I have a best friend that has season tickets to the Tampa Bay Rays games. He attends about a third of the games. I can his tickets for free any time he is not using them. Great seats.
I use to go to the games all the time. Probably 20 times a year. I love baseball.
However, a few years ago MLB sent the Rays down to Cuba to perform in front of Castro and that shithead Obama. How despicable was that!
Not at all. Why would it be "despicable"?
You're sitting here claiming to be an at least occasional baseball spectator and somehow you've muddled all the way into 2021 not knowing that baseball is madly popular in CUBA??
Then you prolly don't know that Fidel Castro was a baseball fan and at one time a player.
Speaking of Cuba, since Jackie Robinson's name has been invoked in this topic, guess where he did Spring Training that year.
>> When Jackie Robinson trained with the Montreal Royals in Daytona Beach, Florida, in the spring of 1946, Branch Rickey began to witness some of the racial confrontations he had feared. Trying to avoid as much of this as possible while preparing Robinson for his major-league debut, Rickey cited
Cuba’s passion for baseball and its easy access from the mainland as two good reasons for the Brooklyn Dodgers to hold training camp there in 1947. Another valid reason, no doubt, was the fact that
blacks had been playing baseball in Cuba since the turn of the century. A city that had seen the likes of
Oscar Charleston,
Josh Gibson, and
Satchel Paige appeared safe from any social upheaval at the sight of the Dodgers rookie. << --
Spring Training in Havana
Get that? There was never a "color line" in Cuba like there was here for sixty years. Yet somehow they're "despicable" and we're not. Doesn't that say a lot.