Posted: 1:39 p.m.
By Angie Wiatrowski
CSNChicago.com
The Chicago White Sox coaching staff is slowly dwindling. Hitting coach Greg Walker announced his resignation from the team Wednesday, effective at the end of the season but it all started with skipper Ozzie Guillen.
Guillen managed his last game for the White Sox Monday with a 4-3 win over the Toronto Blue Jays. Guillen said he had 'no regrets' about his career with the White Sox. However in a press conference in Miami Wednesday,? where he will now manage the Marlins, Guillen didn't feel the love in the windy city, comparing his departure to a divorce.
"When I got here it was easier because you think about my situation in Chicago and it was hard, obviously," Guillen said. "You get a divorce, and every divorce no matter how ugly or how good it is, is a divorce."
Guillen went on to say that his 'baseball blood' didn't run as thick in Chicago as it will in Miami.
"I'm pumped up," Guillen said. "I think my blood came back, my baseball blood will go around my body once again. I don't see the passion for the game, (in Chicago)" he continued. "I don't see the love for the game. Something was missing and that's the thing that was very hard for me to deal with.
Now here, as soon as I start talking about baseball, I'm excited," Ozzie said. "And sometimes I get too excited and it just keeps me going. They're hungry and I see the passion and the love for the organization."
Guillen also said that there was plenty of drama off the field to the point where the media didn't ask him questions about the game so much as the issues beyond the box score.
"If things go through my mind every day, if ever you want me here, how much I want to be here, or how hard it is for me to be asked questions about Chicago every day," he said. "We never get to the point. The last couple of days they don't even ask me 'How do you think this guy pitched?' or 'How do you think this guy performed?' Everyone wants to ask me something else."
Guillen also touched the subject of the slumping Adam Dunn. Dunn entered the 2011 season with a streak of seven seasons with at least 38 home runs. Now however, he owns a .159 average and is on the verge of putting up the lowest single-season batting average in history, dating back to 1910 (1.39).
"People in Chicago thought I was promoting myself to be here or I always played Adam Dunn because I was mad and I want to show people," Guillen said. "I always played Adam Dunn because he was supposed to be in the lineup."
In the end, Guillen is happy to be in Miami.
"I just feel people really want me," he said. "That was the only thing I wanted. They want me, they were happy to see me, they were happy that I was the guy to run this ball club. I get here, and I thought, 'Wow, you know finally, everything is over.'"
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