6 hours ago, greg775 said:

Baseball is such a joke. Today's hot story: "Arizona Diamondbacks starter Corbin Burnes will undergo Tommy John surgery. Brutal loss for the D-backs in his first year of a six-year, $210 million contract."

I mean, cmon. 17 mill a year down the drain. If baseball teams refused to pay these run of a mill oft injured pitchers this kind of money there would be a trickle down effect and games would be affordable. Those people who lived in the glory days when they could go watch MLB at Comiskey for 8 dollar box seats and have to be a glutton to spend even 10-15 bucks total on glorious concessions (food, drink, hats) should count their blessings. They could go to 20 games a summer sit in the box seats and have a blast instead of waiting on guys like Cole, Burnes to heal up. And owners wonder why governments won't pass laws taxing normal people so the billionaires can build stadiums for free. Ha.

I despise Reinsdorf of course but can understand why he wouldn't want to give ANY pitcher a huge contract especially in this era of 4-5 inning starters (of course Jerry doesn't do it to keep things affordable for the loyal fans who support his wretched organization). Pitchers should be poorly paid. They are all clones of each other. Fierce fastballs and the out pitch cutter or whatever we're calling it these days. Four innings, bye bye.

Get well, Mr. Burnes. it's not your fault you are hurt but also enjoy that money.

We tend to look at the money collected but it hurts many athletes more that they are not competing. 

They don't make pitchers like they use to either. 

D'Backs spend some serious money on pitching again and this happens. Last year was Montgomery which was a wasted contract and now a pitcher out for the season.

Yet I will take that owner over JR any day.  

2 hours ago, kitekrazy said:

We tend to look at the money collected but it hurts many athletes more that they are not competing. 

They don't make pitchers like they use to either. 

D'Backs spend some serious money on pitching again and this happens. Last year was Montgomery which was a wasted contract and now a pitcher out for the season.

Yet I will take that owner over JR any day.  

Agreed but with pitcher's arms falling off by the dozens each year, they've proven they are not worth the investment. Cole was great last year; now he's nothing for 15 months or more, maybe even done being effective forever. I'm sure college and high school coaches contribute to this. I mean they'll use their top two pitchers over and over and never take them out if it means winning at all costs. I think it's weird kids pitch complete games in high school and college, throw 170 pitches in college then in the pros it's 85 pitches and out.