Baseball Without Chew?

Once again Congress has found a way to nose its way into the world of sports. As if the steroid trials weren't enough, they now are "urging" the MLB Player's Union to outlaw chew. The cited reason: the usual role model's of children mantra we've heard with some many other encroachments on civil liberties. Apparently, we are responsible for the irresponsibility of parents and others who have an actual influence in kids lives. If we're not careful, soon congress will be "urging" anyone in the public eye not to drink soda or eat doughnuts, because heaven knows all of those kids are going to just follow that example blindly and end up fat. My first reaction to this whole issue is that no kid would be ignorant enough to just blindly do whatever they see "someone" on television do, but then I thought harder about the kind of "critical thinking" our schools are training today's average american child to use, and I concede the point. This is just another example of the gloriously benevolent state intervening on our behalf to protect us from the ignorant, blindly following fools they have so carefully tried to craft us into. 

It's time congress needs to get its power-hungry nose out of our lives and back to whatever legitimate thing it's supposed to be doing.... which is, what, exactly?