Baseball Heroes?

So throughout the last 150 years, professional sports have developed into something Americans cannot live without. Throughout the last century and and a half, these professional athletes that get paid to compete become heroes to millions of kids and adults. Through all professional sports many athletes do extraordinary things which causes many people to overlook other things that they do outside of sports. Take Babe Ruth and Mickey Mantle. These two are easily two of the greatest baseball players of all time and are partly responsible for the popularity of baseball and the New York Yankees. Both are considered two of the greatest home run hitters and people still look up to them today. Most people, however, don't know that both were alcoholics and womanizers who abused their hero status to get woman. Now these two are hero's on the field, but would they still be heroes if people knew exactly what they did off of it? Now what these two did off the field is nothing compared to some of todays "heroes". Between Jose Conseco, Mark McGuire, and Barry Bonds home run records have been chased and broken just to be broken again. The interesting thing is that the home run records have stood fro several decades, but all of a sudden these records fall as if they were set by five year olds playing t-ball. Why all of a sudden are these records falling? It is a simple answer that makes the entire sport of baseball look bad. These baseball players cheated by using steroids to break records. The use of these gave baseball a black eye, and all of these guys had millions of fans who all of a sudden had to question whether they could ever trust any other ball player who shows extraordinary stats or is more talented than most others. Now some people still think these guys are heroes, but are they really. They had to use substances other than there adrenaline and love of the game to become extraordinary, and as a baseball fan it makes me question whether any of these players ever really loved the game as much as I do