This just in from the New York Times News Alerts: The star pitcher Roger Clemens, his former trainer Brian McNamee and three others will be asked to testify under oath
before a Congressional committee investigating the use of performance-enhancing drugs in baseball.

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http://www.nytimes.com/?emc=na

Buzz off, Congress. Troops keep dying in an unpopular war, oil is $100 a barrel, people are losing their homes in a massive wave of foreclosures and you want to make a sanctimonious big deal about Roger Clemens and Brian McNamee. Shame!

We’ve got law courts to handle any defamation squabble those two have with each other. And we have the court of public opinion and history, which will pass judgment on Clemens’ legacy.

Baseball doesn’t need CongressCritters doing election-year grandstanding on the steroids/HGH issue. If you want to do something about drugs in this country, repeal the permission Big Pharma now has to hawk its branded, patented, full-of-side-effects wares on the tube next to MAC computers, Lexus automobiles and Papa Johns pizza. It always seemed a little strange to me that we are supposed to be up in arms about performance-enhancing drugs (steroids/HGH) for some sports while legally promoting performance-enhancing drugs (Viagra/Cialis) for other sports.

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