Canseco Admits

Jose Canseco is a former Major League Baseball player who used steroids. In fact, he was the first one to ever use them in the major leagues. He says that steroids made him a better baseball player without doubt. He also says that if he could go back and have the choice of taking them again, he would take them. According to him, steroids can also make you healthier in some ways. They can help cure certain diseases.

Jose Canseco was one of the greatest baseball players in the 80's and 90's. Clearly he was better than a lot of other baseball players because of steroids. We will never know if other players could have been as good as him if everyone took steroids though. That is why I think that steroids should be illegal. Barry Bonds, the home run record holder, has been tested positive for steroids. The world now has to know that the home run record holder cheated to get his record.

Canseco, Jose. Juiced. New York: HarperCollins Publishers Inc., 2005. 1-10. Print.

Mitchell Report

In the 2007-2008 Major League Baseball season, George J. Mitchell released a report containing all of the the players that had used steroids. There was a total of eighy-nine players on the list. Mitchell talked to people talked to the steroid dealers, and managed to get the names of the players. The list included players from all thirty major league teams. Most players denied using the drug, but if that player ever tests positive for using steroids, he will be fined and suspended.

Mitchell recommended that the players do not get punished, but Commissioner, Bud Selig, said that he would look over each individual player's case and decided then. Mitchell did a great job finding reliable sources who could help him figure out which players took steroids. Players such as Mark Mcgwire, Sammy Sosa, and Rafael Palimero have testified before congress about whether they used steroids or not, and all declined. Later, Sosa and Palimero tested positive, and Mcgwire admitted to using them.

Wilson, Duff. "Steroid Report Cites ‘Collective Failure’." 14 December 2007: 1-2. Web. 4 Apr 2010. .

Should Athletes be Allowed to use Steroids?

Mike Thomas thinks that steroids should be allowed in sports. HIs main point for his decision is that athletes use all different kinds of treatment to be better at their sport, yet steroids are illegal. He thinks that if people can harm their bodies by using drugs and getting tattoos, then steroids shouldn't be a problem for athletes to use. He also would like to see steroids be legalized for athletes because it would elevate the level of play and it will educate people about their bodies.



Mike has a good point about people using different types of treatment to elevate their level of play, but I think steroids elevate the level of play too much. Athletes that played sports one hundred years ago didn't even have the option of using steroids, so why should they be allowed to use them now? Athletes that use steroids can break records set by athletes that didn't use steroids. I thinks that is unfair.


Thomas, Mike. "Why Steroids Should Be Allowed ." 14 March 2007: 1-2. Web. 26 Mar 2010. .