It seems to me that there was indeed a ton of grandstanding by adults who have never grown up. I looked at Andy Pettitt and Chuck Knoblauch’s depositions and testimony before the committee as well as a fair bit of other documentation that the committee released yesterday. With few exceptions, what a bunch of bottom-dwelling, scum-sucking ditch pigs…..oops, sorry, didn't mean to demean our animal friends....
. A Perfectly Performed Pirouette of Porcine CYA...
It all points up the bankruptcy of MLB to properly address issues in a timely manner. What did they do when the home run derby was going on? Can they seriously say that the ball was juiced? Certainly the players were, as we’ve come to understand (Mark, Barry, Sammy, Jose et al…). They’re trying to do as little as possible, and hope that we'll all ignore the owners, team officials and player's efforts to do whatever they want and pay for the priviledge of seeing these overblown princesses perform their chemically-induced magic. After all, better living through chemistry, right?
The real issue for me is whether or not the Congress will remove the antitrust exemption from baseball. An antiquated exemption that may be mercifully coming to an end. Perhaps they should compete on the same level surface as every other sport or commercial enterprise in America. A reasoned look at the exemption can be found at
http://instruct1.cit.cornell.edu/Courses/econ352jpw/readme/Baseball%20Prospectus%20-%20Ending%20Baseball's%20Antitrust%20Exemption.htm .
Testing, testing, testing – would you believe now that baseball can structure and manage a testing program? I certainly don’t. This may be the lever to push Bud and the buds ‘n suds to accepting year round independent unannounced mandatory testing to clean up at least the perception that’s going around.
Thanks for reading my rant - perhaps no raves here....
