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Ozzie Guillen wants you to know that the White Sox winning is NOT because he’s gone

Ozzie Guillen

Miami Marlins manager Ozzie Guillen gestures during the first inning of a baseball game against the Washington Nationals in Miami, Friday, July 13, 2012. (AP Photo/J Pat Carter)

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Ozzie Guillen returned to Chicago yesterday and he was met by a zillion Chicago reporters who want to talk about his time with the White Sox. And the fact that, now that Ozzie is gone, the White Sox are in first place and playing great.

Ozzie has kind words for Robin Ventura and the Sox in general, but he wants you to know that their winning ways are not the result of addition by subtraction:

“It’s not fair when I see a couple of idiots say the team is playing better because so-and-so’s not here ... I don’t blame them a bit about the way they think, but don’t say they’re winning because I’m not there. That’s not fair. That’s not fair at all. They have the same guys as last year. You talk about Greg Walker -- how bad a hitting coach he was -- well, I think a lot of Braves are doing pretty good.”

There’s video of all of this over at CSNChicago.com.

I still think the best thing Ozzie did yesterday, as mentioned in this morning’s recaps, was to point at the finger on which he wears his World Series ring when the Cubs fans booed him last night.