Bear Down and Get Some Runs, best-of: March 17, 2005

March 17, 2005

Illinois-North Carolina, 2005

Fed up with the specter of steroids in baseball, Bud Selig has finally brought in suspected players for questioning in an attempt to figure out exactly what is going on. Oh, wait a second, that’s not Bud Selig. That’s Congress! Hooray! Congress is here!

Led by chairman Tom Davis and Arizona senator John McCain, the House Committee on Government Reform began holding testimony at a Congressional hearing today. Among the subpoened were Sammy, Mac, Rafael Palmeiro, Frank, Curt Schilling, and the author himself, Jose Canseco. And no, I did not forget to mention Barry Bonds. He was not subpoened. Of course not. That’s like attempting to find out what happened in the Tate/LaBianca murders by bringing in the entire Manson family while letting Charles stay home. And yes, that’s probably a bit too harsh (a bit?), but come on. I won’t say that Bonds is guilty—there’s no proof, he’s never failed a drug test, and I don’t see how you can be guilty of steroid use when it wasn’t illegal in baseball until 2003—but if you’re going to round up a group of players to rap steroids, shouldn’t Bonds be involved?