Posted on 02/12/2006 8:11:31 AM PST by Chi-townChief
The WH changed the date a couple of times. Seems the WH is part of the problem.
I'd be glad to go in his place.
WHO CARES? It's his loss....GW Bush couldn't care less.
I am not defending him, and I am a heck of a long way from Chi and I really hate the white sox, but I'd just like to hear more about it.
K4 (Angels Fan) :o)
You mean like Charles Lindbergh?
There you go!!
Not much more to hear: a lot of people are pissed at the stunt he pulled with Chavez and a lot of other people don't give a sh*t.
But, thanks all the same.
BTW, Bush already knows Guillen from back in his days with the Rangers. I doubt that W is too bothered himself so I'm not going be bothered unless Guillen came out and made some political statement.
With someone that low-class, it's just as well he doesn't visit. The WH has surely had enough of that kind of low or no class people during the Clinton years.
He's low class because he doesn't want to meet the President, again, instead of being with family?
I have family and friends that I don't get to see often. Given the chance to see them or the President, the President would just have to wait.
I thought an invitation was just that -- something that the recipient had the right to turn down.
Yogi Berra used to say, "if people aren't going to come to the ball park, how are you going to stop them?"
Who pays for these silly ceremonies?
He's the manager, it's a team function, he should find a day out of his "rest" to go to represent the whole team, including players that can't make it. If a player doesn't go, that's a different story.
The White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf said in an interview that it's the expense of the team to fly everyone to DC and transport them to the White House.
A lot of animosity might be brought on ozzie's relatives who live in Venezuela is he shows up to the White House now. Caracus is a dangerous place, relatives of highly paid, high profile major league players have to be careful, a Detroit pitcher's mother was kidnapped last summer in Venezuela. Because ozzie already was at the White House two years ago, he has a convenient excuse not to go this time around and spare his extended family any future repercussions.
I think it's the radical MSM trying to make ozzie's decision not to attend a slight on President Bush. The airwaves and rags in Chicago are playing it as an anti-Bush memont.
Too bad, when adults act like juveniles and take away the fun of sports from the kids and everyone else who want the game to be free from MSM political propaganda.
I will never forget when Ozzie approached me in the clubhouse in 83 when he played for the AA affiliate of the Padres and asked "hey batboy, how much you geev me for thees?' He had a small mound of white powder in his locker which he moved around with a baseball card. I was in total shock and did not know what to say. One of the other teammates came over and played down the incident, insinuating it was Ozzies way of joking around. I had my doubts. But he confirmed them when he admitted using it during the playoffs. What a disappointment.
How silly. She doesn't understand why a manager not showing up is a bigger deal than a player? Gimme a break.
What this columnist should be asking herself is why Mayor Daley, a Democrat, is upset about this. It's because Daley's an old-style Democrat who still believes in respecting the office of the presidency.
I don't suppose you'd have a link supporting the libelous assertion that Guillen "confirmed [your doubts] when he admitted using it during the playoffs."
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