Thanks for some sanity, Cheat.

The funny papers aren’t actually that bad (except for the usual from J the Joke, of course—gotta hang a star on bally for actually choking some of it down). I don’t see the Southtown or Tribune, but the rest had some reasonable stuff.

The tabloid hysteria of the S-T back page isn’t indicative of the copy from Cowley, De Luca, Slezak. The Daily Herald has Rozner, always a voice of reason wrt the Sox.

Huh?

As a visiter here, I like the way Ozzy talks. If only the team would respond to this this. You guys have a great team that with a little heart can go a long ways!!

I’ve long been a critic of Ozzie Guillen, but its absolutely true that outside of firing Walker (which is more symbolic than anything), what can he really do?

I happened to read the Sun-Times this morning, which included that Mariotti column referenced above. It was truly embarrassing, even by his standards. His argument for firing Ozzie basically consists of “I’ve wanted this for a long time, and now even Tony Kornheiser, my ESPN colleague, because I work on ESPN, agrees with me!”

There have been minor moves I’ve disagreed with (some lack of having Anderson in for defense, odd pinch-hitting decisions). But I think his bullpen usage has been good. IIRC he used Jenks in a non-save but high-leverage situation. And he also chose Q over Owens. He gave Swisher a shot in CF and leading off. He’s embraced the idea that OBP is more important than empty speed. Honestly, I think he’s one of the better manager’s in baseball.

As everyone else has already said: the problem is the god damn offense. I just don’t see what “changes” Ozzie is going to make. Anderson for Swisher is about the only move that could be argued for, and even then it’s on purely defensive merit, which kinda negates the whole “the offense is the problem” reason for changing in the first place. I highly doubt BA puts up better numbers in full time role then the next 100 games of Swisher.

Fields should be brought up as soon as he’s fully healthy and given 3-4 starts a week against LHP and the occasionly righty. Konerko and Thome lose some PAs but tought titties.

I predicted 80 wins before the season started, I’ll revise it upwards to 85 now—a succesful year coming off 72 wins, but still not enough to go anywhere.

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asking what is going on with ozzie and why is he flipping out?

i just said, eh…its just ozzie. its not a big deal. you non-sox fans like to make it a bigger deal because you have nothing else to talk about

about this manufactured controversy, is having to read and hear the phrase “threw so-and-so under the bus” a million times. oh well, i guess “it is what it is.”

They let him off the hook! If you want to crown Ozzie’s ass crown him. But we let him off the hook!

Has there been a Ross Gload sighting?

Robbie Alomar?

Carl Everett?

Shake it up Ozzie!

...some how I doubt deep down many of them think that Ozzie would really get fired over this, they just want something to write about.

But some other day, when Ozzie’s gone, they are going to miss him – what would they have to write about?

when he was being crucified. I agree with the poster above that he really was calling out Walk and the older guys who aren’t producing – the “non-pirhana” types. Knowing you can’t squeeze in a run from 3rd from half of your lineup because they can’t “situational hit” must be frustrating to someone who loves to play it a run at a time.

I wonder if we 100% draft a hitter as opposed to a pitcher, no matter how good the pitching prospect is, because of these shortcomings.

No larry, Toonder, Bridgeport Joe. Hmmmm….

and hasn’t he had a few public rants in his day? where were the calls for his head?

and ozzie needs to apologize to his players for saying they’re underperforming, even though they are in fact underperforming? clearly, that kind of honesty is unacceptable in a manager. stick to cliches about grinding it out and giving 110%, ozzeroo. from here on out ozzie should give the media the rasheed wallace treatment: “both teams played hard.”

His comments are true but then he says that anyone can be fired at any time, including Greg Walker. Kenny has stated that Ozzie has the power to fire anyone in his coaching staff, including Greg Walker.