Ozzie Guillen Is Growing Exhausted
May 12, 2008
Filed under: Chicago, White Sox, AL Central, MLB Gossip
Obviously, the last week or so has been an insane one for Ozzie Guillen. He’d to go from watching his team slumping badly, to dealing with attention about his latest profane tirade, to talking about blow-up dolls in the clubhouse, and completed it all up by saying Lou Piniella if [bleeping] messed up. I think he killed a few people at some point as well.
As they say, that’s just Ozzie being Ozzie. That statement makes no sense to me, because I looked Ozzie up in the dictionary, and it didn’t say it meant “bat[bleep] insane.” Hell, I couldn’t even find Ozzie in the dictionary.
It seems, though, that sometimes Ozzie being Ozzie gets tiring for Ozzie, and he’s even contemplated quitting after this season. He’s not going to, as he made clear later, but he does admit he thinks about it from time to time.
”I had to explain to my wife what was going on,” Guillen said. ”She saw me ‘bleeping’ all over the place, and all of a sudden she wanted to know what was going on. When people in my family have to begin asking me what’s going on, that’s what bothered me the most.
”I want to manage until I’m dead, but in the meanwhile, I get worn down when people keep saying stuff they don’t know,” Guillen confessed. ”When people say stuff and put me and my ballclub in a bad spot that we shouldn’t it is a challenge. But you know what? I like a challenge. When I signed the contract to become a manager in Chicago, I knew what I had to face. I know the people of Chicago. But every day is a different day, but some days are tougher than others.
”What I consider is how much I love the game compared to how much I want to leave, and there are times lately where I say, ‘Wow, why do we’ve to go through this situation?’ I can live without these problems, I can live without the smell of the ballpark, do I want to leave right now? Not right now. Maybe when I have my grandchildren I want to spend time with them, but right now my family is happy. As long as they’re happy and support me, and as long as my players go out there and respect me, play the game the right way … If I lose my players then it’s time for me to leave.”
Can you believe it? Ozzie just stated 262 words and didn’t swear a single time. And they state he has no class…
This isn’t the first time that Ozzie has openly talked about leaving the White Sox, and I doubt it will be the last time he does it either. Still, I don’t expect him to leave on his own anytime soon.
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