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A lot has been made of Ozzie Guillen's latest comments/rant/maniacal diatribe in which he said changes need to be made to the White Sox, and that he fully expected Kenny Williams to make some moves. Even if they involved firing him or his hitting coach, Greg Walker. As of now, nothing has happened.

There have been no trades. Nobody has been fired (sorry, Jay), and nobody has been called up from Triple-A. In fact, the only thing that's scheduled to happen at this point is a meeting between Guillen and Williams before the White Sox take on the Royals tonight at U.S. Cellular Field.

This will be more than the typical state-of-the-team session Williams and Guillen usually conduct in Guillen's office before each homestand. At stake is whether they can come to an agreement on their hitters' capabilities, even with the Sox in first place in the American League Central.

Personally, I don't get what the big deal is about Guillen's latest comments. People say he threw Williams under the bus, but I don't think he did anything close to it. Ozzie never said he thought that Kenny did a bad job of putting his team together, all he said was that the offense just isn't working right now, and that he thinks Williams will probably do something about it. Given Williams history as White Sox general manager, that's not exactly a stretch.

All this was was a manager who was extremely frustrated with his team's play of late letting off steam about it afterwards. Other managers do this all the time, but since it was Ozzie Guillen, it's a big story. What I want to know is why there's such uproar over Guillen when he says these things, yet across town, when Lou Piniella repeatedly uses the media to let his general manager know what he wants, nobody cares.

Am I the only one who understands what Piniella was doing when he kept bringing up the fact that he'd really like another left-handed bat in the Cubs lineup while talking to the press after games? It was Piniella's way of letting Jim Hendry know that he had no confidence in Felix Pie to be that guy, and that he wanted somebody else on the roster. A few days later, the Cubs were signing Jim Edmonds after the Padres released him.

When Guillen does it, it's high time they fire him! How dare he state his opinion! Where does he think he is? Venezuela? This is America, pal, where freedom of speech is only valid if you say something that won't offend anybody and don't swear a lot.