Hard to believe Catholic Hispanics and good ol’ boys don’t have San Fransickos and Farhan Zaidi as first choices...
Sorta funny 🤣
As aLA Dodger fan, this is Schadenfreude for me. BTW. we got Ohtani
Are they still bending the knee in baseball? How does one guarantee equity when there are standings, competition, batting leaders, and champions?
Send the Giants back to Tampa.
Did excessive wokeness have anything to do with it?
The Giants play in downtown SF, which is now shithole. That said, Yankee Stadium is not exactly located in an upscale neighborhood (/src), and NYC is as woke, expensive and lawless as any other city, so there has to be something else at work.
I have a friend in MLB. Big name. His dad is a mover in NM politics. I have know him since he was friends with my son in high school.
It seems this is something talked about amongst the players a lot. “Where would you like to go or not go” is a matter of constant speculation.
The Texas and Florida teams are high on the list. Good weather is often given as a reason. Unspoken, but understood, is the Red nature of the states.
Teams in the midwest fall in the middle of the pack.
Cold cities in deep blue states are at the bottom.
San Francisco is at the VERY bottom because of earthquakes, EXPENSIVE housing, and “who wants to raise their kids there?” which is code for “too many faggots.”
I think it’s more a matter of $ than anything about living in the Bay Area.
“Posey made a comment in December that caused an uproar from the fan base, but it could be playing a factor in why they aren’t landing free agents.
“Something I think is noteworthy, something that unfortunately keeps popping up from players and even the players’ wives is there’s a bit of an uneasiness with the city itself, as far as the state of the city, with crime, with drugs,” Posey told Andrew Baggalry of The Athletic. “
I wouldn’t take a job in Cali unless the pay was so ridiculous that I wouldn’t care about taxes.
Wow. An article that let me read it. So much stuff is paywalled.