My son Cory is a science teacher and girls weightlifting coach at St. Cloud High School in St. Cloud, Florida. He and his twin brother, Jason, have been known to reach out to weightlifters from opposing schools to assist those young women in their techniques as both have been trained in Olympic-style weightlifting.

Cory lost one of the state's top lifters to rival Osceola over the summer as she moved. It hasn't deterred him from reaching out to coach her as she is a legitimate contender for a future effort to make the US Olympic Team.

It doesn't matter about the color of the uniform. Cory and Jason simply want to help kids get better at what they do in a legal, moral, ethical and drug free manner.

Jason earned a scholarship to the Northern Michigan University in Marquette, Michigan, where they train the athletes for the US Olympic Team. And while he fell short of his goal to make the Olympics, he did earn a Masters Degree in biology.

One of the things that routinely happens with Olympic-style weightlifters is random drug testing. They literally can and do come to test you in the middle of the night. The athletes submit paperwork every quarter that lists every place they will be and what time they will be there so they can be found to test. Missing a test can sometimes be constituted as a "positive."

Modesty notwithstanding, you will be checked and you will be booted out if you're caught using an illegal substance. Abusers can get a six month to lifetime suspension for use of any of some 6,000 + banned substances. It's a no-nonsense program that leaves no gray areas.

All of this raises some interesting questions about the latest drug abuser, A-Rod, or more affectionately known as A-Roid. How could Alex Rodriquez be taking drugs and not know if they were legal or illegal? He hides behind the defense that he was young and stupid.

That's a pretty lame excuse. Yes, A-Rod came into baseball at the young age of 18 in 1994. He implies that youth and stupidity were reasons for straying. He wasn't 18 when he admits to doing steroids; he was age 26-29 in the years in question, 2001-2003. That dog won't hunt, A-Fraud.

Alex Rodriguez is on track to break the home run record set by another drug abuser, Barry Bonds. It begs the question; should there be separate record books? How would you like to be Hank Aaron, who by all accounts, got his numbers legitimately?

The more important field of exploration here is how could all of this have happened without better scrutiny from the top? Shame on you Commissioner Bud Selig. All of this happened on your watch. Not once has major league baseball stepped up and accepted responsibility for the mess they now have on their hands.

Selig has approached this like an ostrich, burying his head in the sand, hoping it will all go away. You're earning over $17 million a year as major league baseball's commish; earn it Mr. Selig! Do your job.

Sadly, all this will be as big of a blemish on your Selig's tenure as commissioner as it is on the players who are guilty of using. And up until the time of this writing, Selig has remained silent, which is probably what A-Fraud should have done. At least Selig hasn't thrown more gasoline on a fire that will surely burn away at his legacy.

So what is the solution to all this mess? Baseball… you better fix this or someone from Washington is going to show up with that standard line "I'm from the government and I'm here to help you." Here's my take on what should immediately be done:

1. Keep two sets of record books. Any records broken during this steroid era aren't legitimate. They need to have an asterisk.
2. Step down Mr. Selig. You've repeatedly proven you can not oversee this mess that was perpetrated on your watch and encouraged by your neglect to do your job.
3. Immediately institute across the board random drug testing similar to that used by the Olympics. And unlike baseball, this testing should be "two strikes and you're out." Strike one- if you get caught using a banned substance, you're suspended for a year. Strike two- you're out of the game.

This is the only way this mess is going to get fixed.