To The League Of Toads! "My Girlfriend Is Getting Old" - Momento Deportivo RD

Jesús Mata awarded by Fernando Rodríguez / External Source

By Tuto Tavarez

This is a special Friday, it is Friday January 21st and it is the Day of La Altagracia, of the Full of Grace.

Looking at the rosters of the teams that will participate in the League of Sapos, I remembered a song that Ricardo Arjona wrote to his mother

One of the verses says: My girlfriend is getting old on me/And it’s taking her a while to walk.

Reviewing the rosters of the League of Toads that begins this Saturday, I see that many sports writers are getting old.

This league, whose tyrant, excuse me, president, is Franklin Peralta. It emerged as something recreational for sports writers, family members, and some friends.

Of the pioneers there are few left and new battalions command in the League that alludes to the batrachians with sprouted eyes. And speaking of bulging eyes, for health reasons Jesús Mata will not play. But Fernando Rodríguez came from NY and brought him his award for all the sticks he has given.

The stars of yesterday are not: Virgilio Cepeda, Nakin González, Carlos Manuel Estrella, Pappy Pérez, Elías Wehbe, Santana Martínez, Santiago Dolciné, Fellito Ortiz, Francisco Vicente, among others.

From the old guard are César Delmonte y Consuegra, feared hitter and fast runner, in his 70s.

Bernardo López, the most successful player in the league, will be the manager and player of the Blanco team and, on the other hand, Elisaúl Tineo, of the Reds, so get ready referees, there will be complaints.

Los Blancos Roster: Tule Guareño, José Valverde, Juan Lima, Pedro Almonte, Rafael Baldayac (El Viejo), Rafael “El Chivo” Pérez, who is the scourge of the league, Raffy Pichardo, Paco Pérez, Rafael Enrique Baldayac, Codito Cruz, Luis Domínguez, José Ángel Baldayac (they believe they are the Rojas Alou), Júnior Sued, Jairo Burgos, Wilson Silverio, Bienvenido chaplain, Juan Minaya, Moisés “Melquiel” Peña and the survivors César Consuegra, Darío Fernández and Guillermo Saleta.

Roster of the Reds: Francisco Santos (Nave), Ubaldo Jiménez, Sócrates Polanco, Alejandro Camacho, Elywn Peña (Super Teacher), José Adriano Rodríguez, Isidro Ciriaco, Benjamín Ogando, father and son, Edwin Tineo, Edwin Rodríguez, Maro Vásquez, Marinito Vásquez, Doctor Gonell, Xavier Vargas, Elián Ortiz, Pablo Marte (Negro Peter) and the father and son combination of Leonardo and Leito Aguilera. (The father was a great player in the 60s in the Liga 11 de Enero.

SQUEEZE PLAY: “For money the dog dances and for bread if they give it to him,” a saying…Is there a long way to go until February 27?…Moisés Peña appears on both rosters…He should have registered in one as Moisés and in the other as Melquiel, the Hebrew name of the rescued from the waters…The two managers of the League called me to sign me up…I told him that when a player is bad they say: “That’s a maco”…So, how can a batter who is called El Slugger?…And look, the offers were tempting…The baseball players’ selfie is a variant of Fernando Rodney’s arrow…What’s wrong with that?…I think it’s part of the creativity…Since it doesn’t sound like its numbers, Ozzie Guillén manages it, even if it is detracting from men of the same profession…The ideal would be not to answer…Hey, Big Papi!…I told Ruddy Fernández, when the final was about to start, that whoever won as a visitor was going to take the crown… Let’s hope… He told me “My Tarnished Crystal Ball”, which, Kamikaze in Japanese means divine wind no…For today, out 27.