Someone give Yogi a Bat

Many Americans believe that image only applies to women in America. Meaning that men do not have to worry about body image or being perfect. I will have to disagree with this. It may not be as wide spread or on the same level, but men deal with their own issues about appearance. Take the performance enhancing drug trend in baseball. This is a prime example of pressure put on men to perform better by altering their body in a harmful way. This is no different to me then a model who crash diets in order to fit the image that is required of them.

So why is this happening? I believe it has a lot to do with competition and rising costs. The fact that a baseball player can make 250 million in 10 years is insane. If they are not the best at what they do they can't compete. So what is the solution? I say lets go back to the times when people played ball because they loved it. Oddly enough there was a time when these players had jobs that they worked in the off season. Tickets and beer were cheap, and players were just good ball players. They didn't need to break records so they could rack up the endorsement deals. They played because they were great players and no matter how many records Barry Bonds holds he will never be the kind of Yankee that Babe was or Yogi or even Jeter.

So my solution? There is none. We can't go back in time, we can only move forward. None of these people are going to give up their paycheck out of a sense of nostalgia. They well simply continue to juice and eventually baseball will fall out of favor with the American public. But until then we will have to live with this image.