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"Gary Sheffield has strong words about New York Yankees manager Joe Torre, former Yankees teammate Derek Jeter, San Francisco slugger Barry Bonds and steroids in an interview with HBO's "Real Sports" that will air next Tuesday. Sheffield says Torre treats black players differently from white players and says Jeter, who is from a mixed-race marriage, "ain't all the way black," during the interview with Andrea Kremer, as reported by Newsday. As for Bonds, Sheffield says "if I took what Barry Bonds took, why don't I look like him?" He also says that he never took steroids because "the bottom line is steroids is something you stick in your butt -- period." He added that he would be willing to talk to baseball's steroids investigator, former Senator George Mitchell. "I don't feel like it's all that much of a threat to me," he said. A copy of the interview was made available to Newsday, the newspaper reported. The show airs for the first time on Tuesday at 10 p.m. ET. Sheffield, who left the Yankees after last season to sign a free-agent deal with the Detroit Tigers, claimed that a "couple of blacks that were there" had an issue with Torre. "They weren't treated like everybody else. I got called out in a couple of meetings that I thought were unfair," Sheffield told Kremer. Sheffield later added: "He had a message to get across to the whole team, so he used me to get the message across." Sheffield said Torre didn't use the same method with white players. "No ... I'd see a lot of white players get called in the office and treated like a man. That's the difference." Sheffield said he doesn't consider Torre a racist. "No. I think it's the way they do things around there," he said. "Since I was there I just saw that they run their ship different." At that point, Kremer says to Sheffield that the Yankees most high-profile player is black. "Who?" Sheffield says. Told Jeter, Sheffield says: "Derek Jeter is black and white." Later, he said there was no real significance to Jeter's bi-racial heritage, but added: "Derek Jeter used to come to me and try to tell you what Joe Torre is all about, he's a good man, he's this, he's that, but like I tell Derek Jeter, that's you. It's one thing that they treat you a certain way; you don't feel what other people feel." Torre, asked about Sheffield's comments prior to Friday night's game in Tampa Bay, said: "I don't even want to answer those kinds of questions. I'm more comfortable not answering." As for Bonds, a former workout partner and friend of Sheffield's, the Tigers' outfielder says Bonds scoffed at him when he was using vitamins. Sheffield says he then got substances from BALCO, claiming not to know they were steroids. "In a million years, I don't care what anybody says, steroids is something you shoot in your butt. I do know that ... The bottom line is steroids is something you stick in your butt -- period." Sheffield allegedly told a grand jury that he used steroid cream on his legs and "clear" under his tongue, but didn't know they were steroids. He said his relationship with Bonds deteriorated because of a lack of trust. "I trusted this man, he allowed me to stay in his house," Sheffield says. "I started seeing the control factor. I started seeing, wait a minute, you aren't going to tell me what to do." Sheffield reportedly began the interview by saying: "I tell myself every offseason I'm not going to say anything crazy. I'm just going to have a peaceful season ... Can't do it. I'm cut from a different cloth.""

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2935737

7/13/2007 6:58:02 PM

Joe Torre: Hating Black Guys Since Roberto Kelly

7/13/2007 7:03:44 PM

ha yeah I agree. I made this same thread back when he made his racism comments. the guy is cancer.

7/13/2007 7:08:00 PM

The guy is an attentionwhore. When the spotlight is not on him, he goes out and says something outrageous, gets all the press for a good week, apologizes right after and then does it all over again in a month or two. He can't stand the fact that Bonds is about to break the HR record, that ARod is about to be a $30M dollar man and the fact that he's not even the MVP of his own team, that goes to Magglio. So he does this so people can start talking about him again and how good of a season he's having even though he says stupid shit like this.

7/13/2007 7:12:24 PM

its kind of ironic, hes always the one calling people in baseball racist, but actually it seems hes the biggest racist in baseball.

7/13/2007 8:32:55 PM

he kind of sounds like the black version of a racist white person or something

7/13/2007 8:34:56 PM

Maybe salisburyboy is Joe Torre?

7/13/2007 8:38:56 PM

When it comes down to it black people are just too volatile for baseball.

Baseball is an "even keel" game. They need professionals like Derek Jeter who know how to deal with their teammates, coaches, media, and fans.

The NBA and NFL are better suited for the black athlete because intensity/athleticism can make up for lack of preparation, patience, dedication, and professionalism.

This is one of the reasons we're seeing black athletes being phased out of baseball and being replaced by more diligent (i.e. Latin American) cultures.


You can label me a racist or just note the honesty and nod your head.

[Edited on July 13, 2007 at 8:54 PM. Reason : a]

7/13/2007 8:52:42 PM

^i agree.

7/13/2007 9:31:32 PM

so basically gary sheffield is playing the wrong sport?

is that what you are saying?

7/13/2007 9:40:53 PM

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"the bottom line is steroids is something you stick in your butt -- period"

ahahahahahahaha

7/13/2007 9:55:16 PM

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"the guy is cancer."

to whom? I wouldn't say this is having going to affect the Tigers at all, in the scheme of things...

7/13/2007 10:35:12 PM

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"When it comes down to it black people are just too volatile for baseball."

change 'black people' to 'thugs' and you are correct. listen to almost any black guy in major league baseball speak, nearly all of them use proper english. compare this to nba/nfl players. not racism, but it's the truth.

7/13/2007 10:46:19 PM

just after my last post

- G. Sheffield homered to deep left, M. Thames, B. Inge and R. Raburn scored

atta boy

7/13/2007 10:55:54 PM

^^ Yep, you're a thug if you are a black and speak like how 95% of blacks speak.


Because it's not normal for people to speak like the people around them

7/13/2007 11:02:25 PM

hillary clinton's face was reached for comment:

7/13/2007 11:12:08 PM

^^ don't be that guy who defends talking like you barely know the language.

7/13/2007 11:35:27 PM

dont you think some people are a product of their environment?

7/14/2007 12:04:54 AM

it's ST, so we'll leave it at that.

7/14/2007 12:09:51 AM

7/14/2007 12:19:57 AM

Who made Sheff into baseball's Al Sharpden?

The guy needs to quit bitching and pointing fingers. Its soo typical of his race and their leaders.


It's called self-criticism, Gary... maybe you should try it sometime. Ever think the people who treated you differently did so because you are a whining, bitching & moaning about everything, pompous ass ? hmmm?

7/14/2007 12:04:07 PM

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" don't be that guy who defends talking like you barely know the language."

I hear that's what the british say about americans you dumbass

7/14/2007 12:11:53 PM

dialect != slang.

7/14/2007 1:12:41 PM

You dumb rednecks are ridiculous. Long live Bonds and the rest of the BIG BLACK STUDS that your mothers and sisters love. you bitches

7/14/2007 1:32:24 PM

at least bonds can speak properly.

belive me or don't, i don't care, but i say the same thing about white people who talk like that. or any other race.

[Edited on July 14, 2007 at 1:41 PM. Reason : jason williams, for example.]

7/14/2007 1:40:26 PM

So at least you're a consistent dumbass. That's admirable.

7/14/2007 1:50:36 PM