ernment allocates the substantial earnings provided by hundreds of players , coaches , trainers and baseball specialists who are hired from abroad through state contracts . One possible answer could be inferred from the public statement made by one of the greatest players and captains of our national team , Antonio Pacheco , at the sports show " Al duro y sin guante " [ Hardball without glove ] ( Radio and TV Martí ): " The Cuban baseball is led by a mafia headed by Antonio Castro ". Because of that , Cuban authorities abusively and arbitrarily stripped Pacheco from his welldeserved titles of Cuban Sporting Glory and Illustrious Son of Santiago de Cuba . However , Pacheco is not the only one who thinks so . Other outstanding players have expressed the same issue and it is the saying most heard among the fans , who increasingly open and massively also point out that the white mafia led by a son of Fidel Castro allowed access to very few black cronies , seen as traitors to their socio-racial group and people . How could it be otherwise ? Precisely this white mafia boss is in charge of all negotiations with the MLB and was trying to be recognized as a mediator in the process of recruiting Cuban baseball players . For months , fears were gravitating about the MLB falling into temptation , given the rich quarry represented by Cuban baseball , but The New York Times has published a story that could put the slave mafia in in the awkward full count of three balls and two strikes : the mafia is in trouble . Now the baseball players residing in Cuba are entitled to enter in personal contracts with MLB clubs . This action was taken into force on March 16 and it ´ s part of the authorizations recently signed by President Obama not only in regards to the baseball players , but of all the Cuban citizens , who do not need any more a middleman to work in and collect salaries from US companies . Before this new regulation , the embargo imposed on the regime demanded that our players should be established outside Cuba in order to be hired by an MLB club . Thusly , they were forced to flee , often by risking his own life in the attempt to evade the surveillance by the political police . That also encouraged the slaveowning head of the Cuban baseball to start negotiations with MLB . He raised hopes of managing the direct sales of players from Cuba to the U . S . through a less complex and less expensive mechanism . These sales would become another millionaire source of foreign exchange for a regime that thrives at the expense of the talent and efforts of its defenseless subjects . Will the white mafia sit still with folded arms after an executive action that practically leaves them out of the game ? They still can by means of dictatorial laws and regulations , decide what the Cuban baseball players can do or cannot do at any time , including with whom to play and how much they can charge for it . The answer goes without saying : the mafia bosses will do something in order to grab a good portion of the benefits . In full count of 3 & 2 , many of the most striking home runs have been connected . It is true that these slavers are not good hitters , they never were , but they are still favored by the fact that they are the exclusive owners of the baseball fields , the balls and the bats , the players and the . game . rules .
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