Ozzie Guillen Expects Kenny Williams to Make Big Changes Tomorrow

The frustration of watching an offense that can't convert baserunners into runs is taking its toll on Ozzie Guillen. The White Sox scored just four runs in three straight losses to the Rays this weekend and were 3-for-30 with runners in scoring position. On five separate occasions they got a runner to second with no one out and came away with no runs. When your pitching staff is holding the opponents to less than three runs a game, that frustration becomes too much to bear.

Guillen blew his top on Sunday after the Rays outlasted the Sox to win in 10 innings. He said he expects GM Kenny Williams to make some changes before the team takes the field on Tuesday.

"It can be me. It can be (hitting coach) Greg Walker. It can be the players. It could be anybody. I'm sick and tired to watch this thing for a year and a half. I'm not protecting anybody anymore. [Bleep] it. If they can't get it done, Kenny should find someone to get it done."

Word filtered back to Ozzie's boss and he interrupted a family dinner to offer his thoughts on the situation.

"It's just not a good idea to throw your boss under the bus, especially when that boss has had your back as much as I have had his," Williams wrote in an e-mail. "I expect this team, if the leadership remains positive and the players stick together and continue to play hard, it will be a fun summer.

It is indeed a questionable choice to turn your back on a man who has supported you through profane tirades, feuds with players and the bad taste choice to reserve a spot for a blowup doll in the team's locker room. If he worked under a lot of other GMs, Guillen would probably be looking for other work right now but Williams has always had his back, something he should remember.

That said, he's damn right about the White Sox offense. Something does have to change and I'd be worried if I was Greg Walker. The Sox have been a bad offensive team for the last two seasons and Walker has to bear some of the responsibility for that. Guillen's still the manager of a first-place team, hard to make a move there, but Walker might want to forgo the green bananas.