Bay hurt and House

AP report here. Sounds like no big deal. People are going to get hurt. It's part of the game.

One thought about the release of J.R. House. Set aside the question of whether or not the big-leaguers "earn" their dough. I think they do, but that's not the question. The big-league minimum is still a lot of dough. For what they were going to pay House, the Bucs could hire eight secretaries to sit on their ass and do nothing but throw pencils at the ceiling. Or they could hire two pediatricians. Or they could hire three lawyers. Or they could hire a University president and two professors of statistics. Or they could skip the president and hire like twenty-five graduate students in statistics and have them model projection systems. Or they could make a movie starring the GM of a team that hasn't had a winning season in a decade, and put it on HBO. It's a lot of dough. Just because some teams spend $100M on their payrolls, that doesn't make 300K funny money. 300K goes a long way if spent wisely.

Given that Littlefield was, shall we say, pretty skeptical that House could make the team before the surgery, it's no surprise the team cut House after the surgery showed more damage than they expected to find.