Steroids in Baseball

Baseball is the unofficial pastime of America. It is a game of inches, in which strives with mental and physical strength, revolving around a competitive concept of winning a World Series championship. For the last few decades, a bitter conspiracy has revolved around building lean muscle from shots, pills and other antibiotics. Players in the MLB have used Performance enhancing drugs such as Steroids and Human Growth Hormones to enhance their performance (hence the performance enhancing) in which lead them to elite status among their peers. Among great players that have used steroids are Barry Bonds, Mark McGuire, and Sammy Sosa. These self-centered cheaters, each used performance enhancing drugs, and all used a new strategy in federal court. Bonds just flat out denied it, Sosa forgot how to speak English, and McGuire is an even worse liar then Bonds. These men were considered role models and heroes’s to so many people growing up, and suddenly are considered a disgrace to society. There stupid actions may lead them to health risks, later in their lives, which they obviously don’t care about. Adding on to this conspiracy, in 2007, George Mitchell, a former United States Senator, came out with a list of players that used PED’s. The list was called the Mitchell Report and showed other great players such as Brian Roberts and Miguel Tejada, which seemed to me, like humble, nice guys. I think the worst part about this is that your favorite players are so great to you, and then they show up in something like this, it hurts you. Because of this, what does this say to these children that grew up watching these players? Steroids and drugs are okay? Is that the message that needs to be sent across society? Doesn’t this Country have enough problems, the economy, the health care system, and soon to be steroids? Bud Selig has lost all of my respect, for not punishing these players. The United States Government should take over the MLB drug system and Bud Selig should be removed from his job for his lack of discipline. Look at Roger Goodell, he is not tolerating any of these terrible things, and I complement him for that, as commissioner of the NFL. Its time get serious about this, this is no joke, as you will all come to see in the future, how this will affect these steroid users in the long run. As a punishment for these players, they should serve a 5 year suspension, and a fine that takes up 1/3 of their salary, and the proceeds will go to anti-drug programs. These cheaters should also go across the country talking to kids about not using performance enhancing drugs. Once they have done what they were asked to do, and have cooperated with the system of the MLB, they should be happily welcomed back to Major League Baseball.