Has the Cold War Returned

I don't follow baseball anymore. The season is too freaking long and the amount of baseball minutia is out of control. However, I stumbled on a story today that blew me away. I feel like I have been transported back in time to the 1980's with this story.

A baseball manager suspended for 5 games for an off hand comment about admiring Fidel Castro? Is it 1982? Are we still worried about communism entering the gates of North America? Professional athletes have done much worse and continue to play their sport and get paid. They have beat their wives, avoided child support payments, and on and on...and continue to play. Here, a manager makes a stupid comment, albeit in a community of Cuban exiles, and he is suspended?

Who cares what he thinks? Isn't America supposed to be the land of the free anyway? This is the society that calls themselves tolerant. Tolerant if you conform to the masses! So what if he admires Castro, its not like he is Obama's foreign relations advisor. 

Now of course, he has apologized profusely to no impact. Still suspended and some out there are even calling for further action. This crazy ridiculous. In this day and age, to see someone suspended from their job for a political comment. 

Strange and Ridiculous.