If you believe what you hear, Frank Thomas believes his off-season is his off-season, and that goes for his manager, his general manager, his team, reporters, everyone.
And if you believe what you hear, whatever Ozzie Guillen said really doesn’t matter because Thomas has a better relationship with Guillen than he ever did in six years with Jerry Manuel.
Besides, if you lived in Las Vegas in the off-season, would you want to pick up the phone to hear your GM tell you about the dawn of the Juan Uribe era?
Excuse me? Ken Williams, GM of a team in baseball’s third-largest city, says he has already exceeded his small-minded, uh, small-market budget, to put together a worse team than last year? And now he’s saying the fans have to come out if there are going to be any changes by June or July? That wacky, fan-friendly franchise sure knows how to head into SoxFest with momentum. Sounds like this year’s slogan is “The Twins are a lot worse.”
Hot air ball: Jalen Rose supposedly said the Bulls are the worst team in the league. This after helping Toronto to a worse record than before he arrived. Rose also said he’d rather be in Toronto than with the Bulls and be looking up at everybody. And Rose said he had no animosity toward the team that traded him. Sounds like he’s verbally shooting below 40 percent as well.
Name game: George Zoffinger, president of the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority, telling the New York Times about new Nets owner Bruce Ratner’s plan to move the team to Brooklyn: “I suggest Ratner name the team after himself: the Brooklyn Rats.
Must-miss TV: The Blackhawks have lost 17 straight on the road. Say, aren’t road games the only ones the Hawks owner televises? That’s some marketing strategy.
Rate this: The Hawks believing the referees wouldn’t let them play hockey vs. the refs believing the Hawks can’t play hockey. Discuss.
