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If you go after Barry then you have to go after everyone including Clemens. After seeing what has happened to Bonds I doubt if anyone will lie to congress

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All of the bloggers on Fanhouse should do their homework before they start bashing Congress for getting involved in sports disputes. Both the NFL and MLB have received anti-trust exemptions from Congress. This means that they are allowed to enter into exclusive and anti-competitive contracts and use exclusive and anti-competitive practices, because of the nature of their business. Sports leagues are some of the only multi-billion dollar industries to receive these exemptions, and therefore, it is the job of Congress to make sure that the business practices of the leagues are not so egregious as to warrant a revokation of these exemptions. I know its easy/popular/lazy to bash politicians for every getting involved in an sports-related issue, but when it involves the operations and business practices of the leagues themselves, Congress has good reason to - at the very least - call some hearings to spend 1/2 a day investigating and forcing sports executives to testify under oath.

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Roger will go from Cy Young to Siyanara (sic)

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well old Bud why not just go ballistic like Judge Landis and kick all on the list out of baseball for life and take away all records and awards, give Roger Maris his homer crown back and the hammer his as well, it doesn't matter if a guy is innocent or not in 1920 the blacksox were all found NOT guilty and got kicked anyway, so have at Bud that is your kinda of game..........Fred C. Dobbs

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Frank -

Now your stealing Gregg Nettles jokes in reference to Sparky Lyle?

Come on be original; don't cheat. At least cite Nettles for the joke.

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Half of these guys did it and half didn't but there is no way that any of them can prove beyond a reasonable doubt if they are guilty or not.In many cases it was for medical reasons (to improve healing from an injury). So what's the point!!

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Of course Clemens won't be called...wouldn't want he to go down Bond's road and perjur himself,

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I am anxious to know if its true that steroids greatly enhances an athlete's game,why are the most of thhese athletes who are accused or suspected of taking steroids are practically unknown?

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If I were accused of taking steroids,in my defense, I would say that , in the light of such rampant use of steroids, I only took the drug in order to level the playing field.

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Give Clemens and Bonds credit. If they did take steroids,they were'nt great players for only a year and then went "bellyup".

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They aren't gonna take away any of these guys awards and titles. The damage is already done to all these guys that used performance enhancing drugs though. In the public eye(at least the majority anyhow), these guys cheated and their reputations will forever be tarnished. I tell my 9 year old son, who is into baseball, that all these guys like Bonds, Mcguire etc are cheats who decided to take a shortcut to greatness. They aren't role models for children and never will be. Those guys homerun records mean nothing to me now and I'm sure I'm not the only one who thinks that.As far as Clemens goes, it says alot that he hasn't come out to defend himself in person. People don't wanna hear statements through his agent, they wanna hear it from his mouth. He's well on his way to having a "great" career ruined if he can't refute what the Mitchell report said.

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Roger, take a lie detector test. Tony LaRussa's name should have been in the Mitchell Report also. His 2 biggest stars for years were pumping steriods, and Beastman even followed him to St Louis. LaRussa knew something was up, and kept his mouth shut.

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Hey Congress--War in Iraq? Immigration? Priorities please.

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