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Rep. Henry Waxman's hoping to bask in golden showers of media attention by demagoguing the steroid issue and subpoenaing drug test data; Matt Welch suggests he keep his eyes in his own stall.
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|3.14.05 @ 1:05PM|#
Dear Congress,
Re: steriods and baseball
Kindly fuck off.
Thanks,
A baseball fan
|3.14.05 @ 1:19PM|#
could this be the turning point for sports fans and attitudes for the war on some drugs?
NO!
but it is funny, in a "who cares, fucking irrelevant you fucking fucks" sort of way.
|3.14.05 @ 1:22PM|#
Matt Welch linked to several sports writers questioning Congress. In the spirit of equal time, here is anti-steriod asshat Skip Bayless explaining why steriod testing is (of course) "for the children":
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=bayless/050311
Disgusting.
|3.14.05 @ 1:23PM|#
Alright Randy Wolf! I've maintained that the surest way to qualify exactly what performance enhancements steroids have offered is to test the entire Phillies organization. 'Cause if they were on the juice, then the juice doesn't do squat.
Sad to say it, but although I totally disagree with Congress getting involved, I'll be sure to enjoy the show.
|3.14.05 @ 1:29PM|#
As much as I dislike performance enhancing drugs in sport, this is a disgraceful abuse of power by congress. By what right do they interfere with the contract agreed to by management and labour? What's then to stop them investigating any other industry? As much as I detest Bud Selig and Donald Fehr, I hope they go to the Supreme Court and get this nonsense squashed, for the sake of all employees in the U.S. Just because an industry is in the public eye, like professional sports, doesn't mean that the law doesn't still apply.
|3.14.05 @ 1:34PM|#
Matt, Skip is an asshat and you are right that his column is disgusting. "So what if you say you're not guilty, we'll just decide that you are anyway!!"
Matt Welch|3.14.05 @ 1:40PM|#
matt, AJS -- The L.A. Times' dreadful Bill Plaschke wrote essentially the same column Sunday.
|3.14.05 @ 1:56PM|#
Speaking as a fan, I honestly could not give a shit. And as a Phillies fan, I was amused to see a quote from Randy Wolf that didn't involve him explaining why he gave up five runs in six innings.
|3.14.05 @ 2:03PM|#
Skip is a hack and a major league douchbag (read his column on TO prior to the Super Bowl, he still hasn't taken that one back). I like how he conflates communists with witches. Apparently, communists never existed. He ignores the problem with the McCarthy trials, they weren't that communists in government didn't exist, it was the way the trials were conducted. I like how Bonds' comments and denials are reasons for his guilt, with zero evidence. And why isn't Skip calling for Bush, also mentioned by name in the book, to go before Congress.
The worst thing about his crappy column is there's a whole lot of people nodding their heads in agreement as they read it.
|3.14.05 @ 2:10PM|#
Slightly off topic:
Does anyone have an etymology for 'asshat'?
|3.14.05 @ 2:19PM|#
Well, there's this:
http://www.confusednation.com/asshat/
I don't have my glasses on so I didn't read it, though. Kind of an asshat thing to do, I suppose.
|3.14.05 @ 2:26PM|#
I thought "asshat" referred to "one who wore his own ass as a hat'; that is, "one whose head is stuck up his ass."
|3.14.05 @ 2:31PM|#
Too bad defenestration isn't legal in the U.S. :)
|3.14.05 @ 2:35PM|#
Shame on Henry Waxman, and all of his Asshat cohorts on the hill.
(Gratuitous personal insult: Wearing an Asshat as described by Stevo Darkly would vastly improve the appearance of the woefully Fugly Henry Waxman.)
|3.14.05 @ 2:36PM|#
"Defenestration" is one of my favorite words.
|3.14.05 @ 2:38PM|#
Too bad defenestration isn't legal in the U.S. :)
Bowels in or bowels out?
|3.14.05 @ 2:46PM|#
Stevo Darkly,
Gotta love the Czechs. :)
|3.14.05 @ 2:47PM|#
Stevo Darkly,
If you believe in such "myths."
Warren|3.14.05 @ 3:41PM|#
Wait. I couldn't care much less about baseball, so I've only been following this outside the sports section. I the big story here was that Jose Canseco's book not only claimed that he and every other big leaguer did steroids, but more controversially, that steroids made them better players, didn't cause their nuts to shrivel, and are an all around benefit to baseball and pro sports in general.
Like I said, I don't care enough to read the book or watch the testimony. Am I way off base?
|3.14.05 @ 5:20PM|#
That's the point he tried to make on 60 minutes. The dust jacket on the book scared me, so I wouldn't buy it.
|3.14.05 @ 5:28PM|#
Although "golden showers" seems an unfortunate choice of phrase...
|3.14.05 @ 5:39PM|#
When are we going to start demanding that members of congress submit to random urinalysis? We can't have our great leaders setting a bad example for the children. What if they're out there legislating while intoxiated?
|3.14.05 @ 6:15PM|#
Matt Welch,
Wow, you weren't kidding.
|3.14.05 @ 6:24PM|#
"Although "golden showers" seems an unfortunate choice of phrase..."
I disagree. I think it was spot-on.
|3.14.05 @ 11:16PM|#
Bill Pleschke is an asshole and always wrong.
While Skipp may not know much about politics, he is right on more often than not about sports. Atleast in comparison to his counterpart, Woody Paige, on Cold Pizza.