The San Francisco Giants' ownership group is shelling out the big bucks.
But it's not for any MLB free agents.
Instead, they've invested in a theater.
"As was announced by the Giants president Larry Baer, the team’s ownership group has purchased the historic Curran Theatre in San Francisco from its longtime owner Carole Shorenstein Hays in a move to expand their overall business portfolio into the performing arts," writes The Athletic's Jim Bowden. "The acquisition gives the Giants business group a new venue for hosting events and aligns with their strategy of leveraging assets."
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As you might imagine, the baseball writer Bowden wasn't sharing this fact just for fun.
He can't figure out why the money is going there and not to an area of need on the diamond, like pitching.
"However, if you’re going to invest in theaters, then why not invest in a top of the rotation arm to go along with Logan Webb and Robbie Ray rather than backfilling the rotation with Tyler Mahle and Adrian Houser?" Bowden wonders.
He wasn't done.
"I’m happy the Giants group has acquired the Curran but would be more happy for their fans if they invested in Framber Valdez or Ranger Suárez to give them a better shot to win the NL West or secure a wild-card berth," Bowden wrote.
This is certainly a fair line of thought for anyone whose entertainment of choice is baseball rather than the arts.
The Giants were supposed to be good last season, and they were supposed to be even better when they traded for Rafael Devers, and then they missed the postseason entirely.
That would point to the need to invest in the offseason to pursue a bounceback season.
Well, there's been an investment. It just won't help the Giants win games.
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