LAST MINUTE: Cuba announced that it will accredit UNOFFICIAL media for the National Series

By Jose Alejandro Rodriguez Zas

On the afternoon of this Monday, February 21, during the usual press conference that takes place in the Adolfo Luque room of the Latin American stadium in Havana, various interesting information about the 61st edition of the National Series was announced. of baseball, according to reported the journalist Boris Luis Cabrera, for the Cubadebate website.

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At the meeting, chaired by the national baseball commissioner, Juan Reinaldo Pérez Pardo, it was reported that the catcher and first baseman from Las Tunas Rafael Viñales was selected as the MVP of the weekahead of Camagüey pitcher Juan Sebastián Contreras and Industriales pitcher Juan Xavier Peñalver.

Similarly, the island’s baseball authorities disclosed some new measures that would be taken in the remainder of the national championship, regarding the use of pitching and the work-rest relationship, as well as for those pitchers that are of interest to the National comission.

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Without a doubt, “the most controversial issue of the day was the sanction of the two players who violated the disciplinary regulations of the competition,” said the quoted note, because such a measure was rejected by “most of the fans” and «Press professionals, who took the opportunity to express their disagreement with some points of the disciplinary regulation».

However, the commissioner ratified the position of the highest leadership of Cuban baseball and reiterated that “before the season began, all athletes and coaches signed the code of ethics and the tournament regulations,” which protects them from ordering sanctions. such as those imposed on third baseman Andrés Hernández and also from Havana who plays for the Gallos de Sancti Spíritus, Alexis Miguel Varona.

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According to Cubadebate, Pérez Pardo explained at the press conference that “accreditation processes of some unofficial media that defend Cuban baseball and its National Series” continue to be carried out, in addition to recording the opinions of the press, authorities and fans to modify some parts of the regulations that require it for the next campaign of Cuban baseball.

Now, several questions arise: what will be these “unofficial media” that can be accredited? What do the commissioner and his board mean by “defending Cuban baseball”? Who are the ones that really harm the series and the national sport of all Cubans with ways of acting brought from the pre-Columbian period? Is defending baseball in Cuba hiding the truth, filling players with limitations and prohibitions, giving absurd answers to direct questions, avoiding the press doing their job or limiting players in their development for being “possible deserters”?

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And you, dear reader, what do you think about it?