For the Love of Castro!



I found the semi-recent Ozzie Guillen/Fidel Castro storyline quite laughable. Some pundits said the MLB's suspension may have violated Ozzie Guillen's First Amendment rights. Others sports' experts thought he wasn't punished harshly enough. Personally, my thoughts gravitated towards Guillen's complete (and in my opinion humorous) obliviousness towards his situation.

He didn't realize he was managing in a city with a huge population of Cuban immigrants, who generally hate Castro? That his words would be published and dissected by every sports writer, broadcaster, and talk show host in the country? That using the words 'love' and any dictator's name in the same sentence is generally frowned upon in "Amuricah"?

Eventually, I began to wonder at what point in his verbal quagmire would Guillen have avoided suspension? If he had said he loved apple pie? Chevrolet? Baseball? Then I just thought of stuff that Ozzie should have replaced Castro with within the sentence "I love Castro". Then my mind further wandered to things that would have gotten ole Ozzie in to further trouble.

Rapid Fire: 5 Easy Bullets of Yesterday's Happenings

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Sleep through yesterday? That's weird. Here's what you missed:

• Devil's beat the Rangers 4-1 thanks to Zach Parise's 2 goal and an assist performance. The soon to be UFA helped tie the series 2-2. 
• Rupp was rude. 
• Pete DeBoer isn't the media. Meaning, John Tortorella said more than one word to him when things got nasty between benches.
• Pete DeBoer looks like Kevin Spacey in Se7en. 
• The Thunder eliminated the Lakers in 5, despite 42 pts from Kobe.
• Kobe's running out of time to catch Michael. 
• Russell Westbrook did this. Cool bro. 
• My friends and I are of the opinion Russell Westbrook looks like a frog.
• The Celtic's beat the 76ers 101-85, and are up 3-2 in the series. 
• Think they have a shot to beat the Heat (assuming they advance)? 
• Someone lit a fire under Brandon's Bass. He had a team high 27 pts.
• Rondo had 14 assists, he's a crazy good passer. 
• Kevin Garnett looks (and acts) like Venom to me.  

• Stan Van Gundy was finally fired. Magic GM Otis Smith got the axe as well.
• Coaching Dwight Howard and the Magic these past years must have felt like purgatory for Stan. I imagine he's not too upset to be gone. 
• I know nothing about Otis Smith, except for that I heard a halftime interview with him once. He's pretty charismatic, and wears cool glasses. I can only assume they're from Malaysia. 
• I had to google Stan Van Gundy look-a-likes. This is what I got. Don't judge me. 
• The Dodgers and Red Sox have each won 8 of their last 10. 
• Yet the Dodgers are first in their division, while the Red Sox are tied for last in theirs. 
• The Dodgers look like a playoff contender. They do have arguably the best pitcher, and hitter in the game. 
•  The Red Sox look like they're paying $173 million for a lot of disappointment. Again.