Ozzie Guillen Speaks - Apology to Follow - Leading Off - NYTimes.com Today should be, to say the least, an interesting day in Miami. In some ways, it is the official kickoff of the Miami Marlins" Ozzie Guillen era because Guillen really hasn't arrived somewhere until he irks large amounts of people. Everyone knew this would happen. Even the Marlins" owners knew this would happen as they were handing him a four-year, $10 million contract in the off-season. But they will tell you today they never expected this to happen. Pledging allegiance to Fidel Castro? In Miami? Guillen might as well have taken the Marlins" marketing plan and set it on fire. Or stood at the door to the new stadium before the home opener spitting at the fans as they entered. So, yes, the Marlins dragged Guillen back to Miami while his team is in Philadelphia to try to fix this with a news conference, and good luck with that. Sure, there are people who are willing to give Guillen a pass because baseball managers are not generally prized for their gifts at international relations and Guillen has shown that his level of cultural sensitivity comes from somewhere in the Neanderthal era. Tim Brown of Yahoo.com believes the "Ozzie being Ozzie" category covers this too, and even the Cuban-American Juan C. Rodriguez of The Sun-Sentinel believes it's forgivable, even as he sees the pain Guillen's words cause. But even if the Marlins succeed in staving off boycotts (not likely) and getting back to the business of reviving the actual baseball team (more likely), the reality has to set in that the Marlins have signed themselves up for unending headaches, as Jayson Stark writes on ESPN.com. There are too many microphones available at too many hours of the day for this to go well, and as Armando Salguero writes in The Miami Herald, this went bad faster than even the most pessimistic would have imagined. The Marlins, after all, have to look forward to the day when relations with Cuba are normalized, writes Eric Adelson on Yahoo.com. This would be a bright future, without Guillen throwing any more grenades into the mix. Who would have thought a week into the season that anyone would want to trade places with the Mets? They are still inexplicably undefeated after four games. There were other noteworthy happenings in the early season, with Yu Darvish wobbling through his debut with the Rangers and Milwaukee's Ryan Braun starting his new life as a doping suspension escapee with a preview of his life on the road, writes Greg Couch on Foxsports.com. The Saints did not get any friendlier a reception in the N.F.L. commissioner's office with their appeals of their bounty punishments, which to no one's surprise were rejected. Now, as Clark Judge writes on CBSSports.com, the question is how they respond and tackle an actual football season without Sean Payton. The issues are not much less thorny at Arkansas these days, as the football coach Bobby Petrino's fate is still being mulled after he crashed his reputation along with his motorcycle. The officer who handled the case has been cleared of wrongdoing, but Petrino hardly has. Things are similarly grim at Baylor, which is reportedly facing N.C.A.A. sanctions for a "win now, answer investigators" questions about all those phone calls later" philosophy popularized by the basketball coaches Kim Mulkey and Scott Drew. As Thayer Evans writes on Foxsports.com, Drew can stop taking such a sanctimonious tone about such things. In nearby Dallas, the mess du jour revolves around the Mavericks with the news that Lamar Odom has been officially declared a bust and will be deactivated. Ken Berger argues on CBSSports.com that the Mavericks can survive the upheaval, but Jen Floyd Engel writes on Foxsports.com that Odom joins a uniquely vilified category of villains, ones who didn't try. The N.H.L. will now try to steer your attention its way as the playoffs kick off. Nicholas Cotsonika of Yahoo.com takes a look at who should be winning the season awards, starring Evgeni Malkin of the Penguins, and Greg Wyshynski of Yahoo.com tackles the flip side and investigates the season worsts. Baseball might have a season worst, barely a week into the season. That is the genius of Ozzie Guillen. It's all uphill from here.