Saturday, June 2, 2007

Aren't Cuban atheletes still technically embargoed?

Any educated person isn't really worried about the cigars anymore, hell, most people know that all the good cigar makers in Cuba either moved to the Dominican Republic or some other nearby area, (I will take bets on Florida), after we enacted the trade embargo on their country. What else comes out of Cuba? Well, not a whole lot really, they do make this oak cask rum that you can get over the border in Mexico, I've had stuff that was aged as long as twenty-five years and it was delicious. So there is that, yams too I suppose. Oh yeah, I almost forgot, baseball players, That's right, the one thing the import more of from Cuba than rafts made of doors. Up to our current time, America has had approximately 150 Cuban born baseball players, including the likes of Tony Gonzalez, Jose Canseco and Roberto Ortiz, to name a few. Baseball is the national sport of Cuba and they take it seriously down that way. Fidel Castro, himself, was supposedly an amazing curve ball pitcher back in his college years and even had some U.S. scouts trying to get a look at him. In fact, to this day, major and minor league scouts go to Cuba to see if anyone is worth picking up for an American team. Does this not turn that person into a Cuban fiscal interest with our country thus breaking the 1962 trade embargo? Yes, of course it does. Well I won't claim to be a political genius but, If we are gonna keep taking on baseball players from Cuba, maybe it's about time we found a way to work things out with that little island nation. I do enjoy baseball and think that opening our borders just a hair to a nation that, just is no threat at all to our way of life (read a book, the Cuban missile crisis was such a croc of dook). It could only help us by improving our pitching rotations and helping our batting orders. Of course our country would get flooded with cheep cigars that some dirty player would be selling as Cubans but that is the risk one takes. So either close down all trade and I mean all of it, or, open up those borders once and for all. Not just for baseball and not just for those starving kids on the streets of Havana but, more than anything, because I want that rum. It's just so good and I don't want to have to cross the border for it anymore.

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