Notes, quotes and anecdotes from the week that was. Subtitle: “If Only I Could Sit Back and Enjoy Watching Our Sports Devour Themselves Whole.” But sugar pie, honey bunch, I can’t help myself.

Last week two of the most disreputable beneficiaries of MLB’s and “Bottom Line” Bud Selig’s intentional neglect of what no one else could miss — MLB’s cheaters-prosper Steroid Era — were honored in ceremonies by their former teams.

Sammy Sosa — the spray-hitting little guy who one day showed up as the Michelin Man to become Babe Ruth with a corked bat, then pleaded “no comprende” under oath before a Congressional hearing on why the nearly impossible suddenly became routine — returned to Chicago where he was treated like a freed war hero by Cubs fans.

Sosa was in Chicago to be inducted into the Cubs’ Hall of Fame. Take that, Ernie Banks.