Egotastic
Miami Marlins manager Ozzie Guillen has been suspended for five games by the team after making some seemingly favorable comments about Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. If you haven't heard, Guillen was quoted in Time seemingly giving some props to 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 mother(expletive) is still there.
Obviously that didn't go over well in Miami, where many Cubans now live after having fled from Castro's brutal regime. A lot of the talk on sports radio today revolved around 'time and place.' Back in 2008, Guillen made basically the same statements, but he was living and working in Chicago at the time, so it didn't get the kind of attention as now in Miami. Read More »
Miami Marlins Make MLB History
With well over 100 years of history one would think that there is absolutely nothing that can happen during a baseball game that has not happened before.
We've already had our first hit, our first home run, first triple play, first grand slam, etc. Players have been wearing sunglasses since 1882. Helmets have been worn since 1905. Someone’s pitched two complete games (and won both) in the same day (Frank ‘Yip’ Owen in 1905).
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