A pall of gloom has again been cast over Taiwan's professional baseball since the outbreak of a major game-fixing scandal involving the league's most popular Brother Elephants team last October. It was the Chinese Professional Baseball League's (CPBL's) fifth serious game- fixing scandal since 1996. The frequent repetition of such disgraceful incidents is an indication of a moral crisis or even moral decay in the local professional baseball arena. Not just baseballers should be blamed for this moral decline. Law enforcement authorities have no excuse to escape blame, because bookmakers have never been given swift and harsh punishment for their part in the criminal activity. Lawmakers, CPBL management and baseball team owners are also culprits as none of them have ever worked actively to plug holes in the rules of the game through either legal amendments or formulation of stricter ethical regulations. Some media outlets should share the blame, too, as they tend to be reluctant to expose legal infractions while indulging themselves in running speculative reports for their own gains, while baseball fans' blind deference has also exacerbated the situation. The government should not sit idly by because professional baseball disgrace could be more lethal to national development than filibusters or brawls in the parliament. Repetition of baseball game-fixing could be a harbinger or syndrome of social decay and the decline of our civilization. Since the exposure of the latest major game-fixing scandal, we have repeatedly demanded that the CPBL and owners of the four member teams do two urgent tasks -- give the CPBL president ultimate decision-making authority and actively promote the development of the baseball labor union with goodwill to rein in baseball players' behavior with stringent disciplinary rules. For years, owners of CPBL member teams have often hobbled the labor union's healthy growth as evidenced in the recent 'Yeh Chun-chang' incident. If the case cannot be resolved fairly and justly, the credibility of the CPBL and its member team management will be doomed to complete bankruptcy. We also hope the CPBL and its member teams can agree to suspend seasonal games for one year pending judicial investigations into the latest game-fixing allegations. Without clarification of the game-fixing suspicions last season, the competition results will not be credible or trustworthy. If the CPBL and the four teams ignore our appeal, we cannot but encourage young players to pursue their baseball careers abroad and baseball fans to boycott by staying away from seasonal games in the coming year. 