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SteveGrenard
1st November 2006, 06:49 PM
This should get interesting. How do you smuggle baseball players and expect to get away with it? Sounds like a variation on an old Seinfeld episode.


Agent indicted in smuggling of Cuban ballplayers to USA
Updated 10/31/2006 10:57 PM ET


By Donna Leinwand, USA TODAY

A baseball agent who has represented Cuban defectors was indicted by a Miami grand jury on Tuesday for allegedly smuggling ballplayers and other Cuban nationals into the USA.

Gustavo "Gus" Dominguez, vice president of Total Sports International in Encino, Calif., is charged as part of a 53-count indictment related to two operations in 2004.

Geoffrey Rodrigues, Robert Yosvany Hernandez, Ramon Batista and Guillermo Valdez, allegedly hired by Dominguez to transport the Cubans by speedboat to the USA, also were indicted.Dominguez has represented several Cuban defectors, including Andy Morales, who was signed by the New York Yankees and later the Boston Red Sox. Dominguez did not return a phone message left at his office.


http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-10-31-cuban-baseball-agent_x.htm
TragicMonkey
2nd November 2006, 02:50 AM
I don't understand. How does this relate to Islam?
Zep
2nd November 2006, 02:58 AM
This should get interesting...Hasn't yet, but I'll gladly wait to see what develops. ;)
Darth Rotor
2nd November 2006, 07:14 AM
This should get interesting. How do you smuggle baseball players and expect to get away with it? Sounds like a variation on an old Seinfeld episode.



http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-10-31-cuban-baseball-agent_x.htm
Just another coyote bringing illegal aliens into the "labor pool." Not much news, other than the usual blind eye MLB turns to the legality of this (like other businesses do). I recall there being some question on the antecedents of Orlando Hernandez, El Duque, a pitcher for the Yankees a few years ago.

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Didaktylos
2nd November 2006, 08:22 AM
Why is it there aren't regular series of international representative matches in Baseball?

It does seem odd, considering that it is played in Japan and so many Latin American countries. I suppose it would be rather embarrassing if the USA were to be beaten regularly.
Upchurch
2nd November 2006, 10:27 AM
Agent smuggles Cubans, ballplayers, not cigars, into US
Boy, I'll bet the other agents were ribbing him about that mistake.

"When you said 'bring me back a few cubans', I didn't realize you meant cigars" :o
EvilSmurf
2nd November 2006, 10:41 AM
Why is it there aren't regular series of international representative matches in Baseball?

It does seem odd, considering that it is played in Japan and so many Latin American countries. I suppose it would be rather embarrassing if the USA were to be beaten regularly.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Baseball_Classic

Before that it was an Olympic event, although a lot of pros didn't compete in the Olympics, and there are allegations that this was because of steroid testing at the Olympics.