Castellanos likely to be free agent

[grampahol]

To the vast majority of people, forget only baseball fans of one team, but citizens in general these salaries are utterly obscene as they are in most sports these days. It would be one thing if they ran into burning buildings to save kids or made things that everyone can use or generally do anything besides play a kids game until they're too old to compete, but the bottom line is it's nothing more than low brow entertainment and when your team is constantly losing it's not even that, it's just flaunting their filthy rich money pretending to do anything of importance to the rest of society.
If there were no professional sports at all and nobody were paid to play the game plenty of people would still play games and there would be teams made up of pretty good players playing part time merely for the fun of it. I wish that were actually the case, but it's not and we see every year some schmuck has one good season, somehow gets several million bucks for his next contract and does jack shit the rest of his sporting career or get injured and remains perpetually injured until his contract expires leaving fans furious.
The thing is, not every citizen of every town with a pro team is a fan. There are always plenty of non-sports fans, but those folks still have to pay one way or another for games they could care less about. My wife is one such person. She doesn't watch sports at all and could care less who wins or loses and yet she still ends up paying a portion in taxes to support a team that provides nothing but entertainment and nothing more.
Imagine if, for example you were taxed heavily so towns miles and miles away could watch reruns of the Brady Bunch or Gilligan's Island or whatever. That's kind of what goes on with professional sports, not exactly, but you get the gist. It gets even more strange when you consider that players were paid almost nothing while the team owners got almost all the money and zero fans showed up to watch the owners do anything. The players got smart and demanded to get their share, good for them, but it's still obscene when you consider the worst players on most teams still paid far more money than non-athletes make in a year. In the NFL just practice squad players. From Draftkings, "Practice squad players make $9,200 per week or $165,600 for 18 weeks. Veteran players with over two years of experience will make $14,000 per week or $252,000 for 18 weeks." How many of you get paid $165k in 4 1/2 months? or $252K?  You can argue all day they're super talented, but other than football, baseball or whatever they offer little to nothing to society as a whole other than carbon dioxide when they breath out..
I don't begrudge anyone from getting it. Hell, I'd take that kind of money if I didn't have to go in front of a stadium of screaming fans
Anyway, enough of my silly rant. I'm not changing the rules with it and nobody has ever come up with a reasonable counter argument to convince me otherwise.
Bottom line for me, now that Castillanos is no longer a Reds player and chasing the almighty dollar I hope he has the worst season anyone ever had for the rest of his new contract wherever it may be unless it's with the Reds. If a player is gonna get paid a gazillion bucks he should at least stay with the same team for awhile..