Steroids in Baseball hearing on MSNBC and CNN....

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....who the fuck cares about this?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 18 March 2005 01:45 (twenty-one years ago)

many people who aren't you, i guess

― ()ops (()()ps), Friday, 18 March 2005 01:47 (twenty-one years ago)

millions of baseball fans?
parents of high school athletes?
jose canseco's publisher?

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 18 March 2005 01:48 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm more concerned with lil'kim's sentencing though

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 18 March 2005 01:49 (twenty-one years ago)

It's all a diversion, this country is going to hell:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20050317/ALASKA17/TPEnvironment/

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 18 March 2005 01:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Alright, I'm not saying it's entirely trivial but do we need ROUND THE CLOCK COVERAGE of the hearing that pre-empts all other programming? Is it that important?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 18 March 2005 02:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Like the stuff on MSNBC they're pre-empting is any more important?

― ()ops (()()ps), Friday, 18 March 2005 02:13 (twenty-one years ago)

dammit where's my round the clock michael jackson and scott peterson coverage?!!!?

― ()ops (()()ps), Friday, 18 March 2005 02:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I NEED MORE REACTION TO THE ROBERT BLAKE VERDICT

― j blount (papa la bas), Friday, 18 March 2005 02:18 (twenty-one years ago)

STAT

― ()ops (()()ps), Friday, 18 March 2005 02:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I like how everyone here is acting like Alex is wrong and that this is like really super important and something that should've required a congressional hearing!!

― Allyzay Dallas Multi-Pass (allyzay), Friday, 18 March 2005 14:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't think it should have required a congressional hearing, but it is pretty important.

― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Friday, 18 March 2005 14:47 (twenty-one years ago)

j blount and oops otm.

― teh mcgwireizer, Friday, 18 March 2005 14:55 (twenty-one years ago)

....who the fuck cares about this?
-- Alex in NYC
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I couldn't agree with you more

― EComplex (EComplex), Friday, 18 March 2005 17:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I think the thing that really set me off about this was seeing people like congressmen Dennis Kucinich and Christopher Shays getting all stroppy and incredulous and blow-hardy as if the very fabric of our nation was at stake (where was this passonate venom at the 9/11 hearings or during the last presidential campagins?)

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 18 March 2005 17:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I suspect George Will is at the heart of it.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 18 March 2005 17:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Even though I'm interested because I love baseball, I definitely think the government has more important things to worry about and better ways to spend my money than to have a Congressional hearing on this.

― 57 7th (calstars), Friday, 18 March 2005 17:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I like how Ally must have been reading some other, perhaps imaginary, thread.

― ()ops (()()ps), Friday, 18 March 2005 18:44 (twenty-one years ago)

So, uhh.. how about that Alaskan oil drilling?

― Ian John50n (orion), Friday, 18 March 2005 18:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Alex/Ned/57 7th OTM.

People who are dicks part 8: oops

― Allyzay Dallas Multi-Pass (allyzay), Friday, 18 March 2005 18:53 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah i'm a dick cause you tried to do your old "omg you people are all morons" thing for the 203948203984 time with no basis.

― ()ops (()()ps), Friday, 18 March 2005 18:55 (twenty-one years ago)

re: baseball/steroids, I think that MLB is so poorly managed, esp from a PR perspective, that it is an easy target for politicians. and, more specifically, a congressional hearing like this is a pretty good forum for putting baseball's morons (players and mgmt) on the spot. but, yeah, I'm sure there are more important things congress could be worrying about.

― tobo (tobo), Friday, 18 March 2005 18:57 (twenty-one years ago)

No, I was just saying that "like news channels show anything worthwhile anyway!" isn't exactly a good counterargument to the general point here. Maybe you should go, misunderstand, RJG, some more, on the car thread?

xpost: I mainly feel bad cos I feel like baseball is the sport that is always picked on! And yeah, congressional hearings on steroid abuse=isn't this something that should just be handled by MLB, important media event or not?

― Allyzay Dallas Multi-Pass (allyzay), Friday, 18 March 2005 18:58 (twenty-one years ago)

no, that is not what you said.

― ()ops (()()ps), Friday, 18 March 2005 19:00 (twenty-one years ago)

gygax OTMFM. This is complete and utter bullshit.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 18 March 2005 19:00 (twenty-one years ago)

the ilb thread is better shockah

― j blount (papa la bas), Friday, 18 March 2005 19:02 (twenty-one years ago)

of course, this is how I feel about pretty much all sports, but Congress doesn't usually waste its time seeing how RBIs are doing this year

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 18 March 2005 19:14 (twenty-one years ago)

If the Alaskan opening involved celebrities in any way, you can bet the coverage would be massive.

― 57 7th (calstars), Friday, 18 March 2005 19:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I mainly feel bad cos I feel like baseball is the sport that is always picked on!

Totally.

― Shatterproof Glass (dymaxia), Friday, 18 March 2005 19:21 (twenty-one years ago)

ALLY, i think that larger point, was, largely, nonexistent. - in this case. also, while true, rather trite.

― the hypn0tizer, Friday, 18 March 2005 19:25 (twenty-one years ago)

(Ally OTM)

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 18 March 2005 19:32 (twenty-one years ago)

i got to watch all of this for my job yesterday. sort of like alex, except i was actually interested.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 18 March 2005 19:39 (twenty-one years ago)

props to espn for pointing out the irony of this joker's involvement

― j blount (papa la bas), Friday, 18 March 2005 19:41 (twenty-one years ago)

hpencil i would like to hear yr thoughts!

― Allyzay Dallas Multi-Pass (allyzay), Friday, 18 March 2005 19:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes but what does Vince McMahon have to say about all this?

― Dude, are you a 15 year old asian chick? (jingleberries), Friday, 18 March 2005 19:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm a baseball fanatic, and the hearing was entirely trivial. Except for Mark McGwire's reputation, possibly.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 18 March 2005 20:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I think that Bernie Sanders should maybe retire as the Yankees' Center Fielder, but the other Bernie Sanders makes a hell of a congressman.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 18 March 2005 20:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I just re-read one of Alex in NYC's posts above, and I'm only sorry I didn't get to see congressmen making asses of themselves. Kucinich sounds just as twattish as I'd suspected, and not at all 'progressive' if he's making such a fuss about this.

― Shatterproof Glass (dymaxia), Friday, 18 March 2005 23:06 (twenty-one years ago)

when did mark mcgwire start looking so old and withered?

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 18 March 2005 23:36 (twenty-one years ago)

'roids will do that to a man.

― hstencil (hstencil), Saturday, 19 March 2005 00:04 (twenty-one years ago)

his neck's always looked like a luckier burn victim

― j blount (papa la bas), Saturday, 19 March 2005 00:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm so tired of reading/hearing about steroids. Please, god, make the talking heads shut the hell up.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Saturday, 19 March 2005 00:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I mainly feel bad cos I feel like baseball is the sport that is always picked on!

you mean like MLB's exemption from the antitrust laws?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 19 March 2005 00:40 (twenty-one years ago)

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