Every child has a hero or wants to look up to someone.Not every child wants to be disappointed by their hero.I'm a huge sports fan, softball being my number one sport. I love softball because I love baseball but after my role model [Mark McGwire] was accused of doing steroids I stopped watching baseball. All athletes want their fans to look up to them. With McGwire, he started hitting so many homeruns which made me want to be a better player. After Mcguire Confessed to using steroids for many years he immediately lost my support as a fan. http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=4816921 If I could look past his mistake of doing the drugs, maybe he would still be my role model. The only conflict is that he put his life in danger when he decided to do those drugs. I wondered did he know that he could have liver damage from taking steroids. http://www.isteroids.com/steroids/Effects%20of%20Steroids.html Did he understand that steroids can cause psychological effects. http://www.steroidabuse.com/steroid-statistics.html What message was he truely sending to his fans? What if some of his fans started to do steroids because he was? He was no longer a positive influence for my life. Although I continued to play softball for the passion I had left, McGwire was no longer my hero.
(Contd)Pro athletes can be the worse and best role models in someones life. They put on a show for fans and winning is a bonus but with steroids involved it gives them an advantage to win over the other team. It has been said that high school students have been becoming larger and no one seems to care or notice. It is suspect but who wants to "rat out" their star players when they are racking in titles? Who is to blame for all this illegal nonsense? I blame pro athletes for getting caught. Don't get me wrong even if they didn't get caught they are still wrong but getting caught makes it worse. Getting caught means its going public, fans will see, and your a bad influence and a horrible role model.
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ReplyDelete(Cont'd) Along with the concern of an athelets fans, the bigger question is how will their family view them because of their use of steroids? A family is a big part of their lives and they won't stop on until their biggest fans( fammily) put thier foot down and say that they will no longer take anymore of the drug abuse.http://www.three-peaks.net/annette/Addict.htm There are several ways to help the athlete but when they have let down the people closest to their heart its hard to gain the trust back. Having kids who see you everyday as the one they want to grow up to be like takes a big part of their emotions to cope with the situation. So how big of a role model can an athlete be if they are willing to risk lsoing everything even family over a small drug such as steroids?
ReplyDeleteSteriods is possibly the worst thing to happen to professional sports. Children are very much influenced by their heros, and seeing that most ppeople want to better than their heros, they might turn to steroids because they may not physically be better than them. Steroids have serious side effects as it destroys your insides. It also causes roid rage which causes people to make irrational decisions. Banning these illegal substnces would be better for the world, and it would be best to ban the players that are caught doing ti, so that they have no effect on the children grwoing up.
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