Mitchell probe looking at Sosa, Palmeiro

[Backtobanks]

Let me rephrase the question slightly:

 

Assuming the ballplayer is clean, what do you think is more likely? A major league baseball player chooses to:

 

(A) Release his medical records because they can publically clear his name as a clean player of the Steroid Era.

 

or

 

(B) Not release the records because it is a matter of principle to him as an acknowledged privacy advocate, and is sincerely concerned about potential violations of HIPPA privacy laws.

 

If I were a ballplayer and 100% clean, I sure as hell know which one I would choose.

 

Just think of the Pandora's Box you would open by releasing your medical records. As others have pointed out, there could be something embarassing in your records (not having to do with steroids) that would be found out even if everything else was "blacked out". Secondly, you would be ostracized in your clubhouse and throughout baseball.

[rocket]

since when is it anyone's business what someone's medical records are? jesus.

[FergieJ31]

since when is it anyone's business what someone's medical records are? jesus.

 

How is this question even remotely relevant? It's nobody's business, that's why it's an opt-in plan. Players may choose to release info that could clear their name. I don't see how it's so hard to understand that the medical info of interest to investigators only involves steroid use. As I understand it, other potentially embarrassing or damaging info would be withheld or somehow blacked out (someone will correct me if I'm wrong).

 

We're talking about these guys' reputations and how they'll be remembered in baseball history. There are certainly some reasons to withhold facts that would help clear a guy's name, as Backtobanks mentioned, but they're just not as compelling as the reasons to come forward -- IF a guy really is clean.

[Soul]

Here are your words, just a little while ago:

 

The players union gave Sammy the OK to release his records. Why not just to it and end all the speculation?

 

Sammy releasing his medical records would not end any of the speculation. There could be any number of medical conditions, up to and including drug abuse, that might not be recorded there.

 

I'm not sure how to make it any more clear. It wouldn't do what you say it would.

 

 

Soul what do you think is more likely? A major league baseball player chooses not to release medical records because:

 

A) It is a matter of principal to him as he is an acknowledged privacy advocate and sincerely concerned about potential violations of HIPPA privacy laws.

 

or

 

B) He knows they can help confirm his use of steroids.

 

A.

 

Without any reservations whatsoever.

 

The fact that you think it's B shows how twisted your thinking is on this issue.

 

You pretty much just hate Sosa, am I right?

[NCCubFan]

The most obvious answer to the question is that there might be something incriminating in his records. My stance is that you can't pick and choose who's records to check, check (or test) everyone in baseball or no one until you have proof.

 

Checking everyone is not practical. It seems like they are targeting former or current Orioles. Do you think there is a slight possibility that there may be a reason (or leads) to substantiate why they are targeting Palmeiro, Grimsley, Sosa, Tejada, Tatis and Jerry Hairston, Jr.?

 

Oddly enough, four of those six played in Texas, too.

And three of those four also played for Chicago.

 

Maybe there's something other than players being traded between the Cubs and Baltimore. :D