We have our generation's Shoeless Joe...... waving his finger and making the comments he made must have made him some enemies. Congress and MLB along with the union are going to make a HUGE example out of Raffy.... and it's sad the one they truly needed to nab was Bonds.
Raffy seems like one of the nicer guys and it is a shame they are making him the martyr. He just got caught doing what everyone else was, no excuse butI'm sure there are many big leaguers right now rubbing the sweat off their brow and thanking their God .
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WASHINGTON - Congress will investigate whether baseball slugger Rafael Palmeiro perjured himself when he told a House committee that he hadn't taken steroids.
With the player's consent, Rep. Tom Davis, R-Va., chairman of the House Government Reform Committee, and the committee's ranking Democrat, Rep. Henry Waxman of California, asked Major League Baseball on Wednesday to turn over information about the failed drug test that resulted in a 10-day suspension for Palmeiro this week.
On March 17, Palmeiro appeared before their panel and, pointing a finger in the air, said under oath, "I have never used steroids. Period."
"As a practical matter, perjury referrals are uncommon," Davis told The Associated Press. "Prosecutions are rare. But this is a high-profile case, so I think it will get an honest look-see. I don't think anyone can avoid it."
"If we did nothing," he added, "I think we'd look like idiots, don't you?"
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LINK: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050803/...palmeiro_drugs
Wonder if this means Giambi is going to drop his HR #'s again.
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I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"
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