Baseball Doesn’t Need This Shot in the Arm

At a time when baseball fans are running away from the game in droves, Donald Fehr had an opportunity to bring some respectability back to the game of baseball and he blew it. I can’t believe Fehr is against random testing of his players for steroids in the name of privacy. Hey, Donald, if privacy is such a big concern of yours, just throw out all drug testing while you’re at it. Bring back Steve Howe and Dwight Gooden and Darryl Strawberry.

And didn’t Pete Rose bet on the Reds privately? Why not pass out cocaine in the locker rooms along with the chewing gum and sunflower seeds while you’re at it. And watch those homers fly!

I feel so sorry for all former baseball fans like myself who once knew how great baseball used to be and have watched it be reduced to a boring game whose team rosters change every year. Get with the program, Donald. Remember, without fans baseball will go away. It already started with me. When does the NBA season start again anyway?

Hector Reyes

Burbank

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I presume Ken Caminiti would know what 50% of something meant, but I bet if you posed the question to Jose Canseco, “If there were 100 baseball players, and 85% of them were right-handed, how many would be left-handed?”, he’d blow the answer.

Fred E. Stemrich

Claremont