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Leading Off: Latinos caught in eye of baseball's storm
Sacramento Bee ^ | Aug. 6, 2013 | Victor Contreras

Posted on 08/06/2013 3:42:21 PM PDT by artichokegrower

Eight of the 13 players suspended Monday by Major League Baseball were born in the Dominican Republic.

Three came from Venezuela and one from Nicaragua.

Alex Rodriguez, the player caught in the spotlight in one of major-league baseball's darkest days, was born in New York City to Dominican parents. He moved to the Dominican Republic at 4, then to Miami.

The list of suspended players looked more like a lineup card for a World Baseball Classic game.

Unfortunately, Latinos being suspended for PED use is nothing new.

(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: baseball
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So A-Rod won't be feeding the family back home?

Cry me a freakin' river.

1 posted on 08/06/2013 3:42:21 PM PDT by artichokegrower
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Will Democrats say that this was profiling?


2 posted on 08/06/2013 3:44:20 PM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist
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white hispanics, white italians, and white dominicans


3 posted on 08/06/2013 3:45:58 PM PDT by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad & lived with his parents most his life.)
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As I understand it, PED use in Latin American countries is a free for all with any kid getting anywhere near a professional level being encouraged to grab that edge.


4 posted on 08/06/2013 3:46:54 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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Where do these people come from who see skin color in everything?

IT’S ridiculous!


5 posted on 08/06/2013 3:48:25 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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Who would write an article like this? It is a complete whitewash to excuse blatant cheating by these suspended ballplayers. Why are we going there? Who asked for excuses to be made? There are no acceptable excuses.


6 posted on 08/06/2013 3:49:29 PM PDT by Sam Clements
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What are you talking about? If Rodriguez never made another cent, and his money goes unembezzled, he can live lavishly for the rest of his PED-shortened life.


7 posted on 08/06/2013 3:49:29 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: artichokegrower

Its a conspiracy!


8 posted on 08/06/2013 3:49:56 PM PDT by skeeter
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Women and minorities hit hardest


9 posted on 08/06/2013 3:52:02 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (If Obama Had A City It Would Look Like Detroit.)
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10 posted on 08/06/2013 3:53:10 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: artichokegrower

I thought that bad boy list yesterday was a little heavy in Latino content — not that there is anything wrong with that.

It just looked too much like the list a border patrol agent might have after a round up.


11 posted on 08/06/2013 3:54:29 PM PDT by Uncle Chip
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So, if a large number of a race of people cheat or break the law, we should ignore it.


12 posted on 08/06/2013 3:54:57 PM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (To the left the truth looks like Right-Wing extremism.)
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As I understand it, PED use in Latin American countries is a free for all with any kid getting anywhere near a professional level being encouraged to grab that edge.

That's what they're saying but good luck even finding quality medical care for something as simple as an appendectomy.........Or more importantly, any person who can afford one since most clinics in the Central Americas are cash only.........

13 posted on 08/06/2013 3:58:13 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (')
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You can't say "whitewash"..............

That's racist!!

14 posted on 08/06/2013 3:59:13 PM PDT by Osage Orange (Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.)
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To: Hot Tabasco

Fortunately the Tigers seem to win no matter who plays.

Game on.


15 posted on 08/06/2013 4:02:04 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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Funny that you mention that. My Filipino bud I asked a week ago as he takes public transit based on his experience who are the ones who cheat the system. His response was:

“You mean those who while paying the driver at the front enters the back of the bus? You mean those who play loud rap music at the bus and on the train? You mean those who gets into fights with passengers and the sheriffs at the stations?”—being in L.A you’d think it was the mexicans but it’s the Amish’


16 posted on 08/06/2013 4:04:06 PM PDT by max americana (fired liberals in our company after the election, & laughed while they cried (true story))
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To: artichokegrower

He explained it, but he absolutely didn’t excuse it.


17 posted on 08/06/2013 4:11:11 PM PDT by babble-on
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So, if a large number of a race of people cheat or break the law, we should ignore it
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
In LIB Speak, YES!!

Unless, of course it is White Men carrying guns (or most anything a White Male is wont to do)...then it is called Racist.

You can’t begin to figure out the Lib mindset till you start (SHUDDER) thinking like them or figure what they may figure.
Or something like that. I think.


18 posted on 08/06/2013 4:16:48 PM PDT by xrmusn (6/98 --"People who read the tabloids deserve to be lied to." J. Seinfeld)
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Justice for Trayvon!! /s


19 posted on 08/06/2013 4:18:07 PM PDT by mykroar (China and Russia are playing chess while Obamas's playing 52 card pick-up.)
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Baseball been berry berry good to me.


20 posted on 08/06/2013 4:31:24 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (People are idiots.)
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