UGH...or is it HGH?

Welcome to the Afternoon Update.

Today is the biggest blah day I have ever had. I didn't find too many stories that tickled my fancy today, but here's what I got.

Obama is A Drug Dealer:
A senior official in the Hilary Clinton campaign made a comment, then retracted it, that the Republicans are going to bash him in a national election due to his prior drug use. He also stated that they might make it seem like he was a drug dealer. Now I know how these things work, someone makes a statement and then takes it back so that it is as if "it never happened", but clearly this is just a tactic to use smear words alongside the name of a candidate. Now America is pretty dumb, so when headlines have the words "Obama" and "drug dealer" in the same place, people with draw their own unfounded conclusions.
This being said, I think it might be interesting, should Obama win, whether many Americans will relate with him regarding this issue. I will take a stab and say that a good majority of people tried smoking pot in college, atleast once. And they are hypocrites if they bash him for it. I mean hey, it hasnt stopped George W.

White House Pages Perform Oral Sex:

Two White House pages have been kicked out of the page program for allegedly having oral sex in public areas of the Capitol Hill dormitory. Now the thing is I can understand why they were kicked out, many programs for high schoolers, the least of which on Capitol Hill, have restrictions regarding sexual activity. But the big deal is there is going to be a bipartisan investigation and blah blah blah... It was just two high schoolers fooling around! It happens everyday, it does not need to be a huge political scandal. It is moment like this that make me realize how overly dramatic Capitol Hill has become, its like a frikin soap opera!


Ok I had a bunch more stories to discuss, including a car dangling from a parking garage (here's the video- http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2007/12/13/chetry.dangling.car.cnn) and a really clever pregnancy scam. But I have decided to talk about the Mitchell Report instead.

Mitchell Report:
Note, Brady Anderson is NOT, repeat NOT listed in the reports. Therefore this completely absolves him of any steroids use, and now his 51 home run season can stand as one of the best offensive productions from a lead-off hitter with sideburns.

Anyways, the Mitchell Report is annoying because it has completely bogarted the news today. It is dominating every sports page, and has infiltrated everywhere else as well. My "two cents" as it were, are twofold.
1) Is this going to change baseball forever? I don't think so. Especially looking at all the big names on the list this pretty much is showing that steroids and HGH have been a staple of baseball since the 80's. Now let me ask you this, are they all cheaters now? As far as the rules are concerned yes, but at the same time, all the top hitters and pitchers were juicing. Which brings me more imporantly to my second point.
2) Should all of their accomplishments be taken away. This isnt just a Barry Bonds asterix debate anymore. This is Clemens and all his rediculuos career stats. Andy Pettite, Miguel Tejada, Eric Gagne, Gary Sheffield. These are household names in the baseball world. Without them to be honest, if you believe that Pujols never juiced, there might only be 2 superstars who are innocent. So the thing is, now that most good players have cheated, is the level of play going to dip back down? is it unfair if everyone has the same advantage? Baseball was a joke before a lot of players rejuvinated it with 100 Mph, and 68 HR's in a season. Nonody cared about the sport, and it was on a downhill slope. There are people out there saying this is the biggest scandal since the "say it aint so Joe" and the BlackSox. It is completely different. I don't see this as a scandal. People have known about this for decades. What was the point of doing this report, right after the congressional hearings smeared the sports name recently? All in all this is not going to affect anything other than the news for a few weeks. And years from now people can quote the report to bash their old favorite players. I think this was a rediculous stunt, and the American people's tax money could be put to better use by our senators.