Tuesday, February 10, 2009

A-Rod May Have to Testify Before Congress

From Jim Baumbach:
Alex Rodriguez soon might have to repeat his steroid admission on Capitol Hill.

Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) plans to recommend to the head of the congressional committee that has previously hosted baseball players that A-Rod receive an invite to testify about his steroid use, Cummings told Newsday last night.

"I think we're going to have to see what Rodriguez will tell us," Cummings said in a phone interview.

"He is in a confessing mode, so maybe he needs to put his apology into some meaningful action by cooperating with the committee so we can see if there are things we need to reopen to make sure baseball is doing all that it can to rid itself of this kind of practice."
Can the Government please focus on more important things, like, you know, the country? Between the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the crappy economy, and every other real issue going on in the country, I think it's about time they stop preoccupying themselves with steroids in baseball.

For something even more absurd, here's our President having to waste a minute of his press conference yesterday to answer a question about A-Rod and steroids:

4 Comments:

Rich said...

Up until now, I have had no problem with Congress' involvement, but given that the country is in dire straits economical, any Congress(wo)man or Senator who doesn't realize that they have better things to do is a moron.

Anonymous said...

Congress needs to get real. Fix the economy, create jobs, keep the country safe. They're spinnin their wheels on this steroids stuff and wasting time & money. Elijah Cummings could be one of the dumbest people in D.C.

Anonymous said...

What a huge waste of time and tax payer dollars.

Anonymous said...

Elijah Cummings is an idiot I dont think he realizes A-Rod failed back in 2003. The new mlb steroid testing policy seems to be working.