CHICAGO - Every PBA season, conference after conference, the Terrafirma Dyip drive their franchise straight down the ravine where the mangled wreck almost always settles at the bottom of the team standings.
They do so recklessly, because neither logic nor common sense can explain 11 years of sustained misery where the team has won only 66 of 281 games with a mere two playoff appearances since joining the PBA in 2014.
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Either that, or team governor Bobby Rosales and team manager Ronald Tubid are so awful at their jobs, which I don't think so.
Unfortunately, just like last year, and the years before that, the incompetence will be rewarded.
Per Reuben Terrado of SPIN.ph, Terrafirma is "in line to once again obtain the No.1 pick in the PBA draft for next season."
There is something so wickedly wrong with that picture. With their well-documented history, the Dyip will most likely spoon-feed, not keep, whatever talent they will choose among the rookie aspirants.
IT'S NOT A THEORY, IT'S A FACT
Last July, Terrafirma shipped former No. 1 pick Stephen Holt and Isaac Go to Ginebra for Stanley Pringle and Christian Standhardinger, who chose retirement instead of continuing to play for a wretched franchise.
The draft was designed to improve league parity by helping the poor performing teams strengthen their rosters with fresh talent. Seeing Holt land at Ginebra, followed by Juami Tiongson and Andreas Cahilig to San Miguel, blatantly defeated that purpose.
The Dyip are making a mockery of the draft process, propagating a vicious cycle of picking prized assets that somehow end up with the rich teams.
Instead of appearing to enable it, the PBA must put an end to this farce.
The rumors that Terrafirma has intimate ties with San Miguel is so prevalent on social media that even the owner of Starhorse Basilan and the prospective buyer of Terrafirma went out of his way to declare that his team won't be "anyone's farm team" once the sale becomes official.
INDIFFERENT.
Regardless of the fans' outcry, the PBA doesn't seem to care.
There's a business to run, I guess.
SPIN.ph reader Ronald Leoncio best described Terrafirma's role.
"They do their job as a farm being harvested every season and their first pick next season will be harvested by the same corporation," he said.
He's not wrong, is he?
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