Can someone please tell me what business the US Congress has in Major League Baseball or the National Football League? Each is an independent organization and NOT a part of the government. Each has a commissioner responsible for enforcement of the rules, and each commissioner is working toward that end.

The last thing we need is the government stepping in and trying to assert its misguided authority over professional sports.

The NFL’s commissioner doesn’t need some senator’s opinion on whether or not he did the right thing for HIS OWN LEAGUE. He doesn’t answer to the US Senate.

Instead of securing our border, we have congressmen interrogating the former trainer and former nanny of a former pitcher to determine whether or not he did something a decade ago that wasn’t even banned.

What is wrong with this picture? No wonder we’re headed down the toilet. Congress should have one role in professional sports, and that role is SPECTATOR. Nothing more.

I don’t know if Roger Clemens took steroids or growth hormone. I don’t have any way of knowing. However, there’s something that doesn’t sit right with me about the recent “evidence” provided by his former personal trainer Brian McNamee.

Apparently McNamee supplied authorities with gauze pads and syringes that are alleged to contain Clemens’ blood, as well as vials with traces of steroids and growth hormone.

The claim is that the evidence is from the 2000-2001 time frame where he supposedly injected Clemens, and that he kept it because he thought Clemens would later deny using steroids. While it’s sweet that he is obviously such a fan as to hang onto those keepsakes for so many years, I have to ask:

Why? Why would a trusted friend store evidence with the sole intention of ratting his [supposed] friend out in the future? (I call him trusted because seriously, would you let someone you didn’t trust stick a needle in your ass?)

Why is it such a big deal when the substances in question weren’t even banned by MLB until years later? He wasn’t breaking the rules or the law. The substances were not illegal drugs, and they still aren’t today.

Wouldn’t Clemens have noticed his trainer carefully putting the used gauze and syringes into plastic baggies and labeling them “Roger ‘00 evidence”?

If it is already established that McNamee injected Clemens, wouldn’t it be reasonable to think that he would have access to gauze pads and needles with traces of Clemens’ blood, regardless of what was injected? The fact that he also has vials with steroid residue does not prove anything.

What storage scenario would be required to preserve evidence like that for so long, and what situations would require the evidence to be thrown out because it isn’t trustworthy? I doubt “I kept it in my freezer at home for seven years behind the ice cream, trust me” is admissible in court.

The whole situation seems pretty fishy.

So how ’bout them Giants?

Maybe all the Patriots who only gave lip service during all their interviews and press conferences should have actually showed up for the game. They didn’t get it up for the Ravens game, but they were lucky. They didn’t get it up for the Super Bowl, and they weren’t.

And how classless is Bill Belichick? Walking off the field before the game is over? Some coach of the year.

A few more random thoughts:

Don’t send email with videos attached. Believe it or not, there are places online where you can upload and watch videos, and there is probably already a copy of your video uploaded. Link to it instead of attaching a file that will eat up everyone’s bandwidth.

If a person or entity claims to be un-biased about a topic, and writes or says something favorable about one side or product, and that side or the maker of that product happens to be a sponsor of said person or entity, what was said or written can hardly be trusted. It may in fact be honest and un-biased, but it’s no longer trustworthy in my book, unless all parties involved are equal sponsors.

Don’t promise me or anyone else anything unless you can provide it on your own. If it requires someone else’s effort or money, it’s not something you should be offering, unless that money or labor is offered willingly for you to control.

If you don’t know, say you don’t know. You’ll feel a lot better than if you claim to “know” and are completely wrong.

Do sports commentators think sweeping generalizations make them sound smart? Do they think that if they say nice things about someone, that they’ll get a phone call and a dinner invite from them or something? Ugh, is it baseball season yet?