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With the White Sox starting a four-game series against the Angels in Anaheim tonight, it marks the first time that Angels pitcher Jon Garland will have a chance to face his former team. Garland is scheduled to start against the Sox on Thursday (a day after John Lackey makes his first start of the season), but instead of asking Jon about that, all anybody really wanted to know was how he felt about playing for Ozzie Guillen.

Garland probably had the best approach of anyone in the White Sox clubhouse. Ignore him.

"I'm not surprised by [Guillen's latest antics]," Garland said. "He goes off on something every year. He knows what he's doing. He feeds it."

"For me as a pitcher, it was easy to just tune it out. I didn't deal with him. I worked with Coop (White Sox pitching coach Don Cooper). I knew what was going on.

"I knew there was always something getting stirred up. But I just went about my business and worked with Coop."

It's not exactly a shock that one of Guillen's former players probably wasn't his biggest fan, as even though he never came out and said it, it was somewhat obvious that Garland was never a big fan of Ozzie while he was in Chicago. They once got into it in the dugout when Garland failed to plunk a batter after Ozzie gave him the order too, and Jon's laid-back attitude and approach to life just doesn't mesh well with the manic Guillen.

Still, that being said, Garland still supported Ozzie and the White Sox when asked about the whole blow-up doll incident. Garland feels that whatever happens in the clubhouse should stay in the clubhouse, and that "if you don't like what you see, you don't need to be in here."