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Guillen is the only manager in franchise history to lead the White Sox to more than one division or league title. Chicago also made the playoffs under Guillen in 2008. But they floundered this season. |
"No regrets, no regrets," Guillen said. "Very disappointed in this year, yes." |
Now he's gone. Guillen said the fans would never forget him, he'd still keep a home in Chicago and he'd always be friends with Reinsdorf. |
The White Sox clubhouse will never be the same, but first baseman Paul Konerko - one of Guillen's favorite players - said it was time for a change. |
"I'm happy for Ozzie," Konerko said. "I think he's been burned out on this whole thing and probably likewise on the other side. That's how it goes. It doesn't always have to be that someone's right, someone's wrong, this person's right, this person's wrong. Sometimes in sports - any business - but especially sports, a ... |
Guillen teamed with general manager Ken Williams to end the club's 88-year World Series drought, but their relationship has become strained over the last two years. |
"I don't have anything against Kenny," Guillen said, acknowledging the two didn't have a great relationship the last two years. "That has nothing do with it." |
The White Sox (78-82) were built to win this year but middle-of-the-order players like Adam Dunn and Alex Rios slumped all season and bogged down the offense. |
Chicago had early losing streaks of seven and five games and by May 1, Guillen's club was 10 games out of first. It pulled within 3� games of the lead on Aug. 17 but that was as close as it would get the rest of the way. |
Guillen was a managerial trend setter with a Twitter account and a website. And social media, like his opinions expressed in other forums, got him in trouble at times. |
After he was ejected this season at Yankee Stadium by umpire Todd Tichenoran, the manager went on Twitter and called his ejection pathetic. That got him a two-game suspension and fine, and it was the first time baseball has penalized a player, coach or manager for using the social networking site during a game. |
Social media played a role in the creating tension between Williams and Guillen in 2010. Guillen's son, Oney, left the team's scouting department after posting some comments on Twitter that were critical of the team's front office. |
Guillen said he spoke Monday with Reinsdorf to get an idea about his future. He leaves on a vacation in Spain later this week. |
He and Reinsdorf have been close since Guillen's playing days as a slick-fielding shortstop when he was the 1985 AL Rookie of the Year with the White Sox. He played 13 of his 16 big league seasons with the White Sox. |
"Was it time for a change? I don't think so," Williams said. "I guess things were accelerated. We had no intention of firing him. This was kind of acquiescing to some of his desires more than anything. It is what it is. I don't wish to expound on any of the peripherals to the degree that they become more of a story tha... |
"This is a case of a man making a business decision for himself and his family. And we respected it, we respected it enough to allow this to happen. Obviously we didn't agree to the request for an extension." |
Since he took over in 2004, there has been a long list of Ozzie blowups and tirades and opinionated rants from a man who said "no comment" was not a part of his vocabulary. |
In one of the most publicized in 2006, Guillen was fined and ordered by Commissioner Bud Selig to undergo sensitivity training after he described then Chicago Sun-Times columnist Jay Mariotti with a derogatory term. |
Major technology firms have urged communications minister Ed Vaizey to lay down the ground rules for net neutrality in the UK. In an open letter, technology firms and a number of influential venture capitalist firms, have pressured the government to form a set of laws that safeguard the concept of net neutrality in the... |
Watching predetermined, fixed television schedule might be disappearing as a trend according to Ofcom’s fifth International Communications Market report as other technologies fragment the TV market. |
Google intervened very rapidly in the My Decor Eyes debacle, a site that actively seeked negative advertisement because it managed to use Google's algorithm to its own advantage. It based its whole search strategy on the fact that negative reviews attracted direct links which in turn brought in more traffic. |
Microsoft Interactive Entertainment Division CEO Dennis Durkin told an audience at a Technology Conference organised by Credit Suisse Group that half of the estimated 25 million Xbox live users pay for their Gold membership. |
Over the past week, we've been feverishly trying to find out where we could buy the Kinect for Xbox 360, one of the hottest gadgets around, for as cheap as possible and we managed to get one for as little as £116, a price that required some legwork though, literally. |
Many people love to hear the word “sorry”. It feels good when somebody apologises. I guess, it puts one in control. However, the word also stops someone from moving on and may cause resentment and pain. It may also open up old wounds that are too deep to heal. The word separates parents from their children and good fri... |
The sad thing is that only when it is too late people admit they were in the wrong. We see people sitting for hours by the graveside muttering “sorry” a thousand times a week. They had a chance to heal the wound, but, perhaps, were too proud to do anything about it. |
But if you look on the other side of the perspective, you would see that, most of the time, the fault is shared by both sides. When you expect every slip made by your friends to be justified by an apologetic word, then you put yourself in a constant distress. |
The majority of people say sorry in a mechanical way. They don’t even realise that they said it. It is just a force of habit that has no meaning at all. So many instances you see people spat out the word to get it out of the way. They don’t really feel sorry. They do it out of social obligations. Not really meaning it. |
Sometimes, people don’t know how to say “sorry”, but that does not mean they are not. They are too proud to say it, but they try to make amends in different ways. They do it with their eyes, gesturing or even helping out in a difficult situation. |
Though words play a big part in our lives, we still rely on them to solve many of our emotions. When well spoken, they reach deep. A careless remark, even in a joke, destroys feelings. Another word we hear most often spoken these days, but lacking conviction is “commitment”. |
We see plaques that say, “we are committed to our customers”, when they really should say “we want your money.” Many marriages still stand today because of an old commitment that had expired years ago. The word, in time, changes meaning to become “tolerant” or putting up with an inescapable situation. |
Just a month ago, I heard a man saying that he promised his sister to look after her daughter after she died. I could feel the regret in his words. The two words, “promise” and “commitment” often mean the same thing. Two heavy words that carry a burden with them. |
Like “sorry”, you cannot say them insincerely. You are bound to get caught somewhere down the line. But the irony is that we come across them almost every day of our lives. This, however, is life and if you want to live with other people, then you cannot escape the load that comes with the responsibility of being alive... |
Like an apple you buy from the shop, nothing is free. If you are not “committed” by a promise or apologetic for wrongdoing, then you have no right to be part of the human race. If you observe closely, as minutes tick away to hours, you need to fulfil promises as part of the general responsibilities we are committed to. |
It may all start with simple words that may be forced out by emotion. But you cannot stay tight-lipped all the time, even speaking is a commitment and sometimes, a burden, too. Words do make changes, but we may not really know where they lead to. |
The writer is an Oman-based freelance columnist. This article has been reproduced from the Khaleej Times. |
GALVESTON, Tex., Sept. 22 - Downtown avenues lined with magnificent Victorian buildings in this city were empty on Thursday. Entire neighborhoods of windblown bungalows were boarded up. But the Hard Times and Misery Saloon, at the corner of 43rd and S Streets, was full. |
"I'll fend off the looters with my Ka-Bar," said Richard Deore, 57, a meatcutter at a Kroger's supermarket, describing the lethal potential of the combat knife used by the Marine Corps. Nursing a Budweiser at 11 a.m., Mr. Deore said he had no desire to flee Galveston, even as Hurricane Rita placed the city in its cross... |
"I'm going to go rat hunting when this is over," Mr. Deore said, explaining how in past hurricanes the storm surge pushed rats out of their hiding places in the rocks along the sea wall. |
Galveston is no stranger to huge storms. At least 6,000 people died in the storm of 1900, when funeral pyres of unclaimed bodies burned for weeks. Aristocrats sipped Champagne in the ballroom of the Hotel Galvez during the storm of 1915, when eight people died. Martial law was declared here in 1961, when Hurricane Carl... |
So, despite the images of the destruction and death brought on by Hurricane Katrina and an evacuation ordered by Galveston's mayor, it might come as little surprise that some storm-weary people here are staying put. Most of Galveston's 60,000 residents have fled, but dozens -- perhaps even a hundred or more -- remain. |
"This is God working, man," said Robert Shumake, 50, whose car broke down on the interstate Wednesday night as he and his sister and nephew tried to leave the city. Mr. Shumake, a former cook, said he returned to Galveston after repairing his vehicle. |
On Thursday, Mr. Shumake and his nephew, Russell Cavender, 17, walked along the sea wall holding an American flag and another flag saying, "We Support Our Troops." Mr. Shumake, a stout man with a bushy goatee and a ponytail, said: "The Lord doesn't want us going. He wants me carrying this flag." |
There were other scattered holdouts. Walking along the sea wall on Thursday morning, a surfer, John Benson, said the waves in the Gulf of Mexico were six to eight feet tall, two to three feet higher than normal in Galveston. With a nine-foot purple surfboard in hand, he said he expected the storm would generate 15- to ... |
"This is a freebie right here courtesy of Rita," said Mr. Benson, 47, a Galveston native. |
Mr. Benson said the allure of the waves and television images of gridlocked traffic on Interstate 45 would keep him here through the storm. |
Some said it would be foolhardy to leave, given the possibility of crime or looting in the wake of the storm. Bob Faris, the owner of Bob's Grocery, perhaps the only food store left open in the city, said he had worked too hard over the preceding years to leave his establishment. |
"I checked with the Sheriff's Department to see if I could use my gun, and they said if I do, make sure he's dead," said Mr. Faris, 48, brandishing a 9-millimeter pistol, as customers filed into the store to buy frozen pizzas, beer and beef jerky. "I'm not leaving anything to chance. We saw what happened in New Orleans... |
In a neighborhood near the shoreline, some residents said that police officers and city officials were seeking refuge in the luxurious San Luis Hotel, securely built above a 15-foot bunker across from the sea wall. |
Most of the hotel staff has gone, leaving the officials with few amenities as they set up operations. |
"One police officer drove up to me and told me, 'You're going to die!' pointing his big finger at me," said Juanita Levine, 58, a retired nurse, who decided to ride out the storm with her sister, Mary Allen, 61. "I told him I was staying right here, not running to some big expensive hotel. I have faith in God." |
Back at the Hard Times and Misery Saloon, regulars philosophized over $1.75 beers ($1.50 during happy hour). Some were B.O.I.'s, shorthand in Galveston for those born on the island. Others were I.B.C.'s, islanders by choice. With one exception, none had any apprehensions about staying. Only Franklin Courtright, 53, a h... |
"I'm on the fence," said Mr. Courtright, whose nickname is Butch. "I'm paying attention to this one." |
Seated at Mr. Courtright's side, Sonny Blumrick, a retired auto parts specialist, described Mr. Courtright as the coward of the bunch. "This is a waiting game," Mr. Blumrick said. "Just wait and see, wait and see." |
The saloon was not the only place in Galveston where those who stayed were contemplating a quick escape or painful associations with New Orleans. At the Poop Deck, a local hangout overlooking the Gulf, Dennis Christian was sweeping out the bed of a pickup truck and moving Cokes inside late Thursday morning. He said he ... |
"We had a good time last night, but we're not going to be the last idiots to leave down here," Mr. Christian said. "We're going to be the next to last." |
Choking back tears, Mr. Christian said his brother, who lived just outside New Orleans, fell victim to Hurricane Katrina. "I done seen my brother in a body bag, and I don't want to be in one," he said. "Katrina got him being stupid like me." |
"It's either get out of here or get packed in a body bag." |
August 29, 2011, 2:09 p.m. by Livescience.com Inc. |
Cellulose-digesting bacteria found in panda feces could break down woody, inedible plants into biofuels. |
Renewable energy is a powerful force for the decentralization of Big Energy (and Big Government). It's odd that it isn't more popular in supposedly 'radical' anti-government circles. |
Wine, cheese, chocolate and human sewage are just a few of the eccentric alternative fuels highlighted. |
Here are six things that the U.S. military is doing to prepare for a future without cheap oil. |
Georgia college and elementary students work together to make Atlanta's school buses green. |
The fourth round of ARPA-E funding totals $130 million for five different program areas. |
Biotech company says it can make algal biofuel at significantly lower costs by increasing the lipid content of algae. |
Repairing the damage we've done could get pricey, especially since it's predicted to cost us $8 trillion by 2030. |
We can all dream big when it comes to the car of the future. |
AZA Fashions, India’s premier multi-designer retailer brings its Trunk Show to Dubai in collaboration with Numaish Lifestyle Exhibitions. The trunk show will be held at the Shangri-La, Dubai on the 15th and 16th of February 2019 from 11 am to 7 pm. The destination for luxury fashion and occasion wear – the Aza Trunk Sh... |
A French chess grandmaster was unable to finish his game against his Indian opponent because he dozed out after 11 moves. The embarrassing incident has been attributed to excessive alcohol consumption. |
Russian-born Vladislav Tkachev, 2007 European Classical chess and Blitz chess champion, was facing Praveen Kumar at an international tournament in the Indian city of Kolkata. |
However, about 10 to 15 minutes after the game started, the French player began showing signs of inebriation, an eyewitness told RIA Novosti news agency. Then he fell asleep with his head on the chess board. |
After attempts by both Kumar and the organizers to wake Tkachev proved futile and he couldn’t make his moves within an hour and a half as the regulations required, the game was awarded to the Indian player, reports Hindustan Times newspaper. |
Organizers reprimanded the French player afterwards, but he was allowed to take part in the rest of the tournament. |
His deliberate and mistake-free play included two sacks — one in which he purposely dove into the ground — and a throw away. |
And this was all behind a reshuffled offensive line that had right tackle Doug Free starting at right guard for the first time with backup Jermey Parnell at right tackle and Mackenzy Bernadeau moving from right guard to left guard. |
A first-team Cowboys’ offense that struggled in the red zone all last season scored two red zone touchdowns in the game — its first two scores of the preseason after failing to get in the end zone on five series in the previous two games. |
Bryant continued a magnificent preseason with six catches for 54 yards and a jump-ball touchdown against tight coverage. Austin’s training camp and preseason have been overshadowed by Bryant’s excellent play, but Austin showed he’s healthy for the regular season with four catches for 59 yards and the touchdown. |
The Cowboys, who turned the ball over six times in a loss to the Arizona Cardinals on Aug. 17, had no giveaways on offense. |
What also shouldn’t be overlooked is the strong and seemingly dominant play by the Cowboys’ defense. |
The Cowboys led 14-7 at halftime with the Bengals getting their only touchdown on a 75-yard punt return by Brandon Tate. That only happened because punter Chris Jones had to re-kick after hitting the videoboard in the middle of the field. |
It is only the second time since the stadium opened in 2009 that the board was hit. The first came in the first game at the stadium by punter A.J. Trapasso of the Tennessee Titans in a preseason game. |
The Cowboys’ first-team defense, which is playing without tackle Jay Ratliff and end Anthony Spencer, hasn’t given up a touchdown in the preseason. |
The Bengals, led by former TCU quarterback Andy Dalton, had only one good drive in the first half. They drove from their own 42 to the Cowboys’ 20 the first time they had the ball. On a third-and-11 play, Dalton hit receiver Marvin Jones over the middle, but safety Barry Church forced a fumble and cornerback Brandon Ca... |
The Cowboys got another turnover, the third of the game in the third quarter, when backup safety Jeff Heath drilled receiver Cobi Hamilton on the sideline. Cornerback Micah Pellerin recovered. |
Xavier Brewer’s interception in the final seconds of the fourth quarter gave the Cowboys a fourth turnover and ninth of the preseason. They had only 16 in 16 regular-season games last season. |
Also considered a bright spot was some tough love from coach Jason Garrett and bounce-back performance from running back DeMarco Murray. |
Murray was seemingly benched in the first quarter by Garrett after a fumble. The Cowboys recovered, but Murray was replaced by backup Phillip Tanner for the remainder of the half. Tanner was on the field for both Cowboys touchdown drives, rushing 14 times for 39 yards in the first half. |
Murray returned to the field in the third quarter when Romo, Bryant and Austin were done for the evening. |
He rushed eight times for 45 yards on his only drive of the period. The highlight was as 7-yard touchdown catch from backup quarterback Kyle Orton. |
Murray broke five tackles to reach the end zone, capping a 14-play, 86-yard drive. |
The Cowboys are 2-2 in the preseason and will meet the Houston Texans on Thursday at AT&T Stadium in the final tuneup before the opener against the New York Giants. |
Here is the ETF Professor's ETF Watch List for Wednesday, July 24, 2013. |
The Market Vectors Coal ETF (NYSE:KOL) has been perking up. So has the Market Vectors Junior Gold Miners ETF (NYSE:GDXJ). |
Keep an eye on the First Trust ISE-Revere Natural Gas Index Fund (NYSE:FCG). |
Give the ALPS Alerian MLP ETF (NYSE:AMLP) a look. |
Emerging markets plays of the day: ProShares UltraShort FTSE China 25 (NYSE:FXP), iShares MSCI South Korea ETF (NYSE:EWY) and the WisdomTree Emerging Markets Equity Income Fund (NYSE:DEM). |
Forex play of the day: ProShares UltraShort Euro (NYSE:EUO). |
Bond play of the day: SPDR Barclays Capital High Yield Bond ETF (NYSE:JNK). |
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