Why Is The Government Bothering With Baseball?

I was watching the House Oversite Committee on steroid abuse in baseball yesterday and i could not help but think to myself why is the government bothering with this matter at all? Surely the public servents of this country up on the Hill have more pressing matters to deal with than whether or not baseball players in general have been injecting themselves in their posteriors with human growth hormone in order that they could hit or pitch a baseball harder. I mean i am right about that arent I? They do have better things to worry about, dont they? You know, things like are there any loose nukes in Russia that Al Qaeda is trying to get its hands on so it could hit New York? Who are the North Koreans trying to sell their nuclear technology to for some quick cash because their country is completly broke and desperate for money? How are we going to lower the national debt which has nearly doubled in the last 7 years? What about the people who are still homeless in New Orleans after Katrina? These questions to me seem a little bit more pressing than whether or not Barry Bonds took steroids to break the all time home run record in baseball. I mean just let the people in baseball worry about it. Baseball has a commissioner and his name is Bud Selig. Let him go track down these athletes and worry about the integrity of his game, that's his job, not the job of any politician in Washington. In the grand scheme of things whether or not baseball players use performance enhancing drugs is trivial really. The truth be told, baseball likes the fact that its players are juiced, or at least the owners do, because its causing their revenues to skyrocket. The Yankees for example, had their best attendance year last season with well over 4 million people showing up to Yankee stadium to watch their juiced up players hit the ball farther than ever before and they loved it. The Red Sox too, The San Francisco Giants, where Barry Bonds played, had a similar experience. As long as that is the case there is only going to be tokenism in terms of baseball trying to crack down on steroid abuse. People forget that the ultimate goal of the owners of these baseball teams at the end of the day is to make money. It's their prime directive. The attempt to crack down on steroids is merely a public relations matter to try and pretent to the fans that they care about the integrity of the game. They care first and foremost as business people that their bottom lines are as fat as can be. Juiced up players make their bottom lines fat so they are not going to be too aggressive about getting to the bottom of it, especially if by doing so they would end up badly effecting their profit margins. If cracking down on steroids means that their organizations make even one less dollar than they made the year before, then they simply are not interested in doing it. They will pay lip service to it but behind the scenes they won't actually do it because they do not have an economic incentive to do it. The owners of these teams are wealthy successful business people. They never let ethics get in the way of profits. So at the end of the day, in light of this reality, any attempt on the part of the government or any other authoratative body to clean this up is futile. They should just stop wasting their time and move on to more pressing matters in these uncertain times.