From the Daily Herald’s Scot Gregor.
After being examined by Dr. Charles Bush-Joseph in Chicago on Tuesday, Damaso Marte™s ailing neck and back were given clean bills of health.
That™s the good news for the White Sox™ relief pitcher.
But Marte™s future with the Sox remains in doubt, stemming from his decision to show up late for Sunday™s home game against the Angels.
Sox manager Ozzie Guillen sent the tardy Marte home, and he™s still seething about the incident.
œIf the decision I made on Sunday, if that hurt your feelings, I couldn™t care less,™™ Guillen said. œThat™s my team and that™s my rules. If you don™t like it, get out of here.™™
While Guillen (above) is clearly steering the White Sox™ ship, he doesn™t have a Captain Queeg complex. That™s why he met with his veteran players before Wednesday™s game against the Royals.
œI might have let my team down because Marte is a big part of it,™™ Guillen said. œDo we need him? Yeah. Is he a big part? Yes. Can we play without him? Yes. That™s why I had a meeting with my players, to see if I overreacted or if I was babysitting him too much. That™s why I respect the rest of the team. They said, ˜That™s the rules. You don™t have many rules. If that™s the route you have to go, that™s the route you have to go.™”
Guillen will be this year’s Tony Pena – genius one year…idiot the next
by the way – have you seen that new sportsblog’s review of Simmons’s new book? Everything on their and their sister’s site is “snarky”, and yet, tehy seem to genuflect at the altar of Simmons every time they mention him.
Fact is, he hasn’t been on his game for a few years.
Sorry Bill (FWIW – he’s still light years ahead of the other unreadable columnists on Page 2)
This years Pena? Sounds right, that and with Ozzies lack of tact, he may also be the current Bowa/Showalter, managers that can initially tighten up a team and have them play well, but eventually wear on their players and grind them down to the point where they start having player uprisings/mutinies.
I’m not sure that he walks with the air of superiority like a Showalter, though I agree with the Bowa analogy, in that they both sometimes act like idiots.
people kneel at the altar of Simmons because he’s the poster-boy for every schlub with a blog (or in Bill’s case, a proto-blog) and a dream of befriending Jimmy Kimmel. Bill was fortunate enough to be well ahead of the curve and turned his schtick into a well-paying gig, a book and a house somewhere in the smog of L.A.
I suspect the Deadspin fixation with Simmons and all things inside-ESPN.com is equally parts jealousy and a fairly transparent attempt at trying to do for the sports media biz what Gakwer does for mainstream press/fashion/publicity, etc.
And not to get all Olbermann on you or anything, but if someone wants to work in Bristol that badly, they’re nuts