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5/6/08
Chicago White Sox Blow Up Doll Slump Busters
Ozzie Guillen's Rant Wasn't the Only Blow Up in the Sox Clubhouse
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Major League players all have their own ways of busting out slumps. Some sacrifice their bats, others switch it up and try teammates bats, some many go out and cheat on their wives.

How about the Chicago White Sox? Apparently they threat their bats to some blow up dolls and who knows what else. Apparently this was all done right out in the open, enough so that a local Chicago female beat reporter is offended.

Carol Slezak of the Chicago Sun-Times writes:

White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen curses this city for failing to give the Sox organization proper respect, but he has no problem with the infantile and sexist "shrine" his players erected in their locker room. So much for sensitivity training.

Designed to help the team break out of its slump, the shrine featured two female blow-up dolls surrounded by ''strategically placed'' baseball bats and was accompanied by a sign that read, ''You've Got To Push,'' Canada's National Post reported.

''A few of the bats were doing naughty things,'' Sun-Times beat writer Joe Cowley wrote in his blog. Apparently one of the dolls was propped up by a bat in its rear end.

Whether the lewdness was intentional or not, this was inappropriate. As were the blow-up dolls. Period. On Monday, Guillen noted that the White Sox were the "bitch" of Chicago. Clearly, it's the Sox blow up dolls that fall under this category.

Because my humor and maturity level hovers roughly around the age of someone 10 years younger, I'm just going to laugh this one off. It's probably not the best idea to have this kind of display out in the open when there's likely to be several reporters taking offense ... although there's probably many more who had no idea what was going on.

Ozzie probably has it right
:
"I'm sure it wasn't done to disrespect anyone. Everyone in the clubhouse, 100 percent of the people in the clubhouse, they are 18 years old and that's a private thing. If the players do it in the dugout so everyone in the public could see it, or did it in the hotel lobby . . . we did it in the clubhouse. A lot of worse things happen in the clubhouse. I don't really know why people are making it a big deal. If people got their feelings hurt because of that . . . they don't really know much about baseball."
In a related story, Jay Marriotti was unsuccessful in getting either of the dolls phone number. His slump is still intact.
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5/7/08
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I've got no problem with this, I mean it's in the clubhouse so if they keep it there, it shouldn't offend anyone.    It's almost coincidental, but a fantasy baseball team of mine in the FanIQ league is named Ozzie Ballsinyaface.    Maybe I should rename it Ozzie Batsinyaface.     My record may improve.

5/7/08
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Look players are not sitting around MLB clubhouses discussing Descartes.


 
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