BASEBALL DEATH ALONG THE POTOMAC

In England, there is debate over whether it should be a crime to help seriously ill individuals travel to Switzerland, where assisted suicide is legal (no joke). A mirror image of that controversy is playing itself out in Major League Baseball, where it has been argued that no franchise should have the right to trade a player to the wretched Washington Nationals. As one anonymous infielder on the San Diego Padres recently told a reporter, "I'd rather be disemboweled than be sent to that hell-hole of a team."