Why is baseball the Congress' business? Let them cheat and pay the price in decreased ticket sales.
"Former" Senator Mitchell. Maybe baseball is taking care of baseball.
Selig should have done this a while ago.
Because Baseball has a special Congressional anti-trust exemption due to being the National Pastime.
-PJ
Because baseball wanted to have its precious anti-trust exemption (something no other league has).
If baseball hadn't invited the wolves, they would be fine.
They may fit congress's constitutional scope (inter-state commerce) but so does hockey, football and basketball, but you won't see congress getting involved with them because they didn't invites congress in.
Baseball has an anti-trust exemption from Congress. Therefore, Congress are allowed to stick their noses in the sport.
That little thing called the "anti-trust exemption."