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QUOTE(Punch and Judy Garland @ Apr 21, 2005 -> 09:23 PM)
I could be wrong about Valentin in that it's mre people around here than the organization. I apologize. Atl least until Ozzie opens his big mouth and rips valentin anyways.

Ozzie wants what's best for the team. Maggs wants what is best for himself.

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Listen rangercal, let's meet somewhere in the middle at least. I liek Ozzie. I really do. He's the first pro player I've ever met. I'll never foreget it. I just don't get why he and KW can't no comment the past. I feel that they can't get over it at all. The players liek Lee and Ordonez are expected to speak on it because they are asked. As the manager, Ozzie needs to take the higher road or he shouldn't be in such a prominent position. I have no problem with you but I do have a problem with you questioning my loyalties, unless it was in jest in which case I don't mind. I can't think of a 12-4 team besides ourselves whrer the fans would be so obsessed with the past. Please people: move on.

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No im an Ozzie backer too, Maggz started this s*** with Ozzie not the otherway around so I dont see a problem here. The only one who blasted Maggz was KW after Maggz made some bs commit about us only caring about money not winning. Maggz has made himself out to be a complete ass this off-season, which surprises me because I always thought highly of him before.

 

As for Clee it was obvious Ozzie didnt care much for him at all but i wish he wouldnt talk bad about him.

 

The one thing i dislike about Ozzie is the way he puts down the players on our team currently sometimes but so far they been playing well so cant complain.

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QUOTE(SoxFan1 @ Apr 21, 2005 -> 10:06 PM)
If I'm not mistaken, Ordonez WAS part of the team last season, therefore, signing one of your key players, would be something the manager should worry about.

I agree, that is stupid as hell. I can't believe he said that.

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QUOTE(Punch and Judy Garland @ Apr 21, 2005 -> 09:28 PM)
Listen rangercal, let's meet somewhere in the middle at least. I liek Ozzie. I really do. He's the first pro player I've ever met. I'll never foreget it. I just don't get why he and KW can't no comment the past. I feel that they can't get over it at all. The players liek Lee and Ordonez are expected to speak on it because they are asked. As the manager, Ozzie needs to take the higher road or he shouldn't be in such a prominent position. I have no problem with you but I do have a problem with you questioning my loyalties, unless it was in jest in which case I don't mind. I can't think of a 12-4 team besides ourselves whrer the fans would be so obsessed with the past. Please people: move on.

first of all , let me start off by saying the cub post was a joke ( I realize how that can upset any sox fan like you or me.) I'm sorry.

 

As far as ozzie goes, I know he is not perfect. But as long as he is managing this team I will respect his descisions. I root for the jersey he is wearing more than I will root for any individual player. Maggs and lee are not wearing a sox jersey right now . There is no one who is 100% right or wrong in the ozzie/lee and ozzie/maggs arguments. Right or wrong I will always give the edge to the guy who is on my team.

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QUOTE(rangercal @ Apr 21, 2005 -> 09:25 PM)
Ok i guess Im the only one who backs ozzie, what ever.

no way, im with you. i could give a f*** about magglio now. hes got the other teams jersey on now, and he cant get over the fact that he thinks someone ran him outa town. either way he represents the otehr team now, and im gonna take that comment as if torii hunter said it.

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this is a better description of ozzies response http://chicagosports.chicagotribune.com/sp...-home-headlines

The brushfire between manager Ozzie Guillen and former White Sox player Magglio Ordonez turned into a full-scale inferno Thursday morning after Guillen took exception to his fellow Venezuelan calling him an "enemy."

 

"He's a piece of [bleep]," Guillen told Sox beat writers after learning of Ordonez's contempt for Guillen and alleging his manager steered him away from the Sox and to Detroit.

 

"He's a [bleep], that's what he is," Guillen continued. "He's another Venezuelan [bleep]. [bleep] him.

 

"He has an enemy. Now he has a big one. He knows I can [bleep] him a lot of different ways. He better shut the [bleep] up and play for the Detroit Tigers."

 

In a five-minute interview a member of the Tigers staff halted, Ordonez expressed his frustration over his latest injury but was blunter in discussing the lack of a relationship he had with Guillen from the time they briefly played together with the Sox at the end of the 1997 season.

 

"We never clicked, even when we played together," Ordonez said. "I don't consider him my friend. I have nothing to say. I don't want to see him or talk to him. He's my enemy.

 

"If he comes to me and wants to apologize, I wouldn't accept it."

 

Ordonez said later he didn't have a problem with Sox general manager Ken Williams and insisted it was Guillen who got involved with the Sox's decision not to re-sign him.

 

"I don't talk bad about people when people are hurt," said Ordonez, who is on the disabled list and will be examined Monday in Philadelphia by a hernia specialist. "I'm very straightforward. There are a lot of people who try to push you down and do the opposite and not try to help you."

 

Guillen became furious at any suggestion that he should apologize to Ordonez.

 

"Why do I have to apologize to him?" Guillen responded while sitting in his office chair and tapping his right foot frequently. "Who the [bleep] is Magglio Ordonez? Why ever talk about me? He doesn't do [bleep] for me. But if he thinks I'm his enemy, he has a big enemy. He knows me.

 

"I just take it the way he wants to take it."

 

Guillen said Ordonez started the verbal battle in February when Ordonez accused him of forcing him to play last season with a left knee injury that limited him to 52 games and convinced the Sox not to re-sign him after they had offered him a multiyear deal last April.

 

"Why would I get involved with [contract negotiations]?" Guillen asked. "I don't get involved with that."

 

Ordonez later switched agents, from Tom Reich to Scott Boras, and landed a five-year, $75 million contract with Detroit.

 

The Tigers, however, can void the contract if Ordonez's left knee causes him to spend at least 25 days on the disabled list or if he finishes the season on the DL.

 

That would cost Ordonez $63 million, but Guillen insinuated that messing with him would be a greater risk.

 

"I think Magglio is playing with fire," Guillen said. "I'm not afraid of him. I have nothing to apologize [for]. I have nothing to do with Magglio wearing the Detroit Tigers uniform.

 

"Every time when he played for me, he played good. But if he thinks I'm his enemy or I have something against him, it's up to him."

 

Guillen also felt betrayed because he claimed he told then-Sox GM Ron Schueler to put Ordonez on the 40-man roster after he was left off in the mid-1990s.

 

"I told Schueler this kid is better than you think," Guillen said.

 

But apparently not as friendly. Ordonez did meet with a few Sox players after Wednesday's game, including disabled slugger Frank Thomas.

 

And before Thursday's game, Guillen had an animated discussion on the field with friend and fellow Venezuelan Ugueth Urbina.

 

As for Ordonez, Guillen said: "He never was my friend because I don't know him. If I think what I say hurt him, I don't give a [bleep]. I'm not here to make friends. I'm here to win games. I have a lot of friends. If Magglio doesn't want to be my friend, I don't have to drink with him.

 

"… A couple people asked me about it, and was nice about his injury and [bleep]. I don't give a [bleep] what he does for the rest of his life. He [bleeped] with the wrong guy."

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QUOTE(rangercal @ Apr 22, 2005 -> 03:18 AM)
sounds like cubbie talk to me  <_>

 

Geez -- I don't agree with his opinion either, yet it's "Cubbie" talk because he disagrees with your opinion?

 

We just got done reading about the McCarthy hearings in AP American History, too. Disagree with the majority opinion, get called a commie. It's a stretch on my part, though...

 

EDIT: And stupid me, posting after not reading the whole thread. I deserve a bunch of :chair :chair :chair :chair :chair . Disregard everything I said, shouldn't have said anything.

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QUOTE(CWSGuy406 @ Apr 21, 2005 -> 10:25 PM)
Geez -- I don't agree with his opinion either, yet it's "Cubbie" talk because he disagrees with your opinion?

 

We just got done reading about the McCarthy hearings in AP American History, too.  Disagree with the majority opinion, get called a commie.  It's a stretch on my part, though...

 

EDIT:  And stupid me, posting after not reading the whole thread.  I deserve a bunch of  :chair  :chair  :chair  :chair  :chair .  Disregard everything I said, shouldn't have said anything.

no worries :gosox1:

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Ozzie surely should have taken the high road and let it die, but with his comments in the Trib now, this thing will take a huge life of it's own

 

Ozzie has now ripped Maggs, C Lee and Frank

 

I think Ozzie is corrrect in going after Maggs after Maggs called him his enemy, but this is getting to be a trend that is just going to keep affecting this club house until Ozzie shuts the fock up

 

Why should we bother about Jagglio? The guy is gone and we will get plenty of opportunities to boo his ass when he comes here to play (if he ever plays in a Tigger uni)

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This has been smoldering for a long time. I'm called Ozzie basically said "f*** Magglio". I believe the talk will end here. All the rest will happen on the field. I hope someone bruises Magglio's ribs for him. I wish I was going to the Tiger series at the Cell .. I think I'd make a sign that simply say "MAGGS STFU"

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