Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Ozzie Guillen: "We Get No (Bleeping) Respect"




Ozzie Guillen paid homage to Lee Elia over the weekend by having his own blowup that required bleeps to be heard on National Sports Shows. Here is the skinny of it from ESPN.com


"Guillen unleashed his verbal wrath before the White Sox faced the Blue Jays in Toronto, after having been asked a humorous question about a minor leaguer's recent performance and his chance at cracking the White Sox lineup.


That apparently was all it took. Guillen's profanity-laden stream of consciousness touched on Cubs fans, White Sox fans, the media, Lee Elia, and himself.


"Right now everyone in Chicago is making lineups -- 'Call up this guy, call up that guy.' ... If we had 50 people allowed on the roster, we could do that. That's what ticks me off about Chicago fans and Chicago media: They forget pretty quickly. A couple of days ago we were the [bleeping] best [stuff] in town. Now we're [bleep]," Guillen said to the aforementioned Chicago media before the game.


Guillen observed that Chicago still loved the Cubs, even though they have not won a World Series since 1908, but the White Sox -- winners of the 2005 World Series -- did not receive the same affectionate support.



"We won it a couple years ago, and we're horse[bleep]," Guillen said, according to the Chicago Tribune. "The Cubs haven't won in [100] years, and they're the [bleeping] best. [Bleep] it, we're good. [Bleep] everybody. We're horse[bleep], and we're going to be horse[bleep] the rest of our lives, no matter how many World Series we win.


"We are the [bleep] of Chicago. We're the Chicago [bleep]. We have the worst owner [Jerry Reinsdorf]. The guy's got seven [bleeping] rings, and he's the [bleeping] horse[bleep] owner."


Guillen brought up Elia, the former Cubs manager who blew his gasket over what he considered to be ungrateful, unforgiving and unsupportive Cubs fans in an infamous tirade that recently marked its 25th anniversary.


"How about the Cubs celebrating that Lee Elia bull[bleep]? How many times do I curse people out? I will make a lot of money with my [stuff]. I have to keep going because in the future Ozzie will need money, and I can say, 'Here, give me money, here's the 10-year anniversary of my time I called [Jay] Mariotti stuff and the time I went on the radio and cursed out Mike North,'" Guillen said."


The thing I like about Ozzie Guillen is that he calls it as he sees it. I don't agree with everything he's said or done, but this blowup by Guillen was classic. Even though I am a Cubs Fan, I think Ozzie's right. The White Sox won the World Series in 2005 by Sweeping away The Houston Astros, and they still are treated like, in his words, horse(bleep)

Ozzie also said The White Sox Will always "be horse(bleep) No Matter how many World Series We Win." Again, he was right. Guillen knows this because he played on the South Side of Chicago and had to hear about how The Cubs ruled and White Sox Drooled. Guess What? Nothing's Changed.

The White Sox have the same fortune as the Mets as being the Second Team in a Baseball Market. The only difference between their crosstown rivals is the number of World Series Championships Since 1917.

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