Carlton Fisk's feuds with White Sox owner
Jerry Reinsdorf are
well documented. Fisk, after being released from the team in 1993, was kicked out of the clubhouse after he tried to congratulate them for winning the A.L. West. The relationship started to heal when the Sox retired his number 72, and continued when the club erected a statue. Now the relationship is a working one again, as Fisk has been appointed an
ambassador to the club.
"They (White Sox) have defined me as an ambassador, whatever an ambassador's duties are," Fisk said. "I just hope it's not an ambassador to Iraq or some place and they send me over there. I guess it means I'm a jack of all trades and a master of none. I was a master of one, but not anymore."
Oh no Carlton, not Iraq. But perhaps smoothing over things that
Ozzie Guillen says in public could be
almost as daunting.
"All you have to do is find a muzzle for him sometimes," Fisk said. "That's Ozzie, though. We used to tell Ozzie when he was playing, 'Ozzie, shut up.' But he's bold, he's brassy, he played, he has fun. That's what he has tried to instill in the players, that you can be bold and brassy, but you go out and play."
Ah, I guess the duties of a White Sox ambassador consist of finding Ozzie Guillen a muzzle, and telling him to shut up. I got it now. Should be fun in Chicago the rest of the season.
