Guillen did nothing wrong
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by user Rizzo42789
America is way too hypersenisitive these days and people in the public eye are always forced to apologize for things they say. While Ozzie Guillen did go overboard in criticizing Chicago Sun-Times sports writer Jay Mariotti by using a derogatory slur to describe sexual orientation.
The term "fag" is almost like using the word "gay" to describe someone. A lot of people call each other fags without even thinking about what it means.
"One thing I'm going to make clear is I apologize to the community, but to Jay, no chance."
--Ozzie Guillen
The whole situation came about when Mariotti criticized Guillen's handling of a young rookie pitcher, Sean Tracey, who refused Guillen's order to hit opposing batters. Guillen's badgering of the rookie made him cry in the dugout and he was sent to the minor leagues later in the week.
While Guillen may have put Tracey in an uncomfortable position, Guillen has to protect his players. A.J. Pierzynski had been hit twice by pitchers in the game against Texas and the White Sox needed to show they would not allow the Rangers to throw balls at their batters.
But the part of the whole ordeal that gets me is how Bud Selig decided to step in. If the issue had stayed within the limits of Chicago, he may have never interjected. However, since the issue spread to ESPN and became a topic of discussion around the country, the pencil-necked dweeb (Commissioner Selig) decided to take action.
Selig decided to fine Guillen and make him attend sensitivity training. Imagine the poor bastard who has to try and teach Guillen about sensitivity. A man who called an umpire a liar and went on a profanity filled rampage against one of his own countrymen - Magglio Ordonez. This guy is never going to change who he is. If he wants to use a racial slur or derogatory slur to describe someone, nothing will stop him. It is his right as an American citizen to say whatever he wants. And Selig thinks he can stop him, yeah right.
"Ozzie Guillen used language that is offensive and completely unacceptable," Selig said in a statement. "Baseball is a social institution with responsibility to set appropriate tone and example. Conduct or language that reflects otherwise will not be tolerated. The use of slurs embarrasses the individual, the club and the game."
-- Bud Selig
Baseball is a social institution with responsibility to set appropiate tone and example? Mr. Selig must not have been paying attention since he was named interim commissioner back in 1992.
Major League Baseball has more scandal and conduct detrimental to the moral and social status of the league now than at any other time in history. There have been steroids and HGH scandals, a strike that wiped out the World Series. He folded like a house of cards during the labor negotiations because he lacked the spine to lock out the players to ensure a salary cap to keep the small market teams competitive.
But he believes that what Guillen did was harmful to the game's integrity. All Guillen's statement was was an igonarant manager reacting angrily to criticism of the way he managed the game.
Major League Baseball does not need to censor Guillen because he is not going to listen anyway. No matter what happens, Ozzie is going to be Ozzie.
Date
Sat 06/24/06, 5:52 am EST
