HGH Testing
Everybody hates a cheater. However when a cheater can’t be caught, they are a national idol because they are a superior physical specimen. Now HGH testing has started to be implemented in minor league baseball. However the MLB players union is causing problems in implementing HGH testing in the Major League. The union obviously has their morals out-of-whack.
We’ve already seen our country value stopping performance enhancing drugs when our senate put that issue on the table rather than looking at important issues like, healthcare, gay-marriage, gun-control, or the economy. Shouldn’t cheating automatically be outlawed?
Then comes the good ol’ phrase “It’s not cheating if you don’t get caught “. That is exactly where HGH lies. It’s obvious that everyone doing HGH knows they shouldn’t. Otherwise their union wouldn’t be making such a big deal about it being put into effect in the major leagues. Now that it’s shown that there is an effective scientific method for proving it, the union is scrambling to make sure it’s not implemented right away into the major leagues.
That in itself is almost as suspicious as Barry Bonds growing four hat sizes. Obviously they know that the use of HGH is wrong. That’s not the issue here. The issue is that the union has too much power, and they are able to do things that obviously they shouldn’t be able to do. When the Senate meets to stop the use of performance enhancing drugs, that sends a clear and unrefuseable message that you can’t do it no matter what. The union supporting those players makes them as guilty as the players themselves.
The union officials should get fined and suspended if their players are found to have used HGH. If the commissioner and the Senate want to be taken seriously, that needs to happen. Otherwise the union will feel they hold all the power; which they shouldn’t be able to feel that way. Unions have their place for the players. There are issues where the players need to have their best interest in mind by a union. However when it comes down to an illegal activity, NO ONE should have the power to stop people from checking into those activities now matter how much supposed power they have. There is a difference between keeping American rights of freedom, and due process, and abusing and taking advantage of a system that’s afraid of losing money to a strike because of the unions.
So what is to be done? As I see it, there are 3 possible routes to go about this problem. No matter what, at some point HGH is to be taken out of baseball so just letting them keep taking it isn’t in option.
A) Punish the unions for being an accomplice to the players taking HGH illegally, while also punishing the players for taking HGH
B)Bypass the union and immediately implement the rules for testing HGH
and C) Allow the unions to slow down the process to give time for the players to ween off of their HGH and basically give them a pardon.
The most likely of these is going to be C. The commissioner is scared of the union and what would happen if he did any of the other options. Greed has taken a hold of both the unions and the commissioner. And unless this changes, this problem will cause a riff between the american public, and the Major Baseball League.
Nicely done! Your conclusion feels rushed a bit. Good use of links and the vid is really good. I think the question is manifold – do the owners really want all of these guys off the juice? Pro sports have never been more popular – will this diminish that? The players, of course, stand to lose out big-time if their performance drops off . . . interesting question. The HGH test is a bigger deal than the steroid stuff because players could be “clean” by going off steroids because they could just use HGH. I’ll be interested to see if times rise back up again in the summer olympics. I’ll be interested to see if Usain Bolt can prove his times now that all of it can be tested for (at least that we know of)
Good article. I agree that it should be banned, and it seems like MLB welcomes HGH, but bans anabolic steroids. Doesn’t make sense to me.
I would say that there should be testing for the drugs that athletes might be using. It is important that there is no rules being broken or the game is no longer a fight of skill vs. skill, but drugs vs. drugs. People want to watch what people can do not what chemicals can do.
This was an effective article, I probably couldn’t type a blog as good as this one. I liked the way you worded everything, it drew me in and was also convincing. I also like how your linked material/media is related to your blog, Awesome job!
The owners don’t want them off the juice. However that’s not the point. They shouldn’t be on it because it gives them an unfair advantage.