Ozzie Guillen Quotes (and other White Sox stuff) 2008

In an unorthodox attempt to inject some mojo into their slumping offence, the White Sox erected a tawdry shrine in their clubhouse before yesterday's game. The Shrine included inlatable female dolls posing with the team's bats. STOP RIGHT THERE, THX

this needs to become a picture thread.

Thanks to Matt Stairs' timely hitting and some excellent bullpen work behind him, Halladay got just enough of both (hitting & luck) as the Blue Jays extended their modest but important win streak to four games with a 4-3 victory over Ozzie Guillen's inflatable dates.

who saw the G Floyd breakup on BBTN last night?

how long b4 Soz apologize for blowup doll shrine?

From first base to home plate
In south side Chicago
Jim's role is to serve you
Disposable darling
Can't throw you away now
Immortal and life size
AJ is inside you

"In Every Home Stand a Heartache"

how long b4 Soz apologize for blowup doll shrine?

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080506&content_id=2651421&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb

Phew!:
I will assure Major League Baseball that the doll was not violated in any way shape or form," said Williams

LOL, Ozzie:
"We've been covered by ladies for a long time, especially this ballclub, and I've never heard comments about the ladies on not respecting them. We just did it for fun. Hopefully, I'm not going to say we learn from this lesson because I don't feel guilty. I don't think we did anything illegal."

Swisher:
Some of the things that supposedly happened didn't really happen, which is even more funny, because everybody keeps blowing it up and blowing it up. Like some sort of sex doll?

I wish I could believe that Swisher knew precisely what he was saying.

"I expect (general manager) Kenny (Williams) to do something Tuesday. Because if we don't do anything Tuesday, there's (going to be) a lot of change in the lineup. That's all I'm going to say about the offense," said Guillen, whose comments were spiced with an occasional expletive.

ILX won't let me insert square brackets, so you should more or less insert your choice of expletives in place of the words in curly brackets.

One week after Chicago's outspoken manager lashed out at his slumping hitters, the White Sox routed the visiting Minnesota Twins 12-2 on Sunday for their sixth consecutive victory ... Chicago has put up 10 or more runs in three consecutive games for the first time since July 15-17, 2000, against St. Louis and Milwaukee.

i understand why people aren't as excited about this white sox team as they are about the cubs but it still makes me a little sad

I know, their amazingness this season is overshadowed by the Cubs, as was their drought. I felt bad they got no respect for 1917.

If there is an all-Chicago World Series then maybe the Sox can throw it again, the Cubs can win, and the Sox will get some coverage. Everybody wins.

WSox-Cub fan fights during WS might get outta control

Sox finish embarrassment of Twins
Kirby Puckett rolls over in grave
Game recap from Monday, June 9, 2008

White Sox 7, Twins 5

At US Cellular Field

Monday, June 9

Paul Konerko is raking, Joe Crede is on fire, and now even Nick Swisher has begun to hit as the Sox completed a 7-0 home stand and increased their lead over the Twins to a MLB-best bazillion games.

Sox at the plate

Swisher homered from both sides of the plate. He was the first Sox slugger to accomplish the feat since future first-ballot Hall of Famer Jose Valentin.

Sox on the mound

John Danks didn't have his best stuff, and Bobby Jenks made it interesting, but the Sox offense is so hot Mark Prior would win on this team.

Twins at the plate

Michael Cuddyer drove in three runs, but that's really no big deal. These days Crede drives in three runs from the bench.

Twins on the mound

Closer Joe Nathan didn't see any action and Livan Hernandez didn't start and I have never heard of anybody else who pitches for the Twins. For what it's worth, Glen Perkins started and Matt Guerrier picked up the loss.

Next up for the Sox

The Sox hope to remain hot against Detroit's Triple-A pitching staff.

Number of the Game 3

"Just missed um's" Hawk Harrelson thought the Sox had to go with their three home runs Monday afternoon.

Quote of the game

"I think I got me a new, young, favorite-guy-to-watch-on-another-team player." -- Sox announcer Hawk Harrelson, bestowing quite an honor on Minnesota's Carlos Gomez.

by Tim Butterly

the Sox offense is so hot Mark Prior would win on this team.

"I think I got me a new, young, favorite-guy-to-watch-on-another-team player." -- Sox announcer Hawk Harrelson

more like chickenhawk harrelson, amirite?

I learned from Gammons last night that Barack Obama really likes Harold Baines and Carlton Fisk (in addition to ethanol and nearly unlimited government eavesdropping capacity).

2 out of 4 ain't bad!

The correct answer for the whiteboy pick is Melanie Watson lookalike Britt Burns.

Hahaha

http://whitesoxcards.blogspot.com/2008/04/separated-at-birth-britt-burns-and.html

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freaky.

Saddest MLB mugshot?

http://assets.espn.go.com/i/mlb/profiles/players/65x90/7435.jpg

http://ww2.minorleaguebaseball.com/images/players/mugshot/ph_459409.jpg

"I can be in the streets, begging for money or signing autographs for $2. But as long as Jerry Reinsdorf is still the owner of this team, I can never work for the Cubs. After he dies? You never know, money talks. Everybody in life has a price."
--White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen, on whether he'd ever manage the Cubs. (Chicago Tribune)

HAHAHAHAHA

HE'LL COUNT PITCHES IN A-BALL AND WE'll WORK FROM THERE

"We are putting him on the DL today. The great thing is coaches can coach on the DL. The other great thing is when you are in that poor of shape to begin with, your rehab doesn't have to be that extensive. Basically, we are trying to get him to the point where he can climb five steps."
--White Sox general manager Kenny Williams on pitching coach Don Cooper straining his hamstring in the dugout.

"Coop said his rehab will last five years because the program is to lay around and do nothing. He's pre-habbing since he's been with the White Sox. It's amazing that happened, because he's been pre-habbing. You just hate to see a pitching coach go down like that."
--Konerko

"Let me tell you something, it was about an eight-hour laugh, and at one point I almost felt sorry for him for the abuse he was taking. If it were anyone else, we probably would have had some sympathy, but it was Coop."
--Kenny Williams (Scott Merkin, MLB.com)

Konerko's quote is pure gold.

http://blogs.usatoday.com/gameon/2008/07/you-too-can-e-m.html

One exposure to an Ozzie Guillen tantrum is all anybody needs to learn that the White Sox manager is a unique individual. But what also sets Guillen apart is that he's willing to read e-mails from you, even if you're a Cubs fan.

Guillen has made his e-mail address public: OzzieGuille✧✧✧@hotm✧✧✧.c✧✧.

The Chicago Tribune's Rick Morrissey explored what it takes to have a cyber relationship with Guillen, and offers tips on how best to get him to respond.

As Morrissey writes: That's pretty cool. There can't be another manager in baseball who does it. You get the feeling the only person Cardinals manager Tony La Russa would give his e-mail address to would be God, and only then for the times God needed advice.

Here's what Guillen told Morrissey about which e-mails he responds to: "I love to hear what the fans feel. The only thing that bothers me is when they talk about my family . . . I can take being criticized. I can take being second-guessed. It's my job. I love it . . . But when you get personal and talk about my family life or where I come from or my English, that's not right. It makes me upset. It makes me sad."

That's ozzieguillen13 at hotmail.com

And I bet Tommy Shaw has LaRussa's email address.

Saturday night is Great Clips Mullet Night.

http://chicago.whitesox.mlb.com/cws/images/promotions/y2007/300x157_mullet.jpg

Got Mullet? Celebrate a classic American hairstyle - the Mullet!

PREGAME:
Gate 3:
Rock your mullet to the beat of the band Back Stage Pass.

Gate 4:
Let your mullet loose and jam with Posin, a touring tribute act to the 80s band Poison.

Gate 5:
Join the dance party with "Kung Fu Grip."

Don't have a mullet? Have a stylist at one of four Great Clips haircut stations located throughout the ballpark trim one up for you. Donations will be accepted to benefit the Ronald McDonald House and Chicago White Sox Charities.

MULLET MARCH
Then, march your mullet over to Gate 1 by 6:30 p.m., where the first 500 mulleted men and women will be invited to parade their classic cuts around the warning track. Wigged mullets will be accepted. Mulleted marchers will get a free White Sox Mullet Night T-shirt!
Presented by Great Clips

Bill Veeck would have been proud.

Junior has been looking really bad lately, both at the plate and in the OF.

I can't root for this team as long as Pierzynski is around.

bosox in town for four games, tickets are beyond my means. fudge.

at least you dont live in boston where they're beyond everyones means for the entire season

yeah, there's not a baseball team like that in chicago.

http://movies.about.com/od/mr3000/a/mr3000bm090204_2.htm

Do you remember the first big league baseball game you attended?

The late Bernie Mac: Oh, man. Cubs. No, it was the Sox. We couldn’t afford the Cubs. Cubs was way northside. Cubs was the elite. The White Sox was the hood. When you went to the White Sox and came out, your car was broken in. And they left a note, “Sorry.” It was the Sox. When they had Carlos May, Luis Aparicio, Wilbur Wood, and all those guys. And that was my first. I had my baseball glove and we (were) up there on the roof. I went with my grandfather, my brother, my cousin, my uncle and my other cousin. My uncle was a preacher and he did a lot of community work and he got some tickets. You didn’t care about where you sat at that time. We were all the way up here looking at the players like (far away). And I had my glove like something was getting ready to come up there. I say, “I’m gonna catch it, I’m gonna catch it. Whatever it is, I’m gonna catch it.”

AJ "does it again" (or turns a stupid baserunning play into a ChiSox boon thanks to some suspect umpiring).

http://thepage.time.com/obama-on-sportcenter/

-- gabbneb, Monday, August 25, 2008 9:03 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

o_O

Maybe they have the DH in Hawaii, so he thinks that's baseball.

"When they sent me to the crazy guy—what is that? This guy told me I was crazy, I need anger management. Shut the f*ck up. You don't know, you don't know my life. You went to f*cking Harvard, and you're gonna spend time talking to Ozzie Guillen, who got eighth grade? You should feel embarrassed. You know what? How many employees you got in your office? Let's trade f*cking jobs for a week to see who handle it better. Just because I called one guy that?

"My wife say every year, 'Look at those players, they take care of themselves better than you do. Every year, they get bigger and stronger. You out of shape through spring training.' She say, 'Why you don't take care of yourself like they do? They no drink, they no do anything.' Now, I get the last laugh. I'm normal, I'm healthy, I'm happy. I no have to deal with that shit. I no have to answer anybody's questions. I tell my players, 'You get caught with that shit, don't tell me. I'm not gonna (expletive) protect you, I'm gonna throw you under the train.

"I got Cubs fans who are friends. I say (expletive) you. The Cubs fans, they're cocky. They've been (expletive) for a lot of years, but they're cocky. They let you know they're number one in town. But I got a lot of friends with the Cubs. Lou Piniella, I love that man. That's my goal—manage that many years. The best thing that happened to (expletive) Chicago is Lou Piniella and Ozzie Guillen in the same (expletive) town. (Expletive) the boring-(expletive) guys every day. Some people have to be politically correct, some people have to be (expletive) up. That's Lou Piniella and Ozzie Guillen."

OK, who is the Sox' makeup game against? Would be played Monday, I assume.

At Detroit, facing Freddy Garcia

got it.

If the White Sox and Twins are within a half-game of one another following Sunday's games, the Tigers would play the White Sox on Sept. 29 at U.S. Cellular Field. If Chicago and Minnesota are tied following that game, the two teams would play a one-game tiebreaker on Sept. 30 at U.S. Cellular Field for the division crown.

Oh, right, in Chicago.

When asked who his current friends on the White Sox are, Garcia smiled and told the Detroit Free Press: “I don’t have any more friends there. I’m a Tiger now.”

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Sheehan:

Bobby Jenks is a very good pitcher, but last night he made a couple of inexplicable decisions in critical situations that helped him blow the save. Coming on in the eighth with a 6-4 lead, one out, and a runner on third base, he quickly got ahead 0-2 on Carlos Gomez. He then threw Gomez, who has a personal strike zone as big as all outdoors, a fastball down the middle that he lined into right for a single. Carlos Gomez on an 0-2 count is 11-for-70 with 39 strikeouts. He is nearly four times as likely to strike out as to get a hit. In that situation, you throw him a pitch—maybe two—that he can't reach without going through customs. That was a terrible decision, and the Twins made him pay for it.

Jenks got ahead of the next batter, Denard Span, 0-2. Span isn't quite the free swinger Gomez is—Hugh Hefner isn't quite the free swinger Carlos Gomez is—but once again, Jenks threw away his advantage by throwing a fastball down and over the middle of the plate. Span yanked it past Paul Konerko for a game-tying triple.

He then goes on to lambaste playing Griffey in CF.

In that situation, you throw him a pitch—maybe two—that he can't reach without going through customs.

You throw him three! And maybe he bunts at the fourth.

I'm quite enjoying this subplot where Orlando Cabrera slowly turns himself persona non grata in another MLB clubhouse. When you look like a bigger twat than Guillen it is time to reflect.

out of curiosity what did o.c. do in boston and anaheim, if anything? cuz yeah everything he's done in chicago makes him seem like a grade-a dbag.

He wasn't around long enough in Boston to wear out his welcome, but I'm pretty sure there were rumblings in LA's lockerroom about his attitude.

In both cities he had a reputation for being party central, in Boston there rumors that it extended beyond that into areas that could have had legal ramifications. He also has a weird, long-running feud with fellow Colombian SS Edgar Renteria. In general he seems like a guy who is great when everything's going his way, which is why he's so fondly remembered in Boston.

Captain Call-a-Scorekeeper amirite

Wonder if Joe Morgan still believes this team's bullpen is the best ever.

great postgame comments Ozz

''I think we're the best team in baseball at home,'' Swisher said. ''It seems like once we get that crowd behind us, there's no turning back.''

LOL no

No Lee tomorrow though

In both cities he had a reputation for being party central, in Boston there rumors that it extended beyond that into areas that could have had legal ramifications.

The underage girl thing?

"But even my jersey number is 18."

is ESPN Radio carrying today's game?

Did a little scrounging and couldn't find anything.

A four-hour rain delay would be ideal.

So is this game even happening?

not if it's in chi, it's pouring down rain right now

It is. And I guess it is not.

the rain looks like it won't be around for long though, so...?

I guess if it stops even for a second they'll try to play this game.

Is the playoff game in Minnesota or Chicago if it happens?

Chi.

Prospectus game chat starting soon.

Was that a coin flip?

It's started actually.

in fact I did NOT know that Cabrera had won the HR title.

Will Carroll first to play-in-Miller Park joke

Me neither. Still a down year for him.

He was playing with a bad hip flexor for a while. Pretty drastic cut in IBBs, too.

also a down year for the other league's HR champ.

Griffey as a CWS: 126 ABs, 3 HR, 18 RBI, .254/.340/.397
Ramon Santiago '08: 121 ABs, 4 HR, 18 RBI, .289/.419/.471

Will Carroll (1:16:03 PM PT): Anyone have an update on start time?

Joe Sheehan (1:25:23 PM PT): It's not the weather. Under the circumstances, everyone involved is asking to be paid in cash, in advance, before taking the field.

5:00 EST, apparently?

Enrico Pallazzo behind the plate today

You down with PFP?

O_O

this alexei ramirez kid is pretty good huh

just got home from work and turned the game on!

!!!

:o

I started to do something constructive when Glover trotted out. I'm guessing something happened.

Oh, heh.

this alexei ramirez kid is pretty good huh

Decent power, rather lousy at getting on base (.315), mediocre fielding numbers. Can't judge a player on one clutch clutch clutchy swing.

christ Morbs he's a ROOKIE remember Jose Reyes!

tho really you're right -- just because the dude resembles Soriano doesn't mean he has to BE Soriano when it comes to BB

can't assume I'm judging him on one clutchy swing, either! kid's got game, and has shown that virtually all year. mediocre fielding numbers, but fuck a numbers, shows flashes of brilliance in the field which will almost surely become more frequent.

christ Morbs he's a ROOKIE remember Jose Reyes!

A 27 year-old rookie

xpost!

Reyes was 21, 22 when he couldn't get on base. Mid 20s is a longshot age for having much of a OBP spike.

He's the kind of unfinished player, at best, who ppl annoyingly like to say is "in the conversation" for Rookie of the Year, when he's not.

he's a beanpole

"A cute lil' bugger," as Kevin Millar might say.

WHY WONT THIS SEASON END

you doubleparked?

I didn't know that was Ramirez's 4th slam; Buster Olney will write that David Wright should take Clutch Clutchy lessons from Alexei.

Ramirez's GS victims:

Dustin Nippert (w/ White Sox leading 6-0)
Dan Meyer (w/ White Sox leading 8-0)
Brian Bannister (broke scoreless tie in fourth)
Gary Glover (Gary Glover!)

from last night's BP chat:

Silver Sox (Golden Baseball League) wonders, "Is there any symbolic meaning behind Leyland's choice to start Freddy Garcia? It reminds me of the scene in The Godfather: Part II when Michael Corleone shows up to the Grand Jury Hearing with Frankie Pentangeli's brother from Sicily."

Guillen announced that Javier Vazquez would get the Game 1 start against the Rays.

"I hope I make the rotation before I start drinking more," he joked.

so has Ozz said anything yet about having a Sox fan in the White House?

I'd never seen this before.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYDZi2aAYKI