It's an extremely high pressure job. Yeah, it's a game but these guys have been 'heroes' their entire lives and the pressure to remain so once they hit The Bigs must be enormous. Nobody operates at top form day in and day out. Slumps are nerve racking and confidence destroying. I submit that in some cases the reason the athlete takes the drugs is to avoid letting his teammates down. Of course they have huge egos; who wouldn't? The fear of failure, the prospect of no more millions a year, no more adulation and an end to the good life must be awesome.
On the other side, judging from what happened to my hometown Rocket and former Yankee, I don't see why they take the risk of getting caught. He tried the Bill Clinton defense and it didn't work any better for him then it did Bill. I don't think it's the money. It's the fear of failure. Losing endorsements. Being traded. Letting down your family, friends and business partners. The older they get the harder it gets. Like all of us, the bad decisions are often make when your under dj On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 8:53 AM, Slip Disc <[email protected]> wrote: > > Recent controversy over steroid use and the exposure of athletic > achievement via steroid use brings about another less looked at aspect > of the sports world. > It's not about the game anymore, the fun or even the competition but > sport mentality has shifted to the ego of the individual. Huge > salaries and fame have redirected the aim, obscured the goal and > eroded integrity. While the nature of sports is competition, that > aspect seems to have taken a back seat to the individual ego without > concern for individual merit. It is no longer about the team but more > about the player, the MVP. > I don't think this ego issue is confined to the sports world as we can > see how huge mega profits have been the main driving force behind the > corruption in the financial world as well. It is a very rare instance > when the integrity of humanity cannot be bought. > Can we reign in the ego and by what process? Are million dollar > salaries the problem? Is there even an answer? > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Minds-Eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
