America's Favorite Pastime
My first love as a child was baseball. I lived in San Jose, California. I was/am an Oakland Athletics fan and Jim "Catfish" Hunter was my hero. The A's won three World Series in a row in the 70's and life was good. Then Charlie Finley and free agency broke up the team. "Catfish" went to the Yankees and all the other players were spread around major league baseball. It was a rude awakening. I have been a sports fan all my life. Initially baseball and football, which I played growing up. I have come to love college basketball and most especially the NCAA tournament, which my wife refers to as the "spider thingy". Over the past few years sports have started to occupy less and less of my time. Marriage and children will do that. So will the disaster that has been occurring since George W. Bush became President. Sports are a diversion. They are for enjoyment and right now it is hard to enjoy these diversions given the current state of our union. So today when I heard this story, Baseball Stars Called to Testify on Steroids on NPR I couldn't help but wonder why Congress can drop everything and investigate steroids in baseball as if it's a case of national security but won't touch any of these, The Scandal Sheet. Any good athlete will tell you they are LUCKY to get paid millions of dollars to play a kids game. I agree. Congress should focus on real problems and investigating steroids in a kids game is not one of them.
- posted by Mom/Dad @ 11:33 AM