Steriods in Basball

Any sports fan who watches ESPN (and lets be real some who claims to be a sports fan and doesn’t is lying) has been bombarded by the constant steroid talk. It can be December and baseball would seem pretty irrelevant as crucial football games are being played, but wait some idiot gets accused of doing steroids, admits to it, or the Hall of Fame argument comes up. Thrusting the real news of football to back panel and focusing on the same steroids opinions and arguments that we have been plagued with over the last 5 YEARS. Nothing has really changed. Some call the users cheaters. Some down play how much steroids actually help. Sure, since many records home records were shattered and broken the question of how to document this is up to question, but the speculation of how this might get taken care of is becoming ridiculous and wasting time for speculation about how to handle cheaters only takes the light off of current sports news and people who are competing fairly. Its drives me crazy when I tune in to SportsCenter to watch highlights of games from the day and all I get is 35 minutes of the same played out steroids talk, 15 minutes of stuff that they are trying to sell, and then the real news. So please enough with the ROIDs. I don’t even care anymore who did them or not. A-ROID, Bonds, McGwire, Palmeiro we can make a mile long list but it does nothing. Hose Canseco is a piece of garbage for being a snitch that just wanted to make money by tainting a generation of baseball. We all learn as males at a young age not to snitch in the school yard because there are consequences. Congress should have better things to do. Leave this issue alone.

Information of users should be made public, but every time a new names associated with steroids come out; ESPN viewers are subject to constant talk of these players. It is not the fact that SportsCenter mentions the new users. The problem is the amount of coverage and how much analyses is given to every person accused or convicted. Alex Rodriguez or A-Rod, now known as A-Roid, admitted to using steroids before the start of last season. The coverage completely overshadowed the upcoming baseball season. In time that could have been spent giving overviews and team predictions, viewers were subjected to watching the A-Roid interview 500 times. Then after we saw his confession every ESPN employee got at least 3 minutes of their opinion on the issue. I personally could care less what everyone on ESPN thinks about steroids. I have my own opinions and ideas about the matter. ESPN is making the matter more complicated than it really is.

Steroid users should not be allowed in the Hall of Fame. THEY CHEATED. That is like letting the women, Rosie Ruiz, who cheated to win the Boston Marathon keep her trophy. She took a short cut to victory and so did the players that used. Olympians who won medals who eventually admit or being proved off using steroids have their medals and records taken away. I was a giant Mark McGuire fan in the 1988 season when he hit 70 homeruns to shatter the record. Now that he admits I say take the record out of the books. These players cheated the integrity of the sport, their fans, and themselves. Their eligibility should not be a question for the Hall of Fame. ESPN has demonstrated every possible opinion on the issue and it has been completely been overplayed and has become stale. ESPN is not necessarily the main part of the problem. I do not understand why Congress found it necessary to involve themselves in the issue. Steroids were illegally acquired by the players, but still that would be more than a law enforcement issues. So Congress stay out of the issue and do something that benefits the welfare of the nation.