I’d just finished reading through an excerpt from American Icon by Teri Thompson, Nathaniel Vinton, Michael O’Keeffe, along with Christian Red, based mostly on the rise and fall of Roger Clemens, and also I have to thinking…..If any of us found ourselves in the position that Roger Clemens, Barry Bonds or perhaps Alex Rodriguez found themselves in, would we give in to the temptations of Performance Enhancing Drugs (PED’s i.e. Steroids)? They have been all at a crossroads within their own respective professions when they reportedly began using PED’s.

Shortly thereafter I started considering the temptations of ballplayers on a whole different level compared to the men I pointed out earlier. Kids that encounter so many challenges which are distinct from the already established superstars in Major League Baseball. Children that are fighting to become the subsequent big thing and succeed to the big leagues. I am referring to the A level ballplayers, fresh out of high school or college and trying to make the way of theirs up the food chain within their businesses. What is the thought process of a new child faced with such temptations as he involves bus drive after bus experience in the minor leagues wondering when and in case he’ll actually make it to the Show? Particularly in the instances when abuse was running rampant in the key leagues.

“Clemens, Bonds, A-Rod: Why?”

3 superstars. Three instant first ballot Hall of Famers. 3 guys who simply could not accept those facts about themselves and needed more. 3 guys who thought they were bulletproof and could do whatever they wanted, whenever they wanted, without repercussions. Were they the only three guys that were juicing? Obviously not, but these 3 guys had been the headliners. They had been already the very best at what they have to did cbd gummies for sleep – moved here – a living some time before the reported use of steroids had begun. Why did they do it? Allows examine…..

Growing up in Boston at the moment just like I was, Roger Clemens was “can’t miss TV” each time he had taken the mound. I remember attempting to imitate his windup and mannerisms(well, the ideal any 12 year old could!) when I was pitching in Little League in Boston during the time. The Rocket was the man. Precisely why would a future Hall of Famer like him abruptly decide to transform towards the needle that deep in his profession? to be able to confirm his former Red Sox GM Dan Duquette bad, that’s the reason why. When Duquette decided to never re sign Clemens and he went and signed with Toronto, Duquette told the media that the Rocket was on the opposite side of the hill and also on the drop at this point in his career. Clemens was seething on the interior in these comments and went out and dominated the league in his first year in Toronto. Then things did start to unravel. He soon started off his upcoming season very sluggishly and the team was losing. He required an edge. He needed to prove Duquette was an idiot for the comments he had created. This was the season which Brian McNamee originally injected Clemens with a needle in his “booty” as the Rocket called it. He didn’t know it then, but this was the beginning of the conclusion. In the temporary, he went to dominating, however, it’s turned into quite a sad story in terms of what is happened with his life as well as the history of his of the game. He can never get Duquette’s comments from his head. It ate at him. Especially when he begun to realize after that one nice year that Duquette might’ve been properly. He’d to find a means to confirm him and other doubters wrong.

Barry Bonds had everything. The best combination of power, quickness as well as the capability to hit for average. The Hall of Fame was waiting. Precisely why did he feel the need to try the juice? Jealousy. It is that simple. Bonds as well as Ken Griffey Jr. were both considered the number one all around players in the game at the moment. Then what happened? Effectively, Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa happened. What was McGwire’s line in the cameo of his on the tv program Friends once the record of his breaking season? “Chicks dig the longball!”..Well, Bonds could not take getting pushed off of the front page while Sosa and McGwire ended up being juicing as well as dominating baseball with the huge power display of theirs that summer. Not to worrry Barry, you fixed all that. You went out and broke McGwire’s single season record for homeruns and also you smashed the wonderful Hank Aaron’s all time record. You are now the King of the Homerun. Chick’s dig the longball, correct Barry?

Alex Rodriguez is flat out the best, most gifted all around ballplayer I have previously watched play the game. You simply knew this child was Hall of Fame bound after just the first few years of his in the Bigs. So what made A-Rod turn into A Roid after getting in the league for seven years and dominating? Fear of failure. A-Rod signed the largest free agent contract in the story of pro sports in the point in time, with the Texas Rangers. He was overcome with fear that he wouldn’t live up to the money he was currently getting paid. The vast majority of folks out there’ll say that they can’t know how someone as gifted and established as he was at the time, may be so insecure in his ability and have very much fear of failure that he would decide on steroids. His fear of not living as much as the expectations of that mega contract took him over.

(since his admittance of using from 2001-2003 there are actually reports that he 1st tried steroids in top school)

So lets recap… Drive to prove somebody inappropriate, jealousy, fear and insecurity… just about all human emotions that all of us think at one time or some other in the span of our lives. For a minute, put yourselves in the positions of all 3 males. What would you do? Would you have considered using?

• 15/12/2021
• un messaggio di: Amore
• Da: pabloedge02918