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8. Do you know why there is no baseball in the Olympics??

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Tue Mar 22, 2016, 01:46 PM

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I'm watching the Cuba v the Tampa Bay Rays baseball game in Havana. They are awaiting Pres. Obama [View all] brush Mar 2016 OP

Thanks! Tuned in on ESPN. Land of Enchantment Mar 2016 #1

Appreciation towards the Castros? oberliner Mar 2016 #2

Most Cubans in Cuba do. Mika Mar 2016 #3

That is total BS oberliner Mar 2016 #5

You have this one wrong malaise Mar 2016 #7

You have no way of knowing that oberliner Mar 2016 #13

Then maybe you don't know the relationship between Cuba and Jamaica n/t malaise Mar 2016 #15

You have no way of knowing what you say. I lived in Cuba. Many of my family live there, I go often Mika Mar 2016 #33

I would guess that most *claim* to. trotsky Mar 2016 #17

What a bigoted and uninformed comment. Mika Mar 2016 #34

LMAO! trotsky Mar 2016 #36

HRW has no observers there. HRW's Cuba reports are based on stories fabricated by Cubanet employees. Mika Mar 2016 #38

Oh I get it. trotsky Mar 2016 #40

A lie goes around the world before truth can get its boots on. Mika Mar 2016 #41

Why don't they have human rights observers in Cuba? trotsky Mar 2016 #42

We go over this on the LatAm forum almost every time a Cuba related event comes up. Mika Mar 2016 #43

Yup, there's the forum. trotsky Mar 2016 #44

For overthrowing the dictator Batista brush Mar 2016 #4

If they don't appreciate it, they get arrested oberliner Mar 2016 #6

I'm talking intellectually, privately, historically do they wonder where Cuba would be . . . brush Mar 2016 #9

Maybe oberliner Mar 2016 #10

There's a lot of free speech in Cuba but one cannot speak badly of Fidel flamingdem Mar 2016 #31

WHAT? This is where we part ways. Mika Mar 2016 #35

Well maybe that's just folklore but I don't think so flamingdem Mar 2016 #39

Much as had happened during the Batista presidency LanternWaste Mar 2016 #20

Do you see Castro in the same light as those two right wing dictators that came before? brush Mar 2016 #25

It seems like that to you, maybe because you don't know. Mika Mar 2016 #37

Do you know why there is no baseball in the Olympics?? malaise Mar 2016 #8

No. Why do I get the feeling you're going to tell me? brush Mar 2016 #11

Is it because Cuba always wins? oberliner Mar 2016 #12

Correct n/t malaise Mar 2016 #16

There is a simple reason for that. Elwood P Dowd Mar 2016 #32

If they bring it back guess the World Baseball Congress event will dissolve brush Mar 2016 #26

Do you have a link? Are you watching on ESPN? flamingdem Mar 2016 #14

Sorry, no link. I'm watching it on ESPN brush Mar 2016 #18

They're about to interview Obama malaise Mar 2016 #19

In the middle of the game? flamingdem Mar 2016 #21

Yep - we're not seeing the game right now malaise Mar 2016 #22

Split screen every now and then malaise Mar 2016 #23

What I love most about Obama malaise Mar 2016 #24

I was thinking the same about his speech, he admitted to the faults of the USA flamingdem Mar 2016 #27

Said that on another thread malaise Mar 2016 #28

I see on twitter that the Cuban pitcher is/was chewing a toothpick flamingdem Mar 2016 #29

Very old school malaise Mar 2016 #30