Article:The use of Steroids and Why??

The players that use steroids, knew that they would have to face hard truths, that there ability was eroding and that they would no longer be able to play the game of baseball with the ablility  that they once had. So they turned to steroids, in hopes that it would resorect the ablility that they once had when they wore a younger mans clothes. Perhaps some of them never really had the talent to play so they turned to the only thing they could find to help them acheive the ability to play at the major league level. Kenesaw Mountain landess said "Every boy builds a shrine to some baseball hero and before that shrine a candle always burns" Maybe this is why players chose drugs because they were aftaid they would no longer have hero status and the shrine would crumble and the candle would burn out. Few are willing to brave the disapproval of the fellows the centure of there collages the raft of there society moral courage is a rare commoaity then bravey in battle. For the fortunate amoug us there is the temptaion to follow the easy and firmular paths personal ambition and finanical sucess so ravishly spread amouged us. All of us will utilmately be judged and as the years past they will surely judge themselfves on the  effort they have made and contrubitied So it is them that have to sleep with themselfves knowing that they have cheated themselfves and the fan. I was fortunate enough to have vistied the hall of fame and it was to me the single greatest place I have ever visited. In the hall there are the plaques of those who played the game with honesty and intaggerty many of who didn't sign million dollar contracts who had jobs in the off season those who played the game because they loved it. It is a childs game and for those that are fortnate enough to play it beyond there childhood  years Should realize when the time has come to put away your cleates and mit that they should go with there heads held high for they were able to do what very few are ever givin the opportunity to do and that is to play a childs game and get paid for it It is sad when something comes to an end and it is something that we all must face in one way or another. I just hope that the use of steroids in professional sports of any kind is behind us and that professional atlehes relalize that there are boys and girls building shrines and lighting candles for them  that they are role models like it or not so when they see there heros using proformance enhancing drugs it gives them the idea that it is right I guess we will always be left with that haunting error in  professional baseball and professional sports of all kind. I just hope that it will be corrected and those who make it to the hall of fame will be like those that paved the way before them  where they played the game with the ablitly that god gave them and play it with only that.Baseball will survive after all it is the great american pass time and this fan will contuine to watch and contuine to have my heros and build my shrines and occassionally light a candle.