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MLB’s Political Activism Doesn’t Extend to Cuban Freedom

July 16, 2021 By E.J. Smith - Your Survival Guy

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (July 10, 2012) Sailors assigned to Navy Recruiting District Saint Louis and Navy Operational Support Center, Kansas City, along with Airman assigned to Whitman Air Force Base present a giant American flag before the 2012 major league baseball All-Star Game. More than 30 Sailors and 45 Airman will hold the flag during the singing of the National Anthem and pregame events. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Jason C. Winn/Released)

Magor League Baseball had no problem embroiling itself in the political conflict surrounding Georgia’s new voting law earlier this year, but can’t seem to find time to mention any support for the freedom of Cubans currently suffering under the island’s communist regime. This, despite MLB’s many Cuban players and fans. The league is an influential institution on the island, and its support for those demonstrating for freedom could actually help. Stephen L. Miller discusses MLB’s failure to speak up on Spectator World, writing:

Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game was never supposed to be political. It was designed as a casual gathering of the league’s best players to showcase their best skills. That all changed of course when the MLB decided to move the game out of Atlanta over Democrat calls to boycott the state over Georgia’s new voting law. The decision was rash, illiterate to the text of the law and based mostly on tweets and half-truths from popular celebrity Democrats like Stacey Abrams, along with Georgia senators, who later backtracked.

When the MLB changed its mind, it transformed itself into a political league and its All-Star Game into a political lightning rod. Therefore the league has no excuse for dodging the political issues of the day. Aroldis Chapman who represented the New York Yankees at the All-Star Game certainly didn’t shy away from a hot-button issue: the ongoing protests in Cuba, about which social and sporting institutions have remained mostly silent. Chapman did not, writing ‘SOS Cuba’ and ‘Patria Y Vida’ on his game hat. ‘SOS Cuba’ is a slogan being used by Cuban protesters on social media, who are risking their lives by doing so. ‘Patria Y Vida’ means ‘Homeland and Life’, a direct affront to the Communist government of Cuba’s own slogan ‘Homeland or Death’. Chapman was joined by Texas Rangers outfielder Adolis Garcia in the same gesture. Garcia himself is a Cuban defector.

But the MLB itself remained quiet on Cuba, despite the game’s close ties with Cuban players — President Barack Obama famously attended a game with Raúl Castro in March 2016. Currently there are 34 players of Cuban nationality in Major League Baseball, second only to the Dominican Republic in terms of Latin American representation. There was no display of the Cuban flag or backing from the league for the Cuban people protesting a little more than the ability to mail in a vote without an ID. There was no message of support for the Cuban people over the stadium PA system.

The counter argument here of course is that the MLB should be not be expected to weigh in on every political hot-button issue. Apologies to the uninitiated, but it no longer works that way. The MLB decided its own fate and has earned the criticism for using its support, players and corporate sponsors to put its finger on the political scale. Major League Baseball has far closer ties to the Cuban people than they do Georgia’s voting act — and they can no longer pick and choose their battles when it comes to their own declaration of human rights abuses.

The MLB had a chance to rescue its battered image from moving the All-Star Game by offering even the slightest gesture of support for both its Cuban players, who risked their own lives in defecting to the United States where they live, grow and play professionally and free, and the Cuban people currently risking their lives to depose a brutal 60-year-old communist regime. But the MLB failed to do so on both accounts. Patria Y Vida.

Action Line: If MLB wants to be woke, then it needs to wake up to what’s going on in Cuba. When supposedly nonpartisan institutions like the MLB start taking sides in the culture wars, you need to work even harder to build yourself an island for you and your family.

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E.J. Smith is Founder of YourSurvivalGuy.com, Managing Director at Richard C. Young & Co., Ltd., a Managing Editor of Richardcyoung.com, and Editor-in-Chief of Youngresearch.com. His focus at all times is on preparing clients and readers for “Times Like These.” E.J. graduated from Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, with a B.S. in finance and investments. In 1995, E.J. began his investment career at Fidelity Investments in Boston before joining Richard C. Young & Co., Ltd. in 1998. E.J. has trained at Sig Sauer Academy in Epping, NH. His first drum set was a 5-piece Slingerland with Zilldjians. He grew-up worshiping Neil Peart (RIP) of the band Rush, and loves the song Tom Sawyer—the name of his family’s boat, a Grady-White Canyon 306. He grew up in Mattapoisett, MA, an idyllic small town on the water near Cape Cod. He spends time in Newport, RI and Bartlett, NH—both as far away from Wall Street as one could mentally get. The Newport office is on a quiet, tree lined street not far from the harbor and the log cabin in Bartlett, NH, the “Live Free or Die” state, sits on the edge of the White Mountain National Forest. He enjoys spending time in Key West and Paris. Please get in touch with E.J. at ejsmith@yoursurvivalguy.com
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