I love Oz partly because he's certifiably mad

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Just look at how Ditka was revered.

 

I thought about Ditka, but then I thought about since Ditka.

Haven't the Bears' coaches since then been pretty bland media wise?

Skiles never said anything too wild in the media did he?

Piniella is a hot head of course. Dusty didn't say anything out of whack.

 

I listened to Oz's "rant" on chicago sports and it was a give and take with the writers in which they were interjecting stuff and all parties were laughing some.

He dropped the f-bomb a lot, but it was just conversational stuff.

I love Oz's personality. I hate our team's offense since the title season.

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http://www.usatoday.com/sports/columnist/l...6-guillen_N.htm

 

Guillen's X-rated rant has us seeing the light

 

By Mike Lopresti, Gannett News Service

After due thought and deliberation ... maybe we should be more like Ozzie Guillen.

 

By now, you've probably heard about the tirade of the White Sox manager the other day, when the language was bluer than the south Pacific. He was railing about how media and the Chicago fans are so quick to dump on his team.

 

In case you missed it or just want a replay, a few excerpts:

 

"A couple of days ago we were the (bleeping) best (bleep) in town. Now we're (bleep).

 

"We won it a couple of years ago and we're horse(bleep). The Cubs haven't won in (100) years and they're the (bleeping) best. We're horse(bleep) and we're going to be horse(bleep) for the rest of our lives, no matter how many World Series we win."

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OK, maybe he needed his mouth washed out with soap. But the thing is, the White Sox got an awful lot of national attention for a 14-16 team. Otherwise, who would have noticed they had lost six in a row through Monday and had the worst team batting average in baseball?

 

So perhaps that's the moral of the story: The bleeping wheel gets the grease.

 

Here, then, are notes to some of the banes of our existence. We'll try to Ozzie them.

 

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Dear Big Oil.

 

What the (bleep) is going on? I filled up the other day and I looked at the pump and thought I was being charged for a (bleeping) trip to Maui. How am I supposed to be able to afford to visit family, travel there in a horse and (bleep) buggy?

 

One other thing I want to know. How come, if someone gets the flu at an oil platform in the North Sea, it's reflected at my gas station in about 30 (bleeping) seconds, but if everything is calm, the price of a gallon never (bleeping) changes?

 

—

 

Dear college admission department,

 

Well, it's another spring, and as a father of two graduates and an incoming student, I see you've raised the (bleeping) tuition again. It's as annual an event as the (bleep) vernal equinox.

 

When you say you're giving students a 21st century education, I didn't realize that meant it would take the rest of the (bleep) 21st century to pay off the (bleeping) loans.

 

I'm just wondering where all that (bleep) money goes, at nine percent more every year. College increases, compared to the rate of inflation, look like a (bleeping) cheetah compared to a (bleeping) camel.

 

—

 

Dear health insurance company,

 

This is to inform you that for the seventh straight (bleeping) month, you have sent me a bill for something that was paid five (bleep) months ago. Of course, I had to pay for most of it since your (bleep) coverage only was in effect if I visited a doctor eight (bleep) zip codes away, who worked out of small room in a back alley with tape over the windows.

 

I see, also, my (bleeping) deductible now looks like the price of a new 4-door sedan, so I'm going to need six (bleeping) hospital visits before the co-pay starts.

 

I suppose I could accept that better if, every time a doctor wanted to prescribe a treatment or procedure, your (bleep) representative didn't act as if I was trying to cheat you in a (bleeping) mail fraud scam.

 

—

 

Dear cellphone company,

 

Just one (bleep) question and we'd better be quick, because we're probably about to get (bleeping) cut off, if this works anything like your phone system does.

 

Why is it I have traveled the world to such places as ancient Olympia in Greece and the wilds of Australia and had perfect (bleeping) reception, but if I stand in the wrong room of my (bleeping) house, the voice on the other end sounds as if I'm using two soup cans and a (bleep) string?

 

—

 

We probably shouldn't expect a lot. The White Sox had only four hits in each of their next two games after Guillen's rant, and lost both. But hey, it's worth a bleeping try.