Summary Of We The Public Place The Best Athletes On Pedestals

The writer, Moller, of the article “We, the Public, Place the Best Athletes on Pedestals.” believes that athletes using drugs despite the rules to win games is the same as students using drugs to boost their grades. This writer feels that people make more of a deal out of an athlete using drugs than students, because they are put on a pedestal. He uses his own experiences and those of theirs to try to prove his point. I think he is trying to open the minds of other to let them know that athletes using drugs and students using drugs to boost their performance is no different. He also goes on to imply how people can be very hypocritical when it comes to athletes and students using drugs. He says people sometimes turn a blind eye, but as a whole they are quick to damn an athlete for using drugs before they will damn a student. He says this because much of the time students get
He also thinks if he had to choose between using drugs or not, to boost his grades, he probably would. Moller feels that people expect too much of athletes. “Look, you and I both understand that the majority of the best players in baseball are steroid users.” (Moller and Birkenstein 548) When faced with the option of whether to do right and fail horribly or, to use drugs and have a great life; most people would use the drugs and cheat. Athletes have a choice of using drugs and becoming a legend, or not using them and risk being average or even worse, subpar. He goes on to mention how he used a prescription drug, Ritalin, to pull an all-nighter for his exam the next day. He knew it was illegal but he figured, as long as he got a good grade, the risk was worth taking. “The negative of doing poorly on the test was far greater than the negative of getting caught…” (Moller and Birkenstein 547) He also mentions Alex