Maybe he didn’t mean for it to come across the way it did. Then again, I doubt that Chicago White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen really cares about how his comments are perceived.
Before tonight’s game at Wrigley Field, where the Chicago Blackhawks will be honored before the Cubs and White Sox crowd, Guillen made this completely unwarranted statement, per Dave van Dyck of the Chicago Tribune:
“Ours was better,” Guillen said of the parade, “because there were more people. I guarantee there were more.”
Estimates have two million fans jamming the Loop last Friday for the Hawks.
Guillen, admittedly biased, says the White Sox’s winding route from U. S. Cellular Field through the neighborhoods was much longer than the Blackhawks’ journey through downtown, therefore more total people were able to see it.
I guess this is just another day for me to opine on other sports on PHT, but I have to admit that I never liked Ozzie Guillen. I know he’s entertaining and all, with his completely unreadable Twitter account and various other methods of just saying too much, but I can’t believe how he always has to make it about himself.
The Chicago Blackhawks are enjoying a once in a lifetime opportunity, and the city is buzzing with their win."Ours was better..” is exactly what I would expect from Ozzie, I guess.
Of course, he did go on to say there were “tears in his eyes” when Kane scored the winning goal. Right.