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The Marnel Baracael Conspiracy Theory
Fri, Aug 1, 2008 by Nash Castro
For those who are not yet familiar, here is the back story.
Marnel “Mac” Baracael is a third year Far Eastern University men’s basketball team forward. After practice last week, he was shot outside of the FEU Gym while walking back to the campus with teammates Robert Kave and Ron Cabagnot.
According to witness testimony, the gunman fired two shots, with one bullet hitting him at the back. The exit wound was just below the left nipple, missing his heart.
The hitman then nonchalantly hid his silencer at his backpack then walk nonchalantly to España Ave. In shock, Baracael’s teammates called for help.
Right now, Mac is now in stable condition although he is still confined in a hospital recuperating. Since then, the Tamaraws have won two games, both of them close matches against University of the East and Ateneo de Manila University.
The one against the Blue Eagles was big since the Tams dealt Ateneo its first defeat of the season. This also tied them with ADMU and De La Salle University at first place with five wins and one loss.
Besides losing Baracael, Far Eastern is probably bound to miss Kave, who was instructed by his parents to return to Papua New Guinea. He is supposed to depart tomorrow (August 2), a day before his team finishes the first round of the eliminations against winless National University.
Going back, there is still no established motive according to police reports. Nevertheless, the prevailing theory is that it had something to do with game-fixing and with the Binondo mafia.
It could be recalled that former Tamaraw Alfred Gerilla was cut from the team in the middle of the season last year due to suspected game-fixing allegations.
Now that the introduction is done, here is the meat of my story. I have a counter-theory.
Considering that a hitman was utilized and he fired two shots but only one hit the target, Baracael was just ‘threatened’, not permanently silenced. Really now, would a hitman, at near pointblank, would still miss and not dispose his target properly?
With Baracael gone, FEU is emotionally pumped and the team is using him as its rally point. And its effects are apparent.
I have a hunch that the perpetrator is closer to home. Think of it this way. If the team’s performance went down, it is expected since morale and focus is not there. Right now, the Tamaraws are winning and they are benefiting from the emotional high.
The mastermind could think it is so easy to put the blame on anybody else. The Binondo mafia, other schools that want the green and gold out of the picture, spurned lover, and so on. I mean no one would suspect him.
And who am I pertaining to? None other than Anton Montinola.
He has the resources to do such. Knowing that he treats his players like commodities (disbanding the whole team after the 2006 season when they failed to reach the semis despite being the defending champs, also firing the coaches in the process; he lets his high school players be recruited by other schools but for a price aka “The Soc Rivera rule”), it is not far fetched it could be him all along.
Just because he can. Just because he need to jog the standings. Just because he needs attention, lots of it. And you will never know, it might be involve game-fixing as well.
But who believes at conspiracy theories anyway? This is just me.
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I just want to give my friend's blog a shoutout. The article first came out here.
Fri, Aug 1, 2008 by Nash Castro
For those who are not yet familiar, here is the back story.Marnel “Mac” Baracael is a third year Far Eastern University men’s basketball team forward. After practice last week, he was shot outside of the FEU Gym while walking back to the campus with teammates Robert Kave and Ron Cabagnot.
According to witness testimony, the gunman fired two shots, with one bullet hitting him at the back. The exit wound was just below the left nipple, missing his heart.
The hitman then nonchalantly hid his silencer at his backpack then walk nonchalantly to España Ave. In shock, Baracael’s teammates called for help.
Right now, Mac is now in stable condition although he is still confined in a hospital recuperating. Since then, the Tamaraws have won two games, both of them close matches against University of the East and Ateneo de Manila University.
The one against the Blue Eagles was big since the Tams dealt Ateneo its first defeat of the season. This also tied them with ADMU and De La Salle University at first place with five wins and one loss.
Besides losing Baracael, Far Eastern is probably bound to miss Kave, who was instructed by his parents to return to Papua New Guinea. He is supposed to depart tomorrow (August 2), a day before his team finishes the first round of the eliminations against winless National University.
Going back, there is still no established motive according to police reports. Nevertheless, the prevailing theory is that it had something to do with game-fixing and with the Binondo mafia.
It could be recalled that former Tamaraw Alfred Gerilla was cut from the team in the middle of the season last year due to suspected game-fixing allegations.
Now that the introduction is done, here is the meat of my story. I have a counter-theory.
Considering that a hitman was utilized and he fired two shots but only one hit the target, Baracael was just ‘threatened’, not permanently silenced. Really now, would a hitman, at near pointblank, would still miss and not dispose his target properly?
With Baracael gone, FEU is emotionally pumped and the team is using him as its rally point. And its effects are apparent.
I have a hunch that the perpetrator is closer to home. Think of it this way. If the team’s performance went down, it is expected since morale and focus is not there. Right now, the Tamaraws are winning and they are benefiting from the emotional high.The mastermind could think it is so easy to put the blame on anybody else. The Binondo mafia, other schools that want the green and gold out of the picture, spurned lover, and so on. I mean no one would suspect him.
And who am I pertaining to? None other than Anton Montinola.
He has the resources to do such. Knowing that he treats his players like commodities (disbanding the whole team after the 2006 season when they failed to reach the semis despite being the defending champs, also firing the coaches in the process; he lets his high school players be recruited by other schools but for a price aka “The Soc Rivera rule”), it is not far fetched it could be him all along.
Just because he can. Just because he need to jog the standings. Just because he needs attention, lots of it. And you will never know, it might be involve game-fixing as well.
But who believes at conspiracy theories anyway? This is just me.
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I just want to give my friend's blog a shoutout. The article first came out here.
tasteless, not funny... good thing mac survived...
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