Can’t prove it, but I have no doubt that Roger Clemens and Barry Bonds used performance-enhancing drugs. I’d tell you which ones, in fact, if only I could spell them.
Now for something I can prove: The federal government is wasting a whole lot of taxpayer money trying to squeeze Clemens and Bonds.
Who, beyond Hall of Fame voters, cares what drugs they did and when they did them? And now that we’re asking questions, don’t the feds have more important matters on their agendas? The economy isn’t exactly rolling down the tracks these days, and here Uncle Sam is spending countless millions to try to tell us what we already know.
Bonds and Clemens have already been tried in the court of public opinion. While watching either one squirm in a courtroom amid mounting evidence would be a delight to behold, the feds ought to let it go.
I mean, really. Shouldn’t we be saving our taxpayer dollars so all those Wall Street fatcats can get their bonuses? Just like Latrell Sprewell, they’ve got families to feed.
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