If it ain?t broke don?t fix it?.and Manny Pacquiao is hardly broke.
I have to admit to being a bit distressed to read about what ?a changed man? the Pinoy boxing idol supposedly has turned into. The whole thing seems a bit ridiculous to this angst-ridden Catholic.
I don?t think anyone was getting ready to write a book entitled ?The Sins Of Pacquiao,? unless Bobby ?The Sniper? has some X-rated secret life and, if he does, who would care about that?
Maybe the New Manny Pacquaio theme is just a distraction intended for Juan Manuel Marquez and his camp, toiling so hard in Mexico City. Or maybe it was a slow news day in Manila when they sent this one out?I don?t know.
But herewith the Top 12 Sins Of Manny Pacquiao:
1 REFUSES to reveal the secret whereabouts of Michael Koncz who was last seen in a sugarcane field in Bacolod. Could Koncz now be in disguise and spying on the Marquez training sessions?
2. PREFERS to sign contracts with more than one promoter at any given time.
3. KNOWN to drink a cold San Miggie on steaming hot days when not in training for a fight.
4, ENJOYS hanging with his homies even going so far as to shoot some pool.
5. BLESS ME FATHER, for I have actually made bets on cock fights.
6. INSULTED rival Edwin Valero by saying his opponents were drug-addled pedicab drivers.
7. RAN for political office and got kicked around the GenSan block by a woman. Pacman felt as a bad as Hillary Clinton opponents are feeling right now.
8. EGO runs rampant as Manny believes he is world?s best pound for pound fighter even above that modest mouse, Floyd Mayweather Jr.
9. MARRIED but not DEAD. Yes, Pacman is happily married but that doesn?t mean he can?t ?look at the menu? once in a while, does it? He just can?t order from the menu.
10. WONDERS who the hair stylist is for Floyd Mayweather Sr.
11. AVOIDS taking weight control tips from Top Rank matchmaker Bruce Trampler.
12,. ACTUALLY visited popular discos in a nation where he is an icon and was shocked, shocked, shocked when adoring females and males paid him homage. Here’s a real shocker…he may have even danced with a female who is not his wife. So what? In the US, Frank Sinatra wrote about what a great city Chicago is because he saw a man on the State Street, that great street, who danced with his own wife! Marital vows and dancing vows must be kept separate, my friends!
Look, I did not make it through the altar boy training course at St. Anthony?s in the Allston section of Boston. Mean Fr. Keane was always yelling or throwing his keys at us.But, from the looks of it, I?d say Pacman?s sins are strictly venial and not mortal.
So, National Fist, here?s your proper penance: three Hail Mary?s, five Our Fathers and a March 15 victory over Juan Ma.
Oh, and get your butt to Mass a few more Sundays, pal.
