Ozzie Guillen suspended 5 games for praising Castro
 

LMAO

Most of us have a filter between our brain and mouth that stops us from saying every stupid thing that crosses our minds. Ozzie apparently doesn't.

http://cnnsi.com/2012/baseball/mlb/0...&sct=hp_t11_a0

Marlins suspend Guillen five games for Castro comments

MIAMI (AP) -- Miami Marlins manager Ozzie Guillen was suspended for five games Tuesday because of his comments about Fidel Castro.

The suspension by the team takes effect immediately. It was announced shortly before Guillen was to hold a news conference to explain his remarks, which caused a public backlash.

Guillen told Time magazine he loves Castro and respects the retired Cuban leader for staying in power so long. At least two local officials said Guillen should lose his job.

"The Marlins acknowledge the seriousness of the comments attributed to Guillen," read a statement from the team. "The pain and suffering caused by Fidel Castro cannot be minimized, especially in a community filled with victims of the dictatorship."

Only five games into his tenure with the Marlins, Guillen left his team in Philadelphia and flew to Miami to apologize at the Marlins' new ballpark. The Marlins and Phillies had the day off and resume their series in Philadelphia on Wednesday.

Outside the entrance to the ballpark, demonstrators shouted as the news conference began. Guillen began by speaking in Spanish.

The gathering at the ballpark drew a large turnout, including two dozen TV cameras lined up along the back. Among those in attendance were Marlins President David Samson and president of baseball operations Larry Beinfest.

The political firestorm came shortly after the Marlins opened their ballpark last week in the Little Havana neighborhood of Miami. The team is trying to rebuild its fan base with the help of South Florida's large Cuban American population.

Guillen apologized over the weekend after the story broke, but some Cuban-Americans remained upset. One group planned a demonstration Tuesday before Guillen said he would fly to Miami.

Francis Suarez, chairman of the Miami city commission, said Guillen should be fired. Joe Martinez, chairman of the Miami-Dade County board of commissioners, said Guillen should resign.

Polarizing comments are nothing new for Guillen, who once used a gay slur referring to a reporter, defended illegal immigrants and just last week he said he drinks to excess after road games and has done so for years.

LOL...that's stupid.

PRAY FOR ELIAN!

Why are there so many Fn pussies out there?

Dumb.

Stupid. Who the **** cares about Castro anymore. Other than Cuban exiles.

Well, yeah. Except they built the ****ing stadium right in the middle of them.

Exactly. But those are the folks they are trying to get as a fan base. Guy's a dumbass for saying it.

To me, Cuban exiles are the biggest pussies in this bunch. If you hate the man so much...get your like minded buddies together and go re-take the country. Die for what you believe in because obviously the people that still live there don't have a problem with it.

No shit. Guillen is an idiot, he has to know how other Cubans feel about Castro.

If nothing else, you've got to admire Castro's staying power. Over 50 years later, he's on his 10th U.S. president and is still down there laughing and dangling his shriveled nuts at us.

But if I was trying to impress a bunch of butthurt Cuban expatriots, I probably wouldn't mention that to a reporter from Time Magazine.

Ozzie Guillen remains an overrated jackass.

The Marlins deserve every headache they'll get for being stupid enough to employ that guy. He's a dogshit manager that is still milking a butt-lucky WS ring from a season where Dustin Hermanson became an All-Star closer for 4 months and Bobby Jenks somehow knew how to get people out.

The stars aligned and he won some games. Every other season in Chicago his teams have underachieved and/or flat out quit.

He's a bad manager and a juvenile half-wit; he and the Marlins deserve each other.

He would have been overthrown years ago if they would have lifted that stupid embargo.

With all due respect Castro has one rocking ass beard.

I heard that on my local radio station 1010 XL. I mean he is really, really dumb. Aside from futbol, baseball is the next most popular sport among the hispanic population down there. Piss off the people who provide you with your paycheck. Smart idiot.

+1

Exactly. Ozzie, Ozzie... :banghead::banghead:

Hey Guillen......


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You are hereby banned for five days.

Can't wait until Guillen and Zambrano get into it. Zambrano would beat the crap out of Guillen, then get kicked out of the league.

Dissing Cubans in Miami would be like dissing white people in KC. If you want to make money it is inadvisable

Didn't Guillen appear on a radio show with Hugo Chavez, talk of his love for the guy, then deny it all afterwards?

Hell yeah Ricky!

Shit, they are dumb. Just say that any cuban sth gets to yell at ozzie for one minute each before each game. But you need to show sth proof.

This is like when the Mariners suspended Lou Pinella for saying Nirvana is overrated.

+2

People who idolize Castro or Che are stupid. I wonder if they would still feel that way if they had to live in Cuba for a few years.

Half of them are here illegally anyways...

he was probably just trying to get in the goods with Miami's fanbase and population.

Ozzie Guillen is a baseball player/coach. Baseball players & coaches are uneducated and, often, unintelligent.

As of 2009 there were only 26 coaches & players combined who had college degrees.

Not only does the embargo keep Castro in power but it also effects my ability to travel 90 miles for affordable prostitutes.

I have no college degree, yet I know not to say anything so stupid. I don't think lack of college makes a person unintelligent. In fact, some of the most moronic people I know have a degree...

I didn't say the lack of a college degree makes a person unintelligent.

Any American that remembers the early 60s should still hate the bastard, I do. Because he got old, it is ok? I wish the CIA would have been successful.

You speak your mind and say you like Castro and you get suspended just like Castro's country-how ironic. This country is losing the right to say anything

Don't be so dramatic. He has the right to say whatever the hell he wants. The Marlins also have the right to protect their economic interests.

Yeah because you know all Cubans just hate Castro :rolls eyes:

Nonetheless, dumb thing to say, as others have said, many are cuban refugees who actually did move because of Castro.

I think the guy was misinterpreted, just look at him in this pic. So happy go lucky. How could a guy like this really mean it?

http://25yearsofbaseball.com/wp-cont...ie_guillen.jpg

he gets drunk as hell on the road