Friday, February 8, 2008
Now Congress is investigating baseball player wives
Wondering what Congress is doing about ending the war in Iraq? They are too busy investigating Major League Baseball. Specifically, they are looking into steroid and human growth hormone use by players before such substances were banned by Major League Baseball.
Not only are they sniffing around to find out what former players such as Roger Clemons were taking, they are evidently investigating baseball player wives.
From the New York Daily News:
Brian McNamee told congressional investigators Thursday that Roger Clemens’ wife took human growth hormone before she appeared with the pitcher in Sports Illustrated’s swimsuit issue in 2003, according to a Washington source.
I understand why Congress is looking into steroid and human growth hormone use by baseball players. The Constitution is quite specific that Congress is to provide oversight over professional sports leagues.* It doesn’t say anything about their wives.
* No it doesn’t. I was being sarcastic. I do that sometimes.
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I understand your point about the frivolity of investigating baseball when there are more important global issues Congress should be dealing with.
But I have to say that I think Congress should be coming down hard on baseball. Fucking Selig won’t. And this bullshit with steroids and HGH does have to stop. So who is going to do it? Might as well be Congress. Maybe they’ll get somewhere with it.
No one else seems to care. It’s not really a crime, per se, so the FBI or other law enforcement agencies can’t really do much about it.
Steroids and HGH are much bigger problem in the NFL, but nobody seems to care. Then again, I could care less if a professional athlete uses so called “performance enhancers”. I don’t see much difference with taking a B-12 shot or taking steroids. Up until a few years ago, neither substance was banned in baseball.
“It’s not really a crime, per se, so the FBI or other law enforcement agencies can’t really do much about it.”
Shit! LET’S GET ON IT THEN! Forget about war, this is about hitting a ball with a stick!
Hey, I wouldn’t expect YOU to understand, CANADIAN.
When did MLB ban player wives from taking HGH? The reason I ask is that they didn’t ban players from taking it until January 13, 2005.