Conflicted

I'm not sure how I feel about congress gettin' all hot and bothered and thinking they have any business getting in the middle of professional sports.

On one hand, it's a game folks. Let's not take it too seriously . . . it's not like social security or health care or whether or not brit-brit is wearing knickers.

But, it's also big business. Business that is problematic in that there are shades of exploitation . . . and scandalously high salaries for people who may or may not be in any shape to handle that money without getting into serious trouble . . . and huge amounts of money changing hands for advertising and sponsorships and trading of humans, etc.

But, is really the job of ELECTED GOVERNMENTAL TYPES to think they have the right to muck around with the business of this business? If large scale crime or "stuff that just ain't right" is going on . . . perhaps. If y'all just wanna watch the home team without paying extra for the network . . . then I'm thinking that falls in the category of "abuse of power." And, if there is enough shady business going on that you CAN threaten to look into issues of monopoly . . . then as elected types, you shouldn't be bought off with being able to see the home team on network tv.

Which brings me back to . . . all of this consternation is based on a GAME . . . or several types of games. At what point does it stop being a game . . . and become something so much more? And, once we hit that point, doesn't it kinda lose that something that makes it an escape for those of us doing something more than pushing a ball around for a living?