Steroids are wrong and we all know that and there is no room for them in Major League Baseball, but do we need a senate hearing committee to tell us which ballplayers have used them and which ones havenít?

I agree with just about every other baseball fan when I say steroids are wrong and they have no place in the game. I think major league baseball is starting to take the proper steps in cleaning the game up and testing players to ensure that they are not using steroids.

A lot of people have even talked about whether or not an asterisk should be placed next to some of the home run records that were broke in the 1990s and early 2000s.

Over the winter several big name players were questioned by a federal grand jury in the BALCO case that accused a personal trainer of illegally giving athletes steroids and other performance enhancing drugs.

I understand why these athletes were called to testify as it was for a federal case, but now the U.S. Senate has handed out subpoenas to ballplayers to testify in front of a senate committee.

Whatís going to come of these appearances though? Will the players be punished for telling the truth if they did use steroids?

I see a few things happening here. I see us finding out the truth about some players on whether or not they knowingly or unknowingly took steroids or other illegal performance enhancing drugs. I also see us being lied to by one or two of the subpoenaed players. Who, Iím not sure. And finally I see our government wasting money on something that is truly not that important in the general scheme of the nation.

Leave these cases at the local or even state levels at the highest.

Now comes the other problem I have with the whole situation. Now that baseball says steroids are wrong, the argument is coming up since they werenít ìbannedî before it was OK to use them.

I wonder if the people using this argument realize that steroids, even though not previously banned by Major League Baseball, were still an illegal substance unless prescribed by a doctor for a legitimate medical reason.

To me it seems as though some people feel Major League Baseballís rules are almost superior to the laws of the U.S. and even Canada.

Enough is enough already. Letís acknowledge that steroids are wrong and move on.

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