NYC teachers learn lesson from pro baseball players: Don’t bank on privacy
Alex Rodriguez (photo by Keith Allison)
The world wasn’t exactly shocked in 2009 when Alex Rodriguez’s name turned up on a list of 104 Major League Baseball players who had tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs. Nor was anyone surprised to learn later that year that David Ortiz—the Red Sox’s “Big Papi,” and a six-time All Star—was on the same list. Except, that is, David Ortiz. For years, his standard line about drug testing was, “All I know is they’re going to find a lot of rice and beans.” And steroids, he forgot to say.
Both the league and the players had planned on keeping the results private. And so they were—until 2009.
Promised confidentiality has, of course, a checkered history. Circumstances change, leaders change, norms change. Technology turns science fiction into reality. And what was once never intended for public consumption
