[VRWCisme]

"I don't disagree baseball needs to clean up it's act, but why does the government have to get involved?"

Because this country has, by and large, forgotton that there are a good many things that the federal government was never supposed to be involved in. The federal government has managed to do just what many of the founders and framers knew it would if given the chance--increase its own power at the expense of the states, private entities, and the people.

[streetpreacher]

I agree, the federal government has no role here. If I were a baseball player, I would tell that committee, "How dare you lecture me on being a role-model to our kids when you spend more than a year at taxpayer's expense chasing donors like some crack whore?"

"If anyone should be a role model to kids, it should be our leaders and yet most of you gave a pass to a sitting president who treated a young intern in his care like a hooker and lied to a federal grand jury."

"You have a sitting congressman who has molested young boys and two Senators-for-life, one of whom was a klansman and the other who doesn't have the decency to open a car door for a young lady."

This is nothing more than an attempt by McCainiac and his ilk to get there faces plastered all over the boob tube again.

[george wythe]

The federal government has managed to do just what many of the founders and framers knew it would if given the chance--increase its own power at the expense of the states, private entities, and the people.

This is probably the most important point in this thread. There is a dangerous precedent being reinforced. Congress keeps grabbing power from the states and private entities.

Some of baseball players are obfuscating and lying; on the other hand, some of the Congressmen are just grandstanding and play-acting.