Steroid testing in baseball

            Steroid testing in baseball has become such a heated issue lately with .
             many reasons why players should take steroids and why players should be .
             tested. Steroids are bad for the player's health. Anabolic steroids raise the .
             level of testosterone in the body, which causes an increase in muscle mass .
             that can help players train harder and hit and throw with more power. But .
             possible side effects are heart and liver damage, elevated cholesterol levels, .
             strokes, aggressiveness and genitalia dysfunction. Death is even a danger. .
             Baltimore Orioles pitcher, Steve Bechler, who was taking not steroids but .
             rather a supplement, found out the hard way that there is a price to pay to be .
             "competitive. Steve died by overdosing on ephedra. .
             Why then should baseball be concerned with this if it's a constitutional .
             right to be in control of your own freedoms? Because when one player is paid .
             $252 million dollars to play baseball (a whole baseball team was bought for $250 .
             million dollars) he needs to be healthy and not damage his body by willfully .
             taking steroids. From the constitutional right to do what you want, to the actual .
             number of players taking steroids, and the overall heath factors involved with .
             steroids are just a few arguments why steroid testing need to be done in .
             baseball. Steroid testing should be necessary so that a key player on a team .
             isn't destroying his body and shortening his career and possibly hurting the .
             teams chances for a World Series championship.
             To begin, those opposed argue that steroid testing should not be done .
             in baseball players so an average player has the same chances for big money .
             as a superstar would. In a competitive juncture, such as baseball, the better a .
             player becomes, the more he gets paid. They feel it is their personal right to .
             take what they want so they can play like the superstars do and make the .
             same amount of money.
             This argument is valid, however, in an interview with an ex amateur .