FEDS SEIZE Baseball Drug Test Results

SI.com (Sports Illustrated) ^ | April 9. 2004 | Associated Press

[dljordan]

But, the IRS is doing this under a conservative administration. Does this mean the conservatives we elected have no control over the bloated Federal beauracracy?

[Dane]

Please look at reply #38 of this thread.

[bvw]

That's a reasonbale guess. The whole thing sounds screwball.

[BurbankKarl]

because MLB is going to be hit with a fraud lawsuit....

the unions thought Bush was kidding in his State of the Union address...

[Lancey Howard]

For awhile, I thought that our Republican Congress did a nice job reigning in the IRS by choking it, ie., reducing funding to basic maintenance levels. But now the IRS is talkng about more "random audits" etc. It's a disgrace. I look at government and I just don't see anybody on my side.

[sharktrager]

Your reply has nothing to do with what I posted, or what I was responding to.

[Archie Bunker on steroids]

Bonds, Sheffield, Giambi, Bagwell, Vladimer Guerrero, ARod, Everett, Juan Gonzales would probably be a good starting point.

Is Anderson Tiger Wood's trainer too?

[BurbankKarl]

they announced they were going to audit more small businesses....in particular ones that claim small or no profit year after year...of course, I dont believe they ever hired the new agents to do this.

[unspun]

This is just another practical example of the necessity of T. Roosevelt style republicanism, over extreme libertarianism.

[Lancey Howard]

Agreed.

[JohnnyZ]

Asterisk McGwire, too. He's another one who, like Bonds, was a tall skinny rookie and by the end of his career was a hulking behemoth.

You mean when he hit 49 home runs his rookie year? "Tall skinny rookie" had a little power back then.

The amount of ignorance and willingness to condemn without proof on baseball threads is sickening. No one seems to care about legal vs. illegal, proven guilt vs. insinuation.

[eno_]

The Feds have better things to do, no?

Apperently not. There are over 100,000 - and by some counts more than 200,000 - armed federal agents of various types. Idle hands, the devil's workshop.

[eno_]

The Feds have better things to do, no?

Apperently not. There are over 100,000 - and by some counts more than 200,000 - armed federal agents of various types. Idle hands, the devil's workshop.

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

OK let's start the speculation of who is on the list.

Players to be named later.

[Lancey Howard]

And the number of people who willing to leap to conclusions is sickening as well. Legal vs. illegal, and proven vs. insinuations has nothing to do with it. McGwire admitted taking legal steroids.

"You mean when he hit 49 home runs his rookie year? "Tall skinny rookie" had a little power back then."

Yeah, and Willie Mays was what, 175 lbs? And Maris was a rail. So what? Those guys did it without steroids, legal or illegal.

[festus]

All of your urine samples are belong to us !!!!!!!!

[freebilly]

The IRS is endearing itself to the American public....

Seriously, You'd think federal $$$$'s could be spent on little things, LIKE SECURING OUR FRICKIN' BORDERS, as opposed to going after a few ballplayers who use steroids. Of course, making sure our National Pastime is safe and wholesome is more important than making sure our national security is safe and wholesome.

Hey,IRS morons, get your heads out of your rectums and start going after the organizations that launder money for terrorists. When our nation is safe from Islam-o-nazis then you can focus on sniffing bottles of piss....

[itsahoot]

You knee jerk Libertarian drug lovers are a hoot, IMO, with your simplistic arguements.

I am anything but a libertarian, and I hate drugs in all their forms. This was a joke. I knew Mickey Mantle for they party guy he was. Went to school with his brothers. Mickey's drinking exploits at Bille Mendenhall's Little hole in the wall dive were well known to all the locals.

[JohnnyZ]

Yeah, and Willie Mays was what, 175 lbs? And Maris was a rail. So what? Those guys did it without steroids, legal or illegal.

You said that McGwire started as a tall skinny rookie whose career results should be asterisked because he bulked up later on.

But McGwire had tremendous power as a rookie, as I pointed out. He was already a great power hitter.

And you have blatantly ignored that point, which was my response to your McGwire comment, and started in talking about how Willie Mays was skinny.

Legal vs. illegal, and proven vs. insinuations has nothing to do with it.

It sure as hell does, and you, among others on these threads, as I said before, should maybe think for once that there is both wheat and chaff, and they should be sifted.