The Advocate
2/18/08
R. Jason Cooper
"I continue to be outraged by both the blatant abuse of power and total neglect of responsibilities demonstrated by some of our Washington politicians who are investigating major league baseball players and their alleged use of steroids and human growth hormone," is the opening line to Coopers letter. He is clearly not happy with Congress' use of time. He then goes onto stating the many things that Washington should cover such as the wars in the Middle East, illegal immigrants, the price of gas, and home foreclosures. He uses very strong language to get his point across and is clearly trying to get everyone on his side. He uses lots of questions of why should we do this instead of that which was a good way to hold the reader's attention.
I thought it was a well written article and took a good approach to get his point across. He told his issue, presented the facts, and used facts of older politicians. After the article I agree with the author that there is too much on this issue and too much on just Roger Clemons. It does need to be taken care of but not by the government. It should be taken care of by Bug Selig and the MLB. There are way too many other issues for Congress to take care of instead of the entertainment business.
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I think this was a really good article and it was well researched. I think that the author did a good job getting his point across. I aslo agree that this is an issue that is making headlines too often and should not be handled by congress but rather should be handled by the MLB.
I do think that it is kind of silly the way the government harps on the fact that some baseball players may have used steroids. We should be focusing on major things like the examples he mentioned.
This article was effective in the way the author presented information. I do agree with the author that this is an issue. This is seen in many areas of our lives; for instance, you can not turn on the "news" without hearing about famous celebrities and their issues. I think there are much more important topics that we need to focus on, and this author did a good job at stating that point.
I think the entire issue of steroid use among MLB palyers has been blown completely out of proportion. The governtment should not have anything to do with this they should be more concered with things such as murder. To me it is not fair the everyone is so concered with this steroid use when there is so much other drug activity occuring in the US.
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