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Breakdancing Soul Pilgrim
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Why is Congress spending time looking into steroid use in Baseball?
How is this a matter of national importance? I can think of 10 things without even trying that are more relevant for an elected body of representatives to be spending their time on. I don't see how this requires any of their attention. Did I miss something?
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To take our minds off of things that really matter!!
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Like Britney Spears?
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Hey, if some broad wants to take steroids, I'm gonna stop her. I dont care what country she's from. I just want to know why my tax dollars gotta pay for this shit.
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^Don't worry, it isn't your tax dollars. It is borrowed money, so really it is your grandchildren who are going to pay for the current investigation of steroids in baseball, with interest.
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It's about protecting the kids and getting autographs from the players. It's the National Pastime. Duh.
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Mancrushes?
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Baseball's been forced into action anyway due to the Mitchell Report ... enough's enough. |
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Angela - you're dead on. I'm quitting tomorrow because I'm tired of funding this nonsense. Thanks for being a voice of reason. But does anyone have the real answer? I really do want to know. |
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Now even if all these guys are juiced up - technically they're not breaking any laws, right? So WTF, Congress? WTF? I'm disgusted.
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Well, the subtances are illegal, so ... yeah, I think they are breaking laws.
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Oh, they are? I thought they were medically approved drugs. Growth supplements, hormones, shit like that.
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Only in prescriptions. In most cases they're not or they're falsified.
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The answers to these questions (and others) are worthy of congressional inquiry for at least three reasons:
First, the problem of steroid use is not remotely limited to professional athletes. High-schoolers in alarming numbers, at least 500,000 by recent report, have tried steroids; and steroid use is cropping up as early as Eighth Grade. Granted, exposing steroids in baseball will hardly solve this problem. But it may have some positive impact. Second, I think Congress has a stake in the integrity of baseball. If Sosa and McGwire were juicing, and if baseball has knowingly been turning a blind eye to rampant steroid use by its biggest stars, then collectively, they have been foisting an enormous consumer fraud on the public. Third, there is a moral value in exposing cheating among professional athletes. Although this alone would not justify a congressional hearing, it could certainly be a salutary byproduct. http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/03/17/la...ids/index.html I find none of those arguments compelling. |
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Congress should be spending time on this because we're talking illegal drugs destroying our national pastime and baseball isn't doing what it should be doing to fix it.
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