The Average Joe Fitness

This past week we saw the con­tin­u­ing Major League Base­ball steroid soap opera all over the head­lines. This time you had Roger Clemens and his for­mer trainer Brian McNamee meet­ing with Con­gress. Clemens was there to deny the accu­sa­tions against him that he took ste­ri­ods and HGH. McNamee was there to affirm his story that Clemens did. I don’t know who is telling the truth. I don’t know if Clemens took ste­ri­ods. I’m not going to talk about that.

I was at the gym Wednes­day after­noon after every­thing took place and, of course the topic was the Con­gres­sional Hear­ing. I heard one per­son ask, why is the gov­ern­ment wast­ing so much time on this? Who cares if he took steroids? I think it is impor­tant that some­one hold these ath­letes and the leagues account­able for steroid use.

Well spec­u­lated use of steroids by ath­letes and no one being held account­able sends the wrong mes­sage the youth of the coun­try. It sends a mes­sage that there are short­cuts to bet­ter per­for­mance, fame and money. Stu­dents as young as high school are being caught tak­ing ille­gal steroids in an attempt to increase their level of play.

The well doc­u­mented dan­gers of steroid use are not talked about. These young ath­letes don’t always know the dan­gers of steroid use. And if they do, they think they are invin­ci­ble, and it won’t hap­pen to them.

More and more doc­u­men­ta­tion is being released that shows that MLB offi­cials and team own­ers were well aware of the steroid use of the past 15+ years and turned a blind eye to it. If the gov­ern­ment doesn’t hold them account­able, who will?

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