Congress Prepared to Subpoena Baseball Stars

Well I have been following the Steroid issue in MLB with some interest, and I see this morning that MSNBC has a news article up concernign the matter yet again.

NEW YORK - Jose Canseco, Mark McGwire and Jason Giambi were among seven current and former baseball stars that a congressional committee plans to subpoena as soon as Wednesday to testify about steroids.

It would seem that the seven players, Canseco, McGwire, Giambi, Shilling, Sosa, Palmiero and Thomas were all asked, but so far it is only the outspoken Canseco and Frank Thomas who have agreed to appear. It is really sounding like the other 5 stars will be getting subpoenas if they are unwilling to appear voluntarily...

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Steroids Are Elementary My Dear Watson...

Start them young. If we inject our children with steroids, they will grow to be faster, stronger and dumber than everyone else!!!!

Where does it start? When does it end?

Say NO to steroids....

There is also more bad news regarding younger folks and the performance enhancing drugs...

Also Tuesday, the parents of two amateur players who committed suicide were added as witnesses.

Taylor Hooton, a cousin of former major leaguer Burt Hooton, was 17 when he hanged himself on July 15, 2003, and his parents think the suicide was due to depression that followed Taylor’s end of steroid use. Rob Garibaldi, who played for the University of Southern California, was 24 when he shot himself on Oct. 1, 2002, and his parents also think his death was related to steroids.

Cessional Committee will include these parents as well as a gaggle of Medical Experts on the...

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Well, Congress has gone and subpoened all of the 11 Baseball players to testify before the Steroid Commission... MLB thinks their new get tough policy is enough to control Steroid use in Ball, but apparently the US Congress disagrees... I am starting to think the Congress should be doing more about the Pseudo Fascist reime that is slowly building (ie politics)... that IS their job isn't it?