By Dave van Dyck
Ten minutes before Saturday's trading deadline, a stern-looking GM Kenny Williams walked into the lunch are of the White Sox locker room and motioned Gordon Beckham into a closed-door meeting with manager Ozzie Guillen.
"I had Ozzie close the door and sat Gordon down in the chair and said, 'Well, I would really like to say one thing to you before I get into the nuts and bolts of this stuff,'" Williams said. "'That at-bat you had last night, where you pushed across that run, it was one of the best at-bats you had all year. I just want to say nice job.'
"Then I shook his hand, and he said, 'That's it?' And I said 'That's it.' He had a sigh of relief. Ozzie had a sigh of relief and started cursing at me."
"I was like, what's going on here," Beckham said. "It was a little bit of a jump start to my day I guess."
Ten minutes before Saturday's trading deadline, a stern-looking GM Kenny Williams walked into the lunch are of the White Sox locker room and motioned Gordon Beckham into a closed-door meeting with manager Ozzie Guillen.
"I had Ozzie close the door and sat Gordon down in the chair and said, 'Well, I would really like to say one thing to you before I get into the nuts and bolts of this stuff,'" Williams said. "'That at-bat you had last night, where you pushed across that run, it was one of the best at-bats you had all year. I just want to say nice job.'
"Then I shook his hand, and he said, 'That's it?' And I said 'That's it.' He had a sigh of relief. Ozzie had a sigh of relief and started cursing at me."
"I was like, what's going on here," Beckham said. "It was a little bit of a jump start to my day I guess."
Good for Kenny to loosen Gordon up as he has been playing and hitting well. I believe Gordon will be a star, like Longoria.
but it scared him hitless in tonight's game.