Originally posted by: brian_riendeau
No, they don't. Its not the governments duty to ensure private sports organizations are fair.
Private sports organizations are not allowed to break the law.
Its not their job to enforce the law either though. Did you turn in every guy you knew who was drinking underage? Or did you just say "I don't care/none of my business"?
Its entertainment, no one dies or goes broke or anything serious because barry bonds used steroids.
Many people have died from steroids, typically from overdose at the high school and college level. I knew kids who shot up in high school just to get their tuition paid for by doing well in sports.
People die driving their cars to work in the morning. One guy even died from his own farts awhile ago. Should the government set to work making cars illegal and installing buttplugs in all American's assholes? And thats irrelevant because steroids already are illegal, but that doesn't mean a private organization should be *required* to police what its employees do. Would you like it if your boss came to your house randomly demanding a cup of piss? Weed is illegal, shouldn't employers therefore be required to make sure their employees don't smoke weed?
Baseball just looks bad. And who gives a fvck, its just a game anyway.
They're in there trying to get baseball, a GAME that people watch for ENTERTAINMENT to do something about a few of their players using steroids. DON'T WORRY EVERYONE! THE GOVERNMENT IS HERE TO HELP US ALL.
Just a game that generates billions in revenue and occupies the afternoons of millions of people around the globe. It is more important that you seem to think.
Yeah, baseball is pretty important. Because if tomorrow it suddenly ceased to exist, the entire world would fvcking collapse. When people came home and turned on the TV and said "Oh sh|t no baseball?" and then shoot their wives and then themselves. And when the soldiers in Iraq found out there was no baseball, they would lose the will to fight and be overrun. And North Korea would attack the weakened baseball-less United States, and without our baseball players we'd be unable to defend ourselves.
Its a game. The movie Titanic generated millions in revenue, that doesn't mean it was vital, important or even good.
Do you think all boob implants should be made illegal in porn because it gives the enhanced starlets an unnatural advantage over the competition?
If baseball wants to regulate this, thats fine, its their game. But there doesn't need to be a government organization, funding by federal tax dollars that come out of my paycheck that makes sure baseball does what it wants.
Again, if you don't like the roids, boycott baseball. Thats what they'll listen too. But people won't, because in the end they want to see baseballs get hit out of the park, and dudes on roids can do that better.
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