The players can have their life and baseball career uprooted by the use of steroids. Many of the greats in history have taken steroids when they didn’t even need to. Two of these players that come to mind are Mark McGuire and Sammy Sosa, arguably two of the best hitters of all time. Both of them broke hitting records in their playing
The Pros and Cons of Steroids for Athletes Minhaj Ghayur Writing 102 Dr. Turner May 11, 2010 Abstract Steroids have become a hot topic in the media and sports these days. A lot of athletes are being caught using steroids and jeopardizing their careers. The media and other health related organizations are trying to provide people with a better knowledge of steroids and the risks of taking steroids. Almost everybody knows the benefits of taking steroids, but does not know the overall process that goes with taking steroids and living the life afterwards. This research studies the pros and cons of using steroids.
Mitchell conducted a twenty month investigation into the use of steroids and HGH (human growth hormone) in Major League Baseball. The Report to the Commissioner of Baseball of an Independent Investigation into the Illegal Use of Steroids and Other Performance Enhancing Substances by Players in Major League Baseball, informally known as the "Mitchell Report", names 89 Major League Baseball players who allegedly used steroids or drugs (Mitchell Report). What followed was a string of allegations and bad publicity for many players. As a result of all the recent controversy, most professional players that formerly used steroids have turned to using HGH, which is not detectable with steroid
Since this scandal, there have been many changes to the drug testing policies in the MLB. In 2003, the MLB started random drug testing. Beginning in 2005, a positive test resulted in a ten game suspension for first offenses, a thirty game suspension for second offenses, and a sixty game suspension for the third offense. In 2006, that policy changed to a fifty game suspension after the first offense, a one-hundred game suspension after second offenses, and then banned for life after third offenses (Porterfield, 10). While evidence shows that professional sports leagues are trying to put an end to drug use by players, the drug testing is not nearly strict enough
Almost every high school student gets into a situation that they don’t want to be in. Peer pressure is an example of one of these situations. Peer pressure of doing drugs can lead to a high school athlete to get himself in a big trouble. Who is to say that he will be the next to get randomly drug tested. Since June of 1995, the US Supreme Court has been all for random drug interscholastic student athlete drug testing.
Throughout the years in baseball major league players had cheated in baseball. Such as Sammy Sosa, Mark McGwire, and Joel Peralta. There’s a longer list of other players but the most famous one of all is Sammy Sosa’s corked bat incident. It was caught and was live on national t.v. He had hit the baseball in the wrong spot which caused the bat to break in half.
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.
In other words restricting the American people from alcoholic beverages in the past was unsuccessful and a way was found to break that law. And even now restricting the people under the age of 21 of alcoholic beverages is unsuccessful and the law is broken often. Therefore, the drinking age should be lowered from 21 to a younger age. Underage drinking occurs often even with the legal drinking age being twenty-one. 87% of high school seniors have used alcohol.
Student athletes who use performance enhancing drugs they in possession of illegal substances and are therefore subject to search and seizure by school authorities. Random drug testing has been used in work places prior to the use in high schools for student athletes for the reason of safety and to prove if the workers were involved in and illegal drug abuse. Before the year 2002 student athletes were the only people who must submit to drug testing, but after a Supreme Court ruling all student who are involved in extracurricular activities have to subject to random drug test. The Fourth Amendment explain thats every person has the right to protection against unreasonable search and seizure, but when a student has and illegal substance such as steroid, that give the government cause to search the person. Board of Education v. Earls (2002) argued that the student who are involved with extracurricular activities should not be randomly tested for unknown drug in the student which violated their Fourth Amendment.
The Cubs were always positive, even when they blew a seven run lead in the 2003 national league division series, even when they lost the 1946 World Series in heartbreaking fashion on Jack Spinner’s walk off home run in game 7 against the Brewers, even when the team’s slugger Sammy Sosa was found guilty of steroid usage and was suspended, the Cubs and their fans still remained contended, even optimistic about their team’s chances to win the Central and go to the playoffs. How do they stand it? They must have some serious grit to watch the Cubs, who play like little leaguers every day of the long, exhausting season. Maybe the optimism that they had made them not just the lovable losers, but the likable losers. Yes, they’re likable, but fans, they’re still losers.