Trump nukes MLB Cuba deal

[A Boy Named Seo]

This is a couple days old, but pretty newsworthy.



https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/2019/04/08/mlb-cuba-agreement-cancel-trump-administration/3403971002/https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/2019/04/08/mlb-cuba-agreement-cancel-trump-administration/3403971002/



Trump squashes a posting system MLB worked out with Cuba. The administration would apparently rather see dudes jumping fences in the middle of the night and hopping on a raft than support a posting system that, according to Marco Rubio, amounts to paying the Cuban government ransom for baseball players.



Discuss.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

He's a ****

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: He's a ____

I meant to say "Count"

[seawolf17]

"Instead, Cuban ballplayers looking to jump to the United States must sign with the new Trump American Freedom Baseball Management Company, which will guarantee contracts with a major league club as long as they give [CROSSOUT]him[/CROSSOUT] the company a 90% cut of that contract."

[A Boy Named Seo]

Yeah, counts everywhere. This guy, too.

"The U.S. does not support actions that would institutionalize a system by which a Cuban government entity garnishes the wages of hard-working athletes who simply seek to live and compete in a free society," said Garrett Marquis, a National Security Council spokesman.

Instead, these working athletes who simply seek to live and compete in free society can continue to play in Cuba where they will essentially have no wages for the government to garnish, and when they show up here seeking a safe place to live and work, well, we know how that's gonna go.