If you are a baseball fan like I am, no doubt you are aware of our United States Congress’ involvement in the steroid investigations in Major League Baseball. Steroids are slowly but surely turning baseball into a witch hunt to see who has taken what drug and how should we punish them for it. Our Congress felt they could help solve this problem by getting involved and I guess trying to prove to the world that they could handle baseball’s problems. It is my firm opinion that Congress never should have gotten involved in the first place and should leave it be before they completely kill the sport.
Congress’ involvement all began a few years ago with what was known as the Mitchell Report. This involved spending millions of dollars and 20 months to compile a list of 89 baseball players who had failed drug tests. That’s all fine and good, and now that we know who took steroids we can leave it at that, right? Wrong. After that Congress spent even more time by interviewing players in the report. The actual game of baseball was not what most people were associating with the sport of baseball. Everyone thought of baseball as a game of athletes who needed to inject some type of substance into their body to become better. Thank you Congress, you did a peachy job.
As if that wasn’t enough, I have more. Just recently, Congress seized a new list of players who had failed drug tests. In our current economic situation, is the topic of steroids in baseball seriously high up on our list of priorities? Let it go Congress, leave baseball alone and start fixing this economy so I won’t be up to my ears in debt for the rest of my life.
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ReplyDeleteJack, Interesting turn of this argument away from the topic and toward the economy. (You might be a politician!)
ReplyDeleteI don't know too much about this topic, but why do you think the government is so obsessed with the issue?