Sucks to be Cuban

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The World Baseball Classic just wrapped up, and the Japanese Team really stuck it to Team Cuba, sending them back to their impoverished island nation with a score of 10 to 6, with 4 coffin nail runs coming from Japan in the 9th inning.

Cuba tried to rally a couple of times in the game, and kept sending in relief pitchers- Eight in all- just enough to give all of its Cuban fans a little bit of hope. Those fans, who gathered together in a public park in Havana- because they can’t afford televisions in the People’s paradise- saw their last hopes of anything resembling happiness crushed by the Japanese team.

During the game, ESPN accidentally caught sight of one of the many signs that declared “A free Cuba in Our Generation!,” but it cut quickly away to Japanese fans waving their rising sun flags in the crowd.

After the game, you could see men dressed in black, which one can only suppose were Cuban political officers, covering the dugout exits to ensure that no Cuban players tried to make a dash to freedom. The Cuban team would certainly have to go back to Cuba to be forced to apologize to the Cuban people for their heartbreaking performance on Monday night.

Congrats to Team Japan and to the Japanese people for a great win in a hard-fought baseball game. And Team Cuba- it sucks to be you.