"Paul Konerko was been with the Chicago White Sox since 1999 - five years before Ozzie Guillen returned as manager.

So Konerko had a pretty good reading that Guillen would leave soon, but not quickly as after Monday night's 4-3 win over the Blue Jays.

"My first thoughts are everything kind of ran its course," Konerko said. "I think this probably needed to be done on both sides of it. For Ozzie, I think he's been kind of just burned out on this whole thing and probably likewise on the other side, and that's how it goes.

"It doesn't always have to be that someone's right, someone's wrong, this person hates that person. Sometimes in sports - any business but especially sports – a coaching staff or a manager or a head coach whoever it might be, that kind of regime runs its course, and that's what we have here.""