Role Models

Baseball Players are Not Role Models

Baseball players and other athletes are highly admired by kids. Baseball players are paid to be great baseball players not role models. It is parents  responsibility to be kids role models. Professional baseball players make mistakes too but they get there mistakes put on the internet and TV for everyone to see. For example Alex Rodriguez got caught taking steroids. This news was leaked everywhere and all kids saw that a great and talented baseball player was cheating.  Alex made a mistake, he is a human just like everyone else. Alex is paid to be a great baseball player, he should not have taken steroids to enhance his skills but it is not his responsibility to show kids what to do. I think that baseball players should be mindful of what they do because their life is under a magnifier glass. But it is not their job to be a role model, it is their job to be a professional baseball player.