CAMAGÜEY.- The so called dead time of the Cuban ball has brought more action that of custom and not precisely inside the area. It turns out that a phenomenon that had already begun since some years ago and that found its best catalyst in the teams that were directed by stellar Víctor Mesa, the “market of signings”, has been stolen the holders of press and the attention of the public. The baseball players transfers of one province to other one, which during decades happened sporadically and almost always for familiar motives, have turned into steps of supply and demand that threaten to break the status quo of the main Cuban sports spectacle.
Now Camagüey - one of few squares that was supported to the margin of the transfers - has been in the center of the polemic with the cases of Yorbis Borroto, Dariel Góngora and Yordanis Samón. This examples triad serves to illustrate the variety within the supposed signings period.
The torpedero avileño said at the end of the past Series that he hoped to move to this city to support the artistic studies of his daughter in our prestigious institutions, decision reinforced by the good climate that he found in the house of the Bulls and the support that received from the authorities; nevertheless, the Direction of Sports in Ciego de Ávila did not authorize the change for the time being because Borroto is a fundamental piece in the gear assembly of the Tigers, decision respected by the athlete after several conversation days.
The "novel" of Góngora came to its unexpected end a few weeks ago, when with the Camagüey liberation in hand, the left-handed player left the Woodcutters of Las Tunas, with whose seeding had trained, to end up in Matanzas. After several indiscipline displays- the last one of them his absence to the Provincial Series - “The Whip” found job with the Crocodiles, team to the one he had tried to come years behind. The national champions have bet once again on the "import" of talents to be supported in the elite.
The soap opera of Samón might finish with the Granma´s player dressed in bull, his fourth uniform in the decade. “The bomber” declared to Adelante: "many misinterpreted my Industrialists' exit, but I needed to be calm with my family, and in Havana I had no conditions. Camagüey is opening the doors to me and I believe that I might feel good here”.
• The baseball players have seen the possibility of improving their living conditions in other grounds and look for the best thing for their familiar economy by hanging the light poncho of another territory. It would not be strange if we were speaking about a professional league, in which clubs, agents and athletes negotiate terms that fulfill the expectations of every part, but the National Series of Baseball does not answer to such a structure.
Nevertheless, this editor and many fans are worried that the individual is ruled by the law of the best bidder, something that escapes to the dynamics of our sport at present, so although in the consultation process on the national pastime of last year there arose proposals to create a semiprofessional competition with financing of Cuban and foreign companies, the reality is not yet this. Dividing of the comprehension and the support the sportsman who wants a house, a mean of transportation or any another improvement, the presidency of the Inder and the governmental structures at national level must look for a solution; the changes in the wage system and the contracts abroad have not solved the problem.
The multiplicity of tones with which this Creole signings market shows makes the arranging more complex, because it is necessary to try to be just persons with every athlete and to mark legal rules that guarantee the present and the future of the baseball. Although our baseball players sign contracts in their respective provincial sports directions, mostly for periods, until now the legal body of major weight in the tie is the Decree Not. 140 of 1988. It is signed by the Commander in Chief and Conrado Martínez, president of that time of the Inder, establishes the norms On the Diet of Sports Participation, but among its special dispositions it dictates: "The baseball, for being the national sport, and considering its characteristics, it will be ruled by special norms prepared on the base of the general principles of this Decree”, something that, apparently, was not done by rigor.
On this matter, the national commissioner of baseball, Ernesto Reynoso, he said on the television program Round table, that “they have made a document to arrange the baseball players transfers between provinces and it will be put at the disposal of the presidency of the Inder”. In his intervention, the manager considered the players' loans from one set to another when these cannot be developed in its place of origin, just strategy that has always managed without a lot of polemic.
Every territory aspires to keep in their teams the athletes that it has formed, but sometimes they do not find the economic support to solve his basic requirements. This phenomenon exceeds the management of the Inder and needs other contests.
Translated by Linet Acuña Quilez