Ripped and Roided

Baseball is supposed to be our nations past-time. It is unbelievable how corrupted the league has gotten since the 80’s. Before then, there was no illegal drugs being used by players, baseball was an honest and clean sport. Now, the majority of the players are suspected of using muscle enhancing supplements or steroids to improve their performance on the field. Ken Caminiti told Sports Illustrated

The owners, managers, and commissioners of baseball are just plain ignorant. The public knows that the players use steroids, but it is still being ignored by the executives of baseball. They have turned baseball into a business, not a sport. Homeruns put fans in the seats, bottom line. Money is all owners care about anymore. It’s true that baseball is more exciting now then it’s ever been, but its fake. I have no respect for a player who cheats in order to excel in his or her sport. The only way anything will change is if a strict drug testing policy is set in motion. Until this happens, Major league Baseball will hold will hold no honesty or wholesomeness. It will only be a game played by giant freaks of nature motivated by the good almighty dollar.

, “It’s no secret what’s going on in baseball. At least half the guys are using steroids. They talk about it”. The sad thing is that many of the players who use them don’t even really want too. Some are more or less forced to use steroids so they don’t their jobs taken by the competition. “So I can’t say, ’Don’t do it’, not when the guy next to you is as big as a house and he’s going to take your job and make the m

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