Tag Archives: Barry Bonds
Major League Baseball, Forgivability, and List Ethics
A recent list called “The Fifty Most Unforgivable Acts in Baseball History“ troubles me and much of the problem with it lies in the title itself. If you are going to write about history, there is a duty perform diligent research, even for a silly online list. Misrepresentations online have a large probability of misleading people. The list isn’t close to complete; it isn’t consistent; it isn’t well-researched.. Anyone who looked at the list and assumed, as the author represents,that these are truly the low points—“the dark side,” as the author puts it—of major league baseball would be seriously misinformed. Continue reading →
Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Business & Commercial, Journalism & Media, Popular Culture, Professions, Race, Research and Scholarship, Sports, The Internet, U.S. Society
Tagged as accidents, “The Fifty Most Unforgivable Acts in Baseball History”, Babe Ruth, Barry Bonds, Bill Buckner, Bill Veeck, blame, Bleacher Report, carelessness, diligence, forgiveness, ganbling, integrity, lists, misrepresentations, Pete Rose, Red Sox, Robert Knapel, segregation, standards, steroids
No Excuses and No Mercy For Lance Armstrong
It is time to take down Lance Armstrong, without mercy, and treat him like any other cheat and fraud, indeed like what he is, one of the most outrageous cheats and frauds in out lifetime. If we don’t, our culture and our values will be worse for it. Continue reading →
Filed under Around the World, Arts & Entertainment, Business & Commercial, Health and Medicine, Journalism & Media, Law & Law Enforcement, Professions, Sports, U.S. Society
Tagged as "everybody does it", "the ends justify the means", Barry Bonds, bicycle racing, blood doping, bribery, cancer research, charity, cheating, circumstantial evidence, corruption, cycling, denial, drug distributing, EPO, ethics, ethics corrupter, excuses, fraud, honesty, integrity, International Cycling Union, Lance Armstrong, Livestrong, Mike Wise, performance-enhancing drugs, rationalizations, Rep. Charles Rangel, Sports Illustrated, steroids, The Halo Effect, Tour de France, Tyler Hamilton, values
Ethics Hero: Barry Bonds
The four words rank near the top of my list of “Things I Will Never Think, Feel, or Write,” somewhere between “I love the New York Yankees” and “I’m skipping the ethics seminar because I don’t want to miss the finale of “Dancing With The Stars.” Continue reading →
Filed under Ethics Heroes, Public Service, Philanthropy, Charity
Tagged as "Dancing with the Stars", Barry Bonds, Bryan Stow, compassion, ethics, generosity, kindness
Ethics Dunce: Buzz Bissinger
Buzz Bissinger, a the member in good standing of the Daily Beast’s stable of annoyingly hypocritical, biased or appallingly cynical writers has authored an article that pronounces the Barry Bonds conviction “a travesty” in the title, and presents one ethics howler after another, any of one of which would have justified an Ethics Dunce prize. Continue reading →
Filed under Citizenship, Ethics Dunces, Government & Politics, Health and Medicine, History, Journalism & Media, Law & Law Enforcement, Professions, Sports, U.S. Society, War and the Military, Workplace
Tagged as "innocent until proven guilty", accountability, all-time career home run record, atom bomb, Barry Bonds, Barry Bonds trial, baseball, Buzz Bissinger, cheating, ethics, fairness, federal prosecutors, Hiroshima, Japan, Jeff Novitsky, justice, legal ethics, lying to a grand jury, Mark McGwire, Monica Lewinsky scandal, obstruction of justice, performance-enhancing drugs, perjury, President Bill Clinton, rationalizations, Roger Clemens, selective prosecution, steroids, World War II
The Bonds Verdict: Fair Enough
Most objective observers knew what Barry Bonds was, but this verdict makes it official. Continue reading →
Filed under Government & Politics, Health and Medicine, Journalism & Media, Law & Law Enforcement, Popular Culture, Professions, Science & Technology, Sports, Workplace
Tagged as "innocent until proven guilty", accountability, BALCO case, Barry Bonds, bribery, bribing a witness, cheating, ethics, ethics corrupter, Greg Anderson, honesty, lying, obstruction of justice, performance-enhancing drugs, perjury, sportsmanship, statistice, steroids, the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown
The Ethics of Nailing Barry Bonds
Barry Bonds stands as a monument to the value of cheating and lying. His smug success at reaping all the benefits of illicit PED use—wealth, fame, and immortal records—with no significant negative consequences is a big, cultural green light to cheaters everywhere, at a time when cheating is a growing problem in American society. Continue reading →
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Tagged as "innocent until proven guilty", accountability, Al Capone, all-time career home run record, Barry Bonds, Barry Bonds trial, baseball, cheating, ethics, fairness, federal prosecutors, Greg Anderson, justice, legal ethics, lying to a grand jury, obstruction of justice, performance-enhancing drugs, perjury, rationalizations, Sally Jenkins, steroids
CBS: Ethics Corrupter
CBS has stepped up to be a prime corporate ethics corrupter. Reportedly, it is negotiating with Charlie Sheen to get him back on the air, either in his now defunct show “Two and a Half Men,” or in something else. Continue reading →
Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Business & Commercial, Etiquette and manners, Gender and Sex, Health and Medicine, Humor and Satire, Popular Culture, Professions, U.S. Society
Tagged as "Two and a Half Men", adultery, anti-Semitism, Barry Bonds, betrayal, CBS, celebrity justice, Charlie Sheen, Chuck Lorre, civility, corporations, drug abuse, drugs, ethics, ethics corrupters, Ethics Train Wreck, greed, ingratitude, jerks, justice, Les Monnves, priorities, respect, selfishness, spousal abuse, The Star Syndrome, trust, Warner Bros.
Hall of Fame Ethics: The Jeff Bagwell Dilemma
One baseball Hall of Fame controversy this year should be of interest to non-fans as well as fans, because it involves the proper application of the ethical principles of fairness and equity in an environment of doubt. It is the Jeff Bagwell dilemma. Continue reading →
Filed under Journalism & Media, Professions, Religion and Philosophy, Sports, U.S. Society
Tagged as Barry Bonds, Baseball Writers Association of America, bigotry, character, cheating, equity, ethics, fairness, guilt by association, Jeff Bagwell, Mark McGwire, performance-enhancing drugs, rationalizations, Roger Clemens, Sammy Sosa, sportsmanship, steroids, the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown
Thomas Boswell’s Outrageous Ethical Breach
If Tom Boswell knew that a steroid-user was going to be voted into the Hall under the false assumption that he was not a cheat, he was obligated to let the public, his colleagues who voted the honor, and Major League Baseball know about it too. Continue reading →
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Tagged as Barry Bonds, baseball, Cal Ripken, confidentiality, duty to warn, ethics, integrity, Jose Canseco, journalism, journalistic ethics, Ken Burns, Mark McGwire, performance-enhancing drugs, Ricky Henderson, Roger Clemens, Ryne Sandberg, Sammy Sosa, sportswriters, steroids, the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, Thomas Boswell, whistleblowers
“The Ethicist” and His Definition of “Unethical”
While explaining in this week column why he hesitated to label a manifestly unethical practice unethical, The New York Times Magazine’s ethicist, Randy Cohen, clarified a couple of questions that have been bothering me for quite a while. Why do so many people react so violently to the conclusion that they have done something unethical? And why does Randy Cohen, a.k.a. “The Ethicist” so frequently endorse unethical conduct, especially dishonesty, when he believes it is motivated by virtuous motives? Continue reading →
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Tagged as "everybody does it", "the ends justify the means", "The Ethicist", appearance of impropriety, Barry Bonds, baseball, bias, Bush Administration, civility, conflicts of interest, Consequentialism, ethical standards, ethical values, evil, good intentions, Marion Barry, Mark McGwire, motives, No harm no foul, Randy Cohen, rationalizations, Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson, Roger Clemens, steroids, The Saint's Excuse, torture
