Chew on that for awhile

Recently the United States Congress, which seems to have time on the hands these days, trying to convert the NCAA to a sweet 16 College Football format, and taking on steroids in baseball, have turned their gaze to the old act of tobacco and baseball.

Turn back the clock to the dead ball era, and pitchers would spit tobacco juice on the ball, and make it do remarkable stunts, namely avoid bats. These days the spitter is outlawed, but scuffers, scratchers, and scrapers have replaced spitters, but the juice is still around.

Well not if the US Congress has their way.

It will be illegal to chew tobacco in the major leagues, as the Congress believes it does not promote a healthy example to the youth of America.

Holy Smokes ! Chewin Tobacco is unhealthy ? Imagine my surprise to read that the US Government just made that connection. These would the same folks 25 years ago that defended the tobacco industry against the millions dying from lung cancer.

Now as we begin a new decade it is unseemly to be chewing tobacco, and we have no smoking signs in the showers ( Who the hell is smoking in the showers ? )

I don't disagree that it appears to be a real nasty looking piece of business, smelly, disgusting, and all that, but I not in favour of Congress' two face attitude after years of reaping sales taxes.

Poor Obama has enough to do fighting the angry Pharma companies who see record profits dip with a new health care agenda, now Obama's mates in Congress have lost what little wits I think they were born with.

Baseball used tobacco and Tobacco used baseball. Except for Honus Wagner who was dead set against his image being used to promote smoking.

He had his likeness recalled, and Honus was a big enough name to scare the tobacco exec's into pulling every damn card of his from circulation. It is why his card is worth so much money and so few still exist.

Bad enough our heroes are on Twitter, in strip clubs, casinos, in bars till 3 am, driving drunk, beating up their wives, or lovers, having children out of wedlock, and generally trying to keep pace with NFL players ( Sorry, until they start going to jail, baseball players are poor sisters tot he NFL and even the NBA )

I say to the US Congress "find a new hobby", take on organised Crime, South American Drug Lords, how about the war on Poverty, Old Age Security, Parks, and Wildlife. Take a look at the garbage mounting, and the waterways. Ask New Orleans if they need anymore help.

Save the whale, the American Eagle, restock the rivers and lakes, find a goddam cure for Cancer !!!! and stay to hell out of baseball, we have enough idiots running it, we don't need your 2 cents worth.

Right Bud..."What was that ? "..."Go back to sleep Bud, I wake for the next real crisis ".

Chew on that for awhile.