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10-28-2005, 10:14 AM
BOB RYAN: Guillen managed to be unique (http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/articles/2005/10/28/guillen_managed_to_be_unique)
By Bob Ryan, Globe Columnist | October 28, 2005
You hang around long enough, you think you've seen and heard everything it's possible to see and hear in the immediate aftermath of a championship.
While the champagne is being splashed around, this is what we invariably hear: We believed in each other. We picked each other up. We did the little things. We took it one day at a time. We never got too high or too low. The only ones who believed in us were the (fill in the blank) 25, 12, 18, 45 guys in this room. There was no MVP; it was a team effort.
It never changes. Some of it is true, some of it is recycled verbal garbage (a lot of winning teams have more factions and subcultures than your average high school). And all of it is what they think the world wants to hear.
Coaches and baseball managers have their own list of cliches, one of my favorites being, ''There were no nights off. Everyone is tough in our [division], [conference], [league]." Right, Coach. Gotta fear those Royals, all right.
Then we come to the postgame aspect of Wednesday night's goings-on in Houston. The Chicago White Sox were in their locker room, doing the whoop-it-up thing. The thousand or so White Sox supporters were outside, doing their whoop-it-up thing. And inside the interview room, White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen was saying, among other things, ''I lead the league in throwing players under the bus."
Now there's one I most definitely have not heard before.
By Bob Ryan, Globe Columnist | October 28, 2005
You hang around long enough, you think you've seen and heard everything it's possible to see and hear in the immediate aftermath of a championship.
While the champagne is being splashed around, this is what we invariably hear: We believed in each other. We picked each other up. We did the little things. We took it one day at a time. We never got too high or too low. The only ones who believed in us were the (fill in the blank) 25, 12, 18, 45 guys in this room. There was no MVP; it was a team effort.
It never changes. Some of it is true, some of it is recycled verbal garbage (a lot of winning teams have more factions and subcultures than your average high school). And all of it is what they think the world wants to hear.
Coaches and baseball managers have their own list of cliches, one of my favorites being, ''There were no nights off. Everyone is tough in our [division], [conference], [league]." Right, Coach. Gotta fear those Royals, all right.
Then we come to the postgame aspect of Wednesday night's goings-on in Houston. The Chicago White Sox were in their locker room, doing the whoop-it-up thing. The thousand or so White Sox supporters were outside, doing their whoop-it-up thing. And inside the interview room, White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen was saying, among other things, ''I lead the league in throwing players under the bus."
Now there's one I most definitely have not heard before.