Is anyone else tired of the steriod scandal in baseball? I am. In fact, I'm annoyed that our tax dollars are being spent trying to figure out who shot up who with what needle with what type of human growth hormone.  It's adbsurb. It seems to me that:

1)  We have bigger, more pressing issues, say, Iraq, the economy and who planted a seed inside Brittany Spear's sister Jamie Lynn Spears...she's on a TeenNick show 'Zoe 101' (which my daughters love) and she's cute and all but I keep watching wondering which of her co-stars might have been 'the impregnator'....the show is set at a private school with dorm rooms and such...pretty easy pickin's.

2) Our elected officials just want to be in the spotlight with sports guys who they admired...and I quote from CNBC:

On Tuesday, Clemens made the rounds on Capitol Hill one last time, wearing a gray pinstriped suit and squeezing face-to-face meetings into the busy schedules of committee members. He met with five lawmakers over a four-hour span Tuesday, on top of the 19 he saw Thursday and Friday.

"I enjoyed talking with him," said Rep. Diane Watson, D-Calif., who said the discussion included baseball stories and personal accounts about the Sept. 11 attacks. "It's always good to meet the person who is in the spotlight. ... I told him, 'This is not a trial.'"

3)  Big money and an all powerful players union have pretty much ruined baseball so who cares if a bunch of jocks shoot themselves up with 'roids just to compete..it's all just entertainment anyway..let them ruin their bodies.

What really  got me lathered up was a comment I heard regarding 'protecting the youth of america' from the scourge that is steriods.' Ok, Ok, fine, protect the youth. Hell, I WISH I could have taken something to make myself stronger when I was younger...but I was what I was so I had to deal with it. Maybe I was misguided and thought that all food was good for me and that chowing down two large fries at McDonalds after a soccer game was good for me......oh, wait, I wasn't protected from that was I?

Hell no! What we have her folks is a conundrum...don't tell me you're protecting the 'youth' of america by putting multi-million dollar atheletes on trial for steriod use when fast food still exists, is marketed directly at kids (toys in the food box?) and is not put under the same amount of scrutiny. Maybe the committee on 'Oversight and Government Reform' should skip their lunch and get started on these multi-million dollar corporations . I suspect, scratch that, KNOW, that more kids are damaged by fast food than by steriods every day. A nationwide study of 6,000 children in 2004 stated:

Researchers found that, on a typical day:

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  30% of children ate fast food.
  
  


• Fast food was the main food source for 29 to 38% of children.
  
  
• Among 4- to 8-year-olds, those who ate fast food ate 6% more food the rest of the day than kids who didn't eat fast food.
  
  
• Among 14- to 10-year-olds, fast-food eaters ate 17% more than other kids.
  
  
• On average, fast-food eaters ate 15% more calories than other kids.

HOLY SHIT!   40% of the kids used fast food as a primary meal. Check this out:

Fast food seemed to contribute an additional 57 calories a day to the average child's daily diet.

At that rate, the child would gain 6 pounds each year -- if they didn't get enough exercise to burn it off.

Damn, that's a lot of fat kids that won't ever get to the steriod needle because they can't off the couch even to play baseball or football. Imagine if they toss a few all day video game sessions in there with their Big Mac. Damn, I like a good video game but mixing fast food and no exercise is a receipe for cardiac arrest.

It would seem to me that the poisoning of our population might get more attention from the government than steriods in baseball, but then what do I know. I don't have to worry about getting re-elected and taking money for my campaign. Come to think of it, most of the law makers probably have money and don't even think of taking their families someplace where you can feed (poison) everyone for less than $10.

Last Person Out.....go to the game, but walk away from the Big Mac.