Juiced Post 2

As I continue to read Juiced by Jose Canseco, I continue to read more things that I already knew but I also read thing that I have not learned before. In the recent chapters Canseco has talked about something that I had to do a lot of research on for my senior project in english, and that is BALCO. BALCO stands for Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operatvie. BALCO, founded in 1984 by Victor Conte, was originally used to make sure that athletes mainted the right vitamin and mineral count by using blood and urine test. Conte discovered that he could create a steroid that was undetectable by drug tests. BALCO began distributing steroids to many high profile ahtletes including Barry Bonds and Jason Giambi. This was talked about by Canseco in Juiced. The raid of BALCO in 2003 was also described in the book. The book is really heating up because this is when he comes out and says that both Jason Giambi and Barry Bonds took steroids, both are not shocking but allegations they are. These allegations led to them appearing in court and so-on, we all know what is going on with Barry Bonds. I am going to read a few more chapters and then I'll get back to the blog, I will make one more post to conclude the book, and then I will be done with senior year.

Juiced post 1

Juiced is a book that written by Jose Canseco that came out in 2005. It led to the huge drama about steroids in baseball. To go along with my issues class topic, and for all of the doubters in my class, Jose Canseco goes ahead in the first few chapters to talk about this specific topic; "One of Juiced's central precepts is that steroid use is not in fact a bad thing, as long as the person is being monitored by a physician, and the dosages are small". In class today, during my presentation I had specific questions regarding this specific issue, including Mr. Kramer asking me a question about it as he went on to rip my presentation to shreads. From the mouth of Steroid Expert, Jose Canseco, "steroids can not only improve the game of baseball, but also improve and lengthen our lives". He also argues that steroid myths are false and that they can help you recover from injury quicker. So for all the haters out there who were not sold by my presentation, you should be sold if you read Juiced. The first few chapters mostly deal with his life before he got into steroids, about how he got caught up in all of the fame. I cannot wait to see what I read next, I will keep you updated.

High School steroid testing

I do not believe that their should be testing in high school for steroids for a number of reasons. First off, it is an expensive waste because the amount of people you are actually going to catch doing a "random" drug test is slim and not worth all the trouble. Also, I do not believe that steroids, when managed, are bad for you. There are so many people who have taken steroids and their health has not been effected by it. If you take steroids for one cycle like what Alex Rodriguez did in high school then there really is no harm, it becomes harmful when you start abusing them. If athletic coaches and trainers are trained on how to use steroids properly, I see no reason why they can't be legal.