The White Sox thread

FUNKY MOOSE 4 LIFE

http://www.ezthemes.com/previews/l/lisaderganpatio1.jpg

Anyway, congrats, Sox. This shit is over.

http://www.slate.com/id/2128744/?nav=tap3

The real gold there (last para) is that the "Highlanders"-era Yanks were also known as the Porchclimbers.

Glad he got to see the White Sox win one.

The stuff nightmares are made of. Thanks Ozz.

Throw in Widger at the plate and you've got the freakin Keystone Cops out there. sheesh. freakin Z-Team out there tonight.

Anyway, they'll be fine. Hangover city right now.

The minuses: too many to mention. Atrocious offense. Judy Garland instead of Jon. A pronounced lack of killer instinct with RISP and the game on the line.

I still say it's going to be a 2-team race with the Tribe this year, but the Sox need to shit or get off the pot fairly soon.

http://www.southsidesox.com/story/2006/4/15/181943/580

freaking unreal the moonshots he is serving up. I dunno ... it's weird, I'm not tryin to be a homey; I'm just so honestly freaked-out about the distance I am witnessing on Thome's BOMBS.....

yeah, it's making me wonder if there might be some creedence behind the juiced ball theory for this year. the thought being that since the players wouldn't be juiced the balls would be to try to minimize the difference in stats.

but juiced balls or not, those moon shots are pretty amazing.

I don't know if it was as great as watching George Mason beat UConn, but it was sure was nice.

unbelievable game by Pablo; scores GW run off the bat of Uribe.

On Tuesday to reporters, White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen referred to Chicago Sun-Times columnist and Around the Horn contributor Jay Mariotti as a derogatory name for a homosexual.

Angry with a recent column by Mariotti critical of Guillen's handling of recently demoted relief pitcher Sean Tracey and upset with Mariotti with columns of the past, Guillen said to reporters when referring to Mariotti before Tuesday's game with the Cardinals, "What a piece of [expletive] he is, [expletive] fag."

"I don't have anything against those people. In my country, you call someone something like that and it is not the same as it is in this country."

Mariotti was covering the NBA Finals Tuesday night and was not present to hear what Guillen said.

Columnist Greg Couch of the Sun-Times wrote a column Wednesday in response, calling for commissioner Bud Selig to suspend Guillen for his use of a "hurtful homophobic" term.

Before writing the column, Couch asked Guillen for an explanation. Guillen defended his use of the term "fag" by saying this about homosexuals and the use of the word in question: "I don't have anything against those people. In my country, you call someone something like that and it is not the same as it is in this country.''

Guillen said that in his native Venezuela, that word is not a reference to a person's sexuality, but to his courage. He said he was saying that Mariotti is "not man enough to meet me and talk about [things before writing].''

Guillen also told Couch that he has gay friends, attends WNBA games, went to a Madonna concert and plans to go to the Gay Games in Chicago.

"I called that of this man [Mariotti],'' he told Couch. "I'm not trying to hurt anybody [else]."

Scott Reifert, the White Sox's vice president of communications, offered to apologize on behalf of the organization when approached by Couch.

"To anybody who was insulted or hurt by that comment ... as an organization, we'll certainly apologize," Reifert told Couch.

?!!?!?

In the third, every member of the Sox lineup got a hit in the inning (a couple had two IIRC.) Has that ever happened before?

HAHAHA WHAT? god i love ozzie. also, if you're gonna call someone a fag, it might as well be Jay Mariotti.

Anyway, does mlb have a consistent policy on such statements? Like, say you had Italian teammates but openly refused to eat pizza or pasta in front of them because your family was 'boycotting' Italian food? How is THAT not equally bigoted?