We Thought The Ball Was Juiced. The Effects Of Steroid Use In Baseball

2. What would posses professional athletes to the brink of harming their body for a game? The athlete obviously had to practice for yea

4. James Andrews, an orthopedist, is alarmed at the sharp increase in muscle and tendon injuries. From 1992 to 2001 the number of injuries in baseball increased to an alarming thirty two percent (Antonym, 1). Muscle and tendon injuries may cause some short term effects on a career, but in some cases steroid use can cause an early retirement. That is not the worst of the many effects of steroids that can plague an athlete. Steroids are proven to cause heart decease, stroke, and liver cancer. Plus the added muscle mass affects tendon, muscle, and skeleton integrity (Juicy, 2). The use of anabolic steroids also effects some less dangerous physical and mental side effect. Some of the physical side effects are the growth of breast tissue, shrinking testicles, impotence, infertility, baldness, and acme (Anabolic, 2). There are also many psychological effects that take place that an athlete does not take into consideration.

5. Anabolic steroids are proven to cause extreme mood swings sometimes called roid rage that can sometimes lead to violent and sometime homicidal tendencies. Steroid users may also become dependent to the drug causing withdrawal symptoms of irritability, delusions, and impaired judgement caused by the attitude of being invincible (NIH/NIDA, 2). So the question is asked is the money worth a player’s health or integrity? Money or health, a dilemma that will test how greedy professional baseball players are till a competent drug testing policy is installed.

10. Baseball needs to wake up. The problem is greater than they even noticed. The owners and the players need to stop thinking about their wallets and start thinking of cleaning up the game. A game that has made both of them an insane amount of money. If they just don’t care about the integrity of the game than at least educate the high school and college athlete the risks of the deadly drug. Money or death? To me it doesn’t seem like a hard choice maybe when a player dies from complications it will wake up the Jose Canseco’s or the Ken Caminiti’s of the present day game. Owners and players please don’t destroy our national pastime it is something that should be cherished not drug though the mud especially over steroids that is just greedy.

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