Q4 Outside Reading #6

For my last blog of the year, I finished reading the book Juiced, by Jose Canseco. This was one of those books that people think never end. Not like it's bad or anything, but there are a lot of different stories within the novel. The final chapter/section of the book was about the future and how baseball will change in the years to come. Like I have already stated, Canseco believes that many more young athletes will rely on steroids to get their chance in Major League Baseball. Before it was only a couple of people, but he was the most well-known for it. An analogy he gives occurs when he says, "I love playing baseball, but sometimes I feel like the gorilla in the zoo. People watch the gorilla, stare at it, point at it, trying to figure out why it's doing what it's doing" (269). This quote is significant because that was what the past was like if somebody used steroids. He compares that to now, where most people are using steroids because of the effects. Now there isn't one specific gorilla, there are many and it isn't out of the ordinary present day. When I started reading, I was completely against steroids, but after reading I'm still against them, but now I can see both sides of the argument, and see why so many people use them.