Dan Treadway, author of this article, uses persuasive diction, facts and memories to prove his opinion about steroid use. Treadway begins his article with a short memoir about the time he saw Mark McGwire break Roger Maris' home run record in 1998. He follows this short story with patronizing the media for "demonizing the event's existence" due to McGwire's substance use although many sports fans remember the event "fondly." Next, Treadway describes the Hall of Fame for baseball. On Wednesday, the Baseball Writers Association of America, decided not to induct any baseball players from the "dubbed baseball's 'steroid-era'" into the hall of fame. Treadway follows with a rhetorical question: "is the media, and by extension, the public, really outraged by the use of steroids in athletics, or have we simply been told that we're outraged and decided to follow along?" Next, Treadway follows with his opinion of steroids and athletic performance by proving one excerpt from an athlete who used steroids and an excerpt about steroid use in college football. Again, Treadway uses a rhetorical question to further his point: So my question is, if we as a nation are truly upset and outraged by steroid use, why is our concern so targeted [to baseball]?" By using this rhetorical question Treadway finishes his article with points about steroids use in football and college, which is rarely brought up.
Treadway uses several rhetorical questions and short memoirs of specific events in baseball history to further his point. With Treadway's topic, he questions the Baseball Writers Association of America and their stubbornness to induct historical baseball players to the hall of fame. Finally, Treadway questions the sports media and their ability to dismiss certain topics of steroid use when it involves college athletes and pro football players. Overall, Treadway brings forth an interesting topic relating to drug use through persuasive language and rhetoric questions.
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