Yeah man. The Dream Team in ‘92 was so fucking terrible for basketball too, the US rolling teams by 50+ just killed the sport internationally.

Except the salary cap itself is an artificial construct designed to maintain profits... I mean parity. These are massively profitable enterprises which are built at least in part around the idea of paying their employees as little as they can get away with. The American Dream, really I suppose.

It was only tone deaf for people who usually respond to dog whistles.

“I really don’t want to get into the politics of it”

Why? Because one tiny subset of the American population wants to keep an embargo that outlived its usefulness 40 years ago?

Honest question: How is having one old drunken guy throwing beer at the players a sign of tone-deafness on Obama’s part?

Lebatard wrote a pretty decent article on how to view the game in Cuba, but a glaring problem was his lamenting the “loss” of freedoms in Cuba after the revolution.

I assure you, Rays fans- like their brethren along the eastern seaboard- have most certainly not enjoyed the Bautista regime.

Lord...