As baseball season opens, State Rep. Jeff Roorda announced he is taking a swing at the sport’s drug policy.

Roorda, a Democrat from Jefferson County, filed a bill today that would bar state tax credits from going to professional sports teams in a league that does not place at least a one-year ban on athletes caught using steroids.

That would mean: No state breaks for the Cardinals, as well as the Royals, the Chiefs, the Rams, the Blues, the state’s minor league baseball teams, or pro soccer outfits.

Roorda, though, is specifically targeting Major League Baseball’s drugs policy, which currently allows for a player to test positive three times for a performance enhancing substance before they are banned from the sport. And even then they can apply for reinstatement after two years.

“Since when in baseball is it four strikes and you’re out?” Roorda said in a statement today.

This is not the first time Roorda, a self-described “rabid Cardinal fan,” has taken on baseball. Irked by the officiating in the Cardinals 2005 playoff series against Houston, Roorda sponsored a bill that would expand the state’s “jock tax” — charged to out-of-state athletes and entertainers - to referees and umpires.

Roorda, the former chief police in Kimmswick, Mo., currently works for Gateway Ambulance in St. Louis. But don’t expect him to be in the office for much of the day: Roorda is suffering from an acute case of red fever, which will force him to seek treatment at Busch Stadium this afternoon.