Drug-test every athlete from Little League to majors?
Yeah, sure. Let’s bankrupt this Universe and all 3,245 other ones while we’re at it. They asked some idiotic questions of the Major League Baseball players and execs today in Washington, but one of the scariest came from a congressman who wanted to know if Olympic Games drug-testing should be mandated for all athletes everywhere. Yeah, sure.
I laughed aloud every time Mark McGwire dodged questions of his own steroid use during the go-go 1990s. (He said: That’s in the past. Let’s be positive, and look to the future.) But I cringed when members of the House panel investigating drugs in professional baseball wondered if the “gold standard” of drug-testing — offered by WADA and USADA labs — should be applied to athletes at all levels.
Hello? HELLOOOOOO? Earth to Congress! Earth to Congress!
Maybe sending $300 billion down a shithole for Iraq is OK, but how expensive would it be to launch random, out-of-competition drug testing for athletes from grade school to geezerhood?
Don’t even THINK of it. Not with MY money you won’t.
And if anyone should suggest that USATF Masters can afford to do anything but the skimpiest testing at national championships, I suggest you spend some time with USATF treasurers. We have enough money — barely — to put on masters nationals.
I’m sure some of the questions (and answers) were grandstanding for the monster media maw, but let’s not go there, shall we?
