Ozzie Guillen just now realizing how dumb most humans are

April 7th, 2008 | Posted by PostmanE

I don’t hate Ozzie Guillen. I’m ambivalent. He’s not a great manager, and gets way too much credit for the White Sox’ 2005 World Series run — home runs and lights-out pitching had far more to do with the team’s success than any supposed “smartball” could have — but he’s not a bad manager, either. He’s like most: reliant on talent for his own reputation. Managing is redundant that way.

So no, I don’t hate Ozzie, but I do kinda pity him. Because it seems he’s just now figuring out that there are morons in the world:

After a quick scan through his e-mails, Ozzie Guillen has read how he ”hates Brian Anderson” as well as being a ”Venezuelan piece of [bleep] that is racist and only starts the Latino players.” And those were sent in just the last few days. Not that the Sox manager is a stranger to hearing that kind of talk, but now seemed the time to set the record straight on a few fronts. Especially concerning the idea that he favors Latino players more than the ”white guys.””I got a bunch of e-mails that said I played the ‘Cuban Missile’ [rookie Alexei Ramirez in the season opener] because he’s Cuban,” Guillen said. ”Wow, did you see the spring training the ‘Cuban Missile’ had? You would play him, too. I don’t make a lineup because of who is Latino and who is not. That’s ignorant. The ‘Cuban Missile’ had bad games because he went against C.C. [Sabathia] and [Fausto] Carmona.

All sorts of confusion here. What is Ozzie doing reading email from fans? Is this his personal account, or a WhiteSox.com one? And why aren’t PR people filtering out the retards? But mostly, if Ozzie is just now realizing that there are a lot of dumb white people in this country, and that some of them have some truly damaged thoughts about professional sports and race, well, we need to get him a gig filtering promo-screen FanHouse commenters. That ought to open some eyes.