May 6, 2008
Ozzie Guillen Says Blow-Up Dolls OK In Clubhouse
The White Sox, in an attempt to break their batting slump, decorated their clubhouse with two blow-up dolls, surrounded and propped up by bats with signs over their breasts that said "You've Got to Push" and "Let's Go White Sox."
And believe it or not, some people think it's kind of tasteless, including the Association for Women in Sports Media. But Ozzie Guillen is standing his ground, refusing to apologize or ask the players to apologize.
"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."
But if reporters are in the clubhouse, it's not a private thing anymore. [Carol Slezak is piiiiised, S-T]
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Two blow-up dolls in the locker room of a mens' professional sports team is worth devoting an entire column? Carol Slezak sounds like a bit of a prude...
P.S. Way to stay classy, Sox!
(only because that's exactly what some of you guys would be posting had it been the Cubs instead)
I'm going to bring one to this year's game.
If they can have fun with a blow up doll, so can I .
Just when I thought it was impossible for me to like Ozzie Guillen more, he goes and does something even crazier.
The best thing about being a Sox fan is, even when you lose, you're still totally worth watching because of our batshit crazy manager. The odds of him killing a man with his bare hands before the season is over are really small at this point.
sleazek would benefit from a viewing of Major League 1 and 2.
frankly, i would be more offended by all the male nudity that goes on in locker rooms...or would I?
Damn, peteypants stole my joke.
Is a silly blow up doll in the men's locker room worse than cheerleaders shaking their asses for fans and families in every other sport?
Is it me, or is 90% of Carol Slezak's column the exact same thing every week?
Nice to see a reporter become outraged at such a travesty as this. I would like to thank Carol Sleazack for looking out for us. After all, one of these days my young kids might end up in the club house on accident on the way to the batting cages at The Cell and almost see inflatable boobs. Tragedy narrowly averted there, I tell ya.
as effing ridiculous as ozzie guillen is.. at least he's not boring.
Didn't this EXACT same thing happen in the hit film Major League?
So it's a little boorish, who cares? It's not like the Sox had their own version of Tailhook, for God's sake.
Pat Tomasulo said on 'GN this morning that the bats were inserted into the blow-up dolls, not propping them up (well, maybe they were doing that, but they were ALSO stuck up the doll's butts), which makes it less playful and a little bit more disgusting. Doesn't necessarily change the argument about whether or not the public should worry about what happens in the clubhouse, but it's a bit different, IMO.
Maybe they need to eliminate reporters in the locker rooms altogether. In most soccer-playing countries and at major events like the World Cup and Olympics, they have "mixed zones" where the reporters can meet with the players outside of the locker rooms. The clubhouse / locker room area really should be a respite from the outside world for the players. This would certainly remove any sense of entitlement to outrage that some writers seem to have about spaces that they should not naturally even be in.
Slezak wasnt even in the clubhouse she never saw it yet she was offended.Just another example of making nothing in to a story to sell papers. Journalism is dead.
It seems to be working after 1 game...more blow up dolls! Expand the program to the dugout & stands!
@ThisGuy -- I know, right? Maybe they Ozzie should get some of those Real Dolls (TM) and keep the streak alive?
ezfinn, fed up, you're so right. Misogyny is perfectly OK as long as you hide it from the wimmins!