begging for a miracle to get into this series with Vroman as their import. Those lousy passes and fouls in Games two and four? Hell yeah... tanking, baby!

Question: What do you think of the B-Meg-Talk 'n Text Finals series?

• Talk 'n Text are the same old group of BFFs who do nothing but winning. Same old playing styles; Jimmy and Larry can't do defense, Jason Castro plays like an Olympian, Rich Alvarez plays like he's born to annoy key players, everybody else fills in the needed roles... aaaaaaand Gilbert Lao. Same old playing styles for B-Meg too; Josh still makes stupid decisions, James Yap and PJ Simon will go scoreless together and will explode together, Marc Pingris will eat a lot of 1-UPs so he could die-dive for the ball, everyone else obeying coach Tim Cone... aaaaaaaand the towel dude (Watch a B-Meg game live and check that small dude on the corner of their bench who wackily demonstrate defensive schemes/stance/whatever he wanted to tell the players. He's fun to watch, especially when they're down big and you don't wanna see them mess up more, you'll end up watching him).

Question: With that being said, then this will quite be a coaches' series?

• Coach Chot Reyes and Coach Tim Cone for the Philippine Basketball's Most Bad-ass Coach Heavyweight Title match-up. 

Question: With Ginebra Jackson Vroman tanked in the Semis, and now with Petron finally getting Marcio Lassiter...

• Like I said in The Park Games, the only equivalent value of Marcio Lassiter in his team for Petron is Arwind Santos. That is a peso-to-peso deal. Now you have a deal of Celino Cruz-Marcio in exchange for Rabeh-Rey-Lordy. Powerade gave away a full peso and 25 centavos and got in return four 25 centavos, a couple 10 centavos, and a 5 centavo coin (Go figure out their values. I'm not sharing mine. If you're badly interested with my values for them, go follow me and tweet me @sirjhaydelacruz). Put those money in real life situation and chances are you'll lose some of the coins in that 4-2-1 coin combination. Petron wouldn't lose that peso for sure. So at the end of the day, you may have Petron having a full peso in it's pocket while Powerade lost 50 centavos of it down the road (The value maybe coming from Rabeh applying some Midas' Touch on his shooting and torn ACL, or whatever they can squeeze out of Lordy, or......... that's it).

Question: Have you answered any of the question?

• Did I?

The "If Only..." Game

Have you seen the movie "If Only" by Jennifer Love Hewitt? In the story, dude got a second chance to make up for all the things JLH did which he took for granted. (It's pretty obvious I'm not here to give the plot of the film. You could always IMDB the film or piratebay it. But if you've seen the movie, you would definitely agree that one Gerald Anderson-Kim Chiu telenovela made a rip-off of it, right?)

Now, if one of us had the gift of recreating and replaying certain things, of course we'd definitely take that chance to make things better. And as we witnessed four ultra competitive games in the PBA Commissioner's Cup Semifinals, I know many of us are saying "...sana ganito si player x para mas makashoot sya..." or "... sana binantayan nya si player y para di nakashoot yung kalaban..." The analysis of you-should-do-this-and-you-should-do-that. So in relation to the movie that my stupid brain just picked-up and to the ongoing second version of PBA Semis Non-Stop, let's play the IF ONLY game!

• If only Jackson VRRRRRoman made that pass properly to Dylan Ababou in the final minute of the Game 2, his idea would've materialized. Otherwise - yes, I somehow will agree on everybody else - he should've taken the shot.
• If only there was a whatever-you-can-give-to-a-guy-who-sacrifices-his-dear-life-in-the-name-of-rebounds-and-hustle-play award, they should hand it to Marc Pingris right now.
• If only Jayjay Helterbrand is shooting like a 2009 MVP right now.
• If only John Wilson releases his jump shot a second and a half earlier before his wide open looks become dark.
• If only Mark Caguioa didn't broke his eye (Many believe he is the man that will defy the series. I believe in it, and somehow B-Meg is just one win away from proving it right.)
• If only Talk 'n Text have five more Ranidel de Ocampos in their line-up, in order to match the panggugulang of Barako Bull's veterans.
• If only Talk 'n Text can find that tranquilizer that they shot on Gabe Freeman on Game 2 that neutralized his presence in the game for two more times.
• If only Barako Bull (Ronald Tubid?) hadn't made Kelly Williams whack himself in the face back in Game 1.
• If only Talk 'n Text can finally figure out the way to beat Barako Bull down to hell is to run.
• If only Barako Bull can find the fountain of youth and mix it with their energy drink before Talk 'n Text decides to run.

... and probably the most important IF ONLY of all the past four games held...

• If only Talk 'n Text passed the effing basketball to Gilbert Lao, they should have won Game 1. Follow me on Twitter (@sirjhaydelacruz) and I will tell you all the sciences involved in this declaration.

Live Tweets from Talk 'n Text-Barako Bull Semis Game 1

Back in The Park Games, we do GameBite. Since technology is advancing (Translation: Easier thing to do.), we decided to live-tweet the game so the tweets could serve as bullets of opinions during the games. Just like the GameBite, only on a more raw figure. It's more fun actually, and it doesn't eat my entire night to put together to words what I saw.

So in case you missed it, or you're not following me yet (either on @sirjhaydelacruz or @SElivetweets), or just too conventional to stop Internet while watching TV, here's what we served. Hot and fresh.

Reminder: the tweets are in descending order. Just like your tweet timeline. So read it from bottom to top.

Enjoy!

PBA Semis Non-Stop Live Tweets

How about live-tweeting eh?

This must be a more (relatively) effective solution to get my sports blood in the PBA right now as I have badly missed the games due to unavoidable (fun) day-job workload.

So co-observe with me at shout it them all out here. If it's possible, bring some booze and food while doing this (and bring them all here to my house). At the end, we'll gather all the things we've talked about right here. Game? Game!

Follow SE's live tweets on @SElivetweets and of course don't leave the Sportscast Engineer @sirjhaydelacruz on the bus.

Tweet y'all!

 

MIAS 2012 Hangover: GF of the Month for April

Presenting the FORD RECEPTIONIST!

Congratulations, FORD RECEPTIONIST!

The Sportscast Engineer goes to: The Manila International Auto Show 2012

There is a reason why I call a cosplay event "The Freak Show".

Despite the overboard coolness of seeing near-to-life anime, game, and fictional characters in a venue and see them stroll around, show their stuffs, ask for pictures, or use their weapons to abolish annoying people (and cheer for them in return), there is a scary thing for some 20-year olders that uninterested people never bother to ask, held-back people (like me) always wonder, and devoted fans completely ignore.

There is this only time that I hesitantly attended a freak show cosplay event. I had fun in seeing such characters like that dude from the God of War game, Vash Stampede, and Gumiho. I got carried away when I start to take pictures with them. It's like you prefer seeing a concert of a different artist other than Piolo Pascual but with a free front-row ticket you go "...oh what the hell. He can't be that bad maybe." and you soon found enjoying it yourself. 

Until this human (for the interest of clarity, consider this human a "girl") dressed in a sexy Super Mario outfit. Short shorts. Fitted Mario top ensemble. Cute cap. And an equally cute face. Me and my buddy who was with me never had a second thought. We got to have a photo with here.

The photo was taken, and it's time to say thanks. I have a low and big voice. Cute angelic human replied with a lower and bigger voice. "Thank you." Holy shit! That was a gay. It took me two minutes to realize Super Mario was gay. My buddy can't believe it that we were arguing about it the next three days. He finally realized it after seeing Super Mario in a different character in an another cosplay event. The three of our group were the totally uninterested people (Jeff, Ekel, Lawrence), I was the held-back dude, and my companion (Michael) was the one blinded by the devotion. (There might be nothing wrong with dropping names. Besides, my buddies could very well be regular characters in this blog.)

Now we're through with some cosplay experience which has very little thing (or nothing) to do with The Manila International Auto Show 2012. The perfect venue for manufacturers to sell their cars, for shops to show their stuffs, for car-related entrepreneurs to get their thing going, and for me to abuse my camera. Freebies are there. Cars are everywhere. Hot girls are EVERYWHERE. Cross-dressers are nowhere and probably not allowed to model cars (I knew Super Mario gay have little to do with this). 


After the break, see the SE's favorite shots during MIAS 2012 from cars and so much stuffs related to it. And yes, with a lot of show girls involved, me and buddy E decided to put the "Girlfriend of the Month" award for all the pictures we took with them. Check it out on the available links listed below. Then the break.


This is no freak show. This one is so FREAKING awesome.


GFotM for April.
GFotM for May.
GFotM for June.
GFotM for July.
GFotM for August.
GFotM for September.
GFotM for October.
GFotM for November.
GFotM for December.
GFotM for January 2012.
GFotM for February.
GFotM for March.


(girlfriend or not, I really think some girl would kill me for this.)