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...Baseball can certainly try. Though Mitchell strongly urged that the commissioner move on and not discipline current players - except, as he vaguely put it, in cases where a player's conduct is "so serious, that discipline is necessary to maintain the integrity of the game." Selig didn't back off of possible discipline, saying he'd examine each player on a "case-by-case" basis. But if Selig goes after any active guys, the union is going to fight it - and hard. Baseball's drug agreement clearly states that a player is penalized after he tests positive for a performance...
...Jose Guillen of the Kansas City Royals were both suspended for 15 days after media reports said they received shipments of human growth hormone after January 2005, when baseball banned the substance. Gibbons apologized for his drug use and accepted the suspension. Guillen filed a grievance through the baseball player's union and an arbitrator will rule on the case...
...What legal right did baseball have to expose the dirty deeds of its own players? Could your employer, say, investigate your drug use, and issue its conclusion in a report to the public? The answer seems to be yes. "A player's privacy rights would not include having crimes committed by them concealed by the league," says Jim Cohen, a Fordham University law professor. Using steroids without a prescription is a criminal act, so baseball may not have been out of bounds here. Then again, as many lawyers assessing the report made clear, the report doesn't exactly offer rock...
...player feels he has been falsely accused of steroid use, he can file a defamation suit against baseball. The problem with that, from a player's perspective, is that any major league player named in the report - even a relatively unknown one - would probably be considered a public figure. As such, not only would the player have to prove that he didn't use steroids, but that Mitchell published his name with "actual malice," with "a reckless disregard for the truth." Of course, a bespectacled former Senator who is the chairman of the largest law firm on earth...
...rest of the shadow U.S. delegation are ultimately powerless to affect the outcome at Bali - the fate of the negotiations remains in the hands of President Bush and his negotiators. Toward the end of his speech Gore, with his customary taste for the eccentric analogy, invoked the hockey player Bobby Hull, who Gore said was skilled because he sent the puck, not where his teammates were, but where they would be. "You have to look to where we're going to be," Gore urged the Bali delegates. The problem with that advice for the Bali delegates, however, is that Gore...