Havana Cuba. — When Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon with his victorious troops, a man went on his knees, hidden in his chariot, and while the Romans applauded the emperor, the humiliated man reminded him: “Jupiter is more powerful!”
The overwhelming exit of Team Asere from the V World Baseball Classic —indeed, a knock out technical difference by 12 races— must have required a bit of discretion and humility from the Castro bosses. But none of that. On the contrary. And it is that like Putin in Ukraine, the Castro regime needs a victory, even if it does not exist.
About last night’s game, the newspaper expressed itself marginally Granma: “Team Cuba, asere, broke it”. rebel youth It said: “Cuba signs its second best historical performance in Baseball Classics.” Meanwhile, the weekly workers, more modest, indicated: “Cuba, fourth in the Classic V.” Pure triumphalism.
The networks were filled with memes. One read: “Team Asere became the picadillo team”, because of the soy picadillo, a very unpleasant and degraded food that they sell through the ration book.
A Pyrrhic victory is one that is achieved with many losses. The name comes from Pyrrhus, king of Epirus, who achieved a victory over the Romans with heavy losses of men. It is said that Pirro, before the result of the battle, said: “With another victory like this I am lost.”
If, despite everything, Team Asere’s performance in the V Clásico was a victory, as the regime claims, it was a Pyrrhic victory.
The shock suffered by Team Asere on Sunday night was such that on Monday morning, when he was received in Havana, the president-designate, full of pain, told his gladiators: “You cannot always win and except for a team as powerful as the United States”.
Even the weather rebelled against the government party. Rains and floods hit Havana this morning when they thought they would receive triumphal march to the crushed and unhappy baseball players, who will always carry the stigma of being the regime’s aseres-caleceros.
And Mario Piedra wonders: What will the Cuban team for the Pan American Games in Chile be called now? Team Ecobio? And for the Central American Games in El Salvador? Team Monina? And for the tournament in Holland? Team Ambiaculinanga?
The door opened to vulgarity and marginality by the appointed president and the first lady asking the babalawos to pour water and husk on the ground was noticed that it did not go far. Could it be that, due to the lack of eggs in Cuba, the shell ship sent by the Venezuelans did not arrive in Miami on time?
Can the votive candles donated by Kathmandu for the blackouts in Cuba be used to soothe the souls of the troubled aseres?
It was of no use to the video and sound editors from Cuba to close the shots at extreme close-up so that the Cubans on the island would not see the party that was the protest of the free Cubans in the LoanDepot Park. We all enjoyed it, even those who were summoned and taken by force to the sixty-four giant screens installed in squares throughout the country.
Trying to repeat the triumphant entry into Buenos Aires of the Argentine soccer team, world champion in 2022, the communist regime planned a triumphant caravan in Havana to receive Team Asere on Monday morning.
The Argentine soccer players refused to meet with President Alberto Fernández, but the Cuban players had to meet with Díaz-Canel.
And unlike the Argentine fans, who received their soccer players with jubilation, in Cuba there was no spontaneity in the reception of the defeated players. The Cubans only spontaneously wait for the chicken, for the electricity to be put on and for freedom to arrive.
Paraphrasing the appointed and resigned Cuban head of state: Team Asere, the homeland looks at you doubtfully.
