I’m glad you haven’t been vilified, Dave. Might want to reposition those pronouns. ><

Yankees counter with Alberto Gonzalez at SS, & Shelley Duncan at 1B.

You’re ignoring something called “good faith.” Rights granted by one party to another must still be exercised in good faith.

I’ve long held that such a thing doesn’t exist, but I’ve been known to deny the existence of implication and connotation, too.

starting the season with Clement and Wlad in Tackytown

Tacoma is nicer than you think.

Man, I really hope you found a new job.

I needed the job as I was the sole provider for my family. I ended up calling corporate headquarters and got a hold of the head of HR for the place. She said she would look into my story. Five minutes later I get a call from my boss asking if I would be in on Sunday. I said yes and he hung up. I started looking for another job on Monday and found one soon after.

That is the only job I’ve ever quit without notice and it felt soooooo good.

It’s not ethical because it is legal. It’s ethical because Clement consented.

You’re ignoring something called “good faith.” Rights granted by one party to another must still be exercised in good faith.

Man, I really hope you found a new job.

The relative income of two sets of people in a situation don’t have any bearing on ethical questions; neither does the contractual agreement but I’ve beaten that horse to death already. Either you get it by now, or you don’t.

As far as “undisclosed toxic waste” goes, my example was meant solely as an example to help illustrate that legal and ethical don’t always mean the same thing. I was in no way attempting to pretend the two situations were equivalent in their potential consequences.

That’s always the hazard of using examples and analogies; people completely ignore their instructive purpose and pick apart the specifics, which are only meant to be illustrative.

I’d just like to point out that the negotiators of the CBA are hardly paragons of ethics, so it is difficult to see subverting their wishes as unethical. It has been argued many times before, including here, that baseball’s compensation system is riddled with unfairness, so restricting ethics arguments to compliance with the spirit of the CBA is perhaps a bit out-of-touch.

That being said, I think the greater lapse in ethics was starting the season with Clement and Wlad in Tackytown. Glad to see them at last where they belong. And I hope this augurs an era of better Mariners decision-making.