All Juiced Up

Over the past few weeks, steroids have been printed on newspapers across the country and shown on television stations daily. Covers of the New York Post have read "Cheater," and changed the name "A-Rod" to "A-Roid."

Since the turn of the century, steroids have infected our national past-time. Athletic trainers and vitamin distributors such as Victor Conte of BALCO, have become "drug dealers," and the athletes have become the "junkies" doing anything they can to enhance their game and not get caught.
In 2007, since the Mitchell Report, drawn up by Senator George Mitchell, was released, many players have been accused of using performance enhancing drugs. Players such as Barry Bonds, Alex Rodriguez, Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa, Ken Griffey Jr., Roger Clemens, and many more. Bonds and Clemens are also both being charged with perjury for lying to congress under oath.
Even before the report, players were accused. As a child playing Little League in NFWB, many of these players I once looked up to. They were my heroes and I wanted to be just like them. However, after the Mitchell Report was released, I could no longer look up to these players.

Today, I find it hard to even find a player who is innocent of not using the drugs. When A-Rod confessed to using the drugs, it was so shocking to many people across the country. Everyone is guilty now. Many players have come out and said that steroids are ruining baseball. These players need to step up and tell the idiots doing it to stop. The players who use performance enhancing drugs have no respect for the game and they don’t deserve to be recognized as the great players of the game.
Records have been re-written by players who have cheated the game. They don’t deserve to have the credit for doing so. For someone like Bonds, who broke Hank Aaron’s homerun record two summers ago, there will always be an asterisk next to him name.

These athletes, who have cheated the game ,have not only ruined their own careers, but also the game of baseball and the careers of high school students who have looked up to them.
Many high school students across the country have experimented with performance enhancing drugs because their favorite athletes have. Kids have died due to overdose and ruined their chances of every playing again due to injury.

In Texas, they now require mandatory random drug testing for all high school athletes. Although, after the last test, they only found two in the whole state using performance enhancing drugs, it was completely worth the money.

Because this era will forever be known as the steroid era, it is worth it to protect student athletes from making the same mistakes professional athletes have. Random drug testing should take place in high school sports.

The game of baseball has changed. Our national past-time is full of lies and cheaters, all juiced up.