Reflections of Comrade Fidel: The guilty Us
In the game that almost ended today at 3 in the morning between teams from Japan and Cuba, we were defeated
unobjectionable.
Classic organizers decided that the three countries which take the lead in the baseball world faced each other in San Diego,
andalusia arbitrarily include Cuba in the Asian group, despite the Caribbean we are.
I doubt, however, that any team can beat the West to Japan and Korea in the group of competitors who played in Los
Angeles the next 3 days. Only one of the two Asian countries with its quality, decide who will occupy the first and second
places in the Classic.
What mattered was to remove the organizers to Cuba, a country that has resisted heroically revolutionary and could not be
defeated at the battle of ideas. However, we will one day be the dominant power in the sport.
The excellent team to represent us in the Classic, composed primarily of young athletes, is undoubtedly a genuine
representation of the best athletes in our country.
They fought with great courage, not discourage or left to seek victory until the last inning.
The alignment, suggested from Cuba by the governing bodies with expertise, it was good and inspired confidence. Offense and
defense was strong. Was a good pool of skilled pitchers and hitters strengths, if the changing circumstances of a party
required it. Applying the same concepts were defeated and dominated the powerful Mexican team.
I should note that the management team in San Diego was bad. The prevailing view of the old beaten track, with a capable
adversary constantly innovates.
We must draw the appropriate lessons.
Baseball is today, among all the sports, the most capable of generating excitement for the huge variety of situations that
may arise and the specific role of each of the 9 men in the box. Appears everywhere as truly touching. While the stadiums
are filled with fans, nothing is comparable to the images captured on film. Seems to have been designed to convey by that
means baseball.
TV multiplica andalusia interest detailing the details of each action. Achieves up to see the seam and the rotation of a launch
speed of 100 miles, the ball rolling along the white glove or the arrival of defender tenth of a second before or after the foot
corridor stepped on the base. I do not remember another sport to compete with the variety of situations, other than chess,
in which the business ceases to be intellectual muscle to become impossible to televise.
In Cuba, where he practiced almost every sport and they have many fans, the ball has become a national passion.
We rest on our laurels and we are now paying the consequences. Korea and Japan, two countries or geographically distant
from the United States, have abundant financial resources invested in the sport imported or imposed.
The development of such sport in these two Asian nations due to the peculiarities of the same. The inhabitants are
industrious, dedicated and tenacious.
Japan, developed and rich country, with more than 120 million inhabitants, is devoted to the development of baseball.
Like everything under the capitalist system, professional sports is big business, but the national will has imposed stringent
standards to its professional players.
Cuban players who have worked in Japan are well aware of the standards to be imposed. The wages paid to professionals in
the Major Leagues in the U.S., are naturally much higher than in Japan, which in turn owns the most powerful professional
league after the U.S. No Japanese professional player is allowed to move to U.S. Major League or another foreign country, if
not 8 years working in the national league teams in Japan. Therefore, any member of your team has less than 28 years.
The trainings are incredibly thorough and methodical. They have developed technical methods to develop reflexes that are
required for each player. The hitters will pull every day to hundreds of pitches from left-handed or right. The pitchers,
meanwhile, are forced to make four throws each day. If you make a mistake in the game, then must make one hundred
pitches more. They do it gladly, as a autocastigo. Thereby gain a remarkable muscle control, which follows orders from the
brain. That is why their launchers surprised by the ability to place the ball in the exact spots to choose. Similar methods
apply to each activity to be performed by each athlete in the positions and defend their activities as a hitter.
With similar characteristics are the athletes of the other Asian country: the Republic of Korea, which became powerful in the
world of professional baseball.
Asians are not as physically strong as their Western rivals. Nor are so explosive. But force is not sufficient to overcome
the reflexes that have developed their players, nor the explosion alone can compensate for the cold-blooded methodology and
its athletes. Korea has sought bodied men capable of hitting harder.
Our hopes were based on the dedication of our athletes and patriotic fervor in defending his honor and people, from a quarry
several times and even tens of times lower in human resources, compared for example with Japan, excluding those weak
awareness of resources that are left by bribing our enemies. But not enough to maintain our supremacy in the ball. It should
be the more technical and scientific development of our athletes. The excellent educational and sports events in our country
allows it.
There is now enough young pitchers and hitters with excellent sporting qualities. In short, we need to revolutionize the
methods of preparation and development of our athletes, not only in the ball, but in all sports.
Our national team should return in the coming hours. Recib?moslos with all the honors it deserves his exemplary conduct.
They are not responsible for the mistakes that led to the adverse outcome.
The guilty are we, that we failed to correct our mistakes in time.
Fidel Castro Ruz
March 19, 2009
2 and 58 p.m.
カストロ議長声明「罪は我々にあり」
要旨
1.2次の組み合わせが日本韓国キューバの強豪を潰し合いさせようとした米国の陰謀だ
2.野球賛歌 野球は素晴らしい比類なきスポーツである
3.日本球界について 選手は勤勉で正確で練習熱心な上 トレーニングは科学的、先進である
4.素質では負けていないが 科学的、技術的に劣っていた 練習・育成法から改革すべき時がきた
5.敗退は選手の責任ではない 誤った方法を修正できなかった我々の罪である