Pierzynski, Peavy ready to move on
A.J. Pierzynski and Jake Peavy said their public spat caught by TV cameras during Wednesday night’s win over the Cubs was over as soon as it ended.
Apparently, they meant it.
Neither player was too happy to revisit the dispute before Friday night’s interleague game against the Nationals.
“It’s not a big deal,” Pierzynski said. “We’re fine. Never was an issue. Quit trying to make more out of it than it was.”
After being pulled from the game with one out in the sixth inning, Peavy headed toward the dugout and pointed back at Pierzynski, who was still on the mound.
When the top of the sixth concluded, Peavy and Pierzynski had words in the dugout and it carried down into the tunnel leading to the White Sox’ clubhouse.
“Like I said, we talked about a little bit of something and we were OK five minutes after that,” Peavy said. “We were OK during that. We just talked about it. Like I said, absolutely no repercussions at all, there weren’t any that day. You guys just happened to see an instant in the game that probably will happen in the next and it’ll be missed.”
Manager Ozzie Guillen rolled out one of his best lines ever after Wednesday’s mini-altercation: “I always say when two white guys fight, the foreigners stay away from that.”
Still, one local radio host viewed the Pierzynski-Peavy affair as a major issue, apparently unaware they happen all the time.
“I talked to both of them,” Guillen said Friday. “They are grown men. I don’t want to deal with some bad feelings. I told both that and they’re good. On my ballclub, it ain’t going to happen.
“If you fight one day, cool, that’s part of the thing, especially when you hang around every day with the same people. But the next day, clear the air and move forward. The fight, I like that. I like the emotion. But don’t carry that thing for the next day. The don’t have to be friends. They have to love each other as teammates.”
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