Ozzie Guillen, the manager of the florida marlins baseball team, got in trouble with his employer for praising Fidel Castro. Miami, Florida might be the world's worst place to make such comments, public relations wise, and in professional baseball, public relations is all important.
Important enough to suffer the consequences of free speech. Oh well, its better that an employer punish free but undesirable speech, rather than the government.
Ozzie Guillen, who is from Venezuela, has also praised socialist venezuelan president hugo chavez, so maybe ozzie is a bit of a socialist himself. His praise of castro was nothing other than appropiate. Guillen simply said that he was much impressed with castro's ability to remain in power for over fifty years.
Shouldnt' we all be impressed with that, however much we might not like castro? Hell, anytime anybody does anything for over fifty years, you gotta be impressed.
Guillen surely realized that southern florida is full of refugee cubans, who sought refuge from castro, and hate him? He should have made the comment in san francisco.
We prefer democray to dictatorship. However, if there is anything good about castro and chavez, it is that they believe that the janitor, the popcorn vendor, and the beer vendor at the ball park should be a bit more economically equal to the ballplayers themselves.
After all, you can't have a ball game without players, but you also can't have a ball game without beer, pop corn, hot dogs, or frosty malts. Its obviously impossible, because nobody's ever done it. Workers of the world unite!
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