Chicago White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen thinks the steroids investigation is unfairly targeting Latino players after officials interviewed him last season and apparently, repeatedly focused their questioning on players from Latin America.
"I meet with, like, five people," Guillen spouted yesterday. "The only thing that made me upset was they tried to mention too many Latino players. I think they try to put the Latinos to be the bad cloud in this thing. This thing was bugging me because everything they asked me [was], 'Do you ever see this in Venezuela?'"Guillen added that asking whether players were importing steroids from their native countries was unfair, since BALCO is based in California.
Former Senate Majority Leader and spearhead of the BALCO investigation, George Mitchell said in a statement Thursday that the probe is not focused on any one player or on any group or category of players, such as players of Latin American descent.
Guillen said he's "100%" against steroid use but that it's "not [his] business" if others take them.
Whether this is relevant or not, an Associated Press review in 2005 determined that half of the players suspended that year were born in Latin America.
[Chicago Sun-Times]
4 comments:
Maybe that's cause there are more Latino players in the majors than all other races combined.
wow, Ozzie Guillen being outspoken? NOO ;)
probe.
Hahahaha! Kerrie. You say all the right things.
Andrew, I know. Weird, huh?
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