king performance enhancers. The list is long and includes players of the high caliber such as Mark McGuire, Sammy Sosa, Jason Giambi, Raphael Palmero, and Ivan Rodriguez, all of which have one time been league most valuable players. These allegations alone lead to a Grand Jury investigation into major leagues baseball's steroid policy.
             One thing every sports fan agrees on is that baseball's steroid policy is ineffective. The testing policy has recently changed with a random screening of every player once during the season. Also, players may undergo additional tests during the season and off-season according to the leagues discretion. The penalties if caught consist of a ten game suspension for the first offence, thirty games the second, ninety the third, and only after the fourth offence is the player suspended for the entire season without pay (Dowd 2005). This is still a drastic improvement on the old policy in which a player had a chance to appeal the results of the drug test and take another test five to seven days later for confirmation.
             With such a lenient policy you are forced to ask the question, "Do the rewards outweigh the risk?" In the case of Luis Castillo and the NFL draft, the reward was much greater than the risks. Castillo was a projected third round pick after suffering an elbow injury during his senior season, but with the help of andro, (a metabolic steroid), his elbow healed faster and his bench press reps went up dramatically at the NFL combine, (where the dr
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