Ozzie revisited

[chitownBUB]

Interesting opinion on Ozzie from Trib writer-

"Chicago Tribune columnist Rick Morrissey agrees with Guillen:

Let's say I criticize Sox catcher A.J. Pierzynski for something he did in a game. And let's say I do it in the Sunday Tribune, which has a circulation of about 960,000.

Isn't it reasonable for Pierzynski to have an opportunity to lash out at me in front of media and teammates in the clubhouse if I've treated him similarly in print? It seems pretty straightforward to me. It's what I was taught to do. It's what nearly all of the columnists in the country do. The honorable thing.

Look, it's not always fun walking into a locker room. Sometimes it's uncomfortable. But it comes with the territory of being a columnist....

If they're big enough to dish it out, they should be big enough to take it. Morrissey is right on this."

[chitownBUB]

The meltdown continues for the National League whiners who keep trying to invent an explanation for why they are getting their butts kicked nightly by the American leaguers.
The Cards whined because they thought Ozzie was throwing at Dave Duncan's little boy, and they claimed the Sox were stealing signs. Phil Garner just looks like a sourpuss all the time while whining constantly about anything, especially trying to figure out how to get his relievers to complete an inning without giving up a grand slam.
In a rare Sunday night 7:30PM game (for ESPN) the White Sox dragged the game to 13 innings, causing the Astros to get into Detroit for Monday's game with very little sleep--and it showed.

The Astros got butt-kicked by the Tigers as well last night, 10-4, and both superstar Lance Berkman and manager Phil Garner continued their meltdown by arguing a play at first that clearly Berkman was out, and both got tossed! Garner then went back to the dugout and in an act borrowed from Bobby Knight, threw chairs out of the dugout onto the field.

Since the NL Central has largely played just the AL Central in interleague play, here are the cumulative intraleague records:
The AL Central is 44-19, the Sox, Tigers, and Twins are a combined 32-6!
The NL Central is 21-44, not one NL Central team is above .500.

Mike Ditka has a fine insight of today's so-called sports writers:
"''It used to be that writers placed more emphasis on reporting the facts. Now they place more emphasis on giving their personal opinion, regardless of whether it is fair or valid. Sure, I have lost my temper at times as a coach, and I've said and done some things I wouldn't have said or done if I had thought about them more beforehand. But in too many cases, the media also go for the sensational stuff. They'll blow stuff out of proportion to sell papers. And there's not too much you can do about that.''

[chitownBUB]

Now Ozzie is in a verbal interchange with LA Dodgers' first base coach Mariano Duncan. Duncan is Dominican and Ozzie is Venezuelan, but Duncan rips Ozzie as a bad role model for "Latinos".

http://chicagosports.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseball/whitesox/cs-060625soxsep,1,1438631.story?coll=cs-whitesox-headlines

Newsflash to Mariano Duncan!!!!
Ozzie is the IDOL of the entire city of Chicago, not just Latinos, but everyone. He unites people (all except the ego-ladened media types and all-consumed special interest word-police).

Please look next time you see Ozzie before home game and note all the different colors of kids who come to see and get Ozzie's autograph. Ozzie's appeal is far beyond just to the Latinos, who in Chicago love him dearly. Of course all the fans of the teams the Sox are pummelling don't necessarily feel the same, but they generally don't contrive a racial issue out of it.

http://www.statesman.com/sports/content/sports/stories/other/06/28bohls.html