Saturday after a loss to the Blue Jays, White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen destroyed a coffee-maker and a chair in the visiting manager's office.
Ozzie Guillen Blasts Fans ... Or Does He?
Sunday morning before a loss to the Blue Jays, Ozzie Guillen reportedly had to say about White Sox fans. From the Chicago Tribune’s Mark Gonzales:
“They only remember the 2005 team (that won the World Series) in 2020 when we come here in a wheelchair,” Guillen said. ” ‘Oh, yeah, thank you.’ As soon as you leave the ballpark, they don’t care about you anymore. The monuments, the statues they have for you, they (urinate) on it when they are drunk. ‘Thank you for coming’ for 30 minutes for all the suffering you did all your life, day in and day out.
I say reportedly because Guillen is disputing, via Twitter, the report.
Five somewhat cryptic but highly entertaining tweets from Guillen, Sunday evening:
Thas bull crap what the media print today about celular field and the fans
The should print and said everything I said thas low blow and imrresponsable no clas
Bunch a crap
No mention any fans and alcohol
Press asociacion print you name who put that today tha will be fear
I’m not perfectly fluent in Guillenese, but reading through these, I’m pretty sure he’s angry at Mark Gonzales, and is denying having said anything about drunk White Sox fans, and that last one I’m afraid I can’t quite translate.
His latest contretemps will raise, once again, the notion that Guillen’s not long for the South Side. Eventually he’ll get fired and it’ll probably happen when he forgets what’s he’s saying and the White Sox are losing, and right now they’re 9-1/2 games out of first place.
Of course, Guillen’s forgot himself before, and the White Sox have lost before. In 2007, the White Sox went 72-90; but that was just two years after they won the World Series. In 2009 they went 79-83; but that was just a year after a division title. Will the White Sox’ 88-74 record last year be enough to keep Guillen safe once more, when he mouths off and his club is losing?
If the White Sox don’t start winning, we just might find out.
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