It's official.  Your United States Congress is once again wasting your tax dollars holding hearings on baseball.  And to what end? Well, first they want to investigate Miguel Tejada.  That's right, your tax dollars will pay for an investigation into the dubious doings of the Houston shortstop.  Never mind that we have problems in this country, we must investigate Miguel Tejada at once!  Somebody should start impeachment proceedings against Henry Waxman immediately.

This is a joke.  An outrage.  No, not Tejada.  He's just another cheater who got caught with his hand in the needle jar.  It's the ongoing intrusion of Congress into to things that don't matter.  Kids getting shot in Iraq matters.  Preventing people from sneaking in to the US under fences matters.  Education, tax relief, measures against big drugs and big insurance and less government intrusion into our daily lives matters.  Baseball in the grand scheme of things in all of our lives DOESN'T MATTER.  To waste even a penny of taxpayer money on testimony from Bud Selig is a joke and a boondoggle.  Yet no one raises these issues.

Tejada, by the way, will be investigated for lying to congress.  Is he even a US citizen?  Are we going to spend time and resources on an investigation against a foreign guest worker (who plays a game) when we still can't even find Osama Bin Laden? Give me a break.  Please.  Why not Rafael Palmeiro?  You know he lied.  Or, why not get Mark McGuire for contempt for not answering any questions.  Or Sammy Sosa for playing the "me no speak English card?"  Or better yet, why don't you moronic windbags try to legislate something tangible that betters my life and makes me think the taxes you gouge me for every year isn't me pissing in the wind. 

I know I've attacked this before, but think about it.  Congress is doing this for photo ops and sound bites.  Nobody cares what Henry Waxman or Tom Davis think about steroids in baseball.  Waxman and Davis probably think the same thing we all do: "Sucks to be baseball."  But after that, what can they do to prevent any of this?  They can't and they can't legislate a private enterprise which baseball is (anti-trust exemption be damned.)

When you pay your taxes this year, think of where your hard earned money is going.  To fund a bunch of gasbags who waste the world's time worried about a sports entity that they really can't legislate.  To focus on things that are irrelevant and not focus on the things we need most.  People are getting their houses foreclosed on every day and yet these ass clowns are too busy worried about whether or not Miguel Tajada is a cheater to worry about that.  No wonder this country is so screwed up. 

Lightning Round

• Jason Garrett is going back for a second interview with the Ravens.  If Baltimore hires him, it will foil Jerry Jones' evil plan of making Garrett the coach when Wade Phillips mysteriously disappears after next season.  Speaking of Garrett, Jones and Phillips, our friends at Kissing Suzy Kolber are at it again.
• Jason Garrett is not the only Cowboys coach being wooed.  Tony Sparano is too.  By the Tuna himself.  It looks like Phillips coaching staff will look like West Virginia's after Rich Rodriguez left if all these guys get hired.
• Former Michigan QB Ryan Mallett has transfered to Arkansas.  Too bad he won't have Darren McFadden and Felix Jones to hand off to.  Meanwhile, at the far end of the sports complex, a nervous Bobby Petrino faxes his resume to the Baltimore Ravens.
• Sometimes, the good guys actually get what they deserve.
• This sounds like something on TRU TV: There are several files missing relevant to West Virginia football players.  The day before he left WVU, former WVU coach Rich Rodriguez was seen shredding documents in his private office.  Conspiracy theorists are already connecting the dots.  Personally, I believe if you are leaving a job, you shred all the documents and then reformat your hard drive. 
• Greg Williams deserves another chance to be a head coach.  The question is can he deal with a tyrannical midget?
• Dale Junior is pretty aware that now driving for Hendrick, the best team in NASCAR, his time is now, as in right freaking now.  If he blows engines this year, he won't be able to blame the team.  The truth is, Dale Junior as a driver is probably not nearly as good as people think.  His biggest claim to fame is his DNA.  Let's see how he does this year working with Jeff Gordon and Jimmy Johnson.  If he fails or has a bunch of DNFs again, we'll know soon enough.
• HEY BAY-BEE! GUESS WHO'S BACK AT THE MICROPHONE?  IT'S DICKY V, BAY-BEE.  Now if Billy Packer could have the same surgery the day before the NCAA tourney begins, the world would be a better place.
• Today's list: Twelve Presidential Candidates You Never Heard Of.  You'll think our man Ron Paul is sane compared to these wackos.
• Here in Wisconsin, where everyone (except me, my wife and our dogs) is going crazy over Green Bay playing in the NFC championship game, the local channels and news anchors have abandoned any kind of decorum and have gone to the "All-Packer All the Time" format.  Witness Milwaukee Fox 6 anchor Ted Perry almost kill himself trying to execute a Lambeau leap.  Another one of my 467 reasons why I don't watch local news.