Comments on: Baseball — The Land of Convenient Accountability http://seamheads.com/2008/07/26/baseball-the-land-of-convenient-accountability/ Wed, 23 May 2012 12:30:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Josh Deitch http://seamheads.com/2008/07/26/baseball-the-land-of-convenient-accountability/comment-page-1/#comment-3102 Josh Deitch Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:42:35 +0000 http://seamheads.com/blog/2008/07/26/baseball-the-land-of-convenient-accountability/#comment-3102 The governing idea here is that baseball is a business. If an employee is profitable, employers accept certain levels of personal problems, as long as those problems don't leak into the bottom line. Organizations that pay a player $25 million simply have more invested in that player, so as long as he remains a money-making commodity, they will put up with more nonsense than from some back up catcher making $500,000. Look at the stuff with Manny Ramirez this weekend. The guy is a nut. He wears out his welcome wherever he goes, but fans go to see him. He keeps the Sox in contention. Until it is unprofitable to keep him (this winter) he will be in Boston. Also, people that played during the steroid era should be looked at suspiciously. However, not until a few years ago were they officially cheating. I know this argument has been made before, but put yourself in the cleats of a border line AAA player. You throw 90 mph with a good hook. Your buddy, who took HGH and some steroids, now throws harder than you and is up in the majors making millions. You still have a job bagging groceries in the winter. That extra little injection might just make you financially solvent for the rest of your life. I am against PED use, I think it cast a cloud over the last decade or so of baseball, but at the same time, if I found myself in the above situation, I might just take the juice. How do you account for that?<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('3102','Josh Deitch'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('3102','Josh Deitch','The governing idea here is that baseball is a business. If an employee is profitable, employers accept certain levels of personal problems, as long as those problems don\'t leak into the bottom line. Organizations that pay a player $25 million simply have more invested in that player, so as long as he remains a money-making commodity, they will put up with more nonsense than from some back up catcher making $500,000.\r\n\r\nLook at the stuff with Manny Ramirez this weekend. The guy is a nut. He wears out his welcome wherever he goes, but fans go to see him. He keeps the Sox in contention. Until it is unprofitable to keep him (this winter) he will be in Boston.\r\n\r\nAlso, people that played during the steroid era should be looked at suspiciously. However, not until a few years ago were they officially cheating. I know this argument has been made before, but put yourself in the cleats of a border line AAA player. You throw 90 mph with a good hook. Your buddy, who took HGH and some steroids, now throws harder than you and is up in the majors making millions. You still have a job bagging groceries in the winter. That extra little injection might just make you financially solvent for the rest of your life. I am against PED use, I think it cast a cloud over the last decade or so of baseball, but at the same time, if I found myself in the above situation, I might just take the juice.\r\nHow do you account for that?'); return false;">Quote</a></div> The governing idea here is that baseball is a business. If an employee is profitable, employers accept certain levels of personal problems, as long as those problems don’t leak into the bottom line. Organizations that pay a player $25 million simply have more invested in that player, so as long as he remains a money-making commodity, they will put up with more nonsense than from some back up catcher making $500,000.

Look at the stuff with Manny Ramirez this weekend. The guy is a nut. He wears out his welcome wherever he goes, but fans go to see him. He keeps the Sox in contention. Until it is unprofitable to keep him (this winter) he will be in Boston.

Also, people that played during the steroid era should be looked at suspiciously. However, not until a few years ago were they officially cheating. I know this argument has been made before, but put yourself in the cleats of a border line AAA player. You throw 90 mph with a good hook. Your buddy, who took HGH and some steroids, now throws harder than you and is up in the majors making millions. You still have a job bagging groceries in the winter. That extra little injection might just make you financially solvent for the rest of your life. I am against PED use, I think it cast a cloud over the last decade or so of baseball, but at the same time, if I found myself in the above situation, I might just take the juice.
How do you account for that?

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]]> By: Justin Murphy http://seamheads.com/2008/07/26/baseball-the-land-of-convenient-accountability/comment-page-1/#comment-3096 Justin Murphy Mon, 28 Jul 2008 02:20:34 +0000 http://seamheads.com/blog/2008/07/26/baseball-the-land-of-convenient-accountability/#comment-3096 As you mentioned at the end, I'm not sure that the problem of accountability/double standards is specific to baseball- white collar crime, for instance. I agree, though, that the umps should have been more proactive in this instance.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('3096','Justin Murphy'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('3096','Justin Murphy','As you mentioned at the end, I\'m not sure that the problem of accountability\/double standards is specific to baseball- white collar crime, for instance. I agree, though, that the umps should have been more proactive in this instance.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> As you mentioned at the end, I’m not sure that the problem of accountability/double standards is specific to baseball- white collar crime, for instance. I agree, though, that the umps should have been more proactive in this instance.
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