HOW ABOUT A TRADE?

Cuban baseball star and coach defect (BBC, 5 October, 2002)

The Cuban authorities have confirmed that one of the country's top baseball players, Jose Ariel Contreras, and the coach of the national team, Miguel Valdes, have defected.

The two men disappeared during the Americas Series baseball tournament in Mexico. They failed to appear for a match on Thursday against Venezuela.

The Cuban Baseball Federation branded both of them traitors in a statement announcing their desertion.

So how come when all these liberals--Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins, Jessica Lange, Robert Altman, David Bonior, Jim McDermott--go overseas and denounce us they never defect? If we're so bad why do they all come back? Posted by Orrin Judd at October 5, 2002 1:55 PM