Does it seem like a ridiculous waste of time to anyone else for Congress to investigate Major League Baseball over steroid abuse? I can understand that there are perfectly valid legal reasons that the House of Representatives is allowed to investigate baseball, but what I can’t figure out is why it is an effective use of their time. Baseball is a private enterprise and they were pretty lax about allowing steroid abuse to become the problem it is today, but in the end, it’s still not a problem that needs to be investigated by the highest legislative body in the United States.

It’s an election year, though, so I guess we can’t count on our priorities being on the real issues that we’re facing as a nation. Personally, that’s disturbing – that when we should be debating about important issues, we get steroids in baseball, a problem that affects one of the slimmest slivers of society. The whole premise that this is ‘for the children,’ that allowing steroid abuse to occur makes steroids appealing to young people, is pretty thin, too. Legislation is no substitution for responsible parenting. If it were up to me, I’d see that this farce ended as soon as possible. Hopefully, my representatives are ferretarmy.com fans!

Update 3/3 – Pretty interesting stuff coming out here, with Roger Clemens facing potential Congressional perjury charges in relation to his testimony that he has never used steroids/HGH. I may not approve of the investigation, but regardless, I’m pretty sure you should never lie to Congress – that’s just not a good idea.