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Magglio Booed for Political Beliefs

Mar 14, 2009 – 9:05 PM
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Matt Snyder

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Ozzie Guillen would surely be proud of his countrymen. The fiery White Sox manager once referred to fellow Venezuelan Magglio Ordonez as a piece of, uh, crap among other things in an expletive-laced tirade. Saturday, the slugging right fielder for the Detroit Tigers was playing for Team Venezuela in the World Baseball Classic, and he was mercilessly taunted by his home country fans for his political views.

Ordonez has recently appeared in a television commercial which was pushing for the removal of term limits in the government. This puts Ordonez in the camp supporting President Hugo Chavez, and it did not go over well with the fans.
"He should be expelled!" shouted Simon Azlak, a Venezuelan national and resident of Miami who attended the game with several friends.

"We don't want to see him ever again," his friend Juan Rangel added.
Another interesting tidbit was that when Ordonez was pulled from the game in the seventh inning, the crowd cheered.

Venezuela defeated the Netherlands, 3-1, and will face Puerto Rico in Miami in the winner's bracket of Round 2. One would assume he'll receive the same treatment the second time around.
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