Congress is scheduled to hear from Bud Selig and Donald Fehr today on allegations of players’ use of performance enhancing drugs in Major League Baseball. This closely follows the release of the infamous Mitchell Report (December 13, 2007) that was the result of a 20 month long investigation and named over 80 players and several team trainers who are alleged to have been a part of the deception. This comes three years after Bud and Donald spoke to Congress on this very same issue.

As Congress returned to work after the month long winter break, they clearly wanted to dive right into the nation’s most pressing issue: professional sports players deceiving their fans and the MLB by artificially boosting their physical prowess. I don’t know about you, but when I return to work after a four week hiatus I want to ease back into the grind. You have to hand it to these Congressman, taking no time for themselves to get re-acquainted with Capitol Hill and tackling serious, big issues.

Homeland security, funding for our troops, the nation’s aging infrastructure, an almost depleted Social Security program, lack of health care, illegal immigration, the economy, the dying dollar, and perpetually soaring oil prices all pale in comparative importance to the nefarious plans of the underground sporting world who would fool you with players’ abilities by utilizing performance enhancing drugs. I applaud Congress’ ability to focus on the issues that really mean something in the face of all the pressure put on them from these radical groups who expect them to deal with the minutia of things such as the rising unemployment rate, borderline stagflation and a housing market crisis.

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