Congress Is Exploiting Steroid Use in Baseball

Re “Players Balk on Steroid Use,” March 18: Let baseball call on Congress to testify about how taking special- interest money is destroying its image and our body politic.

Roger Newell

San Diego

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I love all the finger-pointing and sanctimonious posturing concerning Major League Baseball and the steroid scandal. Why hasn’t baseball taken steps to clean up the sport after all these years? So the government, Congress and President Bush are going to clean all this up?

Are we all forgetting that not too long ago, under the first President Bush, Arnold Schwarzenegger, who has acknowledged past steroid use, headed up the President’s Council on Physical Fitness? The continued hypocrisy is amazing!

Richard Hormel

Los Angeles

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God bless Jose Canseco and whistle-blowers and profiteers like him, even though Canseco’s true intentions seem to be making money off his book and getting revenge for being blackballed. However, he did more good for the sporting world and young athletes than he could have ever imagined.

I believe accepting the Olympic-banned substance policy of a two-year suspension from competition for the first-time offense and a lifetime ban from participation for the second offense is the best way to rid baseball of steroid use. The policy would eliminate any need to revisit this issue, and allow Congress to work on the pressing problems of Social Security and healthcare.

Butch Brzeski

Chicago

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Baseball’s stars past and present appeared before Congress to testify about steroid use. Congress threw the heat and baseball “fouled” out.

Michael Rubino

San Pedro

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Members of Congress really bored in on the baseball crowd on the steroid issue. Our country and the world would be immeasurably better off if they had asked such tough questions of the Bush crowd before the invasion of Iraq.

Paul H. Wangsness

Burbank