Interesting how the Cuban news service packages news..

[Stan]

Glory to the good!

Reflections by Comrade Fidel

Our delegation was received early this morning with the recognition and

the honors it deserves. Esteban Lazo and Frederich Cepeda spoke. There

was Raúl, who had made them standard-bearers during the ceremony at the

Palace of the Revolution.

They were given a copy of my reflection which had been printed today in

Granma and inserted in CubaDebate.

I spoke about the technology and discipline introduced to baseball by

Japan, about the efforts a nation with no less than 10.4 times Cuba’s

population, where one also had to discount “the weak of conscience that

let them be bribed by our enemies”.

Of the 73 who flew to Mexico and San Diego, two poor devils did not

return home.

One was editing video material on baseball for Cuban National

Television. It was pitiful to hear his lament published in the cables.

He sighed that the only thing sad about it was that his dear mother and

beloved girlfriend hadn’t traveled with him. He had left the very first

day that the delegation arrived in San Diego.

The other one was writing in Juventud Rebelde on the same subject. This

one had traveled several times but he was waiting for the Classic to

carry out his felony. He was constantly glued to the team. He was

positively ridiculous. Two hours before they left for the airport to

return home, he disappeared.

What a couple of repulsive fakes they are, incubated by capitalist

ideology!

Those cases are useful to put the spotlight on the merit of the athletes

making up our honorable national team, prepared to give their lives for

the Homeland.

Of course, guys like those cannot sow a single grain of conscience.

What a load of silliness they must have published about baseball;

instead of guidance, they only confuse!

All of them are not like Bobby Salamanca or Eddy Martin, who offered

such noble testimony about our great sports victories.

Glory to those who devote their lives to building the honor and love of

the Homeland!

Glory to the good!

Fidel Castro Ruz