Three Cuban Baseball Players Defect In Edmonton, All Of Whom Get Bitchslapped On Fidel’s Blog

So when the venue for the World Baseball Championships was announced, do you think the 79% of the Cuban team that wants to defect just slumped their shoulders simultaneously? Out of all the places in the world, Edmonton, Canada doesn’t seem like the best place to try to defect, even if two players did it eight years ago. But apparently trying to ditch Fidel’s fuzz in the Canadian wilderness didn’t stop team members Raydel Sanchez, Noel Argueilles and Jose Iglesias (and some reports say more) from fleeing the hotel where they were staying at and whose whereabouts are currently unknown. Our money says that they’re at a Tim Horton’s in Vancouver talking about A) how to get into past Mexico before they’re busted and B) how awful the coffee in Canada is.

Major League scout Jay Lapp said Sanchez could already be heading south. “It becomes a matter of getting a player citizenship in one of the Central American countries to become a free agent,” he said.

Well, whatever country does let them in will definitely not feel the back of the veiny, liver-spotted hand of Fidel Castro like Edmonton did on his blog… wait, even Fidel has a blog?

On Friday, former Cuban leader Fidel Castro rebuked Edmonton in an Internet column, calling it a `dumping ground’ for Cuban athletes.

Oh, come now Fidel. You know that you could point to anywhere in the world where a baseball tournament has been held in the past 25 years and say the same thing.
Third Cuban player presumed defected [CTV Edmonton]
Image [CTV Edmonton]