Step one of the chain involves a mix of biomechanics and physics. The player has more strength to lift, carry, and move baseball bat. The ease of the baseball bat operations for the player on anabolic steroids results in the faster swing because it becomes easier for him to do that. It can be compared with the tossing of a lightweight Nerf ball between a five-year-old child and and adult. The adult has more power so that he will throw the ball further and will not feel the weight of it in his hand, while the five-year-old child might not have such ability and strength to launch the ball. The same principle applies here – players can swing the baseball bat more easily, enhancing their capacity to hit the ball harder. When the speed of the swing
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The physics of the game involves the starting speed of the ball and its velocity so that if the pitcher throws the ball harder – the batter will have fewer chances to score a home-run. The reason for that relies on the fact that the batter has to overcome the starting speed of the ball which travels in the opposite direction to the one that the batter wants. The baseball player hits the ball and loses energy to turn the ball in the other direction and grant it the starting speed, but in the opposite direction. The speed of the ball after the hit depends on the speed of the ball after the throw because one has to subtract the speed before the hit to understand the ball’s characteristics after the interaction. That is a basic principle in physics if one wants to change an object’s direction. Therefore, the harder the batter hits a ball, the greater the final speed of the ball will be after the …show more content…
In this case, the player who felt like he needed steroids to be better was one of the best-known pitchers and baseball players in general of all times - Roger Clemens. In the summer of 2010 seven-time Cy Young winner, which is an award yearly given out to the best pitcher in each league, Roger Clemens was summoned to federal court on perjury charges for taking PEDs or steroids (Becker & Dietram, 2008). While many fans argued that it is immoral to enhance skills by the consumption of steroids, people still think that these players earned their respect. For example, the poll conducted in the article Public Perceptions Of Steroid Use In Sport: Contextualizing Communication Efforts by Becker and Dietram (2008), the majority of people voted that the Barry Bonds, who was also convinced in the steroid consumption, deserved to be elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Such attitude and acceptance of the fact that players try to enhance their abilities at any cost reveal the society norm. People admire their heroes and think that it is nothing wrong for their idols to get the needed results by consuming steroids. As a fact, such thoughts might probably increase the probability of younger players to start using steroids to get to the top level of performance. Such ideology was not built in a day because people were watching Barry’s games for ages. The public does not care how the
The physics of the game involves the starting speed of the ball and its velocity so that if the pitcher throws the ball harder – the batter will have fewer chances to score a home-run. The reason for that relies on the fact that the batter has to overcome the starting speed of the ball which travels in the opposite direction to the one that the batter wants. The baseball player hits the ball and loses energy to turn the ball in the other direction and grant it the starting speed, but in the opposite direction. The speed of the ball after the hit depends on the speed of the ball after the throw because one has to subtract the speed before the hit to understand the ball’s characteristics after the interaction. That is a basic principle in physics if one wants to change an object’s direction. Therefore, the harder the batter hits a ball, the greater the final speed of the ball will be after the …show more content…
In this case, the player who felt like he needed steroids to be better was one of the best-known pitchers and baseball players in general of all times - Roger Clemens. In the summer of 2010 seven-time Cy Young winner, which is an award yearly given out to the best pitcher in each league, Roger Clemens was summoned to federal court on perjury charges for taking PEDs or steroids (Becker & Dietram, 2008). While many fans argued that it is immoral to enhance skills by the consumption of steroids, people still think that these players earned their respect. For example, the poll conducted in the article Public Perceptions Of Steroid Use In Sport: Contextualizing Communication Efforts by Becker and Dietram (2008), the majority of people voted that the Barry Bonds, who was also convinced in the steroid consumption, deserved to be elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Such attitude and acceptance of the fact that players try to enhance their abilities at any cost reveal the society norm. People admire their heroes and think that it is nothing wrong for their idols to get the needed results by consuming steroids. As a fact, such thoughts might probably increase the probability of younger players to start using steroids to get to the top level of performance. Such ideology was not built in a day because people were watching Barry’s games for ages. The public does not care how the