In Baseball this year, a number of players are on the ballot and eligible to voted into the Hall of Fame. Their careers produced consistently exceptional numbers and awards, however part of it was cloud with drug abuse to keep their performances at their peak, even as their age increased. Typically in baseball as a player ages, his performance begins to drop. Steroids helped a number of players retain their edge. Should the voters vote in the Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens? What if the players played on teams you followed? If you say no, do all the players in the Hall of Fame match your standards or should somebody be removed?  Sometimes the answers are not black or white.

Linking to dividend paying stocks – depending on how you answered the above questions, would you own a company that consistently pays dividends but has many lawsuits? In the world of billion and trillion dollar corporations, there will be lawsuits. Lawsuits are part of doing business, most companies try to operate with the fewest lawsuits possible. It would be great if all the companies had no lawsuits, but the reality is many companies are being sued, but most lawsuits are not material to the overall operations of the company. An exception was BP Oil which had to sell off large portions of its assets to pay its fines of the oil spill in the Gulf coast.

There are more questions than answers, till the next time  – to raising questions