When dropped the 27 out of the match between Puerto Rico and Venezuela, which gave victory to the Puerto Ricans (5x4) and with it a place in the semifinals of the 56th edition of the Caribbean Baseball Series, played at Margarita Island in Venezuela, just came to mind the chorus of the song by Van Van, popular in the 70s and 80s and give title of my review.
Chirrín Chirrán it's over, may well mean the hopeful lovers of orange uniforms that dreamed sneaking into the semifinals, in a series that showed the level of our ball. Give to Caesar what is for Caesar's, said some fans of the neighborhood when the game ended, and did not lack reason.
The Villa Clara team by Ramon Moré did little to be among the best and the won game was by the pitching Vicyhoandry Odelín, otherwise it would have gone winless the tournament. Odelín pitched nine innings and I wonder: There was not another confidence launcher in the staff to pull it out three or six outs?
We must reduce the amount of teams on the domestic tournament, sixteen to four or eight. We must educate relievers, intermediates and starting pitchers and finally accepting that modern baseball so requires. We also need to raise awareness that when forming a Cuban team in any international event, we must do it for the performance of men and not of names, historical and lifetime.
José Ángel García and Carlos Juan Viera must be there, however they stayed in Cuba, so and they don´t have international experience?. It is true, but when it is going to be enable? Vladimir Garcia could also be member of the pitchers staff and was not called.
The solution is not to take the next year to Puerto Rico to Cuba selection but to open the pitch of the current possibilities of baseball, and inserted into a higher level of baseball. Only then can we dream of a place among the best in Latin America and the prestige of the pioneers of this contest.
No regrets time nor living of historical memories, it is time for radical and urgent changes to save our national pastime.
