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The following is a transcript from a segment on “Chicago Talks Sports with ‘Danger’ Dan Dangerian” on 670 The Score, from the afternoon of June 12, 2025.

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Danger Dan: Alright, sports fans, we’re here with what you’ve been waiting for! The White Sox haven’t given us much to talk about lately, unless you count ‘smack,’ but there’s been excitement on the South Side this year as the team tries to escape the dumpster and extinguish the flames of last year. Just over a week ago they made a surprising move and hired former manager, and two-time World Champion, Ozzie Guillen out of the radio booth and brought him back to the dugout ... and the team’s been winning! And now he’s here to talk about it! How’s it going, Ozzie?

Ozzie Guillen: It’s an adjustment, I’ll tell you.

Danger Dan: Being back in baseball instead of doing radio for the team?

Guillen: I just try to get back into the grind of it all. Baseball’s different from when I came up, you know, players are softer and don’t like it when I go off like I used to. I have to adjust.

Danger Dan: So what’s your strategy been like, introducing yourself to the team?

Guillen: We have young guys coming up who aren’t used to the everyday pounding this game puts on you. And we have veterans, like Darvish, who are going out every game and fighting to show the young guys what it takes. They all know me, or they think they do depending on what clips they’ve watched ...

Danger Dan: We’ve all seen those!

Guillen: ... so I don’t have to overdo it. You see it working, the team has been winning games since I took the job.

Danger Dan: Seven and three! It’s been a good start. So what was the interview process like ... anything like your first time getting the job?

Guillen: I was drunk! [Laughs.] No, no, it’s been in talks for a while now. They needed a manager, the new guy is a front office guy and did his best but he didn’t have the experience to tell these players what needed to be done. He just didn’t want to be [----] like last year, didn’t want to [----] himself out of the job. So they came to me.

Danger Dan: That must have been strange with all the things you’ve said about Reinsdorf ...

Guillen: He knows I just [-------] tell it how it is, that’s me, that’s who you get. I know he said I burned bridges when I managed that year in Miami, but that’s a bridge I’ve pushed water under by now. And when I was in the booth with Chuck [Garfien] I always did my best to be fair. I tell the truth, but I’m fair, I’m not a bull[----]er here. I’m Ozzie. And when your team is losing hundreds of games, and thousands of fans, it’s fair to ask what’s ownership going to do?

Danger Dan: Have you gotten to reintroduce yourself to the umps? What have they thought of the new Ozzie Guillen?

Guillen: Man, I’m too old for that [----] ... man, I’m 61! I don’t have time to piss off the umps. Hell, they’ve got robots to worry about, and once they take over, what am I gonna do to piss off a robot? Just working to keep the team going in the clubhouse and make it clear we are here to do a job. We may not do it well all the time, but if the effort is there I don’t need to do crazy [----].

Danger Dan: If the effort’s not there?

Guillen: I’ll jump out that window when the time comes. I’m older, but I’m still Ozzie.

Danger Dan: You heard it here, fans, the great Ozzie Guillen! We’ll let him go get the team ready for the flight to Dallas to face those Texas Rangers, owners of a 48-21 record, tied with the Dodgers for best in baseball ...