Yep. I am.
I was listening to The Regular Guys podcast this morning from yesterday’s show and was reminded of this story which, in turn, reminded me of another story.
(R) Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah has a bug up his ass about the Bowl Championship Series and how it may somehow violate anti-trust laws. The President has said on more than one occasion that he’s in favor of a playoff in college football.
Other members of congress have for years inquired about the validity of Major League Baseball’s anti-trust exemption.
If you don’t know what anti-trust laws are or what they mean or how they work, here’s a simple explanation.
We interrupt this blog to deliver this important message:
WHO THE FUCK CARES ABOUT ANTI-TRUST EXEMPTIONS, ANTI-TRUST LAWS AND PLAYOFFS?
Well, I care about the playoff part, but I don’t think there is a single member of the House or Senate that should burn one single calorie worrying about college football or steroids in baseball or any of that other shit.
Why?
Because our nation is on the brink of collapse. It’s debt is now estimated at 15 Trillion Dollars, which is almost TWO BILLION DOLLARS MORE than the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of said country.
That’s right. At a time when we are about to slide as a nation to number two, three or worse on the planet from our role as Big Man On Campus and we are spiraling headlong and at light speed into the financial abyss, we have public servants and elected congressmen and congresswomen worrying about whether it’s fair for the NCAA to control how their championship works and whether MLB’s union is legal.
Really? And for this these assholes get lifetime benefits for free, amnesty from 99.9% of their douchebaggy behavior?
I want to go to sleep at night knowing that the people on The Hill are burning the midnight oil trying to find a solution to our economic woes that doesn’t involve raising taxes, crushing small business and artificially propping up the economy by printing more worthless money.
Many of these folks have been in office for years, which means they lived thru the salad days of the Dot Com boom and all of the spoils that went with that. They didn’t have to work too hard then and make tough decisions, but they do now.
In closing, I’d like to say to Mr. Hatch that my fellow citizens and I would appreciate it if he and his colleagues would spend a little less time worrying about why Utah keeps getting snubbed by the BCS (cough cough crappy conference and weak out of conference schedule) and a little more time trying to prevent the second depression in this nation’s short history.
Sincerely,
FRT
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