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White Sox's Guillen uses homosexual slur
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FOXSports.com
Posted: 1 hour ago
Chicago White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen recently used a homosexual slur to describe a Chicago Sun-Times columnist.
The newspaper published a column Wednesday, and it ripped the outspoken skipper for his angry outburst directed at Jay Mariotti, who was covering Game 6 of the NBA Finals and obviously was not around to hear the comments prior to the White Sox's blowout victory over the Cardinals on Tuesday night.
"What a piece of (expletive) he is, (expletive) fag,'' Guillen said.
Guillen was given a chance to explain himself after the game.
"I don't have anything against those people. In my country, you call someone something like that and it is not the same as it is in this country,'' he said.
According to the Sun-Times Guillen explained that in his native Venezuela, the word in question is not used to describe a person's sexuality, rather his courage.
Guillen apparently said Mariotti "is not man enough to meet me and (talk about things before writing.)"
As you might expect, the White Sox were quick to apologize for the remark, which the defensive Guillen used in response to a Mariotti column about how the club dealt with rookie pitcher Sean Tracey after he recently refused to throw at the Rangers' Hank Blalock.
The White Sox claim — again according to the Sun-Times — they are "working with" Guillen on how he speaks publicly.
But it seems clear that Guillen has a developing penchant for talking inappropriately.
The Sun-Times points out that Guillen ripped into a Venezuelan reporter earlier this year for claiming that White Sox's pitcher Freddy Garcia had failed a marijuana test during the World Baseball Classic.
"It's a good thing that happened to Freddy and not to Ozzie Guillen because that man's going to be in big trouble,'' Guillen reportedly said. ''I will fly to Venezuela and kick his (backside) ... In Venezuela, we don't care. We take care of (stuff) by hitting people."
In New York last season, Guillen referred to someone as a homosexual and a child molester.
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