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Add to FavoritesThe War in Iraq, The Stock Market, The Housing Collapse, The Unemployment, Jobs Being Shipped Over Seas, Pure Corruption in Our Government. All these things going on and what are the people in Washington busy with? Steroid use among baseball players. Unbelievable. What next a congressional hearing on dancing in the end zone on football? Or maybe they could gather all the hockey players together and tell them have heard they are hitting each other on the ice? Or even better I am not a big fan of Elizabeth Hassleback on the View maybe we could talk to her about being annoying since her husband is a football player.
Government has no business worrying about steroid use in professional sports. Not only is it a total waste of time but it's clearly a distraction technique. It seems almost if the government is saying we have really screwed some stuff up but maybe just maybe if we spend our time talking to baseball players no one will notice. Well guess what we still remember we are losing our houses and jobs at record speed that tons of people can't get very needed health care. You (our government) may have taken your eye off the ball but we haven't.
So get back to work stop playing with baseball players either let their teams or baseball association deal with them or they will all kill themselves. I mean do we really need congress to tell us that baseball players are using steroids? Just compare the stats of players today compared to 40-50 years ago. Are we supposed to believe we have just become more super human as time goes? No actually statistics show we are fatter and lazier but that's where supplements come in. So no it did not take a congressional session to alert me that baseball players might be on steroids. You know I think there is a chance those WWE guys might be using too as well as some Olympic athletes. But please don't take the time to talk about it in Congress.
Either way it's not your problem. Start working on fixing the things that are your problem! I think everyday you spend wasting our tax money talking about things that don't do anything to help this country you should not be paid.
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The steroid scandal in major league baseball has fully materialized before the eyes of the public. For years, players have used steroids, human growth hormones, and other performance enhancing substances that, at the very least, provoke ethical questions. Largely this drug culture has been supported by the players, Player's Association, the League, and the baseball culture as baseball looked for greater interest in the game; almost everyone in baseball supported this abuse simply to build new records and create powerhouse heroes. As there are likely legal violations, authorities must look deep into this pastime, but there is certainly a limited need for the involvement of Congressional hearings.
Baseball is supposedly the great American pastime, and so, this steroid scandal represents a great betrayal to the American cultural. Furthermore, the popularity of baseball is embraced by young teens and children across the Country. Beyond recruitment standards, steroid use in the Major Leagues encourages young athletes to use performance enhancing substances while signaling to all children drug use is acceptable when it benefits you. In general, teens and children are more likely to be seriously affected by such substances as their developing bodies are far more susceptible to chemical chances. This factor certainly justifies a need for greater attention by authorities.
Because the effects of the scandal are so widespread, Congress does have an interest in ensuring this drug culture is eliminated. This means guaranteeing those responsible for these betrayals adequately correct their mistakes while condemning future abuse. It is the responsibility of Congress to help promote a healthy baseball culture that positively influences young athletes. A very good role for Congress to play would be in ensuring the major league scandal helps eliminate the drug culture among young adults and children.
On the other hand, Congress has far too many responsibilities to deal with individual cases of drug abuse. After all, this is the responsibility of the justice department. Congress has already appointed individuals to study the problem and present solutions; their responsibility now is to verify that a credible solution is applied while they must later ensure those solutions have been fully assimilated into the baseball community. Above all, Congress should deal with the broad cultural influences of steroid abuse, but it has little role in dealing with individual players and their drug abuse.
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