Is it just me, but I dont think Congress shoud be having discussions about baseball ?

[RonRules]

Right now Congress is having the baseball performance enhancing drugs hearing.

This has been going on for a while now. Don't they have anything better to do?

Why does our Washington government have ANY business in this?

 

[jason43]

No, its not only you. Every time I hear them talk about this crap like it matters, it pisses me off. Who cares besides baseball fans? And if they care so much, let the MLB figure out what to do with them. Don't waste millions of tax dollars doing it.

 

[The One]

While I think it's a stupid waste of time and none of their business, I'm glad they're wasting their time on that and not using their time to write more laws, take more freedoms, establish new regulations, and create new taxes.

 

[LJHudd]

While I think it's a stupid waste of time and none of their business, I'm glad they're wasting their time on that and not using their time to write more laws, take more freedoms, establish new regulations, and create new taxes.

They did that yesterday. FISA.

 

[FortWorth38]

Who got them involved in the MLB???
(oh I forgot The Bush's owned the TEXAS RANGERS)​

 

[Dieseler]

Believe it or not, there are people who wake up to ESPN and go to bed listening to ESPN and talk about sports at work with the same fervor that we discuss the real problems our country is facing.
These are the people who will be shocked when they wake up and see it is to late to care. They won't know what happened though and they will never figure out the truth. The history books will be written by the victors.
And the writers will tell all these sleeping people that it was all our fault.

Oh, I failed to mention, I used to be one of those people...

 

[apc3161]

I agree.

This is an issue between the players, MLB, and the fans. I have no idea why they are wasting taxpayer time and money on this. It is ridiculous. This is not in any way a federal issue.

 

[Mitt Romneys sideburns]

I wish they would hold baseball hearings every single day. That way we know they aren't doing anything more damaging.

 

[pappy]

Reediculous

 

[Mystile]

I wish they would hold baseball hearings every single day. That way we know they aren't doing anything more damaging.

oh they'd find a way to slip in irrelevant things into any legislation that passes.

 

[t3rmin]

It pisses me off, too. It's complete lunacy. That's a private enterprise. If somebody's cheating or something's unfair, it's MLB's problem.

Actually I've always said they should have a separate league where EVERYBODY takes steroids. Bigger guys, bigger attitudes. I think it'd be way more entertaining!

 

[Banana]

I understand that sports are exempt from laws against trust/monopoly in exchange of a oversight by the Congress.

That said, I don't think they deserve a exemption at all, much less any oversight. Drop them like a hot potato and leave it to fans to decide what they want.

 

[Mitt Romneys sideburns]

oh they'd find a way to slip in irrelevant things into any legislation that passes.

National Broccoli Day Proclamation

 

[pappy]

appropos

Found this on 321gold.com.

Peter Schiff
Feb 15, 2008

In perhaps one of biggest ironies to ever to come out of Washington, this week Congress simultaneously pilloried major league baseball players for using artificial stimulants to pump up their performance while passing legislation to do just that to the national economy. Am I the only one laughing?

 

[jerry]

Wow!!

Why did my post get deleted? I post here a couple of days ago. I talked about how Nolan Ryan helped Ron Paul get into Congress in the first place and my idea that RP has a very positive link to America's favourite pasttime and that if the gov't is talking about baseball, maybe they are preempting one of Paul's secret aces. That's it. Was that so offensive here? What's going on?

 

[MoneyWhereMyMouthIs2]

I agree.

This is an issue between the players, MLB, and the fans. I have no idea why they are wasting taxpayer time and money on this. It is ridiculous. This is not in any way a federal issue.

It's just an extension of the war on drugs. But, they wouldn't dare use the same tactics on the rich as they do the poor.