Congressional Hearings on the Steroid Scandal

I have just been watching the Congressional hearings on the steroid scandal in baseball. As a baseball fan I must say it was riveting testimony. Points and counter points are being made and I want to address one in particular. One congressman stated for the record his desire for the committee to investigate one point subsequent to today’s testimony. I was drawn to it in particular because it has direct bearing on something I have long been saying – and have addressed in previous writings. That is that “allegedly” at some point several years ago the players union and the owner’s may have held discussions on delaying, impeding, interfering, or otherwise obfuscating investigations at that time into the problem of performance enhancing drugs. It was stated that at that time their problem was with compulsory testing of players and that the owner’s agreed with the player’s union their desire to resist such requirements and stipulations.
Let us assume that such collaborations did indeed transpire. The first thing that becomes visible is that this is constitutes collusion and conspiracy to obstruct the process which could bring criminal penalties. But I go even deeper than that to say that it would prove my earlier contention that ALL parties concerned recognized and accepted the necessity of the perpetuating the benefits that performance enhancing drugs offer. Those the fans want high scoring and exciting games, the players want to gain and edge wherever it can be gained so that they can earn higher salaries, and the owners want higher revenues from their teams and media profits.
Having reiterated this and having a congressional committee becoming interested in it, I have to note that my point may be in the process of being proven totally correct. If this becomes the case, then I again must ask, if all concerned parties and participants of this issue stood to benefit from it, then who is the aggrieved party? It then follows that it is required to be known just who is the complainant in these proceedings?
Let me make a comparison to an event that took place in my locality not long ago. A police officer who is also an elected official last Independence Day held an outdoor event at which fireworks (which are illegal in my state) were used. The newspapers tried to make news about it, even to the extent of notifying the state police about it. They replied that they would not investigate because there was no complainant. Fact must have been that all the neighbors (who normally would be the aggrieved party) either couldn’t care less or were at the party enjoying themselves.
I am forced to submit that in reality all of the hoopla about the baseball steroids scandal is largely a media fueled event, and despite all the attention and expense to investigate this “media event”, it remains to be shown who is really complaining about it? Other than the athletes whose records are being broken, the fans, athletes, and the owners all seem to want the benefits of sports enhancing drugs. Consequently, why is Congress even concerned with it? Until a clear “victim” can be produced, let alone one willing to lodge a complaint, further attention to it amounts to nothing more than sanctimony, political posturing, and a waste of the taxpayer’s money. Plus, the longer we are entertaining this, the more the media is kept busy and profitable and I don’t like doing anything to aid them in whipping up a frenzy through their yellow journalism.