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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