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Z, Ozzie Are BFFs
Written by wrigleyville   
Tuesday, 17 March 2009
t1_carlos_zambrano.jpgCarlos Zambrano - once known in these parts as Mr. Met for his public musings about signing in New York - admits to being a White Sox fan.

Zambrano debuted with the Cubs on Aug. 20, 2001. He has a lot of baseball ahead. So the question -- after seeing Wood leave town this winter -- is obvious: Could Zambrano ever imagine pitching for another team?

''No,'' he said, tapping his hand on that big ''C'' logo over his heart.

Then without much hesitation...

''Well, if I do,'' Zambrano added in a hushed voice, ''I want it to be in a White Sox uniform.''

What?

This isn't the kind of thing that will go over well with Cubs fans.

''I grew up as a White Sox fan. That was my favorite team,'' Zambrano said. ''I apologize to the Cubs fans for saying this, but you don't have control when you are 6, 7 years old of your feelings. Your feelings are with the team you see as a child. For me, it was the White Sox.''

But that's not why we note of this Sun-Times story because who cares, really?. Rather, it's this tidbit:

We now take you to a remote island off the coast of Venezuela. Zambrano took his family there last offseason for a vacation. He took a seat in a seaside restaurant. Then he heard a voice boom -- in Spanish -- from across the room.

''Hey, Crazy, what are you doing here?''

Zambrano wheeled around and found Sox manager Ozzie Guillen glaring at him.

Time for a rumble?

Hardly. The two embraced, and the face of the Sox invited the face of the Cubs on his yacht for a day of fishing and some frolicking on the beach. Honest.

''His family and my family, we are pretty tight,'' Guillen said Monday. ''People who see Carlos on the field, they don't see the real human being he is. This guy is unbelievable -- with his family, his friends, his town, his country. This guy is one of the better people I've ever been around. I can put him at the same caliber as Jim Thome -- and that's a lot to say.

''I've never been around somebody who is so nice a person, then all of a sudden, the game is on and he is exactly what you want. You talk to Carlos without the uniform on, I don't know if he can pitch for me. And when you see him with a uniform on, I don't think he can be my friend.''

Ozzie wants to be Z's friend when he is out of his uniform, apparently.


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