Guillen: Twins are "Sardines," "Midgets"

By Chuck Sudo in News on Jun 17, 2011 7:40PM

Yesterday's Twin Cities Liturgy led to another round of "I don''t know why they keep beating us" by White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen, whose managerial record against the Twins is now 58-74.

The White Sox have a major Twins problem that can't be explained. Guillen, for all his talk about how he respects the Twins and the way the play, has a nice way of showing it with the nicknames he bestows upon them. First there was the "piranhas." Yesterday, after the Twins 1-0 win, Guillen added two more to the canon.

“These are the little sardines here. They are (bleeping) sardines,” Guillen said after his team lost its sixth straight game to the Twins Thursday. “They are sardines. You see a bunch of look like a circle, a bunch of midgets out there. But they can play.”

It's enough to make one wonder if Twins manager Ron Gardenhire uses the Ozzie soundbites as bulletin board fodder. Gardenhire's teams just keep beating the Sox, often in closely contested games like yesterday. As long as they keep beating the Sox, Minnesota can have their own unspoken nickname for Ozzie and company.