Message to Manny Pacquiao: Out of the pool, you fool

I just hope to hell that Manny Pacquiao swims better than the nearly drowning Smokin' Joe Frazier did in the 1973 Battle of the Superstars on ABC (see video below).

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Jim Lampley (screaming): “What is Manny Pacquiao doing? I have never, in all my years at ringside, seen anything like this. Miguel Cotto is completely befuddled…”

Larry Merchant (quizzical): “I don’t know, Jim, this is something new from Pacman. I can’t really figure it out. It looks like…it looks like…

Emanuel Steward: “It looks like…well, guys, it looks like a combination of the backstroke and the Australian crawl…Cotto is stunned at what Manny is doing, the way he is moving his hands in a breaststroke type maneuver…

Harold Lederman: “This is unusual ring generalship, something my eyes have never seen, either, guys…Pacquiao is moving his feet as though he was wearing flippers, as though he was swimming against the current…”

Lampley again: “Fellas, I’ve got to say this...but taking a dive used to a pejorative accusation in boxing but Manny Pacquiao has stunned us, the crowd and opponent Miguel Cotto with this strange technique...Manny is moving like a dolphin now!..."

Go ahead, you Baguio backers.

SEE DIGITAL JOURNAL ON HOW EXPERTS (that's me blushing), FANS WANT PACMAN TO RELOCATE HIS CAMP FROM BAGUIO NOW, IMMEDIATELY AND ASAP.

Go ahead, you Manny is always right guys.

Go ahead, you people who think Pacman is above and beyond even the mildest form of criticism

Tell me that Coach Freddie Roach having to substitute work in the pool for a boxer’s daily regimen of roadwork is a good thing and not detrimental to his training.

Tell me that having the three roads from Manila to Baguio shut down due to landslides and having to use Chavit Singson's private plane to airlift new sparmates Jose Luis Castillo and Danny Escobar to the training site, the Shape Up Gym, isn't absurd.

Even Roach admits that Manny is no stellar swimmer, that he gulped down some chlorine in the hotel pool. Is this a new training technique like Juan Ma Marquez's urine ingestion?

Still, word is Pacman and crew won't leave for California until Oct. 24.

There's no mule like a stubborn mule, I suppose.

My question is why isn’t Team Pacquiao at the airport in Manila right now, even as you read this, for a flight to Los Angeles or, if the US tax regulations remain problematic, to somewhere like Vancouver or Tijuana?

Leave the swim fins behind, Manny. Drop your pool googles.

Get thee to the Wild Card Gym or to one in Canada or Mexico if need be.

These aquatic exercises are a sorry substitute for roadwork, for running outdoors.

I keep repeating myself, bag it Baguio, brother, bag it.

I don’t think you will be able to use a flotation device in the ring against Cotto.

Get three to the Wild Card or somewhere the sun is shining and the roads are not flooded.

Home, sweet home at the Wild Card would be perfect because, as the old song goes, “It Never Rains In Southern California.”

Bedsides, Coach Roach is right as well, right as rain, when he says fighting the prideful Puerto Rican is not going to be any day at Boracay Beach.

Source: http://www.examiner.com/x-5699-NY-Boxing-Examiner~y2009m10d11-Message-to-Manny-Pacquiao-Out-of-the-pool-you-fool