Steroids have brought more attention to professional sports, making athletes bigger and better leading those sports to be more exiting, bringing in more fans to sporting venues, while increasing revenue with ticket and jersey sales. What do the people want? Spectators want sports to be more competitive and exiting. So why are their unlawful limitations on players getting their body's into tip top shape however they can? There are unfair rules set down by the professional leagues, limiting players to be unable to use performance enhancing drugs to make themselves stronger and healthier. I believe PED's should be legal because of their pharmaceutical value, while they also make the games that we love more enjoyable to watch. Aren't you tired of steroid controversies taking the attention away from the actual sporting events? Well I sure am. If these distractions are removed from the highest stages of sports, the events will be more attractive to fans. Take Alex Rodriguez for example. The right handed hitting third baseman for the New York Yankees is one of the best pure hitters of all time. He was suspended 211 games by Major League Baseball due to the use of PED's and his attempt to evade the MLB and its prosecutors of his affiliation with Anthony Bosch owner of the steroid clinic Biogenisis. The MLB made an example out of Rodriguez which was deserved, but not to the severity that was handed to him. Baseball has the most offenders. In 2005 baseball players begun to get suspended.
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In the beginning, those players doing more steroids than athletes today were not getting penalized, but starting in 2005, we see a lot of suspensions. In 2006, players started getting suspended at a higher, more prevalent rate than ever before. In the 2005, the average number of games suspended was 10. In 2006 it was an average of 50 games. If one jumps to 2011, 1 player was suspended for 100 games and 1 player for 50. In 2013 there were 14 suspended. 11 players for 50 games, 1 for 105, 1 for 211, and 1 for the remainder of the season (Baseball Almanac). Looking at the evidence provided, an extensive amount of professional baseball players are caught and punished every year over and over again. PED's should be legal in all professional sports. Performance enhancing drugs should be legal in all major professional sports because they promote a healthy and stronger athlete. The thing is that players can not just inject or ingest steroids whenever they please. My case is that players should be allowed to use PED's, but they must be monitored by a team physician who has the proper credentials and motives. More home runs, more complete game outings, more touchdowns, more conditioned and healthier athletes will be promoted if and only if steroids become apart of the games we love again. I know I want to see my favorite players play every game throughout an entire season, and so do you! There are some serious loopholes in testing for drugs today. In baseball, testings are random, season long, and monitored face to face by an MLB task agent. While in the NFL players are tested once before the pre season and that's it. After the one test all the players receive, everything else is fair game. This meaning football players can do any PED or recreational drug they
In the beginning, those players doing more steroids than athletes today were not getting penalized, but starting in 2005, we see a lot of suspensions. In 2006, players started getting suspended at a higher, more prevalent rate than ever before. In the 2005, the average number of games suspended was 10. In 2006 it was an average of 50 games. If one jumps to 2011, 1 player was suspended for 100 games and 1 player for 50. In 2013 there were 14 suspended. 11 players for 50 games, 1 for 105, 1 for 211, and 1 for the remainder of the season (Baseball Almanac). Looking at the evidence provided, an extensive amount of professional baseball players are caught and punished every year over and over again. PED's should be legal in all professional sports. Performance enhancing drugs should be legal in all major professional sports because they promote a healthy and stronger athlete. The thing is that players can not just inject or ingest steroids whenever they please. My case is that players should be allowed to use PED's, but they must be monitored by a team physician who has the proper credentials and motives. More home runs, more complete game outings, more touchdowns, more conditioned and healthier athletes will be promoted if and only if steroids become apart of the games we love again. I know I want to see my favorite players play every game throughout an entire season, and so do you! There are some serious loopholes in testing for drugs today. In baseball, testings are random, season long, and monitored face to face by an MLB task agent. While in the NFL players are tested once before the pre season and that's it. After the one test all the players receive, everything else is fair game. This meaning football players can do any PED or recreational drug they