SOFTBALL.(The Talk of the Town)(baseball players and steroids)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 28-MAR-05

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Over coffee in the cafeteria of the Rayburn House Office Building early Thursday morning, several congressional staffers acknowledged the obvious: baseball had come to Washington, and the politics of sport was threatening to supplant the sport of politics. "I bumped into this reporter, and he was all important, like, 'I'm here to cover the hearings,' " one man said. "Well, we have hearings here every day. I mean, I like baseball, but our priorities are out of order."

"It's hero-worship, that's all it is," another man replied, shaking his head.

Upstairs, inside the chambers of the Committee on Government Reform, the steroid hearings soon...

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