The fact that the choice of reinforcements for the second stage of the National Series has caused a certain amount of expectation in the fans is the only sign that the Cuban baseball tournament still takes the interest of someone. Questionable or not, the concentration of the ¨talent¨ points to a kind of cooperativization as apparent escape route for a baseball mired in a crisis of widespread disinterest that just manages to reach the purists of yesteryear. It is clear that the reinforcements are not, not even remotely, a divine creation, but there is neither much more to choose in the current circumstances. The only objectionable thing of the method is seeing Santiago players defending the colors of Havana, or athletes of Villa Clara playing for Pinar del Río is to attend the burial of necessary confrontations in our baseball. Anyway, I assume quietly that any alternative happening to the current structure will hardly exceed it, because all, at this point, are nothing but the adhesive tape that expands the useful life of a spike, and we all know that when you appeal to patches of this nature, your footwear has its days numbered. However, it is impossible to understand...