Barry Bond Steroids

Hall of Roids? Barry Bonds is regarded as one of the greatest baseball players in the history of the game. However, after a court trial against his trainer, it was proven that Barry Bonds had used steroids during training throughout his baseball career. Now his record of 73 home runs in a season has a big asterisk next to it (Bunning). Yet, Barry Bonds and many other athletes are still inducted into their sports’ Hall of Fame even though they used steroids. Athletes who used steroids should not be inducted into the Hall of Fame because it is illegal to use steroids and those who use steroids are cheaters. First of all, steroids are illegal in many professional sports organizations, such as the NFL, NBA, and MLB. These sports organizations
However, although they are marked as great players, they are not the greatest players. The best players are the ones who are hard working and never, ever take a shortcut. The steroids users are the exact opposite of the hard working individuals that should be inducted into the Hall of Fame. The steroid users are cheaters that decided to take a shortcut instead of grinding down the long, hard working road that athletes should be recognized for. In conclusion, athletes who took steroids should not be inducted into the Hall of Fame because it is illegal and those players are cheaters. Sports organizations took action due to the health effects steroids have on users so that they would no longer be associated with bad health and illegal drugs. Cheaters is the only word to define these steroid users because they gain unnatural strength instead of working hard for it. It is time to stop inducting steroid users into the Hall of Fame and it begins with having players stop cheating and for the fans to vote for great, hard working athletes into the Hall of