[Mike Bates]

Well, I guess this may be one reason Gay Games ceremonies are being held at Wrigley Field rather than where the White Sox play.

[TheCrusader]

"What a piece of (expletive) he is, (expletive) fag,'' Guillen said."

LOL, too funny.

[MAexile]

Are they sure he actually said that. Whenever I hear Ozzie Guillen I can't make out a word.

[HitmanLV]

"What a piece of (expletive) he is, (expletive) fag,'' Guillen said.

You got to like how 'fag' still makes the editorial cut! I always giggle whenever I see media people say 'The N Word,' for example - they say it like it's some kind of code-words that children use for going to the bathroom. :-)

[Chi-townChief]

I have to side with Ozzie on this one - hell, in a movie Sean Penn got to refer to his surfing opponents "They're all fags, man!!!!" so why can't Ozzie use the F-word?

[Chi-townChief]

CHICAGOLAND PING

[Dengar01]

Everyone just likes to bash the White Sox and Ozzie. Jay Mariotti is a piece of trash. I would have called him worse. The only reason Ozzie is getting attacked is because we're on the South Side. If Kerry Wood said this about Mariotti it would be a non issue. Remember Kerry Wood bashed Sammy Sosa's radio, no one called him a racist, hatemonger...

[Condor51]

1. Jay Mariotti IS a "f___king fag".
   He's also a c-o-w-a-r-d, and that was Ozzie's whole point.

2. As to Ozzie's 'berating' of rookie Sean Tracey - puleaze.
   Tracey forgot a cardinal rule of baseball -- the MANAGER is the boss. If he tells you to hit a batter, you hit the batter. If he tells you to run laps, you run laps. If he tells you to scrub the shower floor, you scrub the GD floor!

3. Now why DID Oz ORDER to the kid to whack the guy in Texas? Easy, another baseball cardinal rule; you PROTECT your teammates. And yes, its called retaliation. A.J. Pierzynski got whacked twice - real good too. One on the elbow which could have ended his season.

4. And in case anyone missed the Tuesday smack-down the Sox put on St Louis (20-6), well it happened again.

   In the 6th inning when the pasting continued - 1st Brian Anderson got hit square in the back (of all people sheesh), then immediately following that Ozuna got hit! Guess what Ozzie did in the 7th :-), yep he put in Riske who hit the 3rd Card batter.

   That was payback.

It's also baseball.

[Clemenza]

Ozzie oughta know: