Re: Deer Big (Always) Hurt


Goro wrote:
I donut think Kenny Williams likes you so good.

-goro-

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/sports/baseball/mlb/oakland_athletics/13972310.htm

PHOENIX - The ill will between A's slugger Frank Thomas and his former
Chicago White Sox general manager, Kenny Williams, escalated Sunday
when Williams called Thomas ``an idiot.''

Williams was speaking to Chicago reporters at the team's spring
training site in Tucson in response to comments Thomas made to The
Daily Southtown, a Chicago-area newspaper, in which he reiterated his
disappointment over the manner in which he was released after 16 years
with the White Sox.

``He's an idiot,'' Williams said. ``He's selfish. That's why we don't
miss him. And we've held it in for far too long.

``But I've got something to say directly to him. And I'm holding back
as much as I can because, unlike him, I'll say it man-to-man,
face-to-face.''

Thomas told the newspaper that Williams never called him to let him
know the team was not going to retain him after it exercised the $3.5
million buyout in his contract. Thomas appeared in just 108 games the
past two seasons because of left-foot problems. He also said he should
have been traded after the 2000 season and criticized the multiyear
deals given during the off-season to Paul Konerko and Jon Garland.


Listening to a great deal of Chicago sports radio, I can say that no
one there has given a damn about what Frank Thomas says for about five
years now. Also, Kenny Williams, while being prickly and a bit of a
hot head, clearly knows what he is doing.

And Jerry Reinsdorf is one of the most decent owners in American
sports. Sometimes he is too easy of a target because he gives his guys
too much latitude, but he is a good, good man.

Jon

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