Joe - maybe you're just playing devil's advocate h...

2005-03-22T09:35:00.000-05:00

Joe - maybe you're just playing devil's advocate here but I Brian's argument couldn't be more true. It is a complete waste of taxpayers' money to hold congretional hearings about steroids in baseball. There was/is absolutely no reason for the goverment to get involved.
Yes, kids look up to pro athletes, but they also look up to many other types of people. So why wasn't there a hearing held to squash the beef between 50 Cent and The Game? (I'm just being facetious - imagine 50 Cent rolling in with his posse to take the stand)
MLB should be allowed to police itself. If they allow the game to become overcome by juiced up ball players, they will lose a ton of fans. Thus losing millions, if not billions, of dollars. It makes sense (financially) for MLB to fix the problem. They don't need congress to intrude.

I agree with you, but both of those gripes fail on...

2005-03-21T17:08:00.000-05:00

I agree with you, but both of those gripes fail on some level, though.

Baseball:
* kids look up to these players (same way music or TV decency is a Congressional topic)
* mad voting parents care
* that anti-trust exemption
* it's "the national pasttime"
* it's a logical fallacy to say that "because A is more important, you shouldn't waste any time on B"

States' Rights:
* Surely, some things are outside the realm of states rights -- e.g. whether you can have segregated schools, whether states can ban abortion, etc. There are lots of religious people who believe that what the Schiavo case represents is on that level.

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Joe - maybe you're just playing devil's advocate h...

I agree with you, but both of those gripes fail on...