The cheaters must pay

Major League Baseball is flexing some muscle now about illegal steroid use amongst players. Commissioner Bud Selig is calling for much stiffer penalties (including league expulsion for a third offense) and MLB nailed its first semi-big steroid user, Twins relief pitcher Juan Rincon. It's good to see that pressure from Congress has pushed baseball to create serious penalties for illegal steroid usage.

I'd go a step further: first offense = one-season suspension; second offense = permanent expulsion. But, my tolerance for drug use - and especially drugs used to cheat, which have absolutely no merit or positive usage in today's sports - is virtually zero.