Journal #2

You are a player on the baseball team along with your best friend, who is the star hitter. You highly suspect your friend of using steroids, but do not have definitive proof. You have two choices, each with a positive and negative outcome.

1)    Tell the coach that you suspect your friend of using steroids and avoid discrediting the team in the playoffs. This also might save your friend’s health, but you will lose your friend’s respect and he will be immediately removed from the team.

2)    Remain silent, which “protects” your friendship but may damage the credibility of your team and possibly your friend’s health, as well.

           

If I suspected my friend of doing steroids, then I am almost positive that I would not tell the coach. Although this would be the right thing to do, I don’t think I would risk the chance of ruining our friendship by getting him kicked out of the league. First, I would confront him about it, and depending on his answer, I may or may not tell the coach.

            Let’s say he answers yes: that he is doing steroids. In that case, I would probably tell the coach after the season is over. That way he would not be kicked out of the league and our friendship would not be harmed as badly as it would have been. But, if he answered no, then I would simply watch him and make sure he did not lie.