When Our Heroes Cheat

This article is about how cheating has been going on all baseball history. In the 1950s the New York Giants baseball team were racing to the pennant and the Giants were cheating because for the last 10 weeks of the season the Giants used a center field telescope and a complex system of signals to tell their batters what pitch was coming next. The purpose of this article is to inform you that people have been cheating through out baseball history. For example Roger Clemens using steroids is called cheating and unlike Mark McGwire Clemens doesn't apologize for using steroids. 

This article is objective because it gives examples of people who used steroids like Roger Clemens. For example, Ross Douthat says, "Clemens is just one of the many baseball superstars credibly accused of using performance-enhancing drugs. But the Red Sox-turned-Yankee ace has achieved a particular infamy because he keeps obdurately denying it -- to fans, to reporters and finally (and fatefully) to a Congressional committee. Other athletes have apologized, beaten their breasts and tried to move on." This quote also proves my point that he didn't apologize.

The author of this article beives that cheating is bad because it ruins the sport and steroids are a part of that.

McGwire Apologizes

The source for this article is ESPN, where Bob Costas interviewed Mark McGwire for using steroids in his playing career. This article is believable because McGwire used steroids so he knows what he is talking about. The evidence provided to support McGwire's claim  that steroids are damaging to athletes careers in his life and experiences with steroids. This article is subjective because McGwire talks about all his opinion about steroids, but it's also objective because there are stats about the home run leaders and McGwire is one of them.

Mark assumes that if he played baseball again that he wouldn't use steroids because he would have to do the same thing over, for example going through a press conference. McGwire states, "I wish i had never touched steroids. It was foolish and it was a mistake. I truly apologize. Looking back, I wish I had never played in the steroids era." The purpose of this article is to let people know that McGwire is truly sorry to MLB fans for the mistakes that he has made.

Even though he hit more home runs, he regrets using steroids because they were damaging to his career.

Doping Is More Than Cheating

This article about steroids and athletes is written by Dr. Richard T. Bosshardt in the Orlando Sentinel. We can believe this source because he is a doctor, who has done some research on steroids. Bosshardt says, "It is cheating, pure and simple, and that is wrong."

Dr. Bosshardt argues that steroids are not fair because if you put your effort into something you don't need steroids. For example Mark McGuire used steroids and he hit 583 home runs throughout his carreer and Hank Aaron hit 755 home runs all time without using steroids. That shows that hard work pays off, instaed of using steroids to take the easy way.

The author's purpose for writing this article is also to inform you about the negative affects that steroids can have on your health. It can cause "cancers,  premature heart diseases, mood disorders including uncrontolled episodes of rage (roid rage), and more."