Indian Cricket superstar Sachin Tendulkar has a new book coming out. It’s one of those $3,000, gold leaf book filled mostly with around 1,000 pictures.
The rumor going around was that the pages of the book were contain traces of his blood. That rumor has been squashed by Tendulkar himself. While it’s a creative idea, it’s also very creepy. It’s sort of like wearing a vile of blood around your neck. Romantic in a sort of vampiry way.
Which is fine if you’re watching True Blood, but as for me, I like my vampires to remain fiction.
But try to think of a better reason why Tendulkar wouldn’t want his blood distributed around the world. Read his bio real quick.
His career arc reads like this: he was great, but in his late-twenties/early-thirties he was slowed by injuries and became inconsistent. For a few years his career seemed to be in constant decline. He was booed for the first time. Media was calling for his retirement. Then he had a shoulder surgery and suddenly came back better than ever.
He is in the middle of a career high point, a second wind, if you will. In his late thirties.
I don’t know, but his career kinda sorta sounds like this guy. Or this guy. And especially this guy.
Hard to imagine Barry Bonds distributing his blood to the masses during the height of his season of 73*. But they’d never use steroids or HGH to be better at cricket would they? Of course they would.
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