We have played in World Cups, world championships and Olympics. The message is already out there. ... In Cuba, baseball is the No. 1 sport. People in Cuba had their doubts about us coming and about the results.
Our message is already out there from our international competitions. I think we showed people that baseball is spoken here, baseball and nothing else.
Victory was so close, but we didn't achieve it. We'll have to learn from this loss to Japan in the next Classic. But we are very proud of this welcome that the people are giving us.
They have major-league players. So people know now that we can play against major-league players.