Throughout the late 90’s to now, baseball has begun to be way more exciting than it was before players were introduced to growth hormones. Baseballs are hit deeper and so are needles. The dirty work by the Major Leaguers has begun to kill the integrity of the game and fill the fans up with shame. Baseball is never the same when the people playing the game are cheating and trying to get the easy way out. And for everything you do there has to be a consequence, and the 13 players who tested positive for human growth hormones faced 50 or more game suspensions. Several wrong doings occurred in Tony Bosch’s clinic located in Miami Florida. And many of those wrong doings became into the baseball biogenesis scandal. Anti-aging, to growth hormones were being injected into many Miami citizens. With baseball players being notorious for steroids, of course some Pro Players were guilty of these cases. 13 major leaguers were caught. Some AAA league players were even caught from the same provider, Dr. Bosch. Tony Bosh quoted that to cheat the system was almost a cake walk for him. Doping was simple for him. The cake walk turned against him when cases were released. An angry ex-employee from Bosch’s clinic sold cases to MLB’s investigation crew. The records were purchased for $125,000 by the MLB. When officials first questioned Tony Bosch about the cases he said he had never known about performance enhancing drugs and that he was only a nutritionist. But after the investigation officials met with Anthony Bosch, he admitted to all of his wrong doings. After the MLB released the 13 names of the players who were facing suspension, Mr. Bosch began to receive threats. Officials believed that the ones threatening Bosch’s life were associates of Al... ... middle of paper ... ...Biggest Revelation Is Cheaters Can and Will Prosper." FOX Sports. FOX Sports, 13 Jan. 2014. Web. 08 Apr. 2014. Brown, Tim. "MLB's Biogenesis Investigation Leads to 13 More Suspensions." Yahoo Sports. Yahoo, 08 Aug. 2013. Web. 08 Apr. 2014. Svrluga, Barry. "Biogenesis Scandal Shows Baseball Has Not Put Its Drug Problems behind It." Washington Post. The Washington Post, 07 Aug. 2013. Web. 08 Apr. 2014. Schmidt, Michael S., and Steve Eder. "Baseball Pays for Clinic Documents Tied to Doping Case." The New York Times. The New York Times, 11 Apr. 2013. Web. 07 Apr. 2014. Services, ESPN.com News. "Crony: Bosch Met A-Rod." ESPN. ESPN Internet Ventures, 19 June 2013. Web. 08 Apr. 2014. Lengel, David, and Steve Busfield. "Alex Rodriguez and 12 Other Players Suspended in Biogenesis PEDs Scandal." Theguardian.com. Guardian News and Media, 05 Aug. 2013. Web. 08 Apr. 2014.
To fully understand this book, people must go behind the book and find the true state of mind of the author. Unfortunately in this case, the author is the one and only Jose Canseco. Jose Canseco is what I like to call, “The black sheep in the family of baseball.” Canseco’s history can be related to such incidents of drug using, heavy drinking, numerous sexual encounters with hundreds of partners, and unreasonable acts of violence. This book goes into grave detail on how steroids have changed his life and how it is currently changing baseball.
Players since the beginning of baseball have used some type of drug to enhance their game such as in 1889 Pud Galvin ingested monkey testosterone and Grover Cleveland Alexander used banned alcohol to enhance his game (Chafets). This should prove that baseball will never fully stop the use of PEDs, they can only cover up the ones that have. As Zev Chafets puts it “Chemical enhancement won’t kill the game; it is the cover-up that could be fatal” (Chafets). This cover up will ultimately hurt the game of baseball so the league should give the players the opportunity to use the PEDs, and if they choose not to then that is their decision ...
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Major League Baseball (MLB) has widely been regarded as America’s pastime for the longest time, however it is now becoming known as the sport tainted by one thing, anabolic steroids. An anabolic steroid is related to the natural steroid, testosterone. They are able to stimulate growth in the muscle tissue. They usually increase muscle mass and strength. The MLB has created some of the most historic American icons, such as Babe Ruth and Ted Williams. Players like them showed us what it was like to play baseball the right way. They played with passion, heart, and above all they had fun playing. Players today in the MLB focus way too much on becoming the best player ever to play. They see what the greats did before them and they want to match them, so they turn to anabolic steroids. An example of this is Alex Rodriguez. In 2003 he tested positive for anabolic steroids because he was “naïve” and couldn’t take the pressure of his expectations of being called the best. He felt the pressure from the game and he turned to steroids. Anabolic steroids are ruining the game of baseball. They are tainting the records and the changing the game for the worse.
Baseball?s reputation has been painted with a red asterisk. The non-medical use of steroids has been banned according to the Anabolic Steroid Control Act of 1990. Many baseball athletes have been caught or presumed illegal users of HGH or Steroids since the act passed in 1990. All these athletes have one thing in common, they want to have an edge or advantage on the game. Some athletes even admit to administering the drug to other athletes and themselves. Jose Conseco testified to personally injecting the steroids into Mark McGuire (Cote).
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Baseball has always been known as “America’s Favorite Pastime”. Over the past decade, the game America knows and loves has been exposed as a game full of cheaters. Major League Baseball(MLB) has had over one hundred players test positive for performance-enhancing substances over the past fifteen years. Performance-enhancing substances increase a player’s ability to produce better stats to help his salary. The past fifteen years of baseball have contained dirty play by some of the best players to ever play the sport. Kids all over America look at these athletes as role models. The money hungry players proceed to send a terrible message to fans of the game by taking drugs to succeed. After commissioner Bud Selig cracked down on steroid use in 2005, several baseball player’s legacies have been ruined due to steroid allegations. Players are even being charged with perjury by lying to congress over steroid use to protect their reputation. Steroids in baseball need to stop immediately before the game is ruined. Steroids are not fair to the players who play the game the way it’s supposed to be played, without syringes. Steroids are ruining the fairness of the game of baseball and the credibility of the athletes participating. These days, if someone hits fifty home runs in a season, everyone thinks they are on the “juice”. “The Steroid Era” and Bud Selig have ruined baseball’s image as a clean and fair game.
By adding steroid testing, the playing field has been leveled so that no one person has a distinct advantage over another. Both are examples of how the game has developed to benefit both the fans and the players. The whole world is evolving into a time of equality and fairness, and baseball is the last of the major sports in America to adapt this rule of reviewing plays that are controversial. Works Cited Kepner, Tyler. A. "New Call in Baseball: Previous Play Is Under Review, in New York.
Performance enhancing drugs have been a longstanding problem in sports. It not only deteriorates the honesty of the game, but also can have broader social affects that one may not even realize. The use of performance enhancing drugs is especially apparent in Major League Baseball. This problem can be traced back to the 1980’s when baseball was facing one of its first “dark periods”. During the 1980’s Major League Baseball was experiencing a home run drought. Home run totals were down as far as they had been since Babe Ruth, and fans were seemingly becoming bored with the sport. The lack of home runs was a growing concern for players whose salary relied on home run totals. Players needed to find a quick way to boost their power and performance in order to keep the sport alive and to keep bringing in their paychecks. This desire for fame and fortune introduced steroids into Major League Baseball in the 1990’s and 2000’s. Home run totals jumped tremendously during these decades and players were willing to risk being caught using illegal substances in order to shine above the rest. New idols and role models started to sprout up from these outstanding home run statistics and young children started to take notice. This all came tumbling down when these new idols and role models who were making the big bucks and hitting the ball out of the park tested positive for performance enhancing drugs. Here lie the affects of a growing social problem in sports. These famed athletes become walking advertisements and promotions for the use of performance enhancing drugs in sports. The influence professional athletes have over aspiring young athletes is very powerful and these roles models make it seem acceptable to use performance ...
Children who have grown up in America have been brought up with baseball and have looked up to a sports figure as one of their heroes. Steroids and other PEDS have tarnished the American past time favorite game. These drugs have cause doubts and suspicion about the validity o...
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The MLB arguably has conveyed a series of mixed messages with regard to its players and their use of steroids. On the one hand, the League apparently cooperates with lawmakers on the issue of regulating drug use among its players; on the other, some of the best athletes in the MLB are suspected of drug use and yet continue to be marketed and revered. Examples of drugs used by MLB stars have included: Anavar, Andriol, Clomid, Depo-Testosterone, Insulin, Stanozolol, and Testosterone1. These drugs are steroids, typically prescribed by medical professionals to patients fighting specific disorders (such as low testosterone or infertility) or provide relief for immense pain or other severe symptoms; they are used “off-label” by athletes for increa...
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