Facebook user Alejandro Díaz Álvarez, founder of the sports page The gossiperhas brought to light a series of “dirty laundry” linked to the work of the Cuban Baseball Federation (FCB) and the National Baseball Commission (CNB), both headed by Juan Reynaldo Pérez Pardo.
In its extensive postDíaz Álvarez maintains: “Look, we were complaining about hyginus (Velez)! We never thought that his successor could be worse because the truth is that it was very difficult to be ”.
However, he adds, the appointment of Pérez Pardo has been marked by “nonsense after nonsense”, and then goes on to list what in his opinion are the most eloquent cases of the mismanagement of the PresiComi, as they have come to call the manager due to the duality of functions he performs.
First, the user recalled that “in the middle of a Round Table”, Pérez Pardo affirmed that the seizures of the 1st Elite League “were in Cuba”, and after a few days The start of the tournament had to be postponed “for lack of uniforms”.
He later alluded to the punitive measures applied to journalists who criticized such nonsense, and described as the “ugliest baseball eyes have ever seen” the trophy awarded to the winners of said contest.
Then he made reference to the inexplicable complaints about “lack of budget to buy better equipment”, when to attend a tournament of dubious category like the Caribbean Cup the Cuban delegation included more than twenty companions among technical personnel, federations and others.
“Including two commentators to narrate the games on an internet channel that no one followed,” denounced Díaz Álvarez. “Who pays for all that?”
Relentless and accurate, the post immediately reflects: “We spend time criticizing that contracts abroad do not bear fruit as they should, so it is assumed that someone who knows about this and with prestige is placed in charge of this task; well no, the fellow president appoints his friend (Yosvani) Aragón in that position that it may be a glory of our sport, but as a manager he has never shown anything ”.
Regarding the national preselections, he assured that “they are appointed by hand, despite the fact that in all his conferences (Pérez Pardo) mentions that they will be carried out taking performance into account.”
did not miss the criticism of the formation of the Granma team for the “insignificant Champions Cup”, where only nine players from the champion team were summoned to give entry to countless supposed reinforcements.
As for the absurd programming of the broadcasts of the last postseason, he said that “they almost put the four games on the same day and broadcast only one”, and added: “I have never seen such disrespect for our national sport and less than for its Commissioner , maximum person in charge, did not give a damn because he himself gave his approval, more concerned about getting on the plane to the Central Americans and thinking that nobody was going to say anything”.
Lastly, Díaz Álvarez put as icing on the cake “the escache of the Teammate balls, or the ‘case of the soft balls’, as it is known by baseball fans.”
Convinced that “this would constitute a scandal anywhere in the world”, regretted that “our scarce resources are used to purchase defective products” and finished off pointing directly at Pérez Pardo:
“And at this point nothing has happened and even that firm continues to be the provider of our national sport? no gentlemen, there there is a cat locked up and he is responsible. (…) We are going to have to think that it is very real that the one who has a godfather is baptized and Pérez Pardo is an example, because for fewer mistakes others would already be cooked at the stake”.
