During the third inning of the home opener, the broadcast made the odd move to cut to the pregame\/postgame crew instead of commercial. Scott Podsednik was on hand to make a mystery announcement: The White Sox are retiring Ozzie Guill\u00e9n\u2019s No. 13.<\/p>\n
Ozzie, sitting right next to Podsednik on the broadcast, interrupted Scott\u2019s reading to joke about getting \u201canother bobblehead\u201d began tearing up before Scott even finished reading the release. Guill\u00e9n\u2019s wife, Ibis, was just off-camera and able to celebrate with Ozzie.<\/p>\n
Guill\u00e9n\u2019s made a few short reaction statements, indicating that he always dreamed of the honor (\u201cthis is the biggest news I ever had in baseball\u201d), and was thrilled that now, his grandchildren would be able to come to the ballpark and see what he meant to the White Sox.<\/p>\n
Ozzie also made a quick pivot to White Sox history, noting through tears that he would be listed right between his hero, Venezuelan shortstop and White Sox legend Luis Aparicio (No. 11) and his favorite player to manage and unofficial captain under him, Paul Konerko (N0. 14).<\/p>\n
On August 8, the White Sox host the Guardians for a Saturday night, 6:10 p.m. start.<\/p>\n
And prepare for an emotional weekend, as Ozzie just noted that he \u201ccould die happy on August 9 now.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During the third inning of the home opener, the broadcast made the odd move to cut to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2379],"tags":[5,138,49,3208,2561,4,396,2562],"class_list":{"0":"post-661380","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-white-sox","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-chicago-white-sox","11":"tag-chicago-white-sox-news","12":"tag-chicagowhitesox","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-white-sox","15":"tag-whitesox"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116342469805079534","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}