Remember Tuesday night? Wasn’t that awesome? Jim Thome hit the walk off home run against his former team. Asked about Thome’s departure last year, White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen became… unhinged. The Chicago Tribune had it all in a tidy little article, but I think, as my friend said, it sounds even better if you put into one long quote. It seems more like a completely deranged rant this way. Well, I am here to make people happy. Here is the completely unbroken tirade from Guillen.
” For all those people there saying it was my fault about Jim Thome, yes it’s my fault. If those people don’t like that, (bleep) them. I’m not afraid. I can care less what people think. We’re in second place. When Jim Thome was here, we finished third three times out of four years. We went to one playoff because he hit a home run to go to the playoffs. Listen, I don’t make that decision, we made that decision. It was hard for me to do this. A lot of people in Chicago talk about Jim Thome. How about J.D.? I think Jermaine Dye did more stuff for the Chicago White Sox than Jim Thome did, with all my respect to Jimbo. What’s going on here? I don’t get it. Why do people forget about J.D.? People don’t even talk about J.D. at all. If Thome was a better player than J.D. for the White Sox, that’s the answer. J.D.’s not playing for the Twins.That’s it. If (Nick) Punto hit that home run, I might still be crying. Or (Denard) Span. Or (manager) Ron Gardenhire. Jim Thome’s hit almost 600 home runs, good for him. Every time we had Jim Thome here, we couldn’t play him against the National League. Why won’t anybody give me credit for that one? We won 15 games. And Jimbo had one, two at-bats every time we played those guys. And we made this run because we played good against the National League. We got hot then. But I hope he hits another (bleeping) one today. He had all three hits against lefties. Is it my fault we can’t pitch against his (rear)? No. Well … I feel proud of him, to be honest with you. When I see him hit that (ball) out there all the way to the building out there at 98 (mph), I don’t see that for the last three years with us. Good for him. A lot of people talk about the home run from Jim Thome. How about the eight or nine runs before that? But that’s OK. I’ll wear it. I’ll take it. I’ll take the heat. That’s Gardenhire’s fault for bringing those guys into pitch (Matt Capps and Jon Rauch). He should have left that guy in that started the game and then we’re still playing. I’m not running away from anybody. I don’t run from anybody because I sleep very well last night, I played golf this morning. I didn’t change anything. I rode my bike, go to sleep and as soon as I’m done with (this game) I’m going to go back to sleep. Same stuff. Because I know my mind, my heart and my soul, they’re very clean. I have my head on my shoulders, and I think we did the right thing with what we did in spring training. If people don’t like it, good. They don’t like it, they don’t have to watch the (bleeping) White Sox. Oh and I got one more year on my contract, just make sure to tell Jerry (Reinsdorf), get it ready, this crazy (bleeping) Mexican, it’s fine with me. They going to blame me about one home run, I’ll take the blame”
That’s a lot of words Ozzie. And yes, there will be more fun had with this at a later date.
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