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Maybe Miami is changing, maturing, growing.
Maybe Miami is moving on.
Maybe the city at large and especially its Cuban population are increasingly able to show the devil 90 miles south that he holds less and less sway over our psyche — and if you don’t believe it you should have been around Marlins Park on Tuesday evening.
The night was not about politics and protests, after all.
Blessedly it was all about baseball, for a change — and all cheers when Hanley Ramirez’s eighth-inning, three-run blast animated that freaky home run sculpture and beat the Chicago Cubs 5-2.
It might have been otherwise.
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