Guillen insists steroids probe targets Latino players

June 06, 2007

CHICAGO - White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen said he thinks Major League Baseball's steroids investigation is unfairly targeting Latino players.

Guillen was interviewed by several officials last season, and he said they repeatedly focused their questioning on players from Latin America.

"I meet with, like, five people," Guillen said Wednesday. "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. ... Everything they asked me [was], 'Do you ever see this in Venezuela?' "

Guillen said asking whether players were importing steroids from their native countries was unfair, considering BALCO is based in California.

Guillen said he's "100 percent" against steroid use but added it's "not my business" if others take them.