SOSA SPEAKS AGAIN ON HIS NEW COLOR: Suddenly-white skinned Dominican former slugger still blaming it on a European cream.

       In a Spanish interview Tuesday with Univision reporter Tony Dandrades, Sosa was asked if he's trying to be like Michael Jackson, who suffered from the skin condition vitiligo.      

       "Not at all, I respect him very much," said Sosa, who gave the interview at his Miami penthouse apartment on Monday. "I'm not a racist. I'm not like that. I'm just a happy person."       

       Photographs of the 1998 NL MVP during a recent appearance at the Latin Grammys in Las Vegas showed his facial skin tone to be almost white. Sosa reiterated that his new skin regimen caused his pigment to lighten.       

       "I use a cream to keep my skin smooth and soft. I apply it before I go to bed. When I was playing for Chicago all those years, I was in the sun a lot for 1 o'clock games," said Sosa, who turns 41 today. "The flashes (from the cameras) also made my skin look lighter. I'm surprised with the controversy this has caused."       

       Sosa, who would not tell Dandrades the name of the cream he uses, did say that it is European and that he is in negotiations to market the product. He added that he wears colored contact lenses because he wanted to "try something different. I'm not trying to be superficial."

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