For those of you who are unaware of what happened this week
with Miami marlins manager Ozzie Gullen
, he made favourable remarks towards former Cuban communist dictator Fidel Castro.
This as caused quite the stir in the budding MLB season, not yet a month in Gullen
who is known for making controversial remarks, does it again. The marlins were
quick to suspend Gullen for 5 games due to his comments, and Gullen personally
came out and said that he misspoke. The real question that this controversy brings
up is weather or not, in a free country his actions were wrong, and should his
team or the league have the right to penalize him for stating his opinion.
In my
opinion I do not personally agree with Gullens political stance and belief in communism,
but i do respect his individual freedoms, and believe that his league and organization
should as well. It is never an issue if an athlete comes out to praise an American
president, or politician, but the second that the enemy gets any love, you’re
in trouble. If the team wants to come out and say that they don’t aswell hold
his beliefs i think that’s fine, but let the man say what he wants no matter
how controversial it may be. Were entitled to freedom of speech in this
country, so how can he get in trouble for stating his belief, no matter how ludicrous
it may be.
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