Steroids

In professional sports athletes are trying to gain an advantage on their opponents all the time, especially in baseball. Many professional baseball players take muscle enhancers and weight gainers to improve their game. The athletes that are really trying to get an edge on their opponents take an alternative route to steroids. Baseball players should not be allowed to use steroids or muscle enhancers because, it gives them too much power, they have a better advantage over the other players, and it can cause major health risks. Putting a stricter drug policy on steroids and other related enhancers in Major League Baseball and be beneficial to the game by making the level of play equal, creating positive role models for America's youth, and by encouraging the players to keep their bodies healthy.

Baseball players that turn to creatine are having a bigger advantage over the other athletes in the major leagues. The player's strength created by taking creatine is allowing them to hit much better. Their batting averages are rising enormously and they are hitting more homeruns then usual. Today there are many more homeruns then there were five years ago. This is basically because nobody really knew about creatine back then. Now that the baseball players have turn to creatine the teams are scoring more runs in the games, and the players are taking away the real feel of the game. " Many athletes are currently supplementing their diets with creatine to increase their strength, muscle mass, and weight by providing their bodies with more available energy, thus reaching new heights in athletic ability" (Mottram 61-66). Athletes who are taking creatine are becoming much larger in all areas on the playing field, whether it's hitting, fielding, or there speed. Since they are taking creatine they are becoming phenomenal players and get all acknowledgements by the fans. The truth is that they are not becoming great players by doing work they are becoming star players by using creatine. Therefore using supplements such as creatine should be banned from baseball.

Taking steroids or muscle enhancers can cause very harmful health risks. Athletes think that if they take these products they will become better players without any problems. Many people can suffer severe side effects from taking steroids or creatine. Steroids may cause small side effects, but a major side effect if you take steroids is, you could suffer heart attack. If a player chooses to take steroids they need to realize there are so many health risks and side effects. The selected baseball players who think if they take steroids they will become better players need to know there are major consequences that can result in taking steroids and should think before starting to take steroids

Professional baseball players may not know this, but they are role models to many kids and even some adults. Kids these days really look up to the players and admire what they do. Today's children see the players on television or in real life and want