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(Fox News) - Republican Congressman Christopher Shays is being ridiculed by sportswriters and broadcasters over what one called "an embarrassing laundry list of mistakes" during Tuesday's committee hearing on steroids in baseball. Shays has been one of the reform committee's most vocal critics of baseball.
Shays mispronounced the name of ballplayer Rafael Palmeiro — who shook his finger at Congress members three years ago and denied using steroids — only to have a test show up positive. Shays called him "Palmeiree" — and referred to the time when Palmeiro "conducted" his milestone "300th" hit. In fact it was Palmeiro's 3,000th hit.
And Shays made a comparison between the steroids scandal and baseball's ultimate black eye moment — when the 1919 Chicago White Sox team allegedly threw the World Series in what is known as the "Black Sox" scandal. Shays called the team the "Black Hawks."
Shays response to the mistakes and the criticism — "I could care less." Presumably he meant that he could not care less.
Shays mispronounced the name of ballplayer Rafael Palmeiro — who shook his finger at Congress members three years ago and denied using steroids — only to have a test show up positive. Shays called him "Palmeiree" — and referred to the time when Palmeiro "conducted" his milestone "300th" hit. In fact it was Palmeiro's 3,000th hit.
And Shays made a comparison between the steroids scandal and baseball's ultimate black eye moment — when the 1919 Chicago White Sox team allegedly threw the World Series in what is known as the "Black Sox" scandal. Shays called the team the "Black Hawks."
Shays response to the mistakes and the criticism — "I could care less." Presumably he meant that he could not care less.
posted by BP News Bureau | 9:42 AM
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