The document discusses arguments for and against legalizing steroids in Major League Baseball (MLB). It notes that steroids can help with muscle growth, recovery, and endurance. However, they are currently banned by MLB. The document also discusses the potential benefits of legalizing steroids, such as increased competition, entertainment value for fans, and higher revenues. However, others argue steroids should remain banned due to health risks and fairness issues. Overall, the document presents both sides of the complex debate around legalizing performance-enhancing drugs in professional sports.

1. Legalizing Steroids

2. • The MLB banned steroids in 1991 but
did not implement any regulations until
2003.
• Players, such as Barry Bonds and Mark
McGwire, have been accused of using
steroids due to the increased number
home runs.

3. • Steroids are natural synthetic compounds
that help regulate bodily functions we use to
maintain a healthy system.
• The positive aspects of steroids include
increased muscle mass, tissue repair,
endurance and fat loss. Someone who is
using steroids will find great benefits from
their workouts and can add inches on their
muscles quickly.

4. • “Among other things the positive effects of
steroids include increased muscle mass,
tissue repair, endurance and fat loss”
(LeMouse).
• Playing 162 games in a season is not only
hard to keep healthy but it is also difficult
to keep your strength up as the season
goes, this is where steroids have a huge
impact. The steroids allow players to
maintain and even gain muscle mass to
allow the body to recover quicker.

5. • NBC sports estimates that 1.01 billion people
watch baseball combined between live at the
game and on TV every year.
• Allowing steroids does not guarantee that this
value of entertainment will go up, however
with bigger, faster, and stronger players it
would be hard to imagine anything other than
the game to be more entertaining.

6. • With these substances at higher demand,
they can be sold for a higher value then
they currently are. As this increases so
does the business for the ballparks.
• A health technician stated, “Money is
being made, home runs are being hit,
speeds in the peloton are increasing, and
the growth of the sport is happening”
(Solito).

7. • The therapist claims, “I would definitely
support the legalization of steroids in the
MBL. It's all about keeping things in
moderation, and in my opinion a small
dosage of steroids in sports would only help.”
• This anonymous therapist had admitted that
he had taking steroids in college playing
baseball and he sees many college athletes
taking these supplements..

8. • Allowing players to take a substance to
dramatically increase their performance
level and strength will increase the level of
competition.
• Smaller players will be able to measure up
against the bigger players on a power
standpoint.

9. • Doctor Norman Fost, director of the
bioethics program at the University of
Wisconsin at Madison, believes, “Drug-
testing policies in professional sports are
completely illogical, and the placement of
drugs on the banned substance list is quite
arbitrary” (Stevens).
• It would eliminate issues with the Hall of
Fame and if a player decides to help his
body recover.

10. • To everything athletes choose to do or use
there is always a negative to some positive,
its just about balance and moderation.
• As stated in a magazine, “they really don’t
want to have to police themselves in that
sense and bring discipline against a star
player” (Silverman). It is always up to the
athlete to do what they wish having the option
to take these performance-enhancing drugs if
they wish.

11. • Players are always looking for that
competitive edge and steroids are a perfect
way to get that over your competition and be
the best that you can be.
• Steroids are a path to a new form of baseball,
a better form of baseball and would help the
game immensely by making it more
entertaining, driving up revenue and by
creating more of a level playing field.

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January 2015.
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