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Mural.ly Should Players be Banned for Using Steroids?

Should Baseball Players be banned for drugs?

Taylor Broughman

English 2    1^st

Ms. McCoy 

3/9/2013

            Should Baseball Players be banned for life for using Steroids? Baseball is one of the most know sports around the world. Steroids are secretly used to make a player physical stronger and faster, but have many side effects. Recently many players such as Alex Rodriguez  and many others have been caught using these drugs. Should they be banned for life over something like this or just a minor suspension? In my opinion I believe they should be banned for life, without any negotiating (as Alex Rodriguez has done).

            So what exactly is a steroid? A steroid is a performance enhancing drug that makes the user a stronger and better athlete.  It usually is in a tablet form or injected and used in cycles. After prolong use it can cause baldness, growing of breasts, and infertility to men. To women it can cause facial hair, deepened voice, and infertility as well. Roid rage is also a huge side effects which is very common in users. For Baseball players a steroid can make you hit harder and run faster which are very important skills any player needs.

            Proof of how a steroid affects someone is Alex Rodriguez and Paul Bruan. Rodriguez admitted that he had used steroids throughout the 2001 and 2003 seasons in a 2009 interview. In those three seasons he had hit the most homeruns he has in his entire career. Paul Bruan was also caught using performance enhancing drugs and was suspended for 65 games. Both were using a Miami clinic to get the drugs. Drugs in baseball was such a big deal to president George bush he actual included it in the State of the Union address.

It’s not fair for a player if another player is using a drug that makes them physical stronger than what they should be. It’s cheating that’s why if you ban them it sends a clear message to anyone else using them. A ban is really what they had they had coming to them when they started using them. Being able to negotiate  out of it should not be possible (like Rodriguez did).