Obviously I don't wish for anybody to get hurt, but professional sports (and many professions for that sake) are cutthroat. If you don't perform, then the team or company will fire you. Professional players are tremendously overcompensated in their paychecks for what they do and they understand the risks (injuries included) in what they signed up for. I have more sympathy for the laborers who put in the behind the scenes work day in and day out to keep this country running than a professional baseball player who is guaranteed 9 million and didn't perform because of a thumb injury.