Monday, April 4, 2011

Is America's Pastime Becoming "Juiced"?


In a world full of athletes, everyone is trying to get a “leg up” in their different sports. For example, really good high school tennis players are leaving their respective high schools to go to tennis schools where they go to learn from well-known tennis coaches, play tennis, and also attend school. Another example of trying to get a “leg up” on the competition is soccer players in high school choosing to rather play for nationally ranked club teams than compete on their high school teams to try to win a state ring. Everybody is trying to play with and against the very best competition. One way that Major League Baseball players try to get ahead of the competition is by using illegal steroids and other performance enhancing drugs. Many baseball players are being questioned about whether or not they have used these drugs at some point during their careers. Baseball players such as Sammy Sosa, Mark McGwire, Jose Canseco, Rafael Palmeiro, Barry Bonds, Alex Rodriguez and many more players are accused of taking steroids. Jose Canseco already confessed of taking steroids and even wrote a book about other players taking steroids. Major League Baseball players should defiantly not use steroids that enhance their performance, even if they are legal, because it hurts the sport. If a few players decide to use steroids then every other player is going to start using steroids also in order to keep up with the few players that started to use them in the first place. This will then have an effect on all levels of baseball such as Triple A, Double A, Single A, and other minor league divisions. The use of steroids could even trickle down to the college and high school levels. Baseball would then be a steroid infested league. Kids of all ages look up to these major league players and grow up wanting to be just like their favorite players. We do not need the kids of the world looking up to role models that cheat their ways through baseball. I know for myself that baseball is a much better sport when there are no performance enhancing drugs or steroids involved and I would like to see it continue to be drug free. Baseball is America’s pastime and today’s game should continue to be like the sport like it was in the pastime.

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