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September 13, 2011

The Real Meaning of Manny Being Manny

If anything was written in the Book of Fate, it was that Manny Ramirez, so completely lacking in respect for basic ethical values, was destined for trouble with the law. Continue reading →

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Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Etiquette and manners, Sports, U.S. Society

Tagged as baseball, betrayal, cheating, fans, honesty, jerks, Los Angeles Dodgers, loyalty, Major League Baseball, Manny Ramirez, respect, selfishness, spouse abuse, steroids

August 26, 2011

Ethics Hero Emeritus: Baltimore Orioles Pitching Great Mike Flanagan,1951-2011

Mike Flanagan was more than just a great pitcher and a great teammate. He had great integrity too. Continue reading →

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Tagged as "everybody does it", baseball, cheating, honesty, integrity, Mile Flanagan, steroids

August 8, 2011

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 →

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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

July 9, 2011

What Today’s Broadcast News Regards As “Credentials”

Good for media ethics pundit Howard Kurtz for blowing the whistle, however gently, on ABC News’s hiring of Elizabeth Smart as a contributing on-air expert on missing children cases. “Does that strike anyone as odd?” he writes. Continue reading →

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Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Business & Commercial, Gender and Sex, Journalism & Media, Law & Law Enforcement, Popular Culture, Professions

Tagged as ABC, broadcast journalism, Casey Anthony, CBS, celebrity, CNN, credentials, Eliot Spitzer, Elizabeth Smart, ethics, experience, Fox news, Headline News, Howard Kurtz, Jose Canseco, journalistic integrity, kidnapping, Michael Vick, missing children, news bimbos, police brutality, Robin Meade, Rodney King, sensationalism., steroids, victims

May 27, 2011

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 →

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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

April 14, 2011

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 →

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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

April 13, 2011

The Bonds Verdict: Fair Enough

Most objective observers knew what Barry Bonds was, but this verdict makes it official. Continue reading →

Manny Post Script: The Signature of a Jerk

Ramirez quit without telling his team, his coaches or his manager, without a statement to the Tampa Bay fans, and without saying the one thing that any decent human being in his situation has an absolute obligation to say. Continue reading →

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Tagged as apologies, baseball, betrayal, character, cheating, ethics, fans, forgiveness, honesty, jerks, kindness, Los Angeles Dodgers, loyalty, Major League Baseball, Major League Baseball drug policies, malinguering, Manny Ramirez, respect, selfishness, shame, sportsmanship, steroids, the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, The Star Syndrome

April 8, 2011

Manny Ramirez’s Perfect Exit

Manny Ramirez was an impressively talented baseball player with discipline of an untrained Irish Setter, and the selfishness of a six-year-old. Throughout his career, he was a textbook example of the management fallacy known as the star principle, in which an extremely talented individual is allowed to break the rules and defy an organization’s culture in direct proportion to his perceived value. Now, caught for a second time using banned drugs, he quit rather than face the music. Perfect. Continue reading →

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Tagged as baseball, betrayal, Boston Red Sox, character, cheating, ethics, fans, forgiveness, honesty, kindness, Los Angeles Dodgers, loyalty, Major League Baseball, Major League Baseball drug policies, malinguering, Manny Ramirez, respect, selfishness, shame, sportsmanship, steroids, the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, The Star Syndrome

March 29, 2011

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

Tag Archives: steroids

The Real Meaning of Manny Being Manny

Ethics Hero Emeritus: Baltimore Orioles Pitching Great Mike Flanagan,1951-2011

Major League Baseball, Forgivability, and List Ethics

What Today’s Broadcast News Regards As “Credentials”

No Excuses and No Mercy For Lance Armstrong

Ethics Dunce: Buzz Bissinger

The Bonds Verdict: Fair Enough

Manny Post Script: The Signature of a Jerk

Manny Ramirez’s Perfect Exit

The Ethics of Nailing Barry Bonds

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