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Smash Lord
Seems that in sports today more star athletes are resorting to cheating by using Performance Enchancing Drugs or PEDs for short. For those of you that don't know what PEDs are please read the following to better your knowledge:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performance-enhancing_drugs
The lastest athlete to get caught was the Red Socks slugger, David Ortiz. The sad part is that his name gets added to all the others who have cheated there way to greatness such as Manny Ramirez, Alex Rodriquez and Barry Bonds. The main question I have is why cheat to greatness when others have worked hard to achieve it such as Hank Aaron and Babe Ruth?
On May 08, 2009 Manny Ramirez was caught for using PEDs and was suspended for 50 regular season games. I personally would of liked to see a longer suspension because of the fact that he cheated to get where he is today. I know a 10 year old baseball player who plays AA and is a second baseman. He isn't the most powerful but he is a great overall player. His coach says that the only part of his game that needs improvement is his power. I asked him how he was going to improve his power and he simply stated that when he is about 20 he will take PEDs.
This scared me because these adults are teaching the young baseball stars of tomorrow that cheating is okay and that there is nothing wrong with it. I would like to see longer suspensions or permanent suspensions for the players that use PEDs to teach others not to use them. I want to know why it seems that these people think it is okay to use PEDs, how to fix the problem and if suspensions should be longer?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performance-enhancing_drugs
The lastest athlete to get caught was the Red Socks slugger, David Ortiz. The sad part is that his name gets added to all the others who have cheated there way to greatness such as Manny Ramirez, Alex Rodriquez and Barry Bonds. The main question I have is why cheat to greatness when others have worked hard to achieve it such as Hank Aaron and Babe Ruth?
On May 08, 2009 Manny Ramirez was caught for using PEDs and was suspended for 50 regular season games. I personally would of liked to see a longer suspension because of the fact that he cheated to get where he is today. I know a 10 year old baseball player who plays AA and is a second baseman. He isn't the most powerful but he is a great overall player. His coach says that the only part of his game that needs improvement is his power. I asked him how he was going to improve his power and he simply stated that when he is about 20 he will take PEDs.
This scared me because these adults are teaching the young baseball stars of tomorrow that cheating is okay and that there is nothing wrong with it. I would like to see longer suspensions or permanent suspensions for the players that use PEDs to teach others not to use them. I want to know why it seems that these people think it is okay to use PEDs, how to fix the problem and if suspensions should be longer?
