Posted on 03/31/2005 1:49:18 AM PST by nickcarraway
N. Dakota senator says steroids nullifies Bonds, McGwire, Sosa
A North Dakota legislator is trying to muscle Roger Maris' 61-homer season back into baseball's record books because of allegations that the three players who have surpassed him did so with the help of steroids.
"If these folks are on the juice, and I believe they're on the juice, then Roger should get his record back," Sen. Joel Heitkamp said.
He's sponsoring a resolution that asks baseball commissioner Bud Selig to reinstate Maris' record of 61 home runs in 1961. A spokesman for baseball did not respond to a request for comment.
The North Dakota Senate's Education Committee, which reviewed the resolution Monday, took less than 20 minutes to recommend that the full Senate approve it.
Maris, born in Hibbing, Minn., was a high school football star and American Legion baseball standout in Fargo, N.D., which has a museum displaying his memorabilia and a cancer treatment center named for him. Maris was buried in Fargo after his death from lymphoma in 1985.
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"Those records will have zero credibility with most fans as long as the clueless, embarrassing Bud Selig continues to defend them"
And that is baseballs problem to worry about and fix, not the taxpayers. Believe me, if enough people get tired of the crap MLB does and stop paying their outrageous prices to go to games because of it, you would see the league start to hemmorage money and change its ways in a heartbeat. Congress has no business spending our money to "save" a privately owned group that is too stupid to realize how badly they are being managed.
MLB doesn't give a hoot about the true baseball fan. It want's to appeal to a broader base, hince the lower mound, shrunken strike zone, juiced ball, juiced players. There aren't enough true baseball fans to support the game as such. Without TV revenue the players would be makeing about $100,000 each. The park attendence is meaninless as they couldn't survive on ticket sales alone.
Congress has no business spending our money to "save" a privately owned group
AMEN
I like some proof before I make decisions.
Man, am I glad these guys are in session on our dime to worry about this.
Thank God that things are going so well in the US that there is nothing more important to worry about than baseball records.
Whew!!
THis is a state legislature. Not the Feds. Do you understand the difference?
This will solve the problem "*"
Yes, I do understand the difference. Note how I said the ND senator, not the senator from ND. Does that make you feel better? Didn't mean to piss in your cornflakes and I'm sorry if I somehow offended you.
And it doesn't matter what kind of senator it is, it does not change the fact that he has no business sticking his nose into this. That is the whole point.
You didn't offend me.
I just don't believe the state senate of ND has to deal with illegal immigrants and Terri Shiavo.
What I think is you misread the article, thinking it was the national senate and now you're trying to backtrack out of it.
You're right, the state senate of ND doesn't have to deal with illegal immigrants or Terri Schiavo because it doesn't concern that state. But neither does baseball. They don't even have a major league team in the state so he shouldn't be concerned about it.
None of this matters though because the whole point is that a politican, regardless of what state he is from or what his specific title is, has absolutely no business using his office as a way to influence who does and does not get into the baseball hall of fame. I don't care if it's the President, a national senator, a state senator, a city councilman, or the head of the PTA; if baseball wants to destroy itself it has every right to do so without interference from the nanny-state.
I didn't misread the article and I'm not trying to backtrack off of anything.
Do you seriously think they are nOT ? Come in , be real.
I think the concern is that thousands of high school kids are shooting this crap because baseball has allowed it to be acceptable .
"I think the concern is that thousands of high school kids are shooting this crap because baseball has allowed it to be acceptable ."
That's just another nanny-state arguement.
It is a problem that high school kids are using this stuff but it is not the job of a nanny-state to enforce that pro baseball players are good role models for kids. It is the parents job to make sure that their kids have good role models, not the governments.
That's what the politicians would have you think. This guy is a Maris fan whose greatest, overriding concern in the world is restoring Maris' record.
He's not worried about the government sanctioned murder of a brain-damaged womman in FL. He isn't worried about the national debt, the fact that we have no real energy policy in this country, he isn't worried about the looming collapse of SS, he isn't worried about squat that has to do with what he was sent to Wash. to do.
His biggest concern in the whole, wide world is restoring Maris' record becaise it's (say it with me) "For the children!"
Politicians need to keep out of sports, as I've said before.
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