Mysterious White Sox staff firings
Posted: Saturday May 17, 2008 07:09AM ET
The White Sox announced before Friday's game with the San Francisco Giants that they have fired three members of their Latin American scouting staff, including David Wilder, senior director of player personnel. Full-time scout Victor Mateo and part-time scout Domingo Toribio were dismissed for actions in Latin America that were deemed violations of club policy and standards. The firings followed a two-month investigation by Major League Baseball, the findings of which are now in the hands of federal authorities, limiting what general manager Ken Williams could say. Williams said Wilder was being internally investigated since the start of spring over dealings with the Sox' up-and-coming baseball academy in the Dominican Republic. He described a feeling of betrayal by Wilder, a man Williams hired and considered a close friend.
Ken Williams, Rich Pilling/Getty Images
Comments (27)
OK, now we know where the blow-up doll came from and how it was really treated...
EastCoastKeith | 05/17/08, 07:22 AM
Report Offensive Commentand on a side note , williams is a dooooche
Sox Sider | 05/17/08, 08:10 AM
Report Offensive Commentthe head line should say mysterious whitesox over .500 with every hitter batting below .300
lets go sox
pwronk01 | 05/17/08, 10:30 AM
Report Offensive CommentHonest Abe can go **** yourself. Cmon With it ,Kick Some ****. I'll meet u any time and I dare U to call me an A**Hole
Big Mike | 05/17/08, 11:50 AM
Report Offensive Commentyou're an honest a hole honest abe.
chisoxfan | 05/17/08, 12:23 PM
Report Offensive Commentyou are probably a really skinny or fat dude with glasses that thinks it's cool to talk **** on here, just another ****.
chisoxfan | 05/17/08, 12:24 PM
Report Offensive CommentThe White Sox are all ****. And so are their fans.
Honest Abraham | 05/17/08, 08:42 AM
id love for you to tell that to me in person....
Steveo16220 says:30 days left | 05/17/08, 01:38 PM
Report Offensive CommentHonest Abraham isn't all that honest. Haven't you people figured that out by now?
Lady's Coach Belicat | 05/17/08, 01:39 PM
Report Offensive CommentStill waiting for THE FIRING- OZZIE GUILLEN !!!
Hub Man | 05/17/08, 02:05 PM
Report Offensive CommentWow, nice to see the Sox fans come out of their holes once in a while..... now that you've seen your shadows, you can scurry back in for the rest of the season.....
Sir Robin (as himself) | 05/17/08, 03:59 PM
Report Offensive CommentSox fans are just upset because Chicago will always be a Cub town. Even after winning the World Series it remains a Cub town!
I still want my hubcaps that were stolen at a Sox game!
Hillary Clinton | 05/17/08, 04:19 PM
Report Offensive CommentI still want my hubcaps that were stolen at a Sox game!
Ronnie Woo Woo stole them for his braces.
KenoshaMark | 05/17/08, 04:36 PM
Report Offensive Commentit's either drugs or sex probally both. They could bring up dominican girls so they went for blow up dolls. Were the dolls female??/
golfwacko | 05/17/08, 04:38 PM
Report Offensive CommentMaybe that White Sox nacho stand outside the Academy was a front for the illegal trafficking of Dominican Grandma Porn DVD's by these three. Dominican Grandma's Gone Wild.
izzyeli | 05/17/08, 05:01 PM
Report Offensive CommentAnd Steveo, I'm sure you could bring an inflatable doll to join the party.
Tell it like it is | 05/17/08, 05:57 PM
Report Offensive Commentwere the blow up dolls female???
golfwacko | 05/17/08, 06:04 PM
Report Offensive CommentAside from the casual baseball tourists from Iowa, it appears all Cub fans are nothing but high school girls, worrying about who's the most popular. "You won the World Series, but now you're bad." "You won the World Series, but we're still more popular." And it goes on and on. Notice though, that all of those start with the words "You won the World Series"...and that's REALLY what makes you guys so bitter. 1 9 0 8 ladies...suck on it.
chisox515 | 05/17/08, 06:12 PM
Report Offensive CommentI can care less about who's popular or who's not. If I cared enough about it to be bitter, as you say, I certainly wouldn't be a Chi Sox fan...I'd be a Yankees or Bo Sox fan because at least they win. Besides, they've always been popular.
You seem to forget that up until the mid to late 80s, when a drunken slob (and former Cardinals and White Sox castaway) was showcased hanging out of the broadcast booth during the 7th inning stretch, and the team and ballpark were turned into a continuous beer commercial, the Cubs were the definition of irrelevant.
Where did I say I didn't enjoy my team? You're obviously not posting based on anything that I posted above, just your own ignorance. You're a sad bunch of sacks if "popularity" is all you have to fall back on. All I have to say is everything Lee Elia said 25 years ago is as true today as it was then.
Don't forget to note, this all started with some Cub fans coming in here spouting off. Again, who's bitter? Who's obsessed with the other? Who has been relevant to nothing but futility for 100 years and running?
chisox515 | 05/17/08, 06:37 PM
Report Offensive CommentI am sure Tony and Ozzie are perfectly happy admiring their World Series rings.
chisox515 | 05/17/08, 07:12 PM
Report Offensive CommentThe sox had 25,000 fans the other night at home, at Wrigley, that's called batting practice!
Hillary Clinton | 05/17/08, 07:32 PM
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