Fear Factor: How to get rid of steroids in MLB
When it was announced last week that Robinson Cano had been suspended 80 games for using performance-enhancing drugs , the dark cloud that is steroid use once again loomed over the game of baseball. Cano, an established superstar and eight-time American League all-star, is just the latest of many MLB players who have been suspended for steroids over the last decade plus. Although steroid use has declined since its peak in the late 90s-to-early 2000s, the problem somehow still exists in the game. Why is this? How can the MLB still not find a way to stop its players from cheating? A growing opinion blames it on a lack of fear. "If there's no fear in the game, there's going to be no way of stopping this," said Nick Swisher on FOX. Swisher was a teammate of Cano's on the Yankees from 2009-2012. And he's right. If players aren't afraid of what will happen to them if they us steroids, why would they stop? ...