Jul 9, 2007
A Bad Joke
I only have few passions in life, one of which is basketball. It’s the 29th William Jones Cup, though the tournament is not as prestigious as World Championship, Asian Basketball or Olympics, seeing the best players of our professional league slug it out with other national teams in itself is interesting. So I look forward to watching the live feed of the game between SMB-Pilipinas against Chinese-Taipei, 5 PM at the ESPN cable channel. This match is interesting since we are up against a tall, quick and strong team, who consistently beat the shit out of the Philippine team since 1999. The Hsin-Chuang Stadium is capacity full dominated by Chinese with substantial Filipinos in attendance.
The Philippine team is up by 18 points and Chinese-Taipei is on the run shooting 3 consecutive tripples with less than 3 minutes to go on the final quarter. All of the sudden the live feed was abruptly cut and a new program was aired. What the *&%#! As of this writing, I have no idea who won. The Philippine team won, 82-64.
A bad joke, a very bad one.
Is it the works of ABC 5 and PBA because they will air the game only at 10 PM?
Some ranted that it could be the handywork of some influential peeps in Taiwan?
Or is it basically a result of ESPN Asia’s poor customer service? Or perhaps, it was the work of the local cable tv provider?
Whoever is responsible, IT’S NOT FUNNY!
HhHhm…so this is actually Jones Cup huh?. I heard my father ranting about this just a minute after I woke up this after and I didn’t have a single idea what he is talking about.
I was surprised on the cutoff also.
Formula 1, which I am also waiting that day, is normally aired in Star Sports but without prior notice it was shown on ESPN. Which is actually rare.
Formula 1 was live that day and they have to cut off the Chinese Taipei vs. Philippines game simply because the game is decided already.
I am just annoyed about the Pinoy commentators on ABC 5 saying that “it will be a shootout” e tapos naman na yung totoong game.
Ginagago nila ang mga tao.
I guess the Taiwanese realized that they weren’t gonna win and didn’t want other people to see how their National team was gonna be clobbered by the Philippine team. Hehe
That’s one of the things I miss. Here in the US, I don’t get to watch games like these.
I believed the Taiwanese authorities deliberately cut short the telecast, because they don’t want the basketball crazy Filipinos witness and enjoy the Philippine massacre of the Taiwan national team and also hide the humiliating defeat from their countrymen. Sore losers indeed.
I love basketball game and i can only imagine what’s been happening in the scene.Hoping your are enjoying watching and supporting your teams.
Good day
Margaret
@ Thet– yup, the cut-off is such a bad move.
@ Josh– in that case, that is poor customer service, monopoly sucks.
@ Jaypee and Conrad– I hope not, sportsmanship should prevail
@ Margaret– I rarely notice a basketball team from Kenya, you have great athletes and sprinters but a hoops team?
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