As the College World Series opens in Omaha this week with the LSU Tigers a prohibitive favorite to capture the school’s eighth national title – with their opening game against Arkansas Saturday at 6:00 p.m. being key (and as my beloved Boston Red Sox sink further and further in the AL East), it might be time to turn our attention to the ol’ ballgame.
That’s because there seems to be a furtive move afoot by Cadet Bone Spurs to take down major league baseball.
It’s true. Why, just this morning, there was THIS HEADLINE from Associated Press.
So, you ask, what’s Tub-A-Lardo’s notification of Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans that their temporary permission to live and work in the U.S. has been revoked and that they should leave pronto got to do with major league baseball?
The answer is plenty.
There are at least 12 Cubans, 10 Venezuelans, two Nicaraguans and at least one Haitian who are currently toiling away for various major league teams.
That’s just a cursory count and by no means a complete list. And to even attempt the number of former players from those countries would probe overwhelming. And if Frump is consistent (and when has he ever been that?), they must surely be in his crosshairs.
But now, with Agent Orange coming after them, can’t you just picture those plains-clothes, facemask-wearing jack-booted thugs swooping into the outfields, pitchers’ mounds and dugouts of stadiums across the country to snatch these players up for deportation? Of course, for those playing for the Toronto Blue Jays, they’ll have to wait until they play road games in this country; they don’t have any jurisdiction in Canada. At least, I guess IMPOTUS knows that.
Anyway, here’s what I found after a quick search:
CUBANS:
- Aroldis Chapmen, Boston Red Sox;
- Jose Abreu, free agent;
- Randy Arozarena, Seattle Mariners;
- Adolis Garcia, Texas Rangers;
- Yordan Alvarez, Houston Astros;
- Lourdes Gurriel, Jr., Arizona Diamondbacks;
- Jorge Carlos Soler Castillo, Los Angeles Dodgers;
- Luis Robert, Chicago White Sox;
- Yandy Diaz, Tampa Bay Rays;
- Nestor Cortes, Jr., Milwaukee Brewers;
- Raisel Iglesias, Atlanta Braves
- Jorge Soler, Los Angeles Anges
VENEZUELANS:
- Jose Altuve, Houston Astros;
- Eugenio Suarez, Arizona Diamondbacks;
- Pablo Lopez, Minnesota Twins;
- Ronald Acuna, Jr., Atlanta Braves;
- Salvador Perez, Kansas City Royals;
- Jose Alvarado, Philadelphia Phillies;
- Gleyber Torres, Detroit Tigers;
- Andres Gimenez, Toronto Blue Jays
- Luis Arraez, San Diego Padres;
- Avisail Garcia, free agent.
NICARAGUANS:
- Erasmo Ramirez, Minnesota Twins;
- Jonathan Loaisiga, New York Yankees
HAITIAN:
- Dany Gilbert Toussaint, Los Angeles Angels
And just for lagniappe:
MEXICANS:
- Andres Munoz, Seattle Mariners;
- Jonathan Aranda, Tampa Bay Rays;
- Giovanny Gallegos, Los Angeles Dodgers;
- Joey Meneses, New York Mets;
- Isaac Paredes, Houston Astros.
Let’s not overlook players from Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Colombia and Brazil who also export players to the U.S.
So, yeah, Trump and the terror of hunting dogs everywhere, Kristi Noem are coming after major league baseball for harboring all those players from below our southern border.
Or maybe he’ll just impose a tariff on them.
Oh, there’re also players from Canada, Japan, China and South Korea, but it’s a pretty safe bet they’re safe from any purge by Don the Con.
Louisiana Voice 
Tom, I think the Puerto Rican players are safe. In that Puerto Rico is an American territory.
Correct, but do you think Trump is aware of that? Remember when he referred to the “president” of Puerto Rico?
Well he did call Puerto Rico a floating island of garbage.
He’ll chicken out or at a minimum get them to provide a bribe, err buy his meme coin. That’s about the only consistency thing the Mango Messiah has shown thus far…
Donald Trump and Noem are scary. What about those players in the College World Series? Bet they are on the list, too. Truthfully, it feels like no one is safe. The last time I felt this scared in our country was during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. I was 11 years old. We were terrified a bomb was going to be dropped on us. If we were outside playing and heard an airplane in the distance, we ran into the house to hide until the plane could no longer be heard. This went on for several days until “cooler heads prevailed.” I don’t see “cooler heads” any where I look. I don’t see anything but violent rhetoric, violence, abuse of law and order, and fear perpetrated by those currently in leadership. I am sincerely fearful of what is going to take place. The anger is only increasing.
“Truthfully, it feels like no one is safe.” No one is safe, Marsha. If rights don’t apply to everyone then they don’t apply to anyone. If we can make excuses to strip one group of their rights we can make excuses to strip any group of their rights. Trump and his supporters don’t understand this principle. Trump never had any principles to begin with and his supporters abandoned all their principles for the ecstasy of wallowing in their prejudices with Trump. And that makes the country a very unstable – and unsafe – place, for all of us.
Trump wants to use the power he believes he has. MAGA voters want Trump to use the power they believe he has. The people behind Trump’s agenda want Trump to use the power they tell him he has. No “Republican” in Congress has either the integrity or the courage to stop Trump from using the power he believes he has. Trump has no restraints and no morals. The only thing slowing down some of Trump’s agenda is the courts, which he has repeatedly threatened to ignore if they don’t fall in line. If the military continues to take his orders – there’s a reason he started small in Los Angeles – then there will be no stopping Trump from declaring martial law, suspending elections, and naming himself president for life. Any civil uprising will run head first into the “paid agitator” propaganda which is already a written-in-stone fact for 100% of MAGA voters. It’s too late to stop MAGA fascism. We’re living it. But it’s not too late to stop MAGA fascists. If we’re willing to do what must be done. If not, welcome to fascist Amerika.