What Is Steroids Mommy?

What Is Steroids Mommy?

As a child, a lot of people had a hero, role model, or someone they would look up to. They can be a fireman, a fiction super hero, or even mom or dad. Some popular role models to children these days are athletes. They watch these athletes hit homeruns, make a basketball go in the basket a split second before the clock runs out, or even making a touchdown from the other side of the field.

Athletes can have a great impact on children these days. As a matter of fact, they can have a great impact on anyone. They are known as an athlete because they have a gift in what they do. They show their pride and joy through their games and that's what draws everyone into liking a certain star.

Some of the lucky athletes set world records in the sport they participate in. They seem to go beyond a factor of sheer luck or skill. That is when people start to question these stars. They start to question if these athletes, that people adore so much, are taking performance enhancing drugs such as steroids. Even if the well educated young adults to adults criticize and mock these star athletes for taking steroids, will the children do the same?

As other fans and critics criticize the fact that athletes use steroids, children who look upon these athletes as role models would not think any different. As adults, people see the use of steroids as cheating because they are achieving such high levels with these performance enhancing drugs, the innocent eyes of children would just see their favorite athlete as the best sports player in the world.

Even if people take steroids to improve themselves, fans and critics seem to look down on sports player such as professional baseball players because they see it as cheating. Even the governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, a political icon, took steroids when he was a young bodybuilder. Fellow bodybuilder that worked with Schwarzenegger as a teenager told the Los Angeles Times that he has been taking steroids since he was seventeen (Sailer 638).

Even the governor was caught taking steroids, but the critics and politicians do not seem to care about him doing it as they do with baseball players. Politics is much bigger and serious than a baseball game. It does not seem fair to these athletes who work so hard to improve and get stronger be criticized for being all they can be and even more. They give more than a hundred percent when they play games.

It must be frustrating to work out and pump iron and not see any progress. As Sailer mentions in his article, "Out of the Park," "pumping iron benefits almost all athletes, but the frustrations of reaching maximum natural strength within a few years can encourage some to then move on to steroids" (Sailer 639).

The athletes are well aware of the effects of steroids such as premature heart attacks and strokes and they still take it so they can improve themselves. That explains how they must feel to give it all they have and feel like they can give more but they can not get to that point. I can add that when I do work out and don't see results quick I start to get frustrated and push myself harder, only to end up hurting myself.

Some athletes do take steroids on their own will but some of the athletes are deceived into taking something that they thought was a nutritional supplement. Other athletes such as a tennis player by the name of Greg Rusedski argued that he had been given steroids without his knowledge by officials of the sport's governing body (The Economists 643).

The Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative (BALCO) was a wide supplier of steroids being masked as a nutritional supplement (The Economists 642). It seems as though companies like BALCO would trick athletes into taking steroids when they think they are taking a protein pill.

As some of these athletes are being deceived, can children still see them the same way? Even Kobe Bryant is still looked at a great basketball player after his long court day in Colorado for rape charges.

America seems to care about little things more than the big matters. Daniel Gilbert illustrates this in his article, "If Only Gay Sex Caused Global Warming," where he explains the concerns of most Americans are towards chemically produced anthrax rather than other dangers such as global warming or influenza.

Elementary students get a great education on drugs and alcohol and how they should not do these bad things. Programs such as D.A.R.E. are great programs concerning drugs such as marijuana, does not seem to stress enough about these "illegal" drugs called steroids.

Then again, there are big issues on the drug use in America. Even if they are taught about drugs and their harmful effects, some of the children will fall into the social norm where drugs and alcohol are the things to do.

If role models such as Ricky Williams who plays professional football for the Dolphins can smoke marijuana and not get too criticized, why do baseball players get criticized for using performance enhancing drugs to do better in their games? Marijuana is an illegal drug and Williams should get incarcerated than to have these baseball players who are just out their playing their game and to entertain their fans.

No matter what laws get made to ban steroids from professional sports, it will always be there. It is like marijuana smokers who get drug tested but they cheat their way out of that by using Detox pills. Just like marijuana smokers, athletes know the harmful effects and that it is illegal but they will always find a way to cheat themselves out of it.

Drugs like marijuana are advertised massively through the media. There are anti-drug campaigns on television so more people can be aware of it. If people really want to ban the use of steroids in sports, they can take action like the anti-drug campaigns.

Although fans will never