Take me out to ball game…

A few years ago Congress called before it some of the best hitters and pitchers in baseball and asked them point blank if they had used performance enhancing drugs like human growth hormone and steroids.

Well, they hemmed and hawed.  Some fessed up.  Some didn’t.  But Roger Clemens told them “no.”

So the US Justice Department went after him for perjury.  They botched the first trial but now they are coming back at him with more lawyers and more money and more motions.

And every lawyer and every man hour and every dollar they have spent in all this effort going after a baseball player is totally commendable.

That is the kind of leadership we like to see.  And we would expect nothing less from the head of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division—Lanny Breuer.  Because before coming back into Government service Lanny Breuer was at Covington and Burling as the co-chair of the White Collar Defense and Investigations practice group– where he specialized in white collar criminal defense.

So Lanny knows that every Justice Department Lawyer who is devoted to this little piece of street theater on baseball players is not looking at Wall Street.

And certainly not looking at the juiced up financial products we created that caused the World Series of crashes.

So I am rooting for the Justice Department— you go nail those athletes to the wall.  How does the rest of the song go?

Root root root for the home team.