Performance enhancing drugs have caused issues around the sports world for many years. PEDs are defined as substances that are used to improve any form of activity performance in humans.
Many athletes have been busted for using PEDs, which resulted in a game suspension. Some of the athletes who are known to have used PEDs are Alex Rodriguez, Barry Bonds and Lance Armstrong, who used human growth hormone, steroids and EPO, respectively.
To use PEDs is just plain wrong, in my opinion.
Let’s put this into perspective: If I was a professional baseball player and had been playing the sport my entire life ever since I was a little kid, I would feel wrong to cheat the game of baseball itself. The game I had played my whole life and now played professionally for a living, I would be cheating in by using PEDs.
Now many people disagree with PEDs, but there are some people who have the opinion that if you don’t get caught, it’s not cheating. I don’t see how people could just be fine with cheating at the game they have been playing for their whole lives.
Barry Bonds is one of my favorite cases about the subject of PEDs. The reason being that Bonds holds the MLB record for all-time home runs with 762 career home runs. Even talking about this gets my blood boiling.
For someone who took steroids to hold the all-time home run record over people who have not been proved guilty of taking steroids or PEDs does not seem fair or make sense to me.
Bonds is listed above all time greats like Babe Ruth, Hank Aaron, Willie Mays and Albert Pujols— all people who deserve more than to be listed below someone who took steroids to cheat their way to the top.
Alex Rodriguez is also ranked fourth on the all time home run list with 696 career home runs.
Using PEDs is just plain, simple wrong. You won’t gain anything from cheating at the game or sport you once loved. Even if it becomes a job, it still should be treated with respect, since many players work hard every year.
I personally feel that the MLB should remove Bonds from the list as well as anybody else who has ever used steroids or PEDs. It is disrespectful to the game and to the other players who are working hard day in and day out.
