Editorials

This is in response to the case of Don Allado's ban and PBA sanction of Php500,000

Photo Gallery of PBA banned player Don Allado

They say that there's no need to prove the obvious. But what if someone challenged you to show proof for something that is very obvious? In my humble opinion, the most difficult to prove in any legal procedure is providing series of evidence for something that is very obvious.

This is the most difficult task because at times you know that it happens but it's just that you can't really show relevant/enough evidence. Just like the widespread corruption in our government. We know that most of these politicians are pocketing our taxes however we can not justify that right away. If you go to your respective City government offices, by just looking at their faces you already have intuitions of who are those traditional corrupt politicians. But hey! Did you ever find yourself capable of proving that they do?

This is the case of Don Allado.

Another analogy could be like this. You have three eagles in a triangle and staring at their favorite prey. Waiting for the right moment to attack and suddenly after few hours you still see those eagles staring at the prey doing nothing. Will you not question yourself why did that situation happens? This is just like the referees in PBA. Their job is to find the most delicate call that they can do in every crucial game but for whatever reason, a very obvious violation was not called... Will you not ask yourself about it?

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