Sit Down you COMMIE!!!!

[Boomhauer]

"SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- While Cuba played the Netherlands in the World Baseball Classic, a spectator in the stands raised a sign saying: "Down with Fidel," sparking an international incident that escalated Friday with the velocity of a major league fastball.

The image of the man holding the sign behind home plate was beamed live Thursday night to millions of TV viewers -- including those in Cuba. The top Cuban official at the game at Hiram Bithorn Stadium in San Juan rushed to confront the man.

Puerto Rican police quickly intervened and took the Cuban official -- Angel Iglesias, vice president of Cuba's National Institute of Sports -- to a nearby police station where they lectured him about free speech.

"We explained to him that here the constitutional right to free expression exists and that it is not a crime," police Col. Adalberto Mercado was quoted as saying in El Nuevo Dia, a San Juan daily.

The brouhaha gathered steam Friday when Cuba's Communist Party newspaper, Granma, called the sign-waving "a cowardly incident." Cuba's Revolutionary Sports Movement exhorted Cubans to demonstrate in Havana late Friday, saying U.S. and Puerto Rican authorities were involved in "the cynical counterrevolutionary provocations."

An anti-Castro Web site, therealcuba.com, identified the protester only as Enrique, and carried his own account of the incident.

Enrique said that during the warmup before the game, he flashed another sign denouncing Castro -- this one saying "Baseball players yes, Tyrants no" -- to the Cuban leader's son, Tony Castro, who is the Cuban team doctor.

"He looked down and kept walking and I shouted, 'Eso es para tu papa ('That is for your dad').' ... I know he heard that," Enrique said, according to the account in the Web site.

Mercado said the spectator, and a second one who also waved signs, had tickets for the section behind home plate, but had moved out of their seats so their signs would appear on TV. Cuban state TV was showing the ESPN signal, and the signs were briefly visible on television in Cuba.

Police later told the pair to return to their seats, Mercado said, adding that Iglesias was never under arrest.

"The Cubans were upset with the incident that happened last night, and they want to make sure it doesn't happen again," said John Blundell, spokesman for Major League Baseball, which helped establish the tournament. "We are doing everything that we can to ensure the safety of fans and the delegations."

Cuba downed the Netherlands 11-2. Cuba has also beat Panama in the first round of competition and was playing Puerto Rico Friday night."

[RUSH LIMBAUGH is my clone!]

Stand up, again, you ANTI-COMMIE!

[opksooner]

Stand up, again, you ANTI-COMMIE!
Well, someone understood the article. :)

[OklahomaTuba]

Can you imagine the cuban dude at the police station.

"what, you mean you don't kill people here for that kind of ****??? What kind of hellish nightmare is this place!!!"

[King Crimson]

i'm sure you guys would be just as "free speech" oriented if it were Bush or capitalism that were being criticicized.

[KABOOKIE]

No, we'd just laugh and dismiss you as some deranged commie bastard.

[RUSH LIMBAUGH is my clone!]

i'm sure you guys would be just as "free speech" oriented if it were Bush or capitalism that were being criticicized.You silly guys rag on Bush in public all the time. NOBODY tells you you can't do that. Whatchu talkin' 'bout?:eddie:

[Jerk]

i'm sure you guys would be just as "free speech" oriented if it were Bush or capitalism that were being criticicized.

Thank you for reinforcing my view that American liberals are, at least, sympathetic to Communism.

[12]

Ever been to Jamaica? If so, you probably flew right over Cuber. All I have to say is that from 30K feet, it sure looks like a diver's paradise.

I can't wait until that bearded bastard dies so we can turn it into a huge resort.

[12]

And try to tell me those cigar ranchers won't appreciate their new $$$...

They've been making pennies for their efforts. They'll be mucho rich within hours of his demise.

[chriscappel]

...saying U.S. and Puerto Rican authorities were involved in "the cynical counterrevolutionary provocations."

:confused:

[Okla-homey]

I bet they got pre-fab McDonalds, KFC's and Ford Festivas all loaded up in sea-land containers sitting in Miami just waiting for that bastage to sh1t the bed.

[KC//CRIMSON]

Knock, knock! Who's there? Mickey. Mickey who? Mickey Mouse, Mickey Mantle, Mickey Rourke, Mickey Finn, Mickey Dolenz, Mickey Knox. Guilty? You bet your ***. But I think Charles Manson said it best when he said -- "I'm not herrrre, man...I'm not here!" I don't blame Mickey or Mallory. I blame Ajax and Jack Frost and Frosted Flakes and Achy Breaky, Lyndon Johnson, Johnny Cash, Johnny Carson, Johnny Quest. I blame the Pope, and Pop-Tarts, the Popile Pocket Fisherman. Ahh! I blame Jif, and jazz and O.J. Simpson, JFK, RFK, FDR, FBI, CIA, STP, AFL, CIO, ABC, NBC, JVC, VCR. I blame John Wilkes Booth and Sirhan Sirhan Sirhan and Mary Tyler Moore. I blame all people who use three names. Big Bird, guilty, Barney, guilty! I blame Jesus Christ and Jon Bon Jovi! I stick my right index finger in Wayne Newton's left eyeball! Not their parents, not drugs, not society-at-large. Do you want to know who I really blame? The Pittsburgh Pirates because in 1947, Major League Baseball scouted a hot young pitching prospect named Fidel Castro. Hot outta Havana High, he had big speed and a nasty curveball but at the last minute, the teams all rescinded their offers. Just think about that. If Fidel had been drafted, huh huh? No Bay of Pigs, no Kennedy assassination, no cover-up, no Vietnam, no Nixon, no Ford, no bell-bottoms, no Brady Bunch, no earthshoes, no Reagan, no crack. No, we'd all be eating hotdogs and apple-pie and smoking big fat Cuban cigars. M-I-C. See you real soon. K-E-Y. Why? Because they want to, that's why. (lights up a cigar)-Dennis Leary:D

[RUSH LIMBAUGH is my clone!]

Thank you for reinforcing my view that American liberals are, at least, sympathetic to Communism.Yeah, they just choose to ignore some minor details, like the lack of freedom and rights that people in communist countries have-small things like that.They romanticize that people like Castro are just sticking it to the evil USA, and have a great utopian, one for all, all for one, life there in that wonderful island-nation...:confused: WAY out there!

[Jerk]

Yeah, they just choose to ignore some minor details, like the lack of freedom and rights that people in communist countries have-small things like that.They romanticize that people like Castro are just sticking it to the evil USA, and have a great utopian, one for all, all for one, life there in that wonderful island-nation...:confused: WAY out there!

Maxine Waters should have packed up and moved down there after she gave ol' Fidel a big bear-hug. She is proof that some elected Democrats are pro-Castro.

[SicEmBaylor]

The solution to communism starts with knowing how to properly tie a noose.

[King Crimson]

you people are hilarious. and even easier to bait.

[Boomhauer]

Wow! And I thought that I would point out something humorous by posting the article!

[RedstickSooner]

You silly guys rag on Bush in public all the time. NOBODY tells you you can't do that. Whatchu talkin' 'bout?:eddie:

Actually, this isn't entirely true -- surely you've heard of the "protest zones" and the like which are now used for political events?

If someone stood up with a "Bush Sucks" sign anywhere Bush made a speech, they'd be hauled off by the cops.

I'm not trying to pick on him in particular, either -- it wouldn't surprise me if Democrats weren't using the same thing for their rallies & events. Both parties have learned that hand-picked and pre-screened audiences make for a much more pleasant environment for the candidate.

Such tactics are an insult to what the country stands for, but what the hell -- discord is icky, am I right? :D

[RUSH LIMBAUGH is my clone!]

If someone stood up with a "Bush Sucks" sign anywhere Bush made a speech, they'd be hauled off by the cops.

I'm not trying to pick on him in particular, either -- it wouldn't surprise me if Democrats weren't using the same thing for their rallies & events. Both parties have learned that hand-picked and pre-screened audiences make for a much more pleasant environment for the candidate.

:DWell, Castro wasn't giving a speech at that baseball game in Puerto Rico, and I'll bet you can't display a sign like that ANYWHERE in Cuba without getting into big trouble. If you held up a sing like "Down with Bush" at a baseball game in the USA, people would just think you are odd, and perhaps wound a bit too tight.:)

[OklahomaTuba]

I'm not trying to pick on him in particular, either -- it wouldn't surprise me if Democrats weren't using the same thing for their rallies & events.

Don't know if you remember the huge cages they stuck all the lefty anti-everything loons in during the DNC in Boston or not, but that was pure greatness.

[RUSH LIMBAUGH is my clone!]

Don't know if you remember the huge cages they stuck all the lefty anti-everything loons in during the DNC in Boston or not, but that was pure greatness.And that was dealing with THEIR OWN(whack-job) people. VIVA LA REVOLUCION:texan: :eddie: :mack:

[Octavian]

hyper-nationalism + a disgust for free speech...

I hate commies and Muslim radicals.

[Jerk]

The solution to communism starts with knowing how to properly tie a noose.

Or load a gun.

[SicEmBaylor]

Or load a gun.

The bullet costs too much to waste and a rope is reusable.

We're going to have to get these problems worked out before the socialist revolution. :D

[DeadSolidPerfect]

Thank you for reinforcing my view that American liberals are, at least, sympathetic to Communism.
Or dumb.

[King Crimson]

Or load a gun.

that's pretty much how Stalin handled his PR problems.

[AlbqSooner]

""Cuba's Revolutionary Sports Movement exhorted Cubans to demonstrate in Havana late Friday, * * * "
Because they sure as hell weren't going to be allowed to go anywhere else and demonstrate.