“Major League Baseball supports today’s decision by the Marlins to suspend Ozzie Guillen. As I have often said, Baseball is a social institution with important social responsibilities. All of our 30 Clubs play significant roles within their local communities, and I expect those who represent Major League Baseball to act with the kind of respect and sensitivity that the game’s many cultures deserve. Mr. Guillen’s remarks, which were offensive to an important part of the Miami community and others throughout the world, have no place in our game.”
Dennis Prager points out the obvious missing from this statement:
In other words, according to the commissioner of baseball, what is objectionable is not that Guillen said that he loves the world’s longest-reigning tyrant, the killer and torturer of democratic dissidents in his country, the destroyer of the Cuban economy, and the man who singlehandedly deadened more than a generation of Cubans’ ability to enjoy life. What is objectionable is that Guillen may have offended an important minority in Florida.
It says a lot that Selig can't even bring himself to condemn a tyrant whose regime is openly at war with the natural rights of the people he lords over. All he can muster is that he knows Guillen's statements were offensive to a certain part of the Miami community. Really sad.
Selig didn't have much of a problem sitting next to the guy either:
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