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All American Steroids
"As a baseball purist who longs for the clean old days of baseball, I can’t wait for the end of the Bud Selig reign."
By Nico Savidge
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Youth Radio's Nico Savidge, along with millions of other baseball lovers around the country, despises the use of steroids in his favorite game. He explains how Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig did nothing to stop the use of steroids among players until Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams came out with a book revealing the excessive use of drugs in the game.
Among the countless pieces of baseball memorabilia in my room, there is an authentic game ball that represents everything that is wrong with my favorite sport today.
On that ball, in large cursive letters is the signature of Allan "Bud" Selig, the commissioner of Major League Baseball since 1998, and the reason why the game is at its worst right now.
I recently read Game of Shadows, detailing the widespread steroid use in modern sports. What struck me most about the book wasn’t that the use of performance enhancing drugs was so rampant, but that nothing had ever been done to stop the epidemic of corruption that quickly overtook the sport I love.
When the commissioner finally did institute a new policy for steroids in 2005, it was only after a former player came out with a tell-all book describing the rampant steroid abuse in the game. As a baseball purist who longs for the clean old days of baseball, I can’t wait for the end of the Bud Selig reign.
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