Comments on: MLB, Dodgers Make Bagholders Out Of Tix Buyers http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/mlb-dodgers-make-bagholders-out-of-tix-buyers-23880 Celebrity sports gossip since 2001 Fri, 25 May 2012 21:04:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: tony http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/mlb-dodgers-make-bagholders-out-of-tix-buyers-23880#comment-91790 tony Tue, 19 May 2009 02:17:56 +0000 http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/mlb-dodgers-make-bagholders-out-of-tix-buyers-23880#comment-91790 Forget Bud and Donald.  Let's get Eliot Spitzer to investigate MLB. The biggest fiasco is that we've used public dollars to finance entertainment venues where "performers" get high while playing.  Let me go to my local city council and ask for public subsidies to build a comedy club at which all the comedians will be extra funny because they'll be really high on blow, i.e. comedic PEDs.   What would the city council say to me with that request? MLB teams should have to forgo any future public subsidies they will receive (property tax exemptions, etc., etc.) and muncipalities should seek reimbursement from owners for monies paid to date.  It is quite obvious MLB facilliated the violation of federal and state drug laws. Let's acknowledge PEDs in our sports culture.  Let's quit lying to ourselves. Allow PEDs in MLB, just require that players submit to blood drug tests weekly.  The results of the tests are included in each team's statistics (batting average, runs, hits, hr, rbi, testeroone levels, red blood cell count, ball sack diameter).  The market will then determine what the public responds to.  If the fans support teams that have players with high PED concentrations, then so be it.  At least let's be honest with it.  And any player that tests for a PED will be ineligible for any public health entitlements, such as Medicare so as not to be a burden on the state as they age.  (Not that Medicare will be there anyway - but you get my point). Forget Bud and Donald.  Let's get Eliot Spitzer to investigate MLB.
The biggest fiasco is that we've used public dollars to finance entertainment venues where "performers" get high while playing.  Let me go to my local city council and ask for public subsidies to build a comedy club at which all the comedians will be extra funny because they'll be really high on blow, i.e. comedic PEDs.   What would the city council say to me with that request?

MLB teams should have to forgo any future public subsidies they will receive (property tax exemptions, etc., etc.) and muncipalities should seek reimbursement from owners for monies paid to date.  It is quite obvious MLB facilliated the violation of federal and state drug laws.

Let's acknowledge PEDs in our sports culture.  Let's quit lying to ourselves. Allow PEDs in MLB, just require that players submit to blood drug tests weekly.  The results of the tests are included in each team's statistics (batting average, runs, hits, hr, rbi, testeroone levels, red blood cell count, ball sack diameter).  The market will then determine what the public responds to.  If the fans support teams that have players with high PED concentrations, then so be it.  At least let's be honest with it.  And any player that tests for a PED will be ineligible for any public health entitlements, such as Medicare so as not to be a burden on the state as they age.  (Not that Medicare will be there anyway - but you get my point).

]]> By: Bobafet7 http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/mlb-dodgers-make-bagholders-out-of-tix-buyers-23880#comment-91385 Bobafet7 Sat, 16 May 2009 17:25:03 +0000 http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/mlb-dodgers-make-bagholders-out-of-tix-buyers-23880#comment-91385 How is this not Bud Selig's fault, he was the commissioner for this whole era.  How is this not Bud Selig's fault, he was the commissioner for this whole era. 

]]> By: thrillomania http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/mlb-dodgers-make-bagholders-out-of-tix-buyers-23880#comment-91368 thrillomania Sat, 16 May 2009 15:16:49 +0000 http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/mlb-dodgers-make-bagholders-out-of-tix-buyers-23880#comment-91368 Dude. has to be one of the biggest reaches you've made on this site in awhile. Bud selig should appologise because manny ramerez got caught cheating the game? Howis it bud seligs fault manny took steroids and he got caught? and why woudl it be fank McCourts fault? teh union has alolowed and protected players who cheat for decades, now finally that there is testing its Bud Seligs fault players are getting caught and outed? It wasnt teh medias fault, who celebrated and turned a blind eye to sosa & McGuire? to bonds hitting 70+ home runs? seriously? its bud seligs fault these guys take a needl in the ass and now they get caught? lets talk about the NBA for a seconrd where no one ever test positive for steroids but its OBVIOUS half the league is on soemthing. but guys get caught cheating and punished and MLB shoudl appologise for that. riiiight. you ae soo cutting edge with these leaps in judgement. wow. Dude. has to be one of the biggest reaches you've made on this site in awhile. Bud selig should appologise because manny ramerez got caught cheating the game? Howis it bud seligs fault manny took steroids and he got caught? and why woudl it be fank McCourts fault? teh union has alolowed and protected players who cheat for decades, now finally that there is testing its Bud Seligs fault players are getting caught and outed? It wasnt teh medias fault, who celebrated and turned a blind eye to sosa & McGuire? to bonds hitting 70+ home runs? seriously? its bud seligs fault these guys take a needl in the ass and now they get caught? lets talk about the NBA for a seconrd where no one ever test positive for steroids but its OBVIOUS half the league is on soemthing. but guys get caught cheating and punished and MLB shoudl appologise for that. riiiight. you ae soo cutting edge with these leaps in judgement. wow.

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