Thursday, May 1, 2008

Where's Ronaldo? or, Gender-bend It Unlike Beckham


He's in hiding, in a little bit of trouble for consorting with prostitutes (not illegal in Brazil). It seems the 2-time World Cup winner got a little surprise when he took a couple working girls to a motel (call girls go to hotels, hookers go to motels, apparently). When he found out these two ladies had a little something extra under the hood, he had second thoughts about becoming intimate with them. They naturally got upset, vandalized his car and went down to the streets to shout that “the Phenomenon didn’t want to pay.” He tried to settle with the male females for $600, but they decided they'd rather have $30,000 to keep it out of the papers. They're trying to maximize their earnings, having seen an opportunity. It's capitalism at its finest. That's just like what the oil and gas industry does to us on a daily basis, just without the promise of freaky trannie sex.

Needless to say, Ronaldo didn't put it in the net that night.

There's something about knee surgery that clouds athletes' judgement. Just ask Kobe Bryant. Ronaldo is recovering from knee surgery and will continue to rehab at home. Where he probably should have stayed instead of being out trying to get his shwerve on.

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