Professional Sports: Should Baseball Players Use Steroids?

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 …show more content…
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