Are Kenny and Ozzie Fighting?
Very interesting times in White Sox camp right now where it looks like manager Ozzie Guillen and general manager Kenny Williams aren't on the best of terms. This conflict stems from a supposed website that Guillen was planning on launching this spring. From what Ozzie says it seems like Kenny drew the line and said that the website wasn't going to be okay.
Of course we know that Ozzie and Kenny had some words over Ozzie's twitter account last week, and now this website deal. Joe Cowley has the story over at the Sun-Times. These are the imporant parts
Considering the organization has approved an MLB Network reality show to film a behind-the-scenes show that will begin airing in July, as well as allowing Guillen to tweet 'til his heart's content - as long as it's not White Sox business - it would seem strange that they drew the line in the sand with an Ozzie Guillen website.
click read more to continue reading Plus this text from Kenny which really illustrates how angry he seems to be about this whole thing.
"Don't ask me another question about Twitter, websites, blog, radio shows, non of that [bleep],'' Williams said in a text. "All I care about is players playing, coaches coaching and managers managing. If they do that and do it well, we got no problems, but if they don't ... ''
Clearly there is something brewing here. First of all it isn't much of a secret that Kenny and Ozzie didn't see eye to eye on the DH situation. Kenny made it very clear between the Jim Thome situation and other interviews that the DH thing is Ozzie's idea and the Ozzie is the one who wants this rotating DH idea.
Joe Cowley was just on 670 the Score and talked about how there is an obvious tension around the White Sox these days and that Kenny and Ozzie aren't exactly on the same page on a number of things.
More to come as more information comes in.
Some more general thoughts that I've picked up here: First of all Ozzie and Kenny are two guys who have created a solid baseball team nearly every season they've worked together. They are also two guys with huge egos. Ozzie is a very public person, Kenny is a very private person. The fact that they agreed to do a reality show was shocking at the time, but that reality show will be very interesting if the White Sox struggle to start the season.
Winning baseball games is still the magic cure for any battle, and if the White Sox play good baseball I doubt we hear about this too much. If they stumble out of the block, or if the DH situation becomes a problem then this thing could get really big. It is a situation to certainly keep your eye on.
