Men can cry.
Michael Jordan has cried.
George W Bush has cried.
Even Hilary Clinton has cried.
In this day and age men crying isn’t held as wimpy as it once was.
People now even see men crying as way more acceptable than women crying.
The world has changed.
But two indian men, one feminine enough to slap another man, another feminine enough to cry about it, are testing the worlds new found acceptance of male bawling.
Sreesanth cried because a man slapped him.
Is there any coming back from that.
Was only days ago I talked about how cool he was via blog and podcast.
The whole angry man fast bowler thing was back, he was abusing people and being a giant @ss clown, just how I like it.
Now he is crying after Bhaji, of all people, slapped him.
This is how I would have expected this story to go.
Harbhajan Singh is in critical condition in Mumbain Indian hospital today, after an incident with his Indian team mate and IPL sparring partner Sreesanth. Bhaji allegedly slapped Sreesanth, before Sreesanth slammed his head into a wall an unknown amount of times leaving Bhaji severely injured. No charges have been laid, but Sreesanth is helping police with their enquries.
I would not have expected this.
Harbhajan slaps Sreesanth, who then cries in the corner naked and wet, waiting for his mother to bring over his favourite blanky.
Sreesanth is apparently a big fan of NZ folk music.
So this is in his honour.
I’m not crying
It’s just been raining
on my face
And if you think you see some tear tracks down my cheeks
Please. Pleasee, don’t tell my mates
I’m not crying
No, I’m not crying
And if I am crying
It’s not because of you
It’s because I’m thinking about a friend of mine who you don’t know who is dying
That’s right, dying
These aren’t tears of sadness because you’re leaving me
I’ve just been cutting onions
I’m making a lasagna
For one
Oh, I’m not crying
No
There’s just a little bit of dust in my eye
That’s from the path that you made when you said your goodbye
I’m not weeping because you won’t be here to hold my hand
For your information there’s an inflammation in my tear gland
I’m not upset because you left me this way
My eyes are just a little sweaty today
They’ve been looking around
They’re like searching for you
They’ve been looking for you
Even though I told them not to
These aren’t tears of sadness
They’re tears of joy
I’m just laughing
Ha ha ha-ha ha
I’m sitting at this table called love
Staring down at the irony of life
How come we’ve reached this fork in the road
And yet it cuts like a knife’
I’m not crying
I’m not crying
I’m not cry-y-y-y-
-y-y-y-y-ing
And to think of all the effigies of Ponting & Hayden I burn’t in support of Bhajji… Sigh!
An effigy burnt is never wasted.
It’s true that men crying is more acceptable than women crying. Can’t women have ANYTHING? I thought it was the end when men took fashion, but crying too?
I’m just waiting for the moment when Harbhajan is forced to apologise by the board, and has to release a single going, “Sree, you’ve got it going it on…”
D S Henry, Suave at Republique Cricket and I had this discussion before, but about Harbhajan singing it to Brett Lee, to apologise for triggering off the whole teri maki thing by his appreciative bat-smack on Lee’s ass.
Mims, thanks for the mention! You are a star…I’ve been crying today, through hayfever. Bastard grass. Being a cricketer in the grass, when it rips your eyes apart, is a shit, I can tell you!
It’s pretty much started today, Suave – I sneezed about 10 times in quick succession. Perhaps Sreesanth should have blamed hayfever.
The trouble with the Indians, is they don’t have the NRL.
hey uncle J, this is Ankit from sixandoutBeing slapped by a senior in your cricket team is certainly a very hurting experience…indian men are generally emotional, and some of them are a little bit attention seeking too, hence, i think sreesanth justified to an extent…but then i think even harbhajan was just..think about it…
Ankit, this is a dude who goes on about he tough he is, yells, sledges, goes nuts and then gets slapped and cries. I have thought a great deal about it, and to me, they both come out of it terribly.
of course he has…what i am saying is that the attention seeker in him has made him do funny things in life….i know it was tough….but men don’t cry in public
I don’t have a problem with men crying in public if it’s something warranted, but a slap from Harbhajan should end with Harbhajan bleeding from the eyes.
lol …then sree would have spent the rest of his career fielding at short leg…
I can’t really see how Sreesanth can come back from this without reinventing himself. Most of his success to date has been around the fist-clenching, heart-thumping, abuse the shit out of batsmen routine.So the next time he tries this routine on, he’s just going to have the piss taken out of him. For some bowlers (Ambrose being an obvious example) that would work in their favour, but it’s just going to send Sreesanth to the top paddock.
I feel sick of the people that support IPL. I spoke to my parents and sadly they too watch every match. The two fucking idiots need to be deported to Maximum Security prison in Guantanamo Bay and get ragged off their butts.
Anon, Would you send these guys off to Cuba for getting on TV, having an argument your parents saw on TV, for being part of the IPL, or for earning shit loads worth of money?