eyawn just doesn't understand

mr. g, it's starting to feel like you get personally offended when people hate on "your" lakers. and it's not even like that. cuz really, i admire the work you do as a person. you can't see me, but right now, i am standing an applauding your work as a teacher.

but the more i think about it, of all laker fans, even as hardcore as you claim to be, you should be the one to understand the mindset of any of one of the many bay-area-based-laker-haters. after all, you have embraced the bay area as another home (actually, at one point in time, you embraced the warriors, but that's ok, most of us didn't take that personally)

so you should at least kinna understand what bay area sports feel like.

it feels like manny ramirez turns down the giant's, who offered him the exact same contract he is in right now, just cuz it's la

it feels like frickin usc ucla gettin all media attention

it feels like i fuckin hate anaheim and anything there (sorry phil) and game 6 of the 2002 world series and the stupid ducks

it feels like sportscenter la?! why do i need a different sportscenter from la?

ok i know now it sounds like i'm whining, and if i think about it, i guess i am, but maybe it boils down to this:

- the warriors franchise looks like it has no idea what they're doing, even though they have/had the most loyal fanbase in the nba.
- the lakers franchise seems to know exactly what they're doing, and even though you and paul seem to know how to properly watch a basketball game, most "die-hard" laker fans i've come across are ignorant about the game and just have no idea what they're talking about. understandably so, since the franchise has spoiled them with a continually successful basketball team and therefore they don't really need to know anything except how to know if the team won or not.
(it feels like those two points need some proof or something, so @eyawn, please bring me a reliable sample of 100 laker fans and i'll prove my point. if you cannot, then i win)

man this post has become me rambling now. i don't even wanna post it anymore, but i have to cuz i said i would. maybe i'll join the post-a-day crew.

fuck la

just for fun

manny pacquiao

i am culturally obligated to post something about the pac man. even though most folks are already thinking in their heads and hearts what i'm about to write, i still have to put it down.

image courtesy of paul e.

"I have been defeated before, so I know what it is like, but a lot of people in the Philippines are willing me to win and praying for me. The guns are silent in the street every time I fight. There is no fighting, no crime. I would fight every day just for my people, if the guns will stay silent. These are the thoughts I carry to the ring and they are powerful thoughts. I am not trying to win this fight alone." -Manny Pacquiao

(well said, manny)

he looks like us, he talks like us, he even uses the same karaoke that i do. he is our champion. plain and simple. he fights for you, seriously. even if you don't follow boxing, or like boxing, or sports. as long as you like being filipino (sooo, not you michelle), manny pacquiao does it for you, i'm dead serious.

and it's not the same thing when kobe, lebron, baron, barry, or michael phelps say "I do it for my fans/country/people". bs. I'm sorry that i even had to mention those heroic hacks in the same post. manny does it for his people 198314754 times more than any high-profile athlete on this planet. he proves it time and time again.

right now, as we see him, manny pacquiao is, in practically every possible way, our real-life superhero. so please savor this time in our history, because it's a little hard to see what his future is going to look like. (i'm not saying he's going to fail in politics, i'm just saying)


And just one more photo for fun, but i don't know who to credit, so if you made this image, cheers.