Ozzie Guillen Rips Major League Baseball for Treatment of Latino Players

Filed under: White Sox, Minor Leagues, MLB PEDs, International BaseballOzzie Guillen, never one to shy away from controversy, may have put himself at the center of yet another one with comments about the differences in the way Major League Baseball treats Latino and Asian players.

In an all-encompassing rant, the White Sox manager slammed MLB for paying too much attention to his comments to the media and his criticism of umpires and not enough to his work trying to keep young Latino ballplayers from taking performance-enhancing drugs.

"I'm the only one to teach the Latinos about not to use," he told reporters Sunday. "I'm the only one and Major League Baseball doesn't [care]. All they care about -- how many times I argue with the umpires, what I say to the media. But I'm the only one in baseball to come up to the Latino kids and say not to use this and I don't get any credit for that.

"They look at you and they say, 'Good for you Ozzie,'" he said. "Ozzie said it, don't worry about it. If somebody else said it they would be playing that [stuff] every day on the jumbotron. ... I'm the only one that came up with that idea. I did it for the Latino kids. ... I want to help those kids." Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Commentsfitness trainer pit bike parts snowboard sale