“With the use of steroids and other performance enhancers rampant, according to a former MVP and other sources, baseball players and their reliance on drugs have grown to alarming proportions” (Verducci). Steroids have corrupted our precious athletes and have taken the morality out of baseball. Once America’s pastime, fans have lost interest in the game that the Babe Ruth’s and Hank Aaron’s once ruled. Major League Baseball is experiencing a huge problem with steroids and has been working to solve this problem. Policies have been adopted to punish guilty players, and Congress has become involved because these enhancers are illegal.

Over the past decade, the use of steroids has become apparent. Chad Curtis, a retired outfielder “estimates that 40% to 50% of major-leaguers use steroids” (Verducci). He also states that if one polled the fans, they would reply, “I don’t care about illegal steroids. I’d rather see a guy hit the ball a mile or throw it 105 miles an hour.” Ken Caminiti, a former MVP and a former heavily dependent steroids user, also states in this article that fans “come to the arena to watch gladiators. Do they want to see a bunch of guys choking up on the bat against pitchers throwing 82 miles an hour or do they want to see the ball go 500 feet? They want to see warriors.” The steroids era that has developed has made fans used to the power numbers that have exploded. Over these past few years, records have been shattered; however, what do these numbers actually tell us? Are Mark McGwire’s 70 homeruns and Barry Bonds record of 73 just showcases of which steroids they used? These records are controversial. Roger Maris and Babe Ruth set the famous numbers truthfully and morally. To restore the heritage and morality of the game, Major League Baseball needs to develop a steroid policy that completely eliminates steroids from the game. Records that have been set during the steroid era need to have an asterisk preceding them and be printed in red to warn fans that the record was set in the era of steroids.

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