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Well, like I said before...

"The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led." - Edgar Allan Poe

Put away your torches and pitchforks, guys. Wait until next time...

For arguments sake, let's say he tested positive when he was with the Cubs, and the Cubs management was aware of it. Would they have any responsibility to disclose that information to the Yankees before the trade was made?

I understand there are privacy issues with disclosing information like this. But shouldn't there be something in place to protect teams that want to trade for a player who, unbeknownst to them, is in the appeals process for violating the steroid policy?

Unfortunately the HIPAA privacy act is ironclad.

If the patient or his representative doesn't want you to know his condition, you're stuck. Medical info is at the discretion of the patient. I'm a hospital chaplain who deals with this stuff every day. If you are in for a routine procedure and tell admitting that you don't want anyone to know you are at the Hospital, and a close relative, son or daughter, calls in and asks for you, the response will be "We don't have a patient by that name..."

These regulations are the most bizarre, and have the heftiest fines you can imagine; @250,000.00 for the first offense!! I've rambled a bit, let me know if I can answer more questions.\

Scott

If the guy had AIDS, and the Cubs knew it, and then didn't tell the Yankees when they traded him, then HIPAA would be the rule and the Cubs did the right thing.

But, juicing is not an illness or condition - it's an offense. This is no different than if he was suspended for attacking an umpire, and appealed it, and was under appeal at the trade - meaning that it was something that the Cubs should have shared.

This all said, it would be interesting to know when he tested positive, and how long the appeal was, etc. At least it would be as a Yankees fan. I think I would want to know if the Yankees would be willing to trade for someone who they knew tested positive (and the suspension was pending).

I have to believe that the Yanks or any other team, for that matter, would trade for a player on the juice if the price was right. The team itself isn't sanctioned if its players are juicing so as long as major prospects aren't dealt, why not? After all, the Yanks signed the Giambino knowing full well that one day the reckoning would come. No regrets whatsoever as far as I'm concerned. Lawton's a loser but who cares -- he had a huge homer for us on 9/21 which was as important to our division title run as anyone else's contribution.

I have to believe that the Yanks or any other team, for that matter, would trade for a player on the juice if the price was right.
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Exactly, and not just steroids. History has shown that. Strawberry wasn't signed because he was a reclaimation project, he was signed because despite all he did, he could still get around on a fastball.

Taking the moral high road may be nice, but it wont win you many games. You think the Cards would've liked to have Keith Hernandez back in '85?

I'd be more upset if a Yankees Bat Boy tested positive. Lawton? Who cares? He's a ship in the night. Lawton could have turned out to be [fill in the blank] and no one would care about it.

Yawn.
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Yep. Doesn't fit an agenda, so let it slip by the wayside.

The sheep have spoken :D

Maybe Carroll meant that we should care about Lawton b/c we should care about "all" users instead of just the *stars*

If juicing is/was such a big deal, then it should matter whether the guy juicing is the last guy on the bench or your all-star cleanup hitter.

Good point about Strawberry and Keith Hernandez.

I genuinely don't care about steroids. Not that I'm in favor of guys cheating; I'm just tired of hearing about it. I'm tired of the innuendo and the dipshits like Gammons leaking that Clemens and Damon are users and then nothing coming down the pike about it. Who cares who uses. If and when they're caught, suspensions will be handed out. Until then, these faux-insiders are just flapping their gums.

I genuinely don't care about steroids. Not that I'm in favor of guys cheating; I'm just tired of hearing about it.
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"Cheating is baseball's oldest profession. No other game is so rich in skullduggery, so suited to it or so proud of it." - Thomas Boswell