Ozzie Guillen can't help himself: He must - simply must - badmouth players who leave the White Sox. Joe Crede is the latest victim target:

"We're no go younger at third base; we offered Joe Crede a three-year deal, a four-year deal, a couple of years ago," said Guillen with a knowing smile. "This would be the second or third year in his contract if he signed with us. We didn't go younger, we went good.

"I think when you are younger, then we have [Tyler] Flowers catching, [Paul] Konerko DH-ing, the Cuban kid [Dayan Viciedo] playing third base. We aren't going young, we are putting the team there that's best for the ballclub. If Joe Crede was healthy for us last year, that makes a lot of difference."

MLB.com provides this bit of context about Guillen's comments:

These remarks from Guillen certainly weren't meant as harsh criticism toward Crede, and to make things perfectly clear, there was no specific contractual offer made to Crede as Guillen stated. In September 2007, while Crede was recovering from season-ending back surgery, Fields was temporarily in left field and the team was in Detroit, White Sox general manager Ken Williams called Scott Boras, Crede's representative, about the possibility of working out an extension. Williams was told that Crede preferred to play out the last year of his contract in 2008 and then test the free-agent market.

If MLB.com is providing "context" to your comments as an MLB employee, you know you're out in goofy land.

To keep score, the former Sox on Ozzie's hit list include Crede, Magglio Ordonez ("Venezuelan piece of s---"), Brandon McCarthy and Nick Swisher. For his part, GM Kenny Williams went after Frank Thomas and warned him "to stay out of White Sox business."

(h/t pmayo at ACB.)