Steroid testing in baseball has become such a heated issue lately with .
many reasons why players should take steroids and why players should be .
tested. Steroids are bad for the player's health. Anabolic steroids raise the .
level of testosterone in the body, which causes an increase in muscle mass .
that can help players train harder and hit and throw with more power. But .
possible side effects are heart and liver damage, elevated cholesterol levels, .
strokes, aggressiveness and genitalia dysfunction. Death is even a danger. .
Baltimore Orioles pitcher, Steve Bechler, who was taking not steroids but .
rather a supplement, found out the hard way that there is a price to pay to be .
"competitive. Steve died by overdosing on ephedra. .
Why then should baseball be concerned with this if it's a constitutional .
right to be in control of your own freedoms? Because when one player is paid .
$252 million dollars to play baseball (a whole baseball team was bought for $250 .
million dollars) he needs to be healthy and not damage his body by willfully .
taking steroids. From the constitutional right to do what you want, to the actual .
number of players taking steroids, and the overall heath factors involved with .
steroids are just a few arguments why steroid testing need to be done in .
baseball. Steroid testing should be necessary so that a key player on a team .
isn't destroying his body and shortening his career and possibly hurting the .
teams chances for a World Series championship.
To begin, those opposed argue that steroid testing should not be done .
in baseball players so an average player has the same chances for big money .
as a superstar would. In a competitive juncture, such as baseball, the better a .
player becomes, the more he gets paid. They feel it is their personal right to .
take what they want so they can play like the superstars do and make the .
same amount of money.
This argument is valid, however, in an interview with an ex amateur .
