Court Rules in Favor of Player's Union: A Victory for Scumbags

David Ortiz. Manny Ramirez. Alex Rodriguez. Sammy Sosa. Those are the names of the four scumbags that weren't "lucky" enough to be saved by the courts. The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the federal agents had no right the seize the list of the 104 players that allegedly tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs. This is huge for the steroid era in baseball. This is huge for the Major League Baseball Players Association. This could be huge in law. It was a 9-2 decision, meaning it wasn't completely uniform. The decision means that the federal government can no longer investigate and expose the players on the "list." What did the federal government do wrong? Well, the Circuit Court ruled that it went way past its authority in seizing the records. They were only supposed to obtain ten names that were related to BALCO, not the 94 other baseball players and athletes from other sports. Chief Judge Alex Kozinksi said, "This was an obv...