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Saturday, September 5, 2009

Restoring Integrity to the MLB

By Anthony Lombardi

The sum of players in professional baseball using steroids is a worrying issue. At the moment, 114 athletes have taken steroids or some type of banned performance enhancer, and a handful more haven't been exposed. Of those 114, sixteen have acknowledged their use with little to no badgering by officials. That means 98 players tell untruths each day about cheating in a game. There are increasing quantities of users each day, how can this problem be eliminated from The united states's pastime?

My first planned answer is to adjust the athletes' contracts. Players who use ped's time and again have superior contracts because organizations want heaps of homers and RBIs (runs batted in). The players who test positive for prohibited drugs should receive some form of financial loss in their salaries.

Salary is obviously a major issue in sports and if players are driven by money to not cheat, they may feel apt to either finish using or never take whatsoever. This answer appears to be very realistic because the majority of athletes are either greedy or want to cling on to the money they get.

My other solution would involve using locker room or clubhouse "watchdogs." These people might range from being league officials, team employees, or just staff including the bat boy or dugout helper. The MLB will give a list to the watchdogs of athletes it would be interested to observe and the watchdogs can track what the competitor does.

These monitors might rummage around competitor's lockers for steroids or scrutinize specific athletes vigilantly (since most steroid use is essentially done in the dugout). Finally, the watchdogs may attain a warrant and watch shipments to the athletes' home or look over phone records (if that specific player is on baseball's watchlist).

When a player is caught breaking the rules, as an alternative to a 50 game or perhaps a 100 game suspension, there will be even longer bans. If baseball were to embrace this, the compulsory penalty would be 130 games. If a player has taken loads of steroids then he could be illegitimate for the full year, 162 games.

As I have made known, the supervising forces of both the MLB and America need to approve these ideas if they want integrity to come back to The United States's national hobby.

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