Wednesday's Lineup

Wednesday's lineup for the Sox is out. Dave van Dyck of the Chicago Tribune has it posted.

Randy Wolf, a left hander, starts for L.A. which means Ozzie Guillen is going to his 'match-up' lineup. That means Jim Thome, who sat most of the last two weeks because of interleague play, is on the bench again.

I love Ozzie and as I've said before he should be the manager as long as he wants to, but he does some things that make me scratch my head.

One of them is his constant pairings of lefty vs. righty... be it a pitcher or a hitter. And this flies in the face of what Ozzie has said many times to the mainstream media. He's talked about always having to juggle his lineup, that he can't get a consistent one because of either injuries (which is understandable) or because guys aren't hitting.

Well it's hard say for a left hander Sox hitter to get comfortable against a left handed pitcher if he never faces them correct?

I'm old school, I openly admit it. I remember a time when a pitcher's job was to get people out regardless of what side of the plate they hit from. When hitters were supposed to get hits against pitchers regardless of which side they throw from.

I also remember lineup's where you had your starters and you had your bench players in clearly defined roles. And short of an injury or an occasional, rare day off, that's the lineup you went with.

Ozzie obviously was influenced heavily in his philosophy by Tony LaRussa the guy who inveted relief 'specialists' and played the percentages to the hilt.

That's fine when you had the type of talent Tony usually had with the Sox, Oakland and St. Louis but Ozzie doesn't have that,even when this edition of the White Sox is completely healthy.