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ATLANTA -- Ozzie Guillen has bad news for his 230,927 Twitter followers: He says he has posted his final tweet.

Guillen, the sometimes outspoken Miami Marlins' manager, said Thursday: "I hate Twitter. I don't need the aggravation ... so many nasty people."

He announced on his (at)OzzieGuillen Twitter account his departure in English and Spanish by saying, "my last tweet. me ultimo tweet good luck buena suerte."

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CHICAGO – Chicago White Sox general manager Kenny Williams said Friday he has “compassion” for Miami Marlins manager Ozzie Guillen, who is serving a five-game suspension after his comments about Fidel Castro angered Miami's Cuban-American community.

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Charles Barkley tried to contact Ozzie Guillen on Tuesday and Wednesday in an attempt to console the embattled Miami Marlins manager, who was suspended five games after his statements about Fidel Castro angered Miami's Cuban community.

"I tried to reach out to Ozzie yesterday, because when I got my DUI, or when I spit on the girl back in the '80s, hey man, when they're burning down your damn house, it's tough, man," Barkley said Wednesday on "The Waddle & Silvy Show" on ESPN 1000. "It's tough when you really screw up and you can't watch TV or listen to the radio.

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Ozzie Guillen is viewed unfavorably by nearly half of Cuban-Americans surveyed in an ESPN-commissioned poll, but nearly two-thirds of Miami residents, and 56 percent of Cuban-Americans, think Guillen should keep his job despite comments about Fidel Castro that earned the Miami Marlins' manager a five-game suspension.

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The Miami Marlins have suspended manager Ozzie Guillen for five games for comments he made in which he expressed admiration for Cuban leader Fidel Castro.

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PHILADELPHIA -- When you hire Ozzie Guillen to manage your baseball team, you know what you're getting yourself into. Right?

You're not getting John Russell. You're not getting Art Howe. You're not getting Luis Pujols. You're not getting six relaxing months of peace, quiet and kumbaya on the journey from April to October. No, no, no, no, no.

You're getting a man who just might speak his mind. Possibly. Theoretically. Sometimes at 3 in the afternoon. Sometimes at 3 in the morning. Sometimes at every hour, minute and second in between.

About 98 percent of the time, when Ozzie Guillen opens his mouth, it's a blast to be around him, and his employers think it was quite the awesome brainstorm to hire him. You get smarts. You get energy. You get a laugh track that "How I Met Your Mother" would be proud of. And who wouldn't want a manager who could provide all that?

But then there's that other two percent of the "Life With Ozzie" extravaganza.

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CLEVELAND -- The Chicago White Sox clubhouse was mostly silent on the Ozzie Guillen controversy Monday night. The only player to give his opinion on the Miami Marlins manager praising Fidel Castro in a national magazine was Cuban native Alexei Ramirez, who played for Guillen for four seasons with the White Sox.

“There are some people that like Castro and some that don’t,” Ramirez said through a team translator. “In Miami it is a different thought train, but that is [Guillen’s] opinion, not mine.”

Guillen has apologized to members of the Marlins organization for his statements, and plans to fly back to Miami to answer for his statements about the Cuban leader.

Ramirez and Dayan Viciedo are both Cuban nationals who signed free-agent contracts with the White Sox after fleeing Cuba.

“I think apologizing is a good first step,” Ramirez said. “I feel everyone has their opinion, but I also feel people should be forgiven. Hopefully it will be accepted.”

CINCINNATI -- Miami Marlins manager Ozzie Guillen apologized Saturday for telling a magazine he loves Fidel Castro, two days after saying he gets drunk at the hotel bar after every game and has been doing so "for 25, 28 years. It doesn't change."

Guillen told Time magazine he loves Castro and respects him for staying in power so long. When Guillen read his comments Friday, he said he felt sick because he knew how people would react.

The Castro comment also prompted the team to issue a statement denouncing the Cuban dictator.

Guillen called the team's beat writers for a closed-door meeting before his team's 8-3 win against the Cincinnati Reds on Saturday night and apologized.

"I will apologize if I hurt somebody's feelings, or I hurt somebody's thought," Guillen told the writers. "I want them to know I'm against everything 100 percent -- I repeat it again -- the way this man (been) treating people for the last 60 years."

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Former White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen says he likes to drink after a game, no matter if his team wins or not.

Just when it seemed the Ken Williams-Ozzie Guillen feud was fizzling, the Miami Marlins manager rekindled the flames by saying he would never return to the Chicago White Sox as long as Williams remains with the team.

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GLENDALE, Ariz. -- If you think Chicago White Sox general manager Kenny Williams isn’t looking forward to another twelve years with the team, you may be mistaken. Entering his 13th season, Williams seems more motivated than ever.

“The day I was hired for the job I said I wanted to win at least two World Series titles,” Williams said. “That goal hasn’t been accomplished, so you keep plugging away and work hard to do just that.”

Tough times involving both personnel and personal trauma have taken a toll on the hard-driving Willams. His battles with former Sox manager Ozzie Guillen over the last eight years are a part of baseball folklore, and dealing with several family issues, including threats against his son Kyle Williams after the NFL’s NFC Championship game, has become yet another distraction.

But with a new manager, Robin Ventura, in place and a different way of building the ballclub give the 48-year-old California native more reason to stay on the job.

”This is a familiar situation that Robin is walking into because of the continuity of the organization,” Williams said. “We still have to be aware of new ideas to implement into our plans. So with the new group in place, a lot of us are in the listening mode trying to bring fresh ideas to the table and we have done just that with some of the coaches’ ideas.”

Fiscal control of the amateur draft and Latin American signings have Williams and the club looking to rebuild the team that way for the first time in 20 years.

“With the new [collective bargaining agreement], money across the board [to sign young players] will be even for all 30 clubs,” Williams said. “So good scouting and not just outspending other teams will be the key to obtaining the best young talent in the world. As the rules are constituted now, the game has helped point us in that area.”

How long Williams stays on the job is anyone’s guess. Late in the 2011 season he asked team chairman Jerry Reinsdorf if he wanted him to step aside from the job. Instead Reinsdorf gave him a vote of confidence and decided to let Guillen go to the Miami Marlins with one year left on his contract.

“I was not tired of the job but if there was any type of feeling of anything preventing the group from making any kind of move with me, I wanted to eliminate that right away,” Williams said. “I said, ‘If you want me here, great. If not, I am willing to move into another job or out altogether.’”

New challenges are what Williams looks forward to every day, and in addition to being driven to impact his team, he also desires to make a difference for his fellow man.

“I do have an interest in the Chicago public school system and helping the police and firefighters get better recognition and better compensation including better health care packages,” Williams said. “Yes, I do want to do other things, but I am a baseball man all the way. I like the atmosphere and the challenges of the game and the people in it. I look forward to the pursuit of another championship that will never go away.”

If Williams does bring another title to the south side, he has an idea of what he’d like to do next.

“I would love to be involved in an ownership level at some time, but this is not that time,” Williams said.

GLENDALE, Ariz. -- For the first time since 2003, the Chicago White Sox opened training camp on Wednesday without Ozzie Guillen, and while no one knows what to expect from first-year manager Robin Ventura, players agreed the clubhouse won't be as boisterous.

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CHICAGO -- Chicago White Sox chairman Jerry Reinsdorf made what appeared to be a preemptive strike Monday in advance of a potential new Ozzie Guillen rant toward members of the organization.

Four days before the start of the White Sox’s annual fan convention, Reinsdorf praised Guillen’s time with White Sox as both a player and manager, and cleared the air as to why Guillen departed with two games remaining last season. Guillen is now the manager of the Miami Marlins.

“Regarding Ozzie Guillen’s departure as White Sox manager last September, I want to make it clear that he left with our organization’s blessing and at my urging,” Reinsdorf said in a statement released Monday evening.

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Mark Buehrle's difficult decision to sign with the Miami Marlins was made a little bit easier by an old friend, as the four-year, $58 million deal reunited him with Ozzie Guillen.

"[Guillen] was a pretty big factor in it," Buehrle said of his former Chicago White Sox manager on ESPN 1000's "Talkin' Baseball" on Saturday. "Obviously I like to be comfortable and going to a whole new situation there's a lot of unknowns right now."

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Former White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen planned to do some Christmas shopping on Thursday around Chicago. Along the way the new Miami Marlins manager hoped to get some genuine reaction from White Sox fans about losing their ace pitcher Mark Buehrle to Guillen's new team.

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