I Am Proud To Be Among The Outdated Journalists - Momento Deportivo RD

Chichí Valdez and El Tojito / External Source

By Tuto Tavárez

Up-to-date versus stayed sports chroniclers

Wow! According to one of Lidom’s voices, sportswriters are divided between updated and stayed.

The former are those who dominate the networks and the latter are those who arrived before this digital age.

If not being cybernetic is being left, raised both hands and even accept the crown of the king of the left.

Having arrived in the era of Papi Pimentel, Domingo Saint-Hilaire, Apolinar Medina Díaz, Félix Bruno, Reynaldo Filpo, Bullo Steffany, Héctor García and many more, makes me feel proud.

Still being able to learn from men like Ramón De Luna, Rolling Fermín, Virgilio Cepeda, Fellito Ortiz, Carlos Manuel Estrella, Pappy Pérez and other old men, is a privilege.

But I have an advantage over everyone who may be linked to Lidom, I am not attached to anything other than my sincere family and friends.

I have more than a decade working in the press department of the Águilas Cibaeñas and I enter the Cibao stadium with my back, so if it sends me home I don’t have to turn around.

I was one of the pioneers in the Superior Basketball of Santiago and one day I said, no more and cross and line.

When my employer understands that I do not meet the requirements, because I am staying, I simply leave.

On March 22, it will be 67 years and at that age, the one who has to beg, has long since buried his dignity. Little one, but never on your knees!

Ah, I saw a tweet that they sent me where it says: “Lidom considers the sports chronicle as the black sheep of the tournament.”

I will only tell you that it does not matter if the sheep is black or white, the important thing is that it is milk.

Postscript: if you are going to answer or insult me, please do so by post, the postman knows my address and will not have to call twice.

SQUEEZE PLAY: A cycadid is an insect … There is a long way to go until February 27? … In the previous installment I spoke about César Cerda (El Tojo) … Chilote Llenas tells me that he saw him playing and that he was “El Tojito” because he was small … But, El Tojito was a pepper on the court according to Chilote … That is why he is considered by many to be the best basketball player in Santiago in 1950 and 1960 … El Tojito is the brother of the teacher Divina Cerda, who taught at the Escuela Venezuela to Chilote and possibly to me … A surprising fact Martín Lajara told me … El Tojito went to play a series between Santiago and San Francisco de Macorís … Do you know who played with the city of Jaya? … Yaqui Núñez del Risco … Lajara tells me that Yaqui He ate Tojito…! Gee!… Be careful if he was talking… Here I illustrate with a recent photo, where Antonio Valdez and El Tojito appear in New York City…! the engineer Eulogio Santaella is alive and was his professor at the university d… Also, Professor Porfirio Justo is alive from that group… He told me “My Foggy Crystal Ball”, the following: “May your culture be fruitful, your judgment deep and your taste relevant. Take into account that at twenty, the willful rules, at thirty, your conscience, at forty, judgment ”, taken from El arte de la prudencia, by Baltasar Gracián… For today, out 27.