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 Owen Ward English2 5/29/08

Steroids in Baseball They are greatest danger to major league baseball. We hear about them in news, on TV and other places; but what really are they? Steroids. They poison Major League Baseball and have consumed many of the games greatest players. For example, Eric Gange, Manny Ramirez, Alex Rodriguez, and the most famous, Barry Bonds. They all did steroids, now they are in what’s known as the Baseball Hall of Shame. Steroids truly poisons the game of baseball and any other sport too. It takes the game’s greatest stars and rips them to pieces. What really stinks is that these guys were great before they took steroids, but they ruined their Hall of Fame chances for an illegal performance enhancer.

What are Steroids? They are a drug prescribed by doctors for medical reasons, and not enhance performance of build muscle to do so. It has a lot of street names like, gm candy, roids, and juice, but it’s all the same stuff. There are many different kinds of steroids, oral steroids, which you chew and swallow that will damage your liver, injectable steroids that you inject into your bloodstream and won’t harm your liver, and some people take steroid pills. People who abuse this drug might like what they see when they flex in the mirror, but steroids are actually harming your body not improving its physical condition.

Even if a person takes steroids they would still have to eat right and workout, like a normal person would. There also some really nasty side affects, mental and physical. Some mental effects may include aggressiveness, depression, mood swings, and mental addiction. Physical effects include liver damage, limb loss, heart attacks, physical addiction, and baldness to name a few. Then there’s the consequences of taking steroids in the M.L.B. and anywhere else. In the m.l.b., you ruin your chances of getting to the hall of fame, and if you are a first time user you get a suspension which lasts 50 games or one third of the season. If you get caught a second time you get banned from baseball. Even if you’re not an m.l.b. super slugger you could still get sent to jail if you get caught. Steroids truly poisons the game of baseball and any other sport too. It takes the game’s greatest stars and rips them to pieces. Your favorite players like A-rod, Barry Bonds, and Eric Gange, have all been consumed. You never know who will be next, Prince Fielder, J.J. Hardy, or Ryan Braun?