Ozzie Loves Castro

[NismoZ]

And gets a 5 game suspension. Not the same ol' Chicago media you're blabbing to is it, Oz? Guess he forgot he was in Miami?

[Andrew Longman]

I guess the love fest in Miami is over. I doubt he will keep his job for long. He seems to have dodged it this time but they won't have much patience, especially if they aren't winning.

[datachicane]

What better way to show your disdain for Castro than by behaving like him. :saywhat:

[Methanolandbrats]

I thought free speech was protected in this country, ironic someone exercises their right and is muzzled. I thought that stuff just happened in places like Cuba. :laugh:

[TKGAngel]

I thought free speech was protected in this country, ironic someone exercises their right and is muzzled. I thought that stuff just happened in places like Cuba. :laugh:

Since my Twitter feed has turned into a civics lesson over this thing, the 1st Amendment says that Congress can't make a law prohibiting speech. Your employer can do whatever the heck they want. And they did. Ozzie's suspended for five games.

Regardless of the translation of what was said, Ozzie had to have known that saying anything positive about Castro would go over as well as a fart in church in the Miami community.

[dando]

I thought free speech was protected in this country, ironic someone exercises their right and is muzzled. I thought that stuff just happened in places like Cuba. :laugh:

:shakehead Last time I checked he wasn't arrested for speaking his mind. Doesn't mean he can't be vilified for stupid public comments when he represents his team. The list of sports figures who have made stupid comments and suffered the consequences for them is quite long. Jimmy The Greek, Al Campanis, Ben Wright, John Rocker come to mind.

-Kevin

[dando]

I guess the love fest in Miami is over. I doubt he will keep his job for long. He seems to have dodged it this time but they won't have much patience, especially if they aren't winning.

His mouth may be the least of his worries. I was listening to E$PN Radio over the weekend, and they were discussing other comments he had made about what he does while on the road with his team. Apparently his routine is to go to the hotel bar, get hammered and go to sleep. Rinse and repeat as necessary. Might explain the lack of connection b/w his brain and his mouth. :saywhat:

-Kevin

[Methanolandbrats]

:shakehead Last time I checked he wasn't arrested for speaking his mind. Doesn't mean he can't be vilified for stupid public comments when he represents his team. The list of sports figures who have made stupid comments and suffered the consequences for them is quite long. Jimmy The Greek, Al Campanis, Ben Wright, John Rocker come to mind.

-Kevin

No he was not arrested, but he was suspended, which is a penalty for exercising free speech. Think outside the box a little bit. The World is not just black and white. You like that little rotating head so ****ing much, here are a bunch of em for ya :shakehead:shakehead:shakehead:shakehead

[SurfaceUnits]

No he was not arrested, but he was suspended, which is a penalty for exercising free speech. Think outside the box a little bit. The World is not just black and white. You like that little rotating head so ****ing much, here are a bunch of em for ya :shakehead:shakehead:shakehead:shakehead

http://i42.tinypic.com/4qfp50.jpg

he wasn't suspended for exercising free speech. he was suspended for being stoopid.

[Ankf00]

pissing off the fan base is bad for business. :laugh:

[NismoZ]

See:tony:

[TrueBrit]

I thought free speech was protected in this country, ironic someone exercises their right and is muzzled. I thought that stuff just happened in places like Cuba. :laugh:

Crap...this is the third time this year I have agreed with you....a sure and certain sign that the four horsemen cannot be far away...

[Indy]

What better way to show your disdain for Castro than by behaving like him. :saywhat:

It's the 'Murican way. :gomer:

[KLang]

Just can't say that sort of thing in South Florida.

We lived there a couple years, couldn't get out fast enough. :cool:

[Andrew Longman]

Apparently his routine is to go to the hotel bar, get hammered and go to sleep. Rinse and repeat as necessary. Might explain the lack of connection b/w his brain and his mouth. :saywhat:

-Kevinrinse and repeat indeed. Explains some of his other volatile irratic behavior. Not a lot of "serenity" going on there. ;)

[cameraman]

Actually he's pretty consistent along those lines. He is a Venezuelan and a strong supporter of Hugo Chavez. Chavez is Castro's strongest supporter and Cuba has done quite a bit of social services building in Venezuela. It all fits together rather neatly except the part about working in the center of the anti-Castro/Chavez universe.:laugh:

[Napoleon]

Ozzie got suspended for talking about a baseball player from the late 1950s?

(BTW, Barbudos, the team name, means Bearded Ones)

http://also.kottke.org/misc/images/castro-pitching.jpg

http://cdn.bleacherreport.net/images_root/slides/photos/000/511/335/fidel-baseball_display_image.gif?1290043334

http://mopupduty.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/camilo-fidel.jpg

[Gnam]

he wasn't suspended for exercising free speech. he was suspended for being stoopid.

yup.

If you want to see a penalty for exercising free speech, you have to go all the way to England.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2120999/Fabrice-Muamba-Twitter-troll-Liam-Stacey-jailed-abusing-Bolton-midfielder.html

[datachicane]

Barbudos, now that's style. :thumbup:

[RTKar]

http://i.huffpost.com/gen/297002/thumbs/s-BRIAN-WILSON-GOT-HEEM-large300.jpg

GOT HEEEM!

[SurfaceUnits]

What better way to show your disdain for Castro than by behaving like him. :saywhat:

so don't condemn the Hitler family in New Jersey for praising their own socialist hero

[datachicane]

Non sequitor much?

[Napoleon]

Beisbol been bery, bery good to me

http://robotmonkeys.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/20100126_image_05.jpg

WTF! Maybe Bud Selig (to the right) and Peter Angelos (to the left) ought to get suspended as well.

http://ology.com/bundles/ologysocial/up/img/post/post_large/post_4f8489b9ab8010.07844387.jpg

[Don Quixote]

WTF! Maybe Bud Selig (to the right) and Peter Angelos (to the left) ought to get suspended as well.


No way! How did you come across that? :laugh:

[Napoleon]

No way! How did you come across that? :laugh:

Apparently Baltimore played a preseason game in Havana in 99. The picture is from then. I did not see it a couple of days ago when I posted the original pictures but now they are appearing in Google results because others are running it to point out that MLB and Selig are hypocrites.

[TrueBrit]

yup.

If you want to see a penalty for exercising free speech, you have to go all the way to England.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2120999/Fabrice-Muamba-Twitter-troll-Liam-Stacey-jailed-abusing-Bolton-midfielder.html

Personally, I think this is frightening...

[SurfaceUnits]

Non sequitor much?

only after I've sipped a bit too much from my official Hungarian communist party vodka flask

[datachicane]

only after I've sipped a bit too much from my official Hungarian communist party vodka flask

:thumbup: