congressional steroid debate

[printpolitico]

I have to ask is congress the appropriate place for the steroid debate? Steroids have been going strong much longer than people want to accept.

24 years ago as a college athlete, I was at the national sports festival track and field championships competing. For this competition they were going to have mandatory steroid testing
verses the normal random. All of the biggest names in track and field bailed out, thus ticket sales were low. This was a televised event. They canceled the testing
and had a sell out crowd as the top athletes filtered in.

America really doesn't want to see standards drop. They want to see bigger, better, farther, higher. Steroids have been around for ever and the athletes will always remain one step
ahead of testing with a minor hiccup here and there. leave it to the courts. As an athlete I had to choose whether or not winning meant enough to me to go that far. It didn't,
and ultimately I was bypassed by lesser natural athletes, but I can live with it. It's not right but it isn't going to change.

Congress has bigger issues to address.

[samplegirl]

1. What a complete waste of media time.

Who the hell really cares?

[MikeNearMcChord]

2. Exactly, years ago Nike did a commercial about

baseball with the phrase "Chicks dig the long ball". TV and (non-purists) wants high scores and big booms over the Green Monster.

[printpolitico]

3. Exactly are there not more important matters at hand