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Wed 8 Dec, 2004 06:37 pm
Quote:McCain Threatens Baseball Over Drugs
Ariz. Senator Wants Stricter Steroid Policy
By Dana Milbank and Thomas Heath
Washington Post Staff Writers
Saturday, December 4, 2004; Page A01
As Major League Baseball's steroid scandal widened to include the sport's most prolific active home run hitter, Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John McCain (R-Ariz.) said yesterday that he will introduce legislation imposing drug testing standards on professional athletes if baseball players and owners do not adopt a stringent crackdown on steroids by January.
Should we leave it up to the owners/players assoc? If they can't get it done do you think the government should get involved? Do you think they have the right to get involved? Or should nothing be done?
Should the government get involved in baseball/steroids------NO
At present are there federal laws banning steroid use?
Re: Should the government get involved in baseball/steroids
jpinMilwaukee wrote: Do you think they have the right to get involved?
Since Major League Baseball is allowed to operate as a monopoly based on a special provision specifically granted by the Congress that allows them to bypass anti-monolpoly law, yes. They do have the right.
Yes. Steroid use is illegal... but what McCain is suggesting is beyond just legal action. He wants to make legislation that forces the league to do testing. He wants to write the rules for baseball.
this is an example of the worst features of both dems and repubs, see a problem=make a law.
The more laws a society makes the more corrupt it is to begin with.
I agree with dyslexia. Besides maybe it is just me but I just can't help feeling that there will be some who will play politics with sports if the government get more involved than it already is.
Where is Bush, didn't he mention steroid use in his State of the Union address?
revel, everything is politics.
The government is far too involved in the lives of citizens as it is. Let baseball, and other sports, govern themselves!
I tend to agree with those that say it is none of the governments business... stay the heck out.
But what if MLB doesn't do anything about steroids? Right now they have one pre-planned, pre-timed testing date. The players that are getting tested know in advance when they are going to be tested. What if MLB just continues with this trend and doesn't take this seriously? The arguement, of course, is that in order to get into the majors you have to start taking in the minors, which means in order to get into the minors you have to start taking in college/highschool. Or do you just not care what athletes do to themselves?
I have to totally agree with Dys, Phoenix and revel. The government should stay the heck out of sports. The government has enough on their plate as is without having to spend further tax dollars to form commissions and governing bodies to oversee how American sports are run. First it would be baseball, then basketball, then hockey, then soccer, then car racing, then football and every other sport in the country.
Sport leagues have their own commissions and governing bodies. Surely they should be able to handle their own dilemmas without government interference. It shouldn't come out of our taxpayer pockets, which it would eventually boil down to.
It depends on whether you consider baseball a sport or entertainment. If it continues to develop cartoon characters like the World Wrestling Federation it will be out of McCain's jurisdiction.
How do you guys feel about The Supreme Court ruling against the PGA and allowing Casey Martin to ride carts? I think this is just as intrusive as federally mandated steroid testing.
Unless steroid use is illegal, and I don't think it is....OF COURSE NOT!
It is illegal. (I'll look for a link)
The federal government should definitely, definitely, find something else to do with their time.
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