His conscious was biting him in the butt because he didn’t earn such an honor to be in the hall fame. So he admitted to taking steroids during his career of baseball. He was the voted out of the hall of fame.Which makes us think how many baseball hall of famers might’ve cheated on baseball but never found out. Cheating has become the culture of the game. There are no cons but one if you get caught you get punished.
Athletes like Alex Rodriguez were drawn into them like Michael Jordan’s latest shoe. Barry Bonds was recognized as the home run king down the path of his career. Being in the talk of P.E.D use is the worst topic to be even talked about on. It stirs around the public, social media, and then ends up on the news. Being talked about it is the same as not taking the drug enhancers.
Steroids: The Problem Plaguing Our Pastime The pastime of our nation spinning out of control: the cheating, lying, and deceiving are disgracing the face of baseball. With tainted and inflated records, constant media coverage and debate and players who should be legends of the game in fear of not making the Hall of Fame, what is to blame for this: Steroids. To find an answer for solving the steroid problem one must look at where steroids came from and what they have done to the game, by looking at all aspects of where steroids came from and what they have done only then can one render a solution to eradicate them from the game completely. To understand how steroids have become the biggest problem to ever hit a professional sport one must take a look at where they came from and why they became such a big part of the nation’s greatest pastime. Major League Baseball has always had some type of problem with substance abuse.
Professional Athletes, Steroids, and the Hall of Fame. Athletes in the Hall of Fame are not the perfect people. Famous NFL superstar Lawrence Taylor was caught sleeping with a minor and famous MLB stars Ferguson Jenkins and Orlando Cepeda were found to be doing cocaine. These people are definitely not the perfect people, yet they are still in the hall. Athletes in the Hall of Fame are people who have broken records; they are not supposed to be the perfect person outside of their career.
Kevin Pankonien Pinki Charkrabati ENG 107-13 March 12, 2014 Compare and Contrast Many debate whether PEDs (Performance Enhancing Drugs) such as HGH and steroids have had a negative impact on Major League Baseball over the past twenty years. For instance, the article “Performance Enhancing Drugs” by Jarred Tynes argues that steroids must be removed from the MLB. He states that “The MLB must strictly adhere to a new policy to ensure its effectiveness” (Tynes, p. 15). Tynes argues that PEDs are ruining the game of baseball and could be fatal to the players using them. On the contrary, a study performed by professors from California Berkley suggests that PEDs increase offensive production and make the game more exciting (Grossman, pg.
To start off, steroids have impacted baseball dramatically. Steroids enhance the performance of the athletes that play the game today. It not only adds an unfair advantage to the player abusing the illegal drug. It also adds a superstar to the already star casted teams of the MLB. As seen in many cases of steroid usage, a player and a team has a bad year the season before.
There are many ways to increase your baseball IQ besides playing the game your entire life. On the website baseball mental game they state, having a natural swing is instinct, but getting more cuts in the cages and on the field during batting practice cause muscle memory to take over and it becomes natural to your mind and body. The muscle memory is a mind mechanism, when you do the same thing over and over again your memory says “hey we are in that position and knows what to do” Another big problem that baseball mental game addresses is that most players have very fragile self-confidence. This can destroy a players mind, game, and even season. These are known as slumps.
Amateur sports B. Professional Sports Should Performance-Enhancing Drugs be Banned from Sports On September 8, 1998, Mark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals made history by hitting his sixty-second home run. However, many people believed that McGwire’s achievement was tarnished by a revelation some weeks earlier that he had been using androstenedione, a compound that temporarily boosts levels of testosterone. This revelation drew attention to the serious problem of performance-enhancing drug use in professional and amateur sports. Performance-enhancing drugs harm the health of athletes, damage the integrity of sports, and cause cheating; therefore, they should be prohibited from all sports.
An Athletes Journey to the Top There are many paths a professional athlete can take on their journey to the top. Most choose to follow the rules but history shows the best athletes find a way to enhance their bodies, even if it is against the rules of the game. The issue of performance enhancing drugs or PEDs is anything but clear-cut. There isn’t a red-blooded baseball fan that doesn’t feel some sort of anger and discuss upon seeing Barry Bonds tainted career; a homerun total of 762. It is unclear if that anger is constructive or even justified.
Why are the things the way it is now with alcohol and marijuana? One is all over televisions programs and sponsorships with sports teams and the other is just say no to the drug. But still, which one is worst? If I understand right, I believe that alcohol would be worst than marijuana. Every time I used alcohol I feel like I can’t drive my car, talk correctly, better yet function correctly, and sometimes angry for no reason why.