Does Ozzie Guillen deserve to be in Miami Marlins after infamous Fidel Castro’s episode? - Part 2
Playing with the feelings of under-privileged communities has mattering the least to him in the past. Even he will not hesitate vindicating himself with an apology and then returning back again to the kind of personality he is.
For example, Guillen had termed Jay Mariotti, a Chicago Sun-Times columnist, a highly derogatory word once and later when he was dragged to the knees with an immediate denouncement from all-around, he threw an apology and escaped cheaply.
Is it going to be the same this time around? One may grow merciful of him on the kind of face he presented while stuttering an apology in Spanish but if his past record is anything to go by, he will not change.
Guillen will come back to the club, hibernate for few months and then just when the focus is on the baseball and on his managerial tactics being unable to reign in on his ego he will exhale dust from his heart again, much to the detriment of others.
Even if one looks at Guillen’s impact as a manager on the club, there is nothing so compelling making his presence in the club indispensable. So far the Marlins have been mediocre in the season despite enormous spending they had resorted to in the off-season
purchases.
Contracts worth $191 million were signed with only three players and an idea was that these will transform the club into one of the most formidable competitors in the season. Instead every game they are playing does not give us any reason to find any difference
between the old and new Miami Marlins.
Their offence even in the presence of Jose Reyes and Hanley Ramirez remains as vulnerable as ever. Rotation though is relatively better but in no way appears to be faring at its potential.
Thus, essence of off-season extravaganza is lost, as $634 million squeezed out of the already shortened public coffers for the new ballpark construction remains a stark reminder of the disparity vivid from inside and outside look of the ballpark.
Guillen cannot sideline the fact that an off-season spending spree he was able to adopt was a luxury gifted to him by the fans, ones he has hurt thoroughly.
The kind of spotlight and privileges he relished after the new ballpark and new uniforms was never to come his way, if it was not for the fans who did not take to the streets by the time lavish spending on the construction was underway.
After all lay-offs were rampant and public at-large lived hand to mouth by that time and thus they had every reason to be accorded the attention first.
Just to see baseball prospering in their part of the world, just the desire to find their club standing respectably among the rest of teams, they let it happen even if that came at a grave expense of themselves.
At the back of so many sacrifices and undoubted loyalty with their club, intensity of the backlash ensued after the Fidel Castro’ fiasco was nothing but a natural response in the face of a battering by one of their own.
Irrespective of the time, Guillen stays in the club and how far he goes in restoring his image, he is not going to be the same for fans from now onward. For the moment one will only hope that the Marlins as a club do not forget their way to a fantastic 2012
regular season performance they are expected of.
The views expressed in this article are the writer's own and in no way represent Bettor.com's official editorial policy.
Tags: