MLB WORLD SERIES: ASTROS v WHITE SOX

October 23, 2005

Ozzie Guillen

OZZIE GUILLEN: We've seen him before, but you can see they got a couple of hits, but I think he sat down for almost a half hour, just going there hitter by hitter, and I've got to bring my bullpen, and I make the decisions -- he got enough to keep us in the game. That's the way Buehrle does his stuff.

OZZIE GUILLEN: You follow the team year-round, that's the way we play all year. We keep fighting, making big pitch. When somebody fail, somebody pick them up. This team is a lot of unity. This team -- nobody points fingers at anybody. That's one of my first rules, when I got this job, I don't want any teammate to point fingers and criticize teammates. Criticize me, not your teammates. And we do a pretty good job of doing that. I went to take Jenks out and A.J. go behind me and said "we'll come back, don't worry about it." That's the attitude I like to hear. That's especially because of the unity they have.

OZZIE GUILLEN: I can't see it. He was right behind me. I think it's a good at-bat for him. Great at-bat. And it's easy when people -- from my point I cannot see anything what happened. I was on the side. I was behind him, I couldn't see anything.

OZZIE GUILLEN: This team, I think they make me smile in the 9th. I think this kid, you know, that's when stuff is going your way. When you -- when somebody come up with the home run, and you ask God, well, hopefully the ball will still bounce my way. So surprised, because the two home runs have come up in the postseason. And believe me, you can ask Paul Konerko now what is the biggest hit he's ever had in his life and he'll say today, the home run.

OZZIE GUILLEN: The American League they have a good bullpen. A lot of people they load it in the bullpen and we get used to hitting good against the bullpen, because that's the way we win games. Right now we are swinging the bat pretty good. One thing about it, we never let ourselves down. We just always believe we can score in any particular inning. We believe we can do that.

OZZIE GUILLEN: Yeah, but beside the home run we got guys get on base with walk. We got a guy that got hit by a pitch. We got a guy -- they got the big home run. In the past we hit five home run in one inning. Right now I think the home runs we have are with people on base, and in the season I think we hit two home runs, we're second in the League. But it's not because we're going to hit home runs, but it's going to be somebody different hitting home runs. But the home runs come up and hopefully come with people on base.

OZZIE GUILLEN: Only one thing, I'm going to -- I don't want to say it's an advantage for the National League. They play good baseball in the National League. They know how to play National League ballgame. The back-up players I have, they're real good to be National League ball players. They can play different positions and make different movements. I'm not going to change anything with National League, American League. We play real well. Hopefully we keep it up back in Houston.