Drugs and Steroids are becoming a plague that is eating away at our modern day sports. It seems pretty simple to those of us who work nine to five jobs, five days a week, for not near enough money that if we were offered millions of dollars a year and and all we had to do is stay clean that it would be that easy. Our modern day athletes don't give off that conclusion.
In the last few years steroid use by professional baseball players has had more publicity than the sport itself. The problem is it's not just us hard working adult fans that I worry about. I read an article about Drugs and Sports by Dr. Watson that brought a new light on the situation for me. I've always shook my head at what seems like stupidity out of our million dollar idols but in the shame of my eyes only. I never thought about it until reading this article that this "stupidity" as I call it has a very bad influence on our children and youth in general.
Is seeing Mark McGwire set the home run record on steroids making our children feel like they have take them to do the same? Is seeing Tim Lincecum and Ricky Williams still able to be superstars in their respected sports even though they abused marijuana make it okay to smoke?
I do agree with Dr. Watson that this is a worry, however what Dr. Watson does not mention is that it is on us adults that we must teach our children the old fashoned and correct way to play the game. We must influence certain athletes to our youth that are clean, hard working and Charitable Athletes. Sports to me are a very good way to keep our children out of trouble, and there are very clean athletes in our society that I believe give a good path to follow.
Just like Dr. Watson I want my athletes to be skilled by nature and not by drug, and seeing as I will always be a die hard sports fan, this is very important to me. This is why I am glad that our sporting associations have created and are inforcing new anti-drug policies. This will hopefully give a cleaner more natrul line of professional sports for my children to grow up with.
