The American sportswriter Tom Verducci explains about debates related to rughts of steroid users to be voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. But as it generally happens, this explanation displays just confusion of journalists about steroids.
The Baseball Writers Association of America (BWAA) is a professional association of baseball reporters that elect players for the National Baseball Hall of Fame. All journalists who are members of the BWAA already not less than 10 years have possibility to vote for up to 10 players for the Hall of Fame.
Recently a debate took place between members of the BWAA. They discussed whether admitted or only suspected consumers of steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs might entry into Cooperstown.
Members of the BWAA usually must comment their votes: they have to explain why they have voted pro or contra certain issues. Some of them claim that doping destroys the integrity of sports and usage of forbidden medications is frequently considered by them to be immoral.
As for Verducci, he doesn’t confirm that usage of steroids is necessarily a moral question. This writer says that steroids help consumers to take unfair advantage over those who don’t use controlled substances. According to this writer, performance-enhancing drugs make competitions unfair. So, administration of forbidden medications induces 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, Verducci suggests that steroid users should not be allowed to be in the Hall of Fame. But he has voted for Jeff Bagwell, an admitted steroid user. This athlete has acknowledged that he had administrated androstenedione. It is necessary to mention that this medication was not enumerated among anabolic steroids, when Bagwell took it. According to the Control Act 2004, it is listed among forbidden preparations. Since it wasn’t legally clamed to be a steroid, Verducci decided to vote for the user of this drug; however, it was always named an anabolic-androgenic steroid by specialists. Moreover, it was said that Bagwell just became bigger but didn’t promote his performance due to intake of androstenedione.
Nevertheless, the decision of Tom Verducci to vote for the admitted consumer of the steroid is quite controversial. The following question appears: “Maybe Verducci is not against administration of steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs by sportspeople?” Since this sportswriter doesn’t believe that administration of steroids is a moral question, he may suggest that enhancement of performance is not a real problem.
Numerous persons suggest that intake of steroids represents evil because they are illegal.
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