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Obligation or Charity: Retired Baseball Player Pensions and Fairness
It is not unfair for players of the pre-1979 era to have to live with the conditions they agreed to when they played. Much of their argument sounds like mere jeolousy and envy, which is often expressed...
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Revisiting the Obligation vs. Charity Issue in Baseball Retirement Benfits
When the 1948-1979 players ask for charity and generosity, based on the fact that the industry can afford to change their eligibility to the post-1979 standards, and their having earned the gratitude...
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Ethics Quote of the Week: San Diego Padres First Baseman Adrian Gonzalez
It is not a betrayal of one's colleagues to remind them that some things are more important than money, particularly when you have more of that than you know what to do with. In fact, it might be the...
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Baseball’s Free Agent Follies: Dumb Clients, Conflicted Agent
Baseball's super-agent Scott Boras has his annual off-season conflict of interest problem, and as usual, neither Major League Baseball, nor the Players' Union, nor the legal profession, not his...
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Welcome to Carlos Zambrano’s Ethics Fun House!
Carlos Zambrano is the supposed pitching ace of the Chicago Cubs, though after signing a monster multi-year contract for millions, he has shown himself to be inconsistent, over-rated, and nuts....
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The Ethics Incompleteness Dilemma and MLB’s Melky Cabrera “Solution”
Baseball botches the Melky Cabrera mess. Continue reading →
View ArticleSick-Bed Ethics Warm-Up, 11/14/18: Ethics Among the Sneezes [UPDATED]
Some ethics issues that I've been able to muse about between coughs and sneezes...
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