Tag: Ozzie Guillen

The White Sox are now ruining Ozzie Guillen’s McDonald’s experience

Taking Ls with your Big Mac is a tough look

The White Sox are currently on a 13-game losing streak that has tied their franchise record and the losses truly keep getting weirder and more embarrassing.

On Wednesday night at Wrigley Field, the Sox watched a 5-1 lead evaporate after the sixth inning thanks to two balks, a wild pitch and, eventually, a walk-off home run in the Cubs’ 7-6 victory.

The worst part about it all for former Sox manager, and current Sox pregame/postgame analyst Ozzie Guillen, appears to be that he can’t even eat his McDonald’s in peace anymore without getting trolled over the team’s performance.

Guillen said the McDonald’s he visits has Cubs fans working the counter (Sox fans reading this, feel free to insert your own joke here). That employee has been heckling Guillen during the losing streak.

Look, I kinda feel for Guillen here. Usually McDonald’s is not your first choice for a meal. It’s either an act of quick desperation or a deep craving, and the last thing you want when standing in line to get your Big Mac is to be reminded just how bad your favorite team is.

Times are tough on the South Side. When even McDonald’s is laughing at you, things have fallen too far.

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Ozzie Guillen tiredly fixated on Pedro Grifol using analytics for the MLB-worst White Sox

Ranting about the awful White Sox using analytics is the definition of irony.

There’s no need to beat around the bush.

The Chicago White Sox are the worst team in the MLB. It’s not even close. Through two months of play, they are roughly 30 games under .500. Entering a Sunday afternoon matchup with the Milwaukee Brewers, they had lost 14 of their last 15 games and went just 9-19 in the month of May. They are off to their worst start in franchise history.

The White Sox are so awful because they have a terrible roster from top to bottom, led by Pedro Grifol, a lousy manager out of his wits.

That didn’t stop ex-Chicago manager Ozzie Guillen from ranting about a problem entirely unrelated to the team’s issues.

On Saturday, after a crushing loss on Friday evening, Guillen sounded off about Grifol apparently using too much analytics and data — basic information — to coach a team that is already 17.5 games out of first place in the AL Central. It is as silly as it sounds:

Let’s make one thing clear. There is no concrete evidence that Grifol is even utilizing analytics. Any mention of him looking at the data is almost certainly tantamount to throwaway comments to share with the press. Let’s make another thing clear. Anyone attributing evaluating information as a main cause of the White Sox’s foibles is grasping (and failing) to say something interesting.

The “nerds” that Guillen speaks of won the analytics “war” long ago, folks. Every good team in sports uses statistical information to inform their team building and approach. Every single one. Full stop. It’s time to move on from this tired argument. It’s 2024.

Using these abysmal White Sox as a conduit for this lazy argument against analytics is the definition of irony. It exposes the whole charade.

Featured image courtesy of NBC Sports Chicago 

Ozzie Guillen revealed the hilarious time he forced ‘rookie’ Michael Jordan to buy him beer

Even a GOAT like Jordan had to listen to a captain.

While Michael Jordan might be one of the greatest basketball players of all time, the arguable GOAT wasn’t always at the top of the pecking order. For example, an inexperienced Jordan had a lot of work to do during his 1994-1995 stint with the White Sox’s minor league affiliate, the Birmingham Barons.

According to former White Sox player/manager/talking head Ozzie Guillen, Jordan also had to pay his dues — regardless of his status as an NBA icon.

Guillen, 58, is now a White Sox studio analyst for NBC Sports Chicago. And he’s definitely not afraid to be honest. As he detailed in the postgame of Chicago’s 5-3 win over the Tigers (+1.5) on Sunday, the former White Sox shortstop and core player once told a “rookie” Michael Jordan to go buy the team beer when they had run out on a road trip:

Everything about this story makes my heart sing.

Guillen’s trademark lovely color aside, there’s “rookie” Michael Jordan acting like he’s just one of the guys on a stop to buy more beer. There’s Jordan then throwing a case of beer onto Guillen’s lap out of frustration. Then there’s Guillen (correctly, I might add!) asserting that Jordan was a star in basketball, not baseball, and as such would not enjoy the same “leader” luxuries he probably did with the Bulls.

The moral of this remarkable story? Regardless of who you are — even if you’re one of the most famous people on the planet — you’ve got to earn Ozzie Guillen’s respect.

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Ozzie Guillen challenging an MLB reporter to a boxing match is the most fight the White Sox have shown all year

Very normal baseball things happening on the South Side

The 2022 Chicago White Sox remain ghastly underachievers.

Just in the last week they’ve dropped must-win matchups to the three division rivals and continue to watch manager Tony La Russa make baffling in-game decisions.

Not only has that led to some much-deserved criticism from fans and media alike, it’s also spilled over to the usually friendly pre-and post-game shows on NBC Sports Chicago, where former Sox manager Ozzie Guillen provides insight as an analyst.

Well, that insight appears to have rubbed MLB insider Jon Heyman the wrong way, because after Guillen chastised La Russa’s management, Heyman accused Ozzie of trying to insult his was back into the dugout.

Guillen responded by challenging Heyman to a boxing fight—for charity, of course—insisting that their feud was now personal.

Well then!

It doesn’t seem like this fight will actually happen, but let’s check out the tale of the tape anyways:

Jon Heyman Vs. Ozzie Guillen
61 Age 58
N/A Ht 5-11
N/A Wt 150+ lbs.

Hmm. Ok, not a ton to go off of there. Let’s set the line at Ozzie Guillen (-450), Jon Heyman (+550). Ozzie gets the significant edge considering A) he’s a former pro athlete and B) he clearly just wants a reason to throw a punch at a reporter without consequences.

Who ya got?

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Ozzie Guillen reignites feud with Nick Swisher: ‘I hate Nick Swisher with my heart’

Former White Sox Ozzie Guillen went off on one of his old players.

Beloved former Chicago White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen offered some harsh words for one of his old players during an NBC Sports Chicago broadcast on Wednesday night.

Guillen, who doesn’t have much of a filter on air, was asked by co-host Chuck Garfien if he disliked Carlos Gomez, a former AL Central rival, or Nick Swisher more. For Guillen, the competition isn’t close – he hates Nick Swisher with his whole heart.

Swisher only played one season under Guillen with the White Sox in 2008, and had a fairly awful season. He was then traded to the New York Yankees, and immediately won a World Series in 2009. Guillen joked that one season in Chicago was one too many for Swisher, who Guillen believes is a “fake” person.

Garfien: Who did you dislike more? Carlos Gomez or Nick Swisher?

Guillen: Oh my god. Nick… nobody can compare that with Nick Swisher. I hate Nick Swisher, with my heart.

Garfien: Really? You want to get into that a little more?

Guillen: No, not really, but I think he hates me back. That’s nothing wrong with that.

Garfien: You guys just didn’t get along. Didn’t work out.

Guillen: No, no, I never talked to him. I was managing him, but I no like the way his attitude was all fake. And I no like fake people.

Garfien: Alright. So he was only with the White Sox for one year, then he moved on.

Guillen: …. One year too long.

This isn’t the first time Guillen has gone after Swisher publicly. In 2010, Guillen’s White Sox defeated Swisher’s Yankees, but Swisher hit a two-run home run and had an extended celebration against his old manager. Guillen buried Swisher after the game.

Via the New York Post:

“That’s the way he is. Good for him, enjoy it. I wish he could do that for me, because he wasn’t a very good player for me. He was very bad for me.”

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