Ozzie’s son Oney works with the White Sox as a video technician. Or at least he did until this morning, when he stomped out in a huff after his bosses told him that maybe he shouldn’t talk shit about the team on Twitter so much.
Oney’s Twitterings were pretty much par for the Guillen course; boneheaded, macho, and incoherent. Some samples:
I guess not all employees are held to same standard. Maybe if I left for 2 weeks then came back I can continue to work
Yeah, pretty much boilerplate spoled asshole whining. Has anybody not worked with somebody who says shit like this? I guess the difference is that Oney put it in writing in public with his name right on it, huh.
I hope the dorks aren’t running the organization or else were fucked. 3 geeks who never played baseball a day in there life telling experts what to do
There/their/they’re training on the way, Oney. Don’t worry! Also, l2apostrophe, amirite? Another thing to consider: your dad played baseball, and nobody in the world has a poorer understanding of the game than he does. Remember when he talked about running into triple plays on purpose, and how stolen bases are better than home runs? Yeah. You better hope the geeks are running the show, because the guy who’s played the game is an idiot.
Do it for OBAMA, he changed a ot of shit
I don’t really know what this one means — there may be some context somewhere, but hell if I know where. It’s just funny to me that the last bastion of Obama fanatics is the Chicago White Sox.
Oh shit we r getting beat. I’m sure someone cares
See, Oney, this is exactly the kind of mouth-running that gets you in trouble. I’d fire you if I were your boss. I mean, I’d fire your dad too, but that’s a different story.
Sox are loosing cause there’s no jones no offense
With spelling skillz like that, you should be playing an MMO.
My dads best dad in world never tweet about him
Never? I’m never allowed to tweet about him? Can I blog about him, though? I need to know that, since blogging about your dad is such fun.
Ozzie, in a rare moment of non-stupidity, left the park without speaking to reporters instead of just blowing the situation up even more, which is what everybody expected him to do. So props to him for that, I guess. But still: like mouthy father, like mouthy son.
March 19th, 2010
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Darien |
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I’m really sick of the preachy idiots at the World Anti-Doping Agency. Here they are complaining that MLB isn’t serious about "integrity" because they won’t just jump all established collective bargaining rules and suck blood out of their employees.
We continue to read statements from the MLB commissioner and MLBPA representatives questioning the appropriateness of implementing blood testing in their league. This is nonsense.
Here’s a new opportunity for you, then: now you can read a statement from an internet asshole with no affiliation whatsoever with MLB who also questions the appropriateness of blood testing. I have issues with the idea of my employer sticking needles into my body in an effort to prevent me from sticking needles into my body, and it wouldn’t surprise me to hear that baseball players do, too.
The blunt reality is that a number of doping substances and methods, including HGH, are currently detectable only through blood testing.
Here’s another blunt reality for you to masticate upon: HGH has never been shown to do anything useful for baseball players. Or, really, for anybody at all. At most, its effects appear to be a small increase in overall mass (or a large increase, like acromegaly, at truly heroic dosage).
International scientific experts agree that HGH is found in extremely small quantities in urine and that a potential detection method for this substance in urine is years away. Joint blood and urine testing is the only way to go for sports organizations to ensure that they use proper means to protect the integrity of their sport.
Oh, right. The integrity of the sport. I forgot about that. I guess that high-minded excuse trumps logic, reason, and evidence. Just one question: if we catch somebody using HGH, do we hang him or press him?
Blood sample collection has been conducted for years in many sports around the world without any problem. So why do others still refuse it?
Because it’s invasive, unwarranted bullshit, and it’s being justified due to an overreaction to a non-problem. If that’s really not enough reason for you, well, I just don’t know what else to say.
Well, I mean, I can think of a few other things to say — you know, like about your financial stake in MLB going along with your righteous zeal — but Jeff Passan’s already said it. So I’ll let him have the last word here.
March 19th, 2010
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Darien |
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