Wade Bogg(les) the Mind

Thursday, June 21, 2012
According to the Tampa Tribune, baseball Hall of Famer Wade Boggs is traveling to Cuba, on a trip "that will include a lot of sightseeing and visits to local parks where kids gather to play baseball."

Isn't that nice?

Boggs emphasized that, "this has zero, zero, absolutely, positively zero to do with anything politically."

No really, zero, zero, absolutely, positively zero -- until the next paragraph in the article,
which explains:

"[T]he trip was organized by Al Fox, who founded the Alliance For Responsible Cuba Policy. He is an outspoken advocate of normalizing relations between the United States and the island nation [...]

Fox said that while Boggs has no political interests, he hopes the publicity from the trip will 'generate discussion about how insane our policy is toward Cuba.'

'In our opinion, it is in our national interest to remove the embargo against Cuba,' Fox said.
"

No really, absolutely, positively, no politics.