White Sox manager fined for 'fag' remark, will attend sensitivity training [View All]

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Major League Baseball tapped the brakes Thursday on Ozzie Guillen when it levied separate penalties against the White Sox manager for two incidents.

Guillen accepted a one-game suspension that he served Thursday night and an undisclosed fine for the "internal actions" of reliever David Riske, who hit St. Louis' Chris Duncan in Tuesday's game after warnings had been issued to both teams.

But the suspension paled in comparison to the attention given to MLB's decision to fine Guillen and order him to attend sensitivity training for using a derogatory term for homosexuals directed at Sun-Times columnist Jay Mariotti.

"The commissioner (Bud Selig) did what was great for baseball," Guillen said while wearing street clothes in the Sox dugout three hours before their game with St. Louis. "Mariotti and his partners (whom Guillen maintains give Mariotti quotes) should be happy."

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Link: http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseball/whitesox/cs-060622soxsuspensions,1,2741476.story?coll=chi-sportsnew-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true


This is a complete slap on the wrist. Guillen will remain a homophobic asshole and will continue to conduct himself as one, I have no doubt. I have very little confidence that fines and penalties will force a bigot to no longer be a bigot. Just look at Marge Schott. :mad: