Today is ‘Opening Day’ in Major League Baseball (minus the games played in Japan, they don’t count). I am an avid baseball fan even though my team is rarely a contender (Go Royals!). This off-season and many of the previous seasons have be covered in scandals, primarily steroids. Is anyone else sick of this? Steroids in baseball doesn’t make me as made as the United States Congress deciding that it is more important to figure if steroids are in baseball than fixing the country’s problems (Lord knows we have enough). Why is the Congress a part of this? This is a MLB problem, not a national security issue. The people that should decide what to do about steroids in any sport are the fans. I remember the strike in the mid nineties and when the strike was over fans did not return to the ball park. If fans disagree with steroids in baseball that much they will not buy tickets. If this were only true. The average attendance of baseball games has been increasing season after season but polls of fans say they do not think steroids belong in baseball. MLB and the Players Association need to get a handle on the situation in a hurry before more athletes and families are hurt. How did MLB go from being America’s favorite past time to America’s favorite drama on television? Steroids need to stop in all professional sports to protect the integrity of the sport, the athlete and the athletes that made the sport what it is today.
