.A Yield of Dreams
"I hate to say I told you so, but...I told you so.Sorry Jeffrey but this is the way the ball usually bounces for us Cubans. "No cheeseburger for you"
My biggest problem with allowing the Cuban national team to play in the US has been that it would make us complicit - accessories if you will - with the way the Cuban ballplayers are treated by their government. It is like a little piece of the island, with its lack of freedom of thought, lack of freedom of expression, lack of freedom of speech and apartheid has been allowed entry into this country. The Cuban ballplayers arent allowed to mingle with other players. They arent allowed to go out and have a nice dinner after a game. No nightclubs, no sightseeing and especially no talking to the press or fans of the game.
Yet it gets worse.
Since Thursday's incident with a Cuban exile displaying signs reading "Abajo fidel" and "Baseball players yes, tyrants no" and fidel castro's subsequent complaints, threats to withdraw from the tournament and impromtu rally in protest in Havana on Friday, now Bud Selig and Major League Baseball have banned freedom of speech and expression in the stands where WBC games are being played. No posters or signs of a political or ideological nature will be allowed to be displayed.
MLB goes communist folks.
I told you so."
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posted by madtom at 2:00 PM
2 Comments:
madtom,
Man, BASEBALL caves to Castro?! No freedom of speech allowed so we don't offend the sensitivities of the Generalissimo?!!!
Phew!
Un-be-lievable.
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Welcome to the world of exile Cuban, it's almost like the PAU, were the gangsters of Miami. If it not one thing it's the other, like Bush busting the embargo, or drilling for oil of the cost of Cuba, or the MSM platitudes towards the regime. This is no different were used to it, and sort of expected it. One good thing to come of this is that we know we have some friends in PR!
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