Major League Baseball’s opening day last week had more publicity than in years past.

Was there some hot young pitcher that was catching the media’s eye? Was there a record close to being broken? No.

The topic getting the most attention from the press was steroids. Is anyone else tired of hearing about all of this? Performance enhancing drug usage is a problem and baseball (and all sports, in my opinion) should have some form of testing policy.

But when did steroids become an issue for the federal government? I’m not a big fan of politicians anyway, but when they spend their days listening to statements of retired baseball players instead of fixing the situation in Iraq, I start questioning their priorities.

Apparently since President Bush used to be part-owner of the Texas Rangers, the focus has been taken of WMDs and put on PEDs. Mark McGwire is one of my all-time favorite baseball players. His homerun race is what made me interested in baseball again after the strike. I’m sure many other fans would say the same.

To see him brought under such scrutiny for something he did that was so amazing hurts.

Since using steroids is technically illegal, once a standard testing policy is finally working, it should be treated the same as any other crime and have a statute of limitations.

If the players can make it through their careers without getting caught, we should leave it at that. What’s done is done and there’s no way to go back and change the past.

If Major League Baseball is willing to put asterisk on records that happened years ago, how long until they’ll dig up Babe Ruth and Joe DiMaggio to test them and see if they can tarnish their records?