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Argumentative Speech

Should baseball players be banned for life if they take perofrmance enhancing drugs?

Performance enhancing drugs came to America in 1960(New York Times).  The M.L.B first started testing players in 2003.  The use of performance enhancing drugs is on the rise.  The different types of performance enhancing drugs are testosterone, amphetamine, and the most common, steroids.  Do you think that it is right to cheat and ruin the love of the game?  If they are caught with performance enhancing drugs, they should not get an extra chance to play again.  They should not be able to cheat and get away with it.  Baseball players should be banned for life without any second or third chances, because if they take performance enhancing drugs, it disrespects the game.

Baseball players get too many chances to play again if they take performance enhancing drugs.  Many baseball players who take performance enhancing drugs know what they are doing is terrible, but they still do it.  Some baseball players go to such of an extent that they try taking medicine to cover their performance enhancing drugs so; they will not get caught while they are taking them.  Some baseball players know that players are taking them, but they still do not say anything.  There are so many bad cons that go with drug taking.  Children lose fathers, wives lose husbands, and fans lose players.

 So would you like to know where they get most of their performance enhancing drugs? They get it at a place called BALCO.BALCO stands for Bay Area Laboratory.  BALCO is a nutritional supplements company (Oconnor 5). This company is run by Victor Conte.  This is ridiculous that baseball players actually have their own performance enhancing drugs place.  Many baseball players think that they should be able to go into the hall of fame even though they took steroids.

The ‘’Hall Of Fame’s Future Dilemma who belongs and who doesn’t’’states that ‘’the Hall of fame should be based on integrity and character.’’(Vass 13)  How can the Hall of Fame actually be based on that when there are baseball players who are being accused of taking performance enhancing drugs?  When you take performance enhancing drugs that does no show your good character.  There are many baseball players who were accused of taking performance enhancing drugs.  They are Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, and Alex Rodrigues.  That is why they should not be able to go in to the hall of fame.

The person that ran Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens court hearings was George Mitchell.  The Commissioner Bud Selig announced that former Senate majority leader George Mitchell should do an independent investigation into alleged steroid use by players who got there performance enhancing drugs from Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative (BALCO).  ‘’When Barry Bonds had his court hearing on November 15, 2007 he was charged with perjury and obstruction of justice for allegedly lying when he said he did not use performance-enhancing drugs.’’ ‘’ On December 7, 2007, the all-time homerun leader, pleaded not guilty in federal court to four counts of perjury and one count of obstruction of justice for allegedly lying about his use of performance-enhancing drugs in testimony given to a grand jury four years ago. ’So Barry bonds lied to the court when he was under oath.  George Mitchell said that ’’ performance-enhancing drug use has been pervasive in the sport for more than a decade as he released his findings in the shape of a 311-page report, which was fashioned during the past 20 months of investigations.’’(M.L.B.com) What this quote means is that this performance enhancing drug problem has been a problem for a long time.   So even this lawyer even thinks that this is a huge problem in the M.L.B.  They are not getting heavy enough consequences.

In 2005, the players association reached an agreement for the consequences if they take performance enhancing drugs.  The first offense is that the baseball players will be suspended for 50 games.  The second offense is 100 games, and the third offense will be a life time ban (M.L.B.com).  They should not be able to get three chances to get to this life time ban.  The baseball players should not get any chances at all. 

There are many people who are against my topic.  Critics  would say that banning baseball players for life with no second chances would be too harsh.  I say that while they are playing a sport for their career, they should at least play with honor for the game.  People also say that baseball players should be allowed to use performance enhancing drugs if they want to.  If baseball players were allowed to take performance enhancing drugs, then how would there be any skill left in baseball?  If someone hits a homerun, that will just be the performance enhancing drugs hitting the homerun for him.

 Baseball players should not be able to get the easy way out on this issue.  They are getting paid millions of dollars to play this sport.  Millions of people watch baseball.  Players inspire young kids with this game.  What kind of lesson are these players teaching these kids when they are caught taking performance enhancing drugs?  Fans also lose respect for the baseball players.  Once they are caught with performance enhancing drugs, players will always be known as the player that cheated for fame and money.  So we should not be known as the ‘’steroid era’’, we should be known as ‘’Americas past time’’.

Annotated Bibliography

Should baseball players be able to go into the Hall Of Fame if they take performance enhancing drugs?

What George Vass states is that former baseball players that are in the Hall Of Fame say that the baseball players who took performance enhancing drugs should not be let into the hall of fame.  He quotes the BBWAA’s rules ‘’Voting shall be based on a players record, playing ability, integrity, sportsmanship, character, and contributions to the teams on which the player played. What this means is that to be voted into the Hall of fame you should have a clean record and that you should have good statistics to be into the Hall Of Fame.  You should also have good characteristics about yourself.

George Vass purpose is to inform us on what former baseball players think of baseball players who took performance enhancing drugs, and they still think that they should still be able to go into the hall of fame.  I thought that the author did a well job on telling us where he got most of his evidence.  He told us where he found the rules for going into the hall of fame.  This work will be useful for baseball fans who want to know more about baseball players who should still be able to go into the Hall Of Fame even if they took performance enhancing drugs.  This article helped me in this project because it answered one of my essential questions.

Vass, George. "Hall Of Fame's Future Dilemma -- Who Belongs And Who Doesn't." Baseball Digest 67.4 (2008): 24. MasterFILE Premier. Web. 18 Sept. 2012.

How did most baseball players get there performance enhancing drugs?

Saporito, Bill Gregory, Sean states that most baseball players get there performance enhancing drugs from Bay Area Laboratory Cooperative (BALCO).  The founder of this place is Anderson and Victor Conte.  The author reports that dozens of elite athletes had to go to the grand jury to discuss BALCO’s steroid program.  In this article it also  talked about what Anderson and Victor were being charged with.  The author was being really descriptive about what kinds of things that BALCO had.  They had detailed schedules for taking the banned substances, and they had blood and urine tests to help avoid detection.

The authors purpose is to tell us where most of the baseball players got there performance enhancing drugs.  I thought this article had really good evidence.  It had many factual statements.  This work will do very well for people that want to know where most baseball players get there performance enhancing drugs.  This material helped me out really well because this answered one of my essential questions and it also talked about baseball players that were accused of taking performance enhancing drugs.

Saporito, BillGregory, Sean.  ''How Pumped Up Is Baseball?. '' Time 164.24 (2004): 34. MAS Ultra - School Edition. Web. 7 Sept. 2012.

Which baseball players took performance enhancing drugs?

The New York Times  state that Barry Bonds, Alex Rodriguez, Sammy Sosa, Manny Ramirez, David Ortiz, Jason Grimsley and David Segui all had positive tests of performance enhancing drugs. These athletes are all big names in baseball.  This article also talks about when steriods came to America in 1960.  The M.L.B started testing baseball players in 2003.  When they tested them, 100 baseball players tested positive.  The New York Times interpreted this well.

The authors purpose is to inform us on which well known baseball players took performance enhancing drugs.  This article would do well for people who want to know the History of steroids.  This material helped me out by answering one of my essential questions.  This also helped me out by telling me what year steroids entered America. 

New York Times, . Steroids. Aug. 24, 2012. Photograph. http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/health/diseasesconditionsandhealthtopics/steroids/index.html, New York. Web. 5 Oct 2012. 

 

Wordle

Essential Questions

What I want to learn about my topic is which baseball players took performance enhancing drugs? The reason why I want to know this is because I want to see how high the rise is on performance enhancing drugs throughout the years. The next question that I want to know is how did most of the baseball players get there performance enhancing drugs? I want to know this because if most of the baseball players are getting their performance enhancing drugs from the same place then they should get rid of that place. My third question is what if the government took half of the baseball player’s salary if they are caught with performance enhancing drugs? I want learn if there are any consequences involving there salary if they are caught with performance enhancing drugs. My next question is should the government allow players to continue to play even though they cheated, why? I want to learn if the government puts restrictions on things that players need. I know that the M.L.B suspends players but I do not know if they do anything else. My next question is why do baseball players think it’s necessary to take performance enhancing drugs? I want to learn if anyone interviewed any players that took performance enhancing drugs and if they asked them why they took the performance enhancing drugs. The question I want to know the most is should baseball players be banned for life if they take performance enhancing drugs? I want to learn about this because if they cheat then they are ruining the love of the game.

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Rogers, Roland. Baseball, Steroids, Racism, Greed and Politics Don’t Mix. 2007. Photograph. http://blackathlete.net/2007/12/baseball-steroids-racism-greed-and-politics-donaet-mix/Web. 26 Sep 2012.