Ozzie & Lou: Not As Popular As We'd Like To Believe

As the trade deadline looms and both of our baseball teams find themselves inexplicably in contention in spite of themselves, it seems the managers of the teams - well known enough to just go by their first names - aren't as popular as we'd like to believe. Both have won World Series titles - though only Ozzie has done so in the Windy City - but a recent poll by Sports Illustrated indicates that the two are also the two managers that players would least like to play for. The poll was conducted by SI and got the opinions of 380 MLB players. Sweet Lou led the pack with 26 percent and Ozzie was close behind with 21 percent. Only one other manager, St. Louis' Tony LaRussa, hit double digits (16 percent). We haven't the slightest clue what would make players hesitant to play for either. [via Sun-Times]