MLB Should Apply a Mandatory Steroid Test for All Players In today’s sports world, there have been many problems with players cheating the game by using drugs to make them perform better. Many sports today have not applied testing for all players and have regretted not doing it awhile back. The drug problem is mostly hurting Major League Baseball the most but has an effect on all sports. There are players that are playing the game without using steroids therefore whom are being cheated out because players are making more money by performing better because of the use of steroids. Furthermore, this is hurting the reputation of the MLB because fans have lost respect for their heroes who have always thought they were playing the game correctly.
However, studies have shown that the majority of the public are against the use of steroids in professional sports. The main reason being, that it ruins the integrity of the game and the high standards of sportsmanship and character that come along with being a professional athlete. Barry Bonds and all who have violated the rules and cheated to get to the top, should pay the ramifications and not be allowed into the Hall of Fame, the game’s greatest
Although steroids may improve performance, they will continue to harm athletes and ruin sports as we know it if restrictions are not more strictly enforced. Anabolic steroids are being abused in many different ways such as orally, injection, or by a gel or cream in order to improve athletes’ performances. In today’s society, professional athletes are using anabolic steroids to gain an advantage against their opponents, and the young children that idolize them are in turn also abusing steroids. What all these athletes do not understand is the harm that abusing steroids are doing to them. I feel that people need to stop abusing steroids because it not only hurts you hormonally, but it will also hurt their musculoskeletal and cardiovascular system,
Redemption Just Out of Reach In Bret Harte’s “The Outcasts of Poker Flat,” we find many characters being banned from a city due to the townspeople’s opinion of them. The people of Poker Flat have been gambling and dealing with prostitution. In order to cover their actions, they reverse the blame onto the new people of the town. Of these outcasts, John Oakhurst, Mother Shipton, and Duchess all show redemptive qualities after being run out of town. John Oakhurst takes the leading position of the group of outcasts on their trek out of Poker Flat.
That’s called “Shooting the box” and you’re not supposed to do that, because it’s disrespectful to the pitcher. It happens everyonce in a while, but if you don’t say you’re sorry, then pitcher starts yelling and tells his team to shoot the box when they bat. Once the guy hit the ball at the pitcher, and the batter didn’t say sorry, all hell broke out. The other team came up to bat and started shooting the box everytime. That’s when words were exchanged and people were getting ready to fight.
However, the Second Mile stated that they never knew anything about the incident, although this may not be accurate. Curley and Schultz were charged with failing to tell the police, and falsely telling the grand jury that they were never informed them about the incident. McQueary was a graduate assistant at the time and he displayed more good ethics than the organizational leadership of the school. By Curley and Schultz covering up the incident the abuse could continue because no one ever knew of Sandusky’s extreme unethical behaviors. However, McQueary attempted to do what was right by informing his superiors; but that was not enough to stop the abuse.
Although he played brilliantly for the "Negro Leagues," he was not allowed to on the "white" teams, unlike Jackie Robinson. The success of Robinson and other black players is a sore subject for Troy. Because he was "born at the wrong time," he never earned the recognition or the money which he felt he deserved - and discussion of professional sports will often send him into a tirade. Baseball serves as Troy's main way of explaining his actions. When he talks about facing death, he uses baseball terminology, comparing a face-off with the grim reaper to a duel between a pitcher and a batter.
In fact, Fehr and the Players Union are also opposed to testing for illegal drugs as they feel that it violates the privacy of the athletes (Leshanski 2). If the union refuses to change its stance and become more receptive to drug testing it is possible that Congress will decide to institute drug testing legislation which undoubtedly would result in years of court battles. As it stands right now Major League Baseball is the only one of the major sports that does not have mandatory drug testing – they even do drug testing in the minor leagues! It is because the minor league players are not eligible for membership in the MLBPA at this point in their careers they cannot be “protected” or shielded by a union that doesn’t give a damn about its members’ health (Verducci 8). In addition to not having a mandatory drug testing policy, presently baseball is the only major sport that does not test for recreational drugs (Verducci 4).
It appears as though most sports enthusiasts are opposed to the use of steroids in sports due to the mass amounts of trials which have come about in recent years, however I think that steroids are not exactly hurting the game because the only ones they really hurt are the players in a medical sense. I do see how people are opposed to steroid use in baseball because it is America's past-time and having people break records due to unfair advantage that they possess due to medical breakthroughs, which were not present during the early days of
In many sports today steroids is becoming a more and more evident problem. The game has evolved and the many athletes believe that the only way to keep up is with steroids. While steroids can give someone an edge over another it is cheating and there should be a zero tolerance rule set up in all sports at all levels Athletes that use these performance enhancing drugs should be immediately ejected from whatever organization they are members of. I see this as the only logical punishment for doing such a thing as cheating. Many athletes use anabolic steroids to increase muscle mass and strength.