• Submitted by: Luis Manuel Mazorra
• Sports
• 10 / 14 / 2011

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Cuban coach Alfonso Urquiola today criticized the measure to cut a seven-inning baseball games in the second round of the Panama-2011 World Cup.

Seven inning ¿?, That's not baseball, and Urquiola crucified the action taken by the International Federation of the discipline (IBAF) on Wednesday to speed up baseball games and avoid alleged suspensions due to rain.

This decision of the IBAF distorts the essence of baseball Olympian for Urquiola is something "completely atypical, is incomprehensible, but we must be prepared to leave everything and world champions."

The IBAF acted unilaterally and totalitarian and at no time took into account the views of the participating delegations, apart from the form used to inform the new calendar.

Make the decision and "high alert you to the change by mail, with the action already taken, it is not serious, it is very irresponsible. It was also imposed (that decision) without asking anything, had no regard for anyone, things should not work that way. "

"They say that is even for all teams, but in reality it is not, because we are going forward and now the weaker teams have to throw fewer innings, or offensive Cuba will have fewer opportunities to manufacture runs, and I apologize, But Cuba is not the same as the other teams hitting, "the Indian manager.

Urquiola, world champion as a director in Italy-1998, also lashed out against the introduction of double game boards for computers.

In addition, "place of double-session, that never had been, it's crazy, and put the day before the final, if they had put the doubles matches in the first round maybe wrong, but at this stage of the championship is very irresponsible, "he said.

Party agreed to in seven innings, Cuba lost 1-4 to the Netherlands yesterday and pledged their classification to the final of the tournament, despite compliance with brilliant tournament so far, since in the eight previous games-all nine innings, not lost none, not even with the current world champion United States.

Today, Cubans will necessarily have to beat Canada to access the final of the Cup The winner of that challenge will be chosen to face the Netherlands in the championship match, which if you have nine episodes long.

The IBAF, led by its current president, Italian Riccardo Fraccari, have a lot of explaining these days if one of its purposes is still the return of baseball to the Olympics, a dream more and more distant.

The implementation of the seven inning double play, the rule Schiller supernocao are unwise measures. It's as if the World Cup matches will be played, to save time-70 minutes with nine players or even without a goalkeeper, and if a win exceeds five goals stops the match for extreme superiority of one of the contestants.

Baseball is wrong, concluded Urquiola.