Miami Marlins manager Ozzie Guillen is currently taking a break from the team’s road trip for a pit stop in Miami to dish out a few thousand apologies for a comment he recently made to Time magazine. If you’re unfamiliar – and chances are you’re not – here’s the comment:
“I love Fidel Castro. I respect Fidel Castro. You know why? A lot of people have wanted to kill Fidel Castro for the last 60 years, but that mother*cker is still here.”
People in Miami hate Castro, in case you haven’t read a history book in the past 60 years, so it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that anti-Castro groups are absolutely losing their sh*t over this incredibly stupid comment, and the Marlins already responded by suspending Guillen for 5 games. And the main reason I'm calling it stupid is because you shouldn’t ever say the phrase “I love Fidel Castro.” Even if the guy cures puppy AIDS, your response should still be: "That was cool, but Fidel Castro is still an assbag."
I understand what Guillen was trying to say, but as usual he didn’t put much thought into what he was actually saying and who he was saying it to. So it didn’t take too long for the Internet to react and of course the people who didn’t get it freaked out and called for Guillen’s head and the people who did get it turned it into the joke of the day.
Daniel Tosh got it and he created #OzzieMisquotes on Twitter to mostly humorous results. I say mostly because a lot of people – A LOT – didn’t understand the joke and either took offense to the responses or made terrible jokes in response. I hate being a soap box guy here about Twitter, but whichever presidential candidate vows to clean up bad jokes on Twitter will get my vote.
That said, here are my 20 favorite #OzzieMisquotes from yesterday.
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@danieltosh Ozzie on Melissa Lee Williams: ‘We don’t need no stinky vag’s!’ #OzzieMisquotes #Filmdrunk
@danieltosh Ozzie on Casey Anthony: “Not afraid to make the tough decisions.” #OzzieMisquotes #Filmdrunk
What drives me crazy is ESPN is spending damn near an entire episode of SportsCenter focusing on this.
Guillen is a man who regularly says stupid and crazy things. He said a stupid and crazy thing about Castro, and ESPN has so little to report on right now that this is the most important thing they can think of.
April is the worst sports month.
He also said almost the same exact thing in 2008, which means people either had something better to bitch about at the time or people in Chicago love Castro. I like to think it’s a little of both.
I took a Cuban history course in college, and learned that while Castro has justifiably earned the hatred of many millions of people, he’s still a pretty impressive guy for what he managed to accomplish. I think that’s what Guillen was trying to get at. Fuck you, you learn a second language and get interviewed every day about shit you don’t know anything about. Try on them size 9s for a minute.
It’s very easy to accomplish things when you kill everyone who opposes you. It is not impressive to impose obedience when you murder dissenters. Either your professor was biased or you didn’t get the point. You have more learning to do.
I moved to this country from Cuba when I was 16 (I’m 25 now, so it’s been 9 years since I was there). I was born and raised in Castro’s Cuba, and for lack of a better word, it SUCKS MAJOR ASS. And no, the school system is not super fab. I came here and had to relearn everything.
Guillen is a moron who shouldn’t be dabbling in politics. He is also a Chavista and has pissed off a lot of Venezuelans in Miami. He better be a damn good coach.
I’m with ya, Digital Wonderbread. I loved Ozzie when he played with the Braves and have ever since…It’s hilarious!!
either these jokes are obvious, or someone ripped off the dugout (or vice versa). Yesterday’s dugout was genius though, so i’m guessing some people just stealing off that
Is the suspension really necessary?