US Media Used WBC to Assault Havana!!

 While Promoting Wonderful Little Havana!!

    The hugely entertaining and successful 2023 World Baseball Classic ended its 13-day run last night in Miami with Japan beating the United States 3-to-2 in the Championship Game. It started on March 8th featuring the world's Top 20 baseball-loving nations, led by the two richest nations -- USA & Japan. The event included many of the richest and best players in Baseball History, including the highest paid player in history, Mike Trout of the USA, the second highest paid player in history, Mookie Betts of the USA, etc., and it also featured #16 Shohei Ortani of Japan, the best player in baseball history who this year is being paid only $30 million this year by the Los Angeles Angels but, because he becomes a Free Agent after the 2023 season, will become in 2024 the highest paid player in the world.

     Today -- March 22nd-2023 -- the WBC All-Star Team was revealed and it shows that poor Cuba was well represented. Cuba-born Randy Arozarena and Cuba-born Yoan Moncada made the WBC All-Stars. Randy, the great young outfielder for the Tampa Bay Rays, led Mexico to the Semi-Finals of the WBC in Miami and Yoan, the great switch-hitter for the Chicago White Sox, led Cuba to the Semi-Finals of the WBC in Miami.

  Yes, because Yoan Moncada had the courage to play for Cuba in the World Baseball Classic, Cuba reached the Semi-Finals in Miami after winning the 5-team WBC Pool A in faraway Taiwan and then winning its Quarter-Final game in faraway Japan. The photo on the right shows Yoan Moncada then arriving at the Miami Airport to lead Cuba in the WBC Semi-Finals to play the star-studded and ultra-rich Team USA in a sold-out and hostile venue for the Cuban players, especially for Yoan who had the courage and audacity to play for Team Cuba in the shadow of Miami's Little Havana neighborhood. Intimidated and rudely attacked -- in sharp contrast to how they were treated in Taiwan and Japan -- Yoan and Team Cuba lost 14-to-2 to Team USA on the very unfair soil of Little Havana/Miami.

    This Little Havana/Miami photo by the Associated Press was published in many U. S. newspapers and widely used on the various Fox News platforms to explain how the Cuban players were wonderfully assaulted as they tried to play Team USA in the WBC Semi-Finals in Little Havana/Miami. The rich and politically powerful Counter Revolutionary Cubans in Miami since 1959 have been virtually unopposed in wildly promoting how the Batista-Mafia rule of Cuba was WONDERFUL in the 1950s and how TERRIBLE Cuba has been since 1959 while the USA and Little Havana have tried so hard for six decades to starve, terrorize, and otherwise try to overthrow the Revolution.

    Cuba's hero in the island's smashing WBC victories in Taiwan and Japan, Yoan Moncada was treated like Public Enemy #1 when he arrived in Little Havana/Miami for the WBC Semi-Finals. It, of course, says more about the U. S., the U. S. media, Batista, the Mafia, and Little Havana/Miami than it says about Yoan Moncada, Cuba, and the Cuban Revolution. But most of all, as a Democracy-loving American, I believe it reveals the greatest weakness of the world's richest and strongest nation, and that is its propaganda-crazed mainstream media. Like the U. S. Founding Fathers, I believe that Democracy must be allowed to thrive and survive within the parameters of an honest and unbiast meida. And in recent years, many polls have revealed that most Americans "don't trust" the mainstream U. S. Media, nor should they trust it.

    Take, for example, the Top Cuban Headlines today -- March 22nd-2023. Note that the London--based Reuters News Agency today reports the good and the bad aspects of an election Cuba is having. But also note, as always, the propaganda-crazed mainstream U. S. media -- Fox News, ESPN, and the New York Times in this case -- is not about to report anything regarding Cuba except what Little Havana wants reported, even about the World Baseball Classic that thrilled the baseball-loving Cubans on the island, as least until their players had to go to Miami/Little Havana in the WBC Semi-Final round. See above what the propaganda-crazed and jubilant mainstream headlined: "Cuba baseball player defects after team's loss to USA in World Baseball...!!"

    As far as the mainstream U. S. media is concerned, the Big Cuban Story is that, while in Miami, "26-year-old first baseman and catcher Ivan Prieto Gonzalez of Team Cuba" defected to Little Havana/Miami, as shown above as reported by Fox News, which still mightily loves Batista and still cries every night about the 1959 Cuban Revolution. Actually, "Ivan" never played for Team Cuba in the WBC. He was only the Bullpen Catcher that warmed up relief pitchers. Team Cuba did play three catchers in the WBC and none of them defected {yet} despite lofty and constant lures to do so. I mean...if we can't starve and overthrow Revolutionary Cuba after six decades, let't keep luring more of them to rich and powerful Little Havana USA!!!

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