Baseball and Steroids-The Controversy

In the last few years steroids in Baseball has created quite a controversy. A controversy that refuses to just fade away. Many people wonder how much steroids does enhance performance and what are the long term side effects of steroids on the baseball players who are using them. And many people wonder if today's baseball records are the result of steroids. And how badly are baseball players harming themselves using steroids. Anabolic steroids are a synthetic form of the hormone found in males called testosterone.

Athletes use the steroids to try to give themselves a edge as far as endurance and performance go and that is where the real problem comes in. There are records going in the baseball record book that should not be there because using performance enhancing steroids is cheating. And if you cheat in Baseball you should not go in the record book. Period. No matter who you are or what record you broke. At the very least in the record book it should state in plain black and white this person cheated to get this record.

Baseball is America's favorite pastime and kids look up to baseball players. I really believe if a baseball player is caught or admits to using steroids they should be banned from baseball for life and their records should be taken out of the record book. What are we teaching the kids here in the USA if we condone cheating in baseball in any way, shape, form or fashion.

You know its sad that this dark stain of steroids had to come up in Baseball and its even sadder that all these baseball players cheated and got their names into the record books ahead of great men that got into that baseball record book legitimately. Its time that the American people, the fans of baseball stand up and demand that the cheaters be put out of baseball and that their records be taken out of the record books.