Jorge Rey, the Los Santos head coach, sings the Cuban National Anthem while the Twin State Peregrines, an All-Star team made up of Vermont and New Hampshire 11 and 12-year-olds, show their respects. The trip sparked a political controversy when Florida Republican Lincoln Diaz tried to stop the trip, and Democratic Senator and Vermonter Patrick Leahy quickly brushed him back, telling him to "pick on somebody his own size."