Senators ask for ban on chewing tobacco at World Series

[Monkeyleg]

Doesn't Senator Dick Durbin have anything better to worry about, like the economy? He and some other senators and bureaucrats are trying to get the players union to agree to ban chewing tobacco use by players during the World Series, and agree to have a permanent ban inserted into the players contract due to be negotiated at the end of the year.

It is, of course, being proposed in the name of the children. While we're at it, can we get them to stop the players from scratching their butts and crotches?

Sheesh.

Story here

[longeyes]

If there is anything our children should not be exposed to it's what passes for politicians.

[gunsmith]

If there is anything our children should not be exposed to it's what passes for politicians.

you're right-I would rather they watch baseball players  then freaking obummer

[Jamie B]

Yea, well, I would rather not have my children exposed to scumbag conressbastids who have nothing better to do but stick their noses where they do not belong.

Besides, I would rather have both kids want to grow up to be baseball players as opposed to cheating and lying congressbastids.

*expletive deleted*ck congress.

[P5 Guy]

I haven't watched the MLB games in some years, do they still grab/rub their crotches and spit like in the old days when I looked up to them?
I stopped smoking too many years age and never got the dipping/chewing thing?

[SADShooter]

Well, it's reassuring to know that things are humming along, with no important issues for the Legistalure to deal with, allowing them to delve into the minutiae of professional athletics.

[Perd Hapley]

Well, it's reassuring to know that things are humming along, with no important issues for the Legistalure to deal with, allowing them to delve into the minutiae of professional athletics.

Exactly. Or, they could be consistent, and take on all the other vices. They could ask actors to stop swearing and fornicating onscreen. They could ask the reality show trolls to be kind to one another. They could challenge our society's lax attitude toward gambling, illegitimacy, or sexual perversion.

We await proposals from Senator Durbin on these issues.

[TechMan]

So are the congresscritters going to ban the below as well?

[longeyes]

Fitting that those who have turned America into a spittoon would obsess in this way.  First it was steroids, the perfect metaphor for the political profligacy of our times, now this...