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Imagine you are a professional baseball player in the MLB, and you’re one of the greats. You have been using steroids to help build your strength and look good. One Saturday night you blast your 74th homerun, setting a new record for most homeruns in a single season. Do you think you should be included in the record book, even though you used performance enhancing drugs? Do you feel you are cheating the sport and dishonoring America’s favorite pastime? Scenarios like this are actually happening in Major League Baseball. The use of anabolic steroids by professional baseball players negatively impacts the sport. The opposition will say that steroids positively impact baseball because it brings more homeruns, thus, driving more fans to the games. The truth is steroids produce a mess for the MLB. I have provided three reasons as to why steroids are damaging baseball. First, players are getting fined, suspended, and ejected from the league due to the use of these drugs. These baseball games are much less entertaining if key players are missing. There are now debates, causing a lot of controversy, as to whether or not a steroid user should be in the record book. And lastly, steroids are making players go homerun crazy and lose focus of the whole game. The sport would be better without these drugs. First, steroid use causes people to question homerun records, such as in this paper’s opening scene. There isn’t even a rule in the MLB yet that states what happens when someone using steroids breaks a record. John Kuenster, writer for Baseball Digest and author of the article, “Major League Player Records Dishonored by Steroid Users” cannot decide what should be done with a new record set by a steroid user (Kuenster, par. 6). Author for Time magazine, Richard Corliss, suggests putting an asterisk next to the names in the record book that have used steroids (Corliss). A writer for Sports Illustrated thinks any broken records by a steroids user should not count at all


Cited: Corliss, Richard. “Baseball Takes A Hit: A Steroid Probe Involving Top Players Threatens To Blight The Game, Anger Fans and Alter Record Books.” Time 15 Mar. 2004: 71. Academic OneFile. Gale. University of Minnesota Duluth Lib., 23 Mar. 2010 . Hosenball, Mark. “Roger Dodger Vs. The Feds.” Newsweek 10 Mar. 2008: 10. Academic OneFile. Gale. University of Minnesota Duluth Lib., 22 Mar. 2010 . Kuenster, John. “Major League Player Records Dishonored by Steroid Users.” Baseball Digest 1 Mar. 2008: Section: Warm Up Tosses. SPORTDiscus. EBSCO. University of Minnesota Duluth Lib., 22 Mar. 2010 . OConnor, Jason "Why Steroids Are Bad for Major League Baseball." Why Steroids Are Bad for Major League Baseball. 31 Oct. 2007. EzineArticles.com. 23 Mar. 2010 . Reilly, Rick. “Giving Barry his Due.” Sports Illustrated 23 July 2007: 76. SPORTDiscus. EBSCO. University of Minnesota Duluth Lib., 23 Mar. 2010 . “Steroids Brought Fans to Stadium.” The News Record. 5 Oct. 2008 The News Record. 22 Mar. 2010 . Vass, George. “Hall of Fame’s Future Dilemma—Who Belongs and Who Doesn’t.” Baseball Digest. 1 June 2008: 26. SPORTDiscus. EBSCO. University of Minnesota Duluth Lib., 22 Mar. 2010. .

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