Guillen crawfished on the handshake thing and the "crazy" whatever. He allows that he might have been distracted at the hand shake opportunity with Garner. Nobody is making a big thing of the WS rematch.
"I don't know yet," Sox captain Paul Konerko said when asked if this series would be different from other because of the Series. "... I know they're good, so obviously we're concerned about beating them. I have to wait and see if it gets the emotions going. It will probably be nothing or a lot."
"Obviously, it's a rematch of the World Series. Other than that, I think it's going to be another series,...Pierzynski said. "I wish we could face Clemens, but we still will get Oswalt and Pettitte. It's going to be fun...."
"No, there's not [anything special]," starter, Pettitte, said last week when the Astros were in town to play the Cubs. "We lost, we lost two games at their place, so it wasn't that special. ...The only thing I can tell you is it's the beginning of tough road trip, so that's what's important about it."
Garner and third-base coach Doug Mansolino have a past with the White Sox while they were in Milwaukee, including an on-field scuffle, run-ins with Sox broadcasters and a verbal volley with Sox Chairman Jerry Reinsdorf.
Mansolino cautions against emotion. "If anything," he said, "it will be more of a personal pride thing for us. I wouldn't say it's like a grudge match."
Of course, Houston hasn't had to watch the Sox's pregame tribute to 2005 champs on the center-field scoreboard yet either.
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