Breakin' the Law

So they finally found charges for Barry Bonds. It seems to me that perhaps they worked and they worked until they finally found something that would stick. I'm not saying I think he's innocent or guilty of being juiced -- just that they could never find enough to convict him on those charges.

I don't quite understand how it is that congress has any business poking into major league sports. All of the professional sports have leagues that have rules and investigators and folks who mete out "punishments" based on the crime and a player's relative value. I kinda would hope that the people elected through the democratic process and who have their fingers on the nation's purse strings would have more to do than gaze upon their navels and wonder who is on the juice.

The media report I heard made some mention of having test results that would prove the perjury case. I have to wonder if that's true, did the league also have those results? And, if they did - why didn't they stick to their own rules? Or, does it really even matter if Bonds or several or all of the players were "enhancing" their abilities? Or, are they really afraid we fans might figure out what we've all known all along -- that it's a GAME.