Can baseball survive this?

SPORTING GOODS

On the day before it was reported that the "number of U.S. workers filing new claims for jobless benefits surged last week to their highest level in 16 years," the marginal 36-year-old pitcher Derek Lowe "opened the free-agent bidding ... asking for a whopping $16 million per season."

Needless to say, the execrable Scott Boras is Lowe's agent, but this is absolutely ridiculous. With social services strained like never before, the pigs of baseball keep on trying to satisfy their wanton desires.

I really don't know if the game can go on like this.