Ozzie Guillen is the latest quasi-celebrity to hop onto the Twitter bandwagon. The catch is, he’s promised not to talk about the White Sox. For some reason, too, he’s shocked at how many followers he has.
“This has nothing to do with the organization or baseball. It’s my life. I don’t know why people are making a big deal of it. All of a sudden it’s Ozzie Guillen. I didn’t know how famous I was. That’s pretty interesting. I thought people hate me.
“I feel like I was doing something wrong. People are treating me like I was a murderer or something, or stealing someone’s money or didn’t pay my taxes. Believe me, a lot of people must like me out there. I thought it was the opposite.”
Uh, it really has nothing to do with your level of fame or charisma, Ozzie (but don’t sweat it, I like you). People follow Ozzie on Twitter for the same reason they watch NASCAR on television – they’re simply waiting for that one, inevitable giant crash and explosion. Because it’s bound to happen.
I’d bet my entire life savings (or my television, whichever is more valuable) that at some point, Ozzie calls one of his players a “faggot” on Twitter. The odds in Vegas are off the board.
