Ozzie dismissive about blow-up dolls in clubhouse

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A clubhouse prank by the White Sox before Sunday’s game against the Blue Jays drew some attention in Toronto and forced Ozzie Guillen to address why there were blow-up dolls in his clubhouse.

The prank, apparently designed as a “slump-buster” to get the Sox offense out of a rut, included two blow-up dolls with bats strategically placed. The incident was reported in today’s National Post in Toronto and on www.suntimes.com/sports in the “Inside the White Sox” blog by Joe Cowley.

“I’m not going to make the players apologize,” Guillen said. “I don’t think that was a big deal. It’s our house. I don’t think we did anything wrong and I don’t think we did anything to make people upset. We did something to have fun and stay loose.

“Those dolls don’t work. ... Hopefully we come up with something better. We don’t need dolls, we need hits.’’ Guillen went on to say: “Everyone in the clubhouse, 100 percent of the people in the clubhouse, they are 18 years old and that’s a private thing. If the players do it in the dugout so everyone in the public could see it, or did it in the hotel lobby ... we did it in the clubhouse. A lot of worse things happen in the clubhouse. I don’t really know why people are making it a big deal. If people got their feelings hurt because of that ... they don’t really know much about baseball.”