Terrific PRO GAY column from baseball writer. We should thank him.

[cboy4]

I know I did, because here is a writer who himself, as a sports journalist, is in presumably a macho business.

Yet, he had the courage to actually go to a gay bar, interview people there, and get a first hand view of how gay baseball fans are no different than straight baseball fans.

Thanks Jeff Passan :toast:
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CHICAGO – The White Sox manager's outburst elicits a complex reaction at a North Side gay sports bar.

Ozzie Guillen is the face of the White Sox. And he's not a fag. Just a coward.

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http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/expertsarchive?author=Jeff+Passan (Title is: Guillen doesn't get it)

[Divine Discontent]

1. right on!

and there's an article on ESPN by one of their main writers blasting his anti-gay slur - harshly!

good to see some people have a brain and are compassionate about my mental illness of being gay (oh sorry, I was buying into the Pentagon bullshit from yesterday...lol... JUSS kiddin)

cboy4, thanks for the article - STUD!

:hug:



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[cboy4]

4. Wut up dude?!?!

I know I'm mentally ill for thinking my baseball team (S.F.) can make the playoffs this year! LOL :hi:

[Divine Discontent]

6. HA!

without a doubt you are, oh 'sunshine of my DU existence'! hehe...

SF has next to no chance, sorta like my Reds... we need pitching so bad, especially middle relief. We've got good starters and BRONSON ARROYO IS SOOOOOOOOOOO GORGEOUS! (nothing on you though cboy)

:hi:

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=caple/offbase/060622 JIM CAPLE MOCKS GUILLEN'S IGNORANT COMMENTS WITH A SLEW OF SILLY "TAKES" OF WHAT GUILLEN "REALLY MEANT".

[cboy4]

8. AWWW

:blush:

The Reds have an excellent chance at a wild card of they can't catch the Cards :)

[Divine Discontent]

5. more espn commentary

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2496753 GUILLEN FINED, ORDERED TO TAKE SENSITIVITY TRAINING

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/columns/story?columnist=wojciechowski_gene&id=2496971 Gene Wojciechowski blasts Guillen's comments "OZZIE-BEING-OZZIE DAYS CAN'T GO ON ANYMORE







KICKED & NOMINATED - OTHERS NEED TO READ HOW WRITERS ARE STANDING UP FOR OUR COMMUNITY, THIS IS RARE!

[Divine Discontent]

13. GREAT ASTROS MANAGER COMMENT I FOUND

Manager Phil Garner called Chicago White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen on Tuesday about an article in a Chicago newspaper in which Guillen was quoted as saying Garner refused to shake hands during the World Series. Guillen told Garner he was misquoted and Garner produced a photo of him shaking hands with Guillen before one of the games in Chicago. ``Doesn't that look like shaking his hand right there? It sure looks to me like I'm shaking his hand,'' Garner said. ``I don't know what the issue is.'' The article also quotes Guillen as saying Garner treated him like ``some crazy Venezuelan man.'' Guillen said that quote was also incorrect and Garner, who briefly played in Venezuela, bristled at the mistake. ``I have quite a good rapport with Venezuelans,'' Garner said. ``I played in the (Latin) World Series and represented Venezuela. I have no problems with Venezuela.''



doesn't guillen sound INSANEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[dsc]

10. I thanked him

I used to live there and am familiar with the bar he went to. Boystown is right by Wrigley and there have been occassional instances of trouble between fans of the Cubs and neighborhood gays. Fortunately it isn't as bad as it could be though.

[Divine Discontent]

11. hmmm

thanks for that info.

and that's makes several of us who wrote him! cool!

[cboy4]

2. My note to the writer :)

Jeff,

I can't express how happy and grateful I was after reading your column on Guillen.

I have season tix with the Giants. I love sports. Just got finished watching great NHL and NBA playoffs. I'm no different from any of my other buddies with the exception that I'm gay.

It is so hurtful to hear the terrible things that come out of the mouths of some sports figures.

As you know, gay sports fans are no different from straight sports fans. We cheer or teams on just as much as anybody else.

It says a lot that gay fans in Chicago can overlook the ugly comment by Guillen and move on.

On behalf of myself and the many thousands of gay and lesbian sports fans in this country, thank you for sharing their story in your brave column.

[Divine Discontent]

7. great letter.. I said about half that stuff and that he was a

"striking looking writer"... I'm sorry --- he's a cute writer, okay! I made sure to say it was so nice to see the support of so many writers about this idiotic statement.

[cboy4]

9. You left him your # didn't you??!?

:eyes:

LOL!!!!

[Divine Discontent]

12. BOCK BOCK!!!!

Are you Kidding? I'm the world's biggest poultry! I'm well over 25 now, so I don't call myself chicken...

did I say that?

LOL

[cboy4]

14. You're out of control!! ;) -- Here's something for you (dreads and all)

#61 Bronson Arroyo | SP

[terrya]

3. That's a terrific column.

And I wrote a brief note thanking him. :-)

Thanks for posting it.