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Two Democratic senators are asking baseball commissioner Bud Selig to ban all tobacco use in the sport, specifically citing smokeless products.
Sens. Dick Durbin of Illinois and Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey are suggesting that Selig push for a ban as part of the negotiations in the players' collective bargaining agreement later this year.
Major League Baseball banned tobacco use in its minor leagues in 1993, but still allows it in the big leagues. The senators say Major League Baseball "is undoubtedly complicit" in the increase its use with school-aged boys.
In a letter to Selig, Durbin and Lautenberg wrote, "We now know conclusively that smokeless tobacco endangers the health of baseball players who use it, but it also affects millions of young people who watch baseball."
"The use of smokeless tobacco by baseball players undermines the positive image of the sport and sends a dangerous message to young fans, who may be influenced by the players they look up to as role models," they wrote
Weren't Liberals recently complaining that the Republicans were wasting too much time on repealing Health Care instead of paying attention to unemployment and the economy?
Of course, that was ridiculous in and of itself since they wasted two years on Health Care instead of paying attention to jobs and the economy.
So far 403 budget amendments and only one mentions unemployment.
A proposal to redefine rape.
And a purely show and tell effort to repeal the Affordable Health Care Act.
That's legislation, not a letter by two Senators requesting that the Commissioner of baseball include a ban on tobacco products in upcoming contract proposal.
That would be rather humorous - if it wasn't so hypocritical.
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