Post by Bilawal maskin

‘Break Your Hips!’ Spinning to the Rhythm of Venezuelan Tambores When Venezuela beat the United States to win the world baseball classic in March, images of a fifth-inning homer went viral. So did videos of the pitcher Eduard Bazardo pounding a drum in the dugout while his teammates clapped and danced. It was a scene that some veteran sports journalists struggled to describe. “The Japanese reporters came over to me and were like, ‘What are they doing?’” said Daniel Alvarez-Montes, director of the sports news site El ExtraBase....