Limpag: Dream Team, Last Dance

NOPE, I’m not talking about that team and the current toast of sports entertainment, though, I think I’ll be writing about the two before the series ends.

I’m talking about a rather unique plea I read last week from Cebu City Vice Mayor Mike Rama, when he batted for unity to battle the Covid-19 together with Cebu Mayor Edgar Labella and former Mayor Tomas Osmeña. What does that have to do with sports? Well, let’s look at this from a sports perspective. You have three of the last individuals to occupy the top post at Cebu City Hall leading the fight? That’s a dream team if ever there was one.

But in order to work, a dream team has to have guys deferring to one leader, and based on critics’ input, it seems Mike Rama isn’t ready to play Magic Johnson to Edgar Labella’s Michael Jordan. Magic, the Man before Jordan, and Larry Bird, were the co-captains of their teams but they both deferred to His Airness when the action mattered. There can only be one court general and for that proposed dream team, it has to be the sitting mayor, right?

Just imagine had that proposal of the Vice Mayor pushed through and all three were involved in solving the biggest problem the city has ever faced with each getting tapped to handle aspects that play to his strengths.

I can just imagine the whole of Cebu, and a few from outside the island, eagerly waiting Former Mayor Tom’s social media updates as he hands out free board and lodging rewards to enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) violators. That was what I anticipated most in the Sinulog under Tomas.

But as someone pointed out when I shared Mike Rama’s plea, that team up happening is impossible.

I wanted to reply—and this is where I had a light bulb moment and decided a short reply could be lengthened to a column—I’m a football fan or to be specific, a Philippine football fan. We lived through the impossible. We went from “let’s hope we won’t lose by much” to “let’s all win the whole thing.”

Oh well, we can dream, right? Though I agree that it may not happen and with the end of the ECQ two weeks away, it may not happen at all.

And in the next two weeks, I hope former mayor Mike Rama realizes this is Mayor Edgar Labella’s league now, to paraphrase Chris Mullin’s take of the famous Magic vs. MJ scrimmage that all but settled who was the leader: “It’s over dude. This is his league.”

Otherwise, one or even both of them could be doing their Last Dance and pave the way for one other guy to form his own Redeem Team and take the throne back.

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