Ozzie Guillen has decided to shut up. At least on Twitter.
Yesterday, the Florida manager fired off this tweet to his 231,000 followers:
OzzieGuillen
my last tweet. me ultimo tweet good luck buena suerte.
What triggered this final tweet? Thursday he said:
“Yeah, I hate Twitter,” Guillen said in the Marlins’ dugout before the game. “Everybody following me can (expletive) his pants. You can quote me on that one. … Don’t follow me anymore. Twitter is a stupid thing. I never make money out of that. When you speak Spanish, you speak Spanish. When you speak English, you don’t know how to spell ‘English.’ Get a real job, get a life. I don’t make money out of that. I’m done.”
Prior to signing off, Guillen did a series of tweets on the death of former White Sox reliever Kevin Hickey, who served as the team’s batting practice pitcher during Guillen’s tenure as manager in Chicago.
The White Sox wish Guillen realized Twitter was “stupid” a while back. He angered General Manager Kenny Williams by starting an account. Then after promising to keep it unrelated to baseball, he did a series of tweets complaining about the umpires while a game was in progress in Toronto in 2011. Guillen let his emotions get the best of him after being kicked out of the game.
The tweets landed him a two-game suspension and $20,000 fine.