Q4 Outside Reading #5

For my fifth blog of this quarter I read Juiced. I'm not quite finished with the book, and there wasn't very many important details this section, but there was one. Jose Canseco was traded to the Rangers and that is when steroids started to get really popular. This movement changed baseball forever because now people rely on drugs to get better. When I first read this it made me a little disappointed in the Major League players, but then Canseco gave a really good analogy. He said, "If you're an editor at a newspaper, and you can get a souped-up computer that's faster, more reliable, and can do things the old one couldn't, of course, you're going to want an upgrade" (137). I think that this gives the reader a good idea on how steroids are thought of. To them it isn't messing with their body, but part of their job. Although, the other side of me thinks that there is no way that you can compare your body to a computer. There are limits to what is right and wrong. Overall, I think that even though it is thought as a good idea, it is morally incorrect.