It's happened to you.  It's happen to me.  A simple disagreement with a co-worker that escalates to shrill and angry words.  In most places of employment, you would most likely be dragged before an HR person and asked to explain your actions while having something evil slipped into your personnel file.  Fortunately, professional sports is not the real world.

In the course of last night's 4-3 Chicago White Sox victory over the Chicago Cubs, some words were exchanged between starting pitcher Jake Peavy and A.J. Pierzynski following Peavy's removal from the game in the sixth inning.  Following the game they joked about it claiming that they were discussing college football and hunting.

Before your Fruit of the Loom's start bunching up, know that this is a good sign for the usually sedate White Sox.  Most of the time if something occurs off the field, it has something to do with manager Ozzie Guillen.  This time,  two alpha dogs who probably had a difference of opinion on pitch selection, discussed it in a competitive fashion.

It's nice to see some spark out of these guys once in a while.  Forgive me for being old school, but sometimes these things have a way of waking up a team.  Not to say that I'd like to see Paul Konerko confronting Adam Dunn or Juan Pierre (okay,.Konerko vs. Pierre would be entertaining), but you can't argue that Pierzynski and Peavy handled the situation like men do, they confronted each other, yelled profanities at each other and laughed about later.

Don't believe me?  Look no further than the '72-'74 A's or the '77-78 Yankees.  They didn't like each other, but collectively they won championships.  Even the '85 Bears had their Ditka-Ryan issues, but managed to hoist the Lombardi trophy.  Disagreements because you want to win are allowed and even sometimes encouraged. Pierzynski is a pot stirrer and Peavy is an intense competitor with a football mentality.  The fact that they got into it means they care and badly want to win, nothing more.

In today's employment climate, this is almost taboo behavior.  You cannot cuss out or hotly debate a co-worker without extreme consequences and some shyster filing a multi-million dollar law suit because your behavior was perceived as offensive or bullying.  You are then required to take an unpaid leave of absence to attend classes in anger management (because you obviously have a problem) while your company covers its' corporate backside.

It's nice to see that at least in one corner of society, men can still be men and settle things man style without someone bleeding heart with a degree in psychology probing them to discover the source of their anger.  It either gives hope to the world or a glimse on what life was like before the lawyers and left-handers got control of the planet.