The worst is A. Hernández and R. Manfred as blind

Coral Gables, Florida (VIP-WIRE). “How are parrots similar to professional baseball players? In that the first thing they learn about a language from another country are bad words.

The question of the week: Luis Arráez was batting champion in the National in 2022, with 316, and in the American in 2023, with 354. Who had achieved two batting titles in a row before him?
The answer: José Altuve, both times in the American League, 338 in 2016, and 346 in 2017.

LEFT MAGALLANERO. Yankees manager Aaron Boone expects left-handed reliever Josh Maciejewski, who has just been called up, to be as difficult for hitters as his Polish surname is for those of us who have no practice in the Polish language. Maciejewski spent six years in the Minors, where he left an ERA of 3.52, with 303 strikeouts and in his entire performance before reaching the Major Leagues, including Venezuela, he achieved 47 wins, 40 losses, with an ERA of 4.01.

“I have a house, and in it many books. “My wife says I have many books, and among them a house.” Armando Fuentes Aguirre (Catón).

“There are people so poor, but so poor, that the only thing they have is money”… Armando Fuentes Aguirre (Catón).

AN UNBEARABLE ANGEL. The worst umpire in the 154-year history of the Major Leagues, Cuban Ángel Hernández, added one more cake to his horrible career, in a Blue Jays-Yankees game, with Venezuelan Gleyber Torres at bat in the first inning. Gleyber had two strikes, pitcher Bowden Francis, after moving his arms and hands, apparently to pitch, took his right foot out of the box, causing Torres to leave the batting position. But Francis then launched. Not only was it an illegal pitch, balk, but also a very clear high ball. However, the terror Hernández ruled out, strikeout.

The logical question is: How long will the inept commissioner Rob Manfred allow Ángel Hernández to make a fool of himself at the expense of the players? Fateful Hernández and incapable Manfred. Poor baseball!

GOOD IN EVERYTHING. Mookie Betts, an outfielder who successfully plays second base and shortstop, a two-time member of the World Series winning team, two-time MVP runner-up, a bowling star, is now a candidate for the Emmy Award, for the programs broadcast on TBS and FOX.

“The ideal would be to always be in love. That's why we should never get married.” Oscar Wilde.

Thanks to the life that has given me so much, even a reader like you.

Of Venezuelan origin, naturalized American. He was born on January 10, 1929. He began working as a reporter in Caracas, Venezuela, in 1947, and later graduated, in 1953, as a journalist from the Márquez Sterling school in Havana, Cuba. Postgraduate degree in historian in 1963, at Saint Francis College, Andale, Minnesota. He has covered all types of sources in journalism, has directed newspapers and magazines in Venezuela and the United States. Since October 1960, he has dedicated himself exclusively to Major League baseball. He was a radio and television announcer of Major League games for 22 years for Latin America, including Mexico. He has produced and broadcast numerous television programs about baseball. His daily column,

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