Boy, what a great episode of Dr. Phil this would make.  Or, better yet, Jerry Springer. 

In the midst of losing to the dregs of the American League, Chicago White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen is being confronted with another, albeit unnecessary issue: The inane "tweeting of his middle son Oney.

Most Sox fans know the story of Oney's tweets earlier this year which cost young Gillen his job in the Sox scouting department.  And for all intents and purposes, the story should have ended right there.  But it didn't, rearing it's ugly head yesterday when it was discovered that Oney had been "tweeting" some nasty things regarding Sox GM Kenny Williams.

According to Oney while the Sox were splitting a doubleheader with the lowly Royals, Kenny was out in Schamburg at a comedy club.

Let's stop the tape for a moment.  I don't care what Kenny does in his spare time.  The man works his ass off and surely he had these tickets before the Royals rescheduled the Friday game for late Saturday night.  To deny Williams a life is ridiculous by anyone's standards, which is probably why no one is upset.  Or at least appears upset.  But there's a little more to this.

Oney's ax to grind with Williams is causing his father problems.  While Ozzie publicly says his son has the right to "tweet" whatever   he wants, you've got to think that in a tough year, in a tough fight for the division, this doesn't help.  Ozzie has enough stress of his own not to have to deal with  the "tweets" of an obviously spoiled child.

As a parent, Ozzie needs to lay down the law to Oney.  He needs to tell him that he's distracting his father and interfering with his father at work.  in short, his actions are making his old man look bad. And then firmly request that he stop NOW.  That if he wants to "tweet", fine, but leave the White Sox organization out of it.  (Then, I would bend him over my knee and teach him some discipline, but then again, I'm old school. That's a whole different topic for a different day.)

There are some (not me) who may suggest that Ozzie is the man behind the curtain on this stuff.  I think he has far more to worry about than if Kenny is watching a game on TV. 

While I don't have issues with social networking, I wonder sometimes why some people aren't smart enough to realize that it does have consequences.  We''ve already seen athletes restricted from "tweeting" and fined for things they did "tweet."  Oney has already lost his job because of it.  Everyone on the planet, friends, enemies, media, can see this stuff.  Oney needs to stand down for the sake of his father and the organization.  If he doesn't, he'll cause Ozzie more than a headache.