Oh man, pity poor Ozzie Guillen. When the White Sox manager’s not getting called racist or lambasting a kid for not eating lima beans (from Peru… ha!), he’s getting into it with umpires—specifically Phil Cuzzi. It seems that Ozzie and Cuzzi have been having a war of words lately, and those words specifically are “I hate you.”

I know I’m going to get ejected,” Guillen said Wednesday, two days after Cuzzi ejected him for arguing balls and strikes for the second time in two seasons. “You can ask my bench coach as soon as I say, ‘You’re going to handle this game today because I know I’m going to be ejected’ because that’s how I feel about that situation.

He doesn’t like me, I don’t like him,” Guillen said. “One reason is, if you don’t like me as a man and what I do, I can respect that. But if you don’t like me and you’re going to take it out on my players, you’re wrong. That’s unprofessional. I just let him know I don’t like him the first day I see him, and I think he feels the same way about me. And we have to move on.

We think he’s moved on about as much as Brett Farve’s has moved on from playing football. It’s times like these that we’re happy Ozzie won a World Series and is immune to getting fired—at least until the end of this season.

Guillen’s war with umpire far from civil [Chicago Tribune]
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