The agonizing relationship that binds steroids to Major League Baseball
Performance enhancing drugs is sadly a term that is becoming more and more common in today’s sporting world. Every few months we get to see a new scandal of how a Major League player has been busted with steroids or any other performance enhancing supplement.
Steroids are the most common and easily accessible out of the lot. So what exactly are these drugs? And what is it they do that players are ready to sacrifice their dignity and fans in case they get caught? What is it that fuels the temptation to use drugs
that may put the players’ life and career on the line?
Performance enhancing drugs may be injected, inhaled or ingested by athletes. They help improve the player’s performance on the field and they will have to put in much less effort for that improvement. The most common out of these drugs are caffeine, cocaine
and of course, the all-famous steroids. Caffeine if used in large doses enhances motor functions and increases the sense of awareness. Cocaine helps reduce fatigue and refreshes the player. Steroids is supposedly the most criminal out of all of them, it is
a well known drug that increases muscle mass and players strength no matter what the age.
Baseball is one of the games that have been hit the hardest due to steroids and their usage by the Major League Baseball players. Barry Bonds is the current player who is being trailed. We have seen the likes of Alex Rodriguez, lie, get caught and then admit
to using these steroids. MLB has been for a long time the specter of steroids. Things don’t look too bright for the future and it seems that sadly, the steroids are here to stay.
Bonds recently paved his way into baseball record books but there is a fair chance that he may have done so with the help of performance enhancing drugs. That is totally unacceptable and very disrespectful to players like Hank Aaron, whose record he crossed
as the all time home-run leader, Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. These are the players who played with true strength, sweated it out on field and practiced for uncountable hours before they set up these records. To see someone else achieve these records with the
help of drugs and with the absence of continued hard work and persistence is a shame on the name of the game. There still is no way to effectively cut out the usage of these drugs that continue to poison the sport.
What a day it was when Barry Bonds surpassed Mark McGwire’s record of an astonishing 70 home-runs by hitting 73 of his own. In a single moment, history had been created. It seemed that this record was attained by Bonds due to his honesty, determination and
hard work. As it was later revealed, that was clearly not the case. It is actually depressing to think that the truth about the establishment of these records is a sad picture of America’s favorite pastime being turned into a dirty sport of drugs and lies.
Baseball is no longer a game of catching the ball; it is now a game of catching players on drugs.
It seems that until the League gets serious about cracking down on steroid abuse by players, the doubts and the mistrust will continue to thrive in the sport of baseball.
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