Baseball, a game of failure. A game where if you fail 7 out of 10 times you will be great. “Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer" ( Ted Williams ). Players want to be great, they will do anything that takes them to the next level in their performance. Deni Carise, a nationally recognized expert in substance abuse, behavioral health and a Chief Clinical Officer at Recovery Centers of America wrote an article; Baseball and Steroids: What’s the Big Deal? This Article is very similiar to that of The Designer Player by Rodrigo Villagomez. The two articles talk about the use of steroids in Baseball, not only in today’s day and age, but also in past baseball cultures.
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“ It is a corporation that produces the reluctant hero, a man who begrudgingly accepts the title role model” (Villagomez 586). Villagomez believes that all of the pressure put on the players to perform at such a high level makes it almost impossible for the thought of steroids not to cross the players mind at a point in their career. They are asked the world of them by their franchise, and if they can not deliever what is expected of them then there is another man waiting in the farm system to come and take there spot. In Deni Carise’s Baseball and Steroids: Whats the Big Deal? He actually addresses “ Maybe we should simply form another baseball league, one that wouldn’t play in the current National or American Leagues, but a seperate one, where the teams would not be tested for performance-enhancing drugs such as steroids” (Carise) . He thinks the idea of starting a new league for steroid users could actually be beneficial. It could possibly lead to more revenue for more and more fans wanting to go see monstrous homeruns being hit and fastballs thrown so hard you can hear a whistle from the nosebleed seats at the very top of the …show more content…
To be specific he gets into detail vastly with money and that steroid users could actually make more money “ One study that examined a player’s OPS - a combination of a player’s on base percentage and their slugging percentage found that an increase in OPS of .100 leads to an estimated salary increase of $2 Million…. So if he starts taking steroids immediately, we can expect him to make an additional $11,200,000” ( Carise ). Now you may be thinking to yourself that steroids can be very harmful to the body and it will decrease years off of the users life. Villagomez and Carise see eye to eye on this subject of matter “ These players are no more ruining their bodies than those people who have to have a smoke break every thirty minutes; in fact, using a natural hormone to increase muscle mass is arguably healthier” (Villagomez 588). Another topic that Villagomez and Carise agree on is that more fans would come to see more games due to the fact that people want to see a tougher and harder game being played. Carise believes that if a new “ Enhanced League” is created then it would be similiar to watching the Allstar game that happens once every year, except this new league would be an Allstar game on a nightly basis with the games best
“ It is a corporation that produces the reluctant hero, a man who begrudgingly accepts the title role model” (Villagomez 586). Villagomez believes that all of the pressure put on the players to perform at such a high level makes it almost impossible for the thought of steroids not to cross the players mind at a point in their career. They are asked the world of them by their franchise, and if they can not deliever what is expected of them then there is another man waiting in the farm system to come and take there spot. In Deni Carise’s Baseball and Steroids: Whats the Big Deal? He actually addresses “ Maybe we should simply form another baseball league, one that wouldn’t play in the current National or American Leagues, but a seperate one, where the teams would not be tested for performance-enhancing drugs such as steroids” (Carise) . He thinks the idea of starting a new league for steroid users could actually be beneficial. It could possibly lead to more revenue for more and more fans wanting to go see monstrous homeruns being hit and fastballs thrown so hard you can hear a whistle from the nosebleed seats at the very top of the …show more content…
To be specific he gets into detail vastly with money and that steroid users could actually make more money “ One study that examined a player’s OPS - a combination of a player’s on base percentage and their slugging percentage found that an increase in OPS of .100 leads to an estimated salary increase of $2 Million…. So if he starts taking steroids immediately, we can expect him to make an additional $11,200,000” ( Carise ). Now you may be thinking to yourself that steroids can be very harmful to the body and it will decrease years off of the users life. Villagomez and Carise see eye to eye on this subject of matter “ These players are no more ruining their bodies than those people who have to have a smoke break every thirty minutes; in fact, using a natural hormone to increase muscle mass is arguably healthier” (Villagomez 588). Another topic that Villagomez and Carise agree on is that more fans would come to see more games due to the fact that people want to see a tougher and harder game being played. Carise believes that if a new “ Enhanced League” is created then it would be similiar to watching the Allstar game that happens once every year, except this new league would be an Allstar game on a nightly basis with the games best