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Following up: Bunting Pierre over

Juan Pierre has succeeded when stealing late in games, but still saves most of his running for the first half of games.

Reading Room: Call-ups, and lack thereof

The White Sox felt tired, frustrated, disappointed, and exhausted after their chaotic three-game series in Kansas City, but Joe Cowley adds a strange word to the list: Abandoned.

White Sox running bases backwards

Ozzie Guillen isn’t afraid of letting his players run … at least until a stolen base would count the most.

Kansas City chaos: 22 hours, 31 innings, two losses

When this season comes to a close, you’re going to look back upon this three-game series with the Kansas City Royals and laugh.

Guillen defends decision to build team for wrong league

Ozzie’s expletive-laden argument for declining Jim Thome’s services includes interleague success and, for some reason, Jermaine Dye

Reading Room: First-guessing the Thome decision

For posterity, here are some instant reactions to the decision to let Thome go to the Minnesota Twins, made by people with no inside knowledge of White Sox operations. It’ll be easier to just link to this instead of spending paragraphs to explain the same thing.

Young collision nothing more than a distraction

Let’s get one thing straight: Delmon Young running into A.J. Pierzynski wasn’t Torii Hunter destroying Jamie Burke.

Danks, Sox issue own warning

The Chicago White Sox and Minnesota Twins may be neck-and-neck in the standings, but the games haven’t been anything close. The Sox rallied from a stomping in the first game by defeating the Twins in equally demoralizing fashion in Wednesday night’s 6-1 undressing. This time, Ozzie Guillen’s club played crisp baseball while Ron Gardenhire’s squad [...]

Thome twists the knife, but not in Guillen

Believe you me, I’m not thrilled to bring up Jim Thome. We all know that I wanted him back, and most of you were and are on the same boat. That Mandruw Kojones has failed to match his production isn’t a surprise nor a revelation. I could probably find a way to trace every flaw [...]

Ozzie being Ozzie? Everything’s the same, too

If Ozzie Guillen called me and said he was going to talk to the press about the plight of the Latino ballplayer, comparing their arduous path to the more organized arrangements for Asian ballplayers, I probably could’ve told you how it played out. Stage 1: Guillen sounds off to the press and criticizes Major League [...]

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