Guillen Fined, Ordered To Sensitivity Training For Comments
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MLB Commissioner Bud Selig fined White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen an undisclosed amount and ordered him to attend sensitivity training for making offensive comments about Chicago Sun-Times columnist Jay Mariotti. Selig in a statement said Guillen “used language that is offensive and completely unacceptable. Baseball is a social institution with responsibility to set appropriate tone and example. Conduct or language that reflects otherwise will not be tolerated” (MLB). Guillen: “I’m not going to change. One thing I’m going to make clear is I apologize to the community, but to Jay? No chance.” White Sox Chair Jerry Reinsdorf on Chicago’s WBBM-AM said, “There’s no excuse for his choice of words. Although I understand in his country it might have a different meaning, he’s been here a long time and he has to understand how people react. You have to separate that from the issue of the person he’s talking about because that person is, indeed, a piece of garbage. ... If he wants to attack somebody who attacked him, he has to do it in a politically correct way” (CHICAGO SUN-TIMES, 6/23). Guillen said the fine is “good for baseball because I put Bud Selig in a spot he’s not supposed to be” (CHICAGO TRIBUNE, 6/23).
IS IT ENOUGH? Mariotti said in response to the discipline, “I’m viewing this not as the subject of a slur, but as a sports columnist. And in regard to baseball justice, this seems awfully soft. It’s hard for me to believe a purpose pitch would warrant a one-game suspension and a slur that hurts millions of people would merit only a fine and sensitivity training” (CHICAGO SUN-TIMES, 6/23). USA TODAY’s Jon Saraceno writes Guillen “needs more than some puny, financial slap-on-the-wrist. ... If his superiors do not see fit to stuffing a sanitary sock down his gullet as it regards inappropriate language, then Selig should” (USA TODAY, 6/23).
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