Rumor circulating around the trading floor right now (2:10 PM EST)
Rumor circulating around the trading floor right now (2:10 PM EST)
Go BLUE!!!
Nothing on the news about it.
http://www.uncoveror.com/castro.htm
Duh....he's been dead since '81.
For every action there is an equal and opposite criticism.
Actually, I think Krivsky just traded Kearns for him.
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'Originally Posted by ochre
Wrong Castro.
You Dolt.
Some people play baseball. Baseball plays Jay Bruce.
Yeah - Fidel can hit!'
Wrong Castro.
You Dolt.
"In my day you had musicians who experimented with drugs. Now it's druggies experimenting with music" - Alfred G Clark (circa 1972)
Everyone knows Fidel has been dead since the mid-1960s - a robot has long ago taken his place.
No. Wait. That was Paul McCartney.
Beni,
What's the effect of the rumor on trading?
Next Reds manager, second shooter. --Confirmed on Redszone.
Fidel was the walrus.
Either him or Francisco Franco. With with SNL News on that one.
Wasn't he a pitcher back in the day?
In the Reds' system nonetheless - ironically enough.Wasn't he a pitcher back in the day?
Some people play baseball. Baseball plays Jay Bruce.
Actually, that is incorrect:
He was also supposedly a Senator and a Yankee as well as a Red. Never happened.Yale professor Roberto González Echevarría noted in his history of Cuban baseball:
I have written a book that I hope will correct some of the views Americans and others have of Cuban baseball. To me, the most vexing example of how lightly and condescendingly the history of Latin baseball is dealt with in the United States involves a story about Fidel Castro that I would like to set straight here once and for all. Every time I mentioned that I was writing a book about Cuban baseball, the first thing Americans said had to do with Fidel's (which is how we Cubans call him, never "Castro") alleged prowess in the sport, and the irony that, had he been signed by the Senators or the Giants, there would have been no Cuban Revolution. The whole thing is a fabrication by an American journalist whose name is now lost, and it is never told in Cuba because everyone would know it to be false. Let it be known here that Fidel Castro was never scouted by any major-league team, and is not known to have enjoyed the kind of success in baseball that could have brought a scout's attention to him. In a country where sports coverage was broad and thorough, in a city such as Havana with a half-dozen major newspapers (plus dozens of minor ones) and with organized leagues at all levels, there is no record that Fidel Castro ever played, much less starred, on any team. No one has produced even one team picture with Fidel Castro in it. I have found the box score of an intramural game played between the Law and the Business Schools at the University of Havana where a certain F. Castro pitched and lost, 5-4, in late November 1946; this is likely to be the only published box score in which the future dictator appears (El Mundo, November 28, 1946). Cubans know that Fidel Castro was no ballplayer, though he dressed himself in the uniform of a spurious, tongue-in-cheek team called Barbudos (Bearded Ones) after he came to power in 1959 and played a few exhibition games. There was no doubt then about his making any team in Cuba. Given a whole country to toy with, Fidel Castro realized the dream of most middle-aged Cuban men by pulling on a uniform and "playing" a few innings.
When all is said and done more is said than done.
Fidel was the walrus.
Coo-Coo-Cacho
Let's make some noise!
Since he is a professed communist, the "Reds" certainly should have been Fidel Castro's team.
"Hey...Dad. Wanna Have A Catch?" Kevin Costner in "Field Of Dreams."
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