The Dirty Diaper

On Tuesday night, after what appears to be a pattern of disharmony between the two, the Chicago White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen called Chicago Sun-Times columnist Jay Mariotti a “fag.” No member of any sport or journalistic establishment has the right to make personally harassing remarks. To make matters worse, Guillen made the excuse that the word means something else in his native language, as if he had no idea what that word means in English.

Every person who wears a uniform for a sport accepts that regardless of the performance, someone won’t like it. And regardless of how many times you have to answer a question, someone else will ask it again. And regardless of how upset you are over a win, loss, or rainout, you have to keep your emotions in check and be professional.

Guillen acts like a 12 year-old because everyone lets him. He has forgotten that reporters are the only reason anyone ever hears or reads what he says.

The media has clearly sided with Mariotti because of Guillen's outspoken past. Columnists along with Mariotti are calling for a suspension and fine. Guillen did receive a fine, but was already suspended for a prior "conviction."

In response to Guillen’s actions, Mariotti claimed he had been physically threatened in the White Sox clubhouse over the past few years. "I'm taking a stand," Mariotti said on Wednesday. "I've received physical threats through the years and the White Sox have done nothing to address it.”

So you’re going to wait until a manager with the social complexity of pine tar calls you a “fag” to bring this up? You’re going to throw years of apparent abuse on top of a manager calling you a name?

Mariotti is a weasel and wimp and needs to check his rabbit ears at the door. He takes abuse for years, does nothing about it then calls out the entire White Sox organization because of one word and a clear lack of thick skin? That’s pathetic. If he has a problem with Guillen, he needs to take it behind closed doors and settle it like an adult.

Ozzie Guillen wears his emotions on his sleeve like Donald Trump wears bad hair; you just can’t avoid it. Mariotti knew this every time he walked into the clubhouse. If past episodes occurred, then Mariotti should have done the right thing and speak up to White Sox officials and, if necessary, boycott the clubhouse then, not wait for more abuse.

I’m surprised that Mariotti hasn’t retaliated by calling Guillen a poopy stinky head.

Of course then Guillen would say, “I am rubber and you are glue, you fag. And whatever you say does not stick to me it sticks to you, fag."

posted by Windel  # 8:14 PM