Forget Carlos Correa, Major League Baseball is dropping physical

• Giants fans and members of the Bay Area sports media honored the 2022 Niger Craze Awards in response to news that the Giants had terminated their contract with Correa. If you’ve been in that angry mob, you know how horribly overreacted you were, but don’t hit too hard because the Giants are setting you up.

• Did the Giants physically check Herschel Walker before the team’s primary owner invested heavily in Walker’s US Senate campaign? It was widely believed that it was because he could not bear to spend the money. Meanwhile, Charles Johnson, majority owner of the Giants, spends freely to support election deniers and conspiracy theorists. .

Giant owners can pay generous bucks to those who believe in vicious space lasers, but it’s cheaper to buy a real Shortstop.

• It may be a new term for someone as good as Correa. “He has space lasers.”

• Your kneeler was right about one thing: The Giants’ deafening silence was stupid and infuriating. They were not able to comment on medical care, but Front Office voice Farhan Zaidi had to say. SomethingHiding is never the right strategy unless you’ve just robbed a bank.

• What Zaidi could have said on the day the deal fell through: Exactly what he said Friday about the Correa snafu at the Zoom press conference for Taylor Rogers’ signing.

• However, if you’re standing by Correa’s agent Scott Boras, you’d be embarrassed to kneel. He has two reasons why his story should have been considered at least overshadowed. One is that he is an agent. Second, he’s Scott Boras.

• Boras shared a heartwarming anecdote. He said that when the Giants rejected Correa and Boras immediately signed him to a contract with the Mets, Correa was so agitated that the St. So Correa must have said something like this: Scott, you are a genius! The Giants deal fell through, but instead of buying me, you agreed to a deal that would pay me $35 million less than his. plus Can’t play shortstop anymore? i love you man!

• I don’t think Boras is even a doctor, so he shouldn’t have nodded when he mocked the Giants for their ridiculous concern for Correa’s leg. what does he knowFor Boras teeth A real doctor, he’s the kind of doctor who tells you, “You’re fat,” and, “I want a second opinion,” and says, “OK, you’re ugly too.”

• Twins fan website Twins Daily headline: ‘Predict the next organization to sign and exit Carlos Correa’.

• By the way, what is your physical purpose before signing?

• Correa Caper shines a stark spotlight on major baseball ailments. Our national pastime is the only sport in America that has been ruled by a privileged minority and allowed to become a pure oligarchy.

• In what other sport does the highest-spending team pay six or seven times the salary of the lowest-spending team? set a record for the longest distance between Joe Lacob makes more money than every other NBA team owner, but not by a 7-to-1 margin.