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Number Juan: Uribe continues to bring the happy in Cleveland

It took Juan Uribe about 10 seconds into an interview to utter the unlikely catchphrase that endeared him to White Sox writers for many years and capture his personality.

“Every time I come here,” he said Saturday morning. “I be a lotta happy.”

Typically reporters would clean up a quote like that. But “a lotta happy” was perfect the way it was phrased, because it accurately described Uribe’s sense of self. There was a lot of him and he was always happy.

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On Saturday afternoon, after talking to Uribe, I ran into White Sox executive vice president Kenny Williams.