Posted on 10/18/2011 4:47:31 PM PDT by Osage Orange
WASHINGTON -- U.S. senators and health officials are taking on a baseball tradition older than the World Series itself: chewing tobacco on the diamond.
With the Series set to begin Wednesday between the St. Louis Cardinals and Texas Rangers, the senators, along with health officials from the teams' cities, want the players union to agree to a ban on chewing tobacco at games and on camera. They made the pleas in separate letters, obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press.
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Make the U.S. Government a Bigger Part of Your Life! - Vote DemocRAT!
There would be no racing...Period.
You WILL attend to constitutional matters!
Or we will FIRE your sorry asses!!!!
Do-gooder prigs strike again.
Telling other people what to do - and not do - and how to do it - or not do it - has become a national pastime to rival baseball itself with a certain variety of holier-than-thou, small-minded career pains in the keester.
And in the case of congress, they get paid - paid far too much - to do it.
The fact that Senators are even concerned about this explains why our country is in such big trouble. The are more serious concerns Senators. This should not even be on the radar.
If the Senate is THAT, then how about they lead by example? Something tells me they will not.
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