MLB and natural selection

This weekend St. Louis Cardinals relief pitcher John Hancock was killed when he hit a parked tow truck early Sunday morning. He had left a bar and eschewed a taxi. This marks the second death of an MLB pitcher in about 6 months after Yankees starter Cory Lidle flew his plane into a New York city apartment building October 11. These deaths strike me as even less tragic than it would be if they had died by forgetting to eat for 2 weeks, because although equally stupid ways to die, at least they wouldn't have put hundreds of lives at risk in the process.

Is this how privilage is defined? That your life will be celebrated no matter what decisions result in it's end? Lidle could have killed more people than the Virginia Tech shooter. But that didn't matter to the Major League players who would never forgive him for crossing the picket line during the 1994 strike. A union that truly has it's priorities in order.