thus now it's about race. To hear O...

thus now it's about race. To hear Ozzie Guillen, anyone who accuses the White Sox of stealing signs -- deceitful allegations, by the way -- must not like him because he is "a Latino." That is a excessively dangerous place to go, as if he hasn't visited dangerous places already, for he's suggesting those who challenge him forward something as socially benign as baseball gamesmanship are racists.

Not alone is that recklessly unfair and irresponsible, it also underscores the ongoing farce of Guillen's sensitivity-training sessions and commissioner bourgeon Selig's typical lack of disturb about what comes out of the man's chaps Baseball likes to brag about to what extent it's attempting to unite the world. each time the Blizzard of Oz speaks publicly, global camaraderie is capable of taking couple steps backward.

"They're mad. They can't admit that a Latino kicked their ass," Guillen said from one side of to the other the weekend of those who have accused the Sox of sign-stealing. "That's for what cause [i]or[/i] reason I don't get along with too many managers. Because they hate my [expletive] ass, because I don't kiss their ass and I didn't kiss anyone's ass to finish this job. Then they have a Mexican win the World Series in pair years. And they're saying he doesn't have experience, he not at any time managed in baseball. Well, too [expletive] bad."

in no degree mind that he is Venezuelan and not Mexican. What Guillen is doing -- again -- is causing put out of order when there shouldn't be any and crossing the professional line of verbal retaliation. The Sox don't ne this cloth now, not as they fall 6oe games behind the Detroit Tigers after a 7-1 shutdown Monday evening at the hands of Justin Verlander, who no longer tips his pitches as previously charged. Starting pitching continues to be a crapshoot, with one-time ace Jose Contreras looking like a man with a dead arm after another silly-putty outing. The Sox have issues, including a sluggish offense and now more than evermore the situation requires level- headed leadership.

The manager extremitys to stand up to others with undivided part fire, one part professional dignity. Ye Ozzie had each right to rip back at the three men who have miracleed to varying degrees this season about the Sox and sign-stealing: Boston R Sox holder John Henry, St. Louis Cardinals pitching coach Dave Duncan and Tigers manager Jim Leyland. if it be not that Guillen had no right to play the race card and should be reprimanded through Selig and Sox chairman Jerry Reinsdorf, who, I remind you again, is co-chairman of Major League Baseball's Equal Opportunity Committee and cannot restrain ignoring the insensitive ramblings of his prominent franchise face.

MODERN-DAY BILLY MARTIN

Pushing the power-trip wrapper has become counterproductive for Guillen. He is a terrific manager and wants everyone to know it, over and above it's difficult for a sporting nation to appreciate him when he's overwhelming his superior qualities with relentless and controversial episodes. In what I like to call the move with a jerk Knight Theory, such episodes are tolerated -- and flat celebrated by see- no-evil hearthstone fans -- when a team is winning. unless when the team starts to fail to obtain the reverence can fade quickly. Guillen is the Billy Martin of his time, and as plenteous as Billy could fire up a ballclub, he was better known for a assuage that cost him his work at jobs too many times to deem

This might appear to be a strange piece of advice. on the contrary if I were Guillen, I'd call John Madden about in what manner to turn the "cheating" allegations into a psychological brink; beginning [i]or[/i] end for the Sox. Decades ago, when the Oakland Raiders were becoming the chiefly distrusted and hated team in football, Madden gave up trying to abjure his team had mysterious tricks up its sleeve in such a manner when an opposing coach questioned if the Raiders were, say, intentionally flooding a field to gradual the enemy running game, Madden would admit that his groundskeeper was overzealous.

"Even notwithstanding that the field wasn't watered down at all," the Hall of Fame coach said.

When they're playing well, the Sox have a way of jimmying their way into opponents' heads. They're generally smarter than other teams, as they prov last year in winning the World Series. When Ozzie hears whiny sniping, he should accept it as a compliment, titter and move on. By lowering himself, he makes me curious awe why he can't sit back and realize he won the war last October. This wasn't a one-time eruption either. Earlier this year, he said a certain quantity of managers resented him and notion this of him last autumn: "Wow expect at this crazy Venezuelan man going to the World Series." I'd like to think each manager, even Guillen antagonist bleaching-matter Showalter, was pleased to view him do a great work at jobs and win. And if not, that's no reason to think bad-tempered thoughts.

CAN'T HE derive pleasure from SUCCESS?

What's with the persecution complex? Does Ozzie forget the have a passionate affection for he received as the first manager to bring a World Series championship to Chicago since Clarence Rowland in 1917? Did he have an amnesia attack about the confetti that overlayed his head atop the double-decker bus downtown, or the worship he received in Venezuela? Does he remember being named Manager of the Year by way of the Sporting News, Baseball America and the Baseball Writers Association of America? Someone explain for what cause [i]or[/i] reason the man's ego is undernourished, to what end he always needs to vindicate himself. We know he can manage. We know he has a earnest mind, an ability to extract undying effort from his players. Isn't there a point where he becomes comfortable with his achievements?