Athletes honoring the past….

Jenks struggles again, but Sox not worried :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: White Sox

Next time we’re all complaining about how youth athletes can’t really comprehend sports traditions or honor those who came before them, consider the help they’re getting from some of the pros they look up to:

REUNION TOUR: In 2003, the [Chicago White] Sox enjoyed a 20-year reunion with the 1983 team that reached the playoffs. [Ozzie] Guillen, who pledges not to dwell on the past, paints an ugly picture for a similar gathering down the road for the 2005 World Series champions.

”Those ceremonies — ‘Oh, let’s bring back those guys from 2005,’ we’re all crippled and [messed] up, pushing wheelchairs, kids crying because his dad was on the ballclub — [forget] that,” Guillen said. ”I don’t need that bull. A bunch of fat guys, another one is broke. ‘Hey, where’s your ring?’ ‘Oh, I don’t know, I sold that son of a [gun] two years ago.”’

Said Sox vice president of communications Scott Reifert: ”I guess we can scratch the reunion off the list.”