Tuesday, February 10, 2009

A little rant on steroids

Everyone, but mostly the media, has such a big problem with athletes taking steroids but here's the thing. It's their fault. Yes, I believe that it's the media's fault that these athletes are taking steroids. Hear me out on this one. They put such an astronomical amount of pressure on athletes to perform that they're driven to be better. Once they max out their potentials on pure skill and just working out and it's still not good enough, they feel that they need to do something to get better, in this case steroids. I understand that it's not moral to take steroids because it's cheating the game but I think you have to look at it from the other side as well. These guys are expected to perform and when they don't, they get criticized and called out. They're humans too. No one likes being badgered about not doing something good so instead of that, they decided to take steroids. It's simply a product of the beast that the media has created.

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