I know nothing about baseball and very little about this case..but I don’t like the smell of congree releaseing names on anything telling the world someone is guilty without it being proven..it sounds like mcarthyism...some folks seem to think it’s ok if it rich ball playeres...
This has nothing to do with Congress.IIRC,this investigation was put in motion by Major League Baseball itself.
I would appreciate it if you didn’t associate this situation with “McCarthyism”.
Joseph McCarthy vigorously resisted releasing ANY names on people in the public hearings, since (in his words) they had not been tried in a court of law and might be ultimately be proven innocent. He referred to them all as “Case #1” and so on.
He was FORCED to reveal names by liberals on the other side of the aisle and the media who had no qualms about ruining the lives of people whose ruin might be a useful instrument in discrediting McCarthy and the anti-communist cause.
This is another liberal slander...most people don’t realize it, and I would guess you probably didn’t either. I knew exactly what you meant, though.
I don't think it was Congress. However, the fact that FedGov is present in baseball at all means that pro sports is an institution of the state, but unprotected unlike religion and the press.
Carolyn
You make an excellent point that had eluded me. Thank you.
“I know nothing about baseball and very little about this case..”
Yeah, well,...there’s your point. Technically, I don’t think it is a “case”??
I’m a big baseball fan and I don’t really know what to think about the whole deal? I guess I was thinking that baseball had cleaned up it’s game. If this report would do that then I suppose that it would be a good thing, but it seems like it’s going to raise more questions than it resolves.
It is just a report, but it would appear that the report is pretty thorough.
Like you, I guess the part that stinks is that it seems like these folks aren’t going to get their day in court to refute the charges. Some of the players who may have used a banned substance once will be painted with the same brush as some of the habitual users? I guess thems the breaks?
Now we have one of them coming out and threatening slander? Why not? He’s got nothing to lose even if he was a cheater. He’s not going to jail. There’s no punishment if he is lying yet again.
Like so many things in life - and in baseball under the watch of Bud Selig - one should have clear objectives and goals in pursuing such a course of action.
I feel quite certain - and quite comfortable in that certainty - that many of these guys are probably cheaters, but this thing seems more like a witch hunt than it does any kind of productive undertaking.