Castro Lover

I don't think you could. You can do it nationally, but the Marlins play in the community you are trying to revile.

Just admit it was stupid to get a job there and then say something like that about Castro and move on, this guy likely will lose his job as the fan base will reject him.
 
Damocles said:
I don't think you could. You can do it nationally, but the Marlins play in the community you are trying to revile.

Just admit it was stupid to get a job there and then say something like that about Castro and move on, this guy likely will lose his job as the fan base will reject him.
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I was being facetious with the question. Obviously the team would never hire someone with her attitude towards the issue. Though for the right amount of money she may be willing to change her thinking.
 
cawacko said:
I was being facetious with the question. Obviously the team would never hire someone with her attitude towards the issue. Though for the right amount of money she may be willing to change her thinking.
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For the right amount of money I could convince Superfreak that I really do think he's God. Bet on it.

***This post is partially about Superfreak.
 
Damocles said:
I don't think you could. You can do it nationally, but the Marlins play in the community you are trying to revile.

Just admit it was stupid to get a job there and then say something like that about Castro and move on, this guy likely will lose his job as the fan base will reject him.
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Nope, five game suspension. The Cubans must value freedom of speech! This guys must be very good at his job.
 
Being an idiot can't help him be a good manager. We'll just have to see how the Marlins do this season. Lately, its been the team from Tampa Bay that has been going to the playoffs...
 
Darla said:
Does Superfreak know you're impersonating him?
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So technically was the above about me? It mentioned me, but was directed at God, I get confused as to whether or not I am allowed to respond. Please clarify by adding the appropriate disclaimers.
 
Marlins Manager Ozzie Guillen Shouldn't Apologize for Liking Castro

By PAUL BUCHHEIT


"Ozzie Guillen called himself sad, stupid, and embarrassed yesterday at his press conference where he apologized for claiming he loved Cuban dictator Fidel Castro." - The Examiner

Ozzie Guillen may not fit any psychological profile. His outrageous comments coupled with his lofty status in the sports world seem to place him in his own standard deviation. But he's bowing down now, in a moment of adversity, to the impassioned opponents of socialism and the freedom to say something positive about it. He's acting like millions of other Americans conditioned to equate criticism of free market capitalism with a lack of patriotism.

"Benign envy," according to Princeton researcher Susan T. Fiske, is the act of longing for the status of another without wishing ill on that person. It is a feeling nurtured in the public by the 1%, through their self-promotion as American success stories, and by constant reminders of the superiority of individual initiative over government involvement. Much of America buys into it. Including Ozzie, who except for his position and salary would seem like a member of the 99%.

As a lifelong Chicagoan and White Sox fan, I love Ozzie Guillen. (After all, he led to win the World Series back in 2005, their first World Series Championship since 1917.) But it's disappointing to see him kneel like a penitent sinner at the capitalist altar. Understandably, it's getting scary for the people at the top.

They need a submissive America. They need the masses to believe that anyone can make it with a little hard work, even though the facts and public sentiment are going against them. The U.S. now has one of the lowest levels of income mobility in the developed world. And a recent Pew Survey revealed that "conflicts between rich and poor now rank ahead of three other potential sources of group tension - between immigrants and the native born; between blacks and whites; and between young and old." As a result, Mitt Romney has to spin the debate to "the bitter politics of envy" to shame us all for questioning the job creators.

So if you're benignly envious of America's top "achievers," don't provoke the spirit of Milton Friedman with the suggestion that nationalized and social-oriented countries, like Venezuela and Cuba, might teach the unregulated capitalists a thing or two. Try to forget about the economic embargo imposed for 50 years against a destitute nation. Disregard a leader who, as Ozzie first noted, has survived a half-century of attempts to overthrow or sabotage or starve his country. And never mind that everyone from the European Union to the Organization of American States to the Pope has condemned the inhumane continuation of the economic sanctions.

It's a credit to the salesmanship of the 1% that to this day a majority of U.S. citizens support the Cuban embargo. Millions of Americans still buy into the blind allegiance of "freedom" embellished with an Ozzieish "everyone hates Castro." They reject political systems that support the needs of the 99%. They worship a system that gives almost all the money to the 1%.

A Texas academic study found that people "whose memories were triggered by the high-envy targets" suffered diminished cognitive abilities. That, assuredly, is the way our political and business leaders want to keep it.

I would not apologize either and I also like Castro too!
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Superfreak said:
So technically was the above about me? It mentioned me, but was directed at God, I get confused as to whether or not I am allowed to respond. Please clarify by adding the appropriate disclaimers.
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It's good that you've finally learned your limitations. You have me to thank for that you know!
 
Rana said:
Nope, five game suspension. The Cubans must value freedom of speech! This guys must be very good at his job.
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I don't think that will be the end of it. I think he'll find that the fans are against him... And the Marlins will eventually have to fire him.

I don't think it would keep him from a job elsewhere though.
 
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