Every October we celebrate Columbus Day and his discovering
of the New World . It wasn’t North America
or South America that he first exploited; it was Cuba …
A priest, a boxer, a ball player and a call girl all get on
a boat…
This isn’t a joke. Though the story of Yasiel Puig isn’t a
new tale; as Cuban’s have been defecting from their home land for decades, it
is just now becoming main stream and that is the joke. Like him or hate him;
the story of Yasiel Puig and his journey is so far fetched, Hollywood wouldn’t
even been able to conceive it.
Coming This Fall: A story for a generation; about a
liberation, a story of inspiration. Communism, Corruption, Drug Cartels, FBI’s
Most Wanted, Big Business. With only the currency of potential; he would risk
his life with his life. A story about a boy who wouldn’t stop running down his
dream and sometimes the only way to reach home; is to leave it.
The father of the sex and slave trade comes to mind when we
reserve for Columbus Day; as sometimes, it’s the defects that outshine. Yasiel Puig
came sprinting on to the scene to have one of the best debuts in baseball history.
He would steal the imagination of a nation; that he now can call home. Who
knows how the story will end; as we are just now learning how it began, and the
only thing that will make this story better; is if we can celebrate it in
October.
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