Ozzie Guillen: I Don't Respect Heath Bell "As a Person"

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It's never a good sign when a baseball team's locker room drama is so much more interesting to follow then their on field efforts.

The fish fight between Miami Marlins manager Ozzie Guillen and pitcher Heath Bell continues with Guillen throwing the latest bomb. It's not that he's lost respect for Bell as a baseball player, he says, but "as a person." Ouch.

Bell and Guillen's drama surfaced during the team's run on The Franchise, but really blew out in to the public when Bell went on WQAM and said, "It's hard to respect a guy that doesn't tell you the truth or doesn't tell you face-to-face."

Apparently other players didn't appreciate or agree with Bell's sentiments and Bell has tried to do some damage control.

"I've always had the respect and I've always given Ozzie respect," Bell told The Palm Beach Post. "I've stunk this year plain and simple. That's about it. Everything I say gets twisted so I'm going to stop talking.''

Bell even admitted that he's "pretty much lost all" respect from his teammates.

"Right now I've got to earn the respect back of my teammates my coaching staff," he continued. "Do I want to be back in Miami? Yes."

Guillen however isn't ready to make nice. He's not ready to back down. He's still mad as hell.

"It was my turn this week," Guillen told Fox Sports. "Last week it was the pitching coach. The week before it was his teammates. Every week it's something. That's why I don't respect him as a person. You have to have principles."

"I laughed," Guillen said regarding the comments. "I have so (many) problems in my life with the ballclub, to see why we failed -- comments like that, everybody has his own opinion. The thing that shocked me (is) when you say I'm not honest with players?"

Guillen spitting that fire :whew: Fcuk Heath Bell though. :pacspit:
 

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fukk anything that Ozzie Guillen says..

I hate dudes like him, Warren Sapp, Joe Theismann, etc.

They somehow cultivated this shtick of "sayin whats on their mind" and they go overboard..

Ozzie is a fukkin clown.. The man manages the MIAMI MARLINS and had no idea that biggin up Fidel Castro would not go well..

:what:

I hate this fake ass Charles barkley ass nikka..
 

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Call Guillen a clown, but I know for a fact that 99% of the time when a player openly talks foul about their manager, they're bashed by the media. Here, they're giving Heath Bell and Ozzie Guillen equal say.

That's bullshyt.
 

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Heath Bell is a waste of human skin he truly is one of those its everybody elses fault but mine type dudes

Guillen is a legit manager in a time when players have all the power none of these fukking millionairess can take any criticism without getting butt hurt anymore
 

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How is Guillen the bad guy in this situation??? Even the players are pissed at Bell. During Guillen's weekly show on 790 everyone had the radio tuned to the station loud enough so that Bell could hear what was being said about him. Ozzie even took the high road in the situation but I'm pretty sure he lit into Bell offline...hell Bell's been poppin shyt about teammates, fans, the stadium, the manager all year...he's a pariah in that clubhouse and deserves every bit of backlash he's receiving
 
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