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Ozzie Guillen to Return to Florida to Apologize for Fidel Castro Comments
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Posted on 04/09/2012 1:17:07 PM PDT by Kazan
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Atlanta Braves pitcher John Rocker was suspended for spring training and the first 14 days of the 2000 regular season for making allegedly disparaging remarks about homosexuals and foreigners.
Why shouldn't Guillen suffer a small fate for praising a murderous, totalitarian dictator?
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posted on
04/09/2012 1:17:17 PM PDT
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Kazan
To: Kazan
One can’t unsay what has already been said.
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posted on
04/09/2012 1:22:16 PM PDT
by
yarddog
To: Kazan
Wow, in Miami?????
“Tone Deaf” just doesn’t begin to cover it.
To: Kazan
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.
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posted on
04/09/2012 1:22:35 PM PDT
by
brownsfan
(Aldous Huxley and Mike Judge were right.)
To: yarddog
He truly is a clown. He was quoted in the Cincinnati Enquirer over the weekend saying that the reason he stays out of trouble when on the road is that he always heads to the hotel bar and gets drunk and then goes back to his room and sleeps it off - after EVERY game.
To: Kazan
A dictator who jailed people for being homosexual
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posted on
04/09/2012 1:24:35 PM PDT
by
AppyPappy
(If you really want to annoy someone, point out something obvious that they are trying hard to ignore)
To: Kazan
Poor Marlin fans, they thought they were getting a manager but instead they have a punch line.
To: All
"I know I hurt a lot of people," Guillen said. "I want to get the thing over with."
Sounds pretty sincere.
To: Kazan
..his gator mouth wrote a check his parakeet a&& can’t cover this time.
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posted on
04/09/2012 1:31:42 PM PDT
by
Doogle
(((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
To: Kazan
Being from Venezuela, you’d think Guillen would know better.
To: Kazan
Why shouldn't Guillen suffer a small fate for praising a murderous, totalitarian dictator? Because the whole thing is stupid. The Rocker thing was stupid too.
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posted on
04/09/2012 1:33:19 PM PDT
by
krb
(Obama is a miserable failure.)
To: Buckeye Battle Cry
He truly is a clown. He was quoted in the Cincinnati Enquirer over the weekend saying that the reason he stays out of trouble when on the road is that he always heads to the hotel bar and gets drunk and then goes back to his room and sleeps it off - after EVERY game.nah... he's just a drunk with that part of his brain filter fried out. Like our Vice-President. It's a sign of brain damage.
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posted on
04/09/2012 1:34:43 PM PDT
by
Dick Vomer
(democrats are like flies, whatever they don't eat they sh#t on.)
To: Kazan
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.
To: Kazan
Hey Ozzie, Adderalll and beer are a terrible combo.
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04/09/2012 1:37:52 PM PDT
by
Cyman
To: Kazan
MIAMI, the CAPITAL of anti-Castro Cubans, and the city's baseball NEW baseball manager says he "loves Fidel Castro". What planet did this guy drop in from?
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posted on
04/09/2012 1:45:25 PM PDT
by
LibFreeUSA
(Pick Your Poison)
To: LibFreeUSA
"What planet did this guy drop in from?"Chicago.
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posted on
04/09/2012 1:51:21 PM PDT
by
SZonian
(Throwing our allegiances to political party's in the long run gave away our liberty.)
To: Buckeye Battle Cry
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posted on
04/09/2012 1:53:14 PM PDT
by
Hunton Peck
(See my FR homepage for a list of businesses that support WI Gov. Scott Walker)
To: Kazan; BluesDuke; okie01; All
You can bet that Commissar Lefty Selig won't fine Guillen for praising Castro - even though saying what Guillen did might be detrimental to business, given the demographics of South Florida and the fan base of Guillen's new team. That's because Selig and Castro are old pals, having hobnobbed with each other in Cuba a few years ago.
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.
To: brownsfan
The only reason the coward is apologizing
There are certain people who reporters should not be shoving their microphones in front of and Guillen is one of them. He's just a dumb baseball player from Venezuela who knows only one thing.....baseball.
There's no doubt in my mind that what he said about Castro was not intended to be interpreted as supportive of him. Unfortunately no one chose to pursue his statement with follow-up questions to find out if he truly did love and admire Castro. If they had, it's likely he wouldn't had to issue a follow-up press conference.
I think this is a classic "gotcha" moment that the MSM thrives on........
To: brownsfan
Guillen had told Time magazine he loves the Cuban leader and respects him for staying in power so long.
As a follow-up to my prior comment, I would love see the entire Q&A that led up to his comment in order to put it into proper context...........
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