NOW HUGO REALLY HAS TO GO:

Strike Postpones Venezuela Baseball (Associated Press, Dec. 09, 2002)

Players struck the Venezuelan Winter League, prompting some Americans to leave the country.

Venezuela's eight professional baseball clubs decided to postpone games when the strike began Dec. 2. The season will resume "when conditions in the country permit it," Ramon Guillermo Aveledo, president of the Venezuela Professional Baseball League, said Monday.

"You'll hear 'Play Ball!' only when we can guarantee the quality of the game and the safety of the players."

Running the country into the ground and imposing a Marxo-fascist kleptocracy is one thing, but no baseball? Posted by Orrin Judd at December 10, 2002 6:20 PM