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4 Body Paragraphs “You take steroids” is a common cheer in baseball game these days. There are many steroids out there over the counter and under the counter. Steroids have slang term which is juice, rhoids. The league reacts to them in many ways and takes proper precaution. Steroids do many things from helping a player get over an injury to affecting the body in a harmful way. Many players’ careers have been affected by steroids. Players who take Performance Enhancing substances perform better then players who do not. There are many different types of steroids a player can get. The most common is anabolic steroids which can be swallowed or injected into the body. An athlete who take these steroids take them in a process called cycling which is the athlete takes it for weeks or months. Then they stop for a period and then start up again. They also take more steroids along with the one they are taking because it is more effective. Athletes can get steroids from a doctor who prescribes them or can buy them online. The league reacts to players who take steroids by suspending from a certain amount of games depending on how bad the players abuse them. Players who take steroids can affect them in many ways which can help them get over an injury, affect joints, affect bones and stunt bone growth. Steroids also have short term effects which increase muscle mass, strength, and ability to train longer and harder. However they also have a negative effect which includes liver tumors, jaundice, fluid retention, and high blood pressure. Other side effects for men include shrinking of the testicles, reduced sperm count, infertility, baldness, development of breasts. The players who have been caught using or admitted to steroids are Manny Ramirez, Mark McGuire, Sammy Sosa, and Jose Canseco. The sources said that in addition to the artificial testosterone, Ramirez was identified as using the female fertility drug human chorionic gonadotropin, or hCG. Sammy Sosa had eclipsed the record with 66 homeruns while Mark McGuire set the single season record by hitting 70 homeruns. In Mark McGuire’s case he was accused of taking androstenedione and Sosa was accused of taking creatine. Androstenedione is a 19-carbon steroid hormone produced in the adrenal glands and the gonads as an intermediate step in the biochemical pathway that produces the androgen testosterone and the estrogens estrone and estradiol. Creatine is a nitrogenous organic acid that occurs naturally in vertebrates and helps to supply energy to muscle. The next year Mark McGuire and Sammy Sosa had a similar race where McGuire his 65 homeruns and Sosa had 63 homeruns. José Canseco admitted to using steroids through his whole career on __60 minutes__ and his book called __Juiced__. He also said that 85% of baseball players used steroids.