Darren Bravo resurfaces, Trini style

From Espn News:

"In his first interview since his exclusion from the side, Bravo recounted the events that followed the tweet. He claimed that neither the West Indies coach nor the manager or media manager ever enquired if he had posted the tweet. "No one asked me: 'Darren Bravo, did you tweet that?' No one asked me anything. So I went to sleep."


lol. The man calls his boss an idiot, gets fired, denies saying anything, then goes to sleep.

Pure Trini.

but his borse is an idiot..and  crook.  he shud be free to say it.

if his borse does not want to be called an idiot he shud stop being one..jess like if Darren want an A class contract he shud bat fuh one

why is one saddled to aperformance contract and the other isnt ::LOL:: ::LOL:: ::LOL:: ::LOL:: ::LOL::

the borse is free to say you din play right, you din score right. you are an impsy batsman so C contract in yuh skunt

the batman shud be free to say

'is your fault you dreadful administrative skunt.  you pik sick teams. you rip off the money and the team sad about dat.  the team plays poorly because of you..you dreadful administrative skunt again > >

you throwing too much weight on me in a very unhappy situation..its hard to play as I cyan.  get a grip and do tings right and we will all play bettah'

and in fact dat is more like the truth of the CWI situation.  why cant the players say it?  why are they threatened with loss of career f they criticize their sick, stinking admin ::confused:: ::confused:: ::confused::

I got nutten against Darren.  he shud open up now fully on all this.  he shud challenge dat very issue...why is the CWI admin above criticism by the players ::confused:: ::confused:: ::confused::

so what Pure Trini style should this be categorised ?

Comess or Picong or Mammaguy  :-\

ask Trinny D  he appears to know.  and he pon Skameron side too. ::LOL:: ::LOL:: ::LOL:: ::LOL::

I doh know but ole skam have no side to be on.  he is an impse and a danger.  he has destroyed the west indian game.

Up until today, there have always been three categories of Trini. Category 1 is the least common variant. These are Trinis of a kind and caring disposition, who only occasionally mock others, and always in an affectionate manner.

A category 2 Trini is much more common. Adept at tomfoolery and jackassery, these Trinis are skilled at mischief. But it is a mischief purely for the sake of mischief, lacking the political consciousness of a category 3 Trini.

A category 3 Trini is the strangest Trini, and differs from a category 2 Trini in only 2 respects: it channels its mischief toward political ends (usually the genocide of all Guyanese) and puts aside the Trini's natural fondness for sleep, rum and doubles in favor for a quest for personal mastery (master of a specific field, aesthetic pursuit, the physical body etc etc). 

But Darren Bravo embodies a new blend of all 3 previous categories; he epitomizes a kind of half-assed politicism ("I hate my boss!"), half-assed personal mastery (a declining batting average), and half-assed mischief ("I didn't tweet it!"). In this respect, Bravo represents a very new - and dangerous - type of postmodern Trini.

If Bravo were a classic "mamaguy" (from Spanish "mamar gallo", "to make a monkey of"), he would have proudly dissed Cameron to his face. Witness how Denesh Ramdin, a classic category 2 Trini, simultaneously dissed King Viv and the Queen's English ("Talk Nah Viv"). This was proud, joyous Trini behaviour.

Conversely, if Bravo were a classic category 3 Trini, like Stokely Carmichael, the Trinidadian activist who practically started the black power movement in the United States (it took a Trini to teach black Americans how to annoy Uncle Sam), or Shivnarine Chanderpaul, a Trini (DNA testing confirms this) who achieved Zen mastery, he would have fashioned both his body and mind into serious tools.

But no, in seeking to be all Trinis, Bravo has flooded his veins with too much Trini. These are contradictiory qualities which no mortal Trini can sustain. And so Bravo types delicious crap, but can't maintain it for more than 140 characters. He bats sexy, but can't sustain it above a 30-something average. He disses his boss, but remains quintessentially bourgeois. In a sense, Bravo is a jackass of all trades, and a master of none. And this is a dangerous thing, because at the very least, a Trini should pride himself in the mastery of jackassery. For jackassery is always a revolutionary act, either when aimed at a wholly absurd cosmos - a universe whose malevolence and absurdities the Trini defiantly parrots back to the heavens - or when aimed at goofy idiots like Cameron. But Bravo refuses to take up this sacred mantle.

And so, in retrospect, the most Trini moment in West Indies cricket was not Lendl Simmons and his sex tape (in bedding Miss Ho, Lendll maintains the Trini tradition for cunning wordplay), or Sunil Narine's masterful transformation into a T20 opener (more Trini wordplay: Narine, named after Gavaskar, unleashed his secret T20 powers on Indian soil), or Phillip Simmon's genius ploy to get fired as WI coach after collecting his pay cheque, or Pollard and Dwayne Bravo's Indian walkout, or Ramdin's placard, or Darren's tweet, or the Lara mafia's attack on Shiv's record, or...well, we could go on and on with Trini examples, because Trinis always go on and on...

No, the greatest Trini act in recent times was Darren Sammy's dissing of Cameron in front of the whole world immediately after winning a second World Cup. That is true, righteous Trini behaviour.

Speaking of Trini behaviour, let me tell you about the time...

Indeed he does ! I never knew there was an origin 

very good Trinny D.  you break my angst over losing at the track today.  I have to take a minute to digest this

I am 46 years  rusty with my Trinnydadiansim.  I have to ketch up ::LOL:: ::LOL:: ::LOL::