Why shouldn't Guillen suffer a small fate for praising a murderous, totalitarian dictator?
One can’t unsay what has already been said.
Wow, in Miami?????
“Tone Deaf” just doesn’t begin to cover it.
It’s good to have Guillen state upfront what his views are, rather than try to hide it. The only reason the coward is apologizing is his boss realized it’s going to upset would be ticket buyers.
The part that mystifies me is Ozzie Guillen got to be a very wealthy man under the evil American capitalist system. Yet, he loves Castro?
Ozzie Guillen is a moron.
A dictator who jailed people for being homosexual
Poor Marlin fans, they thought they were getting a manager but instead they have a punch line.
..his gator mouth wrote a check his parakeet a&& can’t cover this time.
Being from Venezuela, you’d think Guillen would know better.
Because the whole thing is stupid. The Rocker thing was stupid too.
Of course, Guillen should be suspended by the team. It’s a free country, and he can say what he wants. But, by the same token, a company can do what it wants. With his horrifying endorsement of one of the most evil tyrants of the Twentieth Century, he showed that he is not worthy of managing a team that caters to those the tyrant abused.
Hey Ozzie, Adderalll and beer are a terrible combo.
But Selig and company did fine Guillen two or three years back for calling a "gay" Chicago writer a politically incorrect name.
Double standard? Hypocrisy? That's Selig's stock in trade.
Typical Ozzie - engages mouth before engaging mind - but my guess is that stupid, off-the-cuff comment does not mean that he really admires that Cuban hangman.
Ozzie made a somewhat similar idiotic statement about Hugo Chavez right after the Sox won the Series in 2005; in pretty much every statement afterwards he has really come down hard on Chavez, and I believe sincerely so. And that’s not to excuse his initial favorable comments on either Castro or Chavez - that’s just Ozzie.
Two other bits about Ozzie: a couple of my young relatives went to see the White Sox training camp during spring training back when the Sox trained in Sarasota, and Guillen was their starting shortstop. They came by one day when it was raining; every player on the team rushed past the kids as they waited for them, except for one who stopped to sign their autograph books in the rain: that one was Ozzie Guillen.
And speaking of Rocker, Ozzie once referred to a notorious Chicago sportswriter (who was in fact a true horse’s @ss) by using a homosexual slur; MLB fined him and sentenced him to sensitivity training. I always loved it when I found out later that Ozzie had said the sensitivity training was a load of manure (or Ozzieisms to that effect).
I have my suspicions as to why Ozzie made that stupid comment about Castro, but then again, even if I’m right, that doesn’t excuse him from saying something that stupid.
Ozzie Guillen is a putz!
Will he be apologizing for loving Fidel? Will he be apologizing for saying it out loud? Will he apologize for being the dumbest Cuban in America?
Ozzie had destroyed that with his stupid comments.
If he stays, many Cubans are not going to support the team.