It's going to be a tough day for White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen today.  Not because his team seems to be in a hitting funk or because his closer has "back problems" (probably as in "We don't want him back on the mound for a while) or because Mark Kotsay needs some base running lessons.

No, that is the tip of Ozzie's Sunday iceberg.  The two problems are his mortal enemy in the Baltimore dugout Buck Showalter and his bigger mortal enemy behind the plate Phil (Stevie Wonder) Cuzzi.  Showalter is a s tightly wound as Ozzie is loose and it is a classic oil and water mix.  That's just a personality problem.  This goes back to when Buck was in Texas and Ozzie was in his first season as manager of the Sox.  Friday night's game of "let's cool off the pitcher" didn't help things.

But the five hundred pound gorilla in the room this afternoon is home plate umpire Phil Cuzzi, one of the absolute worst, if not the absolute worst umpire in baseball.  I can't think of a single game where Cuzzi has been behind the plate that Cuzzi hasn't tossed Ozzie.  A couple of weeks ago, Cuzzi butchered a call that cost the Giants a win .And yet, somehow, this man keeps his job even though he is clearly no good at it.

Mark Buehrle depends on the corners and if he doesn't get the calls, expect the Orioles to rake.  That will lead to Cuzzi tossing Ozzie again and Showalter getting the satisfaction that Guillen got tossed.

Lightning Round

• When WGN showed Ramon Castro running in from the bullpen last night, my wife said "Why is the bus driver running onto the field?"
• It's possible that this crew is the worst umpiring crew in baseball (possibly at any level.)  between phantom tags at second and a continual search for scuffed balls, you wonder why the league hasn't broken these guys up.
• Today's biggest mystery: Does Christiane Amanpour have an Adam's apple?