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With the Cubs and the White Sox going south the last few days, both Lou Piniella and Ozzie Guillen lost it. Yet Sweet Lou’s tirades seemed real, while Ozzie’s seemed a bit of a masquerade, even though his language was harsher. Piniella barely made it through a minute of a post-game media conference after last Thursday’s blown save by Kerry Wood, triggered by a key misplay by left fielder Alfonso Soriano, and that was after bashing a Gatorade cooler. (No doubt he wished he’d had a water cooler on hand to get real satisfaction.) When some scribe wondered afterward if he’d thought about replacing Soriano with a better defender, say Reed Johnson, in the ninth inning, Lou blasted back, “You’re damn right I thought about it. You think I’m stupid or something?” Then he stormed out muttering profanities, perhaps having learned something from the recent Lee Elia anniversary.
