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The agreement would allow Cuban players to come to the United States on work visas, with MLB teams playing the CBF a release fee, a similar system to how Japanese, Korean and Taiwanese players join MLB teams. As Jeff Passan noted, the pact would "end the trafficking of players by smugglers—situations that have led to players being kidnapped, threatened and extorted. Cuban players coming to MLB have been smuggled out by human trafficking organizations that are often tied to other criminal organizations, and often they lose a big chunk of their bonus to pay for their passage out of Cuba,"...

Saturday Night Live alumnus, Garrett Morris, has announced he will join the Barack Obama Presidential campaign. Morris, best known for his work during the early years of the popular, avant guard late night comedy show, will appear in an oval on the left hand side of the TV screen of every Barack and Michelle Obama speech. His primary duties will be to "interpret" what the presidential candidate and his wife "really mean" when they say something that might be considered a tad bit outrageous or just downright wacky.