Henry Waxman Still Terrorizing MLB

Henry Waxman has gone about as far as he can go in ensuring that professional baseball players aren't using steroids. A bevy of high-profile Congressional hearings -- including the brilliant Roger Clemens castration -- should, right or wrong, be enough for any league or player to think twice about defrauding their sport. The fear of Waxman is palpable and prohibitive. Just look at that man. His moustache is pure terror.

Still, with all that in his pocket, Waxman won't let the steroid issue die. He's unhappy about "misinformation" he believes Bud Selig and Donald Fehr provided regarding the lowered number of positive steroids tests in 2004. Don't mess with The Waxman:

"It's clear that some of the information Major League Baseball and the players union gave the committee in 2005 was inaccurate," Waxman said in a written statement. "It isn't clear whether this was intentional or just reflects confusion over the testing program for 2003 and 2004. In any case, the misinformation is unacceptable."

The discrepancy is over a potential flaw in the 2004 testing which might not have properly tested players with 2003 positives. More than that, those players possibly found out about their tests ahead of time. That flaw seems like a pretty minor detail -- so a few more positive tests happened in 2004; this isn't much of a secret, nor should it be -- but if true, it speaks to Selig and Fehr's desire to wipe the whole steroids mess under the table, even as they pledged to solve it. Which is just so unlike them.