This site is one of the worst forums for politics because its a baseball site. Baseball should not have to have interactions with the US government, but it does. The two should never be mixed and for some reason people push them to be mixed. Of course the issue I am referring to is steroids. Now that baseball has gotten on its game and is policing its self, there is no reason for politics to not only get involved, but given the times (an economic recession, multiple wars abroad, and the elephant in the room which is the energy crisis), politics should not even have time to comment on the steroids situation.
During last night's television address, a reporter, seemingly out of the blue, asked President Obama about how he felt about the Arod confession. The President handled the question very well saying he was disappointed, talked about children and ended the baseball talk right there. Which was great because the last thing we need right now is for the country to get involved in the steroid era. I really wish I knew though what that reporter was thinking. Everyone else was asking serious questions about very serious issues. Next to the failing economy, healthcare and wars abroad, the issue of sterioids in sports is just seems, and I hate to say this, but juvenile.
Baseball is so important right now because it is a way of relieving oneself of stress, and thats the way it needs to be. If have to go through another Mitchell Report and another Congress hearing, we could really lose that. Even if that happened, I know for me baseball will still be a way of getting rid of stress, but maybe not for other people. Lets take a lesson from FDR, who kept baseball going in times of war because the American people needed it and just hope that this Congress chooses to avoid steroids in baaseball, and lets baseball police itself.
