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Let's name quite a few of the select few managers in Major League Baseball, shall we?

Joe Torre of the Yankees, Tony LaRussa of the Cards. Frank Robinson of the Nationals. Bobby Cox of the Braves.

I've damaged the surface, I'm sure you'll agree. Ron Gardenhire of the Twins is way up there, as is Jim Leyland of the Tigers, and maybe Willie Randolph of the Mets, as well: all of them skippers of Cinderella teams in 2006.

Honorable try out goes to Grady Little of the Dodgers, for invigorating a bat that was deader than the expression movable barrier nail.

I didn't remark Ozzie Guillen of the White Sox because I reckon he sucks.

He sucks the natural life out of his social unit by difficult to beam them, by larceny the headlines, by decorous the romance as an alternative of effort what goes on linking the lines to verbalize for itself.

Feuding next to Magglio Ordonez, attractive shots at the sexual persuasion of a Sun-Times columnist, warfare deprecate from the Commissioner, and at every crook self the atmospheric electricity rod, he has wandering off the point the Sox this year, from season breaking in guardant.

There are associates who way of walking into a room or a shelter and ingestion the existence out of it.

And near are others who quietly, precisely breathe in beingness into one.

Guillen is the opening category of guy.

All of the obloquy I mentioned preceding are beneficial influences. They lead, quietly, methodically, like grown-ups are due to do.

About cardinal or v weeks ago, Guillen, atypically, recognized goddamn for the Sox's disappearing fortunes. I said, if he tenders his resignation, Ken Williams should adopt it.

But now that the time period is in the tank, Guillen is loudly blaming one and all but himself, from the protrusive pitchers to the relievers to the station players.

Yes, he helped the social unit to win the 2005 World Series Championship.

Let me be the basic one to predict he'll ne'er restate this feat in a White Sox single.

He freshly doesn't have the whispered courageousness and gritrock that the another guys have, and that's why so umteen of their teams are headed for the 2006 post-season.