{"id":455,"date":"2008-12-24T16:15:21","date_gmt":"2008-12-24T20:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=455"},"modified":"2008-12-24T16:15:21","modified_gmt":"2008-12-24T20:15:21","slug":"want-to-get-dumber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/24\/want-to-get-dumber\/","title":{"rendered":"Want to get dumber?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Then <a href=http:\/\/www.hardballtimes.com\/main\/article\/the-baseball-ethicist-why-nobody-signed-barry-bonds\/>read this<\/a>, an article by an <s>self-proclaimed<\/s> ethicist on why no one signed Barry Bonds. He compares Bonds to a murderer, a convict, and a drug abuser; misunderstands the purpose of the Mitchell Report (it was about getting Congress to back off, and perhaps scoring some PR points); and argues that teams also didn&#8217;t sign Bonds because he wasn&#8217;t a good bet to &#8220;duplicate&#8221; his previous performances, even though a 20% drop in performance would still make him obscenely valuable.<\/p>\n<p>I thought THT took a great step forward in adding Craig Calcaterra&#8217;s Shysterball blog &#8211; among my must-reads every day &#8211; but content like this &#8220;ethics&#8221; article is just inexcusable.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: The article&#8217;s author, Jack Marshall, posted a lengthy rejoinder in the comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Then read this, an article by an self-proclaimed ethicist on why no one signed Barry Bonds. He compares Bonds to a murderer, a convict, and a drug abuser; misunderstands the purpose of the Mitchell Report (it was about getting Congress to back off, and perhaps scoring some PR points); and argues that teams also didn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,20],"tags":[49,116],"class_list":["post-455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-sports","tag-baseball","tag-ethics","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}