Thursday, March 10, 2016

Quick reaction to the CNN debate



Cruz outstanding.....Rubio had a good night....Kasich has broad appeal....Trump didn't Trump


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Nick Martinez and Chi Chi Gonzalez fight for the 5th rotation spot

The Texas Rangers will start their defense of the AL West in a few weeks.    


Let me tell you about Nick Martinez and ChiChi Gonzalez, a couple of young pitchers who are trying to make the rotation.    

Nick and ChiChi grew up in South Florida and remember their Cuban roots in this MLB story: 
"Martinez, 25, is 17 months older than Gonzalez, and they grew up a couple hours apart in south Florida. They didn't know each other back then, but the common denominator is their families both came from Cuba, and they have strong feelings about their shared heritage. "Absolutely, that's where we both came from," Martinez said. "My grandfathers did a lot to get here and provide my parents with an education. In turn, they gave me a good education. Yeah, it means a lot to us." "If my grandfather hadn't gotten on that plane, I wouldn't be here," Gonzalez said. "Who knows, maybe I would have defected by boat. Maybe a dolphin would have brought me to shore.    But my Cuban heritage is very important.""
We don't know which one will break camp in the bullpen or as a starter.

We do know that both earned a lot of respect in 2015 filling in for injured starters and giving the manager a lot of valuable innings.

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Cuba to Obama: Who said we’re changing?



What a week so far for President Obama’s foreign policy.  
First, Iran tests two missiles and threatens to get out of the nuclear deal. Hello VP Biden, and enjoy your visit to Israel.
Second, the Cuban state media put out an editorial ahead of President Obama’s visit. Here it goes:
In a long editorial on Wednesday in Communist Party newspaper Granma and other official media, Cuba demanded Washington cease meddling in its internal affairs and said Obama could do more to change U.S. policy.
The March 20-22 visit from Obama comes 15 months after he and Cuban President Raul Castro agreed to end more than five decades of Cold War-era animosity and try to normalize relations.
They have restored diplomatic ties, and Obama has relaxed a series of trade sanctions and travel restrictions, leading Republican opponents and even some of the president’s fellow Democrats to question whether Washington was offering too much without any reciprocation from Havana.
But the editorial made it clear that Cuba still has a long list of grievances with the United States, starting with the comprehensive trade embargo. Obama wants to rescind the embargo but Republican leadership in Congress has blocked the move.
Cuba also objected to U.S. support for its political dissidents, whom some Americans consider champions of human rights but whom the Cuban government views as an unrepresentative minority funded by U.S. interests.
“(The United States) should abandon the pretense of fabricating an internal political opposition, paid for with money from U.S. taxpayers,” the nearly 3,000-word editorial said.
Let me translate: Americans we want your tourists and their dollars, we want to send you baseball players as long as Castro Inc owns their contracts, we want you to end the embargo, leave Guantanamo but forget all of this stuff about human rights. After all, who ever said that this was about human rights anyway?    
It is embarrassing and in your face, Obama. However, this is what you get when negotiate out of weakness and demand nothing from a dictator desperately looking for a bailout.   
We had the cards and Obama threw them all away!   
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Obama's trip to Cuba and other US-Latin America stories of the week





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