Posted on 11/19/2007 12:21:07 PM PST by goldstategop
or the first time since 1974, the U.S. won baseball's World Cup. And to put the whip cream and cherry on top, we also ended Cuba's winning streak of nine straight titles. The U.S. beat Cuba 6-3. This bodes very well for the U.S. Olympic Baseball Team.
Congrats to Team USA's Jayson Nix and Jason Jaramillo--who got two runs each--and Pitcher Brian Duensing, who was nearly perfect through the first three innings, yielding just one hit. In the past, Cuba has engaged in dirty tricks to win, but the U.S. was prepared, according to the Team USA website:
Knowing Cuba has a history of trying to take the completion out of its game by making questionable moves, the USA expected the unexpected and were not at all rattled.
Picture of the Day: I Love These Men in Uniform
I'm sure this was welcome news at the Castro Communist sickbed. Wonder if he'll assign people to whip the beaten Cuba team.
Hmmm . . . Maybe Michael Moore can do a "documentary" on how Cuba's play in the World Cup was really better than ours. And that the sport is really not as American as apple pie (well, he might have an argument there).
U.S.A., U.S.A., U.S.A!
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Speaking of Cuba, I was watching yesterday’s MLS Cup Final, and there was actually somebody in the stands waving a huge flag with a picture of Che Guevara on it. Made me ill.
Great news! Anything to upset Castro, the megalomania dictator suffering from logorrhea not helped by Hollyweird’s fawning, gullible adulation.
USA rules... commies drool!
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
From the article: "In the past, Cuba has engaged in dirty tricks to win ..." What kind of dirty tricks can you engage in during a baseball game?
Has the Cuban team defected yet?
B T T T
An unintended consequence of forcing your worker’s paradise health care system to nationalize baseball bats to serve as splints.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Perhaps the Cubans stole Jobu’s Rum before the game.
Cuban media will have it as the Cuban team finishing SECOND and the USA coming in NEXT TO LAST
What in the hell were our glorious Kennedy Brothers thinking, or smoking between hitting big time on Marilyn Monroe, that has allowed this 'communist' country to exist 90 miles off the coast of Florida?
Today, the commie Chinese are drilling our oil off the Cuban coast!
Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi: crawl out of your leftist sewer before your country goes down the drain!
Ooops. Too late!
Thanks for our demise goes too to our president and vice-president for failing to use their bully pulpits to pull our arses out of the oil abyss.
Up yer butt, Jobu!
“It’s very bad to steal Jobu’s Rum....is very bad.”
How many US players defected to Cuba?
I can’t wait for the Castros to die, for Cuba to open up, and for Major League Baseball to establish a Havana franchise.
Say all the bad things about commies you want, but there is no denying the fact that Cuba produces some kick-ass ball players.
And boxers? Boy howdy!!!!
I'll bump that!
He's also the president who was trysting with a gangster's babe and that's what probably caused his Dallas Demise.
Johnson was just patently evil and was totally incapable of fighting the USSR by proxy.
Damn if we're not still doing it.
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