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These days the temptation to use steroids in sports has become too great for many young athletes.

Sadly, this problem of steroid use is not isolated to baseball.

In regards to steroids, I think we're all to blame, all of baseball. I never realized how far-reaching this problem has been.

The perception is that baseball's players' union is protecting players to use steroids and other illegal performance-enhancing drugs.

It's no secret what's going on in baseball. At least half the players are using steroids.

Despite reforms in steroid control, serious problems still occur in and out of baseball.

Baseball needs to put the steroids era behind it by having and enforcing tough rules against all kinds of artificial advantages, so that spring can return.

Several professional athletes have wrongly taught many young Americans by example that the only way to succeed in sports is to take steroids.

It is essential that we put an end to steroid abuse and set a better example for aspiring young athletes to follow, so that some day, when they make it in the All Star Game, it will be because of their own natural talents, and not because of a performance enhancing product.

The best example of how impossible it will be for Major League Baseball to crack down on steroids is the fact that baseball and the media are still talking about the problem as 'steroids.'