My Saturday, Oct. 26, column from CBS Chicago …
(CBS) My, what a difference five years can make.
Back in 2008 before the first-place Chicago White Sox (the what?) took on the first-place Chicago Cubs (the who?) during a highly anticipated interleague series on the North Side, Sox manager Ozzie Guillen set venerable Wrigley Field up on a tee.
And then he took his cuts.
“What’s wrong with saying I don’t like this ballpark?” Guillen told reporters after joking about seeing rats as big as bodybuilders beneath Wrigley’s right-field bleachers. “You ask any player which one they like less and they might throw in some names. Ask me about it, and this is the one I pick.
“It’s a museum. They like to come to Wrigley Field. I don’t say people don’t like to come here. I say Ozzie don’t like to come here. But, hey, you have to do what you have to do. Wake up in the morning and go to Wrigley Field is not a good thing. But it’s fun to play against them.”
In Ozzie’s world, that apparently was then. And this is now. Because since Guillen can no longer play against Cubs since he was fired by the Miami Marlins last year, he’s now saying that he wants to join them instead.
Continue reading at CBSChicago.com …