The Roger Clemens perjury trial predictably was a giant waste of taxpayer money and government manpower. That would have been the case even had he been found guilty - which he was not.
American taxpayers should demand to know what the trials of Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds cost them.
The bigger question is why were they necessary? Was it really to prevent people from misleading Congress? Somehow I doubt it.
This is what has taken in place over the past 10 years in an attempt to "clean up baseball." It started with the Balco scandal in 2003. We had the Mitchell Report that was good for nothing. It named names but so what. There was no proof. That was followed by a Congressional hearing because that is exactly what Congress should be spending its time on. Who really cares about the economy, corporate corruption and homeland security when there is a steroid scandal in baseball. Then there was a Department of Justice investigation into who might've been lying at the hearings. A Barry Bonds trial that ended in a token conviction that carried zero punishment. Finally two ridiculous Clemens trials that couldn't even prove that he was a liar.
Hey fans knew what was going on when ballplayers started looking like Ben Johnson and launching 70 home runs in a season. Yet they still came out to the ballpark. It's entertainment. That's all.
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