If you have some free time, I recommend checking out this post by Brayan Pena at The Players’ Tribune. He details his defection from Cuba years ago — he literally climbed out of a bathroom window to escape — and his return to the country last month as part of MLB’s goodwill tour. I can’t imagine what it must be like to leave your family behind like that. Pretty incredible stuff.
This is tonight’s open thread. The Nets are playing tonight and there’s some college hoops on as well, so talk about those games, Pena’s article, or anything else right here.