Look at any Major League Baseball player who has been using steroids. You can?t help but think of a steer, considering chest size and the strength that goes into the record setting home runs. Thus the word ?steroids.?

A great debate has started about steroids and its users, especially since the recent Congressional hearings, but it?s not about whether players use them or not. Instead it?s about records that were made while the players were on them, and whether those records should be erased. For example there is Jose Canseco?s record shattering home run hit in Toronto? Skydome. It is unlikely any other player will ever hit as far into the fifth deck as that one traveled.

Now it is proposed by some that that record, and all other records, made by players on steroids should be abolished -- like they never happened. Mark McGwire?s, Sammy Sosa?s and Barry Bonds? augmented home-run derby would stand in jeopardy. And the argument goes on, with no apparent solution in sight.

You cannot escape the fact that, like Pete Rose?s hitting record, the home runs were hit. So live with it. Simply remove all paper mentions of them, revert to the old numbers on the record sheets -- for example, most home runs hit in a single season: 61, by Roger Maris. Put Babe Ruth?s name back on the sheets as the man whom Maris beat, and so on.

However, make no more mention of Sosa (though he says he never used them, check his chest), Jason Giambi, Barry Bonds, and other users, unless they do something spectacular -- unaided. By the way, if you use the chest factor as a reference, look at Rafeal Palmeiro?s chest and decide if he is telling the truth.

Then, when of the all records are reset to their former glory, simply look for new records to be set by players playing under a clean bill of health. Any mention of the steroids-aided home runs would be in context -- that is that they were tainted.

If there is any ongoing argument, let it be to argue why the steroid crew is still allowed to be in baseball while Pete Rose is not. After all, the record he accomplished -- most hits in a career -- lives on the records pages while he is out of baseball. The comparison is dramatic.

If someone ought to be removed from baseball it ought to be Commissioner Bud Selig. He is more embarrassing to the game than any misdeed by any player. He is there only because the owners want someone in that office who will take orders.

Due to a lack of common sense -- especially baseball sense -- he never will challenge anything, because he doesn?t understand anything. He is a deterrent to the game.

Baseball will not properly or officially regard the magnitude of steroid use until, or unless, they have someone in charge with a modicum of intelligence and understanding of the problem.