...OUTLINE RESEARCH PAPER Can Performance Enhancing Drugs (PED) actually be positive and beneficial for Major League Baseball? “As the likes of Barry Bonds, Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa, Roger Clemens and Alex Rodriguez saw their usage exposed, the sport fought back with tougher drug testing and after the 2005 season produced a program punitive enough to minimize the game's doping culture.” (Braun's test result gives MLB major jolt; With MVP under cloud, steroid era is revisited Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY), "Probably the biggest sentence to which he was subjected is the impact on whether he'll be a lock for the Hall of Fame and the stigma that is now attached to his name and his records."(Barry Bonds is sentenced in enduring BALCO saga; No end in sight to BALCO's reach by: Jorge L. Ortiz, USA TODAY). Quotes like these could have been seen all over newspapers and magazines all throughout the past decade. Yes, these athletes did use Performance Enhancing Drugs (PED), but a debate has raged on about just how right are we to scrutinize them for those actions and just how inappropriate their actions were? With baseball professionals on both sides arguing how much of an impact they really had on the game. More so, I'd like to ask the question of whether what they had done was actually in a way good for baseball, and whether Performance Enhancing Drugs should even be banned from baseball? Which, I believe they shouldn’t be for numerous reasons. In order to understand just how...
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...is to get into the Hall of Fame, and some players will stretch their limits to help them achieve that dream. One of those limits are steroids. Steroids can change the way players compete. For example, when Sports Illustrated interviewed athletes and asked them, “If you were given a performance enhancing substance and you would not be caught and win, would you take it?". Ninety-eight percent of the athletes responded "Yes" (Baron). This shows that if athletes have a choice of whether or not to take steroids, almost every athlete would take them. It also proves that most athletes these days, including professional baseball players, would take a substance with the sole purpose to win. Since winning is often perceived as being a person’s greatest accomplishment, some players’ will do anything to win and overlook or change themselves to do things they are not supposed to do. However, on the other side of players, ones who worked hard for what they earned do not respect players that take shortcuts and cheat. Players who have cheated to achieve their goal, deserve no respect says Jim Bunning. Jim Bunning is an American Hall of Fame Major League Pitcher for the Detroit Tigers. He said that “If a player is caught using banned substances in an effort to break records, set by players who achieved them through honest hard work, I think those numbers should be expunged from the record books. There is no place for cheaters in the Hall of Fame” (Bunning). Many other Hall of Famers, like Jim...
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...the other cyclist. The use of steroids has scared sports forever. All-time greats like Barry Bonds will be called a cheater because he used performance enhancers during his playing career. In the future, steroids will keep improving and will become harder to detect by a simple drug test. The average sports fan will stop caring because no record broken in the future will be legitimate. All athletes will eventually fall into the use of steroids because they have visual proof of the amazing things that I can do. All professional sports leagues to this day have lasting bans on steroids. In this statement, “Though steroids have been banned in MLB since 1991, the league did not implement league wide PED testing until 2003” (ESPN), shows how steroid testing has changed over time. Many major league athletes are pro-steroid use. They explain that if everyone does it, what harm would it do to the league. The league is very inconsistent with the punishments given to testing positive to steroids. In some cases they’ll give minimum suspensions lasting 25 games. In other instances they can suspend a player for a whole season. In Mark McGwire’s case, he is being held out of the hall of fame for testing positive. This is something that the league should do to warn anyone who is even thinking about using PEDs. It is saying that the athlete is undeserving to join the hall of fame because he acquired his accolades illegally. Nobody takes into consideration what the steroids can do to an athlete’s...
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...users able to make it into the Hall of Fame? What is the appropriate consequence for these players getting caught? And is...
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...The players with the most home runs, most Cy-Young awards won, and the most career grand slams are all not in the Baseball Hall of Fame because they used steroids. Steroids are a type of drug that can make a person bigger, stronger, and shorten the time it takes to recover from injuries (“A Brief History of"). Professional athletes find these properties beneficial which has lead to controversy in most major sports with no sport being affected more than baseball. Steroid users in Major League Baseball attracted more fans than ever, so they turned a blind eye to them, but when fans figured out that players were cheating the MLB treated the players that saved the sport as disgraces. The MLB says steroids have hurt the integrity of the sport but...
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...Some of the biggest names and even some of the record holders in professional baseball have been accused of using various steroids to gain the competitive edge. Barry Bonds has been one of the most popular professional sports figures in this country for more than 15 years, but he is now waiting for a March court date when opening statements will be heard in his Federal perjury trial. Mark McGuire and Sammy Sosa, the two most instrumental players that helped the bring fans back to the stadiums after the 1994 players’ strike, will never be voted into the Hall of Fame because there is a suspicion that they used some type of performance enhancers. Roger Clemens is arguably the best pitcher to ever play the game, yet he too faces federal charges because he is accused of lying to Congress about his use of steroids. These four athletes were once considered role models, but now the public sees them as nothing more than cheaters. Many players that haven’t been called out specifically have had questionable incline and declines in both...
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...Steroids in Sports While many are attracted to steroids for an improvement in athletic performance many athletes now a days are taking steroids, why is that? Is it to make a squad, or impress a member of the opposite sex? There is not a right or wrong answer to why athletes feel the need to take performance enhancing drugs. However ones psychological state, genetic mishaps, or even performance pressures from the coaching staff, can lead an athlete to steroids. Issues of cheating or winning at any cost, are becoming more and more common among athletes of all ages and levels of ability. The use of steroids is one of the biggest issues in the current debate whether or not it is fair for drug-free athletes to have to compete with athletes that break the law and take illegal steroids. Allowing those with an unfair advantage to compete can pressure drug-free athletes to use steroids to remain competitive. The use of steroids by athletes over the last decade and a half is well documented and proven no matter how many tried to deny their cheating in order to get a leg up on their competitors. Steroids continue to taint the sports world as we speak. It has come to light that baseball superstars Barry Bonds, Alex Rodriguez, and Mark McGwire have admitted using preforming enhancing drugs during their baseball careers. Each athlete’s statistics ballooned to numbers never achieved before by prior athletes. While some athletes deny knowing they were doing anything illegal or cheating they...
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...athletes that can require less skill (Butterworth 152). Sports are evolving into who has the most money to spend on the best anabolic steroids to make them “freaks of nature” and being stronger than the average man (Ashby). Sports seem to be who can outlast one another with the use of sports, as opposed to who has more skill. Most, if not all sports, have their own Halls of Fame, which is a very prestigious award that all athletes desire, as it puts them with the greatest of their sports. With steroids being a form of cheating it is hard to acknowledge an individual on their success when there is the looming idea that they took steroids. As a way to make themselves better, athletes can accept that they cheated their way to being the best or justify their results with the steroids being a way of life. Chris Smith, business of sports writer for Forbes, says steroids should be allowed in sports because it is better overall and this controversy over the integrity is completely depleted because there would be no right or wrong. While he is right, many players to have made it to the Hall of Fame on their own without steroids. Cheaters do not deserve the recognition they get because they did not follow the rules and went outside the rules of their game. This is a dream come true for athletes, but should not be a reality should they have cheated it (Stenson). No one can take away their ability to succeed in their sport, but it should be done the right way to be rewarded. In addition to the...
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...Christopher C Lang Professor Adam Penna ENG101 Freshman Composition 13 April 2014 Ninth Inning Treason Flashing back to the incomplete collage of photographic memories I have resting in my mind, one that has always remained a part of my history that I’ll pass down to my children someday, is my first professional baseball game. I’m a bleeding heart New York Yankee fan, but didn’t really know how tight my loyalties would become at the age of 8. I was at a New York Mets game with my father, and they took on the Pittsburgh Pirates at the late Shea Stadium in Queens, NY. I even caught my first foul ball there, ate my first ballpark hotdog, and caught my first glimpse of the purity of a game that I played around my block, and on the field with my little league team and friends. It was a game that seemed immortal, a game that every young kid looks for a role model, and wishes he could have such an opportunity to become a star athlete. It’s a dream that we could be handsomely compensated for a game that has an essence of goodness and passion, innocence and integrity. I wasn’t much at this time, just a kid, and a kid that would eventually be proven wrong beyond his wildest dreams. Fast forwarding to present day, being a baseball fan today has a different feeling of ambiguity surrounded with unpredictable circumstances. For every player that seems to exemplify the portrait of a role model to children who worship them, there’s always another who doesn’t receive a glance when they...
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...Barry Bonds Barry Bond is a legendary baseball player but he would not have gotten where he is now without the help of steroids. There are reasons why Barry Bond is not going to get inducted into the Hall of Fame and that his Home run record should be stripped from him. For some reason, fans from across America still adore a man who blatantly cheated the game of baseball in order to beat Hank Aaron’s home run record. You hear of heroic athletes who have done something great in their athletic career that have got them a statue outside their stadium. Well you will never see a Barry Bonds statue outside AT&T Park, and I wonder why. Barry Bonds is not a true all-American baseball hero because was a criminal in his early years, he cheated by using performance enhancing drugs, and an extreme liar. Barry Lamar Bonds was a former ASU Sun Devil baseball player before entering the MLB. Nobody wanted to dorm with Barry and there is a reason why. To start off, according to sports.espn.go.com Barry lived with Reggie Mosley, the first baseman, and neighbored with Jose Rodiles and Bert Martinez. “Every week, Martinez’s mother, Helen, would...
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...steroid issue that surrounded Major League Baseball. First, Major League Baseball along with Congress noticed the issue of steroids due to Jose Canseco, an ex-major leaguer, who came clean about the steroid issue in his book titled Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant ’Roids, Smash Hits, and How Baseball Got Big. In this book, Canseco explained how he taught a variety of players how to inject steroids and how it would benefit them in the future. Throughout his book, Canseco provided details as to the players, who later broke many records; that he taught how to use steroids. For example, Canseco stated that he provided steroids to Mark McGwire, Jason Giambi, and Ivan Rodriquez, all of who have good enough career numbers to put themselves in the Hall of Fame in the near future. Besides Canseco’s book, certain instance happened to High School baseball players that made Congress investigate Major League Baseball. When congress took control of the situation in 2005, they...
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...Eriel Cuevas Mr. Mertsock English 12 21 October 2013 Steroids and Athletes Barry Bonds steps up to the plate awaiting a pitch he could hit from Mike Bacsik on a beautiful tuesday night. With a full count Barry finally gets the pitch he and everyone else was waiting for, he blasts the ball to the deepest part of AT&T Park. Was it his natural talent or was it the steroids he had been taking? Why are most of the top athletes in the world risking their health just to get those big contracts that everyone in professional sports want? The first introduction to performance enhancing drugs was in the 1930’s, by a group of German scientists, where they created a form of testosterone. Now people use the drugs to help them become bigger, faster, and stronger. This then would lead to them either getting caught or getting the big contracts that Alex Rodriguez has, which neither A-Rod or any or the other athletes deserve to get. The use of steroids is putting a influence on the rest of the athletes and especially young athletes in high school. This is why the use of steroids has forever changed the face of professional sports, making it a world fueled by drug contacts instead of natural skill and talent. The introduction of steroids to the world was in the 1930’s, by a group of German scientists, trying to create a synthetic form of testosterone for men that weren’t able to produce enough hormones for growth, development, and the men who could not function correctly...
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...“New York Women in Film & Television (NYWIFT) is a nonprofit membership organization for professional women in film, television and digital media. A champion of women’s rights, achievements and points of view in the film and television industry, NYWIFT is an educational forum for media professionals, and a network for the exchange of information and resources. NYWIFT brings together more than 2,000 professionals including EMMY and Academy Award winners, who work in all areas of the entertainment industry - above and below the line. It is a part of a network of 40 international women in film chapters, representing more than 10,000 members worldwide. NYWIFT produces over 50 innovative programs and special events annually; advocates for women in the industry; and, recognizes and encourages the contributions of women in the field.” So reads the mission statement on the NYWIFT website (www.nyfit.org). The fact that there is an entire organization dedicated to the success and inclusion of women in film, shows what a powerful movement is in motion. While learning about a woman’s role in filmmaking during this course, I have also learned that this is only a small portion of the movement that is appreciating women in film. During the first half of this semester, our class has examined several examples of women in film: The Women, Sense and Sensibility, Fried Green Tomatoes, Waiting to Exhale, Erin Brockovich, Calendar Girls, Little Women, and A League of Their Own. Most all of these...
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...ROGER B RUEDA WRITING CLASS 10 Kinds of Rhetorical Modes (1) Description Descriptive writing calls for close attention to details. Whether your subject is as small as a strawberry or as large as a football stadium, you should begin by observing your subject closely and deciding which details are most significant. Topic Suggestions: a basketball, baseball glove, or tennis racket a bowl of fruit a character from a book, film, or television programme a child's secret hiding place a city bus or subway train a closet a favourite restaurant a fridge or washing machine a Halloween costume a hospital emergency room a laptop computer a locker a mobile phone a painting a particular friend or family member a pet a photograph a pizza a rest room in a service station a small town cemetery a storefront window a street that leads to your home or school a treasured belonging a vase of flowers a waiting room a work table an accident scene an art exhibit an ideal apartment an inspiring view an item left too long in your refrigerator an unusual room backstage during a play or a concert the inside of a spaceship the scene at a concert or athletic event your dream house your favourite food your ideal roommate your memory of a place that you visited as a child your old neighbourhood (2) Narration At least one of the topics below may remind you of a particular incident that you can relate in a clearly organised narrative essay. a brush with...
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...03-01-15, 05:57 AM#1 Prologue For years people have dreamed of Virtual reality ranging from video games to entire worlds. There have been numerous amounts of stories and speculation for as long as the idea has existed. But now with technologies growing and improving every day the dream of virtual reality has become a reality with the new release of a Virtual Reality game called Mythical Legends with many flocking to get their hands on it. With wild speculation, stories and dreams over the year people expecting great things. Mythical Legends has had great hype across all forms of media, and for good reasons. First the game is running on a new system that incorporates not just the Game Masters; GM’s for short, but also the creation of multiple advanced artificial intelligences that support’s the virtual world and create new events and areas as the game progresses. Besides that another amazing feat is that the NPCs and Mobs of the game cannot be easily told apart from any other players. The Beta testers where surprised and overwhelmed by the games realism and by its gameplay. They played throughout a number of regions on the continent of Tellus starting at one of the four kingdomsRedstone, Thorcyn, Thlyiss, and Andesit. Each kingdom home to the four core races of Humans, Elves, Halflings, and Dwarves. After the six month testing time the programmer of the game accelerated the game’s time over a 1000 years in game time adding more history and lore. With the games...
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