goodbye, jay mariotti
Reaction to Jay Mariotti's resignation from the Chicago Sun-Times continues to pour in — there hasn't been this much freewheeling glee since the announcement of the end of World War II — and of course Ozzie Guillen is leading the hurrahs. While admitting that his own tenure in Chicago most assuredly comes with an expiration date, the White Sox manager still could not hide his satisfaction with the way things have played out with his nemesis, the man
he notoriously called "a f—-—- fag" in 2006.
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Ozzie Guillen
White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen's verbal attacks on
reporters,
general managers, players,
fans, and blow-up dolls are somewhat disturbing, if not highly entertaining for those of us who don't have to deal with them directly. But did you know you too can be eviscerated by Ozzie if you type with the appropriate amount of bile?
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DUAN!
Thanks to
Awful Announcing for providing video of the worst rap in the history of car commercials (and that's a long list). I would have liked to have been in the room when the ad guys pitched this to Lou and Ozzie. I bet it sounded a lot more like the rap we're used to. Well, the vocabulary at least.
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you've got to push
Ozzie Guillen and the White Sox are now in the midst of being criticized (again) by some sports writers and the Association For Women In Sports Media for their creative blow-up doll, slump-busting shrine. The Association said said the shrine creates an "uncomfortable" environment for female sports writers in the locker room. Via the
National Post, comes this description of the shrine which featured two female blow-up dolls:
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polls

Just two more first-round matchups left until the Elite Eight, and we've got a potential barnburner here today. (Does anyone other than Musberger use "barnburner" anymore? We like the term.)
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baseball
We can't quite put our finger on why a picture of Ozzie Guillen talking to Alex Rodriguez while A-Rod violently adjusts his crotch region is funny .... but it nevertheless is.
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baseball
It takes a special kind of person to come into a verbal confrontation with White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen and come out looking like the
more unreasonable one ... but if anyone can do it, it's Andy Van Slyke.
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