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Ozzie Guillen Is Sick Of Twitter

Ozzie started tweeting right when spring training began. He has almost 67,000 followers. His tweets were, well, entertaining (if you could read them; many were in Spanish).

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Like a lot of shiny new toys, this one’s fun has faded for Ozzie:

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I’m tired of Twitter. It’s boring. I don’t have time for that. My wife is in town. I have to take my dogs out every day.

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No, he didn’t tweet that (although he could have, since it's 120 characters long); it’s a quote from this mlb.com article.

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The last word here goes to Aaron Gleeman, who wrote the Hardball Times article linked above:

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As someone who has become totally obsessed with, addicted to, and dependent on Twitter (follow me!) it’s sad that Guillen tired of it, because his inane ramblings were significantly better than everyone else’s inane ramblings. Except mine, of course.

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He’s got a point.