Yesterday, the Pittsburgh Pirates Baseball Club signed two pitchers from India, Rinku Singh and Dinesh Kumar Patel. You can read all about it here. These are guys who got noticed because they were finalists in some throwing contest, and have been playing baseball for about 6 months. They're actually cricket players. Earlier this year we signed a pitcher from South Africa, but at least he'd been playing baseball for awhile. I'm getting the feeling Pirates General Manager Neal Huntington has a huge world map on his office wall, and he just throws darts at it to decide where he'll sign guys from next. What's up today, boss? Uzbekistan!
Whatever. What have we got to lose? We might as well give globalization a whirl and see what happens. The Pirates may be the second-worst franchise in pro sports, but the front office definitely deserves an "A" for effort these days. I'm actually warming up to Huntington's creative thinking. Now, if we could just get more Latin American players like the other 29 teams...
They could get the Palestinian kids that throw rocks at Israeli soldiers.
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