Its good fodder for when he gets stiffed from the team. He didn't want to answer a reporter asking him if he feels slighted for being left off the team. Instead he comes out upfront and says I ain't playing and avoids that mess.
This tournament could be a good one, but all this crap about Japan not playing and if the stars are going to play is sure making it fizzle out quick. Who wouldn't want to see the best from the US, DR, Puerto Rico, and Venezuela duke it out in the final four. If they all got the best players that would be some great drama. If you ask me that is what they should do, just invite those four teams, especially if Japan doesn't want to play. Or even better, have a team representing Cuba, but all the exiles, just to stick a finger in Fidel's eye. Having 16 teams, with 12 of them having almost no shot of winning it, just makes the thing too big and too long.
