Alex, I'll take people or institutions who drive me crazy for $200, please...

1) Congress:
(From Wire reports as reported in the Baltimore Sun)
"Congress announced plans yesterday to review the use of performance-enhancing drugs, with star-studded hearings scheduled next month and legislation to limit access to steroids and human growth hormone.

"[George] Mitchell said Congress should give Major League Baseball a chance to implement his recommendations before taking independent action.

"My hope is that Congress will permit the players association and the commissioner's office to review this report, to digest it, to consult with their own experts and to work together to come up with the best possible program.

"And then, give them a chance to see what they can do, and at that point, take a look at it. So I hope that's what will occur," Mitchell told the Portland Press Herald in Maine, according to a report on its Web site."

So, we just spent tens of millions of dollars on a 20 month investigation that provides recommendations for how to solve the PED problem and baseball, but NOW Congress wants to take action and grandstand about this subject in an election year? What a joke.

2) Pete Rose:
(From an AP report as reported on SI.com)
"Pete Rose thinks players who use steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs are "making a mockery'' of baseball."

Seriously? This man is allowed to have an opinion about making a mockery of baseball? Seriously?

3) The State of Illinois
(From CBS2 in Chicago)
"Sources confirm Wednesday night that the Gov. Rod Blagojevich's people have been talking with the Cubs' owners about buying the stadium before the Tribune Co. sells the team."

We finally have a situation in baseball where the actual TEAM, or owner more specifically, owns the stadium and instead of maintaining status quo and operating it like a business, the state wants to buy the property and put the taxpayers on hook for millions? I am all in favor of a state building a stadium if you believe it will improve the economy, but when the team and stadium ARE ALREADY THERE, there can be little to no economic benefit from the state getting involved.