Ozzie Guillen
Posted on 07/06/2021 1:38:39 PM PDT by NohSpinZone
A former professional baseball player teared up on the Fourth of July, passionately describing what his U.S. citizenship means to him.
“It’s special,” said retired Major League Baseball All-Star Ozzie Guillen during an interview on Pre Game Live with host Chuck Garfien.
“People, they don’t know how hard that is. How many people die … How many people want to be American. It's [an] honor for me,” the teary-eyed Guillen continued.
As the retired star was speaking, a video of him becoming a citizen in 2006 played in the background. Garfien pointed out how emotional his guest had become from watching the video.
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On this reaction to watching a video replay of his citizenship swearing-in ceremony, he got it 100% right. God bless America. Pox on the selfish, narcissistic losers who badmouth their own country they were lucky enough to be born in.
There's a reason why people literally die trying to get here, losers.
Too many people don’t appreciate what they were born with.
“He rightfully took a lot of crap for saying he “loved” Castro and saying good things about Hugo Chavez. I think he meant it in the vein of Latino pride but who knows”
I don’t think I’ve ever heard him say that so I have no idea what context it was in. Is it possible that Guillen is a Christian and he was speaking in that vane. I don’t know, just asking?
Surprising. Yahoo goes for the crying but not the love of America.
It cost him his job as manager of the Marlins.
Baseball been very, very good to him.
Thank you for sharing that. I guess Ozzie just admired Castro for being wily enough to last that long with so many people trying to take him out. Kinda like how one might admire Lucky Luciano.
Ozzie is Venezuelan so you can bet your bootie he appreciates being here and his citizenship.
I don’t think I’ve ever heard him say that so I have no idea what context it was in.
After Ozzie left the White Sox he was hired by the Marlins. That was said in some interview (it did not endear him to the Miami Cuban community).... I'm not sure of the context either and given this current report I'm inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt (I mean, he is only a ballplayer and manager).
yeah, i recall Ozzie being sympathetic to the hard core left.
weird.
I know a hardcore leftist who immigrated from Canada to the United States. There are a lot of leftists who fled California and now live in places like Texas and Colorado. They may appreciate where they currently live but they’re still hardcore leftists.
Guillen, like many in Latin America, venerate caudillos - charismatic strongmen. Hence Ozzie’s love of Castro.
Yes, it cost him his job as manager of the Marlins and his firing was well deserved; imagine the manager of the New York Yankees praising der Fuhrer.
As an aside, always thought Guillen was a poor choice for the job and an example of just how poorly the ownership of the Marlins understood the idiosyncrasies of Hispanic subgroups in Miami. A Venezuelan was never going to woo Cubans - a Venezuelan is as different from a Cuban as is an Englishman from an Irishman - they both speak the same language, but that’s about it.
God Bless You.....now DO NOT VOTE FOR ANY DEMOCRAT!!
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