Ozzie rants, ozzie motivates

Michael Bottigliero, Sox Superfan

Yet once again MLB gets to see the master motivator at work.  The White Sox had been baseball’s version of erectile dysfunction- unable to get the wood up.  With the amount of great pitching, defense, and low scoring losses, someone was bound to snap.  Let that be Ozzie.

Ozzie finally abstractly put the team on red alert.  Everyone’s effort was called into question from the GM to the coaches, players, and Ozzie of course always leaves himself responsible.  Many heard his words and misconstrued them to be throwing others under the bus.  If they would truly listen they would have heard him shouldering the load and doing what it takes to create a fire and motivation for an underachieving bunch.  He is right to be angry and disappointed even though the Sox find themselves in first place- they should own the best record in baseball with the pitching they have received.

The Sox responded in grand fashion as they beat up on Kansas City by scoring 21 runs.  Our boppers finally broke out as Jim Thome and Paul Konerko hit homers to boost us to an extra inning win on Wednesday night.  The offense is back firing and I thank you Ozzie.

Also going to send a big congrats out to Kenny Williams as we received our shortstop of the future in the MLB draft- Gordon Beckham.  It was great to see him drop down to the eighth pick and I cannot wait to see that future double play tandem of Beckham and Alexei Ramirez (who was fantastic by the way in the Kansas City series) though we are probably about three years away from that. 

Keep swinging the hot sticks and thank you Greg Walker and Ozzie!