Dorks get their revenge on jocks: Kucinich attacks baseball on 'roids

You got to love Kucinich. Everytime I hear him, I think of the quote, "It's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog." No matter how much you like him, you have to admit that he is kind of dorky. Today in the Baseball steroid hearings, I had to laugh at the ironic nature of Kucinich questioning MLB on steroid usuage.

I am dead serious, read his bio and all.

He had to be the kicker.

Don't judge a book by its cover, I am quite big and sorta athletic but I havent played on a compeitve sports team sinec I was 12.

--whether he was trying out for the position of the football. Anyone who, at 4'8" and less than 100 lbs would go out for football has a pair ob big brass ones.

He played both baseball and football. In fact, he's a big baseball fan to this day. He had a whole series of campaign "baseball cards" last year, that featured various pictures of him and listed his Ten Points on the back.

IIRC there were at least 20 different ones. I wouldn't be suprised if they're collector's items now.

Yeah, in fact I believe he was the sponsor of the Larry Doby Congressional Gold Medal bill. Larry Doby FYI was the first black to play in the American Leauge. He's not as well known as Jackie Robinson but I believe he is in the hall of fame and rightfully so. He was a hero of Kucinich's growing up too I think.

a bunch of those if you want some or know someone who does just PM me. I loved them, they were very helpful.

I hate to sound like a GDer throwing stones at the Democratic Underground General Discussion Scapegoat of the Week (TM), but I'm kinda disappointed in the guy for this. He should be scolding everyone else involved for wasting time on what is a non-issue for 99.999% of the American people who aren't professional athletes. Or at least ask the players what they think about the fact that half of all bankruptcies in the U.S. are caused by medical costs. Or if they happen to know anything about the whereabouts of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. Or hell, ask them what their favourite color of ice cream is, since while that has fuckall to do with the well being of our nation, it's equal in relevance to steriod abuse in MLB.

By saying this I don't want to underscore the efforts and importance of the soldiers job in Iraq, but Baseball reaches more Americans lives than the war in Iraq and the search of the mythical WMD's.

There are three reason this steroid issue is important enough for the government to look into. Like it or not many kids look up to professional athletes as role models. If a kids idol uses steroids, hits a ton of HR's and gets paid millions, what is the kid going to think? Hey, I can take steroids and I will get paid millions.

Second, as a Representive from Pennslyvania said, people supplement Major League Baseball by publically funding the building of new stadiums. This has been very popular in the past 10-15 years with probably 2/3 of teams getting new stadiums with the help of public funds. It is the governments job to make sure those public funds are used correctly on a product that is legit.

Finally, if the government can't inforce the laws regarding steroids then why should they have the power to make. That is just wasting tax payers money and Congresses time to write up, debate, and enact laws regarding steroids. Time and money that could be spent on things that you discribed.

In the hearings, many Congressmen made referrence to previous attempts to contact Major League Baseball. This wasn't the first attempt by congress to address the issue, so the baseball officials and players had to get called in and see why they were breaking Federal law regarding steroid use.