Castro today confirmed that Cuba will be at the WBC in Puerto Rico pending the necessary travel visas.
Cuba will play well, even though they have stolen many of our good players. I won’t say we are the best. We have proven it, we have beaten them,” Castro said. (Cuba won gold medals at the Olympics in Barcelona in 1992, Atlanta in 1996 and Athens in 2004.) “They have taken away a lot of the best pitchers offering them millions of dollars
The millions of dollars are helpful but maybe the players defected to get out of your crazy communist country with human rights violations and poverty. Sorry, didn’t mean to get all Bono on you guys.
[MLB.com]: Castro: Cuba will play in WBC
