Ozzie Guillen Fires Off Profanity-Laced Rant, Says White Sox Don’t Need Jim Thome

New York Jets head coach Rex Ryan may be making news for his potty mouth, but on the South Side of Chicago, controversial White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen has made the incentive-laced rant commonplace.

His latest tirade, is in regards to Jim Thome. Apparently, Ozzie is getting pretty sick of people asking him about Thome, who is now hitting home runs for the division-rival Minnesota Twins after playing for the White Sox from 2007-09 before being traded at the '09 trading deadline.

Thome, who is closing in on 600 career home runs, has been on a bit of a tear lately. In his last six games, he's hitting .429 with four home runs. Making matters even worse for the White Sox, three of those games came against the White Sox — and all three of them were losses for the Sox.

One of those losses came Tuesday night in the first game of a three-game series in Minnesota. It was Thome hitting the walk-off home run in the 10th inning that sparked the questions aimed towards Guillen.

But Guillen is making it clear that he really doesn't want to hear it when it comes to Thome and why he's not in Chicago anymore.

"… all those people in Chicago and all those people around the world that want to blame somebody for not bringing Jim Thome to this ballclub, I'll take the blame," Guillen said, as reported by Fanhouse.com. "But in the meanwhile, I tell those people that Jim Thome had to say yes to the trade when we traded him. I'm not going to hide from people when we made that decision. I say 'we' because I'm the only one who faces it. I talked to him before I made that decision, I told him why I don't see him fitting here."

Of course, it would have been easy for Guillen to stop there, but that's not his style, so, he kept going.

"For those people there saying it was my fault about Jim Thome, yes it's my fault. If those people don't like that, —- them."

Guillen insisted as well, that if Thome keeps raking against the White Sox, it won't be the only reason the Twins are winning games. 

"But I hope he hits another [expletive] one today," Guillen said Wednesday, one night after his team saw their deficit in the AL Central grow to four games. "He had all three hits against lefties. Is it my fault we can't pitch against his ass? No. Well .. I feel proud of him, to be honest with you. When I see him hit that —- out there all the way to the building out there at 98, I don't see that for the last three years with us.

"Good for him. A lot of people talk about the home run from Jim Thome. How about the eight or nine runs before that? But that's OK. I'll wear it. I'll take it. I'll take the heat."

Of course Ozzie will take the heat. He's used to it. But if his White Sox can't climb back into the division race and it's Thome putting them away, the heat on Guillen will make the Great Chicago Fire look like a sparkler.