It is ... so ... cold ... in my office. Everyone is sitting in our winter coats. I tell ya, either the heat is blasting or there’s no heat at all. No happy mediums. Plus an awards ceremony is being held in our building on Wednesday so they’re repainting the lobby and the paint fumes are a bitch. Anyway, enough complaining.

Happy St. Patrick’s Day to whoever celebrates it! I know of one Irishman who won’t be in a celebratory mood today. Mark McGwire. Congress is holding its hearings on steroids in baseball and McGwire, Jose Canseco, Sammy Sosa and others will all be appearing. Most likely, they’ll all invoke the Fifth Amendment. It’s telling when the players strenuously deny ever using steroids to the media but once they’re forced to testify under oath, they clam up. Look it’s no shock to anyone that steroid use was rampant in baseball for the past 10-15 years. Just by looking at guys like McGwire, Sosa, Giambi and Bonds, and seeing their sudden increases in power production, it is obvious that more than just weight training was going on. The Congressional hearings won’t accomplish anything as baseball has already adopted a new steroid policy, but it should be entertaining to watch these guys sweating the hearings out.