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From: david@fisher.UUCP (David Rubin)
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Subject: Re: Ueberroth's Folly
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Date: Fri, 24-May-85 08:46:33 EDT
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> ............................  Phooey on all you folks
> trying to justify the melting of brain cells in the
> athletic sports.  The athletes need all they can get.
> T. C. Wheeler

So do you, T.C.  Would you have no objections to spot urinalysis for
you?  How about a spot polygraph, too?  We wouldn't want to let
atheletes and civvies corrupt themselves by lying, would we?

More to the point, the players and owners reached an agreement on how
to treat players doped up in one way or another.  What the Commish is
now doing is trying to use P.R. to circumvent that agreement.  Thus he
violates the two fundamental principles of the Republic:

		(1) due process and
		(2) the sanctity of contracts.

I happen to think Ueberroth's actions in this matter are a poorer
example to apparently infinitely impressionable youth than the
excesses of some atheletes.  The latter implicitly endorse hedonism;
the former tyranny.

This is not an endorsement of drug use.  It is an assertion that
Ueberroth's attitudes on individual rights and legal contracts are
inconsistent with our highest principles.  (Dare I say it?) It is even
downright un-American.  We can count ourselves fortunate that he is
the Commissioner of Baseball, where such attitudes can be discounted as
the actions of a take-charge guy, rather than Senator from California.

					David Rubin
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