This mad offseason in baseball may finally have had the steam pipe explode on it!!

It's been bad enough to begin with.

It's clear that the MLB owners knew that we were accusing them of collusion to hold salaries back the last couple of years, COVID notwithstanding.

This offseason, quite the opposite.  Hundreds of millions being spewed forth.

But the whole thing might finally have come completely set off with what has happened the last 72 hours.

Former Asterisk Carlos Correa was the latest to cash in on the bonanza for top-level players, as it was announced over last weekend that he signed a decade-plus-long contract with the San Francisco Giants for $350 million.

But then, Tuesday morning, word coming that the Tuesday introduction of Correa to the San Francisco media was postponed, and the purported cause was a medical issue coming up in Correa's Giants physical.

When I found out what happened, I questioned how it could happen...  But my anonymous baseball-fan friend once again comes through:  The Giants got cold feet, and for 10 years and $310,000,000, the Mets snagged Correa Tuesday night.

Anyone still bitching about the Dodgers, except Dodger fans who think the Dodger strategy is not to win by so much in the regular season, the team goes flat in October and renders it useless?  (Andrew Friedman, you're fired if they don't win it all this year, for as little as you've meaningfully done this offseason.)

The Mets are trying to buy multiple titles.

How blunt is this?

The current estimated payroll of the Mets, plus penalties, appears to exceed $450 million.

I think the only question is how many teams at the bottom of the payroll structure, combined, are going to be the total payroll of the Mets?

And are we going to see these bottom teams spend Dollar One to field a competitive team, or are we doomed to about 4,000 a game in Oakland again this year???

EDIT TO ADD 9:25 PM PDT:  The Giants are sticking with the "physical" story.  Using HIPAA limitations, they can't go into specifics, but a team statement said "there was a difference in opinion" regarding the results of Correa's Giants physical.