Sammy Sosa conducted an interview on Wednesday with ESPNdeportes.com that tipped off the upcoming formal announcement that he's retiring from baseball. "I will calmly wait for my induction to the Baseball Hall of Fame," the former Cubs slugger told the Web site after speaking at a government-sponsored event in the Dominican Republic. "Don't I have the numbers to be inducted?" Pressed by ESPNdeportes.com, Sosa insisted he would not address allegations of steroid use. "I always played with love and responsibility, and I assure you that I will not answer nor listen to rumors," Sosa said. "If anything ugly comes up in the future, we will confront it immediately, but with all our strength because I will not allow anybody to tarnish what I did on the field."