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I don’t think players ever are sent out specifically so that other teams don’t know that they’re hurt. That wouldn’t make any sense at all. The point is rather that if you’re going to send them out there, don’t tell everyone that they have vulnerabilities.

I’ve seen references to player privacy issues and HIPPA a couple of times here and in other posts, but I’ve found the current CBA online and, as I expected, the players are required to sign a release to the team with regard to health issues.

The CBA says:

(3) For public relations purposes, a Club may disclose general information about (a) the nature of a Player’s employment-related
injury, (b) the prognosis and the anticipated length of recovery from
the injury, and © the treatment and surgical procedures undertaken
or anticipated in regard to the injury. For any other medical condition
that prevents a Player from rendering services to his Club, a
Club may disclose only the fact that a medical condition is preventing
the Player from rendering services to the Club and the anticipated
length of the Player’s absence from the Club. A Club
physician or trainer treating a Player pursuant to Regulation 2 of his
UPC and any other physician or medical professional treating or
consulting with a Player pursuant to Regulation 2 or Article XIII
shall be prohibited from making any public disclosure of a Player’s
medical information absent a separate, specific written authorization
from the Player authorizing such public disclosure.

So, HIPPA and privacy issues do not prevent a team from disclosing the nature of a player’s injury. Prudence to maintain a competitive advantage may keep a team from telling the world everything that’s wrong with a player.

I’m with Jay on this one. The team is not obligated to tell me everything about a player’s medical condition – particularly if he’s on the active roster at that time. If the team believes that keeping that stuff to itself gives the team a better chance of winning, I have no problem with it.

i would be willing to bet shapiro has never publicly lied, ever. i can’t think of one instance where he passed along information that was intentionally false.

Maybe you’re better off dead.

Not trying to get technical, but is excessive anything considered to be good? Isn’t that sort of the implied definition of excessive?

I guess my point is, I always feel like a lot of these kind of debates are truism. Excessive secrecy is bad, excessive exercise is bad, excessive eating is bad, etc, etc.

The real debate should lie in what constitutes excessive, moderate, and rarity.

Just my opinion though.

I think this a category violation.

Secrecy as an abstract concept is neither good nor bad, it’s only good or bad in application.

Secrecy in government as a rule in a bad thing. Same goes for publicly traded companies. There are very important exceptions in both cases, however.

For a privately owned company, secrecy generally is a good thing.

it’s not even hyperbole. it’s B.S.

Dan is a rapist. Okay, maybe that’s a bit of hyperbole. he’s had sex, so he’s basically a rapist in my eye.

he has some obligation to protect a player’s privacy (hipaa) and he has a ton of responsibility to protect his team’s competitive advantage. just because he doesn’t tell you everything that is going on, doesn’t mean he’s a liar.

then call it spinning and dodging.