PEDS standing for Performance Enhancing drugs, most commonly referred to as steroids. The question is though how do these PED’s effect baseball? Why do people feel the need to take steroids in baseball? I’ll tell you why it helps you in everything you do on the diamond, from running to throwing and to hitting it helps you achieve things you never saw possible as a normal person. It help you out to a point that it is just unfair and not fit for baseball. Steroids have changed baseball as we know it and not in a good way. They have made the Major League of Baseball or also known as the MLB look a question such as, Are PED users able to make it into the Hall of Fame? What is the appropriate consequence for these players getting caught? And is …show more content…
Being in the Hall of Fame is one of the greatest accomplishment in any sport. It’s right up there with winning a world championship in your sport. The thing is why would someone let a cheater into the Hall of fame? A person caught in the act and admitted to cheating? I personally don’t think they should be allowed in the Hall of Fame, but other people lately have said something else. They think that since they have such a great resume that they should be allowed in. That is a good point, but the thing is everything that these players did throughout their careers will always have an asterisk next to it because they cheated. They will always have that but factor. Like in Barry Bonds case, which I would have to say is the biggest one, he hit the most homeruns in a career, more than anyone else ever; he always will have that but he took steroids dilemma. How would his career been if he didn’t take steroids? His name will always be followed by that question. The bleacher report says this about the hall of fame issue “The cheating will never stop. Those who can't figure out a way to beat the system will continue to get caught, becoming the sacrificial lambs of the testing process. Those who can beat the system—those who will never get caught and never get suspended despite a career fueled by PEDs—will probably end up in the Hall of Fame. At least, well, those players will get voted into the Hall of Fame once the stigma of the Steroid Era finally disappears for the voters. Whenever that will be.” (Levy pg. 1). So as you see there is two sides to the issue. People eventually think they feel like people will get votes but at the moment they will not even get on the