Why Can’t Baseball Just Say No?
January 2, 2009 4:56 PM
The New York Times reports that MLB Commissioner Bud Selig and head of the baseball players’ union Donald Fehr were called to Capitol Hill by Rep. Henry Waxman (R-CA) to “clarify” some testimony which conflicted with the year-old Mitchell Report.
During congressional hearings in March 2005, Selig and Fehr stated that the “number of positive test results in 2004 had dropped drastically to about a dozen from more than 100 in 2003.” Turns out that MLB suspended drug testing completely in 2004. The length of that moratorium had not been accurately recorded in the Mitchell Report or something. Whatever.
To the United States Congress: Why are you wasting taxpayer money trying to trumpet that you are doing something about drug use in baseball? Is this not a business issue?
Not to mention that all this is just rhetoric surrounding statements made years ago. What is the purpose? Can MLB simply decline to participate in your show trial?
Stop it. Go solve a far more important economic crisis.
To Major League Baseball: Enough already. You suspended drug testing in 2004? WTF?
Starting immediately, formulate and mandate the strongest anti-drug use policy in all of sports – national and international – and set the example going forward.
Admit your mistakes, and then take the lead in fixing the problem. Be above reproach. Take back the integrity of the sport. Demand no more pricks – from steroids needles…or Congress.
