homage to teams built around friendship
UP lost to UE by five points kanina. that pretty much put our chances of a repeat at: slim. i was thinking though, during that solemn half hour after a major loss- when everybody pretty much has DICK to say to eachother and just sits around like jobless immigrants, "i’d rather lose with the guys i’m with than win with another team."
the loss was definitelly a heartbreaker, everybody had high expectations from us, going undeafeated last year, and snagging UP the championship trophy in basketball for the first time since God knows when. sigh, to have our hopes snuffed out so early in the season like that…that sucked.
anyway, back to my pretentious, i’ma-philosophic-guy "epiphany"…
the loss blew, but i realized that it’s just one of the sacrifices one has to make to be able to partake in the whole "experience" of being on a team. remembering the practices, the petty squabbles, the messing around, getting to know the guys, the high-fives, the strategizing, the drawing up of plays, the critiquing of the team’s performance, the drinks after the practices, the dinners after the games and just the camaraderie in general, are infinitelly more than enough to soothe the sting of a loss.
A bunch of the team had dinner after. and with the amount of goofing around and talking about anything and everything OTHER than the loss going on in the table, you wouldnt’v guessed that the same group of guys was almost in tears just an hour ago. the loss apparently hadn’t even left a dent. man! now daz dat bad boyz shiat! ride together, die together.
(sorry, couldn’t resist, had to fit that in somewhere)
winning tonight would’ve been great, but hey, losing together, that comes in a close second.
so here’s to all those unforgettable "teams" we’ve ever had the privilige of being a part of, and to the "teams" that currently fill and enrich our lives.
to the team, tough loss, too bad we couldn’t get 2 straight (but hey, atleast we have last year’s championship to keep us warm at night, eh?), to the rookies specifically, RESPECT, we couldn’tv asked for a better group of new guys - we’ll be violently spanking law student butts next year, it’s written in the stars.
done. damn, monday na.
"i love to hear a choir sing, i love the humanity to see the faces of real people devoting themselves to a piece of music. i like the teamork. it makes me feel optimistic about the human race when i see them cooperating like that." - Paul McCartney
February 15th, 2006 at 4:57 pm
Haay salamat. For the longest time I couldn’t open Friendster blogs. It makes me so happy to visit blogs and see new entries (hahaha I’m such a geek).
Al, miss ka na ni Avena.