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Marlins Manager Guillen Backs Escobar's "Maricon," Says His Family Uses The Word "Every 20 Seconds" |
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Written by Instinct Staff |
Wednesday, 19 September 2012
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| Tags: ozzie guillen, miami, marlins, manager, defends, backs, blue jay, shortstop, yunel escobar, maricon, faggot, anti gay, slur, household, latino, culture, hispanic, uses, mlb, baseball, sports |
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Ozzie Guillen, the controversy-prone manager of the Miami Marlins, has rushed to defend Blue Jay Yunel Escobar's blatant use of a Spanish anti-gay slur on the MLB field and chalked it up to a difference of culture.
"I think he just did it for fun. I know he didn't mean to hurt anybody's feelings. Nobody is that stupid," Guillen told the Miami Herald ahead of a game against Atlanta.
"In my house, we call (each other) that word every 20 seconds. I've got three kids," Guillen added. "For us, it's like 'What's up, bro? What's up, dude?' It's how you say it and to who you say it. But that's our country. We have to respect this country. Sometimes for us it's funny, for other people it's not."
Yunel also shielded himself behind the "lost in translation" defense during Tuesday's press conference, claiming that "It's just something that's said amongst Latinos. It's not meant to be offensive. For us, it didn't have the significance to the way it's being interpreted right now... that's not the significance I put into it. It's a word used often on teams, it's a word without meaning in the way we use it."
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