Strictly Baseball On This One!!

I watched much of Roger Clemens and Brian McNamee's testimony before Congress today and came away thinking what a dog and pony show. With a war going on in Iraq and Afghanistan, with Michigan and soon, much of the rest of the country in recession due to an economy that's in shambles, mostly due to homes sales and mortgages and with possibly the most important Presidential election in this country in years on the horizon and Congress is worried about the use of steroids or HGH in baseball? One Congressman even asked Clemens today what uniform Clemens would wear when he enters the Hall of Fame. Come on Congress, get a life!!

And then there's the media. I turned on one of the local sports talk stations and low and behold, they're telling me how Clemens is being "crusified" by Congress. Well, from where I was sitting, both here at home and then later on my real estate office computer, I saw McNamee getting his share of verbal abuse from the Congressmen and Congresswomen who were on hand. But then again, that's the media, ready to dub someone guilty until they're proven innocent. Think O.J., Robert Blake and others.

Hey, I don't know anything about this steroid usage issue, whether Roger did or didn't. Yes, I do care, because if he did, it's just another black eye for baseball. The game will continue getting black eyes, until they hire an independant commissioner, similar to what we had before Bud Selig took the job. Big Bud at the time, was a baseball owner and he continued in that capacity for quite some time after taking on the commissioners post. The leaders of the game, must clean up their own act before they can even think about cleaning up the sport itself. Lets bring in another Kenesaw Mountain Landis or Bart Giamatti to bring baseball back where it needs to be, untainted and unquestionably the "national pastime."