The Separation of Sport and State

This is about The Mitchell Report.

and the subsequent trials of Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens.

Minimal research has led to some astonishing estimates of the "cost" to the "taxpayer"

20-60M for the Mitchell Report

6-10M each for Bonds & Clemens

I don't know how to confirm these numbers. They are a vile combination of hearsay and conjecture.

I can understand the perjury charge. Read the following aloud slowly and sternly, with instrumental patriotic music playing in the background:

NO ONE LIES TO THE GOVERNMENT AND GETS AWAY WITH IT!
TO LET HIM WALK SETS A HORRIBLE PRECEDENT!
PERJURY IS A SERIOUS CRIME!

Major League Baseball is a billion dollar industry. Which is a different debate, for another day.

Shit. I'm having trouble clarifying my argument. I'll use an extended analogy to further muddy the waters:

There is a chess match happening. On a ship. Between a deckhand, and the cook.

And the Captain of the boat is watching over the game intently, saying,

"No, no, no you filthy Cook you've been cheating for the past ten years and now you are tangled in a web of lies..."

My question is this:

Shouldn't the Captain be driving the boat? Who is steering the ship if the Captain is this concerned about a Game?