Burrow's surgery

[*TheLeonardLeap*]

Quote:As I mentioned before, I am comparing the situation of both athletes, not the achievements/talent. Also, as I said before, it boils down to opinion. You have yours and Bleacher Report et al have theirs. Given Bleacher Report is a subsidiary of Warner Brothers/Turner Broadcasting I would lean toward them being more credible than you. But, of course, I have never read your published sports sites.

By the way, Homer's average annual salary, adjusted for inflation, would put him in with Luis Castillo and Kevin Gausman. Not bad company.

Bleacher Report is literally just thousands of people who can just join to be unpaid writers (plus a few people they actually pay for some credibility) and write whatever they want for clicks.... 

2008: https://bleacherreport.com/articles/81738-tom-brady-is-overrated-its-official
2009: https://bleacherreport.com/articles/299460-why-tom-brady-is-the-most-overrated-quarterback-of-all-time
2009: https://bleacherreport.com/articles/227149-tom-brady-is-not-great-he-is-simply-over-rated
2011: https://bleacherreport.com/articles/928901-why-tom-brady-is-the-most-overrated-quarterback-in-nfl-history

I am sure I could find a lot more if I bothered to look.

https://www.seattleweekly.com/news/how-bleacher-report-made-crap-journalism-pay/

Quote:The San Francisco–based site is an aggressively growing online giant, tapping the oceanic labor pool of thousands of unpaid sports fanatics typing on thousands of keyboards.

https://deadspin.com/bleacher-report-is-the-worst-thing-in-the-history-of-j-5948516

Quote:One of Bleacher Report's top-five strategies for up-and-comers is to pen "hyperbolic headlines" and "always aim to either overstate or understate your position."

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Again, Kershaw got $30.7m/yr the same year Bailey got $17.5m/yr. That means Bailey got just 57% of the salary of elite pitchers of that time.

That would be like a QB getting a $31.3m/yr extension the same time as Joe Burrow getting $55m/yr and saying "they're the same situation!"

Homer took 6 years to be even decent, he didn't get paid at an elite level, he didn't get accolades, and his hype was largely regulated to just people trying to hype up some advanced metrics while being shit or mediocre at actual stats.

They aren't in the same situation at all.