January 25, 2006
Decision prediction
In the next couple of days, remember the following quote that was all over the news vis a vis the Cuban baseball team being allowed to play in the World Baseball Classic:
It's not about politics! It's about baseball!
We heard or read that particular quote from every single proponent of allowing Cuba to travel to the US to play in the WBC.
Lock it into memory.
Because I hereby predict that fidel castro will use the World Baseball Classic and his National Baseball Team, along with all his media monkeys as leverage against the US Interests Section's news ticker.
Time it. I guarantee it will happen. And get ready for the media blitz.
Synchronize your watches, folks. Pretty soon we'll get to hear the media backspin on how fidel castro is, in fact, allowed to turn the baseball event into a political issue.
Posted by Val Prieto at January 25, 2006 10:45 AM
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Can you explain further? I have no doubt that the press will be duped at every turn. But all it would take would be one defection to turn the story our way.
Posted by: j.scott barnard at January 25, 2006 12:14 PM
Scott,
I guess I should have been a bit less cryptic. In a nutshell:
Si ticker, no baseball.
No ticker, si baseball.
Posted by: Val Prieto at January 25, 2006 12:18 PM
Well if I had just waited long enough to read it in another post...
"You know how this is going to be played? Wait for the decision from fidel to not play because of the news ticker. And then, the ensuing media barrage of criticism of Parmly, the US Interests Section and the evil Miami Mafia."
Thanks. I think you might be on to something.
Posted by: j.scott barnard at January 25, 2006 12:22 PM
Val you are exactly right. And we've already heard the rumblings from other 'Western States' about how unprecedented the ticker is blah blah blah... the useful idiots are already lining up for this one. How dare we subject the communist nation to uncensored info. The depth the world will sink to in the name of anti-Americanism is truly horrifying.
Posted by: ziva at January 25, 2006 12:28 PM
Castro is so scared of the news ticker that early this morning Cuban slaves started building a wall to try to block Cubans from seeing it.
See the photos and the details at:
www.therealcuba.com
Posted by: George at January 25, 2006 12:37 PM
Actually I predict that if the Cuban team comes here - they defect to America!
Posted by: Kathleen A at January 25, 2006 06:48 PM
