Thursday, January 20, 2005

Big Day...

Today's a big day for someone I really admire. When he first took the reins at his current job, there were a lot of naysayers who thought he was incompetent. He's bilingual, but I'll be damned if I can understand anything he says. He's fiery, intense, and isn't afraid to speak his mind. His management style is "my way or the highway." He's surrounded himself with old cronies from days past.

He gets a bad rap in the press sometimes, and faces a lot of opposition from a "blue" faction to the north.

Happy 41st Birthday, Ozzie Guillen.

Mike Downey freely admits he hates pitchers, and even reiterates it in this column. But he points out that the facts can't be ignored--if Roger Clemens asks for 22 million bucks to pitch a baseball every 5 days, Roger Clemens deserves it.