The Government and Roger Clemens' Hearing: Should They Be Involved?

Congress really needs to just get out of professional sports. They have to let the commissioners and their colleagues work these issues out. Unless the issue is a federal matter involving crime, the government doesn't have a right to get involved.

I love sports because of the sport itself. I like watching baseball players go yard and wide receivers make one handed catches in the end zone. I like when basketball players rattle the rim and when hockey players knock the water bottle off the top of the net. Watching coverage of a hearing for five hours isn't what I would like to watch on ESPN. I wish the government and media would stop blowing up these issues.

If the government hadn't gotten involved in the Roger Clemens' case, it would have been much less of an issue. We would like to keep our children away from this as much as possible. The media and the government have blown this way out of proportion. The topic of steroids has been very widely circulated around ESPN and other news outlets.

The idea that these substances can help a young athlete have been talked about and this thought could be entering the minds of these athletes. The government has to get out of matters like this. Virginia Foxx, a representative who questioned both Roger Clemens and Brian McNamee, says that Congress is wasting their time at the hearing and should go back to looking over the house. Bud Selig and the MLB need to deal with this. The government should be worrying about issues of national security or the debt that we're in.

While I disagree with Congress' decision to get involved in the Clemens' case, but understand it, spy gate has gotten ridiculous. I am not a fan of the Patriots or Bill Belichick. In fact, I cannot stand either of the two. I would love to Belichick suspended, fired, or lose more picks. But why does a senator have to get involved with cheating in a sport? Arlen Specter, a senator from Pennsylvania, is wasting his time and everyone else's.

Nothing illegal was done in regards to the law. Just because he is upset that his beloved Eagles lost to the Patriots in the Super Bowl, doesn't mean he can launch an investigation. Roger Goodell destroyed tapes to, in his words, "protect the integrity of the game." Could there be an NFL conspiracy among us? I highly doubt it, but the government doesn't have the right to investigate this.

The government should let sports deal with their own problems, and stick to the many problems they have to deal with like the war and the economy. How would the government feel if Bud Selig or David Stern started making decisions for them?