Umpire Games

Ozzie Guillen, the manager of Major League Baseball's Chicago Whitesox, was fined by the MLB offices on Friday after being ejected on Monday for accusing umpire Phil Cuzzi for having a personal vendetta against him. It is Guillen's 13th ejection since taking the White Sox job in 2004.

Cuzzi later commented, "It's nothing personal against Ozzie. I remember umpiring games back when he was a scrawny kid playing shortstop." He later added, "It's simply all part of a game. A few years ago at our annual umpire convention in Punta Cana we put all the managers names in a hat and picked out Ozzie's. The rules are simply, whoever gets Ozzie fined the most money in the proceeded five years wins."

"I got fined a lot of money. That's all I can say. A lot of money," Guillen said before Friday night's game against Detroit. "I could buy land in Venezuela with that money."

Even journalist and frequent Around the Horn participant Jay Mariotti got in an the action. In a short statement the Chicago-Sun Times writer stated that the nickname "Blizzard of Oz" was purely to try to get Ozzie to lose his temper. And it worked. Put $500 in Jay Mariotti's total.

These recent fine pushes Cuzzi to the top of the leader board. This is the second time Cuzzi ejected Ozzie since the game started.