Why the rest of the names cannot be released

Aside from the ambiguities in the testing data that Al quoted earlier today, we must remember our duty to the law.

over 2 years ago berselius 8 comments 0 recs |

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OK, I am posting this just for the sake of discussion...

… not taking one side or the other.

The players whose names have been released already, based on this, have had their rights violated. What is their redress in that case, and how can you separate them from the rest of the list?

"You can observe a lot just by watching." ~ Yogi Berra

by Al Yellon on Aug 8, 2009 2:41 PM CDT reply actions

Honestly, I think they should sue. I'm not a lawyer though, so I don't know the actual details

The obvious avenue is to sue through the MLBPA, except they’re culpable in this whole mess too

People should remember that while they have the right to their opinion, they are not entitled to be taken seriously. -- Bruce Bartlett

by berselius on Aug 8, 2009 4:11 PM CDT up reply actions

A mess is right.

I’m not sure there will ever be a solution that satisfies everyone.

"You can observe a lot just by watching." ~ Yogi Berra

by Al Yellon on Aug 8, 2009 4:46 PM CDT up reply actions

They had their rights violated

before you found out the list had problems, Al.

There is no such thing as an ugly female breast

by Worf on Aug 8, 2009 11:51 PM CDT up reply actions

Personall

Personally I want the person who is releasing these names to be prosecuted. It is illegal to do what they did.

And they probably made a pretty penny off of it too.

I know someone in admissions at a hospital a lot of celebrities go to in LA. She had to sign stuff up the whazoo in terms of confidentiality and if she was ever caught leaking information she could be prosecuted and/or sued.

I can’t imagine this being much different.

I had to delete my twitter account. But you can still find me at fanfiction.net under puckish prosecutor.

by puckishcubsfan on Aug 8, 2009 9:11 PM CDT reply actions

Same goes for my gf

She is a nurse here in LA and if they find out that she leaked a celebrity being at the hospital she would be fired and most likely lose her license. These lawyers, if caught, would probably have the same end result.

by gizmo6d9 on Aug 8, 2009 10:32 PM CDT up reply actions

Huh!

Sounds like the federal gov impounded the list and they should be real interested in finding out who is leaking the names on it. Maybe somebody got ahold of the list before it was impounded and knows the contents of it. Somebody might have a coherent explanation of this; I don’t get it.

As presented, seems like the players are victims of breach of confidentiality if the testing was agreed to under conditions of anonymity. Such a thing as a list that matches names with test results would be some lack of follow-through on the conditions of the agreement. If all this was before government involvement in that list, then I would think the players could have a class action case against the union and/or MLB.

Government investigators should be finding and procecuting those prescribing and distributing the drugs illegally.

I agree, the general public has no real right for having to know whose names are on the list.

by AboutTheCubs on Aug 8, 2009 11:53 PM CDT reply actions

Authenticity

First time, long time.

One of the issues with this secreted, obscure source leaking the names is that, for the general public, it’s impossible to tell whether a player is actually on the list. Are we being leaked “the” names, or just some names? I’m not saying these players are clean, but how would any of us know? That’s a lot of power.
The MLBPA, MLB, maybe the gov’t too, have really bollucksed this one up.

by JCubbies on Aug 9, 2009 11:20 AM CDT up reply actions