Sox Shrine: Blown Way Out of Proportion

Ozzie G : Lovedoll Stuporstar

Posted 5/7/2008 on Can't Stop The Bleeding

Apologies to the McDonald Brothers (above) for the headline, but Newsday ’s Barbara Barker is barking mad over the White Sox’s “vulgar and sexist shrine”. Major League Baseball has a problem because it took two days for anyone to voice a concern about what happened in Toronto on Sunday. That’s when an unnamed White Sox player, trying to think of a novel way ...

Panties, They Are A-Twistin’: The Title IX Writer Weighs In

Posted 5/7/2008 on Bugs & Cranks

Ozzie Guillen is in trouble again. This time it is not for a profanity-riddled rant about Chicago. This time it’s about the locker room shenanigans of the slumping White Sox. According to the Chicago Sun-Times , the White Sox put together a “slump-buster” shrine in the locker room, consisting of “bats … circled around … two naked female dolls, one of whom ...

Guys and Dolls

Posted 5/6/2008 on ESPN.com - NFL Nation - Blog

Posted by ESPN.com's Matt Mosley Much to the consternation of my editor, I occasionally take a look to see what's going on in other sports. In case you missed it, the Chicago White Sox built a lewd "shrine" in their clubhouse in an attempt to end a six-game losing streak. This has caused columnists such as Carol Slezak to question the sensitivity training that manager Ozzie Guillen ...

Guys and Dolls: The White Sox Blow-up

Posted 5/6/2008 on ESPN.com - NFL Nation - Blog

Posted by ESPN.com's Matt Mosley Much to the consternation of my editor, I occasionally take a look to see what's going on in other sports. In case you missed it, the Chicago White Sox built a lewd "shrine" in their clubhouse in an attempt to end a six-game losing streak. This has caused columnists such as Carol Slezak to question the sensitivity training that manager Ozzie Guillen ...

Valley of the Dolls

Posted 5/6/2008 on Baseball Musings

I think Deadspin has the best take on the blow up dolls in the White Sox locker room: Guillen, of course, defended the shrine, saying "I'm sure it wasn't done to disrespect anyone. . . A lot of worse things...

A Blow-up Doll in the Locker Room? Cancel the World Series!

Posted 5/6/2008 on Fire Jay Mariotti

Carol Slezak chimes in for the benefit of all things vagina. White Sox blew it by allowing sexist shrine Blew what? Monday's game? The season? Your own personal level of respect for the White Sox? (One, and only one, of those three are correct.) White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen curses this city for failing to give the Sox organization proper respect, but he has no problem with the infantile ...

Sox’ Blowup Dolls With ‘Strategically-Placed’ Bats

Posted 5/6/2008 on SPORTSbyBROOKS

Sunday, Canada’s NATIONAL POST reported the Chicago White Sox have a shrine of sorts in their clubhouse, which consists of “ two inflatable dolls, faux female of course, with an arrangement of strategically placed bats and two signs reading ‘You’ve Got To Push’ and ‘Let’s Go White Sox.’ ” We’re happy to report that Carol Slezak of the ...

White Sox's blow-up doll display comes under scrutiny

Published 5/7/2008 on FOXSports.com News for MLB

Coming off an 0-6 road trip when they managed just nine runs, the Chicago White Sox returned home Tuesday and were confronted with more questions about two female blowup dolls than they were about their shaky offense. Before Sunday's game in Toronto, ...