MIAMI - By the time the Dodgers left town Sunday, the news many in this city's sizable immigrant population had waited for all weekend still hadn't come.
Officially, at least, noted local antihero Fidel Castro was still breathing, and the inevitable celebration that will take place here when he eventually stops was still waiting to happen.
When it comes to Cuban politics, South Floridians tend not to be apathetic. When it comes to baseball, that's a different story.
If the Dodgers completed a three-game sweep of the Florida Marlins, running their longest winning streak in three years to nine games with a convincing 7-3 victory, and only 14,182 showed up at Dolphins Stadium to witness it, would it make a sound?
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