"Can I look at my two children . . . and tell them you have always played the game with honesty and integrity?" asked Representative William Lacy Clay of Missouri to Roger Clemens, as if American family values will face certain extinction if sports heroes don't live up to their projected place high on the pedestal of life.
Can I face my son and tell him that baseball players are an accurate indicator of the status and integrity of the American psyche? Well yes, but I'd have a hard time trying not to laugh cynically while I was saying it.

Now I am supposed to be surprised that certain athletes use performance enhancing drugs? If they don't live up to public expectations, it could cost them millions of dollars. Talk about raising the stakes to ridiculous heights. It only makes them turn back into mere humans again, doesn't it?
The husband and his friends can sit around for hours talking about Whitey Ford and Mickey Mantle as if it were yesterday. It's like they never grew up. Talk about losing your short term memory as you get older. And Congress critters have apparently forgotten what they were elected to do... you know, uphold the constitution and all that stuff.
Am I the only one who finds Congress' obsession with baseball more than a little disconcerting?
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