Three days after the House Oversight Committee hearings, I can’t decide what bothers me more – the performance of the Committee members, the witnesses or the public outraged at being subjected to the circus. Seeing how eagerly certain members of Congress attacked a man who confessed his crime was more disturbing than their animated defense of the player/entertainer whose protestations and alternate views of events became less convincing as the day wore on.

That made me wonder - why did nearly EVERY member from one party take on side, while the others took the opposite? Was it a coincidence that the Republicans scorched Brian McNamee, the trainer who admits he injected illegal performance enhancing drugs into players (which was confirmed by all the named players EXCEPT the one seated next to him) with attacks that became quite personal from a couple of members, even though his key assertions were corroborated by independent factors? Was it mere chance that Democrats were the ones demanding that Roger Clemens provide answers that added up and were more than recitations of his past contributions to society? Was it just a matter of chance that Roger Clemens retreated from the hearing room to the confines of the Republican Caucus Room after mentioning in his comments that President Bush Sr. supported him in his trying hours?

I‘ll let you make up your own mind about all of that.

That dichotomy, though, gave every observer of such a mind the opening to curse both sides and plead to be left alone in their pursuit of entertainment. “Why is Congress getting involved?” “Don’t they have more important things to work on?” “If we don’t care if the players are juiced-up freaks of human engineering, why should some self-important blowhard politician interfere?” “So what if they illegally altered their bodies to assault records set ages ago? The record holders would’ve done it if they could have!” That’s just a sampling of what I heard on the radio and read on a variety of blogs.

Why do we have a baseball team here if so many of you don’t care if it’s all fake?

I never thought I’d see a day when so many of us would ASK to be defrauded. I never thought I’d see such brazen embracement of deceit be encouraged as a virtue for the kids watching and learning from it.

I’m glad my days of taking kids to little league are over.