Once again the general public is being asked to tolerate another offensive ignorant slur upon the innocent. This time it comes in the form of a baseball manager who in the past has already shown his propensity to not only exacerbate a situation but create his own controversy just because he's Ossie. He has mentioned Castro before, and his famous tirade against a Chicago reporter is legendary. Between using every gay slur he could use against the reporter and using the F word, constantly he shows a complete lack of class and integrity. He was required by MLB to complete sensitivity training after his gay bashing incident, obviously it didn't take. Ossie identifies with Castro because he views himself in the same manner. A controversial leader who has a me against the world mentality, How else could one identify with a despot like Castro who has been killing, executing, imprisoning and excelling Cubans for 50 years. The only difference between the truly horrific dictators like Hitler, Kohmeni etc. is he managed to survive for all this time. Ossie looks at that as some sort of great achievement. A very twisted analysis of those 50 years.
For all those who think this is a freedom of speech issue, wake up. Gullin exercised his freedom of speech rights in spades, if he was in Cuba he would have been executed by his idol. Freedom of speech exercised does not guarantee favorable results.
Firing or not firing Gullin will be a result of how badly the Marlins are affected at the gate. The sad thing is that a man with such limited emotional capabilities has been given this position of authority and is being paid so much money for his ignorance. If one was to consider the source of these comments it would be easy to chalk it off to a complete lack of education, intelligence and sensitivity. That's who Ozzie is and has been forever..A carnival barker who keeps your team in the limelight (Rex Ryan anyone). Unfortunately when Ozzie speaks people get hurt. The Marlins may be stuck with him due to their financial guarantees of his contract, which is their penance for hiring him to begin with. As usual the pain incidents like these cause don't really go away they just leave scars. Ozzie has scarred the Miami community, the Marlins His Family, Baseball, and Himself, but the enablers will give him a pass (Mike Lupica) because he said he's sorry. Sorry only works when you learn from your past mistakes, sorry Ozzie you haven't learned....
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