Helfand: Venezuelan Twins have lots on their minds

[Seth Stohs]

https://www.twincities.com/2019/05/09/venezuelan-twins-have-more-than-baseball-on-their-minds/

 

Betsy Helfand from the Pioneer Press wrote about the four Twins players and one Twins coach from Venezuela and how much the country is struggling. 

 

 

 

The current monthly minimum wage was recently raised to about 18,000 bolivars a month. That’s about $6.70, and a bottle of water could cost between $7 and $10, Hernandez said. An apple, Adrianza estimated, might cost $10.

“It’s impossible to buy food, it’s impossible to buy medicine because it’s too expensive,” Adrianza said.

 

Those players worry about their families and friends. They worry about getting kidnapped, being robbed. 

 

 

 

But even Baldelli, lauded for his ability to connect with players, cannot completely comprehend the situation.

“They have to deal with things and think about things that the rest of us don’t have to worry about, think about,” he said. “It doesn’t seem fair in any way that anyone should be worrying about this. When the people that you love are thousands of miles away and you’re here, that’s a challenge that I couldn’t relate to.”

 

[Brock Beauchamp]

It says a lot that no one has commented on this thread until now.

 

Yeah, we all love baseball. We also love a lot of these players, yet do all we can to distance ourselves from their actual issues.

 

So give a buck or two.

 

https://help.rescue.org/donate/help-venezuelans-now?ms=gs_ppc_venezuela_es_180829&initialms=gs_ppc_venezuela_es_180829&gclid=Cj0KCQjwn8_mBRCLARIsAKxi0GKAM3fqwqXeUIH-FhmOYBPxN9nLxJcZsDSiscnuQ1aP991Dirot2S4aAjdYEALw_wcB

[Squirrel]

 

It says a lot that no one has commented on this thread until now.

 

Yeah, we all love baseball. We also love a lot of these players, yet do all we can to distance ourselves from their actual issues.

 

So give a buck or two.

 

https://help.rescue.org/donate/help-venezuelans-now?ms=gs_ppc_venezuela_es_180829&initialms=gs_ppc_venezuela_es_180829&gclid=Cj0KCQjwn8_mBRCLARIsAKxi0GKAM3fqwqXeUIH-FhmOYBPxN9nLxJcZsDSiscnuQ1aP991Dirot2S4aAjdYEALw_wcB

Thanks for posting the link. This is a very good charity.