The pressure and the fury within Mount Ozzie has been building, month after disappointing month. And after the White Sox blew a seventh-inning lead and managed just five hits Wednesday in an 11-inning loss to Texas, the eruption could be contained no longer.
"If it's my fault, well I should be moving out of here then," manager Ozzie Guillen declared after the 5-4 loss before 23,704 at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington. "If it's my fault we play like that, fire me and I'll be fine.
"But I have a job to do. I get paid a lot of money to make this ballclub work. But, it's not easy to work with people like that. It's not easy."
Guillen never named a source of his consternation, instead issuing a blanket indictment of an underachieving team that is following a 2005 world championship with what the manager considers a lackadaisical free-fall into last place just two years later.
In a 4 1/2-minute tirade to reporters, who managed to ask only one question before he stormed cursing from his office, Guillen questioned the desire and professionalism of his players. He even wondered aloud whether they cared about their embarrassing 57-76 record, second only to Tampa Bay (53-80) as the worst in baseball.
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