Baseball DIY

The Cub Reporter has today's testimony literally down to the minute and proves just how insane much of the proceedings were. I'm sure no one is pleased with the route McGwire took, claiming the 5th is never a good idea when you have millions of little leaguers to answer to. Essentially, he told us what happened when he refused to answer the question. The most annoying thing though is not baseball but our Congressmen. I keep thinking about the McCarthy hearings in the early 1950s when I read about all this and not because there is a similarity between communist witchhunts and steriod use in baseball, but because politicians always seem so gleeful when they have the chance to subpoena America's heroes. They like to place themselves about Hollywood or the sports world; they like to make statements about how "no on is above the law" and that sort of ilk. They like their little moments of power. What do I think? Baseball needs to deal with its mess and maybe now it has finally figure that out. Otherwise, there's a war in Iraq and we never took the time to finish the last war in Afghanistan. Hundreds of thousands of people are dying in the Sudan, the Congo, Sierra Leone, Angola and God knows how many other places around the globe. It is beyond pathetic that the most important thing in America today was a hearing about athletes using drugs. Everybody needs to grow up.