bozzie

QUOTE (hi8is @ Oct 7, 2011 -> 08:36 AM) It is said that the entire coaching staff will be introduced on Tuesday... meaning, they'll announce a hitting and bench coach by then. bozzie's hearing loyal ol' Jerry's leaning toward Ivan Calderon . . . . . . hopefully someone tells him soon that Calderon's dead . . .

QUOTE (LVSoxFan @ Oct 7, 2011 -> 11:40 AM) +1 As I mentioned in that thread I started, I think this war started when KW publicly threw Ozzie under the bus (to use his term) for Jim Thome not coming back. I remember thinking: what the hell just happened here? And it was during Soxfest, if I recall! But yeah, it would bubble up when Ozzie would continually play Rios/Dunn for no apparent reason and then of course with the infamous (even I was like WTF?! and I don't second-guess managers a lot) Dunn Pinch-Hits for Lilly debacle. In fact, now that I think about it with these two, I could easily see how KW rubbed the DH-by-committee in Ozzie's face, which is why Ozzie took every opportunity to rub Your Big Signing No-Hitting DH right back in his. I think the team was simply a prop in a war between these two. No wonder 2011 sucked. Ah, those that have eyes, let them see . . . . . . I believe it was bozzie himself, yours truly, who spent all summer peeling back the curtains on the Kenny/Ozzie soap opera, and the pawns Ozzie used that were Dung and Rios; it all sprang from Ozzie's demand that Jim Thome be gone'd and Mark Kotsay be DH . . . and it all manifested itself and properly so in the jettisoning of the foul-mouthed, tamale-toting Guillen. Finally. But what did bozzie get for his advocacy? Banned from this board from the overzealous mods. I forgive you, mods. I know it's not easy to recognize the seer within your midst . . .

Poor Ozzie . . . in the wake of yet another sweep at the hands of the Detroit Tigers, Ozzie took to - where else? - the media and questioned the heart of a team of which he himself carved out said heart several weeks ago. Back then, the Sox were hanging around the division lead, at one point only 3-1/2 games out, and rather than concentrate on the business at hand, Ozzie took to - where else? - the media to begin contract negotiations on an undeserved extension past the 2012 season. Of course, we're always told Ozzie's shenanigans never bother the team, and those of us who have worked in dysfunctional environments know that it's never easy to just put your head down and do your job when the bosses are fighting above you. Ozzie's grandstanding quickly manifested itself in a total collapse as the White Sox fell out of contention; perhaps fortunately so, as it appears to have sealed the venal Venezuelan's fate with Kenny Williams. Now, with the Sox 13-1/2 games out of first place, Ozzie wonders what happened to his team's heart. Boo hoo. Clearly, Sox players are tired of Ozzie's games, as they sure aren't playing to save his job. When asked about the lack of intensity, Paul Konerko, instead of apologizing, blew off Ozzie's whining, saying the Sox's freefall "goes with the territory this time of year." Nobody cares anymore, Ozzie. Good riddance.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 14, 2011 -> 03:35 PM) Cooper might not want to stay. Those have been his coworkers for years now. Mark Buerhle - MLB's only 12-game winning #1 pitcher. Nice guy, good teammate, and a good pitcher. But overrated.

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Sep 14, 2011 -> 02:55 PM) While I agree with basically every last word of this, I have to wonder if you're really a Sox fan when you didn't even have the correct year of the title in there. Sure, it could have just been a mistake, but it seems less likely due to all of the effort put forth in that harangue. Also, who uses the word "compatriot" that much? Milkman, bozzie doesn't really care if you consider him a fan of the Pale Hose or not. The facts are there for all to see, compatriot.

QUOTE (knightni @ Sep 14, 2011 -> 02:36 PM) The Sox won the World Series in 2006? 2005, kid . . . did bozzie say 2006? No matter; let's talk baseball, knighty.

Joe Cowley in today's Sun-Times published the next installment in the ongoing saga between the two 13-year-old girls playing General Manager and Manager of the Chicago White Sox, suggesting Kenny Williams has been given assurances he is returning and can pick his manager from here on out. Clearly, it won't be Ozzie Guillen. Meanwhile, the man Ozzie Guillen says is like a father to him is blowing off his emails, and Ozzie is sulking his way toward resignation that his days as White Sox manager are numbered. How sick will Ozzie be over this when he takes some time in the offseason and finally realizes he did it all to himself. Guillen could have had a job for life with Reinsdorf if he had just learned to get along with the man who was his boss. Alas, Guillen's enormous ego, somehow borne of a middling Major League career as an average fielding, undrehitting shortstop with pi55-poor command of the English language, did him in. Guillen thought his "Hispanic Jackie Gleason" act, as Daddy-Reinsdorf once called it, was endearing enough to the owner that he didn't have to answer to anyone else. Any disagreement Guillen had with Williams was immediately taken to the media, by Ozzie, or even by Oney, his no-talent free-loading son whose largest achievement in this world thus far is a series of broken-English tweets running down the man who signed the contract giving his father millions. How sweet it is now to watch Guillen squirming, realizing he is about to face the ignonimity of a public firing, and not even having the ear of Daddy as his White Sox career careens down the toilet. He did it to himself. Here's how. In 2006, when the White Sox won the World Series, Ozzie for some reason took it upon himself to fued with Frank Thomas who, though injured, was a model teammate in encouraging his compatriots to their world championship. Guillen won that pi55ing contest: at the end of the year, Thomas was gone, replaced by another future Hall of Famer, Jim Thome. But Ozzie didn't like Thome either. Despite averaging 30-something home runs and 90-plus RBIs over three years, Ozzie ran him out of town as well, claiming Kenny was not constructing a team he could manage in forcing him to put the slow-footed Konerko and Thome in the middle of the lineup. Guillen won that pi55ing contest as well: at the end of the 2009, despite his stats, despite his Hall of Fame credentials, and despite being a class teammate and inspiration to his compatriots, Thome was unceremoniously dumped by the Sox. His replacement will go down in Sox lore as the man who began Ozzie's precipitous slide toward the delicious firing we are all waiting for: Mark Kotsay. It was Ozzie who needed Kotsay, to add for some reason "speed" to an American League lineup. Nevermind that Ozzie never took it upon himself to manage a team to compete in the league in which it was competing; no, Ozzie believed he was smarter than all the other American League managers and would not stop bickering with Williams until he could preside over a team with a National League flavor. He got his wish, and Kotsay hit about .230 - with one stolen base. Ozzie's face was so red over the embarrassment of his hand-picked "speedster" that the egg all over it scrambled even before Kenny Williams added to the shame by saying "so there" to Ozzie by going out and getting a slower, fatter, lazier, and far more soft-headed Jim Thome named Adam Dung. If Ozzie had managed Dung, as he was supposed to, he may still have a job. Instead, Ozzie's ego took over again. Despite Dung clearly illustrating he needed a break from lefthanders, Ozzie continued to pencil him into the lineup, most often in the cleanup spot, though sometimes even inexplicably in the #3 spot. Then, when it was clear Dung couldn't hit anything from left or right handers, Guillen still didn't stop, claiming there was no better option on the bench or in the minor leagues than a .170 hitter. It was to be Ozzie's last dig at Williams, who had signed the bovine Dung over Ozzie's objections, and he acted like he knew it, riding it for all he was worth and playing Dung long after it was clear he should have been sitting on the bench. Clearly, Ozzie believed he would win his power struggle with Kenny Williams by embarrassing the General Manager. Mike Ditka took a similar approach right before he lost his job with the Bears, telling the press "I have to play with the cards I'm dealt, gang," while explaining the Bears' inability to compete in the 1992 season. In Ozzie's perfect world, the Sox failure this year, and indeed their inability to finish over .500 in two of the last three seasons (as let's face it, they won't this year), wouldn't have anything to do with him. It would be Kenny's lack of talent causing the failure, and what was poor Ozzie to do except make out the lineup card. Now, thanks to Joe Cowley in today's Sun-Times, we know Ozzie's game is up. His consolation prize is to go manage a pi55 poor team in a market that doesn't give a crap about baseball. He bluffed with a pair of 2's and lost. He deserves everything he gets.

QUOTE (MAX @ Sep 14, 2011 -> 01:57 AM) I remember this guy from the old bears board . . . called himself brophy. He's a gem. I remember Brophy, MIN . . . I'm not Brophy . . .

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 13, 2011 -> 12:11 PM) His IP doesn't match anyone previous, but I did learn he is an architect. bozzie on the brain, fellas . . . . . . But I can't make you famous. Let's talk baseball, not bozzie.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Sep 13, 2011 -> 11:41 AM) You're a true visionary. Much like Bozzie. Thank you, Steve. I do believe bozzie resembles that remark . . .

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 13, 2011 -> 10:24 AM) Anytime you'd like to actually talk baseball, that'd be fine by me. My mistake, I thought Adam Dung actually played baseball. But after watching the much-balleyhooed video of him on chisox.com stroking a weak RBI single to right - which is the only highlight of late they can come up with for this guy - I can see where you might get confused.

Wow, that's a helluva welcome to the board for bozzie . . . but I can't make you famous, fellas. Let's talk baseball, not bozzie . . .

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Sep 13, 2011 -> 10:00 AM) Right, because your overzealous groundbreaking puns and complaining are really in need of their own special recognition? Get over yourself. Sorry, southsider, that the sentiment doesn't fit in with the idealistic idiocy Sox fans continually set themselves up with in believing in dung like Dung, but it's hard to argue with .162. As they say, "if you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen." If only Adam Dung would take that advice once in a while . . .

QUOTE (knightni @ Sep 13, 2011 -> 09:51 AM) While I appreciate your enthusiasm, we already have a Dunn thread complaining about him in the last 24 hours. Merged. Thank you for your editing diligence, but frankly I really don't care where the overzealous mods decide to move bozzie's posts; the sentiment is the same.

You know you've hit a nerve with kool-aid addled Sox fans when they start writing posts bemoaning the awful puns you're using to describe the biggest bust in professional sports history, White Sox Designated (s)Hitter, Adam Dunn. They'd rather wave their cloth pennants and provide offseason positive reinforcement to an overweight and underachieving baseball player who at best was too lazy to train this past offseason and at worst is the latest casualty of MLB's adjustment to the steroid controversy. But how else than "done" and "dung" to describe a .162 hitter with 10 homers, 40 RBIs, and a wallet fat enough to fit 17 million washingtons inside of it this year alone? The talk about "Adam Dung, 2012 comeback player of the year" is as ludicrous as Ozzie's demand for an extention on his contract after two of three years at or below .500. How 'bout Dunn shows he can get to the Mendoza line first? The only story I want to read this offseason - in one sure to be filled by the Sox's marketing whitewash about how hard Dung is working toward redemption - is the pig himself standing up and saying, "I embarrassed myself, I let Chicago fans down, and I didn't deserve 1/10th of what the White Sox paid me." Only then will Dung possess the proper mindset to right the huge wrong he perpetrated on Major League Baseball this year. So until then, "done" indeed . . .