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He sat atop a dugout bench and stared into the microphones, into the cameras, into the flashing lights, just the way he always has.
For eight years, this has been Ozzie Guillen's pregame ritual, his preferred daily means of meeting with the media. So if you didn't know any better, you could easily have thought that, on this momentous Tuesday evening in Little Havana, nothing had changed.
Except, of course, that everything has changed. The man staring into those cameras, the manager of the Miami Marlins, is never going to be quite the same now. He won't be. He can't be.
Ozzie Guillen is marked forever now, marked by four words he would give anything to stuff back into his throat, four words that will follow him around for the rest of his life: "I … ...
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