Congess investigates drug use in baseball WITHOUT Barry Bonds' testimony

“The Government Reform Committee gave baseball a Monday deadline for producing information about its drug-testing program, including test results with the names of players removed.”

Let me get this straight. Congress is investigating whether or not baseball is infected with steroid use.

Baseball, whose players’ union has long forbid the random drug testing of its members.

Oh well, at least we’ll confirm or deny whether Barry Bonds, long associated with accused steroid-dealing outfit BALCO, is in fact a regular user of the dangerous and illegal performance enhancer.

What’s that? Barry Bonds wasn’t invited to the hearing?

Of course. CONGRESS is investigating drug use in baseball.

Additionally, it was announced that Congress would be investigating whether easy-to-obtain credit cards contribute to bankruptcies. Nobody from Visa or Mastercard was invited.

A further investigation would be looking into whether lawyers being allowed to advertise in newspapers, TV, phone books, magazines, billboards, and toilet walls contributes to the increase in lawsuits. No members of the legal or advertising businesses were invited.

And in yet another announcement, Congress will be investigating whether or not the Pope is Catholic. Neither the Pope, nor any other members of the Catholic church were invited to the proceedings.

Actually, there may be good reasons for Barry Bonds being skipped as a provider of testimony.

The little-loved-outside-of-San Francisco Bonds was quoted in a recent interview as saying “I don't know what cheating is.”

In addition, when asked directly whether he had used illegal performance-enhancing drugs in his remarkable recent years of home run hitting, he replied "I'm not a child. You repeat those things to children and then eventually they tell you. I don't."

So maybe Congress is smart in not inviting him to the hearings.

They likely couldn’t get an intelligible answer from him.