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Dye reports knee feels 'a lot better'

Jermaine Dye was feeling much better Monday, a day after having to leave the game against the Kansas City Royals with a bruised right knee.

Dye was hit by a pitch from reliever Horacio Ramirez in the fourth inning. Dye also was hit on the left calf by Ramirez on Saturday, but he didn't view himself as a target.

"I don't think it was intentional,'' the right fielder said. "Both pitches were sliders that just got away. (Ramirez) called after (Sunday's) game to apologize, and I told him not to worry about it.''

Dye didn't participate in batting practice Monday, but he expects to play against Texas tonight.

"It feels a lot better,'' he said. "It's still stiff and sore. Hermie (trainer Herm Schneider) did a great job of getting all the inflammation out, and it feels pretty good.''

Dye was hit on the side of his right kneecap, which proved fortunate.

"I thought it hit me in the kneecap,'' he said. "Any time you get hit in an area like that, there's possible cracks and all that. But the X-rays were negative and it came out to be a bruise.''

Feud fizzles: In the White Sox' final game before the all-star break, at Texas on July 13, manager Ozzie Guillen thought Rangers closer C.J. Wilson didn't show much class while celebrating strikeouts of Jim Thome and Paul Konerko to end a long, ugly game.

With Texas at U.S. Cellular Field on Monday night in the opener of a three-game series, Guillen wasn't interested in revisiting the incident.

"My comment was, I don't care how cocky you're going to be or if you have your own style to pitch,'' Guillen said. "I never criticize anybody for having a style.

"But when you disrespect baseball, and you disrespect the opposition, I don't think that's class. I never criticize any of the closers or any of the pitchers. By the way, I love that. I love when the pitchers doing stuff on the mound. As long as they don't disrespect baseball or the players, they can do what they want.''

The off-the-wall Wilson said he wasn't trying to show up Thome or Konerko.

"I just like throwing hard and having a Mohawk and being an idiot, you know?'' Wilson said. "(Guillen) was obviously upset. During the game I was upset. People get upset. He's probably an emotional guy.

"On the field I get to be an emotional guy. It's not like it's rare to have clashes in the game of baseball.''

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