You know who is sure he did the right thing all but twice? Ozzie Guillen, that’s who:

”The only thing I regret, I don’t think Jose [Contreras] and [Bartolo] Colon were ready enough to help us [out of spring camp].”

I’ll admit it’s nice to see the Sox skipper is a reflective, mea culpa kind of mood that doesn’t involve telling his team what they can do with their college football scores, but with the Sox eyeing, at best, a .500 season, are the decisions to rush Contreras and Colon really the only regrettable moves of 2009?

Not the inexplicable refusal to demote Scott Linebrink to mop-up duty?

Not the psychotic insistence on waiting to pull starters (last Saturday, for example)?

Not the decision to bat DeWayne Wise leadoff and put him in center field despite the fact Wise can’t hit or play center?

Not the perverse obsession with lefty-right matchups that somehow leads to bogus conclusions like “Tony Pena should pitch to Joe Mauer” or “let’s have Brian Anderson pinch-hit against Joakim Soria”?

One on hand, the Contreras/Colon decision was doomed from the start, and in Guillen’s defense both looked deceptively strong out of the gate in Spring Training. On the other hand, it’s odd he would pick the personnel decisions made around two guys now gone from the team as the focal points of whatever missteps he might have made, totally disregarding misguided confidence in starters who were out of gas or (again) claiming a new day of old baseball on the South Side while (again) expecting a lineup of slow mashers to suddenly morph into the 2003 Marlins. As though only Colon and Contreras sank the season. As though the Sox were just a fifth starter away from competing.

And on the surface, it’s more of the same old infuriating talk that comes out of Sox front office so much these days (you could probably write the speech right now: “We’re here to win the right way by playing the game to win grinder/grit/2005″), but the subtext is even more telling, and in this respect Guillen is absolutely correct: the 2009 White Sox were never a real threat to compete. Nothing really went wrong, because nothing could have possibly gone right.

Of course Guillen didn’t make bad bullpen decisions, because he didn’t have too many good bullpen options to begin with.

Of course his situational moves weren’t flawed, because the involved players didn’t know how to handle the situations.

Of course his team didn’t play any semblance of balanced, fundamentally sound, winning baseball; they never could in the first place.