Castro Says U.S. is Afraid to Play Cuba in Baseball

Cuban President Fidel Castro accused the U.S. government of being afraid to let the Cuban national baseball team play at the World Baseball Classic, which is to be held in Puerto Rico and then in the U.S. itself.

Castro should be thanking the American government for considering not letting the Cuban team play: by the time the tournament is underway, the entire Cuban team will have defected to this country, as so many other Cuban baseball players have.

It would be so sad if the Cubans were to forfeit due to their entire team showing up in the Cuban exile communities in Florida en masse. . and they had signed major league baseball contracts in hand. The Cuban coach and Castro would have so much egg in their faces!

So it's only out of a sense of sportsmanship that the U.S. government may not want the Cuban team to show up, Mr. Castro. They want the Cubans to field a team elsewhere so that the U.S. team won't have to accept a forfeit from the Cubans due to lack of an entire team!

(I know, it's the embargo, but this was too good of an opportunity to pass up!)