Fans express solidarity with Miami Marlins but assert hatred with Ozzie Guillen - MLB Update
Miami Marlins move back home to play the first game in their new ballpark after manager Ozzie Guillen was slammed with a five game suspension. Putting everything on the backburner, fans thronged the stadium supporting their club, calming fears that they
will be staging a huge protest for the sacking of the manager.
Fans were reported saying that their loyalty with the club will not change despite Guillen remaining a reprehensible figure for them. The fact Guillen was not in the stadium is also being put forward as a reason that no demonstration occurred.
Despite the general serenity observed outside the ballpark, pockets of fans were there, not willing to accept Guillen anymore. One of the fans went on to state that she will trash all her regular season tickets if Guillen is seen again in the club.
Lazaro Diaz stood out alone, one of the fans registering the protest outside the stadium, blamed Guillen for having re-aggravated the pains of the whole community.
"I came here to express that I am against him and that they need to kick him out," Diaz said. "He has every right to the freedom of speech, but he shouldn't have said what he did to this community."
However he did express his support to the team and said that fault of one foul does not mean the whole club is on the wrong side.
"I'm here to support the players," Diaz said. "And to support all the workers at the stadium who are not at fault for what one ignorant person said."
There are fears that as soon as he resumes his responsibilities, fans will not resist their patience and will go all out to hound him out of the club.
Since when anything like this happens it will be at the extreme expense of the performance of the team, management is right in being concerned.
Marlins are already not at their best in the season and therefore presence of the manager who has been with them throughout Spring Training preparing strategies is critical to their success.
Regardless of the grievances of the fans, they will be better off backing their team up. Only this way the kind of performance expected of the Marlins will come about in the season.
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