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		Miami Marlins fail to realize that the cold war ended decades ago. Suspend Ozzie Guillen for pro-Castro remarks. Guess the Marlins support the brutal military dictatorship of Batista and old system of racial serfdom instead (espn.go.com)		271
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TravisBickle62		2012-04-10 12:33:43 PM

Rule Number 1: Try to avoid alienating your fan base

machoprogrammer		2012-04-10 12:34:04 PM

Nice trolltastic headline

Marcus Aurelius		2012-04-10 12:35:07 PM

Sure Batista was a fascist butcher, but he was OUR fascist butcher.

TravisBickle62		2012-04-10 12:35:11 PM

machoprogrammer: Nice trolltastic headline

I give it 2/10 he is trying way too hard

jayhawk88		2012-04-10 12:35:22 PM

Twitter rumor going around right now that there are only 26 college degrees between all players and coaches currently in baseball. That can't be right, can it?

CavalierEternal		2012-04-10 12:36:12 PM

TravisBickle62: Rule Number 1: Try to avoid alienating your fan base

If the Marlins had fans, you would have a good point there.

Kar98		2012-04-10 12:36:25 PM

Marcus Aurelius: Sure Batista was a fascist butcher, but he was OUR fascist butcher.

Only in his second term. In his first term, he was a quite liberal and progressive reformer who ousted the previous fascist butcher.

Headso		2012-04-10 12:36:39 PM

It's almost like the team is located in a city with a population that consists of people who fled communist Cuba.

TheShavingofOccam123		2012-04-10 12:36:44 PM

Blames Fredo.

Government Fromage		2012-04-10 12:37:17 PM

I think it's kind of shiatty to suspend someone due to their political beliefs, but he probably did alienate 20 of their 26 fans. That's not good for the bottom line.

Jake Havechek		2012-04-10 12:37:19 PM

Sometimes the pork is marinated in mojo and slow roasted.

loki see loki do		2012-04-10 12:37:19 PM

Ended.
Inglés.
Apréndalo, subbista.

theknuckler_33		2012-04-10 12:37:23 PM

subby is quite the moran. There's a large cuban population in Miami, mostly refugees or their descendants. This is a PR move to try to keep them from hating the team. A financial decision plain and simple.

H31N0US		2012-04-10 12:37:32 PM

libertad! libertad! libertad!

upload.wikimedia.org

Clemkadidlefark		2012-04-10 12:37:39 PM

Subby is obviously trolling for headlines while taking a break from throwing molotov cocktails and sewing hammer and sickle knee pads for his OWS pals ....

PunchDrunkPanda		2012-04-10 12:37:55 PM

@WhitlockJason: Should Ozzie have known better living in Miami? Absolutely. But Ozzie doesn't strike me as an intellectual. He's a baseball player.

loki see loki do		2012-04-10 12:38:45 PM

CavalierEternal: TravisBickle62: Rule Number 1: Try to avoid alienating your fan base

If the Marlins had fans, you would have a good point there.

Hey, give the new uniforms a chance.

Imperialism		2012-04-10 12:39:29 PM

Drinking and driving still okay, in MLB's eyes.

CavalierEternal		2012-04-10 12:39:52 PM

loki see loki do: CavalierEternal: TravisBickle62: Rule Number 1: Try to avoid alienating your fan base

If the Marlins had fans, you would have a good point there.

Hey, give the new uniforms a chance.

i.usatoday.net

danielscissorhands		2012-04-10 12:40:28 PM

Guess the Marlins support the brutal military dictatorship of Batista and old system of racial serfdom instead

Subby:

I don't think you can begin a sentence the way you began a sentence.

halfof33		2012-04-10 12:40:31 PM

The fact of the matter is that Ozzie is a big pal of Hugo Chavez who in turn is a big pal of Fidel.

Plus Ozzie is a douchebag.

Crewmannumber6		2012-04-10 12:40:47 PM

Guess the Marlins support the brutal military dictatorship of Batista and old system of racial serfdom instead
What does the guy who makes my coffee have to do with this?

King Something		2012-04-10 12:41:17 PM

Clemkadidlefark: Subby is obviously trolling for headlines while taking a break from throwing molotov cocktails and sewing hammer and sickle knee pads for his OWS pals ....

The Marlins manager was suspended without pay for five days for his pro-Castro comments.

What, exactly, does this have to do with Occupy Wall Street?

OtherLittleGuy		2012-04-10 12:41:29 PM

H31N0US: libertad! libertad! libertad!

[upload.wikimedia.org image 300x375]

media.miamiherald.com

/oh, libertad...

The Bestest		2012-04-10 12:41:45 PM

halfof33: The fact of the matter is that Ozzie is a big pal of Hugo Chavez who in turn is a big pal of Fidel.

Plus Ozzie is a douchebag.

He stated in his conference today that "he would rather die than ever vote for Chavez".

jaytkay		2012-04-10 12:41:59 PM

He offended the Cubans who came here for our freedoms.

Freedom of speech for example.

danielscissorhands		2012-04-10 12:42:01 PM

CavalierEternal: loki see loki do: CavalierEternal: TravisBickle62: Rule Number 1: Try to avoid alienating your fan base

If the Marlins had fans, you would have a good point there.

Hey, give the new uniforms a chance.

[i.usatoday.net image 490x368]

Why is Willy Wonka not in that outfield display?

ackb4r		2012-04-10 12:43:03 PM

CavalierEternal: TravisBickle62: Rule Number 1: Try to avoid alienating your fan base

If the Marlins had fans, you would have a good point there.

They are trying hard to develop a fan base, and Ozzie isn't helping.

President Raygun		2012-04-10 12:43:05 PM

nony2klerch		2012-04-10 12:43:29 PM

Suspension = game per decade in power...hmmm

Hidden meaning or just arbitrary number for free speech violation.

carnifex2005		2012-04-10 12:44:18 PM

jayhawk88: Twitter rumor going around right now that there are only 26 college degrees between all players and coaches currently in baseball. That can't be right, can it?

I could easily see that. The grand majority of baseball players didn't go to university but started as pros right away. That's the same thing with hockey as well.

TheShavingofOccam123		2012-04-10 12:45:36 PM

Ozzie should go where the real baseball fans are--Cuba.

hp6sa		2012-04-10 12:46:00 PM

jayhawk88: Twitter rumor going around right now that there are only 26 college degrees between all players and coaches currently in baseball. That can't be right, can it?

I don't know if it's true, but given how many of the 1st through 3rd round draft picks are drafted right out of high school, it wouldn't surprise me. Almost none of the top prospects stay all the way through college.

Abe Vigoda's Ghost		2012-04-10 12:46:06 PM

jaytkay: He offended the Cubans who came here for our freedoms.

Freedom of speech for example.

He was free to speak his mind. And the Marlins were free to suspend him.

No one went to jail.

Brostorm		2012-04-10 12:47:54 PM

I love the headlinem, Batista was worse than Castro

jwilson07		2012-04-10 12:48:09 PM

I see the liberals are re writing history...again. Under Batista you could leave the country, change jobs, or even have a newspaper. Castro is a thug and a killer, stop the liberal crap of trying to paint up a turd like Fidel.

Cyberluddite		2012-04-10 12:48:28 PM

Except for the fact that in Miami all businesses and politicians feel the need to feverishly suck the Cuban-American community's collective cock, this wouldn't have even cracked the "Top 100 Examples of Wacky Shiat Ozzie Guillen Says" list. Of course, in Miami, saying anything about you-know-who other than that the Bearded One is the worst human being in the history of the entire world is practically a crime.

From the reaction, you would've thought what Guillen said was more along the lines of his usual brain-droppings, something like the following:

"Hey, I know that your granddaddy lost his sugar plantation and his mansion back in 1959, but that was over 50 years ago and you ain't never gettin' it back, so you Cubano turds need to get over it already. Plus, you talk funny. I mean, I know everyone in Latin America thinks Spaniards speak Spanish like someone is holding a cat turd under their nose while they talk, and I know Spaniards think that Mexicans and some other Latin Americans speak Spanish like trained chimpanzees with Tourette's, but everyone, Spaniards and Latin Americans alike, think that when Cubans speak Spanish they sound like a gay French guy imitating an Argentinian drag queen. Amiright?"

karmaceutical		2012-04-10 12:48:40 PM

Yes, Ozzie's statements fly in the face of their PR scheme to win the hearts of minds of Latin baseball fans.

TravisBickle62		2012-04-10 12:48:51 PM

TheShavingofOccam123: Ozzie should go where the real baseball fans are--Cuba.

Yeah and he will earn $200 a year there, versus $5,000,000 per year here ...

Jake Havechek		2012-04-10 12:49:48 PM

jwilson07: I see the liberals are re writing history...again. Under Batista you could leave the country, change jobs, or even have a newspaper. Castro is a thug and a killer, stop the liberal crap of trying to paint up a turd like Fidel.

Batista was on the payroll of the NYC mob.

TravisBickle62		2012-04-10 12:50:25 PM

How many U.S. baseball players have defected to Cuba?

kronicfeld		2012-04-10 12:50:25 PM

I'm sure there would be no outcry whatsoever if Ron Washington were suspended by the Rangers for making remarks critical of President Obama.

HotWingConspiracy		2012-04-10 12:50:27 PM

When are these Cuban people going to take back the island? Sitting around for decades crying about it hasn't worked.

Primitive Screwhead		2012-04-10 12:50:39 PM

How does he feel about President Alphonse Simms?

Yanks_RSJ		2012-04-10 12:51:02 PM

jaytkay: He offended the Cubans who came here for our freedoms.

Freedom of speech for example.

Yeah, and they're free to tell Ozzie to go fark himself. Of course, the Marlins can't really afford to offend anybody in their extremely small fanbase, thus the apology and suspension.

King Something		2012-04-10 12:51:34 PM

Cyberluddite: Except for the fact that in Miami all businesses and politicians feel the need to feverishly suck the Cuban-American community's collective cock, this wouldn't have even cracked the "Top 100 Examples of Wacky Shiat Ozzie Guillen Says" list. Of course, in Miami, saying anything about you-know-who other than that the Bearded One is the worst human being in the history of the entire world is practically a crime.

From the reaction, you would've thought what Guillen said was more along the lines of his usual brain-droppings, something like the following:

"Hey, I know that your granddaddy lost his sugar plantation and his mansion back in 1959, but that was over 50 years ago and you ain't never gettin' it back, so you Cubano turds need to get over it already. Plus, you talk funny. I mean, I know everyone in Latin America thinks Spaniards speak Spanish like someone is holding a cat turd under their nose while they talk, and I know Spaniards think that Mexicans and some other Latin Americans speak Spanish like trained chimpanzees with Tourette's, but everyone, Spaniards and Latin Americans alike, think that when Cubans speak Spanish they sound like a gay French guy imitating an Argentinian drag queen. Amiright?"

You are right!

/Latin American

Lost Thought 00		2012-04-10 12:51:53 PM

jayhawk88: Twitter rumor going around right now that there are only 26 college degrees between all players and coaches currently in baseball. That can't be right, can it?

It is true. Baseball players have the lowest average education level (by degree status) of all major pro athletes. Something like 75% have no formal education beyond high school, and of those 25% or so don't even get a high school diploma or a GED. Since coaches are almost exclusively former players, it stands to reason their stats would be similar.

Mock26		2012-04-10 12:51:57 PM

TravisBickle62: Rule Number 1: ~~Try to avoid alienating your fan base~~ Cubans living in Miami are bat-shiat crazy.

Fixed that for you.

kronicfeld		2012-04-10 12:52:02 PM

HotWingConspiracy: When are these Cuban people going to take back the island? Sitting around for decades crying about it hasn't worked.

The embargo is going to work any day now.