Steroids

As most of the people know in the world, steroids are bad for people. Well they are especially bad for the sports industry. Many athletes over the years have taken steroids to enhance their ability to play the game they are getting PAID to do. I try and make paid the key word here. I feel most athletes are forgetting that this is basically a job, and that they are basically playing for entertainment purposes, as well as, being on a professional team to show their talent. When taking steroids they enhance their playing ability and give themselves an advantage over everyone.
Arguably the greatest baseball player ever has been caught using steroids. Alex Rodriguez, currently playing for the Yankees, was finally caught using steroids. The only controversy that is going on is that he used them while being on the Texas Rangers in 2000-2003. Most people feel like he should not be punished because it was so long ago.If you look at his stats, however, that is when he did most of his damage at the plate. Some people also see it that he should have his records taken away and should be band from baseball.
I feel that the baseball commissioner should make the drug testing policy a little more strict and make sure nobody in the major leagues is using steroids.That way when people do really well in a season, there is no question about if they are clean or if they cheated. This would make the fans happier, due to the fact that big names like A-Rod and some others wouldn't have their reputations damaged by something like steroids.

Place

Last weekend i went to Phoenix Arizona to play Grand Canyon University with my Cal State baseball team. It took us about 5 hours to get there. On the way there we went through a lot of flat land that had nothing exciting to it. Once we got there i noticed that it looked nothing like where i live. The off ramps looked different and even the main streets were different.It just makes u realize where u live in comparison to some other places you travel too.
While we were there the people seemed nicer, which made the town seem more peaceful and nice.The people couldn't hide the town fully however.The buildings in Phoenix seemed run down and old. In a way it was sort of like my neighborhood. It seemed as though people didn't care to much on how the buildings looked and let them look that way.In some ways this is exactly what Kuntsler was saying in his speech. Kuntsler,however, was way to blunt with his presentation and he made it seem as though the whole town was that way and that people didnt care. That is true to a certain extent. There are bad areas in every part of towns. I just happened to find the fairly old and rundown part of Arizona.

The area i live in isnt so much like that of what James Howard Kuntlser describes. He describes the houses to be basically run down and all small. The track home i live on is fairly old and has more of the older characteristics to the way it was built. All the homes aren't big, but they have a decent amount of room in between each other. He talks about the "suburbain sprawl" and that basically means that there is no order for the suburb and they aren't worth caring about. That is not how my suburb is, I feel the suburb i live in is very well taking care of and doesnt have as much problems as how is being described by Kuntsler.
However, some of the stuff he talks about does come into play. The way the buildings are built is mainly to just make it as small as can be so we can fit more into an area. Its not about privacy and what the people want. All people do is just build to attract business. There really isnt enough "public space". That is what Kuntsler talks about, that there isnt enough public things to do for pleasure.