Less than two weeks into the season, Guillen spraying to all fields

CLEVELAND - Less than two weeks into the season, White Sox hitting coach Greg Walker in back in a familiar spot - the hot seat.

As widely feared coming into the season, the offense is off to a sluggish start and Sox fans are again calling for Walker's job.

As he has often done in the past, Sox manager Ozzie Guillen deflected the blame away from Walker and put it on the hitters.

"(Bleep) them, that's their fault," Guillen said. "It's not Greg Walker's fault. I'm not going to fire a guy that has nothing to do with this thing. Look at (Mark) Kotsay, (Omar) Vizquel and (Jayson) Nix, they don't need a hitting coach. They need to (bleeping) get hits.

"Every time I have a problem with my coaching staff, I'm the first one who fires them. This is like a chain, bro. If they don't hit, they blame the hitting coach and then the manager. If they are not pitching, they blame the pitching coach. It's about blaming people."

In the blame game, Guillen said he should be the prime target.

"I don't want Walk or Coop (pitching coach Don Cooper) or (bench coach) Joey (Cora) to take the blame," Guillen said. "All of this thing, blame it on Ozzie. Don't blame (GM) Kenny (Williams) or (chairman) Jerry (Reinsdorf) or anyone else. Don't put anyone in the middle. When we are not hitting, not pitching or not winning games, my name is out there. That's why I'm the manager.

"I'm not afraid to get blamed. I don't give a (bleep) to be blamed."

Garcia moved back: In a moved designed to give him some extra rest, No. 5 starter Freddy Garcia is not going to make his next start until Saturday, against the Mariners.

With Monday's off day, No. 4 starter John Danks gets the ball at U.S. Cellular Field Tuesday night against the Rays. Mark Buehrle and Jake Peavy follow Danks and Gavin Floyd goes on Friday against Seattle.

Garcia, who allowed 7 runs on 8 hits in 3-plus innings in a loss at Toronto on Thursday, starts Saturday.

"I guess it's good for me," Garcia said with a shrug.

Garcia's fastball hovered around 85 mph against the Blue Jays, so a few extra days of rest can't hurt.

"It's a break, it's not a change," manager Ozzie Guillen said. "After that, he goes every five days all the way through it. He's skipped because we have a day off and it gives Freddy two more days off. He's not out of the rotation, no."

Keep it simple: Rather than watch endless videotape or pore over statistics, manager Ozzie Guillen said Sox hitters should just go out and react.

"There's too much freaking information in baseball now," Guillen said. "There's too many (bleeping) guys on the computer. It's simple. Pete Rose never watched a computer. Rod Carew never did. All those hitters, they go out and see the ball, hit it and move on."