Posted on 06/23/2006 8:47:34 AM PDT by Rutles4Ever
Major League Baseball tapped the brakes Thursday on Ozzie Guillen when it levied separate penalties against the White Sox manager for two incidents.
Guillen accepted a one-game suspension that he served Thursday night and an undisclosed fine for the "internal actions" of reliever David Riske, who hit St. Louis' Chris Duncan in Tuesday's game after warnings had been issued to both teams.
But the suspension paled in comparison to the attention given to MLB's decision to fine Guillen and order him to attend sensitivity training for using a derogatory term for homosexuals directed at Sun-Times columnist Jay Mariotti.
"The commissioner (Bud Selig) did what was great for baseball," Guillen said while wearing street clothes in the Sox dugout three hours before their game with St. Louis. "Mariotti and his partners (whom Guillen maintains give Mariotti quotes) should be happy.
"I don't regret what I say about Jay. I regret what I say about the [gay] community."
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How thweet.
Does one take Sensitivity Training for a grade, or is it Pass/Fail?
Could have been worse. John Rocker was forced to get treatment to cure him of his opinion.
Ozzie is an effing jackass.
Ozzie seems to be losing it. The Houston Astros are in Chicago tonight for a "rematch" of the World Series participants. Earlier in the week, Ozzie was complaining that Astro manager Phil Garner had disrespected him at the '05 series by refusing to shake his hand. Garner subsequently produced a picture showing him giving Ozzie a pre-game hug! Garner quipped that maybe he didn't hug him hard enough.
Throwing at hitters in retaliation or as warnings ought to draw a long suspension and a couple of hundred thousand dollar fine for both the pitcher and the manager.
This is bush league stuff.
Ozzie needs his ass kicked. Preferably by a gay guy. What a whiny dirtbag he is.
Ozzie sounds like a real piece of crap.
""He's a piece of [bleep]," Guillen told reporters late last week. "He's another Venezuelan [bleep]. [Bleep] him. He thinks he's got an enemy? No, he's got a big one. He knows I can [bleep] him over in a lot of different ways. He better shut the [bleep] up and just play for the Detroit Tigers."
Now, that's some [bleep], there."
Ozzie Guillen has always been a classless jerk. That's why he loves AJ Pierzynski so much. He's another jackass.
HOWEVER, just because he's a jerk, doesn't mean he should have to attend "sensitivity training." That's completely ridiculous.
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