HERE’S SOME THOUGHTS

The pressures of playing in the Major Leagues is tough when you have to play at a high level everyday in order to keep your job. This can be in any sport from Baseball to Soccer. Someone will always come along to challenge you and try to take your job away.  This is the reason why athletes work so hard in the off season to stay in shape.

Staying in shape is only the start, keeping your skills sharp and improving is the other issue. As you age, your talents become better, then reach a level where they begin to decline. When that happens you begin to look for help. Some athletes turn to personal trainers, and some turn elsewhere. Drugs!

Let’s look at Melky Cabrera, recently, being suspended for 50 games for doping. There is suspicion about Roger Clemens and Palmiero and Sosa all doping up and you wonder why. Why were there so many Olympians this past Olympic competition caught doping?

The pressure of competing is one thing, but just think of the millions of dollars they earn, just how badly they want to keep that coming. With those huge contracts come investments and opportunity for more money making. A desperation creeps in and soon these athletes are doping to raise their abilities to new artificial levels!

If you know you can’t sustain the level of play you were signed on fr, the public scrutiny and favor, ownerships expectations and the fear of embarrassment all play, but the fear of loss of millions of dollars and the end of a dream are so strong, you do things you know are risky, and hope you don’t call attention to yourself and get caught.

That’s all I wrote, folks.