Raoul Duke Posted: December 17, 2006 at 12:58 AM (#2263633)

Sosa (or more likely, his attorney) was smart not to speak English in front of Congress. Like I said before, there's plenty of other "evidence" we can use against Sosa. This language stuff is just ########.

No, it's not. Being comfortable enough to converse with practically everyone on the planet outside of Congress in English and, then, claiming inability to habla ingles smacks of duplicity.


cmon raoul

get real. you really think there is ZERO difference between being "comfortable" saying a few baseball cliches to a reporter and having your ass hauled up in front of a foreign country's government where they gonna ask you if you been committing FELONIES? or are you pretending that shooting illegal roids, maybe even bringing them into this country is some SERIOUS felonies? even if you never did any of that, you don't want to make freaking positive certain you understand the question 100% AND you answer the question right for these LAWYERS when you don't know nothing about HOW to answer right?


reporter - so sammy, how you feelin
sammy - eez good. am sweengeng good and Gow weeleng we finally get da team on da sem pej
reporter - so sammy you got struck out. how come?
sammy - thee peetcher he trowin feelthy slider een dert. sam times jou jes gotta teep dee cap jou know ahm sayin

if YOU had to go in front of a foreign government even if you spoke enough of their language to get by like sammy do, you would REALLY be stupid enough to not have an official translator? would you go in front of the dominican legislators without no translator even IF you thought you had nothing to hide hadn't done nothing wrong? would you ever even worry you might could even say one word that sound like a different word and that get you into SERIOUS trouble? what if one person who askin you questions uses slang you don't know, uses legal words you don't know are even legal words, speak with an accent you don't really get all the words right you give the wrong answer to what you THINK is the question. you REALLY think anyone gonna believe you when you say you misunderstood the question?

you wanna convict sammy of being a felon because he put on muscle after he was 20 which is something normal males never mind pro athletes don't never do and improved his hitting or whatever go right ahead. but complaining he used a translator in front of congress is just plain bull. you sound like you down with the john rocker "speak english" stuff