It’s hard to argue with logic; “Home runs are fun and exciting….Steroid-enhanced athletes hit more home runs” (72). The problem with this ideology however, is that steroids do boost an athlete’s athletic ability and potential to levels that are nearly impossible to achieve without. Taking steroids is viewed by the majority of the general population, as cheating. Therefore, allowing these steroid-enhanced athletes into the hall of fame and/or validating their records and achievements without an asterisk placed beside them would destroy the integrity and strong historical significance of the game. It is confusing to many people however, how the Hall of Fame, which houses most of the game’s greatest players, can exclude the games record holder as far as homeruns in a season and career are concerned.
Professional baseball players convicted of using performance-enhancing drugs should not be considered for induction into the Hall of Fame. I strangely agree that professional baseball players should be tested every now and then before they can be induction into the Hall of Fame. People that think I am wrong do not see that it is hurting the other players around them that are not using the performance-enhancing drugs. If playing unfair is the game than no one is winning. Players that are using are cheating themselves and teammates.
Steroids in Baseball and the Ethical Implications “Cheat or lose.” “Everybody does it.” “It was the only way to get ahead.” These are just a few reasons that people give for cheating. Cheating in our society has become so prevalent that one can hardly go a day without seeing a scandal on the front page of the newspaper. Corporations are being caught cooking their books, students are cheating on exams, ordinary people lie on their tax returns, and athletes are taking illegal drugs to gain a boost in their performance. This leads one to ask, “why”? Are there new pressures today that cause people to cheat more than in previous generations?
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
Without some form of salary cap to mitigate the large market teams from spending on player salary at will, baseball is allowing its smaller market teams and their fans as well as the national popularity of the game of professional baseball to suffer. This gap which separates big market from small market isn’t just affecting a few of MLB’s 30 teams, but rather at least half of the teams are suffering due to the uncontrolled spending of a few big market teams.
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).
Donovan has called to make an appointment because he uses cocaine and he knows it is a problem for him. Donovan admits that he needs to quit, but he knows that he might have difficulties doing so. Donovan states that he has tried to quit before but was not able to leave the cocaine alone. When Donovan arrives for his first appointment, he states that his wife is concerned about his cocaine use. Donovan also states that using cocaine is getting expensive, but he feels that he works hard for the money and this is the only vice he has.
Some of the characters seem to sense that progress is in the air, while others are still trapped in America's troubled past, dealing with racism everyday. Troy does not want Cory to experience the hardship and disappointment Troy felt trying to become a professional sports player, so he demands that Cory work after school instead of practicing with the football team. Cory, however, sees that times changed since baseball rejected a player as talented as Troy because of the color of his skin (Wilson). As you can see, there is a ripple effect on the attitudes and emotional views of a person. If affirmative action were to exist during that time, then Troy would have been given a chance to change his life, as well as his own outlook on his and Cory’s
Baseball players use steroids to dominate their sport and eventually fear stopping the use of steroids. I came up with this theory due to the fact that I wonder why baseball players make the choice of using steroids and even then it seems that they can’t just get off them? Why can’t they just play the game as the way it should be and working on their skills to become more “skilled” at their own game than to “cheat” the game? Of course the players who take steroids in the game of baseball are going to be more physically better than some of the others, especially when it comes to hitting the ball. When looking back to the great players who broke hitting records and such, you think of one guy and one guy only, Mark McGwire.
The most popular solution for baseball has been steroids, which is illegal. With the need to be the best, players were and still are willing to find new ways to cheat in order to solidify themselves in the upper crust of the game and there were little to no stipulations for their actions. The league did not portray a strong incentive to put a stop to the use of steroids until the government became involved. Many believe that this it is not the governments issue to act upon, although when a