In light of the Chicago White Sox recent slump, Ozzie Guillen has resorted to, well, we really have no idea what sort of managerial practices he’s instituted, but there are now blow-up dolls in the White Sox clubhouse intended to rekindle the once streaking club.

The gimmick, called a slump buster, apparently was put together to help the White Sox snap out of a recent losing streak. On Saturday, Sox players shaved the head of one of Guillen’s coaches, another uneffective trick.

“This was in the same spirit,” Sox spokesman Scott Reifert said. “In terms of taste I think people would find it tasteless. They were just trying to get the bats going.”

Reifert said players have “burned bats, kissed bats, slept with their bats, blessed their bats, you name it.”

On Sunday, the bats were circled around the two naked female dolls, one of whom had a bat inserted in its backside to prop it up. Each wore a sign over her breasts, one saying “Let’s Go White Sox” and the other reading “You’ve Got to Push,” the National Post in Toronto reported.

/Rolling around floor laughing. Oh, right. This should be lamented as crass behavior and something that should be left out of baseball because professional ballers are all noble and stuff. More than a few female journalists were repulsed by the incident, calling it uncomfortable, but Ozzie had a few words for them as well.

“I’m sure it wasn’t done to disrespect anyone,” Guillen said Monday. “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.”

If sticking bats in the rear of blow-up dolls is normal…then we want to join the team! Ogle ogle ogle.

White Sox doll blow up [Sun-Times]
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