i hate the government's interaction with MLB

[Lisa]

I'm torn. Baseball was dealing with it by not dealing with it. I'm not a big fan of the congress circus, but if it makes MLB put in place some serious oversight, it won't be for naught.

I also hate Barry Bonds' giant head. So I'm hoping the government is saving us from that.

[April]

I hate that ball players just get a slap on the wrist while Jackie Joyner-Kersey is giving back medals and Martha Stewart went to jail while the EnRon execs were "forced" to sell 1 or 2 of their multi-gillion $$$$ estates.

[Tracy]

honestly, i think congress needs to put some oversight for THEMSELVES in place before dictating ethics to anyone else.

i'm just saying.

[Roy]

Interfering with baseball must be more fun than meddling with poverty, or gas prices, or housing prices, or a recession, or education issues, or bringing a pointless war to an end, or using milary resources in places like Darfur instead, or allowing a state with a bigoted agenda that votes for Hillary Clinton 2 -1 over Barack Obama to remain in the union. Back to baseball, as I see it the entire American League has a performance enhancing advantage because those teams have a DH and the National League teams do not. Until that inequality remains, why shouldn't players like Barry and Rocket cheat their way to the top of the food chain?

[Reads with Scotch]

they do it in hopes that they may be able to acomplish something. When was the last time that happend? They need a pat on the back from us. They are not going to get anything from me. They can all go jerk off in an airport shit stall.

[Lisa]

The government offered MLB an anti-trust exemption a long, long time ago. Anti-trust exemptions are rare and messy. It's really important that the government not continue them for organizations that engage in the illegal, the immoral, and for that matter, violate their own damn rules.

And it's hard to argue about anyone who wants to do something about the size of Barry Bonds' neck.

If baseball had policed itself, which they've had decades of not-very-hidden steroid use to implement, they wouldn't have needed congress's intervention.

The creepiest part, though, is the former baseball power guys, mid-level stars, who now shill for Viagra and Levitra. Why don't they just take out national TV ads telling us they're steroid-impotent?