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June 7, 2007
Ozzie Guillen Plays the Race Card
Posted by Dave Blount at June 7, 2007 3:05 PM
When I can't stand to think about moonbats anymore, I turn on a ballgame to escape — only to be confronted with more moonbats.
Steroids have been destroying baseball, reducing Jason Giambi to a decrepit wreck, making a laughing stock out of Rafael Palmeiro, and allowing the insufferable Barry Bonds to challenge Hank Aaron's homerun record. But White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen isn't on board with the MLB's half-hearted attempt to stop steroid use — because it supposedly targets Latino players.
Guillen, who says it's "not my business" if his players take steroids, quotes himself as having yelled at MLB officials:
Wait a second, BALCO is not (in) Venezuela, is not (in) Puerto Rico, is not Dominican, is not (in) Mexico. BALCO is in California. Then why do you keep blaming players from Latin America for the problem that we have in the States?
BALCO stands for Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative, which has supplied Giambi, Bonds, and Guillen's fellow race card dealer Gary Sheffield with steroids.
AP helpfully chirps that half the players suspended in 2005 were born in Latin America. According to enlightened conceptions of "justice," equal proportions of each ethnic group must be suspended, regardless of how many of each actually use steroids.
On a tip from Wiggins.
