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Worried About the White Sox? So is Ozzie Guillen

If you're still worried about the White Sox in the AL Central, you might have to get in line behind Ozzie Guillen.  He's worried, too.  But in kind of a different way.  Here's Ozzie after his team lost 10-0 to the Yankees yesterday:

"I'm embarrassed. And everybody in that room should be embarrassed. If they're not embarrassed, they got the wrong job or they're stealing money from baseball. I feel like I'm stealing the money from Jerry. And that's a shame. When you got more errors than hits, you better look yourself in the mirror and start second-guess yourself. But I'm second-guessing myself right now, making the wrong lineup every day. I second-guess myself bringing in the wrong guys to pitch."

"I was looking at the Little League game this morning, 11 to 13, and they were playing better than we did. It was more fun. It gets to the point where you are a veteran player and I have a lot of respect for them, and you appreciate what they do for you in the past, but this is not major league baseball, sorry."

"If they don't feel the way I feel right now, they're full of [crap] because there's no doubt in my mind we're better than this. But I think it gets to the point where it is what it is. And my hope is getting less and less. It's a long mound, and the mound is getting higher and higher every night. And if we're going to climb to the top, maybe they need a cable car to get up there. But they're not going to walk up there. [Bleep] it. They don't. I'm not a loser or a negative guy, but I'm really realistic. That's my problem in the past when I'm so realistic and people get mad at me and they don't like the way I do stuff or the way I talk. Well, if you don't want me to talk that way, [bleepin'] play better.

(via Joe Cowley in the Chicago Sun-Times)

And this was before Jake Peavy left his rehab start early, feeling tightness in his right elbow.  What would Ozzie have said then?

Peavy was scheduled for six innings or 100 pitches, whichever came first.  He made it through 3.1 innings and 68 pitches, giving up two runs and four hits.

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Oh Ozzie,

how I love when you’re team plays poorly.

I don’t cheer for a guy to be hurt, but I gotta say the news about Peavy kinda made me happy…

by MrPants20 on Aug 30, 2009 9:19 AM EDT reply actions  

That’s my problem in the past when I’m so realistic and people get mad at me and they don’t like the way I do stuff or the way I talk. Well, if you don’t want me to talk that way, [bleepin’] play better.

That is something that, love Ozzie or hate him, love the White Sox or hate them, is impossible to argue with.

And the Twins still spook me more, because their lack of drama makes them more scary. As good as they are, as many good players as they have, they can still quietly sneak up on a team.

"For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else." -- Winston S. Churchill

by Baroque on Aug 30, 2009 9:39 AM EDT reply actions  

I love that line, so true.

Personally, I don’t care if ozzie is worried about his team. It just seems to me that Ozzie never has confidence in his team. It seems to me that you could ask him at any point in the season (high or low) and get that same sort of response from him. This type of response from him worked for one ring, but it seems these frequent rants are getting old to the players. The more Ozzie rants, the less they seem to respond.

by madpoopz on Aug 30, 2009 10:04 AM EDT up reply actions  

Twins

Always find a way to creep into the run at the end…..they are the team to worry about…

by PBURGTIGER on Aug 30, 2009 10:28 AM EDT reply actions  

I am happy

any time Ozzie Guillen is upset.

Cheer for The Only Colors: Green and White!

by KJ@theonlycolors on Aug 30, 2009 2:16 PM EDT reply actions  

+1

me too.

Welcome to Detroit>>Where the weak are killed and eaten.

by Detroitchik on Aug 30, 2009 9:42 PM EDT up reply actions  

by no means are the sox done...

But winor lose, that team will undergo a major shakeup over the offseason. Thome and dye are likely gone, and more may follow to accomodate the contracts of peavy and rios. You wonder if that group of vets has started to tune ozzie out.

by rook34 on Aug 30, 2009 11:09 PM EDT via mobile reply actions  

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