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Baseball

dameatball

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1. Don't we have Russians playing in the NHL and Chinese playing in the NBA? I don't follow either much

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Wed Dec 19, 2018, 04:58 PM

Dec 2018

so why is it so hard to get a Cuban into the country to play baseball? Those people love baseball. What f**kin century are we in? Heck I wouldn't mind a trip to Cuba on my (relatively small) bucket list. My son can go to Cuba on a church missionary trip but a Cuban baseball player has to go through a third nation to come here?? Ridiculous.

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MLB, Cuban Baseball Federation reach agreement that will eliminate need for players to defect [View all] Eugene Dec 2018 OP

Don't we have Russians playing in the NHL and Chinese playing in the NBA? I don't follow either much dameatball Dec 2018 #1

Yeah. We have an embassy in Havana, why can't it process visas. Blue_true Dec 2018 #2

Not to mention that the trade embargo ended Cuban sugar imports and helped to f' up the Everglades. dameatball Jan 2019 #3

It is politics. Republicans need votes of old Cubans and some of their grandchildren. Blue_true Jan 2019 #4