Comments on: Rep. Waxman, Please Do Something Productive http://www.sabernomics.com/sabernomics/index.php/2008/06/rep-waxman-please-do-something-productive/ Economic Thinking about Baseball Sun, 09 Jan 2011 17:16:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ken Houghton http://www.sabernomics.com/sabernomics/index.php/2008/06/rep-waxman-please-do-something-productive/comment-page-1/#comment-102809 Ken Houghton Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:02:52 +0000 http://www.sabernomics.com/sabernomics/?p=909#comment-102809 What's your evidence that the Commissioner's Office (or the MLBPA) <em>asked</em> for help from the Committee (which, at the time, would have been run by a Republican, not Congressman Waxman)?? We don't expect our Congressmen to be mind-readers. And it seems clear from the testimony presented that the Commissioner's Office wasn't interested in help. (The Mitchell Report was released in December of last year, and wasn't started until ca. April 2006. Again, long after the committee met, and after Commissioner Selig had ample time to correct any misconceptions [let us, against all evidence, make a polite assumption about the Commissioner's intent] and seek help with the investigation.) What’s your evidence that the Commissioner’s Office (or the MLBPA) asked for help from the Committee (which, at the time, would have been run by a Republican, not Congressman Waxman)??

We don’t expect our Congressmen to be mind-readers. And it seems clear from the testimony presented that the Commissioner’s Office wasn’t interested in help.

(The Mitchell Report was released in December of last year, and wasn’t started until ca. April 2006. Again, long after the committee met, and after Commissioner Selig had ample time to correct any misconceptions [let us, against all evidence, make a polite assumption about the Commissioner's intent] and seek help with the investigation.)

]]> By: Freddie Hayek http://www.sabernomics.com/sabernomics/index.php/2008/06/rep-waxman-please-do-something-productive/comment-page-1/#comment-102808 Freddie Hayek Mon, 09 Jun 2008 20:11:19 +0000 http://www.sabernomics.com/sabernomics/?p=909#comment-102808 JC, I don't know about you, but I actually prefer for Congressmen to waste their time bickering with Bud Selig. This prevents them (at least temporarily) from passing legislation and over-regulating the heck out of ordinary Americans' lives. Scandals are probably a good thing for our country if they can keep Congress occupied enough to prevent the government from sticking its nose into truly important matters. JC, I don’t know about you, but I actually prefer for Congressmen to waste their time bickering with Bud Selig. This prevents them (at least temporarily) from passing legislation and over-regulating the heck out of ordinary Americans’ lives.

Scandals are probably a good thing for our country if they can keep Congress occupied enough to prevent the government from sticking its nose into truly important matters.

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