The recent information that has come out about former players and current MLB players taking steroids slightly disturbs me. What really gets to me, the thing that really disturbs me is that if it hadn't been for Federal Agents raiding those pharmacies baseball officials may have never caught those players. Honestly, I could care less if John Rocker took steroids, but I do care that MLB isn't doing enough to catch these guys and prevent them from using this stuff.
For one I think that the penalty for using steroids should be a lot harsher than what it is. I mean if it were any average Joe that was caught using an illegal substance do you think they'd keep their job? Probably not. The same should go for all sports. I don't care if it's Kobe Bryant or Manny Ramirez, if they get caught using a substance that they know they shouldn't be using they should at the very least be suspended from their sport for a year.
The Olympic Committee seems to be the only ones who has any idea of what's going on, because when an athlete gets caught by the IOC using something their not suppose to that athlete gets suspended for years at a time. Does anybody remember what happened to Justin Gatlin? He was handed down an eight year suspension, which apparently was getting off easy. Eight years is a long time to not be able to compete in events and to lose out on endorsements.
Hopefully all sports can come together and come up with some sort of unified way to find those athletes that using performance enhancing drugs and get them out of our stadiums, courts and arenas. For every player trying to earn a career dishonestly, there are dozens of other honest players that deserve to play.
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