Those of you who watch TV news probably have already seen this, but for the rest of you, I provide this video of the National League MVP being reunited with his grandmother — who taught him to play — from Cuba.
Here’s the way the video was described by the website I initially saw it on:
At the risk of sounding like a sentimental sap, this is definitely the coolest thing you will see today. Marlins superstar pitcher Jose Fernandez hasn’t seen his grandmother since he defected from Cuba at the age of 15. So the Marlins decided to sit him down for an interview, ask him to talk about how much he loves his grandma, and then surprise him by bringing her into the room.
The whole thing plays out perfectly. “Everything I do is for her,” Fernandez says when the interviewer asks him what he would say to his grandmother if he could send a message to her. Then she asks him what he thinks his grandmother would say to him if she were here. “I don’t think she would be here.”
And then the door opens. Boom, there’s grandma. Have fun crying at your desk.
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Very cool. Thanks, Brad.
Sounds like we’ll have some professional baseball back in Columbia soon…
Have five decades of sanctions against Cuba achieved anything? Why do we trade with Russia, China, and any country with oil but have to act like we can’t manage a trade relationship with Cuba?
It’s time to end that silliness.
Well, first Cuba might return the property that they expropriated…
It’s a phony embargo… those people with connections can get Cuban cigars. And how is it that people like Jay-Z and Beyonce can get permission to travel there?
Anyone with a passport and an airline ticket can get Cuban cigars. Do you want some next time I’m abroad?
Legally? Why should it have to take breaking the law to get a cigar?
Well at least it’s a bipartisan phony embargo. In the eyes of folks like Thomas Freidman and brad that makes it ok.
Major League Baseball has imported about a quarter of their players from Cuba.
A quarter? According to MLB.com it’s 18 total.
Okay now include the Domincan Republic.
Why? It has nothing to do with the sanctions that make it difficult for Cubans to come to America.
I’m crying at my desk, but fortunately it’s after hours and no one can see me. Thanks for sharing the video.
A good friend of ours fled from Cuba when Castro took over. “Bill” had an interesting story I that he fled Cuba with one of Castro’s sisters. Many of his relatives fled to Puerto Rico. It was interesting and musical overhearing his calls to his relatives. I don’t know Spanish, but it seems to be a lyrical language.