UPDATE: Ozzie Guillen suspended five games

Oh, fuck, it isn't those people with Guillen's balls in their hands. It's their "leaders."

 

It's the outrage among the Cuban community in Miami that is putting pressure on the "movers and shakers" to discipline Ozzie. As noted earlier, he has previously made similar comments in Chicago with no uproar whatsoever. You say that in Miami and, yeah, a good percentage of the population is going to get upset and threaten boycotts, etc.

EDIT: I see you changed "movers and shakers" to "their leaders," which does change a bit the impression I had of who you were speaking about.

Even still, if you don't think a significant portion of the Marlins' fan base was upset to see their manager say they love Castro, you're kidding yourself.

 

If you can't speak highly of a murderous dictator in the backyard of many of his exiles, and their offspring, or enable a child rapist without consequence, we've all lost a little freedom.

 

And I say the rank and file is not threatening those boycotts. It's a bunch of people in nice offices who are telling the rank and file they should be insulted.

People make careers of this, you know. See Sharpton, Al.

 

The only grass roots boycott ever was the recent Rush Limbaugh advertiser boycott. That was legit!

Everything else is AstroTurf.

 

Something went wierd in baseball and I can't blame Bud? That's no fun.

 

You're not wrong on your second point, but you're way off on your first point.

When people are jumping into makeshift rafts with the idea that they will either land in Florida or die and both options are better than staying in Cuba, you bet your ass the rank-and-file have a seething hatred of Castro and don't want to see the manager of their favorite ballclub admiring him.

 

You're forgetting the fact that most right-thinking people realize that Ozzie Guillen has a tendency to just throw stupid shit out there, and he's not a member of Fidel Castro's army, and he qualified his "endorsement" of Castro.

 

I'd argue when it comes to Castro, there's a very visceral reaction among Cubans that would render all those points moot.

 

Yeah, and Paterno didn't endorse Sandusky's raping of children right under his nose. He wasn't "in Sandusky's army" either.

I don't get why people get so worked up about this kind of thing.

 

OK. It's an argument that could be made in myriad instances where somebody's career was changed because the worst intentions were culled out of some statement they made. And I'm not saying Ozzie's career is going to be changed by this, but you know the history I'm talking about.

YF, no need to bring Penn State into this. That's a Piotr kind of move.