LOL, Castro says Bush afraid of.........Baseball!!!

[Dr.Phool]

What do you expect from a guy who traded Sammy Sosa for Brownie?

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/baseball/mlb/01/18/cuba.wbc.ap/index.html?cnn=yes

(snip)

"We aren't afraid of anything," Castro said in a wide-ranging speech late Tuesday. "It's very difficult to compete against us in any area ... not even in baseball do they want to compete with Cuba."


Castro's comments appeared to refer to the inaugural World Classic, a 16-team tournament scheduled for March 3-20 and organized by Major League Baseball and its players' union.

The U.S. Treasury Department last month denied MLB's application for Cuba to play its scheduled first-round games in Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory. Later rounds are to be played on the U.S. mainland.

(snip)

The license is required under 45-year-old American sanctions against Cuba aimed at preventing Castro's government from receiving U.S. currency.

After Cuba promised to donate any money it received to victims of Hurricane Katrina, MLB reapplied for a license a second time and is awaiting a response.

(snip)

[CottonBear]

1. Do you think Andy Card told Shrub about this comment? n/t

[malaise]

2. He's right

http://www.athens2004.com/en/resultsBaseball/results

Cuba has been World Champs a whopping 24 times
http://english.people.com.cn/200408/26/eng20040826_154845.html

[Lisa]

3. I'm impressed -- they've interviewed people from his childhood!

What do you know ... he IS afraid of the ball.

"He did give me a few names, some of whom I suppose he thought would be innocuous or flattering. His Little League coach was one of those, and he turned out to be symbolically perfect. This elderly gentleman, out in Midland, was saying things that were really indicative of Bush as an adult. He said, "He wasn't the best Little League player in the world, he was almost afraid of the ball, but he was in on every play. He was just always there." He couldn't hit to save his life, apparently, but he was the catcher - you always need a catcher, the catcher is in on every play."
http://www.bushfiles.com/10_29_99/bush_lit_102900.htm

[chat_noir]

4. now if someone called a Democrat "a catcher", the FReepers would be on it

He couldn't hit to save his life, apparently, but he was the catcher - you always need a catcher, the catcher is in on every play."

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