How far we have come with the Clemens hearings. Not quite Iran Contra, though I must say I do endorse Congress getting involved in things like this (though we saw the limitations). I thought the Mitchell Report was a joke. I enjoyed the hearings, but once they started talking about nannies it started to wane. Pettitte killed Clemens, he really did.
Chris Shay's cheap shot of McNamee about being a drug dealer was pretty nasty. Shays was right that others should have been invited, but calling McNamee a drug dealer is semantics. He is different than the drug dealer on the corner. It isn't the same. Shays knows that. For some reason he doesn't like McNamee.
Sorry to bother you Congressman.
Without further ado. If these are the kind of things we investigate, let's answer all my questions and curiosities.
Here are some additional hearings I would like to see:
1. A hearing on the rivals and scout ratings. What comes first, the rating or the offer? You could have CT reps Shays and Chris Murphy taking Connecticut's side. Then the Hunter guy from Tennessee can defend rivals since its his home state. It would be titanic. I hear there is a movement to award the national championship every first Wednesday in February instead of a BCS game. That's as good a way as any. Maimi is the 3 time defending champion.
2. Why has Nip Tuck gotten so disgusting? I don't know if ya'll are fans, but the show was always incestuous in nature. There is a love triangle between plastic surgeons Sean and Christian (best buddies and essentially brothers) and Julia. Julia and Sean were married for a long time and had a son Matt that is actually Christian's child. Somehow, they are all still best friends and business partners. Well, Matt was just dumped by a disfigured women and Christian helped set him up with a client that came in and begged for surgery. Well, it just so happens that the client is Christian's love child, and she is now in a relationship with Matt -- her half brother. Yuck. I can't be any more appalled.
3. They should investigate the show 24. I don't understand how Jack Bauer could overwhelm Curtis in Season 4 so easily. And, how does Bauer move around Los Angeles so quickly? He never gets caught in traffic and never has to go to the bathroom. The show doesn't past the realism factor for me. And what happened to Elisha Cuthbert?
4. A hearing on Giuseppe Franco's endorsement of Procede. Does this guy really have a salon? Is it meant to grow hair or not? How does he endorse a product of a company he knows nothing about? I think there is great discussion whether this is a masking agent or actually grows hair. Has anyone gotten a haircut at this guys place. So many unanswered questions. All hat and no hair. And I think the oversight committee should investigate the price gouging at that salon.
5. Does expensive wine really taste better than the one in the box? Or, is it just a marketing gimmick?
2 comments:
john, unless i misinterprete you, i agree. Why is congress wasting time investigating anything sports related? i hear senator specter met with roger goodell on the patriots??? doesn't specter have better things to worry about?? same comment of course on congress and MLB. What a joke. why doesn't anyone call congress on this crap?
I do think Congress should investigate things like this, but this was a monkey trial. As the day went on, I found it to be a show trial.
Let me make it clear, I think the investigative arm of Congress a powerful tool in keeping sports leagues and other businesses in check.
I do want them to investigate stuff like this, but not in this manner.
As this thing went on, I thought it lacked balance and was kind of seedy. This became all about Clemens, and not steroids. I haven't followed this closely, got suckered in this morning. And then felt like I wasted my day by 2 p.m.
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