Tom Verducci of Sports Illustrated says about debates related to rughts of steroid users to be chosen for the Baseball Hall of Fame. But as it usually happens, this explanation shows only confusion of writers about steroids.
The Baseball Writers Association of America (BWAA) is a professional association of baseball reporters who elect players for the National Baseball Hall of Fame. All reporters that are members of the BWAA already not less than 10 years have right to elect up to 10 players for the Hall of Fame.
Recently a debate took place between members of the BWAA. They discussed whether admitted or just suspected consumers of steroids and other prohibited preparations might entry into Cooperstown.
Members of the BWAA usually have to comment their votes: they should explain why they have voted pro or contra certain questions. Some of them claim that doping destructs the integrity of sports and intake of banned drugs is frequently claimed by them to be immoral.
As for Tom Verducci, he doesn’t think that usage of steroids is necessarily a moral question. This writer notes that steroids help consumers to take unfair advantage over those who don’t use controlled substances. According to Tom Verducci, performance-enhancing drugs make competitions unfair. Thus, intake of forbidden medicines promotes unfairness in sports. That’s why Tom Verducci denies any connection between doping and morality. He confirms that it is a question that is connected with performance but not to morality. So, this writer supposes that users of steroids must not be allowed to be in the Hall of Fame. But he has voted for the admitted steroid user Jeff Bagwell. This sportsperson has admitted that he had administrated androstenedione. It is important to notice that this drug was not enumerated among anabolic steroids, when Bagwell used it. According to the Control Act 2004, it is enumerated among prohibited products. Since it wasn’t legally clamed to be a steroid, Tom Verducci decided to vote for the user of this medication; however, it was always claimed to be an anabolic-androgenic steroid by scientists. Furthermore, it was said that Bagwell just became bigger but didn’t promote his performance due to administration of androstenedione.
Nonetheless, the decision of Verducci to vote for the admitted user of the steroid is quite controversial. The following question appears: “Maybe Verducci is not against intake of steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs by athletes?” Since Tom Verducci doesn’t agree that usage of steroids is a moral question, he may suggest that increase of performance is not a real problem.
Numerous people suppose that intake of steroids represents evil because they are illegal.
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