Keep it up, Sheff. Those white devils can never control you... but they DO keep hiring you.

You tell them who's boss, bro.... as they feed you $$$$$$ to do one thing and one thing only -- hit.

Can't wait until he bats up with any "not real" black Dominican pitcher. Yep. Guess yer only a brotha if you can say "Fuck a Yankee" without a Latin accent.

I love this guy.



The percentage of African-Americans playing Major League Baseball is at an all-time low and Gary Sheffield (http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/players/profile?statsId=4268) says he has a theory why that's the case.
http://assets.espn.go.com/i/mlb/profiles/players/65x90/4268.jpg Sheffield

In an interview with GQ magazine that's currently on newsstands, the typically outspoken Tigers designated hitter said Latin players have replaced African-Americans as baseball's most prevalent minority because they are easier to control.
"I called it years ago. What I called is that you're going to see more black faces, but there ain't no English going to be coming out. … [It's about] being able to tell [Latin players] what to do -- being able to control them," he told the magazine.
"Where I'm from, you can't control us. You might get a guy to do it that way for a while because he wants to benefit, but in the end, he is going to go back to being who he is. And that's a person that you're going to talk to with respect, you're going to talk to like a man.
"These are the things my race demands. So, if you're equally good as this Latin player, guess who's going to get sent home? I know a lot of players that are home now can outplay a lot of these guys."
According to a 2005 report by the University of Central Florida Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport, only 8.5 percent of major leaguers were African-American -- the lowest percentage since the report was initiated in the mid-1980s. By contrast, whites comprised 59.5 percent of the majors' player pool, Latinos 28.7 percent and Asians 2.5.

Wow, that's the type of crap you spew after you retire, not when you're still on the field.
I'm so sick of dillusional people that still think everything is about race. Do you really think managers make decisions based on how much they can control someone versus talent?
I would replace Jose Mesa and Todd Jones with just about anyone black any day if they were out there.
So Ozzie Guillen is a very controlable Latino. Apparently Ugeth Urbina is too.

Hilarious.

More Sheff goodness....



"What I called is that you're going to see more black faces, but there ain't no English going to be coming out. ... [It's about] being able to tell [Latin players] what to do -- being able to control them," he told the magazine. "Where I'm from, you can't control us."


In expanding on his comment about control, Sheffield said Tuesday, "They have more to lose than we do. You can send them back across the island. You can't send us back. We're already here.



Word.

Danny Knobler explained this a little yesterday on the radio and it made sense. He said Sheff had a great point, but explained it wrong. He talked about how it's a social difference between blacks and latinos and that people growing up playing baseball in latin countries have that as their only option to make it here, while blacks have other sports they can play and excell at here. He thought Sheff had a great topic to discuss, but a bad approach to it.

Guillen agrees with Sheffield's theory on Latin players


Wednesday, June 06, 2007By Danny Knobler



ARLINGTON, Texas - Pudge Rodriguez put his arm around Gary Sheffield.
Carlos Guillen was even more supportive.
If there was any question how Sheffield's Detroit Tiger teammates would react to Sheffield's supposedly derisive comments about Latin players, the answer came quickly.
"I'm happy he said it," Guillen said Tuesday, before the Tigers' game in Texas. "It's the truth."
Sheffield told GQ magazine that the reason for the increasing number of Latin players (and the decreasing number of African-American players) is that management can "tell (Latin players) what to do" and "being able to control them."
"They have control over us," Guillen agreed.
Guillen pointed to an incident in his third professional season. He said he had hurt his elbow, but got a call from a scout telling him to play.
"He said, `If you don't play tomorrow, you go home,' ‘' Guillen remembered.
Knowing that he had little future if he had to return to Venezuela, Guillen played hurt.
Sheffield said Tuesday that he was surprised his comments upset anyone.
"I think I was paying (Latin players) a big compliment," Sheffield said. "It was nothing derogatory towards Latins or anyone else... If you listen to the message and not the messenger, it makes sense."