The next of his choice quotes will be very telling. He's in the thick of another pennant race and not everything's going so well for him.

Why Showalter? Mike Scioscia's team was the AL runner up. Eric Wedge was second in the MoY voting. Or how about Jim Leyland?

I just chose Showalter because he and Guillen don't get along. By that logic, 400 people could manage the AL.

GASP! The bad man said a mean thing! He must be PUNISHED!!!

Give me a break. Guillen is an idiot, but he is within his constitutional rights to call people who he doesn't like bad names.

In the Latino world, calling someone a "fag" doesn't really mean you are calling them a homosexual. It's more like calling them a "pussy" or a "dickhead."

Is it juvenile? Sure. But does it merit hyperbolic demands for severe punishment? Not at all.

This whole HATE SPEECH/thought control stuff is absurd. Sure, what Ozzie said was irresponsible, just as what Rocker said years ago was. But everyone has a right to say whatever he wants in this country and even stupidity shouldn't be punished...legally. I mean, stupidity should be painful, but not illegal.

RJ, the First Amendment is not an issue here. He's not being arrested, tried, jailed, anything like that.

There's just this protocol that involves not calling the local columnist/national voice a fag.

RJ & George have obviously never held a job in any level of upper management in a large corporation.

Ozzie represents The White Sox and MLB so his actions and words reflect on them. They have to punish him to show that as a business they won't tolerate that kind of behavior and send a message to other employees, which they are obviously in their contractual rights to do. If Ozzie wants to quit his job, so he can freely call people names, he knows where the door is at.

"In the Latino world, calling someone a "fag" doesn't really mean you are calling them a homosexual."

I know you've spent a lot of time in the Latino world, but that's bullcrap. And calling someone a "pussy" insinuates they are effeminate, which is no different than calling them a "fag," which implies they are less than a real man.

"Give me a break. Guillen is an idiot, but he is within his constitutional rights to call people who he doesn't like bad names."
- RJ Elliott

This logic, from the same guy who called Max Cleland a "gigantic thalidamide baby", is not surprising.

Guillen gets special treatment from the media and MLB, unlike Schott and Rocker, well, because, obviously, um, like Guillen is non-white and Schott and Rocker were white. There is no other explanation for it. The double standard against white people is alive and well.

And Guillen isn't the only non-white in baseball to make deragatory/racist remarks. There have been plenty, Bonds included, but of course, their lack of media attention makes me forget what they all said.

But I can tell you what Schott and Rocker said, verbatim!!!

Any man who has gone to public school in the United States has heard MUCH worse language in the locker room than anything Ozzie has said in public, and most straight men in private have made fun of their friends by calling them "gay" or "fag" at one time or the other. As childish as this behavior may be, it IS a fact of life and human nature. As a matter of fact, gay men and women have similar humor. We all need to lighten up, and if we don't agree with Ozzie, don't pay any attention to him. He's just a big grown up kid, and also a latin man who doesn't share our culture.

Tommy: "Guillen gets special treatment from the media and MLB, unlike Schott and Rocker, well, because, obviously, um, like Guillen is non-white and Schott and Rocker were white."

BZZT. (Audience awws)

Ooh, sorry. We were looking for "won a World Series."

Won a World Series. Thanks for playing though!

(consolation organ ditty)

I don't know, I'm not an expert or anything, but shouldn't a sports editor know that Schott's Reds won the Series in 1990...(?)

Probably, if he wants to use facts to make his point. But what fun is that?

(audience snickers)

(organ player shakes head, glances at host disgustly)

"In the Latino world, calling someone a "fag" doesn't really mean you are calling them a homosexual."

I know you've spent a lot of time in the Latino world, but that's bullcrap.

I, actually, have spent quite a bit of time working with, and befriending, Latinos. And calling someone a "pato" or a "maricon" or a "cabron" does NOT mean that the speaker actually believes his target is a duck, or a homosexual, or a cuckold. Instead, it is meant as a generic insult, sort of a ritual ball-busting that Latino men give to their male peers in certain circumstances.

And calling someone a "pussy" insinuates they are effeminate, which is no different than calling them a "fag," which implies they are less than a real man.

Calling another man a "pussy" is indeed an insult, because it implies that he is weak and cowardly. But it has nothing to do with homosexuality. (And many homosexuals are anything but "weak" or "cowardly" ... I work with and have befriended quite a few of them, as well ... )

The reason in my opinion that Ozzie Guillen received such a short suspension and lite punishment is simple, baseball needs him. First off, he took the White Sox to the Series and won, what a story right? He was the League's first Venezuelan (sp) born manager as then the first one to win a Series. Again, what a story.

Next is that he is a very colorful character, he is always talking and people tune in to either support him or loathe him, but the key thing is they tune in.

Bud Selig, Kenny Williams, and Jerry Reinsdorf will do nothing of the sort when it comes to getting rid of Ozzie Guillen. He puts fannies in the seats, rings on fingers, and trophies in the front office.

Unless he comes right out and starts walking around in a Nazi Outfit quoting Stalin and Hitler, he aint going anywhere. He will in fact be on full display for the upcoming All Star Game, and you know reporters will be baiting him. But regardless, a lot of people will tune in since his managerial skills are exciting and fun. People will pay money to be entertained and as long as Ozzie is generating cash by entertaining fans, he can and will pretty much say whatever he wants.

That is just the way it is.

Thanks for giving me the space to write my opinion,

Rob Swift
Athomeplate.com

Ozzie has degraded Major League Baseball with his "style".

Ozzie publicly reprimanding and humiliating one of his pitchers because the pitcher refused to bean an opposing player was completely overlooked by the media and MLB. Why? What if Tony LaRussa or Joe Torre did the same thing?

The Onion on Ozzie Guillen...