Health & Fitness
A Five-Day Suspension Won't Fix It
Suspending Ozzie Guillén for five days doesn't fix the situation.
The Miami Marlins have a new stadium and have shelled out a lot of cash to some big-time baseball stars in order to draw big crowds to their major-league games. The Marlins hope that a sizable portion of that crowd would include the large Cuban-American population in the area.
With that in mind, the Marlins have now suspended manager Ozzie Guillén for five games for telling Time magazine that he loves Fidel Castro.
Five games won't make the justifiable anger in the Cuban-American community go away. I think Jay Nordlinger says it best:
A quick word about Ozzie Guillén’s words about Fidel Castro. Guillén is the manager of the Miami Marlins baseball team. He said, “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 [so-and-so] is still there.”
True. And, you know? Castro has wanted to kill a lot of people too — mainly Cuban democrats and human-rights activists, some of the best and bravest people we have ever known. Curiously, they are not “still there.”
As a rule, when Castro wants you killed — you get killed.