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Baseball Musings
March 14, 2008
Quiet Camp

Chris de Luca notes the White Sox are running a quiet camp this spring:

Something always penetrates the tranquility of Sox camp. It's as much a spring training tradition as someone complaining about Arizona's high sky. This year, nothing.

"Yeah, it has been a pretty smooth camp," captain Paul Konerko said. "From a player's standpoint, since I've been a White Sox, this has definitely been the best-run camp."

Nothing but baseball. No contract squabbles or old scores to settle. Even after manager Ozzie Guillen, on the eve of camp, promised to revert to his old way -- meaning loud and obnoxious -- the place is downright boring. You half expect spa music to be piped in over the sound system.

Is this any way to run a Sox camp?

"Most of the time with the camps, they are crazy because of something I say or it's a contract thing," Guillen said. "Now we tried to do it this way, to create that feeling in the clubhouse with the players and the media, to avoid controversy. Because when that kind of stuff happens, you are creating something you shouldn't be creating.

Wow. Maturity from Ozzie Guillen. I guess a lousy season will do that to you.

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