Chicago White Sox chairman, Jerry Reinsdorf, cleared the air about the rumored trade involving the Florida Marlins and manager Ozzie Guillen this week, according to Doug Padilla of ESPNChicago.com.

“There wasn’t going to be a trade,” Reinsdorf said. “The Marlins approached us about wanting to talk to Ozzie. OK. We couldn’t trade Ozzie. He has a contract to manage the White Sox. We could let him out of his contract. I love Ozzie, but if Ozzie didn’t want to be here, I would consider letting him out of his contract, but not for nothing. “So, I said to the Marlins, ‘If you want to talk to him, we have to agree on what we get if he decides to leave.’ We couldn’t agree on that. If we had been able to agree, Ozzie probably still wouldn’t have left. We couldn’t have traded him and we would have tried to keep him. I would have gone to Ozzie and said, ‘OK the Marlins want to talk to you and we’ve given them permission to talk to you, but I hope to God you don’t leave.’ It would have been his decision, not our decision.”

In early October there was a buzz that the Marlins hadn’t “given up hope” on getting Guillen to manage in South Beach.  They had lot going for them:  a new stadium in 2012, a strong Latin community and a bunch of up-an-coming baseball stars.  At the end of the day the White Sox kept the guy who won them their 2005 World Series and the Marlins dropped the interim title from Edwin Rodriguez.