Sun-Sentinel: Berardino: White Sox manager tells Marlins’ Cabrera to lose weight

Spreading the guasacaca on thick…with Ozzie.

Even Guillen couldn’t resist teasing his friend during a recent phone call, telling Cabrera he looked like he had a “lot of arepas” in his burgeoning belly.

“When you’re young and you’re good, you can get away with a lot of stuff,” Guillen said. “When you’re getting older and you go down, they say you’re fat. Right now it’s, ‘Oh, he’s a little chubby. He likes to eat.’ When you’re not hitting .340 with 40 home runs, they’re going to call you a fat boy from Venezuela. You’d better lose some weight.”

...“When your mom is Venezuelan and your wife is Venezuelan, you’re going to get fat because they like to cook,” Guillen said. “When you sit there for lunch and you see all the food, you’re going to eat it. The good thing is he knows about it.”

...If Cabrera doesn’t make a change soon, however, “He’s going to play in the Mexican League,” Guillen joked.