The hearings would come after the horse has left the barn and the barn door has already been closed behind it, since the steroids scandal had been building for years and now has finally been dealt with by baseball in the form of a stricter testing policy.
You're a day late and a dollar short on this one, kids. Give it up before you make fools of yourselves.
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I respectfully disagree for two reasons.
One, the MSM deliberately does not focus on the Steroids in Sports story because the MSM derives a good deal of their income from professional sports.
Canadian groups have pushed for anti-drug use for nearly a decade. Unfortunately, their government lacks the morality to push the issue, but the campaign against drugs in sports is aimed at dissuading youth from emulating professional players as well as returning sports to respectability.
The second reason I think the public hearings are necessary is that we only have the word of baseball that they are testing more frequently. In addition to players who have been called to testify, the baseball owners have had to turn over records of their testing program to the congressional committee. It remains to be seem whether they are acting in good faith or not, but I would not count on their voluntary compliance with their own stated guidelines.
When youth as young as 13 are taking steroids, pushed on them by overachieving parents or despicable coaches, they are taking drugs that will affect the rest of their lives. Hell, we don't think they ought to be having sex at that age, let alone taking steroids.
This is a problem that cries for public attention. If the MSM won't do it, someone darn well should.
IMHO
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