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Mark2010 said:So if he'd already said the same thing, why the sudden outrage now?
Starman said:5) Best course of action for Guillen: STFU and sit it out.
Don't worry Frank. He'll shoot himself in the foot again before the season's end.Frank_Ridgeway said:Starman said:5) Best course of action for Guillen: STFU and sit it out.
He should resign for his own good, but he is too nuts to do it.
I really did not enjoy living in Miami, and my standard joke was that if I wanted to be put out of my misery, I could just wear a Fidel T-shirt in Little Havana and someone would shoot me dead within 10 minutes. Sort of like suicide-by-cop, only more certain.
In 1979 I was working in a different market, but a heavily Cuban one, and someone claiming to be from the Omega 7 phoned in a bomb threat to protest Fidel's upcoming visit to the U.N., and the cops had to herd a few thousand people out of the stands at a baseball game so they could search everyone's coolers for a bomb. I just about pooped my pants. The Cubans do not joke about Fidel and neither do the cops. Perhaps the people most passionate in their hatred for Castro are either dead or very old, but I would not bet against someone taking a shot at Ozzie. It would be an overreaction, sure, but I think the Marlins are maybe underestimating the situation. Cut him loose for his own good.
dooley_womack1 said:For the rank-and-file Cuban, about the only difference between the time before Castro and now is that somebody was having a good time before Castro. Granted, it wasn't Cubans except for the ones who made a mint keeping U.S. gamblers and n'er-do-wells sated, but still...
YankeeFan said:dooley_womack1 said:For the rank-and-file Cuban, about the only difference between the time before Castro and now is that somebody was having a good time before Castro. Granted, it wasn't Cubans except for the ones who made a mint keeping U.S. gamblers and n'er-do-wells sated, but still...
You actually believe this, don't you?
Have you ever read about Communist Cuba, or any other Communist dictatorship?
BitterYoungMatador2 said:YankeeFan said:dooley_womack1 said:For the rank-and-file Cuban, about the only difference between the time before Castro and now is that somebody was having a good time before Castro. Granted, it wasn't Cubans except for the ones who made a mint keeping U.S. gamblers and n'er-do-wells sated, but still...
You actually believe this, don't you?
Have you ever read about Communist Cuba, or any other Communist dictatorship?
Batista is believed to have killed 20,000 Cubans when he was in power, and American politicans and corporate leaders were fawning over him.
But please, go on.
This country has had rebels for thedooley_womack1 said:I'm sure I haven't read the same sources as you. And no, I ain't gonna fawn over Castro, but I sure the fork ain't gonna glorify Batista, either. I don't think you really read what I wrote.