Baseball: All Juiced Up
The steroid scandal has erupted in many sports but predominantly in our very own national pastime, the game of baseball. Steroid related deaths have created scandals and a whole lot of controversy lately. For example, just recently Yankee star Jason Giambi tested positive for steroids, for which he apologized very sincerely. Then, on the other hand there is the great slugger Barry Bonds, who thinks he has done nothing wrong for having taken steroids to enhance his performance. He claims that his trainer had given him the steroids without telling him what they were; something that is very hard to believe even for an ardent fan. Both as we know will be will be tried in court soon, where we as honest and responsible citizens will decide whether they are innocent and we will in a way decide the future ethics of the game.Although this problem with steroids has been with us since the early nineties, only now are MLB officials actually doing testing on players. For the last few years they have been saying that they will be testing players, but only now has it been made final. Even though they have promised for a testing this season, I highly doubt that it will happen based on past history. Even if it does, there will be so much controversy around it because we cannot bear to let go of our national pastime and the heroes who make it happen, even at the risk of jeopardizing the lives of our future athletes.
Famous sports players are known to use steroids, yet they are medically safe thanks to the medical team that accompanies them. Doctors tell you that it is very dangerous to take steroids as also to stop taking them. One can fall into depression and have other repercussions too. Sport players, the likes of Mark McGuire, are rich and can afford personalized medical care and rehabilitation. As a result withdrawal symptoms won't affect them. But not every sportsman is rich. When a teenager involved in a sport takes steroids, he is not thinking about the consequences it will have on his body. He is only focusing on how it's going to enhance his game. Then, if for some reason he decides to quit taking steroids, he can quickly fall into severe depression and other side affects that could be fatal for him. Efrain Marrero's suicide is one among many such deaths related to steroids.
America's great sport has been heavily tainted by this steroid scandal. Yet, we the people don't seem to care about who is taking steroids; we just want to see home runs being scored. As Barry Bonds stated that even if he is taking steroids, fans are still coming in hordes to catch his home runs!
The use of steroids in sport is fast growing primarily because it is being condoned by the baseball loving American public and is seemingly promoted by our role model sports stars and athletes; people who we idolize. Are our role models leading us down a path of destruction?
posted by thethoughtless @ 2:00 PM
2 Comments:
Performance enhancing drugs are going to sound the death knell for healthy competition in sports
good blog.
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