STORY UPDATE: Â Twins win, cancel contract with Cuban pitcher Fidel Castro. “He wouldn’t do windsprints,” said a source close to the now 1-9 Twins.
Original story:
Minneapolis (eTrueSports) – Capitalizing on the Obama administration’s softening Cuban policy, the winless (0-9) Minnesota Twins announced the signing of veteran right-handed pitcher Fidel Castro.
“He’s wily and we’re desperate,” said Twins manager Paul Molitor who explained the team planned on bringing the 89-year-old Castro up from the Fort Myers Miracle in the Florida State League when the temperature in St. Paul warmed in late July.
Frank Coffey is the author of the humor tomes "The Complete Idoit's Guide for Dumies" (Ten Speed Press), "The All Time Baseball Teams Book" (St. Martin's Press), and "The Wit and Wisdom of George Steinbrenner." He has over 200 books on his resume, including four novels; has written for television and film, and been a book, newspaper and magazine editor. His name, Frank Downs Coffey, is a sentence. Ray Dougela is a graphic designer, photoshop artist, illustrator, art director, video editor, musician, and five ball juggler whose clients have included ESPN, HBO, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, ABC, Disney, Warner, Turner Entertainment, and Jose Cuervo. Dougela’s been a blackjack dealer in Lake Tahoe, a bartender in San Francisco and a guitarist/ songwriter in Los Angeles, but probably that's all in the past.
