Does Ozzie Guillen deserve to be in Miami Marlins after infamous Fidel Castro’s episode? - Part 1
Being so brash, impassive and apathetic to the feelings of others can be condoned as a personality trait, but a manager on whom fans look up to the salvation of their team can never be tolerated as spewing senselessness and hurting them immensely. Can pains
and atrocities those defectors endured be justified in any context? Can wounds they have still so fresh and so alive in the memory be softened?
It only amounts to a sheer escalation of their miseries when the person who had caused all of it is eulogised by none other than the manager of their own team, a club they love so much, feel pride to be attached with, spend hours on the stadium cherishing
along and praying for victories.
The backlash was inevitable, calls for sacking was a natural corollary and five games suspension he has been delivered was sure to aggravate their grievances.
For them his five games suspension and then return to the club means only that the probability of an occurrence of anything like this again is there. After all, the kind of political culture Ozzie Guillen has created in the team will keep the club always
prone to such insensitivities.
One will argue that Guillen can be pardoned on the grounds that regular season is underway and anything drastic will only ruin the cheers that the Marlins are enjoying at the moment from their new ballpark and from the inclusion of three all-stars on their
roster.
This begs the question that can the person at the helm of affairs of the players, who is the one most hated by the fans at the moment, be stimulation for them to visit ballpark? Even if they do come, will their long term loyalty stay the same?
The fact Guillen in the past had remained a controversial figure and has hardly drawn any lesson from there should be a reason enough for his sacking, after all precedent has to be set in the first place.
Sympathetic voices standing with him to give him a shoulder at the hour of his distress ignore the fact that he was the one who questioned American work habits back in 2010. Implying as if the whole America thrives on the toil of illegal immigrants put in,
he would term Americans the procrastinators and slackers.
"And this country can't survive without them," he said. "There are a lot of people from this country who are lazy. We're not. Prove me wrong. A lot of people in this country want to be on the computer and send e-mails to people. We do the hard work. We're
the ones who go out and work in the sun to make this country better.”
Finding flaws in the way Americans treat Spanish speakers and Asian players, he stood out blaming Americans as discriminatory against them. While expressing grievances is fair, lashing out wholly without being reserved and that too without concrete backing
by reason exhibit only the fundamental clash he has with the Americans.
In contrast to him, Cuban American communities embrace America as their own country, will not tolerate a word against it, are proud of hoisting the American flag on their houses and thus are through and through American citizens.
By this however one does not want to imply calling Guillen an insensitive person unable to control his thoughts and feelings, only to hurt others and consequently affect his reputation and the reputation of the Miami Marlins. The effects of Guillen’s controversial
comments brings negative attention to a team at a time when that is the last thing that they need.
The views expressed in this article are the writer's own and in no way represent Bettor.com's official editorial policy.
Continued in Part 2
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