Ozzie Guillen and Fining for Freedom

May 23, 2005
By: Dave Zirin

Superficially, it appeared to be the typical Sports Illustrated puff piece. Two thousand words on "the story of the early baseball season," the surprise Chicago White Sox.

Superficially, it appeared to be the typical Sports Illustrated puff piece. Two thousand words on "the story of the early baseball season," the surprise Chicago White Sox. Titled, "The Wisdom of Ozzie," the piece focused on the team's "outspoken, unconventional and often politically incorrect" manager Ozzie Guillen. Scribe Michael Farber used the familiar, dime-store, David-Mamet-For-Dummies metaphors - writing that Guillen is so hyper, "he makes amphetamines jumpy." (In another recent SI article, a different athlete made