I don't care about the problems of baseball and Roger Clemens

[vssmith]

Our congress seems to obsess about the problems of sports while the country falls apart. Deal with global warming, the debt, the trade deficit, energy, militarism, education, health care and poverty. Only when those problems and others I have neglected to list are solved, only then, deal with junk like steroids. Oh! but of course, it is hard to solve the big issues so why not waste time on the trivial.

[HockeyMom]

1. Not necessary to show

minute by minute coverage of this.

[hobbit709]

2. Let baseball deal with baseball.

The government should have more important things to do. Of course, if they investigated GOVERNMENT corruption and wrongdoing by the current miscreants in office they just might implicate themselves too.

[vssmith]

11. EXACTLY

[Hepburn]

3. Well, I do think that in some respects, it is important....

...because for a lot of young people sports has provided over the years a way to success. If the well known heroes and stars of sports are using performance enhancing drugs, it does set a very bad example for the youth of our nation.

Maybe a bit more time is being taken than necessary, but I do think there are some valid points involved.

JMHO

[riverwalker]

4. "butt band-aids"???

MSNBC, CNN and FOX all covering this testimony about using butt bandaids after injections. WTF? With all the problems in the world, THIS is what they are covering.:eyes:

[xchrom]

5. i don't either -- more there are others who hold records and are in the hall of fame who

used steroids and other performance enhancing drugs who never be identified by an oversight committee -- it goes back too far.

enforce the rules from here on out and forget the past.

[bdamomma]

6. just feeding us more BS

they really think we are imbeciles, this is so insulting and degrading.

[texanshatingbush]

7. Gnashing of teeth as I watch Clemens being grilled.....

.....because I keep thinking: WHY can't they grill the Bushistas like this?????

Reminds me of a cartoon I ultimately linked to (via Bradblog) concerning the Sibel Edmonds story: Sibel is standing alone, while all the reporters are clustered thickly around some unseen person, and some reporter is asking, "Britney, are you wearing panties today?"

It's all bread and circuses, all the time, isn't it?

[Strawman]

8. Waxman holds alot of important hearings that CNN doesn't show up for

Congressional oversight of baseball is legit given the anti-trust exemption they receive. The fact that you see these hearings and not others is a product of our corporate media who feel no need to inform American citizens, only to make a profit.

[Greyskye]

9. Other countries have a "Ministry of Sports"...

...that they use to deal with these kinds of issues, leaving the rest of the government free to deal with the real problems that face the country.

Frankly, it seems criminal to me that that our congress critters are dealing with this kind of crap when there are all of the issues that you list above and more. :grr:

[BadgerKid]

10. Clemens's scrutiny and Bush's immunity: for shame. n/t

[radfringe]

12. wassamadder wit youse?

doncha noes dey hates ar baseballz?

youse unamerikan or sumpin?

betcha even hates da peenutz anda appells pies

[underpants]

13. I have NEVER seen anyone as lawyered up as Clemens is

Just passing by a TV with his tesitmony on it I saw one lawyer standing up and announcing something and then another one whispering in Roger's ear before he spoke-from behind him.

:eyes:

[Justpat]

14. It gives them a chance to look as if they were doing something important.

Look at these bastards. They are all self righteous and proud of themselves for protecting
the 'merican people from the evil of steroids.

How about protecting us from illegal spying? Nah, steroids are more fun.

[lpbk2713]

15. Major League Baseball lost me several years ago during the strike.

Both sides said basically the same thing --- the hell with the fans, we want more money.

All tolled I've watched maybe fifteen minutes of MLB since then. They want to say piss on me?

OK. I say piss on them. I need them a lot less than they need me.

[texanshatingbush]

18. Great quotation from that strike a few years ago.....

....read it in USA Today while traveling on business. In excusing himself vis-a-vis the strike, one baseball player said "Hey, this isn't about money.....I'd play this game for only a million dollars a year!"

And $1 million back then was worth LOTS more than it is today!

[sandnsea]

16. Congress has oversight of baseball

I don't remember the exact details, but baseball is different and Congress has authority to intervene in baseball. Although it's ridiculous this is on and our rights are stripped daily and that's "boring".

[Johonny]

17. I'm going to disagree here

We just saw a big name actor come out and say Hey kids HGH is great look how buffed I am in my movie. While another actor just ODed on prescription drugs. I think there is clearly a problem in this country with Americans use of prescription drugs. I think it's clearest in sports where there are clear short term gains and the star player is retired many years when the long term costs catch up to them.

[vssmith]

19. Think this hearing will help?

[Johonny]

20. Nope

because it appears the problems are in the enforcement end. They seem really interested in tests to find out who is using, but not so interested arresting the people flooding the market with this stuff. This stuff isn't easy to make and a lot of it needs a doctors prescription to obtain...

[Elspeth]

21. Me neither. As long as Major League baseball isn't tapping my phone or monitoring my keystrokes

they are not worthy of Congress's time.