Steroids: The Beginning of the End

Steven Hanson writes a brief article explaining his feeling on the use of steroids by baseball players, and it’s effects on the game.

The purest of all sports has just made a tiny hiccup that could have massive effects on the game. Steroids, and other illegal enhancers, have served as some sort of a road block for the game, with rumors swirling at their peak as early as last year.

New York Yankee's first baseman Jason Giambi, after repeatedly telling reporters that he never took such steroids, has been heard confessing that he DID, in fact, take those substances earlier in his career.

It was reported that he received the substances from the same company that supplies them to Barry Bond's trainer-Greg Anderson. This same scenario could be linked to former Los Angeles Dodger, and current New York Yankee pitcher Kevin Brown, who was just recently found to be on steroids.

The biggest reason that a black cloud has seemed to form over the game is because of rumors that the single-season Home Run King, Barry Bonds could be taking the same performance enhancing drugs. This, all at a time when baseball was the cleanest it had been since the Pete Rose scandal.

Of course, we all have our assumptions as to who might be on such steroids. For me though, the dead giveaways are the all-so-sudden growth in players.

For example, if a player--Bret Boone for example--had gained 10 pounds of muscle in less than two years, I would be convinced.

The main problem this is causing is that it, in a sense, makes the game “fake.” Players are playing as someone they're not.

If you have been a fan of baseball for as long as you can remember, chances are that you feel the same way about this issue.

Steven Hanson

If you have any questions, concerns, comments, or suggestions, specific to this article, please do not hesitate to email Steven Hanson at bravest2@yahoo.com.

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