Ozzie Guillen will travel to Miami Marlins to clarify his statement about Fidel Castro - MLB Update
Ozzie Guillen is in the hot water as he is unable to resist the support of a controversial leader Fidel Castro. His remarks sparked criticism from all around and even a Cuban-American group has threatened to take to the streets until he is fired.
Aware of the kind of issue he has touched on and the resultant backlash, he is desperate to justify his words, aiming to clarify anything out of context perceived by any one.
Since at the moment he is in Philadelphia, he intends to travel to Miami and talk to authorities in person. For him issuing another statement from far off will only aggravate the issue and therefore he will keep mum until he is there.
Immediately after his remarks, Marlins as a club in an attempt to distance themselves issued a statement reiterating their belief of Castro as a brutal dictator and worst possible condemnation he deserved.
Not the first time Guillen has been vulnerable to such remarks, he once was reported speaking highly of another controversial leader Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
"Don't tell my wife that, because she hates that man. She hates him to death," Guillen said. "I supported Chavez? If I was supporting Chavez, do you think I would be manager of the Marlins? I never supported Chavez."
For the moment Guillen is in a damage control mode, apologising to any one hurt with his comments. Disillusioned, he has fathomed gravity of the issue now and thus is going out of his way to come out clean.
"I will apologize if I hurt somebody's feelings, or I hurt somebody's thought," Guillen explained. "I want them to know I'm against everything 100 percent -- I repeat it again -- the way this man [has been] treating people for the last 60 years."
The fact regular season is underway, entanglement in these issues unrelated to the problems with the team he is leading will only hurt their progress. Marlins cannot afford their manager to fall to the public criticism and forget his actual duties in the
process. Sooner he comes out of it the better it will be for the Marlins.
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