After a couple months of personal agony and struggle, Alex Rodriguez has decided to play in the World Baseball Classic for the United States. I really would not have had a problem with that, except that he is playing because of the "position" he has in baseball, an overpaid third baseman (well he didn't say the thing about the overpaid, but he did about the position). Anyways, I guess he is comfortable with it, but after mentioning he wanted to play for the Dominican Republic, but then said he didn't want to tear anyone's loyalties, but I have a feeling that like his agent Scott Boras, ARod has no loyalties except to dollar bills spilling into his pockets.

In other news, the United States has finally allowed Cuba's team into the WBC. Talk about making ourselves look like fools. They even brought up concerns about spies coming from the United States. Maybe we should so they can see that they live 80 miles away from a country that actually produces. In any case, to guarantee that Cuba will not profit from this, Cuba will donate all their profits to Hurrican Katrina victims. This is almost as bad as Venezuela donating fuel oil to households in New England. I guess when the government decided to get involved in baseball this summer with the whole steroids scandal, it decided that it needs to get involved in something as trivial as nine guys playing ball in a field.

-Trevor