Word: castro
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...Felix Savon had not already convinced you that a Cuban can throw a punch with the best of them, you must have missed Round 2 of the set-to between the Baltimore Orioles and Fidel Castro's Caribbean fiefdom...
...imagine the thought that crept into Fidel Castro's mind sometime last year: "I would like for Cuba to play baseball against the great New York Yankees!" Except of course that would be embarrassing, since the Yankees are paying quite a bit of money to the Cuban defector Orlando Hernandez. And so the thought became "I would like for Cuba to play baseball against the great Baltimore Orioles!" And on March 28 it was so, when an Orioles team featuring some of the highest-priced talent in the bigs went down to Havana and became the first Major League Baseball...
...Cuban talent pool, which by some estimates contains as many as 75 Major League-caliber players. Currently, Cuban stars can't play in the U.S. unless they defect (and agents will no doubt be circling around the Yards like sharks tonight to encourage that); players hope to convince Castro to allow them to play as long as they continue to live (and pay taxes) in Cuba. But before that, there's the game, and what could be the Cubans' secret weapon: the Orioles left behind a cache of wooden bats for the cash-strapped Cubans accustomed to more durable aluminum...
...real problem here is that the Cuban government isn't willing to accept the consequences of playing an away game. When they're the home team, you play on their home turf. Any baseball team that crumples under fan heckling isn't strong enough to play the game. If Castro thinks his baseball team is tough enough to beat the Orioles, maybe they're tough enough to hear what the fans have...
...real problem here is that the Cuban government isn't willing to accept the consequences of playing an away game. When they're the home team, you play on their home turf. Any baseball team that crumples under fan heckling isn't strong enough to play the game. If Castro thinks his baseball team is tough enough to beat the Orioles, maybe they're tough enough to hear what the fans have...