Guillen: probe unfairly targets Latinos

Chicago, U.S. (AP) - White Sox manager Ozzie

Guillen 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. "

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 said asking whether players were

importing steroids from their native countries

was unfair, considering BALCO is based in

California.

"They were like, 'You never see any of the

players bring this thing to the States?'" Guillen

said. "I said, '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?'"

An Associated Press review in 2005 determined

that half of the players suspended that year were

born in Latin America.