There’s blame to go around.

If you are out of the loop on what happened, here’s a short recap:

A.J. Pierzynski made his usual appearance on The Mike North Morning Show for 670 The Score, a Chicago sports radio station. During their talk, Pierzynski expressed some frustration about not being in the starting lineup yesterday.

That’s mistake No. 1. It’s not A.J.’s place to criticize Ozzie’s decisions.

Shortly after, Ozzie called into Mike North’s show (audio here) and began an obscenity-laced tirade. Mistake No. 2.

Then, North blew up at Guillen for swearing on his show. Mark that as mistake No. 3.

North didn’t let Guillen get a word in after that and he hung up the phone, at which point North continued to attack Guillen.

Now, these are three personalities that I know pretty well. Pierzynski is a punk. I respect his game and the way he plays, but he’s a punk. I think we all know that about him. He’s up there with Curt Schilling as the most hated ballplayers as voted on by the players themselves.

Guillen doesn’t like to be questioned. Once he makes up his mind on something, it is very difficult to change his mind. And we all know he’s prone to do things on a whim, regardless of whether he means it or not, i.e. calling Jay Mariotti a fag.

Mike North, whom I know a thing or two about having worked at The Score last summer, is also a punk. He’s been in trouble his fair share of times as well. He got in trouble last year for calling Cubs pitcher Jae-Kuk Ryu an offensive term for someone from China. Ryu is from South Korea, not that that makes it any better.

So what we have here are three people, who have quite similar personalities, getting into a war of words.

Nobody was right and nobody won. Nobody was justified in doing what they did.

Mike North is an idiot, and Guillen played right into his hands by calling into the show. Ozzie needs to show a little more class. If he doesn’t care what other people think about his lineup, what’s he doing listening to the Score in the first place?

He came off looking real bad in this incident, and it may be a second strike for him.

Ozzie had a meeting with Kenny Williams and A.J. and they seem to have smoothed things over.

I love Ozzie’s passion and I (usually) respect his managerial decisions (post coming about an instance that I didn’t later today). But this sort of episode is inappropriate and is an absolute blemish on the White Sox.

The White Sox never draw as well as the Cubs, and 2005 proved that if they want to outdraw their North Side neighbor, they’ll need to win. Ozzie’s remarks Friday are a big step backward in trying to embrace a fanbase they earned with a World Series.

Just, out.