SHAWN CHACON: AN EXERCISE IN LABOR LAW

For those of you who don't know the story, Chacon was eating his team meal before a Houston Astros game. The General Manager told him to go the Manager's office and Chacon refused. Ultimately a shouting match broke out and Chacon, by his own admission, knocked his GM down and choked (there is a possibility he did it twice). The Astros took steps to terminate Chacon's employment for cause.

Does this violate the Contract between the two. Not as simple as it sounds. Was Chacon on a recognized break when he was told to perform a duty assignment in non-emergency circumstances? If he was, does that ever justify violence?

All the sports-talk geniuses are solving this one in favor of the Astros but it is not that simple. Human Relations seldom are.