It doesn’t get much more D-list than this: a baseball manager most widely known for his use of a homosexual slur commenting on the white trash travails of a semi-retired pro wrestler turned reality star.
It’s well known that about every 17 games, White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen uses a press interview to go on a crazy, half-intelligible, expletive-filled tirade against the world. After his team’s ugly loss yesterday at the Prog, including a particularly hideous bottom of the 6th in which the Tribe did to Chicago what our little brother always does to us in MLB2K5—steal home when we’re trying to pick another guy off of first—we were feeling confident in our chances of witnessing a news-worthy blow-up. Who’s he going to tell to chupalo this time, we wondered? …
This article appears in May 28 – Jun 3, 2008.