{"id":196719,"date":"2019-04-12T19:22:29","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T23:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=196719"},"modified":"2019-04-12T19:22:29","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T23:22:29","slug":"agreement-with-mlb-cancelled-the-anxiety-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/sports\/baseball\/agreement-with-mlb-cancelled-the-anxiety-returns\/","title":{"rendered":"Agreement with MLB cancelled, the anxiety returns"},"content":{"rendered":"

“The Cuban players and their families had reason for hope from this deal; that has now been extinguished.” Although these words by <\/span>James Williams<\/span><\/a>, president of Engage Cuba, sound somewhat tragic, they perfectly summarize the bleak outlook Cuban baseball and its relations with the United States will face once the Trump administration cancels <\/span>the agreement with MLB<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The days of generalized anxiety will return, for the players, for their families, for the Cuban Federation, for the MLB and for the fans, the heart of the game, who will be witnesses, once again, of the forced breaking of a host of athletes with their country<\/span><\/p>\n

Nobody wins with this cancellation, except the lobbyists who, just on December 19, 2018, began their pressure to terminate the agreement from its foundations.<\/span><\/p>\n

They started getting involved in political interests, because it\u2019s hard to believe that the hardline group (Mario D\u00edaz-Balart, Marco Rubio, John Bolton, etc.) has any real interest in baseball and the destinies of the Cuban players.<\/span><\/p>\n

In this case, they clung to fragile points of the agreement, such as the fact that it had been negotiated, in principle, under the Obama administration, whose guidelines are now being questioned and rolled back by the White House.<\/span><\/p>\n

Acuerdo Cuba-MLB: reacciones en las dos orillas<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n