As the Windy City Series gets underway at Wrigley today, Ozzie Guillen managed to have a hearty laugh at some Cubs fans selling shirts that make a mini-mockery of his Hispanic heritage. After such grand guffawing, one is bound to be bedeviled by a parched throat. Hey, Ozzie, how ’bout a Pepsi?
And look who’s co-starring in the commercial with the White Sox manager - it’s none other than Cubs hurler Carlos Zambrano. And even Bobby Abreu makes a last-second cameo.
Ahhh, muy refrescante!
As for the offensive shirts, Ozzie really does get the last laugh - at least for today.
Some fans might remember the mini-kerfuffle that erupted between St. Louis Cardinals and Chicago Cubs fans earlier this season when someone began selling “Carlos Zambrano mows my lawn” t-shirts (seriously? that’s your joke? sigh). Luckily, Cubs fans have taken the high road, if by that I mean the exact opposite, turning the exact same joke against Ozzie Guillen.
(Ozzie has a message for you clever little prankstaz.)
Guillen knows a thing or two about obnoxious behavior, though, and he knows that what the sellers are after isn’t money, but an angry response. Via the CHICAGO TRIBUNE’s HARD BALL blog, commence epic pwnership:
As our photo depicts, it was only a matter of time before Ozzie Guillen began using air quotes to describe the White Sox. “So I suppose this is “baseball” we’re playing. I guess we don’t “field the ball” or “move runners into scoring position.” And perhaps we don’t “hit for average” or “care about winning” or “have infielders who are batting over .210.” …
Guillen, relatively quiet up to this point in 2009, was back in fighting trim on Monday following a 5-4 loss to the Tigers in the first game of a day-night doubleheader. The White Sox squandered several scoring opportunities and generally made a mockery of the concept of fundamentals. Following are quotes suitable for framing. Read more…
BIG LEAGUE STEW serves up this pic Lou Piniella andOzzie Guillen at an exhibition game in Vegas:
As you probably know, Sin City’s fortunes are suffering because less companies are spending time & money in their gambling wonderland - such as Wells Fargo, which canceled their corporate casino junket amid criticism connected with receiving a $25 billion taxpayer-funded bailout. Read more…
• What’s more hilarious than showing up at practice and noticing that Brett Favre has put a dead animal in your locker? Reportedly it was a wild turkey, but usually when dead things end up stuffed in lockers in New Jersey, it’s not something to laugh about.
• Ozzie Guillen is in love with a certain team on the south side…of the country.
• Vladimir Putin released a DVD to teach you about Judo. Next in the series of world leader instructional DVDs: Robert Mugabe’s ground-breaking series of curling lessons.
As a Chicago White Sox fan, yesterday wasn’t the greatest day of the year for me. As I’m sure you’re aware, the Tampa Bay Rays finished off the White Sox in the ALDS and are now moving on to face the Boston Red Sox in the ALCS. Yes, the Rays are going to have to go through the entire sock drawer if they’re going to get to the World Series.
Whether they will or not remains to be seen, but we know that there are a few people in the White Sox clubhouse who think it’s going to happen. Sure, they may have spent the last week beating up on Chicago, but that didn’t stop manager Ozzie Guillen from falling head over heels in love with them.
The Tampa Bay Rays are on the cusp of advancing to the ALCS (which will give them as many series victories as the Cubs in the last 100 years), and it looks like they’re going to be tough to slow down. But, that won’t stop the White Sox from trying, say the Rays.
Sox groundskeeper Roger Bossard working his magic
Joe Maddon tells the ST. PETERSBURG TIMES that the Sox are going to do everything in their power to hamper Tampa’s speedy lineup, including putting soft dirt around home plate and first base, and watering the field so heavily that it’s basically a mud pit. And the Sox don’t seem to be hiding their intentions all that well.
How big is tonight’s game between the White Sox and Twins in Chicago? So big that all of the fans are being encouraged to show up wearing the same color. Because, as we all know, that always works:
Ladies of Chicago, break out that pea coat you haven’t worn since 2003 ’cause it’s a blackout night on the South Side. 40,000 black towels will be handed out to fans as they enter the gates. It’s gonna be super awesome and intimidating to those weenies from Minnesota, where they’re all about that totally lame white hanky bullcrap. Let’s hear from the guy you want firing you up — White Sox vice president and chief marketing officer Brooks Boyer!
