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Hey Big Mac!  There’s no CRYING IN CONGRESSIONAL HEARINGS ON BASEBALL! (Updated)

Congressional steroid probe begins.

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update:  If it’s any indication of the overall quality of these hearings, a member of Congress just asked renowned Cato scholar Jose Canseco whether or not the government should consider universal drug testing for athletes at all levels of competition.

On my tax dollar.

A note to House Panel members:  Jose Canseco is an expert on hitting the belt-high fastball, sticking himself with a needle, and banging Oakland A’s groupies five at a time in a bygone era of Erasure music and mullets.  Beyond that, he’s a self-serving egomaniac and a dullard trying desperately—and unsuccessfully—to sound intelligent.

You may as well be asking a porterhouse steak to conjugate Latin verbs. 

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update 2:  John Cole doesn’t think much of the hearings, either.

61 Replies to “Hey Big Mac!  There’s no CRYING IN CONGRESSIONAL HEARINGS ON BASEBALL! (Updated)”

  1. norbizness says:

    I can almost hear the carnival music emanating from the House Government Reform Committee all the way over here in Austin. Maybe Dan Burton can make a cameo appearance and goad McGwire into hitting baseballs into watermelons, making them explode.

  2. Jon says:

    first!

    okay, I’m just trying to get my comment next to the Say Anything girl…

    turing word: area HA!

  3. Jon says:

    Bullseye!

  4. harrison says:

    This is your tax dollars at work.

    Waddya think?

  5. BLT in CO says:

    Harrison:  It galls me to no end, anyway.  Baseball?  It’s a game.  Congressional hearings on the deletorious effects of steroid use over a damn GAME.  Was Bud Selig too busy today to take care of this?

    Next up on the congressional roster: professional chess players who drink stimulants [Starbucks] for mental acuity.  [Dusty Brand] clothing models who use tanning beds to increase their attraction.  Bloggers who have an unfair advantage thanks to a teaching background.

  6. BLT in CO says:

    And as I look across the Say Anything blogad, I see other important and yet somehow unfair advantages that a certain group possesses.

  7. diebudseligdiediediediedie says:

    Bud Selig is a gutless moron who has done nothing positive for the game of baseball in his tenure as commissioner.  AND he has HORRIBLE hair.  Horrible.

  8. Ana says:

    I never used steroids. I gained twenty pounds of muscle mass from last season to this season drinking those protein shakes and wrestling with bears.

    Mmmmmm. Protein shake.

  9. Jim says:

    Well, it’s silly, but of course the more time they spend holding worthless hearings the less time they have to put their hand in my pocket.

    Turing word:  free.  I dunno… “Steroids want to be free?”

  10. I’ll like to say “Unbelievable”, but of course, it isn’t…could be worse.

  11. JWebb says:

    Should Canseco go to prison, he would demand conjugate visitation rights.

  12. Fred says:

    It pleases me to see others in this community acknowledge the greatness of the “Say Anything” gal.

    Simply perfection itself.

  13. Fred says:

    If I were a pro athlete and the mandatory drug tests that Congress critter was talking about were to be administered by the “Say Anything” model and involved siginificant personal contact, I would march on Washington until the bill was passed.

  14. Ana says:

    Let the stupid poison themselves with whatever floats their boat. Eat your Big Macs. Here, have some more meth. Couch potato until your ass melds with the sofa cushion. G’head. It’s called natural selection. What the world needs now is more Natural Selection.

  15. Ana says:

    That side of beef was just upgraded to a Porterhouse, now the verbs are Latin, and there’s nothing about auto repair. I always wonder if I’m imagining things when that happens. Maybe it’s the Zithromax (strep, thank you).

  16. BLT in CO says:

    “You may as well be asking a porterhouse steak to conjugate Latin verbs.”

    Or a slab of BBQ brisket (with a side of rice pilaf) to do carburetor repair.

    (With apologies to Jeff’s pre-finalized post)

  17. Pete Lafitte says:

    It was worth watching these hearings just to hear Schilling slam the damn Democrats.

    However, for us life-long Cardinal fans, this is a dark day.  Bob Gibson would’ve dusted any bastard who even thought about cheating!  Chin music, baby.  Chin music.

    BTW, I love it when Ana smiles after a protein shake.  In my god-forsaken world, Ana looks just like the Say Anything girl.

    Smokin’!

  18. Jake/H says:

    I’m imagining things when that happens. Maybe it’s the Zithromax (strep, thank you). -ANA

    ..or the blotter acid.. blotter acid will do that to.. just so you know..

  19. harrison says:

    George Will (who would make a great commish

    of Baseball) had a column in last Monday’s WaPo

    that’s worth reading. Doesn’t speak well of the whole thing.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32589-2005Mar13.html

  20. Ana says:

    Yang: Protein Shake. Watch it buster or I’ll have the Dental Board on your ass.

    Yin: Uh, I mean, of course I look like the Say Anything Girl. How sweet of you to notice.

  21. Ana, and do you too have a sweat spot between your breasts? I know the guys haven’t noticed that since they are looking elsewhere, but it is grossing me out.

  22. John Cole says:

    So I got to the Say Anything blog- and not one babe.  Just a picture of Arafat.  Blech.  False advertising.

  23. Ana says:

    Dear God. I’m so glad that was Sparky asking. It would have totally creeped me out if it had been one of the XY chromosome carriers.

    No. No sweat. And they did notice it a number of posts back but they rationalized it into a heart-shaped something or another. Interesting psychological phenomenon, idol worship.

  24. CraigC says:

    I don’t mean to step on the bit, but isn’t that just a shadow?

    And for the record, I once overheard a porterhouse steak say, “Amo, amas, amat.  Amatus, amatus, amunt.”

  25. CraigC says:

    Whoops, now that I think about it, it’s “amatis.” I still remember my eighth-grade Latin teacher at St. Albans, Mr. Prat.  His name was Howard Prat, and we called him “Howie.” Not to his face, of course.  He was the cause of my spending virtually every Saturday that year in detention.  When someone said something stupid, or something he didn’t like, he’d say, “Ah, CRAPOLA!” He was a pistol of an old coot, he was.

  26. Ana says:

    furor scribendi

  27. CraigC says:

    You writers are all alike.

  28. hobgoblin (a porterhouse steak) says:

    Indicative Conjunctive

    Present

    sum

    es

    est

    sumus

    éstis

    sunt

    Present

    sim; fuam

    sīs; fuas

    sit; fuat

    sīmus

    sītis

    sint

    Imperfect

    eram

    erās

    erat

    erā́mus

    erā́tis

    erant

    Imperfect

    essem; forem

    essēs; forēs

    esset; foret

    essḗmus

    essḗtis

    essent; forent

  29. JWebb says:

    I’ve never been able to decline breast sweat. Even in greek.

  30. CraigC says:

    There’s nothing like declining breast sweat, if you know what I mean, but the breasts have to be at just the right angle.

  31. Fred says:

    WHO DARES QUESTION THE IMPECCABLE BEAUTY OF MY DARLING “SAY ANYTHING” GIRL?

    THIS WILL NOT STAND!

    And it has nothing to do with the “hypocrisy”.

  32. gail says:

    Damned ignorant porterhouses. A good t-bone would have known the plural of amo, amas, amat is amamus, amatis, amant.

  33. Ana says:

    aliquando bonus dormitat Homerus

    spam: enough. Oh, alright.

  34. CraigC says:

    Come on. It’s been about a zillion years since I took Latin!

  35. Ana says:

    Never took Latin.

    I have a book. HA!

  36. Ana says:

    aliquando bonus dormitat Homerus

    sometimes even good Homer sleeps

  37. gail says:

    Just teasing the steak, Craig.

  38. PorterHouse says:

    Bite me, Jeff

    Romanes Eunt Domus

    http://www.mwscomp.com/movies/brian/brian-08.htm

  39. gail says:

    Cum catapultae proscriptae erunt tum soli proscript catapultas habebunt.

  40. Ana says:

    Anyone see where those wacky Pythons (remaining wacky pythons) are going to do another project?

    Hope it doesn’t suck.

  41. Ana says:

    Run Away! Run Away! Gail has a catapult and she’s hurling runts and bundt pans! Aiiiiii. The humanity. (For this I went to college.)

  42. gail says:

    When catapults are outlawed only outlaws will have catapults.

  43. gail says:

    is what it says

  44. CraigC says:

    Yes, it actually does.

    Spamword, “between,” as in, if I get between that catapult and that bundt cake, I’ll be screwed.

  45. CraigC says:

    Are we having fun yet?

    Spamword, “always.” It really is creepy, you know that?

  46. gail says:

    It’s always fun when the whole gang gets together.

  47. CraigC says:

    But where’s Diana?

  48. Ana says:

    Hot date.

  49. gail says:

    Again? I get tired just trying to imagine Diana’s social life.

  50. CraigC says:

    HA! (putting hand over mouth)

    Spamword “bill,” as in, “No, I’ll get that.”

  51. JWebb says:

    Having fully explored the adorable sweat stain nestled between the Say Anything girls immaculate cleaveage, may we now turn our attention to the orange phallus above the perky right breast of the Dusty girl?

    Disgust among yourselves.

  52. Ana says:

    It’s a flashlight.

  53. gail says:

    That’s a flashlight, ferchrissakes. Or a dildo. It could be a dildo.

  54. CraigC says:

    Yeah, it’s a flashlight, but come on, how many flashlight-shaped dildos have you seen?  Not that I have, but I’m just askin’.

  55. JWebb says:

    I think that question is better left to an OBGYN.

  56. CraigC says:

    Yeah, but he has to hold it in his mouth, you know.

    Oh, for Christ’s sake.  Spamword, “piece”

  57. Cum catapaultus proscripti et tu portendi phallus corborundum

    wordiness: “cold” – “Man, thats just cold”

  58. “Outlaws that mess with Gails catapault may get their dickies ground off”….

    word soup: ideas “Is this another one of your brilliant ideas Dan….”

  59. JWebb says:

    It could also be a large orange dildo with a small rocket motor attached. Complete with “O” rings. . .

  60. CraigC says:

    And by “O” you mean…..

  61. CraigC says:

    And by the way, I wouldn’t mess with Gail’s catapault either.

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