Usually setting up a game in order for someone to earn money a cheating way. In baseball there have been a lot of major controversies of the use of steroids and other performance enhancing, muscle building drugs. It’s been all over the news for years now. It seems like every year there is a new baseball player that everybody thought was the greatest but then later
Jacob Santiago Mrs. Murphy 4/18/12 Steroids In Baseball Steroids do not just effect the players in baseball they also effect the fans. Steroids have the most effect on the players of the game. Steroids can also effect the fans of the game. There have been many controversies about how the statistics where being made for players who are using steroids. Finally does steroids has a major effect on the players skill or is it just the skill of the game that is making people so much better?
I would also ask him if he didn’t have ALS where he think he’d be. It would be hard to ask questions to someone like him, in my opinion because of his situation. You wouldn’t want to ask the wrong thing and make someone like him mad or something like that. In conclusion, Lou Gehrig was an all time baseball player, he had the looks, he had over 400 home runs but also he had a disease which was later named after him. People now still suffer from this disease and Gehrig still remains a legend.
The permitted use of steroids in Major League Baseball would destroy the integrity of the game and create major health problems for players after their careers. Steroids are any drugs that are used to enhance performance. The side effects of steroids are horrendous. Steroids may create a more exciting game, but they create problems within the league. The positive performance enhancing drug test in Major League Baseball is second only to cycling performance enhancing drug tests.
Steroids and legal muscle enhancers today have had a big impact on people, sports, the Olympics and other activities. Steroids are illegal substances, which increase your muscle size, and increase your body physically to perform at top notch level. The most known steroid issue to date is in baseball, with Barry Bonds. The reason Bonds is such a big deal right now is because of the records he is chasing and the records he has already broken. Barry Bonds and other athletes have been accused of using illegal steroids to help themselves boost their statistics, and ability to play the game better.
Baseball has long been the pastime in American sports and the steroid use has caused an upset due to the tradition of the game (Carise). Players see using steroids as an artificial advantage compared to the earliest days of the sport (Carise). Players have made statements, such as “…in 2003, David “Boomer” Wells claimed that up to 40 percent of major leaguers use steroids” (Carise). In 2005, Jose Canseco who was a known steroid user for his entire career said, “…that up to 80 percent of major leaguers had taken steroids” (Carise). Testing in baseball did not begin until 2003 and steroids did not make Major League Baseball’s banned substance list until 1991 (Carise).
One of the biggest scandals involving steroids was the Mitchell Report. “The Mitchell Report is the culmination of 21 months of investigating into illegal steroids and human growth hormones use within in the MLB conducted by former US Senator George J. Mitchell (Steroids). This report included big names such as Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, and Jose Canseco as well as countless others. The baseball world was shocked when the report came out and sent the game into a spiral downward out of control. Baseball was starting to be viewed as a “cheaters sport.” This being the case, the Mitchell Report came out with steps to try and eliminate steroids from baseball, but like all diseases it still crept softly behind closed doors.
Americans think differently from Chinese people because we have more independence than them. In the book the Brave Dragons, the team had to go through these difficult and extensive training sessions that were supposed to get them better. Derek Jeter is an example, in his career he had to become a better player because he was doing too many mistakes. To get better he went to a training camp where he practice his catching skills and also his batting skills. When we talk about the different paradigm between the American and the Chinese, Derek Jeter accomplishment apply to the American paradigm because Jeter loved baseball since he was a little boy and always knew he was going to join the New York Yankees.
Zachery Stephen Julie Ramon English 101 November 20, 2012 Hall of Fame vs. Steroids Seven-time gold glove winner, 298 career average, 762 home runs (all time record holder), 2558 RBI's, ten time all star, four time most valuable player, and 71 home runs in a season (major league record) considered by many the greatest hitter that ever lived no doubt this man should be a hall of famer. Right? According to most experts no because the man listed above is Barry Bonds who played in baseballs "steroid era" and is believed to have used performance enhancing drugs. According to buysteroids.net there is no exact and clear-cut definition for it , but loosely speaking, it is any substance intended to improve a particular physical skill-set or performance, particularly in the realm of sport competitions (Enhancing Drugs). The "steroid era" in
He uses statistics showing, there are billions of dollars put aside for those who get affected by the side effects of the drugs. Elliott shows how Americans are jealous of athletes and they “secretly want to see stars fail”(para 3). Based on these arguments presented, Elliott does a fabulous job convincing the audience that there are problems with drug usage and how easily they are accessible. The author grabs the audience’s attention by claiming how easily drugs are prescribed by doctors or attained via the black market. Elliott uses ample amounts of examples that shows how America is slowly turning to drugs for every short-come presented.