Get baseball out of my courts

Secondly, to the voters, PLEASE vote for the best debater NOT for who you agree with unless they are the same person. To paraphrase ABC Family "The following arguments do not necessarily support the views of SportsGuru. " I am debating because: 1. I enjoy debating 2. I want to improve as this is only my second debate on this site. Now to analyze my opponent's round 1 statements. "its gone all the way to the supreme court" This is not a reason to take baseball away. It is simply how the system works. Making baseball not go to the Supreme Court would require large changes in the judicial system if not the whole government. Advocating this change contradicts your importance point as the system as worked for over 200 years. "…are the leagues business they can do as they wish but keep it out of the court" I am sorry but legal precedents disagree with you. Although we do not have a communism-style economy in this country, the government can intervene in a business. The biggest example of this can be found in monopolies. The United States government has an antitrust law that as Wikipedia states "prohibits anti-competitive behavior (monopoly) and unfair business practices. " Therefore, the United States government has the power to put any part of a business (even steroid usage) such as MLB "in the court". The government has done this with many businesses such as when it broke up Standard Oil in 1911, AT&T in 1934 and United Aircraft and Transport Corporation in 1934 and attacked U. S. Steel, Apple and even MLB in 1922. Therefore, through historical examples and current law, we can see that the league's business does not need to be kept "out of the court". "This steroid thing is getting out of hand…what kind of mess is this". Although I agree with what you say, this is actually in support of my side. As you stated, "this steroid thing is getting out of hand". Why would it not make sense to have the government (that is experienced in investigating business as shown above) sort this out? Steroids usage is a big problem, so get the biggest power in the land to fix it. This is just common sense. I will address any importance arguments in my next dissection. "…so more important things can be settled" This seems like your main argument. Before I attack it, I think an entry from a debater's friend Merriam-Webster is in order. important: marked by or indicative of significant worth or consequence . http://www.merriam-webster.com... My opponent claims that there are more important things need to be settled in the Supreme Court. First, I challenge my opponent to prove such things that are more important than the steroid issue. As my opponent has the burden of proof, if my opponent does not have this proof my opponent automatically loses his main point. As there are only two rounds, I will also show how the steroids issue is important and most likely more important than most think. Using the definition of importance, we can see whichever potentially have more consequences is more important. Thus, I will show all the potential consequences of not having baseball in court The estimated 2007 revenue for MLB is $6 billion dollars. With 30 teams and around 25 players on each team, there are at least 750 personnel not including those in the front office. Now, the whole reason baseball is in the courts is to clear up the steroids situation and to therefore raise the confidence of fans of baseball's "cleanliness". Taking baseball away from the courts would therefore instill a larger sense of doubt than is already there. Because, there is such a large amount of doubt, the number of viewers and therefore the amount of revenue would systematically drop and go so low that baseball would be go bankrupt or very close to it. If baseball goes bankrupt(or close to it), that is at least a $6 billion dollar drop in revenue for the economy and a large spike in unemployment as those working in baseball would have to find new jobs. The economic effects are even more disastrous when one considers all the business that is made selling baseball merchandise. Considering as of 16 Feb 2008 at 01:45:28 AM GMT the national debt is $9,293,703,908,586.32 and our economy is on the edge of a recession, it is doubtful our economy would be able to bounce back. If our economy fails, we have no money. If we have no money, the government cannot protect its citizens because of lack of funding. If the people are not protected, a revolution will eventually occur or the U. S. will be taken over. Either way will lead to a nuclear war as taking over the U. S. is an act of war and if a revolution occurs anarchy would ensue and some crackpot out of over 3 billion people would commit an act that gives one of the countries that does not like the U. S. to attack it. Once the war starts, all life on Earth except cockroaches will eventually be destroyed. Thus, the consequences of not having baseball in the courts are destruction of baseball, destruction of economy, destruction of the U. S. , nuclear war, and destruction of all life on Earth except cockroaches. I challenge my opponent to find an issue that is more important than preventing the aforementioned events to occur. I have sufficiently proven my opponent's arguments wrong and await a rebuttal.