The best example of how impossible it will be for Major League Baseball to crack down on steroids is the fact that baseball and the media are still talking about the problem as 'steroids.'
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Sadly, this problem of steroid use is not isolated to baseball.
Despite reforms in steroid control, serious problems still occur in and out of baseball.
In regards to steroids, I think we're all to blame, all of baseball. I never realized how far-reaching this problem has been.
It's no secret what's going on in baseball. At least half the players are using steroids.
I sort of ride the fence on that whole steroid era issue. I don't have a definite opinion like some of my fellow Hall of Famers. Some of the guys were very, very adamant about a person being associated with steroids: 'They'll never be in the Hall of Fame. If they are, I'll never come back.'
Baseball needs to put the steroids era behind it by having and enforcing tough rules against all kinds of artificial advantages, so that spring can return.
The perception is that baseball's players' union is protecting players to use steroids and other illegal performance-enhancing drugs.
These days the temptation to use steroids in sports has become too great for many young athletes.
Are we to say that any individual who's on steroids that has an angry moment is due to steroids? What about the individual who gets angry and kills someone who's not on steroids? What do we blame it on now?
Several professional athletes have wrongly taught many young Americans by example that the only way to succeed in sports is to take steroids.
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