No matter how professional, professionals in any field pretend to be, they are all human beings subject to the same pitfalls that bring down many people.

And seeing how some owners of professional sports teams engage in social media battles when it is better to just shut up, I wonder how often their other vices get in the way of sound business decisions.

And no matter how hard we try, we do take certain things personally. Professional athletes pretend they don’t pay attention to newspapers and call-in shows, but most have rabbit ears. How often do front offices make big financial mistakes to the tune of millions of dollars? When caught in these blunders, do they look to repeat the mistakes or learn from them?

While most fans would have a hard time believing it, every team and not just the ones they root for, sign players to ridiculous sums of money only to see the players never leave up to the contracts. Some teams even deal with players and coaches that do incredibly stupid (and bad) things off the field that everyone regrets.

When one team releases a player with a year left on his contract and is forced to absorb the remaining year even though the player is on someone else’s roster, it has to hurt a little-no matter how sound the decision may be. I wonder how much the new team enjoys sticking it to the previous team. It probably all evens out in the end, but at that moment, does a certain amount of pride come to play?

I look at the Cubs signing of Eric Hosmer and paying him the ML minimum while the Padres pick up the rest of his contract. Do Hoyer & Company take a little satisfaction considering the Padres took the Cubs in the Yu Darvish trade.

Yesterday afternoon, the Dodgers Dfa’d former Cy Young winner, Trevor Bauer and if they don’t trade him within 10 days, he essentially becomes a free agent. The kicker is the Dodgers are responsible for $22.5 million and the new team only pays the league minimum.

We’ll see how many teams enter the fray and overlook his off-field issues. Economically, it’s a fair risk-especially if the team wants to stick it to the Dodgers. There have to be a few guys and gals out there in a front office that would like to see Los Angeles pay for their team’s success.

Somebody is going to hook up with Bauer. We’ll see how the fans and media in that new market handle to move. I’d like to think that fans in Chicago would see behind his ability on the mound, but I’ve been fooled before.

I mistakenly thought the 1977 Cubs would contend for the NL Central division beyond June. We all know how that ended up.