Thursday, March 17, 2005
Steroid hearings...
What a crock of shit. A few points:
- The House "Committee on Government Reform" held hearings today on steroid use in baseball. Why exactly is the "Committee on Government Reform" holding hearings on (a) drugs or (b)baseball? Because it apparently has unlimited jursidiction. And people wonder why I am a libertarian...
- These hearings are allegedly to "protect the children", so why are they only bringing baseball into the act? Baseball, in nearly every poll, is falling in popularity and participation among children. As much as it pains me to say it (and be forced to pay attention to it), the NFL is clearly the most popular sport these days. Where the fuck are they? Because they have a supposedly effective drug testing policy, they're exempt? Look at linemen in the NFL compared to 20 or even 10 years ago...they're substantially larger. How'd they get that way?
- Oh yeah, also remember what Mr. Tony says about anyone who claims they are doing things "for the kids"...they're lying.
- The senile senator from Kentucky and undeserving Hall of Fame pitcher Jim Bunning testified today. He said: "Players who used steroids [...] their records and statistics from when they used steroids should be wiped out." Never mind that the effects of steroids on anyone's ability to hit a baseball are questionable at best, but why exactly is this coming up? Now the motherfuckers want to control our record books? And people wonder why I'm a libertarian...
- As a longtime watcher of pro wrestling, it's been pretty obvious to me that more than a few players had been using for a while now. And you know what? I really don't fucking care. I really don't. The integrity of the game concept that rube sportswriters have been pushing for the last couple years is horseshit, and I don't care about "the kids" because (a) I neither want nor have (that I know of, heh heh) any kids, and (b) the notion that because respected public figures do something, millions of children will go out and try it is just plain absurd. Has there been an epidemic of below-desk BJs in the last few years because of Bubba? Hell, no. Kids are tons smarter than what authority figures give them credit for. Well, at least I was.
