Hawk here. Everyone’s loving the Sox right now. Best record in baseball. Best manager in baseball. And best broadcast team in baseball. Me and Deej bring the heat night after night, that’s right. Like I said, everyone’s loving the Sox. Except for Mariotti. Now, I got no problem with Jay. He’s a good guy. Maybe not a great writer, but whatever. Not everyone’s John Grisham. We had some run-in before, but that’s under the bridge and over the rainbow. Long gone. He’s OK people, even if he’s chicken. Hawk didn’t want to fight. Hawk just wanted to talk, straighten things out, cinch it up and hunker down. But Jay didn’t want to talk. That’s fine. I’m right, he’s wrong. Folks love me, folks hate him. I hit .239, and he never played ball. All that matters.

Every team’s got problems, you betcha. Even the Sox. It’s hard to get guys like Timo and Pablo enough PT to keep them fresh and hot. It’s hard to get guys like Politte and Herm – part of the best bullpen in baseball – into games when the Sox win by 6 every night and the best starters in teh game go 8 or 9 no problem. But The Wizard of Oz does it, night after night. He’s the man. He’s getting the job done. Comes to the ballpark ready to win, and wins every night. So why’s Mariotti trying to stir it up? Saying Jerry needs to set Oz straight?

For all his talents as a skipper, Guillen is a loose-lipped disaster as a representative of his team, city and sport. When I endorsed him 21 months ago, I knew he was something of a politically incorrect wise-guy who spoke his mind and didn’t care who balked. Never did I think he’d turn into a crude, unrefined doofus, a bad comedian who can’t separate sophomoric clubhouse raunch from his role as face and spokesman of a national success story. All I know is, he’d better learn the meaning of couth soon … before he talks himself out of a job and becomes the next Al Campanis/Jimmy (The Greek) Snyder/Marge Schott/ Larry Krueger, no matter how well the Sox are playing.

Seems like Jay’s the one that can’t tell a joke from a rat on his ass. Using those big words because he’s a “writer”. Trying to talk tough about racism and other things. Lemme tell you something, Jay. Ain’t nothing wrong with what Oz said. He’s a man. He knows a few things. He knows what he can say and what he can’t. And he said that stuff to a friend that understood. End of story. No need to turn duck snort into something. Let it lie. Sox are good. Grab some pine, Jay.

I show Deej this earlier on the links:

He has lived and worked in America for 20 years, long enough to know right from wrong. Where is the common sense? Earlier this season, his mouth was the subject of ESPN’s issues program, “Outside the Lines.” On the program, I described Guillen as a time bomb and perpetual incident waiting to happen and suggested ”Ozzie at the Improv” was just getting started. Unfortunately, I was dead-on correct. What’s next? I have heard him use crude expressions about women sportscasters. I have heard him drop ethnic bombs about writers. I have stood in a clubhouse in Baltimore, trying to do my job, only to deal with Guillen standing behind me and gyrating his hips. In each case, he thinks it’s funny.

And I told Deej, “Well, geez, Jay’s been in America longer, and he still don’t know right from wrong!” And Deej agreed. I told Deej, “Deej, what this guy don’t know could fill my nose.” And Deej laughed. Because I’m right. Made him shank his bunker shot on the 15th. Helped me win. And what’s that talk about gyrating hips? Getting a little excitable there, Jay? Can’t get your work done because Oz is shaking it? What’s that all about? You got some pink frilly stuff you wanna share with the class, Jay? I tell ya, I see Jay on those talk shows, shouting with other guys that don’t know any more than he does. And it’s funny, because he doesn’t know a damn thing. Jay’s just a mudflap whacking against big-rig wheels. Big hack, no contact.

What’s next – saying the Sox shouldn’t get Griffey? That’s crazy talk, Jay. Junior’s a HOF, for sure. Watch his daddy play for a while. Good guy. Fished with the best of ’em. Great hitter. And Junior is too. Five hundred home runs ain’t no joke. And great defense. All those plays in the Kingdome, running into walls. When I see Pod, you know who I see? That’s right – Junior. So why not get Junior in Pale Hose, too? Gotta do it. Can-o-corn. And he’ll do it, too. Don’t give me that stuff about Cincy. That was years ago. Junior wants to win. Junior wants to win right now. Who doesn’t? Doesn’t matter what the Sox give up. They’ll get a HOFer in return. And a World Series. Welcome to Chitown, Junior. Welcome home.

Don’t talk to me about Epstein or Beane or Shurholz. Kenny Williams – GM of the year. Got Pod. Got Carl. Got El Duque and JC. Got a first place team going all the way this year. And gonna get more. Gonna get Griffey. Gonna get Billy Wags. Gonna get Manny, too. Get the Sox to the promise land. Black Sox no more. White is the new black. 2005. The year it happens. No lie. Good guys win. Put in on the booooooooard YES!

Ken Harrelson has served as an announcer for Chicago White Sox telecasts on WGN-TV since 1991.